special thanks to the heritage foundation. we have been putting this on for years ended to a pleasure to work with a fine organization like the heritage foundation. i am happy to introduce today's speaker, kate obenshain. you have seen her on fox news where she is a passionate, articulate defender of conservative values and has one of the loose policy institute's most popular campus speakers for many years and she has been speaking and mentoring young women that we worked with for decades and helped me out so many times to help the institute, and i am grateful to you for that. she has also been in almost all of our great conservative women calendars. our 2013 calendar is out. we do it differently with not only beautiful women but beautiful scenes from march of 2013 and the quote on her age, courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount. other great ladies have spoken about courage as well. we love having you in our calendar. kate today will be talking about how despite lofty claims of unity the left is dividing americ

>> select i'm also an internet the heritage foundation. i just had a follow-up question about using the skyrocketing prices women more than men. robert has a piece out on marriage and how that reduces child poverty and he says it was an absence of married fathers in the home is that tied to what you meant when you said it hits women more? >> yes i was talking about a high rate of poverty among women right now. and even these women who are not in poverty are right above the poverty line. so obviously the gas prices that have doubled, more than doubled over the past four years could create in some places looking at troubling the gas prices. that is devastating to a single mom, three kids, trying to get their kids to school, trying to get to work. that is actually something that can stop them in their tracks and is completely debilitating. the cost of food for these women who are you the right on the line of poverty were in poverty but absolutely the absence of fathers and homes, the absence of a stable families has so much to do with increas

and finally, derek scissors is senior research fellow for economics and heritage foundation's asian studiesenter. he's an adjunct professor at george washington university where he teaches a course on the chinese economy. before joining heritage in 2008, derek was at intelligence research, a global consulting firm. he has a master's degree from the university of chicago and a doctorate from stanford university. so i think we're going start off with melanie. >> good morning. i'd like to thank the heritage foundation for inviting me. our organizations often don't agree on things, particularly on domestic policy, but this past summer we invited derek and dean cheng over for a conversation on china, and we realized we do actually agree on some things on china. and so that was really fun. we have some remaining disagreements as well, but further dialogue is great, and i hope our politicians can do more of the same. i'm, we're here to talk about the economic side of china's leadership challenges, and the previous panel was talking about the pla and, basically, the message that i took away from th

mellon scaife who you know famously has funded a whole lot of right wing things yeah latina heritage foundation or the. the sort of shenanigans we should get used to with just two weeks to go. get used to it it's going to get a lot worse and frankly i've got to say it's i've never seen anything like what we are seeing now i mean it you know it starts with what you were talking about with david cobb earlier citizens united and the money that's brought into the system but you know we have seen these photo id restrictions to keep people from voting we've seen early voting hours scaled back we've seen challenges to legitimate voters and their right to vote and frankly all of this tends to obscure the very serious concerns that we still have about voting machines that are run by private companies proprietary systems that cannot be overseen by the public that are a very real threat in all fifty states in the in the union at this point now i've heard from people you know n.b.c.'s chuck todd their top election guy over the weekend said that concerns about voting machines are conspiracy theories he equa

bag alone liberal rumble joining me are laughlin mark a investigative reporter with the heritage foundation and as the robinson deputy director of the paul revere project let's get back to it earlier this week we brought you a story on how the u.n. will be sending international lection observers to the united states to moderate of the november elections for any violations while that's good news for the millions of voters republicans are trying to suppress republicans themselves are not too happy about republican bloggers and pundits are breaking it out as the republican lawmakers today texas lawmakers warned the u.n. observers not to interfere with the state elections in alabama the speaker that was trying to pass a bill to block the u.n. observers from monitoring the voting in that state and here was catherine catherine engelbrecht of the tea party group true the boat boxer called news on monday. they say we need these u.n. observers in order to protect in particular minority voters in this country your reaction. well i think it's just it's really breathtaking in the prophecy that we're se

