from george mason university's locator center, a senior research fellow. thank you for being here, veronique. ofalso welcome the president the alliance for american manufacturing, thank you for being here. we wanted to start with your teco ways from day one of this g7 meeting in quebec we were looking for today. we startl, why don't with you? scott: i don't expect much, there are clear there for and says that president trump has articulated. there is obviously some a resistance to that from the rest of the g7 summit. i think that they all can come to agree on, and this is one of the understated goals of the administration policy, is how to confront china. i think it is a common interest that they all have. i don't know if they are going to be able to pivot to that, given some of the rhetoric that we have seen the last few days, but that would be a reasonably good outcome. >> veronique? >> i agree with scott, that is one of the things they should be able to agree with one another about, which is what to do with china. this is their way to deal with , you cr

in his office at george mason university, working on his phd. the topic?ct analysis resolution. do people give you a second glance and wait a minute, mandela, are you related? >> oh, yes. it is always a dominant question. >> reporter: at 25, he goes byt e same nickname as his grandfather. our jim vance traveled to south africa to cover mandela's legacy. >> the freedom fighter, diplomat, peacemaker, is gone from this land he loved so much, but the iconic figure, the conscious of this nation, remains here today in spir. according to the conversations of many people in south africa, will remain so forever. >> grandchildren, he was always happy to be around. >> reporter: the younger mandela is already a electat but he is not living off his grandfather's legacy. how i it that's not part of your ego? >> well, i think it's bee by great within me leaders, such as nelson mandelaa what the most, you must exercise a high level of humility. >> is that that humility that attracted him to george mason. some thought maybe he'd go to oxnao oxford or stanford. but his focu

. >> you talked about george mason and how his relationship as a businessman, george washington paused a really successful plan to negotiate some of the interstate trade deals. i'm wondering what lessons we can draw on from george met -- george mason in terms of trade? >> george mason was a big lever in free trade and that in order for us to survive as a country, we could have this kind of economic vulcanization. it's one of the reasons he voted against the constitution at the end of the convention. he was afraid that congress could to easily manipulate trade practices within tted states. atall the concerns raised the constitutional convention, that one has not materialized in the way that he had feared. i think that mason would look at that and want to make sure we maintain free trade policy as much as he possibly could. interesting because i think there is internal debate in the republican party of free trade versus protectionism and this tension that we are really just watching unfold for our eyes. how do you sell your advocate for your position on trade, to the folks who are livin

in his office at george mason university, working on his phd. the pic?onflict analysis and resolution. do people give you a second glance and say, wait a minute, mandela, are you related? >> oh, yes. it is always a dominant question. >> reporter: at 25, he goes by madiba, like his grandfather, the late nelson mandela. the famed leader spent 27 years in prison. t he went on to nation's first black president. in december 2013, our jim vanceo traveled to h africa to cover mandela's funel. he describes mandela's legacy. >> nelson mandela. the freedom fighter, the cemaker, is gone from this land he loved so much, but the iconic figure, the conscious of this nation, remains here today in spirit. accordg to the conversations of many people in south africa, will remain so forever. >> grandchildren, he was always happto be around. >> reporter: the younger mandiba is already a lecturer, but he is not willing to live off his grandfather's successes. it seems there is no entitlement. how is it that's not part of your ego? >> well, i think it's be engrained within me

josh wright from george mason university global antitrust in the two, what you think of judge leon's legal arguments. >> there is some portions i agree with, but let me sort of started the high-level, which is i think the right way to think about the case is one that is not about theories of harm, not about the state of the law of. for example, we might agree the implication on this case are not particularly broad sweeping. but it's a case about fact specific analysis of the doj theory. there is not in my read of judge leon's opinion a sweeping rejection of the government theory is that the economist and antitrust lawyers have known for some time vertical mergers are more often then not procompetitive. the resulting benefits for consumers by doing things like reducing costs for combining content distribution that allow the new company to offer new innovative services for consumers. voip also known they can sometimes do the types of things the government argued. the question for antitrust is a noise has been one can we identify those bad instances and separate them out for the good on

