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eric gomes he's the policy analyst for defense and foreign policy studies in east asia at the cato institute he joins me from washington it's good to see you eric i want to start with these n.g.o.s. who are they and what if any effect will this decision by beijing have. there are a number i believe it was 4 or 5 n.g.o.s that were saying by china and all of them work extensively on human rights if years especially the ongoing democratic protests in hong kong and all of them it's difficult to say what effect the sanctions will have because china had already limited the amount that foreign n.g.o.s could operate in china especially ones directed at. the human rights issues so it's unclear exactly what effect this will have it will probably make their work even harder ok and we've got the big selling out u.s. naval ships well here that is china's supposed indignation at what it calls american meddling in its domestic affairs is that in your opinion is that going to bother anyone in washington. i'm not sure i mean the the port visits are something that the u.s. navy likes to do somewhat frequently

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on c-span2, the cato institute hosts a conference. on c-span 3:00 at 9:30, a subcommittee examines the impact of artificial intelligence on capital markets. and retired army general john nicholson, commando of nato fortresses --forces in afghanistan speaks on policy. >> 2020 republican candidate joe walsh is a talk radio host and former illinois congressman. he sat down with c-span to talk about why he is challenging president trump and his displeasure with fellow republicans. this is 30 minutes. steve: joining us is former illinois congressman and republican presidential candidate joe walsh. thanks for being here. my opening question, why are you running? mr. walsh: good to be with you, steve. i'm running because i think donald trump is unfit. i think he is a danger to this country. taking on a sitting incumbent president is a pretty big deal. it is a tough thing to do. you had better have a good reason for doing it. and i do. i think trump is a danger. i think the country would be in real trouble with four more years of him. steve:

conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> good morning and welcome to the cato institute. my name is julian sanchez, i'm a senior fellow here and i'm grateful to everyone has come out bright and early to the auditorium at cato for our 2019 surveillance conference. we've been doing this for some five years now. when we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about both a fake election by former contractor snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency unfan with most americans and as we kick off our 2019 conference, we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. we have an impeachment proceeding kicked off in significant part by reports from the -- from the intelligence community's inspector general. we have forth coming next week a breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the foreign intelligence surveillance act during the 2016 presidential campaign. we have proceedings aired, going to be from the house intelligence committee. so even intelligence overseers now are at the center of our political discourse i

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so for more on this i'm joined from washington by doug bandow who's a senior fellow at the cato institute a libertarian think tank and he previously worked as a special assistant to president ronald reagan so the russian reaction to this was fairly predictable could be expected germany has condemned the move chancellor angela merkel isn't happy with how could this how could these u.s. sanctions impact the relationship between washington and ballen. well they're going to make their relationship much more difficult you know germany france britain and others are already upset with american policy towards iran the sanctions that are being applied that affect european companies you know europeans have tired of the united states imposing through its financial system sanctions on europeans this is going to add to that you know to have the united states announce that germany is making a bad decision and therefore cannot be allowed to make it i'm afraid it's going to affect cooperation on issues of china issues of iran in the middle east and others as europeans you know basically want to resist th

which focuses on oversight of the intelligence community. >> good morning and welcome to the cato institute. my name is julian sanchez, i'm a senior fellow here and i'm grateful to everyone who has come up bright and early for the hayek auditorium here at cato for our 2019 surveillance conference. we've been doing this for some five years now. when we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about bulk nsa collection by form and as a contractor snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency unfamiliar to most americans. and as we kick off our 2019 conference we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. we have an impeachment preceding kick off in significant part by a report from the intelligence community inspector general. we have forthcoming next week i'll breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the foreign intelligence surveillance act during the 2016 presidential campaign. we have proceedings aired, actually would be from the house intelligence committees. even intelligence overseers are at the senate and the sense of o