the guy who founded the american legislative exchange council was one of the co-founders the heritage foundation and in one thousand nine hundred at a ronald reagan event in a church in texas actually speaking to a group of republican activists areas. how many of our christian have what i call them grown good government they want everybody to vote. i don't want everybody to vote elections are not won by a majority of people they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now as a matter of fact go look for it in the elections quite candidly go stop voting populace go down. so this is been the official policy the republican party for a long time i mean you know the former supreme court justice chief justice rehnquist made his jobs down in arizona frightening literally i mean he was a big tall guy back in the sixty's. americans at the polling at the polling places challenging. i mean look if the more people who are watching american polling places on election day as long as they're not interfering with americans right to vote you know what a lot of these red states have act

brian darling senior fellow at the heritage foundation and let's get back to a dodge frank this we were talking about mitt romney's lies here is his lie on dodd frank. i wouldn't disagree eight five banks is too big to fail and give them a blank check that's one of the unintended consequences the dot frank it wasn't thought through properly we need to get rid of that provision. the fact the matter is that provision doesn't exist banks are designated as systemically significant which is not a good thing as it means that they have to abide by more stringent regulations plus the banks all have basically living wills to be wound down not bailed out dodd frank price of all imitates bailouts no it doesn't at all if you look at the language of dodd frank it gave the fed more power to give loans to these institutions on wall street they're too big to fail institutions are all bigger now ever since the meltdown on wall street that that in receded sadly frank no they're bigger now than they were when the economy melted down two thousand is in style bring all businesses are bigger now but the econ

for liberty rich and follow the progressive strategist and brian darling senior fellow at the heritage foundation thanks for all your years of joining me everyone is saying that mitt romney won fine so my question is how do you lie all night and still get declared a winner twenty seven lies and half truths in thirty eight minutes for example on the tax plan. i'm not in favor of a five trillion dollars tax cut that's not my plan my plan is not to put in place any tax cut that will add to the deficit that's point one so you may keep referring to it as a five trillion dollar tax cut but that's not my plan. fact from the tax policy center romney's proposal for a twenty percent across the board cut in all federal income taxes eliminating the alternative minimum tax eliminating the estate tax and other tax reductions would reduce federal revenue four hundred eighty billion dollars in two thousand and fifteen and romney up until last night had never disputed that that that that that number has been around forever tax policy center study is flawed it is going to sell for has been running a twenty percent

i'm matthew, vice president of american studies here at the heritage foundation. we are in for a real treat. here we are approaching election. which pretended to be a water shed, recognized by both political parties as turning point. a change debate about the role of government, free market to the future trajectory of our nation. in that debate, campaign commercials and political rhetoric abound. sound bytes, daily reactions dominate the news cycle. luckily for us in the miss -- mist of this a serious thinker wrote a serious book. having been discovered by william f. buckley and grown up writing and reading for national review and overcome the education at harvard university and the upbringing in west virginia, he it a touring figure of the conservative movement. rightly sew. a professor of government the the clare month college. he's the coed or it with william f. buckley of keeping the tablet of modern american conservative thought. he is written extensively on american constitutionalism and political ideas. indeed the addition nat federalist paper the one publi

i want to thank ariel and the heritage foundation for inviting me. it's a pleasure to be back here again especially with some old friends. at to save my remarks do not reflect the views of the army the defense department of the u.s. government and i'm going to talk about russian building on what bob has just said and some points can be added to that discussion. the motives that i see operating to drive russian foreign-policy are all simultaneously implicated in the policy. you can just pull out one string and say what that is the decisive factor here in the policy making process in russia. there altogether but what we can say in what and what we have been served -- observed is we seem increasingly, increasingly narrowing of the policy process in russia. it has been reported that fewer and fewer people are actually in a key position to make policy in general not just foreign-policy and putin rarely listens to a large circle of people and instead he gets his information from a very restricted circle of people. he is not a tech-savvy guy the way medvede

