let me let ben freeman jump in on israel and think tanks. guest: aipac is certainly a word we hear all the time. it is the first things on people's heads. for us, it is a really tricky case. aipac is not actually a foreign institute. this is a domestic organization. it is funded by domestic sources . by our definition, we are looking exclusively at foreign government funding. we could say first sure money that was coming from a foreign government, aipac doesn't meet that threshold. until we hear some sort of smoking gun that aipac is getting funding from the israeli government, i am not aware of that. we will go back and update the database. we will update this database every year. some of these funding dynamics change. if we do learn that aipac is funded by the israeli government we will certainly add that. host: natalie is in texas, independent, thanks for waiting. caller: i have a question, i want to know -- are you on the air now? host: yes, you are. caller: i wanted to ask you all why are they taking money out of social security of old

. >> a conversation now on think tank funding with ben freeman. we should probably start by explaining what the quincy institute for responsible state craft is. are you a think thank? having m. it is a think tank and nonprofit nun partisan action tank because we are not just thinking we are trying to get stuff done. our purpose is to reduce the military decision of foreign policy appear critical we try it call out special interests diving foreign policy. host: how are you funded? guest: we have a had the of small donors, big donors, foundation. we are in the funded by foreign governments off u.s. government and defense contractors. this really frees us it offer a clear unbuy why issed view of the policy. host: is this unusual? are most think tanks taking money from one of those they places? guest: absolutely. we are on unisland we are surrounded by other think tanks had do take money from foreign governments, u.s. government and defense contractors. many think tanks take a considerable amount of funding from those. host: what is the any tank fundi

let me let ben freeman jump in on israel and think tanks.: aipac is certainly a word we hear all the time. it is the first things on people's heads. for us, it is a really tricky case. aipac is not actually a foreign institute. this is a domestic organization. it is funded by domestic sources . by our definition, we are looking exclusively at foreign government funding. we could say first sure money that was coming from a foreign government, aipac doesn't meet that threshold. until we hear some sort of smoking gun that aipac is getting funding from the israeli government, i am not aware of that. we will go back and update the database. we will update this database every year. some of these funding dynamics change. if we do learn that aipac is funded by the israeli government we will certainly add that. host: natalie is in texas, independent, thanks for waiting. caller: i have a question, i want to know -- are you on the air now? host: yes, you are. caller: i wanted to ask you all why are they taking money out of social security of old and di

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. >> a conversation now on think tank funding with ben freeman.