. >> thank you so much to the cato institute for having me and everyone in the audience for watching and also watching on c-span2 and the lifestream if you're not in the audience you heard the announcement about the report and want to copy you can find the pdf and order a print version of it. the name of the report is called the enduring problem as the name would indicate as well as the enduring problem this is continuous, it's not new and it's been happening for a long time so what does it mean we have a long history of fbi political surveillance? we know longer treat these as exceptional they are either very normalized or invisible if you talk to activists they will say the fbi is spying on us. they are infiltrating us. on the other hand it's not exceptional and not newsworthy people who should know better will not realize what is going on i accompany the gentleman from the antiwar group to put out with congressional offices at an act before congress as well as a surveillance with occupy wall street and black lives matter the representative was very concerned about the fourth amend

a poll by the conservative-leaning cato institute found a majority of voters under 30 said the rich made their money by takin advantage of others rather than earning it. that compares with only about one-quarter of older voters. younger voters are timee more likely to say quote it's immoral for society to allow billionaires.ome younger voters far more supportive of having the government redistributeealth by taxing the rich. nearly two-thirds of younger voters support taxing the top rate at 70%. the question is whether this is particular to this generation or whether people in their teens and 20s have always opposed large wealth. today's millennials and gen-z voters came of age during the great recession, many are loaded with student debt and struggling with high housing costs and health care which have hardened their views of the wealthy. >> america now, particularly young americans who make up the workforce, are people who came of age during the great recession. experience. extremely formative that has in some senses set them back. >> reporter: mostenerations take a softe view of wealth

thank you to the cato institute. there's a lot of research my co-authors couldn't be here today. the penn state institute for computation is also a professor of meteorology. none of this would be possible without penn state research. i am excited to talk to you about these things. i have a story that might jog your memory as it happened last year. as julian pointed out it comes from things like fit bit and what happens when combined with a satellite. it is like facebook, the fitness apps. i did that by aggregating the data, wearable devices from your cell phone and satellite data, understanding how much data is interesting, the content, the data that is involved, five terabytes of data, as much data the hubble telescope generate in 6 months. and a couple hundred dollars in computing processing so very easy to access data so shortly after stratified publishes the global heat apps which is showing all of the strata users everywhere around the world we get this tweet from the 20-year-old australian student, it released its map, cool but not so cool for operations that require secrecy

well earlier i spoke to doug bandow a senior fellow at the cato institute who works as a special assistant to president ronald reagan he said the sanctions are only going to make relations more fraught between trump and his european allies germany france britain and others are already upset with american policy towards iran the same things that are being applied that affect european companies you know europeans have tired of the united states imposing through its financial system sanctions on europeans this is going to add to that you know to have the united states announce the germany is making a bad decision and therefore cannot be allowed to make it i'm afraid it's going to affect cooperation on issues of china issues of iran in the middle east and others as europeans you know basically want to resist this administration evermore and gas from says that it will pay ukraine $2900000000.00 to settle a legal route for its gas exports that runs through the north stream one pipeline a gas transit agreement was mediated by the european union and announced in principle in berlin on friday on th

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shapiro's director of constitutional studies at the cato institute. please welcome our panelists.applause] want to give both an opportunity to make opening remarks. peter is interesting, going over arguments in the book. i want to make sure they both give you a framework for the discussion, before we get to my questions and your questions as well. peter, why don't we start with you, opening remarks to speak about this. thanks. i'm going to outline key arguments in judicial fortitude, that is the book peered the first line in the book is probably the most important. "we will lose our democracy unless we can gain control of the agencies of the administrative state." the book is about the continuous drift toward government by unelected officials in washington, which we call generally the administrative state, and how we can stop this drift. the drift is happening because, since the new deal, congress has been giving the agency's extraordinary power, the power almost to make laws themselves. but congress won't stop on its own doing this, because it is easier for them. they don't have

