furman: the u.s. been the biggest success story of any of the economies in the world in rebounding from the financial crisis. and our growth continues to be considered by people around the world as one of the bright spots in the global economy. the unemployment rate has consistently come in below expectations. it's been accompanied by a broader healing and labor markets. wages are up at the fastest they've been since the financial crisis. i think the biggest concern that i face for our economy is the impact that the rest of the world will have on the u.s. economy. trade is subtracting -- slow down in our exports to the rest of the world, which is a function of slower growth in the rest of the world. it's taking about 3/4 of a point off of our growth rate right now. so this isn't enough to have a massive change on the u.s. economy but it is persistent drag on the economy. you know, a sector like housing, i actually think is one of the bright spots in the economy with an area of a lot of potential. cert

furman: uh-huh.ou're ur first, precisely right, that there's an intersection between these two issues. 100 u had a choice of different cable companies, probably we wouldn't need a rule because one boxes of those cable companies would compete for your business by top boxyou have any set you want or a better one. when you don't have competition in terms of the cable wire going into your house, that makes it that much more important to make sure that you can't leverage the market power you have in the wire to the house into what is product, which is the set top box. so there's an intersection those. e've tried to take up steps to free up spectrum for mobile broad band, which would create more competition in that area, make sure the rules of those actions are consistent with, you an't just have the biggest player buy all the spectrums and foreclose on the opportunity of market.o enter the we've weighed in on municipal broad band as another way to competition. but there's only so many tools that we have.

jason furman. as you know, he is the chair of the council of economic advisers, one of the leading public economists in the country. before this, i should know, he, among other things, headed the hamilton project, proving he was precious beyond words in understanding how cool alexander hamilton could be to a wide audience. so dr. jason furman. [ applause ] >> thank you. thank you for that introduction, michael. president truman was reported to have been frustrated with his economic team because every time he asked them for advice on something, rather than telling him something clear and direct, they would tell him, well on the one hand, and then they would say on the other hand and he wanted to get himself a one-handed economic adviser. the topic we're discussing today is one that really lends itself to a one-handed economic adviser. because as our team, led by cea member sandy black and engineera palma emily wiseberg and gabe scheffler put together this report, the research on this is real c reall

jason furman. he is the chair of the council of economic advisers, one of the leading public economists in the country. i should note that he headed the hamilton project at the brookings institution, proving he was pressured the onwards to understand -- beyond words to understand how cool alexander hamilton to be to white audiences. -- wide audiences. dr. jason furman. [applause] jason furman: thank you for that introduction, michael. president truman was reported to have been frustrated with his economic team because every time he asked them for advice on something rather than telling him something clear and direct, they would tell him, on the one hand, and then they would say on the other hand. he said he went to get himself a one-handed economic advisor. topic we are discussing today is one that really lends itself to a one-handed economic as our team, i am led by cindy black, emily, be, who put together this report. the research on this is really clear and consistent. lines as wess party heard

joining us with the first reaction, jason furman, chair of council of economic advisers.on, this election seems to be about how bad job growth is. job growth is good. how do you change the narrative? how do you make it so people don't keep talking about how bad job growth is. >> you're right, job growth is good, 73 straight months of our businesses adding jobs. this month in total, 215,000 jobs. the participation rate is phenomenal. this is the fastest growth we've seen over a six-month period since 1992. wages are above expectations. this is what you want to see in a report. we're getting reports like this every month, month after month after month. >> jason, what's behind the very big growth in service? particularly hospitality? again that would signify that people are more optimistic. going out more. taking trips more. what's behind that optimism? given, again, the back drop of politics saying that america's awful? >> yeah. i think people -- if you look at consumer surveys, consumers are optimistic. consumers are spending money. consumers are seeing faster wage increas

we have former lapd detective mark furman and low levy. we begin with the organization that broke the news. the executive producer of tmz.com. tell us what the latest is. >> when we broke the story last friday he was rushed to the hospital, his people told us he had the flu and it did not make sense to us. i'll tell you why. he'd just performed in atlanta, d did a very good concert, his voice was great. he seemed great. jumped on a plane, an hour and a half later, 48 minutes from his final destination in minnesota, the plane is diverted and makes an emergency landing and he is rushed to the hospital by ambulance. his people sai the flu, it stopped us in our tracks. we thought why won't he tough it out 48 minutes and be in his home? they said it was the flu, they treated him and he left. we're told they made an emergency landing because of radio calls indicating that he may have had a drug overdose, and that they -- it was so serious, they gave him treatment at the airport on the tarmac, then took him to the hospital in the emergency room.