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wright professor, george mason university. joshua: we are a nonprofit institute that focuses on economic education for judges and regulators in the 120 antitrust jurisdictions around the world. host: thank you both for being on the "communicators." >> if you missed any of this special airing of "the communicators," you can watch it at its normal time right here on c-span. and on monday on our companion network, c-span2. live on the c-span networks, the house continues work on a number of opioid related bills. house coverage on c-span. defense the 2019 measure. on c-span3, president trump's pick testifies with other state department nominees at a compilation hearing. house democrats and republicans face each other in the annual congressional baseball game at >> members of the scottish national party walked out of the house of commons during prime minister theresa may's weekly question time. the move followed a dispute between chamber leaders and snp westminster leader over the brexit impact on scotland. next, we show you that a

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wright, professor, george mason university. executive director of the global antitrust institute which is -- joshua: a nonprofit institute that focuses on economic education for judges and regulators in the 120 antitrust jurisdictions around the world. host: thank you both for being on the "communicators." diana: thank you. joshua: thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. isit ncicap.org] >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created by america's cable television companies. and today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in washington, d.c., and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or splite provider. >> next on c-span -- hear from the french ambassador to the u.s. on u.s.-europe relations. he talks about the european union, nato, and trade. this

coming up saturday morning, george mason university senior research fellow and the lines for american manufacturing scott paul discussed trust -- trump administration policies. variety senior editor ted johnson will talk about the upcoming court decision on the at&t time warner merger. "washington journal," live at 7:00 eastern saturday morning. join the discussion. on wednesday, president trump signed the v.a. admission act into law. v.a.'s choicee program for another year. while the department wants to consolidate seven community care programs into one. this is 20 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. [applause] president trump: thank you very much, this is a very big day. we have been looking for choice for a long time. today is the day. it is very important. very happy. thank you for being here. this is truly historic moment. historic time for our country. i will be signing the landmark legislation to provide health care choice. what a beautiful word that is, choice. and freedom to our amazing veterans. i want to welcome our veterans. we have many h

coming up saturday morning: george mason university senior research fellow and the alliance for american manufacturing discuss trump administration trade and tariff policies. and then variety senior editor ted johnson will be on to talk about the up coming court decision on the at&t time warner merger. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern saturday morning. join the discussion. >> and we are back at our table. congressman democrat of california sits on the judiciary committee as well as foreign affairs here to talk about the president's trips abroad. he actually is aboard marine one, landing at joint andrews air force base before he's about to head off on air force one to canada as you know congressman and then from there leaving canada early the g-7 summit to go off to singapore. let's start with the g-7 and the reaction from our

more on this now are joined by bill schneider political analyst and a public policy professor at george mason university is joining us live from los angeles mr schneider always a pleasure to have you with us on al jazeera so how significant would you say this latest development and the evidence that has led robert miller to say man of ford has been tampering with witnesses is. well it's very significant for paul man averred it's potentially significant for the investigation of president shop because the special counsel and his investigators can use these charges which have now accelerated dramatically to pressure pomona for to testify against the president to tell everything he knows about the president's relations with russia about the campaign's connections with russia because the illegal molon money laundering that paul monitored is accused of doing were done with ukrainian politics came the money came from ukrainian politicians with close ties to russia yeah so he may know a lot and the special counsel will try to get every bit of information he can out of matter for it by saying you know

trust funds, we're joined now by robert reischauer of the urban institute, and charles blahous of george mason university. having this discussion after the publication this week of the annual trustees report that offered some warnings about the long-term health of those trust funds. so, mr. blahous, first, who are these people who publish this report, the trustees that we call them? >> well, right now, the trustees are only four people -- the secretary of the treasury, secretary of hhs, the secretary of labor, and the acting social security commissioner. now, by law, there are supposed to be six trustees. there's supposed to be two members of the public, one from each party serving as public trustees, but their basic job is to report annually on the financial status of the social security and medicare trust funds. >> and should note, you both previously served as public trustees. what is the role of that person, for those two people? >> well, the public trustee positions were added as part of the 1983 social security amendments, and they were added very specifically to substantiate public conf