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in this portion of the cato institute's daylong conference, we built there from members of the privacy and civil liberties oversight board and government experts talking about data encryption. >> welcome back to the cato institute for the 2019 cato surveillance conference. i remain senior fellow julian sanchez. thank you to those present and those watching at home for joining us. as i mentioned at the start of the conference, we focused on issues of surveillance oversight at this year's conference. this morning, you heard about an work of institutions that to oversee the secret you seven telogen's collection ranging from the fisa court to the inspectors general to the government accountability office to the intelligence committee of congress and one of the newer and in many ways most publicly useful entities overseeing the intelligence community is the privacy and civil liberties has produced ah number of valuable reports that have given us unique insight into some of the programs that were discussed earlier, like section 215, the authority used for the phone records collection. will b

her to break it all down cato institute julian sanchez will come back. >> the ethics or have me. >> aretraged by the contents of the horwitz report? >> there is plain there to be outraged about seek and take pick. but i do think the competing narratives here, both get important things wrong. as democratic reaction as well we didn't find the kind of cartoonish conspiracy that matches some of the more extreme things trump has said. so it's total vindication for the fbi which is ridiculous. they have to be smoking something to come away with that conclusion of the report. but the impulse on the other side to force everything into the kind of pre-christian bed of political bias and political polarization, kind of ignores the potentially more disturbing problem. the problem here is fundamentally political bias because that's good news that's easy to fix. maybe there's a handful of bad actors that are mostly moved on or you can fire them. 99% of the phis applications don't have anything to do with domestic partisan politics. so this is a small problem. the way i read the report, the root prob

however the cato institute says this study is skewed does not take into account one-time deductions, that taxable income reported to the irs is not made public. the cato points to different gauge, marginal effective tax rate. canada did the comparison to see how their tax system stacks up to the u.s. the canadian finance system found u.s. marginal tax rate is 18%. democrats want to be president, jumping on the fact that companies like amazon are not paying their fair share. >> let's build on the things we care about for each other. let's ask amazon, pitch in a little more so we can build an america that works for our children and for our grandchildren. i think we can do that. because i believe, in the worth of every single person and i believe we can build a government and a country that reflects those values. reporter: amazon a favorite target of senator elizabeth warren. republicans believe that by lowering the corporate tax rate it does open up companies to add more jobs. democrats say that companies need to pay more because that money should go and help the poorest of americans.

welcome to the cato institute. i'm a senior hello here. i'm grateful to everyone who has come out early for the auditorium here. for our 2019 surveillance conference. we've been doing this for five years now. we watched this in the aftermath of exposures about a collection by nsa itself, the agency unfamiliar to most americans and as we take off our 2019 conference, we find now even intelligence oversight is very much in public headlines. we have an impeachment proceeding kick off by reports from the intelligence community inspector general. you have forthcoming next week, allegations and misuse of the surveillance act during the 2016 presidential campaign. we have proceedings from the house intelligence committee. even intelligent overseers now are the center in the way that the intelligence agencies began earlier. in a way that was unprecedented. so we have a special focus this year on not just the intelligent agency the self but the messages in place to oversee them. one of the classic problems of intelligence surveillance is how to bal

export 110000000000 cubic meters of gas to europe per year doug bandow is a senior fellow at the cato institute and what is a special assistant for president to president ronald reagan he said that the sanctions are only going to make the relationship more fraught between trump and his european allies germany france britain and others are already upset with american policy towards iran the same things that are being applied that affect european companies you know europeans have tired of the united states imposing through its financial system sanctions on europeans this is going to add to that you know to have the united states announce the germany is making a bad decision and therefore cannot be allowed to make it i'm afraid it's going to affect cooperation on issues of china issues of iran in the middle east and others as europeans you know basically want to resist this administration evermore. well gazprom is saying that it will pay ukraine $2900000000.00 to settle a legal raw of writs gas exports that runs through the north stream one pipeline they gas transit agreement was mediated by the e

each year the cato institute and the frazier institute in canada co-publish, in coordination with 70 think tanks across the world, the economic freedom of the world report. the report measures economic freedom via five metrics. the size of government, the legal system and property rights. this soundness of money. the freedom to trade internationally. and the amount of regulation. the united states ranked in the top five countries for economic freedom. while venezuela ranks dead last. the most recent report finds that the nations in the top 1/4 tile of economic freedom had an average per capita g.d.p. of $36,000 in 2017 compared to $6,000 for bottom 1/4 tile nations. the poorest 10% of citizens in the most economically free nations actually have an income that is 2/3 higher than the average income in the least-free nations. in the top 1/4 tile of economically free nations 1,.% of populations experience extreme poverty compared to 27.2% in the least free nations. if you want to cure poverty, unleash free enterprise. the benefits of economic freedom do not just apply to wage and employm

