co-director of the center for economic and policy research, and president of just foreign policy.e response has pretty subdued. on sunday, he called for a rally in solidarity. and it was not very well attended. he called for another rally itay on monday and because is a weekday, many government officials turn out for those rallies so we expect more support there. that in terms of the popular sector and what they're going through, this is bearing the brunt of the economic crisis, and mostly, daily life is a basic access to food or medicine and cash, in short supply. so most of the day is spent in lines trying to get by from one day to the next. that gives a significant amount of discontent. largewas recently a very peasants march, where we saw hundreds of peasants from the interior of the country where economic conditions are the hardest. we saw them walking to make demands upon the president and he met them there. so there has been a lot of discontent and it is muted by the fact that there isn't a theyble opposition that might latch onto as an alternative. sectors are popular conc

jeff houser is the executive director of the center for economic and policy research where he runs a project to increase scrutiny on the white house and he joins us now from washington thank you very much good to have be on with us now. the white house's press secretary has said that trump and the administration is not worried about cohen cooperating more or telling all in the russian probe should they be. they should be and i'm sure that they are michael cohen knows a lot about trump's business practices including business deals with russian oligarchs going back at least a decade michael cohen knows all sorts of things about the trump organization and potentially the trump foundation trump's imperiled founded charitable foundation and it seems likely that he would know some stuff of interest to robert muller but i think that it's an important to note that donald trump's liabilities are include russia but argo much broader than that and michael cohen as a deep threat to his entire presidency now all these allegations seem to be snowballing not just in this case but also in the man aff

and policy issues that impact you. coming up saturday morning, a discussion on economic growth and job creation in the trump presidency. the american enterprise institute's - - with the center for economic and policy research. then reuters correspondent to regulate obama era efficiency standards. then - - talk about the magazines, which looks at measures schools can take to keep students safe in the upcoming year. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal, live at seven eastern saturday morning. join the discussion. >> nigel travis, what do you do for a living? >> i am the chairman and ceo of dunkin brands. dunkin' donuts and baskin-robbins. 9 and a half years. >> what did you two prior? >> before that i was ceo of papa john's and before that i rose through the ranks of blockbuster, ending up as president of - - and before that i ran blockbuster, burger king, europe, middle east and africa after moving from human resources. i worked in hr for 20 years before my boss said wonder, you're too involved in the business. go run something. so that's what happened. >> you also own a football club. >> interesting story. i supported a football chain for 59 years in eastern london. london's second oldest football

. >> thank you very muchth 's mark of the center for economic and policy research, much nkappreciated, t for joining us. it's a journey that has taken 22 years, but on friday, the former captain of the pakistan cricket team was elected by parliament as the country's prime .minist his p.t.i. party gained the most seats in last month's and he'll be fully sworn into office in a ceremony on saturday. looking at some of the challenges he'll be facing in office. >> cheers for pakistan'sext prime minister. alongside him, angry chants from his rivals. a they continu he gave a fiery speechio promising act against corrupt politicians. >> those who stole the future of our children while in power, those who stole money to get abroad, i wlll hold them accountable. >> he has promised to create a new pakistan improving education and healthcare for ordinary people. the country faces real challenges. amongst them the highest rate of newborn infn t mortalitye world, aack of facilities and traine staff are amongst the main causes. this government hospital in islamabad is betteran resourced most, but the

chuck hauser is an executive director of the center for economic and policy research he runs a project to increase scrutiny on the white house and he says trump should be worried about michael cohen's testimony and trying to shut down the investigation would be politically dangerous. michael cohen knows a lot about trump's business practices including business deals with russian oligarchs going back at least a decade michael cohen knows all sorts of things about the trump organization and potentially the trump foundation trump's imperiled founded a charitable foundation and it seems likely that he would know some stuff of interest to robert muller but i think that it's an important to note that donald trump's liabilities are include russia but argo much broader than that and michael cohen is a deep threat to his entire presidency donald trump cannot stop these investigations directly he would have to start firing a series of people at the justice department in order to make these investigations go away and as of now it appears that he can he would wish to do that but he cannot do it be

and guess what we're still here with the same problem we had before. donna's now for more on this is mark weisbrot he's the director of the center for economic and policy research in washington d.c. thanks for being with us so what's your interpretation of what the gummed is trying to do with the census well i don't really know what they're doing i mean if they are going to ration gasoline than they would be to know who has cars and i think rationing is if it is one alternative you're if you're not going to allow the price. to be set by the market and right now they're giving away gasoline for free. then the alternative to that is rationing to how i mean how dangerous would it be for the government to either rise raise the price of gasoline or or russian as you as you say. why i think there is a way to or raise the prize they could raise the price and then allocate the revenues simultaneously to other things that people need so for example they could put it on their food rationing you know they do give away food they're distributing food to something like half the population right now so they could use the money for that and so there would be a direct connectio