. >> and josh wright teaches at george mason university. and is executive director of the global antitrust instrument which is -- >> a nonprofit institute that focuses on economic education for judges and regulators in the 120 antitrust jurisdictions around the world. >> thank you, both, for being on "the communicators." >> thank you. >> in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's public cable television companies. and today, we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in weashts and r -- washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >> this weekend, on c-span saturday at 10:00 a.m. eefrpblt justice and homeland security fy against foreign interference. sunday at 10:30 a.m. highlights from the north korea summit between president trump and north korean leader kim junk u.n. on book tv saturday at 9:00 p.m. eastern, former house speaker newt gingrich talked about his book "trust america." d on su

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. >> host: josh wright teaches at the scalia school of law, george mason university and is executive director of the global antitrust institute which is -- tried to a nonprofit institute that focuses on economic education for judges and regulators in the 120 antitrust jurisdictions around the world. >> host: thank you both for being on "the communicators." >> guest: thank you. >> c-span, where history unfold daily. in 1979 c-span was crude as a as a public service by america's cable-television companies and today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy fence in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >> today a forum on u.s. leadership around the world and the impact of american diplomacy on the u.s. economy and national security. speakers include former secretary of state madeleine albright, former senate majority leader tom daschle, and california representative barbara lee. posted by the u.s. global leadership coalition it's live beginning at 10:30

george mason university'. >> no word of the mentioned market power in the decision, and that's the key issue. in a vertical merger and horizontal merger, how does the merger change the company's incentives and their ability to exercise greater market power? >> i teach antitrust law, i have an antitrust law casebook. we have looked a long time to find a vertical merger opinion to teach to students. there is not one in the modern era. out, andway this came even which way it comes out on one,l, should there be being the first fully litigated opinion in a vertical merger challenge in a long period of time, i do think, even though it is one district court judge, one specific opinion, one industry, does give it some degree of importance. other judges, should there be another vertical merger challenge, who are looking around to see what their judicial colleagues have done in these opinions, cannot miss this one because there is nothing else. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. c-span, where history unfolds daily. 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's television cable co

andguests are diana moss george mason university professor joshua wright. watch the communicators saturday: 30 p.m. eastern on c-span. pick to bet trump's u.s. ambassador to south korea, retired admiral harry harris, testified along with other state department nominees at a confirmation hearing. senator bob corker chairs the foreign relations committee. it is just under two hours.

coming up saturday morning: george mason university senior research fellow and the alliance for american manufacturing discuss trump administration trade and tariff policies. and then variety senior editor ted johnson will be on to talk about the up coming court decision on the at&t time warner merger. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern saturday morning. join the discussion. >> and we are back at our table. congressman democrat of california sits on the judiciary committee as well as foreign affairs here to talk about the president's trips abroad. he actually is aboard marine one, landing at joint andrews air force base before he's about to head off on air force one to canada as you know congressman and then from there leaving canada early the g-7 summit to go off to singapore. let's start with the g-7 and the reaction from our allies to his moves on tariffs and trade. what do you think? >> well, thank you, for that question. like healthcare, trade is complicated, but i think what the president is going to find out is that these countries are going to push

in professor at the george mason university has recently published a book called ink where she clearly shows for example. exploitation of shale gas is going sailing with this drug war right and somehow do not object to the preparation of the energy of the gas while at the same time you know they're killing in the populating many areas where the gas is located so there's a lot of. research that there is spending on the part of econet of academics and journalists to clarify exactly what we say when we name the war on drugs and how to explain this correlation of these two events right the energy reform and expansion of the military apparatus in mexico. and when you see the energy reform taking place in mexico what do you mean exactly by that i mean certainly you have pemex which is this massive state owned oil company as i understand it but are we seeing more privatization or what's taking place right so that since two thousand and six specially with the presidency of felipe because they don't you know when the same person sees that the clear the war on drugs immediately from day one we h

it to curry is professor of conflict resolution at george mason university joins us live now from washington d.c. good to have you with us so what do you make of the saudis statement no mention of this crucial two million extra barrels a day figure. well i think it is a strategic move to do with trump at this point and i think what we have seen so far is a combination of an oil price war as well as an in the direct diplomatic confrontation between the iranians other members of the opec so the iranians are pushing for it because of production however the russians have offered and increased by one point five million barrels a day as you mentioned saudis are willing to go along with another million barrels a day so i think it's more of a move forward to not to contain iran but also to defy the will of the majority within opec so i think if this trend the what the russians and the saudis of i think it will lead to an implosion of the opec as an international trade instituto is as a going to ask exactly that because they got a side deal happening after that very hard one argument agreement modest