according to the heritage foundation companies hat got assistance are going bankrupt and laying people off. look at the list. heritage estimes of the $90 billion of green energy loans and credits credits, 10 percent go to companies bank of course circling the drain. either one is too many. precisely what government should not be in the business to pick winners or losers. >> you don't pick the winners and lsers. yopick losers. >> increase your retirement savings for next year. t many americans don't have anything at same data all. trying there hardesto win the wind of voters over the last abate. >> but which candidate has what it takes to tackle their issues? we will hear from ann coulter. the two dividend bursary of the stock market experiencing the worst drop in history. could this happen again? our moody's chief economist is his report gerri:. >> i am here with the average man onhe treet. ure you savg gerri: i am here with thee3 average man on the street. use a being in the 401(k)? amex 84 retirement? >> saving for a new car. >> you concerned? >> i am a mom. m >> what proportion of y

that was literally from richard nixon and the heritage foundation and mitt romney.l him a socialist any way. >> yeah, well. >> cenk: these where the confusion comes in. they call him a socialist no matter what. >> they call him a lot of things. >> cenk: yeah, any other issue that moves you politically where you get worked up. >> yeah, corporate. i mean, i think there should be a third party in america called the corporation party. we need to stop pitting democrat against democrat against republican. if people really believe that corporations are operating in the public interest and serving the needs of the nation then they should vote corporately and quit muddying the waters between the two parties. >> cenk: i thought you were going to go the other direction and say anti-corporate parties because we already have two corporate parties. >> yes, that's what i mean. call a spade a spade. you're a corporate person, you believe in nike you like boeing and the military and plundering, then vote corporation. >> it will be like nascar drivers, this is the candidate for lockh

according to the heritage foundation companies that got assistance are going bankrupt and laying people off. look at the list. heritage estimates of the $90 billion of green energy loans and credits credits, 10 percent go to companies bank of course circling the drain. either one is too many. precisely what government should not be in the business to pick winners or losers. >> you don't pik the winners and losers. you pick losers. >> increase your retirement savings for next year. but many americans don't have anything at same data all. trying there hardest to win the wind of voters over the last abate. >> but which candidate has what it takes to tackle their issues? we will hear from ann coulter. the two dividend bursary of thetock market experiencing the worst dop in history. could this happen again? our moody's chief economist our moody's chief economist is his report you see us, at the start of the day. our moody's chief economist is his report on the company phone list that's a few names longer. you see us bank on busier highways. on once empty fields. everyday you see all the ways

after that, live coverage from the heritage foundation. a discussion on china's incoming government and its importance to the nation's increasing international role. >> also today, a look at the influence of catholic voters in this year's election. a panel will analyze and assess the latest polling data come including a recent study of the motivations of catholic swing voters. a live forum by catholic university gets underway at 12:30 p.m. eastern over on c-span. >> now, congressional staffers who specialize in health care policy offer their thoughts on what to expect in 2013. you will hear from those who work for senator tom coburn and representative michael burgess, both republicans and medical doctors. topics include the health care law, potential changes to medicare and medicaid, and a long-term solution to so called doc fix, which efforts are scheduled payment cuts to physicians who treat medicare patients. this hour-long event was hosted by politico at the museum in washington, d.c. >> i'm jason millman, with political. happy to have

thank you. >> i want to thank ariel and the heritage foundation for inviting me.t's great to be back associate with some old friends. after saying my remarks do not reflect the views of the army at the defense department and i'm going to talk about russian mothers building on the pot just said. they can be added to that discussion. they drive russian foreign policy, or simultaneously implicated in the policy. you can't just have one string of setbacks for decisive factor here in the policy, making process in russia. they were altogether. but we've reserved in the last several years, we see an increasingly narrowing of the policy process in russia. fewer and fewer people actually in a key position to make policy in general, not just foreign policy and putin rarely listens to a large circle of people. instead, he gets it from a restricted circle. he's not the way the database and as a result if you have the misfortune to spend your life reading the russian media, which he sees mr. putin is in what may be called an echo chamber of paranoias respecting each other's pa

