he's a senior fellow of national security technology at the cato institute. start with a reminder of what the u.s. approach to surveillance was before 9/11. what did the security apparatus look like on september 10? guest: sure. the framework for national security surveillance was provided by a 1978 statute called fiza, the foreign intelligence surveillance act. until the passage of the usa patriot act expanded a number of authorities, there were a couple of features that defined that. the first is an authority that permitted, established oversight for the first time in response to abuses of surveillance power in the 1970's. it provided the foreign intelligence court to authorize surveillance of persons believed to be agents of a foreign power. there were authorities for full wiretap surveillance, full electronic surveillance, but also a number of other authorities to get things like telecommunication records and financial records, which can be extremely sensitive and quite intrusive. following the usa patriot act, the decision was made to significantly widen

cato institute director of -- alternative director of financial regulation studies.doing great work. the gamestop hearing is when she caught everybody's attention with the depth of knowledge she had about transparency in the markets. romaine: i think she made a good point about the its idea that it moves to enforcement type of mechanism with the sec rather than just guidelines and guidance. taylor: and the impact of what that means for people trying to innovate. they know the full weight of the sec is coming. certainly a good conversation. bloomberg technology with caroline is next. romaine: this is bloomberg.

>> my coat off there is of the cato institute on a great partner on this book. >> going back to the policy implications of free labor movement, whether still be a process for citizenship or is citizenship an outdated mode to? >> there's lots of legitimate concerns people have with immigration. a lot of times it's a bundle with current policy of how we do things. i don't have a strong objection if you want to make citizenship and make the requirements heart let them come and migrate, for they have access to citizenship ten years and said, 15, you want to make the test harder you want to have it include english language, pulp and champ pop-culture references to? i don't have a strong opinion on that. if it is a path to allow more people to legally come i am all for it. >> two questions about two different issues. you address this a little bit. changing the nature of a nation, does mass immigration do that? >> i am not sure what we mean by the nature of the nation. it's always going to be evolving. our american culture is not what was in the early 19th century. our political institutions have

our 76 year anniversary this year as the oldest free-market think chain and a scholar at the cato institute of the freelance writer and as you mentioned the author of untold which came on 2019 the spring of 2019 that had a quite a bit of renewed interest over the past year plus given full shutdowns in the upsurge in interest in homeschooling and alternatives to school for tickly with school shutdown and delayed reopening plans. >> on the practical level have you been in the preschool level or the school-age? >> i am a homeschooling mom myself i have four children who have never been in school who range from 7 - 14 and high-end personal experience and reflection but i travel the country in writing the book and i visit other homeschooling families as well as learning centers and other alternatives that are really catered to families looking for something different customize for their children education outside of the traditional and school environment my undergraduate degree is in economics and i went to graduate school and education policy at harvard and that was where i became interested in

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eastern c-span is airing a conversation on the first amendment hosted by the cato institute here in d.c. you can watch that here and listen to it on the free c-span radio app. back to your phone calls, what is the most important amendment to you? anthony in arizona. caller: good morning. i would say the 27th amendment is the most important. the reason i state that, even though i am an african-american with indian ancestry is that we should have the 28th, the 29th, the 30th. the founders of the constitution recognized that they were not the smartest people at that time, but they were smart enough to say we are going to have to amend this constitution at some point. if you look at the 27th, and again, we should have more than 27, the 27th talks about pay and raises. one of the things -- covid seeks the weakest link. just like floods, you go to the high ground. with covid -- i don't need to bring it in, but just as an example, if you make your body strong, if you get to the higher ground of your body's immunity, you are strong. we have elected officials that pretty much just want to figure

. >> live today on c-span, we go to the cato institute constitution day event.0 p.m., senator alex padilla talks about clean energy jobs and updates to the infrastructure bill and then we returned to the cato institute for a look ahead at the supreme court's october 21 term as well as mass incarcerations at 3:45 p.m. >> coming up this morning, justice for j6 organizer matt braynard discusses the riot.

