i'm the president of brookings institution. we're a nonpartisan think tank dedicated to finding bold, pragmatic solutions to society's pressing challenges. thank you for joining us today and especially thank you to our co-host, the american enterprise institute, and the murphy institute. i'd also like to recognize brookings scholars. in was an effort that many doubted would come to fruition, given our country's deep divisions. and yet here we are. the state of the nation report released today is a result of scholars from across the political spectrum coming together, debating, challenging each other and remarkably finding common ground. they agreed on 15 topics and 37 measures, they captured critical aspects of our nation's well-being. and this wasn't just half-hearted agreement. each topic and measure had to secure super majority support. the state of the nation report underscores the value of gathering and giving voice to diverse perspectives, which is at the heart of our work here at brookings. with that i'll turn things over

visit ncicap.org] cecilia: i am president of the brookings institute. thank you for joining me. thank you to our cohost, the american enterprise institute. i would also like to thank brookings scholars carol graham and doug harris, who spearheaded the entire effort. this was an effort that many doubted would come to fruition given our country's deep divisions. yet here we are. the state of the nation report released today as a result of scholars from across the political spectrum coming together, debating and challenging each other and remarkably finding common ground. they agreed on 15 topics and 37 measures that captured critical aspects of our nation's well-being, and this was not just halfhearted agreement. each topic had to secure super majority support. the state of the nation report underscores the value of gathering and giving voice to diverse perspectives which is at the heart of our work in brookings. without i will turn things over to robert door, president of the american enterprise institute, a great leader and friend and neighbor. robert: thank you very much. i am t

posted by the brookings institute and tulane university murphy institute and the american enterprise institute, this is an hour and a half. cecelia: good morning, everyone. thank you, somebody is awake. i am cecelia rouse, president of the brookings institution, in nonpartisan think tank dedicated to finding solutions to humanities pressing challenges. thank you for joining me. thank you to our cohost, the american enterprise institute and the murphy institute. i would also like to recognize brookings scholars carol graham , who contributed to the state of the nation report, and of course doug harris, who spearheaded the entire effort. this was an effort that many doubted would come to fruition, given our country trophy has divisions. and yet, here we are. the state of the nation report released today is a result of scholars across the political spectrum coming together, debating, challenging each other, and remarkably finding common ground. they agreed on 15 topics and 37 measures that captured critical aspects of our nation's well-being, and this was not just halfhearted agreement.

hosted by the brookings institution and other organizations, this is an hour and a half. to associate ourselves with these kind of endeavor and we are proud to partner with the murphy institute and with brookings. a couple remarks about this report which you will hear from the panel. one of the things i like about is is it stresses what is great about our country and what is going well. our economy is strong. we were good and great country and our economy is the envy of the world. this report makes that clear. it also highlights the extent to which we have reduced poverty in the united states over the years and that is another great achievement, when i think was the result of a lot of efforts by people to come together with solutions that solve these problems in a way we can agree to. one sidebar i note is i was pleased to see the percentage of children being raised in single-parent families was recognized as something we should be concerned about, that it was something that reflected a belief that children do better in households where there are two loving parents for the

so i'm cecilia rouse come the president of the brookings institution. we're a nonpartisan think tank dedicated to finding both pragmatic solutions. thank you for joining us today and especially thank you to our cohost the american enterprise institute and the murphy institute. i would like to recognize brookings scholars carol graham who contribute to the state nation report and, of course, doug harris who spearheaded the entire effort. this was an effort that many doubted would come to fruition given our country's deep divisions. and yet here we are. the state of the nation report released today is a result of scholars from across the political spectrum coming together, debating, challenging each other and remarkably finding common ground. thanks for inviting me. thank doug and the teams up with his report together organizing it and doing the hard work. this is the kind of thing that we like our scholars to participate in. i've done that in the past and the proven to be successful in achieving a consensus around our biggest challenges as a country. thos

it's about 0.3%, according to the brookings institute — but when you look at that figure, for what you'recould go out there and say, "look, we need to go back to the stage... you know, apartheid didn't falljust because... individuals or companies? i would say both. so the private sector is already a major, major donor to what we do in the humanitarian space. but i think, you know... i wonder whether we could go out there and say, "look, the uk government is no longer able to do 0.7%," the figure that, you know, was so iconic for so many years. but why don't we go to the public and say, "are you able to help us here? can you step in to save these lives?" right. let's turn to gaza, which you brought up earlier. you havejust come back from there, where you are coordinating aid. and as we speak, there is a question mark over whether the ceasefire will be sustained. now, it's worth saying that you are a former british ambassador to lebanon. mm—hm. you know a lot about the middle east. if the ceasefire fails, what are the consequences? devastating. you know, i was in gaza for a couple of days,