who works at the heritage foundation was speaking at the colorado conservative political action conference yesterday and during a panel discussion on voter suppression ideologues said that the laws are doing quote a favor her merican so you don't have photos i.d.'s of riots because condemning a single mother with three jobs to a day of losing pay and standing in line at the d.m.v. is a real favor and denying that same woman the right to vote if she doesn't do that that's a real favor to han's i for one don't want any favors from mr von spakovsky. now the very very ugly the t.s.a. believe it or not the t.s.a. has hit a new low t.s.a. agents at seattle tacoma airport. forced michelle do know who is tragically dying from leukemia to lift up her shirt in public so they could inspect her bandages in medical treatment tubes for potential threats. dinars was on her way to visit her family in hawaii for maybe the last time when she was stopped and humiliated by the t.s.a. between irradiating porno scanners built thanks to crony capitalism and the sexual harassment of travelers of all ages the t.s.

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joining me now, senior research fellow in repertory policy at the heritage foundation.oing on here? why do we need to id chickens? >> that is a really good question. this came out last year. the idea is the chicken covering cattle and others to make them traceable of the breakout of any disease. it sounds like a good idea on paper. taking them, putting bracelets on their feet is quite a task. not only that, but you have to do it more than once because it has to be small and they have to change it. gerri: i understand there are 9 million chickens in the country. they only live five to six months. at the end of the day, i guess the whole idea is to be able to track and find the source of th% disease. if there is an outbreak of salmonella or some disease associated with chickens, you can find out where it comes from but do you think that will work? >> there are real problems with it. whenever there is an outbreak identified, the entire set of chickens is eliminated. they are slaughtered and not used for food. gerri: if they want to keep this information on hand, right? >>

president of the chattering group and brian darling senior fellow for government studies at the heritage foundation great to have you all with us tonight thank you for joining us. last night romney campaign co-chair not just a shill for the party the co-chair of the romney campaign john sununu was interviewed by c.n.n.'s piers morgan morgan asked him about the news that colin powell had endorsed president obama take a listen to what's in his response was. when you take a look at colin powell you have to wonder with events in the endorsement based on issues or whether he's got a slightly different reason for preferred president obama what reason would that be well i think when you have somebody of your road race that you're proud of be president of the united states i applaud colin for standing with the. guardian sununu no way colin powell could endorse president obama on merit or policy positions now it's because they're both african-american and sununu has a history of making racially charged remarks about the president he's called a foreign he's called an un-american he's called him a lazy idiot

. >> we welcome all of you joining us on heritage foundation and on c-span. we ask that you turn off yourself funds as we begin recording for the benefit of today's program. the we will post for everyone's future reference. hosting our discussion today is dr. steven bucci. his focus is special operations and cyber security. he commanded the third battalion fifth special forces and also became the military assistant to donald rumsfeld. at his retirement, -- prior to joining us, he was a leading consultant on cyber security. please welcome the in -- join me in welcoming steven bucci. [applause] >> we have a very timely subjects to discuss, and i think we have a great panel of experts that will be doing be discussing to get us started. i have been interested in this because one of the first things i did was testified before congress about the weapons of mass destruction threat that syria and the somewhat untimely demise might pose. i am interested to hear the answer to one of the questions i was asked. i want to tell you -- won't tell you, but we will hear what

please join me in modem and your friend of the heritage foundation and a different of mine and my teacher. [applause] >> thank you very much. improperly discounted your warm praise of me if you had mentioned you're my student at the very beginning. instead of at the end. but it is always a pleasure to be here. the stewardship of the simon center for american studies here has been stellar, and its heritage now speaks out on a variety of philosophical as well as practical questions of the day in a way that has changed the conversation in washington. it is also always an honor for me to be here in the house that had built to at fuller, one of the great figures of modern conservatism, and he really build this place. he did build it. from nothing into the a great empire that it is today. and i also would send greetings to the other end who is certainly one of the most effective attorney-general said to my attorneys general i should say of the united states and many, many years and two courageously launched the whole movement for original lesson in constitutional object. well, i am here to say