[inaudible conversations] >> welcome to the cato institute for the 20th annual constitution day conference. iam vice president and director of the center for constitutional studies. i'm also the publisher of the cato supreme court review the 2h volume of which you can buy at cato.org or download the articles for free. thinks to the jaeger family foundation whose generosity allows us to produce this symposium and journal. of course the fact we can even have been in person event i am glad there are people in the audience in addition too those online, this marks a bit of a return to normal or a new normal as covid 18 becomes an endemic part of our lives. we mayhe still be doing with lingering mask mandates constitutionality and policy wisdom but at least vaccines and therapeutics allow most of us to live our lives essentially as before and the supreme court is also returning to an in person argument format. although not yet open to anyone staff or counsel or the media. we reviewed the supreme court term of the past and pv the next one finishing off the lecture that would be given from the nyu

eastern c-span is airing a conversation on the first amendment hosted by the cato institute here in d.cn watch that here and listen to it on the free c-span radio app. back to your phone calls, what is the most important amendment to you? anthony in arizona. caller: good morning. i would say the 27th amendment is the most important. the reason i state that, even though i am an just elected. they are not officiating anything. does that answer your question? >> anthony, thank you for the call. jim is in new york city. the most important amendment, in your mind? >> to be specific to your question, i would say the second amended. it is the sole amendment which secures all of the others. i would like to also say that all of the amendments are of great importance. i think that the first two, in combination, are extremely important. because, in all human relationships, there are two principles operating. these are reason and force. the first amendment. >> i am tim barber. one of the public information officers to the u.s. capitol police. we know you have a lot of questions. we will explain bri

host: about 10 minutes left with julian sanchez from the cato institute. michael from miami, thanks for waiting. caller: i am actually in broward county which you have seen a lot in the news. we are basically under attack by our governor desantis here. we are trying to protect our children. what you are talking it hits at the center of libertarianism, federal versus state issues. we are focusing on racketeering action down here. they are putting out what the marching orders are for the governor. basically covid libertarian eugenic genocide. what the governor is doing is following cpac and there is a further push using children. host: let's let julian sanchez respond. guest: that is not related to surveillance. i have personally written quite critically on a couple of occasions about governor sanchez and his policy. -- governor desantis in his apologies and his prohibiting private businesses for providing vaccination proof is not a move to protect freedom but is an unjustifiable restriction of freedom of association, freedom of business individuals to attem

director of lookahead america, the rally organizer for >> mass incarcerations -- hosted by the cato institute. ins -- listen for free on the radio app. >> watch january 60's from the house, where 14 members of congress share stories of what they saw, heard, and experienced that day. quick's representative gosar from arizona was objecting to the arizona slate of electors. at that moment, i think we shouted out at the top of my lungs, "this is because of you." i screamed it. >> capitol police officers came into the chamber and they were being very loud. we were actively debating, making a lot of commotion. the doors to the chamber are typically open. they started shutting all the doors. you could hear the doors. at some point, someone up in the chambers, in the gallery, a member was yelling at the republicans to call trump and have trump call off this mob. >> there were a lot of freshmen there that i had gotten to know during orientation. this was their first real experience as a member of congress. we were kind of watching them, and talking to my fellow colleagues about what we could do to try

i'm also a senior fellow at the cato institute. good to have you and katie. i love you on the, shall tell everybody why introduce yourself. hi, i'm katie k. here i am, the executive director of an organization called the people. and i started a constitutional amendment to change how re districting happened in my state of michigan so that we could end gerrymandering. all right, so i'm going to give you 2 assignments, david gerrymandering, katie redistricting, all right in 30 seconds. david g start. sure redistricting is a great idea. busy right, because populations change and people die and new voters come into the system. so you want every district to be equal. the trouble is when you are politicians, draw those lines and determine where they go. they can create lines that favor their own side. that's when redistricting becomes gerrymandering, and it has become what used to be a dark arch in american politics has become a dark science. katie your take? yes. and because they live in a representative democracy, that means that we get to elect people who represe