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welcome to the cato institute. my name is julian sanchez, i'm a senior fellow here, and i'm grateful to everyone who has come out bright and early to the cato auditorium for our 2019 surveillance conference. we've been doing this for some five years now. when we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about bulk nsa collection by foreman nsa contractor edward snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency, unfamiliar to most americans. and as we kick off our 2019 conference, we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. we have an impeachment proceeding kicked off in significant part by a report from the, from the intelligence community's inspector general. we have forthcoming next week a breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the foreign intelligence surveillance act during the 2016 presidential campaign. we have proceedings aired in connection -- [inaudible] from the house intelligence committee. even intelligence overseers now are at the center,

on c-span2, the cato institute jose surveillance anderence looking at fisa intelligence gathering. on c-span three at 9:30, the impact of artificial intelligence on capital markets. at 12:30 retired army general john nicholson, commander of forces in afghanistan speaks on defense and diplomacy in that country. next, testimony from treasury secretary steven mnuchin testifies about the u.s. economy. he also talks about digital currency and the potential impact of climate change. waters: the committee will come to order. without objection, the chair's authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. this hearing is entitled "promoting stability, reviewing the administration's deregulatory approach to financial stability." i want to inform all concerned that this meeting will end at 1:00 per the request of the p.m. secretary. i now recognize myself for four minutes to give an opening statement. so let me welcome back secretary mnuchin. today, we are here to discuss the trump administration's actions that have undermined and not promoted our nation's financial stability. as

the cato institute hosted surveillance conference looking at fisa and intelligence gathering. the house financial services subcommittee examines the impact of artificial intelligence on capital markets. at 12:30 retired army general john mickelson, commander of us and nato forces in afghanistan speaks on defense and diplomacy and that country. >> the house will be in order. >> for 40

chamber of commerce, the prosperity, cato institute and over 300 which have groups already been entered in the record. this is the voice of rural america saying they need this. vote on this bill, and i want to work with all of my colleagues to keep moving this bill forward so we can -- so that it can ultimately be signed into law and solve a critical problem in america. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. reserves.man the gentlelady from california. ms. lofgren: madam speaker, you many people have worked hard on this bill and i am happy to yield a minute to someone of work e great deal and helped us get here today and schrader resentative of oregon. the speaker pro tempore: for how long is he recognized? one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. schrader: thank you very speaker.am i rise in strong support of h.r. 5038, the farm workforce act.nization this compromised bill represents the kind of legislation this body can put together and pass bipartisan support when members put aside their dif

next we have the chair for the public understanding of economics at the cato institute. he was head of public policy at the institute of economic affairs and had of economic research for the center of policy studies in the u.k.. he has written on a number of economic issues such as fiscal policy, inequality, and among wages, and rent control and appeared on bbc, cnn, and sky news. he writes weekly columns for " the daily telegraph" and "city a.m." the professor for the prevention of children and youth problems at columbia school in the codirector of the columbia population resort center. she has written extensively on the impact of public policy. on more has focused family policies, inequality and early childhood care and education. poverty, social mobility, and the black/white achievement gap. numeral --lished -- numerous articles and peer-reviewed. the executive ofector, ceo, and co-founder moms rising. she has been involved in public policy and grassroots engagement for over two decades and has received numerous awards for her work. she is also an award-winning article

ryan bourn who is the chair for the public understanding at the cato institute. he was head of public policy at the institute of economic affairs and head of economic research at the center of policy studies in the u.k. he has written on a number of economic issues such as fiscal policy, minimum wages and rent news and has been on media outlets. .e writes for we have dr. jane waldfogel who is the professor for the prevention of children's and youth problems at columbia university school of social work and co-director of the columbia population research center and has written extensively on the impact of public policy on the well-being of children and families and family policies and early childhood care and education, poverty, social mobility and author of eight books and published numerous articles and peer-review. we have kristin rowe-finkbeiner, executive director and c.e.o. of an organization called moms rising. dr. fine biner has been involved in and received numerous awards for her work and award winning author of books and authors and media contributor and