more on this, the republican candidate for senate and former congressman, policy onlyist for heritage foundationlcome to you both. congressman, starting with you. okay. so the plant that got $150 million in taxpayer money is laying people out off. another solyndra here? >> it's very, very possible. the president announced this, came through my hometown, holland, michigan, did a victory lap in the community saying look what the federal government did for you, create k this investment, creating jobs, and insulted their hometown congressman for not voting for the package, and three and a half years later, and it looks like it's a bad investment. all of us that live in the community are disappointed. you know, the problem here is the president wasn't spending the government's money. the president was spending our money. this money all went on our credit card, like for the losses that are incurred. gerri: nick, to you. the mayor in holland said he had to do this, no other options. do you agree with that? >> no, he could have not spent the money. the reality is this administration with a lot of the st

phillips who is the senior research fellow for the heritage foundation.wledgeable and. -- man. he will be followed by dr. friedman, the professor of political science at baltimore hebrew university. the department of state and the cia, our third speaker will be dr. steven blank. the strategic studies institute expert on soviet bloc and post- soviet world since 1989. he is the editor of the imperial decline, russia's changing position in asia and the co- editor of soviet military and the future. the last speaker, my colleague that heritage is the senior research fellow for russia and eurasian studies. they have often been called to testify on economics and law. they have numerous media outlets both domestically and across the globe. we will start with jim phillips. >> i would like to set the stage for the next three speakers that will focus primarily on russian policy by outlining u.s. policy and how it is factored into the blood packs that we see in syria today with more than 30,000 dead and no end in sight. i think it is fair to say the obama administrat

brian darling is with the conservative heritage foundation. >> it's not well spent at all.ublic funds to fund different news outlets, to fund entertainment programs, is not what the federal government should be doing and furthermore, it's a waste of money when there are so many private resources that are doing very similar functions. we all love big bird, but maybe it's time for him to go out and find a real job in the private sector and stop sponging off the federal government. >> reporter: is big bird part of the infamous 47%? well, here's how it breaks down. the corporation for public broadcasting receives about $445 million a year. 70% of that goes directly to local pbs stations that rely on federal funds and private donations to stay in business. but big bird and the rest of the sesame street gang actually stand on their own feet. 93% of that program is paid for by licensing fees and corporate underwriting. so who could be hurt? pbs president says stations, particularly those in rural parts of the country, will go dark without the federal dollars. >> for many families

>> they are working with -- they have, you know, he set the heritage foundation a conservative think news a lot. they have helped advise this organization that looks grass roots that comes out of texas. it looks like it's a spontaneous movement. it's directed by these people who are professional operatives, basically. conservative operatives who know what they are doing. >> another thing i liked was he was this fringe figure. >> yes. >> largely in the republican party for many, many years. now, he's the spokesman for the republican party on voting issues. i think it shows the evolution of the republican party or the deevolution on this issue. in 2006, the voting rights act was overwhelmingly reauthorized by congress including all republicans. now you have, instead, the core issue of the republican party is restricting the party to vote. voter suppression is the new normal inside the republican party. they are not going to drop these ef forfeits after 2012. this is their only response to demographic change, to stir up fears of voter fraud and use them to try to make it harder for the