furman. we appreciate his coming back.st association with the council was in 19 96 during the clinton administration we he was still a graduate student at harvard and hired as a staff economist at the council. since then he served as senior adviser to the world bank, special adviser to clinton, and senior fellow and economic studies and director of the hamilton project at brookings. ray lo along the way he earned three degrees. he's been a visiting scholar at nyu's wagner graduate. earlier in the obama administration, our guest was principal deputy director of the national economic council before being named to his current post in june of 2013. and with that, we'll leave behind biography and move to this morning's mechanics. as always, we're on the record here. please no live blogging or tweeting, in short, no filing of any kind while the breakfast is under way to give us time to actually listen to what our guest says. there's no embargo when the session ends, promptly at 10:00, or 9:59. to help you resist that relentless

furman: growth in europe has picked up a little bit, but it is still way too slow. the unemployment rate in the euro zone is above 10%. china has seen its growth slow. japan has seen its growth slow. growth in a number of emerging markets like brazil and russia is negative. so you know, we're not in the year 2009. this is not a global financial crisis, but most anywhere you look in the world outside the united states, growth is coming in a decent amount below what people were expecting and by just about any measure is disappointing. it's pretty much just the low income economies that have seen their growth rates pick up in recent years. just about everyone else has not. host: last question quickly, alexis. >> about transition planning, can you describe what the economic team is doing collectively, how far you are in thinking about transition planning, coordination, information gathering? mr. furman: i can tell you for the council of economic advisors that we've had a long standing tradition of we hire our staff mostly one year at a time and they work from summer to

our guest today is dave furman, council of economic advisers. last he was here was in february 2015. we appreciate his coming back. this first association with the council was in 1996 during the clinton administration when he was still a graduate student at harvard and was hired as a staff economist for counsel. since then he served as your advisor to the chief economist at the world bank, special assistant to president clinton for economic policy at the national economic council and senior fellow in economic studies and director of the hamilton project at brookings. along the way here he earned three degrees including a doctorate from harvard and one from the london school of economics. he's been a visiting scholar at nyu's wagner graduate school of public service and a visiting lecturer at yale and columbia. in 2008 he was the economic policy the director for obama for americans. earlier the amount of about ministries in our guest was deputy director of the national economic council before being named to his current post in june 2013. with tha

furman's sold more copies of his book in the past few months than in the past five years combined.he ratings are big, too. we talked to the cast in new york about all of this attention. >> it's wonderful but scary at the same time. it's wonderful when you're, when you are lifted up and acclaimed. but if you do something wrong, woo, they'll bring you down real fast, too. >> i was surprised when i would hear any celebrity news that were a huge fan of the show. >> the best thing he'd ever seen. >> john travolta brought wife kelly preston out. >> today's the day. >> he told me years ago that the highest critical acclaim i ever got was playing an older, eccentric lawyer. i would say, really? >> but shocker. there's one person not watching. the guy playing or not .j. >> no, i don't watch it. i have to step away from it. i have a real life. >> this scene had viewers going crazy on twitter. was there really a relationship between the members of o.j.'s prosecution team? >> i have my theories about what was going on there. >> we talk about it in my book "in contempt", did they do the do? i t

primariliy mandates >>> coming up on c-span 3, a hearing on the 2017 state department budget, and jason furman, medicare on the white house economic of council advise yores and later preventing military sexual assaults. >>> next a hearing on the president's 2017 state department budget request. the senate foreign relations subcommittee heard from officials from the u.s. agency for international development about the united states human rights and diplomatic priorities. the hearing is an hour and 15 minutes. >>> good morning, this is a hearing of the sub-committee on the western hemisphere transnational crime civilian security and global rights and women's issues an the purpose is to review the resource and priorities and programs in fiscal year 2017 budget requests from the president's and the u.s. department of state's bureau of western hemisphere affairs and the bureau of democracy human rights and the usaid for latin america and the caribbean. we'll have a panel with three witnesses. tom malinowski, from democracy, human rights and labor. mr. francisco palmieri for the western hemisphere af