i am alsoan alum of the brookings institution. fantastic product to be involved in. doug and his team did a fantastic job. glad to be a part of it. i will talk about social capital , as bill suggested. very quickly, what is social capital? ask 100 people, you'll get 100 different definitions. social capital has two words in it. you start with capital. something that is productive for people. financial capital, human capital, physical capital. social capital is productive for people however they defined their goals in life. the other word is social, so our relationships to people, also our relationship to social institutions, as well. in the social capital project that i ran a few years back, we documented 50-year trends in social capital over a variety of indicators, not unlike this project for social capital, trends in the united states. the story there is one of almost across declines in social capital. that ranges from the strength of families, marriage rates, fertility rates, the number of kids growing up with single parents, adult kids live near their own parent

i'm the president at the brookings institution. we are none part something tank dedicated to finding pragmatic solutions to society's challenges. thank you for joining us today and especially thank you to our cohost american enterprise institute. .. from across the political spectrum. coming together, and debating, challenging each other and finding common ground. they agreed on 15 topics 37 measures captured critical aspects of our natures and being this is not halfhearted agreements, each topic and to measure had majority support. the state of the nation report underscores the value of gathering and giving voice to diverse perspectives which is at the heart. with that i will turn things over too robert doar a great leader and friend. >> it's yours thank you very much. >> i am robert doar i want to thank everyone for being here and thank cecelia for inviting me i think doug and the team up with this report together for organizing it and doing the hard work. like our ai scholars to participate in. i have done them in the past they

welcome to the brookings institution.hose of you with us in person, those who were on the livestream, about 70 people watching, and those who might be watching on c-span. i'm the director of the brown center of education policy here at brookings and we are delighted to cohost this event with our friends from the center of universal education also at brookings. we are here to talk about two big vexing topics in education right now. one being student disengagement and the other being chronic absenteeism. those are two problems that are related in a lot of ways and overlapping in a lot of ways but they are not perfectly overlapping. so, student disengagement leads to a lot of problems beyond just kids missing school. kids miss school for a lot of reasons other than just being disengaged. part of what we are here today is to talk about what that relationship is and what it isn't and how to think about chronic absenteeism and getting kids more engaged in school. when we talk about student engagement, we will be anchored by a n

but new analysis just out from the brookings institution, this came out a couple of days ago, says thatse tariffs will hurt american communities that voted for donald trump. i want you to see this. according to this report, the authors at brookings institution say this quote, similar to the 2018 tariffs, the industrial heartland is again bearing a disproportionate impact from chinese retaliation. some of the most intensely affected counties are energy and manufacturing communities in north dakota, indiana, ohio, kentucky, alabama and west virginia, unquote. and the study also adds that between 400,000 to 700,000 american jobs could be affected. back to you, john. >> i guess the question here is, though, will there in fact be any kind of discussion between donald trump and president xi? they were meant to talk, i think, last week, on tuesday that got pushed back. donald trump said the time wasn't appropriate. will that time will that appropriate time be anytime soon? >> that's right. you know, there was that expectation for trump to speak with xi jinping. but then the u.s. president late

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dionne, an opinion columnist for the washington post and a senior fellow at the brookings institution. he is a government professor at georgetown university. and, norm, let me begin with you. and there is there's so much happening here and so much coming at us that i don't want to target a question for you. i want you to just air out with us what you've been thinking about as this has been happening. >> you say that of all the powerful introductions you've given on this. show that i think is the most powerful and the most chilling, and that is where we are right now. and it is. >> a putsch. >> in progress, occurring very rapidly. and we. >> have to fear. >> that our guardrails. >> are just not there. >> most of them are not there. >> little marco rubio was. >> chosen for a reason, and we're seeing that reason. he will cave. and, you know, marco rubio was given all kinds of awards for supporting development and diplomacy. now we show where see where he is. susan collins today announced she's going to vote for tulsi gabbard. one thing we ought to add about foreign aid, it is something t