saturday morning, a senior research fellow at george mason university. a discussion of trump administration trade policies. ted johnson will talk about the upcoming court decision on the at&t and time warner merger. watch c-span's "washington journal," live at 7:00 eastern on sunday morning. caller:oin the discussion -- join the discussion. >> this weekend, book tv will have live coverage of the 34th annual editors wrote -- printers row lit fest. starting saturday with jonah goldberg and "suicide for the west." ripplesf. kennedy: of hope." "we crossed a bridge and it trembled: voices from syria." "mayor herald washington: champion of race and reform in chicago." sunday, coverage continues at 11:00 a.m. eastern with the former president of the aclu and her book, "hate: why we should resist it with free speech, not censorship." a journalist with his book "everything you love will burn: inside the rebirth of white nationalism in america." "the gulf: the making of an american sea." men: the daring odyssey of apollo eight and the astronauts who made man's fir

reading and joining us from washington is mohammed a cop professor of conflict resolution at the george mason university welcome to you all coming to you first what does this decision do to the organization well the decision is not really one that comes as a prize in geneva everyone that's been following the human rights council in geneva has been expecting it ever since nikki haley came to geneva in june of last year and said that in essence she wanted the council to reform around three pillars the first one is its membership the second one is its perceived bias towards israel and the third one is its efficiency i think that here. the shock is really the surprise is really that it comes so suddenly in a way even though we had seen it coming most would have expected that there'd be a trigger say for instance the u.n. publishing a report condemning israel or something of the kind but in any case i think most people expected it and. then the biggest concern nowadays is what you know how this is going to unfold a year and a half away from the reform of the human rights council the human rights c

november kimberly how could al-jazeera washington bill schneider is a public policy professor at george mason university he says that some republicans are worried that the harsh immigration policies will hinder them in november elections the president's calculation is it will help them because it's playing to the base as we say in the united states the definition of a base is simple your base are the people who are with you when you're wrong in this most americans consider the trumpet ministration in the white house completely wrong but he got elected for a major reason which was to stop illegal immigration he also wants to curb some legal immigration but immigration feels like a threat to a lot of americans the people in his base mostly white working class voters and he is intent on delivering on that promise so that he can say to his supporters you see i told you i deliver on this and i did and let me remind you this issue the immigration issue has produced a backlash not just in the united states producing some but also in europe it says shaping politics there as well meanwhile germany's c

showed is a professor of conflict resolution that george mason university he says saudi arabia is showing no sign the gulf crisis can be resolved in the near future. while this new threat showcases the three years still maintains its hegemony impulses visa v a small nation of the neighborhood so after one year of the court crisis it does not only seek the containment of qatar but also to ban it or to prevent it from seeking any kind of of special you know the s four hundred from the russians and this goes against the golden rule in international law that means if you are under various threats you are entitled to your self-defense and the way you are mule self so i think unfortunately from a conflict perspective this is another cycle of escalation for the sake of escalation and i think there is a huge rift not only a political issue but also the psychology of the rift sensory yet has not realized that qatar has been tamed its sovereignty and has gone beyond the brocade that was imposed last june fifth so i am afraid that i was hoping for some aid there would be an operation more or a step

then george mason university and the urban institute on challenges facing social security and medicarening. join the discussion. >> live thursday on the c-span networks, the house returns at 10:00 a.m. for work on a combined spending bill for energy, the legislative branch and military discussion. the house also takes up a bill to rescind $15 million in funding. on c-span 2, the senate returns for a debate and votes on judicial nominations and work on the defense department program's bill. and at 11:00 a.m. on c-span 3, the house ways and means sub committee holds a hearing about the recent social security report. the chief actuary of the program testifies. later at 2:00 p.m., they consider ways to advance u.s. business investment and trade in the americas. >> this weekend book tv will have live coverage of the 34th annual printer's world in chicago. starting saturday at 11:00 a.m. eastern with national reviews and his book suicide of the west. kerry kennedy daughter of robert f kennedy and her book robert f kennedy ripples of home. wendy with a crossed a bridge and it tremendous bld.