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a discussion on economic growth and job creation in the trump presidency with the american institute and mark with the center for economic policy and research. then reuters correspondent image shepherdson on the trump administration's efforts to alter fuel efficiency standards. popular mechanics talks about the magazine's guide to save schools, which looks at measures schools can take to keep students safe in the upcoming year. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 p.m. eastern sunday morning. join the discussion. aboutt, a discussion efforts to combat hiv and aids in the u.s. and abroad. the outcome of the conference and asked her down and the future for the epidemic. this is cohosted by the kaiser family foundation and the center for strategic and international studies. >> good morning everyone and welcome to today's discussion that wrapped up in amsterdam. i'm with because of family foundation and we are pleased to convene with this event to talk about what continues to be the largest conference on any global health issue in the world and certainly one of the only ones scientists,together allison makers and others as

economic sanctions on iran. joining me now is richard nephew. he is a senior research scholar at the center for global energy policy and he worked at the departmentate negotiating with iran. great to see you. you basically have, as of monday, iran will have to stop buying dollars, gold, other precious metals, automotive and aircraft components. rbc calling this an inflection point. is it? >> on a political level, as how the trump administration will implement sanctions and conduct iran policy. the actual sanctions themselves are marginal. these are the things we did to address specific evasion schemes iranians had running, what we thought the iranians were running. alix: also the oil sanctions may come on november 4. that is larger macro the industry. that means an insurance underwriting issue. transactions related to tankers in the energy industry. walk me through where we are in a state of play of oil sanctions. >> right now, we have a trump administration demand saying, all those buying iranian oil these need to go to zero or as close as possible. i don't think you can replace 2.2 million barrels per day without massive price increases. we wil

director of the princeton university research center and he served as chairman of president barack obama's cancel of economic advisors, assistant secretary for economic policy, and chief economist of the u.s. to vermin of treasury, chief economist at the u.s. department of labor and he was vice president of the american economic association just last year. please welcome dr. kruger. [applause] >> thank you. i'm glad you invited me rather than a robot to give my presentation today. we are meeting at a time when the unemployment rate is at 4%, economic growth for the second quarter looks like it could be around 4%, yet there are many reasons to be concerned about the state of the job market. low,growth remains too wage growth is barely keeping up with inflation, labor force participation is too low, the u.s. has the second lowest labor force participation rate in the oecd, second only to italy. important,and most the economy is not generating enough opportunities for middle-class workers and for workers from more disadvantaged backgrounds. these problems have been with us for a long time, and the strong economy helps, but it is really not sufficient. when the

center for liberal studies which produced that research believes this dissatisfaction has ripened greeks for reforms needed to begin a new economic era we all know what the pro growth policies are and that's what we have to pursue and if we do that. i'm very optimistic about our country three years ago the majority of greeks wanted more government programs even if it meant more taxes now the situation is reversed sixty percent of greeks want lower taxes and only thirty five percent of greeks want bigger government and that's a pro growth mindset if the greeks are finally tired of paying for a wasteful state this presents the political elite with an enormous problem how to slay the monster of a public sector built with political favoritism precisely to sway elections jumpstart ople us al-jazeera athens. administration is having trouble finding a number of people that they deported under a controversial school children taken from their parents after crossing the border from mexico into the u.s. earlier this year when maimed in government care unable to be away i said with their parents after authorities have failed to locate them how did joe castro explains. since being deported to g

center for liberal studies which produced that research believes this dissatisfaction has ripened greeks for reforms needed to begin a new economic era we all know what the pro growth policies are and that's what we have to pursue and if we do that. i'm very optimistic about our country three years ago the majority of greeks wanted more government programs. even if it meant more taxes now the situation is reversed sixty percent of greeks want lower taxes and only thirty five percent of greeks want bigger government and that's a pro growth mindset if the greeks are finally tired of paying for a wasteful state this presents the political elite with an enormous problem how to slay the monster of a public sector built with political favoritism precisely to sway elections jobs are open. affluence. the italian interior minister is demanding other e.u. countries take one hundred seventy seven refugees and migrants after multiple fused mateo salvini is now threatening to send them back to a port in libya although this could be a breach of international law as they in malta have previously argued over where ships carrying rescued refugees should dock malta has accused as only of rescuing th

center for liberal studies which produced that research believes this dissatisfaction has ripened greeks for reforms needed to begin a new economic era we all know what the pro growth policies are and that's what we have to pursue and if we do that. i'm very optimistic about our country three years ago the majority of greeks wanted more government programs even if it meant more taxes now the situation is reversed sixty percent of greeks want lower taxes and only thirty five percent of greeks want bigger government and that's a pro growth mindset if the greeks are finally tired of paying for a wasteful state this presents the political elite with an enormous problem how to slay the monster of a public sector built with political favoritism precisely to sway elections. al-jazeera athens. but tell me an interior minister is demanding other countries take one hundred seventy seven refugees and migrants refused mateo salvia is now threatening to send them back to port and libya although this could be a breach of international law to have previously where ships carrying rescued refugees should dock malta has accused of rescuing them and maltese watches to prevent them from entering. well