but new analysis that just came out from the brookings institution says that these tariffs will hurtcan communities that voted for donald trump. i want to bring up a portion from this report to you. it says this quote, similar to the 2018 tariffs, the industrial heartland is again bearing a disproportionate impact from chinese retaliation. some of the most intensely affected counties are energy and manufacturing communities in north dakota, indiana, ohio, kentucky, alabama and west virginia, unquote. and the study adds that between 400,000 to 700,000 american jobs could be affected. here. back to you, rosemary. >> and kristi. trade tension is, of course, ramping up as we're seeing. so how likely is it that we will see a deal or dialog between president trump and xi jinping? >> you know, trump had been expected to speak with xi jinping, but then the u.s. president said he was in, quote, no hurry to hold talks. and now he's pledging new global tariffs on steel and aluminum. still, some economic measures that president trump has pledged in the last month have been subject to change. for

but new analysis just out from the brookings institution says that these chinese tariffs will hurt american voters who voted for donald trump, according to the report. i want you to take a look at this portion here. the authors of the study said this similar to the 2018 tariffs, the industrial heartland is again bearing a disproportionate impact from chinese retaliation. some of the most intensely affected counties are energy and manufacturing communities in north dakota, indiana, ohio, kentucky, alabama and west virginia. unquote. now, the study adds that between 400,000 to 700,000 american jobs could be affected as a result of this. back to you. >> rosemary kristie lu stout in hong kong. many thanks for that live report, and we'll be right back. >> can't fool myself. it was the most exciting time in the world. >> his life. >> had extremely joyful moments and some really difficult moments. >> you only come. >> across an artist like. >> luther vandross once in a lifetime. >> luther. >> never too much. >> work. play. >> blink. relief. >> work. >> play. blink. >> relief. >> the only. 3 in 1.

he is also a nonresident senior fellow at the brookings institute. richard, what's. >> this back. >> and forth? the president of the united. >> states more than once. >> calling the president of ukraine a dictator. how is that playing out there? >> well. >> ukrainians don't want to be in this fight. ukrainians don't believe that they started this fight. they don't believe that there is a back and forth. the way it's seen here is that president trump has gone on the offensive, that president trump has decided he's trying to harm zelensky. he's trying to take him down a notch. he's trying to perhaps force him to the negotiating table or force him to be more flexible. and what president zelensky's office believes is that this goes down to that deal. you were just talking about that that that mineral deal and a senior ukrainian official described the scene to me. he said that the treasury secretary came. president trump's treasury secretary had a letter and wanted the ukrainians to sign it, wanted president zelensky to sign it on the spot that it was non

she's a senior fellow at the brookings institution and coauthored a report on renewing the democraticarty. nice to see you. thank you so much for being here. so you do lay out in your report a roadmap, short term, middle term, long term for democrats to come out of the political wilderness. but of course, the question that people are asking is, what about right now? donald trump and elon musk are not waiting for the soul search to end in your party. um, so the question is about your goal to reconnect with the voters you lost on low income voters, especially across the party? uh, all of the issues that, you know, that you identified as big issues. but before you get there to reelection, do you have a short term prescription for fighting back against donald trump right now? >> yeah. right now, the party has to help anyone who has standing to get these issues in front of the courts, because so many of these issues violate standing law and are, frankly, unconstitutional. what the president is doing here is he's like throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks. because behind all

dionne, an opinion columnist for the washington post and a senior fellow at the brookings institutionrofessor at georgetown university. and e.j, i want to refer back to frs, famous, quote about social security. no damn politician will be able to take it away. well, turns out that's not who's taking it away. it's elon musk. and elon musk. i read that. >> filing in. >> the break that. >> you. >> thought elon. >> musk. >> who doesn't even head. >> something called doge. >> so on what. >> authority actually is he asking? >> i think what you're seeing. >> here is. something that. jim himes talked about on. >> your show a couple of. weeks ago, which i think is the. >> perfect statement about the trump. >> administration so far. he said it's. >> a perfect mixture. >> of brutality. >> and incompetence. and i think that's what. you're seeing in the. >> case of the faa. >> what you're seeing on these nuclear, on the nuclear. >> story, on the firing. >> and then botched attempt to rehire. >> these folks at. >> the nuclear agency. what's amazing. here is that doge. >> casts itself. >> as being ab