has described as a witch hunt goes night as a political analyst and a public policy professor at george mason university he says the new accusations could force manifolds to testify against the president. very significant for paul man averred and it's potentially significant for the investigation of president trump because the special counsel and his investigators can use these charges which have now accelerated dramatically to pressure paul man of his group to testify against the president to tell everything he knows about the president's relations with russia about the campaign's connections with russia because the illegal molon money laundering that paul montfort is accused of doing were done with ukrainian politics or came the money came from ukrainian politicians with close ties to russia so he may know a lot and the special counsel will try to get every bit of information he can out of men for by saying you know we have these charges and we can reduce them we can ask for more lenient sentence we don't know everything the man for knows who his campaign manager early on but he may know a

have to remember that paul says he is innocent bill schneider is a professor of public policy at george mason university joins me now from los angeles in california good to have you with us mr schneider i mean the charges are mounting up serious are these latest accusations. well this is the first time we've seen a direct connection between someone in the who was in the trump campaign and russia he's got his close associate is alleged to have ties with russian intelligence they were working on behalf of a leader in ukraine who was ended up as pro russian i think he's in russia now well after he was forced into exile so there is a connection here between trump's campaign chairman former campaign chairman and russian intelligence that we never saw directly established before and how do these charges that impact on sort of the whole case against manifold that robert mueller is bringing forward well the case against man of ford is a bit separate from the investigation of president trump because matter for the crimes he's been accused of doing are things he did in his lobbying firm like money laun

you have to remember that says he is innocent over schneider is a professor of public policy at george mason university says the new charges give mueller more leverage in understanding the inner workings of the trunk campaign. well the case against man of ford is a bit separate from the investigation of president trump because man of fort the crimes he's been accused of doing are things he did in his lobbying firm like money laundering and tax evasion before he was so sweet with the trump campaign but it in what these charges do is give the miller investigation the opportunity to empower apply more pressure on paul matter for it by saying these charges are serious man if it could go to prison for the rest of his life he's sixty nine years old and the prosecutor mr miller can decide can tell him that we will lessen the charges we will try to get you more more lenient sentence if you fully cooperate with the investigators and tell us everything you know about the trump campaign and the possibility of collusion with russia so it just ratchets up the pressure on both manifold and president trump

professor of conflict resolution at george mason university in the united states he says the saudis are showing no sign the gulf crisis can be resolved soon. world this new thread showcases the three year still maintains its impulses views of the small nation of the neighborhood so after one year of the call of course is it does not only seek the containment of copper but also to burn it or to prevent it from seeking any kind of special you know the four hundred from the russians and this goes against the golden rule in international law that means if you are and that is throw you are entitle to your self defense and the way you serve so i think unfortunately from a conflict this is another cycle of escalation for the sake of escalation and i think that is a huge rift not only a political move but also a psychology since three year has not to realize that the culture has maintained its sovereignty and has gone beyond the brocade that was imposed last june fifth so i'm afraid that i was hoping for some good it would be an operation more or a step forwards toward somebody conciliation but

george mason university's house onlaw challenges facing social security funding. join the discussion. tuesday was the 50th anniversary of robert kennedy's assassination. next, we hear from former clinton andll grandson joseph kennedy paying tribute to the late senator. this is about an hour and a half. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen please rise for the invocation by father matt malone. >> let us pray. we meet not in a moment of morning but an hour for help. for this memorial is not only our remembrance of things past , but the touchstone of our present. and the right of dedication to our future. we gather here in this sacred place for the memory of all of our fallen heroes for our hearts with the highest aspirations of the nation to proclaim to our fellow citizens and to the worl world, bobby kennedy still lives. in millions of hearts that seek a new world. and in millions of minds, to dream things that never were and ask why not with every ripple of hope. so to make this proclamation that only through human words or earthly gestures in this spirit of prayer, that

