he spoke from the james michener pavilion at the 2017 gaithersburg book festival, in gaithersburg, maryland. >> good afternoon and welcome to the gaithersburg book festival. my name is julian hafner of the democratic central committee 17 which encompasses rockville and the beautiful city of gaithersburg. welcome. gaithersburg is a city that proudly supports the arts and humanities. we are pleased to bring you this event, thanks to the support of our sponsors and volunteers, when you see them around, please say thanks. i would like to get to this event but please silence all your devices. i will wait. [laughter] go ahead. silence all devices. thank you. if you are on social media today and we hope you are, please use #gbs, gaithersburg book festival. your feedback is valuable to us, there will be surveys available at our tent and on our website. by doing this survey you will enter a drawing to win a $100 visa gift card. i encourage you to enter that survey. at the end of this presentation, craig shirley will be signing books and copies are available and on sale in the tent and on the ground

host: let us go to gaithersburg, maryland, democrats' line. caller: hello, i do not know if you can hear me. my question -- i have two things. one is gdp. when president trump got elected there were predictions that the gdp would go through the roof, it would be at 5% and etc., and i was skeptical, not because of him, but because i did not understand how something as far as i understood was composed of productivity in the workplace and the number of people -- here, andave boomers it felt like there was a natural cap to gdp until the boomer generation is out of the system. then, the next thing, i am hearing a lot about liquidity being pumped into the markets to keep them artificially high, and that could result into big troubles soon enough. i want to know if that is true. host: thank you. guest: that was pretty good, very good, actually. growing,my has been gdp growth, about 2% per annum since this economic expansion began over 10 years ago. the tax cuts that were put in place in 2018 juiced things up temporarily. growth under 3%, and that was

host: stephen is in gaithersburg, maryland. good morning. caller: good morning. thanks for taking my call. nativeed a lot about americans in the iwo jima segment, too, so thank you. i was hoping you could expand a little bit more on your mention centralenous people in and south america. foractice immigration law about 15 years, and i met a lot of indigenous folks who did not even speak spanish and such. a lot of them are able to claim asylum because they have been persecuted on account of that. what the immigration bars are not looking into at all is, is there a connection between some recognized tribes and indigenous folks? can they be subject to immigration laws? can we seek to remove them if they are being welcomed into a trouble connection? host: thanks, david. are almoste certainly connections going way back. we know that there was a lot of trade between north and south. there is no other way to account for, for example, parrot feathers in native american design than that they were trading far south, and we find material from the north that is in wide use in

. >> stephen is in gaithersburg, maryland. good morning. >> good morning. thanks for taking my call. i learned a lot about native americans in the iwo jima segment, too, so thank you. i was hoping you could expand a little bit more on your mention of indigenous people in central and south america. i practiced immigration law for about 15 years, and i met a lot of indigenous folks who did not even speak spanish and such. a lot of them are able to claim asylum because they have been persecuted on account of that. what the immigration bars are not looking into at all is, is there a connection between some recognized tribes and these indigenous folks? can they be subject to immigration laws? can we seek to remove them if they are being welcomed into a tribal nation? >> thanks, david. >> there are almost certainly connections going way back. we know that there was a lot of trade between north and south. there is no other way to account for, for example, parrot feathers in native american design than that they were trading far south, and we find material from the

china relations at the wilson center joins us on skype from gaithersburg in maryland good to have you with us on the news or these are just a few examples have been countless others anecdotal evidence on social media what do you make of this what do you think is behind this. well thanks for having me on i think that in this time of crisis people really want to reach for answers that seem really really convenient for them and this actually starts i think in china because the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis is in the presence of who bay you are seeing in china villages blockading people from who bay. undergoing manhunts or people that are from the province or from will on so on and so forth and here in the united states where i live. this reflex of reaching for easy answers extends to the racialization of people of east asian descent of chinese descent and seeing the disease vectors whether or not that's accurate is not necessarily the 1st thing on people's minds and how much of this you think is starting to the fact that this is very much a situation where people are fearful not ju

in gaithersburg, maryland, democrats' line, go ahead. as i have said many times before and as i wrote in a letter to nancy pelosi, i agree 100% with what she and her colleagues did. i believe that if you see something wrong, you should do something about it. if mr. trump had worked in the wonderful company i worked for, and he performed in his job the way that he has, he would have been out before his 90 day probation was over. unfortunately, i believe we have the best white caller criminal in the world ever as our president, and it is a shame ,hat some of those people republicans, have given up their moral courage to support this man. if more people would have stood up when hitler was a nazi germany, the holocaust might not have happened. host: we will go to brian, colorado. republican line. caller: i would like to congratulate one of -- the democrats by trying to pull off one of the biggest election frauds in american history. they not only went after donald trump, but bernie sanders by keeping him off of the campaign importantng the m

host: stephen is in gaithersburg, maryland. good morning. caller: good morning.hanks for taking my call. nativeed a lot about americans in the iwo jima segment, too, so thank you. i was hoping you could expand a little bit more on your mention centralenous people in and south america. foractice immigration law about 15 years, and i met a lot of indigenous folks who did not even speak spanish and such. a lot of them are able to claim asylum because they have been persecuted on account of that. what the immigration bars are not looking into at all is, is there a connection between some recognized tribes and indigenous folks? can they be subject to immigration laws? can we seek to remove them if they are being welcomed into a trouble connection? host: thanks, david. are almoste certainly connections going way back. we know that there was a lot of trade between north and south. there is no other way to account for, for example, parrot feathers in native american design than that they were trading far south, and we find material from the north that is in wide use in t

he spoke from the james michener pavilion at the 2017 gaithersburg book festival, in gaithersburg, marylandternoon and welcome to the gaithersburg book festival. my name is julian hafner of the democratic central committee 17 which encompasses rockville and the beautiful city of ga

we recorded his remarks at the 2017 gaithersburg book festival in gaithersburg, maryland. >> good afternoon and welcome to the gaithersburgk