joining me now to speak about all this, angela stent, a senior fellow at the brookings institute. so we have russians celebrating trump's comments because, well, in fact, they're pretty much the same, right? their description of the war, their description of the ukrainian president. tell us, does russia see a victory in this with trump as president? >> oh, certainly. >> i mean, we know that the kremlin wanted donald trump to win the election. i think in their wildest dreams, they wouldn't have thought that all of this would happen so quickly, that they'd be rehabilitated and that he would essentially, uh, tell, you know, tell us that their talking points, he's repeating their talking points. and so, uh, and then now attacking zelenskyy completely groundlessly. um, i think they're just, you know, they've been opening the champagne and vodka bottles for a few weeks now, but particularly this week. >> let me ask you this, because there is quite open disagreement between the u.s. now and its closest allies in europe, who are, like zelenskyy, publicly contradicting president trump. can

former deputy assistant secretary at the treasury department and now a senior fellow at the brookings institution. aaron, thank you so much for being with us. trump obviously said that reciprocal tariffs would hit every country. i wonder what shape you think that takes. is it going to be on certain industries or sort of a blanket tariff? >> yeah. >> so i think. >> a. >> lot of this is hot air. i think trump is talking a big game right now. you can see markets kind of discounting that there will be actual action. and this is more of a bargaining position that he's going to do to try and claim some credit for reductions on tariffs on other countries. so i think that it's going to be a lot more talk than action. at least that's what markets are thinking that they'll do. in the other thing, i think to the extent this is a negotiating ploy, then each country will be coming individually and there'll be different issues and areas. blanket tariffs are a little more calm. they sound simple, but they're more complicated. take the trade with india that was just referenced right. that's on that's on goods th

joining us now, msnbc legal correspondent lisa rubens, brookings institution senior fellow in governance study elaine kamarck. so happy to have her for this conversation, and staff writer at the atlantic and author of the atlantic daily newsletter, tom nichols. lisa, i want to begin with you on the legality of this. you got this judge putting a hold on it so that the sides can brief their arguments. what legal footing does the trump administration have to try to offer this many 2 million employees a buyout? >> it's not really clear, katie. and i think one of the things that's even less clear now is when that offer, to the extent that it's legal, even expires, because in the wake of this judge's ruling, you have the white house press secretary now going out and saying that they are grateful to this judge in boston for extending the buyout offer. you'll recall that we have public reporting, including from our own nbc news, saying that they weren't going to extend the buyout offer, that the deadline was the deadline. but now, faced with this ruling from a federal judge essentially saying an

joining me now to discuss all of this is a fellow at the brookings institution and a senior editor atawfare. quint, it is good to see you. so we should note that president trump, in his first term, never actually defied a court order. he publicly disparaged and personally attacked judges, but he didn't defy their rulings. why are you concerned that that may not be the case during his second term? >> as you say, trump really abided by the authority of the court during his first term. he would complain. he would post on twitter about so-called judges, but he never tried to outright ignore a court order. this time, though, i think we're seeing a lot ofeply concerning around this, this issue. we have seen vice president jd vance, for example, tweet something that doesn't outright say, but certainly hints that the administration, if it decides that the judiciary is intruding on what vance referred to as the executive's legitimate power, might simply go its own way and decide to completely set aside an order of the court that would really move us into new territory, not only legally, not on

but i want to share new analysis from the brookings institution, which says that china's retaliatoryfs, which kick into gear today, will hurt americans on a local level. saying this, quote, similar to the 2018 tariffs, the industrial heartland is again bearing a disproportionate impact from chinese retaliation. some of the most intensely affected counties are energy and manufacturing communities in north dakota, indiana, ohio, kentucky, alabama and west virginia, unquote. and the study adds, it says between 400,000 to 700,000 american jobs could be affected by these chinese retaliatory tariffs. jim. >> so, given that the view is that china's retaliatory tariffs are somewhat measured, what do you hear about china's view of this? do they believe they can come to some sort of deal with trump, that they can negotiate their way out of this, or are they preparing for a new normal? >> and this is when we anticipate china's next move and analyze chinese elite politics and exercise. you're very, very familiar with jim. look, as we've been reporting, china's moves here are designed to be symbo