there's an article from the cato institute called the leninist strategy to defeat social security.ou get a foothold on me and gaining ground, gaining ground, and gain ground. i don't think there's anything particularly unique about radicals, liberals do this too. we all have our tactical deficiencies. but what conservatives have understood is basically this is a world of politics as one with millennial fix. if you are a christian conservative, literally the fate of humanity itself, right? and so that has made them willing to -- there is a quote from the publisher of national review before the storm is name was william rusher, after goldwater loses if the catacombs were good enough for the christians. we are willing to stay underground for us while, as long as it takes. i completely endorse that and democrats do, democrats and institutions. there check but the activists they see the world into your increments. they have studied obsessively except for the polls that count the ones that say raising taxes on the rich vestibular popular, right? there's far too much tactics and not enoug

referencing -- i am interested --the director of the cato institute joined us.id great work from any time but was on a gamestop hearing in february as an expert witness. she was saying there is a fine line for the sec to not stifle innovation. is that what the republicans are worrying about or is it more a capitalist tendency? guest: i think -- ben: i think it is both. a lot of what we heard from republicans were aligned with what industry lobbyists and financial trade goods in washington have been saying really for the past several months. also the crypto industry has been saying in particular, predating chair gensler, the idea essentially is that -- and you heard it from senator to me today -- if you come in with too heavy a hand, innovation, particularly in the crypto market, will leave the united states and go abroad or some of these projects will never take off and the republicans were saying today that would have a negative impact on consumers and the economy more broadly. what we heard from democrats in particular, senators like warner for example, he was

. >> live today on c-span, we go to the cato institute constitution day event. at 12:30 p.m., senator alex padilla talks about clean energy jobs and updates to the infrastructure bill and then we returned to the cato institute for a look ahead at the supreme court's october 21 term as well as mass incarcerations at 3:45 p.m. >> coming up this morning, justice for j6 organizer matt braynard discusses the riot. kathleen hall jamieson discuss civics education. later, new york university's paul barrett discusses the importance of social media on political polarization. "washington journal is next. ♪ host: good morning. it is friday, september 17. constitution day in the united states. the founding fathers assigned the u.s. constitution in philadelphia in 1787. since then, we have made 27 amendments to that original document. this morning, as we reflect on the significance of the constitution, we want to know which of those 27 amendments is most important to you. phone lines split regionally for this discussion. one for the eastern or central time zone, mountain or p

emily campagna is here along with democrat strategist and former biden campaigns during from the cato institutelcome one and all. emily, i will start with you. i know a lot of republicans and democrats and more libertarians and i don't think anyone wants to re- invade afghanistan. how far off base is lindsey graham? >> we do not. however, i think there's two points i think we agree with. one is against the backdrop of the u.s. having military presence in almost 150 countries the fact that we pulled up and did not leave a small security force to mow the lawn, and sure some semblance of order of their production before the taliban invaded and by mowing the lawn, meghan back down the threats that happened there. that's number one. without that, the threat can and likely will grow in second, with threats of terrorism likely potentially minute including the home and, it would be there retribution? action with the u.s. necessarily take when and if terroristic action occurs? i think his logic is not necessarily off although obviously and invasion and thought of another 20 year war is exhausting but i

. >> next a look at the supreme court's upcoming term from the cato institute. they previewed two high-profile cases including the challenge to a mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks and another case out of new york involving second amendment rights. the supreme court's term begins october 4th. welcome back for the final panel today where we will be sitting and talking about what is coming in the future term. it will perform on the dc circuit and clarence thomas on the supreme court. and to my immediate left is the partner client high-stakes appeals of the u.s. supreme court and federal and state appellate courts across the country. she's argued twice before the supreme court prevailing in both cases and presenting many arguments and federal courts and state courts of appeals and clerked for clarence thomas, the dc circuit, received her undergraduate degree from princeton, magna cum laude from harvard and phd from the s university of cambridge. if i wasn't here speaking with you i would be a philosophy professor right now.ro please welcome the panel.