. >> host: george mason university kate in. center and robert is with the urban institute has a distinguished fellow of the air. you can check out their work at the bipartisan policy.org. thank you very much and come back again. >>> once a year russian president vladimir putin appears on a national television program to answer questions from russian viewers. in this portion of the program, he answered questions about relations with the west, russian forces and the construction of a 12-mile bridge to the crimean peninsula. this year we have a lot more questions about the relations with russia anda the west. ish should say

and here now to help break it down, we have a senior fellow at george mason university national securityte, along with a republican congressional candidate for nevada who by the way just won his congressional primary yesterday. danny, congratulations. >> thank you very much. charles: let's start first and foremost, the ig report. the implications for it, you know, politically and also what do you think is going to happen next with respect to the fbi and even the mueller investigation? >> myself? charles: yes. >> from what i've heard about it, they're trying to make it look like there wasn't anything done that influenced the investigation. but certainly those texts and going back and forth shows a complete bias between some of those investigators. but what's more troubling to me, those investigators, several of them were on the mueller team for a long period of time including one up to a month ago. how could you have an impartial investigation of president trump and then you have numerous people that have shown clear bias to him in these texts that obviously the ni fbi knew about. charles

theing us to talk about deal is the president of the american antitrust institute and a george masonniversity global antitrust institute. >> no mention of the word market power. issue here. the key in a vertical merger and a horizontal merger. how does this change the companies incentives and the ability to exercise market power. time tove looks a long find the vertical merger opinion toea t students but there isn't one. in the modern era. i think whatever the way this , being the first fully litigated opinion in a long amount of time, i do think that even though it is one onerict court judge with specific opinion in one industry from one merger -- it does give it some degree of importance. other judges, should there be another vertical merger -- challenge -- they are looking around to see what their colleagues have done. they can't miss this one because there is nothing else. >> watch the communicators tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span two. "> "washington journal continues. host: with us now is shai akabas . 532nted to talk about this billion dollars that is the federal deficit

up next on washington journal, george mason university's charles blahous and robert reischauer will jointo talk ofut the fiscal health social security and the metal care -- medicare trust funds. first, hospital neck and the chief actuary of the centers for --icare and medicaid outlined the social security and medicare trust reports. they talked about why medicare is projected to be depleted by 2026 at that event. here's a bit of that. be the tends to information that gets the most attention from these reports. you can see that this is the ratio of the balance of the funds. it looks at the balance in the trust fund at the beginning of to ther as a ratio amount of expenditures for that year. the this range test is ratio should be over 100%. as you can see we have been under that level for a number of years now. that this ratio goes down to zero. that currently projected the trust fund would be depleted in 2026 this year. and that is three years earlier than last year. this is predominantly a revenue story. fact that payroll taxes, the amount of revenue coming into the trust fund were lower

a,in international security from the charter school at george mason university. there will be plenty of time for questions at the end so please hold those until after the discussion is concluded and with that we'll turn things over to gene. >>> thank to all of you for being here. as jeff noted we're in the middle of a renewed debate here on the hill about what hole, if any, that congress should play in the choice between war and peace. that's the most fundamental decision that any government can make, and it's one that our constitution entrusts to congress. but for nearly 17 years now that choice has been left to the executive branch, with the result that the united states has been almost constantly at war. in president obama's last year alone, the urs forces dropped over 26,000 bombs on seven different countries and obama left office as the first two term president in american history to have been at war every single day of his presidency. that's in large part thanks to a joint resolution that congress passesed three days after 9/11. 2001 authorization for the u

let's bring in jamel jaffer of george mason coming diversity and former counsel to the senate foreignd morning. let's start with comey if we can here. this shows many things. likely we are hearing in the lakes they've heard about the draft of this report today, it was likely that he acted improperly to go public with the news of course about the e-mail investigation to go public too early, not to prosecute hillary clinton before the election. that's just the beginning of this report, correct? >> that's exactly right. these are crazy times when you think about it. this idea that the fbi director is out there talking about what was going on and then talking about prosecutorial decisions, which are really love to the justice department as u.s. attorney james comey should've known not. definitely not scenario going on here and likely to be very substantial criticism from the inspector general on that front alone. cheryl: again, you know, he went out before he went public about the investigation, but he basically made up his mind that peter strzok was a piece of this and that hillary clint

coming up saturday morning, george mason university senior research fellow and the lines for american manufacturing scott paul discussed trust -- trump administration policies. variety senior editor ted johnson will talk about the upcoming court decision on the at&t time warner merger. "washington journal," live at 7:00 eastern saturday morning. join the discussion. on wednesday, president trump signed the v.a. admission act into law. v.a.'s choicee program for another year. while the department wants to consolidate seven community care programs into one. this is 20 minutes.