but new analysis from the brookings institution says that china's retaliatory tariffs will hurt american communities that voted for trump. according to the report, it says this, quote, similar to the 2018 tariffs, the industrial heartland is again bearing a disproportionate impact from chinese retaliation. some of the most intensely affected counties are energy and manufacturing communities in north dakota, indiana, ohio, kentucky, alabama and west virginia, unquote. the study says between 400,000 to 700,000 american jobs could be affected by china's retaliatory tariffs. kristie lu stout, cnn, hong kong. >> now, with donald trump's tariff war now apparently focused on china, other countries are watching closely to see how far this for tat will go. >> cnn's richard quest sat down for an exclusive interview with french president emmanuel macron, and asked him how concerned he and other european allies are about all of this. >> i already did so, and i will did it again, and i think we should be ready to. obviously be in the room and react. but i think more than that, the european union has

host: two specialist at brookings institution put out a paper looking at regulations. one of the points they make is this. regulations keep our food supply, automobiles, financial markets, pharmaceuticals, and workplace safer. our environment cleaner and financial markets and instruments more trp than they otherwise-transparent than they would be. private companies do not fully internalize the cost of activities. without regulation consumers may not be fully informed about the risk of products and services they flea. private markets alone are likely to underinvest in public goods. the large he question is if you take away regulations how do you ensure safety or the concerns that they have to the american public? guest: any one of those we could tackle. it's probably too much to tackle all of them at once. let's talk about food safety. this is groceries, restaurants, things of that nature. first and foremost on the frontline, we have something called reputational value. no grocery store wants to be responsible for selling bad eggs. it's bad for business. it's bad for th

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from the brookings institution, this is just over an hour. >> those of you with us in here in person, those on the live stream, i think we have about 700 people watching on the live stream, those who may be watching on c-span, too. i am jon valiant, we are delighted at the brown senttory co-host this event with our friends in the certainty for universe isal education, has here at brookings. and we are here today to talk about two kind of big vexing topics in education. one being student disengagement. and other being krontic absenteeism. those are two problems that are related in a lot of ways and overlapping in a lot of ways but not perfectly overlapping. student disengagement leads to a whole lot of problems beyond just kids missing school. kids miss school for a loft reasons other than being disengaged. what we are trying to do today is talk about what that relationship is and what it isn't and how do we think about chronic absenteeism and get students more engaged in the school. when we are talking about student engagement we'll be anchored by a new report from my colleague rebecc

brookings institution fellow quinta jurcic tells new york times, quote, what vance's wording suggests here, without directly saying it, is that the executive could potentially respond to a court order by saying to the court, you're unconstitutionally intruding on my authority, and i'm not going to do what you say. at that point, the constitution falls apart. end quote. joining us now, nbc news white house correspondent vaughn hillyard on capitol hill. plus, msnbc legal analyst and nyu law professor melissa murray is here, and former republican congressman and msnbc political analyst david jolly. welcome to all three of you. thank you for being with us. vaughn, let's start with you. this is moving. it's moving fast and furious through the courts. but there's not as much going on in congress. there are senators and representatives trying to do things about this, but we're not hearing a ton from republicans to say, first of all, elon musk and his team need to get out of government systems. and second of all, you can't do things that are constitutionally given to congress to do right. >>

early 20th century, progressives got together and they started creating organizations like the brookings institution, carnegie when he made as many gifts like carnegie endowment and so forth, carnegie endowment for peace, these were created as institutions filled with experts on topics. that's what they were. there for, to help us come up with good ideas. and since then, we now washington is full. these so-called think tanks. okay, so what's wrong with the solution, vivian? those experts are biased themselves, and they could cause tremendous power, public opinion in florence that because if they have sole control for exactly and where do they get their money you know the heritage foundation gets his money from people who expect certain kinds of outcomes right and people who are in left wing organizations think tanks, they get their money from people who expect certain outcome. they don't expect the outcome to look what would be at the heritage foundation at all. and there have been other foundations like a think tank like brookings, which has gotten some money from. oil, i think was oil interests. y

i'm familiar with the brookings institution study on headstart. it showed it was not that good. do any of the other three of you have an opinion on getting kids in a formal setting at a younger age? >> i think the devil is in the details on how we execute on some of these things. the programs we are seeing, the pervasive poisonous ideology, if we start that even earlier at younger ages and start to teach children to identify themselves and others on the basis of race, sex, or other immutable characteristics, it continues to exploit the power dynamic between an adult and child. to the extent where parents want to keep their children home, i think reversal pre-k removes that choice from children and that is something i oppose. >> what i propose is that what we know is we have a problem keeping women in the workforce. they disproportionately are responsible for early childcare. to the extent there is an opportunity for a woman to go back to work who wants to go back to work -- and this is not exclusively women but disproportionately women -- we can do that by allowing them to ensur