. ♪♪ >> more from the cato institute with rachel, law professor at new york university talking aboutation in the u.s. and role of the federal judiciary.

level democrat strategist former biden campaign surrogate kevin walling is back pay from the cato institutee's a director of constitution settings, ilia shapiro welcome all. emily i will start with you. i know a lot more libertarians. i don't think anyone wants to re- invade afghanistan. how far off base is lindsey graham right now? >> and lord would know we do not. there are two points he's intimating who will agree with. one is against the backdrop of the united states having a military presence in almost 150 countries back to pulled out we did not leave a small security force to mow the lawn to ensure there some semblance of order of protection part of said this is before the taliban invaded. by mowing the lawn is a phrase the military uses. they can bat down the rise of terroristic threats that happens there. that is point number one. without that the threat can and likely will grow. the second point is with the threat of terrorism, likely, potentially imminent including on the homeland than what would be the retribution? what would be the result of that? what would be the action the un

. ♪♪ >> more from the cato institute with rachel, law professor at new york university talking abouts incarceration in the u.s. and role of the federal judiciary. >> my distinct honor and our annual conference with the annual lecture to introduce this year's lecture, vice dean and professor of law and why you lost equipment also faculty director of the center on the administration of criminal law. scholarship focuses on applying administrative constitutional block to criminal justice, she's written more than 20 articles. 2019 book politics breaking the cycle of mass incarceration demonstrating how our criminal justice policies b undermine safety and explains how we can get better outcomes by making changes m that allow data and evidence to guide our choices and respecting constitutional limits. and why you've distinguished teaching award in. [two bells tolling] and gospels distinguished teaching award 2007 serving on the u.s. sentencing commission in the conviction integrityty policy advisory panel. in 2015, she cofounded resource center that obtained 96 people as part of president o

hosted by the cato institute. this is just over an hour. [indiscernible] >> it is my distinct honor to end our annual conference. i would like to introduce the lecturer. rachel is a professor at nyu law school. she is also part of the administration of colonel law. her scholarship involves -- she has written more than 20 articles and is co-author of a leading law casebook. her 2019 book "prisoners of politics: breaking the cycle of mass incarceration" explains how we can get better outcomes by making changes that allow data and evidence to guide our choices while respecting important constitutional limits. she received the distinguished teaching award. she has served on the u.s. sentencing commission. in 2015, she cofounded a clemency resource center. as part of president obama's clemency initiative. after graduating from northwestern university and harvard law school she clerked for justice anthony callista -- schofield -- scalia. rachel: thank you very much for sticking around. i very much appreciate it. it is a honor or me to deliver the

today we are happy to have the cato institute serving as a moderator. he is the director on the project on emerging technologies for issues concerning the intersection of new technologies and civil liberties. he worked at reason magazine, an american conservative liberal democrats and the institute of economic affairs. if you would like to learn more about matthew and our panelists today, visit our website, read newsfeeds project.org. -- readproject.org. i will turn it over to matthew. once our plano has completed, we go to the audience for q and a. think of the top questions you would like to ask them please. audience questions can be submitted by zoom using arrays hand function and they will call on you directly. with that, we are excited for a great discussion. matthew, the floor is yours. matthew: thank you all for joining. i'm excited for this conversation on a topic is increasingly on everyone's mind. you may or member during the trump administration that the president signed a number of executive orders aimed at chinese owned apps, the most popul