one is veronique de rugy of the george mason university mercatus center. we also welcome scott paul from the american alliance for manufacturing. we want to start with your takeaways from day one of the g7 meeting in quebec and what you will be looking for today. i don't expect much. there are clear differences that president trump has articulated. tore is obviously resistance that from the rest of the g7. i think something that they all can come to agree on, and this is one of the understated roles of the administration's policy, how to confront china and its state led capitalism? it is a common interest they all have. i don't know if they will be able to pivot to that given some of the rhetoric we have seen the last few days, but that would be a reasonably good outcome in my perspective. host: veronique de rugy? guest: that is one of the things they should be able to agree with one another about, what to do with china. create aneir way, you alliance of like-minded countries and you deal with it together. from the trump administration and the aggressivene

carlson university of management in university of minnesota and george mason university. great school. you're a blogger, writer, lecturer and i have followed you for years. >> thank you. mark: very, very impressive. let's jump right into, this trade is a big issue. and some conservatives are confounded about what to say about this subject. some are saying that tariffs are a great thing, you know, it makes america strong and protects our industrial base. let's begin at the beginning. why is trade important? >> trade is important because it gives american firms access to global markets. it gives u.s. consumers access to global markets, and basic concept of economics is that trade, voluntary trade is win-win and makes both parties better off, from an economics standpoint to create the most amount of wealth and prosperity in jobs. what we want to do is maximize the amount of trading opportunities that are available both on the buying side and on the selling side. so it's very clear from an economic standpoint using economic theory, empirical evidence that economists are prett

now i will turn the podium over our professor from george mason university. >> thank you. i am honored to be here today with two distinguished historians of infrastructure and an audience that is willing to be persuaded that knowledge of history can inform present debate. we are in a room of electric train and we arrived by thatir, jigging coffee passed through a reservoir. thispeople showered morning in water heated by natural gas. president eisenhower said the unifying forces of transportation are element to the united states. crucial our infrastructure systems to daily existence we often view them as natural and inevitable. shortcomingstice when something does not work. when asked to boil water, when the power goes out or when a bridge collapses. we pay attention to infrastructure only at times of failure. that has certainly been the case with the washington metro, which has received a great deal of attention in the past couple years as reliability has declined. infrastructure is a crucial technology, but not a simple one. the 10 most important words ever written about

he has plotted george mason university and howard university and received his j.d. from the georgetown university law center ph.d. in social philosophy from the florida state university. the winner of three cases before the u.s. supreme court he testifiedeforehe committee on the constitution of the senate judiciary committee senate subcommittee on the constitution subcommittee on crime and the house judiciary committee senate governmental affairs committee in the house committee in the district of columbia that contributed to numerous scholarly volumes off their the bucs gun control and the third reich disarming the enemies of the state the founder 2nd amendment that every man be armed, securing civil rights, freeman the 14th amendment and the right to bear arms and target switzerland. he is also the author of the forthcoming title gun control in occupied france available beginning next month on amazon.com or other booksellers. with great pride at present to you stephen halbrook. [applause] >> thank you frank real pleasure to be here. i spoke here in the early 90s.

talk about the deal, diana moss, president of the american antitrust institute and joshua wright george mason university's global antitrust institute. >> no mention of the word market power in the decision and that is the issue here. in a vertical merger and horizontal merger, how does the merger change theompan's incentives and their ability to exercise greater market power? >> i haven't antitrust law casebook. we've looked a long time to find a vertical merger opinion after a friend -- after a fully litigated case. i think whatever way this case came out, even whichever way it comes out on appeal should there be one, the first fully litigated opinion in a murder challenging along period time i do think even though it is one district court judge, one fact specific opinion and one industry for one proposed merger does give it some degree of importance. i think other judges, should there be another vertical merger challenge, who are looking around to see what their article three judicial colleagues have done in these opinions can't miss this one because there's nothing else. >> watch the commu