another nonpartisan study is from the conservative think tank, the heritage foundation. their own website said that it's a paper written by, ready for this one, a former bush adviser. study number five, five says -- is written by "the wall street journal," an op ed written by an adviser to the romney campaign. and lucky number six is another blog post written again by the same adviser to the romney campaign. this is the kind of campaign he's running. i mean, have we ever seen anything like this in politics? mr. romney wants the american people to trust him. but how can you trust a man who has no problem bending the truth to 67 million americans? joining me now is joan walsh, editor at large for salon.com and an msnbc political analyst. and democratic strategist bob shrum. let me thank you both for being here this evening. >> good to be here. >> bob, let me go to you first. six studies. wow, what do you have to say? six studies? >> after i watched ryan say that during the vice presidential debate and gulping water every two minutes, i thought maybe he had to wash his mout

he is also currently a senior fellow with the heritage foundation.orning to you. so this is the 15th terrorist plot foiled in new york city, this is since 9/11. where do you rank the seriousness of this one? >> well, it's obviously very serious, especially since it's the most recent. the threat is still with us. i mean, there have been 53 foiled terror plots in the united states since 9/11. in fact, some people consider what happened at ft. hood as an actual terrorist attack. so over 50 plots or attacks since 9/11. this is the most recent. a young man, a college student came in on a legitimate visa to the united states. was inspired by al qaeda, especially anwar al awlaki and tried to blow up 1,000 pounds of explosives in downtown manhattan. >> the fbi also says nafis wanted to disrupt the elections and kill a high-ranking official here. does it seem like he had any real-life al qaeda connections or real-life al qaeda training or is this guy just a wannabe? >> i think "wannabe" is a good term there, john. he says he has contacts overseas with al qaed

. >> james with the heritage foundation say the unemployment numbers say more about education and traininghan about race, he says, quote, less skilled, less educated workers are doing very poorly, no matter what race they're from. in washington, molly henneberg, fox news. >> we'll stay with the unemployment picture for just another moment. it's hit another group of americans particularly hard, women, who are returning from war. the bureau of labor statistics finding one out of every five women who served in iraq and afghanistan is now unemployed and that's even as american businesses makes room for veterans. but, most of the new hires for nos businesses have been men so far. now, overall, unemployment for post 9/11 veterans seeking work fell last month to 10%. >> the number of people infected in a deadly meningitis outbreak is jumping in several states. and why thousands more people could still be at risk. also, russian president vladimir putin celebrates a big birthday and why some people are marking his birthday by going to jail. and it's 12 years till the day since the start of the afgh

but here to disagree with me is senior policy analyst at the heritage foundation, james sherk.or joininus. make your argument. why do you think we should cut these folks off? >> the unemployment insurance system is designed as an insurance system but the premiums only cover six months of benefits. during the recession the congress extended the benefits up to two years. now year-and-a-half worth of benefits. but workers are still only paying premiums that cover six months of benefits. everything beyond that is charity. it is not entitlement. melissa: that has nothing to do with wealthier people who are higher salaried people paid into it and getting befits on other end. that is congress's problem. >> well of course. it's a problem congress created and a it is a problem congress should fix. it is one thing to say that you collect benefits you paid for. but why should millionaires be collecting benefits they didn't pay for? melissa: so you would say they can only collect it for the time period that they had paid in for and then nothing beyond that? woulyou set a date? how exactly

." >> narrator: the mandate was an idea first proposed by the conservative heritage foundation. >> this is a very conservative idea. "let's put the onus on individuals, responsibility." i think he felt strongly the moral case for the mandate. my job was just to see if the numbers added up, and i think he was excited they did. >> bain management consultant says, "this is a no-brainier. you have to do the mandate. it is cheaper per person and everyone gets covered." >> his political people were actually opposed. i mean, basically the meeting largely consisted of him arguing with his political advisors. his political advisors were saying, "we don't think this is such a smart thing to do." and romney is saying, "no, check this out. i can do this. isn't this neat? i can make this work." >> narrator: now romney, the ceo, had to work with the hostile democrats in the legislature. he made an unusual move. >> about 8:20 in the morning, i had just gotten through reading the papers, i'm getting ready to go to church, and the bell rings, and it's governor romney. i was surprised, to say the least.