this our half event is part of the constitution day symposium hosted by the cato institute. >> welcome to the queue institute. for our 20th annual constitution day conference. my name is ilya shapiro and i am vice president and director of the center for constitutional studies. i'm also the publisher of the cato supreme court review, the 20th volume of which you can buy it cato.org or download the articles for free. thanks to the jaeger family foundation whose generosity allows us to produce this symposium and journal. of course theos fact that we can even have an in person event, i'm glad there are actually people in the audience right here in addition to the community online. this marks a bit of return to normal or perhaps the new normal as covid-19 becomes an intimate part of our lives. we may still be dealing with lingering mask mandates and other restrictions of dubious constitutionality, let alone policy wisdom but at least vaccines and therapeutics allow most of us to live our lives essentially as inbe the before times. and the supreme court is also returning to an in person arg

later this afternoon the cato institute has a look ahead at the supreme court october term and the role in mass incarcerations. that is 3:45 on c-span tplt will be available online at c-span.org or fairway c-span radio app. this week watch c-span january 6 views from house where 14 members of congress share stories of what they saw, heard and experienced that day. >> representative kosar from arizonas objecting to the arizona slate of electors. at that moment you shouted out at the top my lungs this is because of you. i said it. >> police officers were coming in chamber and they were loud. we were debating, people were talking and there was a lot of commotion and the doors typically open and all the doors started shutting and you could hear them bam, boom, boom. >> at some point someone up in the chamber in the gallery, a member, was yelling at the republicans to call trump and have trump call off his mob. >> there were a lot of freshmen there and i had gotten to know them during orientation and this was their first really experience as a member of congress and we were watching them and

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similarly titled, quote, sweden's lesson for america, end of quote, has been published by the cato institute. so i would recommend to all my colleagues on both sides of the aisle paying attention to either that video or that publication by cato, because we can learn a lot from sweden, and it's not what people will be espousing here in the united states senate based upon a lot of political speeches from those on the left. as norberg points out, by about 1950, sweden was the fourth-richest country in the world and had the fifth-freest economy. in other words, sweden became wealthy through economic freedom like we have here in america. and then you know what? sweden started to adopt socialist policies. at first it was just a few welfare programs. but between 1960 and 1980, government spending in sweden doubled from 31% of gross domestic product to 60% of gross domestic product. and of course that meant for all the people in sweden to pay high , sky-high taxes. this is the time period that older socialists remember so fondly and we see espoused here on the senate floor. sweden was surfacing, was

. >> next a look at the supreme court's upcoming term from the cato institute. they previewed

submit for the record a letter to the committee dated july 12, 2021 from matthew feeney of the cato institute. >> you want to finish the explanation? >> i also wish to submit an article from american military news from july of 2021 regarding the capitol police adoption of the army surveillance gear to identify americans and recognize threats. i also wish to include several articles about the alaskan couple who through facial technology that was a rooney us -- was eroneously used. without objection, so ordered. i thank the ranking member of the subcommittee for his presentation and his opening statement and i do believe, as i indicated, we should be engaged in oversight and legislative response and i would like to find common ground with our colleagues. i think this is important in terms of law enforcement in new utilization thereof but also for the constitutional principles in which we all believe. it's now my pleasure to record highs the distinguished chairman of the full committee, the gentleman from new york, chairman nadler for his opening statement. >> thank you for convening this hearin

submit for the record a letter to the committee dated july 12th, 2021 from matthew feeney of the cato institute. >> you want to finish the letter's explanation? >> yes. yes, if i can, please. also i wish to submit an article from american military news from july of 2021 regarding the capitol police adoption of army surveillance gear to monitor americans and identify threats. i also wish to include several articles about the alaskan couple that through facial technology that was erroneously used and that was -- one would be an ap news article entitled "rise of technology capitol seize government and politics." another one from alaskan news source and another one from home news.com. if possible, madam chair. >> without objection, so ordered. i thank the ranking member of the subcommittee for his presentation and his opening statement and i do believe that, as i indicated that we should be engaged in both oversight and legislative response and i would like to find common ground with our colleagues because i think this is very, very important, both in terms for law enforcement and the utilization t