lower the corporate tax rates, companies will pay less but the director of the tax policy for the cato instituteause some companies took a one-time accelerated depreciation on capital investment, for example. cato thinks a better look at a country's competitiveness is in the marginal effective tax rate. canada's department of finance just researched this for the u.s. to see how theirs stacks up to the u.s. and they found a marginal effective tax rate for companies of about 18%. the american enterprise institute says yes, the irs is taking in less money, but the study compared apples to oranges, because the reportable taxable income to the federal government is not published. so you can't actually figure out the percentage of tax a company paid. regardless, democrats trying to be president jumped on the amount of money that corporations are actually paying and the fact that it's less. listen. >> when we think about how we strengthen our middle class, we beat back the influence of money so the government is a little more level. we do it by saying progressive taxation, companies like amazon ought t

joining us is neil mcincludes can i, cato institute and andre perry.we can all agree that college tuition is soaring, whether you're looking at private colleges or public in some cases what would you do to try and bring down costs andre, what do you think >> yeah, the first thing we really need to do is do a reset. i was a college administrator for years and i've never seen a college tuition hike a president didn't like. when something went wrong in the college of natural sciences, they lifted tuition for the entire student body. at some point we need to control costs and set caps or limits on how much you can raise tuition that's why i am supportive of states that are trying to bring more transparency to the college financial crisis >> andre, how do you think government subsidies for loans has impacted tuition increases making it very easy for students to borrow money even if they're not otherwise able to afford it? >> you called it the -- because of there's so much cash in terms of the federal governmental loug folks to take out loans, colleges acqui

earlier this month, the cato institute hosted a conference on government surveillance and privacy issuesa discussion of a recent report into fbi abuses. [video clip] >> the name of the report is still spying, the enduring problem of fbi first amendment abuse. as the name would indicate, both by the "still spying" as well as the "during -- "enduring problem," this is a problem that has been with us a long time. what does it mean that we have this long history of fbi political surveillance? at a certain point, we no longer treat these types of revelations as exceptional. they become normalized or almost invisible. conversely, if you talk to activists, they will make joe's -- jokes like we know the fbi is spying on us, they treated as normal. on the other hand, because it is not exceptional and therefore not always newsworthy, people who should know better will not even realize it is going on. a few years ago, i was accompanying a gentleman from the antiwar group who had been spied on and infiltrated by the fbi to meet with congressional offices. we were asking for congress to investigate t

formerly with the cato institute, and now the policy director at defense priorities in washington.umnal, iowa next up. kim on the independent line. caller: i have a question. reagan got's when the wall torn down and gorbachev when putinsident, came in after gorbachev, that is the reason why he was -- pruden was kicked out of the alliance? was kicked out of the alliance? because it was a dictatorship in the president's of the united states did not want to deal with a dictator, they wanted to bring him along but he chose not to go along. i wanted to know that question. when did putin come into office gorbachev was partnered with reagan. i understand in the 2000 bush said he could see his soul. force yelton was also in therebetween gorbachev and put -- gorbachev and putin pruden had a lot to do with -- putin's rise had to deal with the way experience the post-cold war. -- post-cold war period. still technically a democracy despite the authoritarianism. of a dictatorship, or at least distant from being a democracy during the cold war than it is today. the distancek between the united s

on c-span2, the cato institute hosts a surveillance conference looking at intelligence gathering. 9:30, a house financial services subcommittee examines the impact of artificial intelligence on capital markets. at 12:30, retired army general john nicholson, commander of u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan, speaks on defense and diplomacy in that country. americans are coming out and getting engaged and politics is feeling a little bit less like a spectator sport for people on the left. issuesf the same social that the book covers are still the ones that are relevant today. people in this book were really outraged at issues like family separation and sexual assault on women and the evaluation of black lives -- devaluation of black lives, etc. this period provides a crucial precursor to our moment. massachusettsof professor holly jackson talks about her book "american radical." watch sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's "q&a." >> house speaker nancy pelosi announced she called for the house to move forward with articles of impeachment against president trump. --a speaker -- be m