from the heritage foundation, this runs one hour. >> good morning. we are fine, we are fine. >> good morning, welcome to the heritage foundation. we welcome those who join us on our website, those who are joining us on c-span tv as well. for those in house, we would

he spoke at the heritage foundation about relations between vietnam and the u.s. this is just under an hour. [applause] >> good afternoon. oversee the policy of the british -- heritage foundation. it is my pleasure to welcome private mr. nguyen xuan phuc -- prime minister nguyen xuan phuc. it is an honor to welcome you, sir. [speaking vietnamese] [applause] >> i am also very pleased to recognize -- they made this event possible. [speaking vietnamese] wouldthe american side, i like to acknowledge u.s. ambassador to vietnam and patrick murphy. welcome and thank you so much for being here. [applause] [speaking vietnamese] >> and of course, i would be remiss not to recognize the founder of the heritage foundation and our interim .resident, ed he believed in the potential of the transporter -- trans-pacific partnership. he continues to chair the asian studies center to nurture them. thank you, ed. [applause] [speaking vietnamese] >> thank you for allowing me to do the honors today. u.s.-vietnam relations have in on a steady, deliver trajectory for more than 20 years, a

is far as theand, heritage foundation goes, when mr. trump years ago began the obama was not an american citizen and questioned not only his birthright but even his parentage, i heard no big cry from the heritage foundation about how presidential or how we looked and if i'm not mistaken, there were some russian people involved in that. there was a woman involved in that investigation. host: response? wast: the real issue is there any kind of attempt at obstruction of justice? i don't know about what happened years ago, but that was not the topic of a hearing that mr. comey had last week. the topic was the russia investigation being conducted by the ei. mr. comey said that the president is not being investigated. that is the important issue involved. did the russians interfere with and whatcan election we heard from comey is that so far, they have no evidence that occurred. host: rick asking why the room was cleared by trump before he tried to sway comey. guest: i don't know the answer to that. remember, jeff sessions was recusing himsel

our people and to our businesses. [ speaking vietnamese ] >> translator: dear friends, the heritage foundation is a research institution having positive influence on america's policy-making process. your initiatives and recommendations have been seen implemented. the foundation's core principles are critical to social progress here in america. your insightful analyses, policy recommendations and initiatives are useful sources of information and reference for many nations as they integrate in today's globalized world. [ speaking vietnamese ] >> translator: and i hope that you'll work and also provide us with practical information and advice as we strive to build a government that is lean and clean, enabling and action oriented that is moving forward with the business community and people and one that is america's comprehensive partner today and long into the future. [ speaking vietnamese ] >> translator: during his visit here to the united states, general secretary quoted president roosevelt as saying, quote, believe you can and you're halfway there. today with the belief and resolve to work to

the heritage foundation. i would ask for those of you in the audience to please make that last little check now of your cell phones, to make sure that they won't interrupt proceedings today. and we will get started right now. the event today is really designed to celebrate the special report called a government policies that hurt the poor and how to address them. the united states is a very compassionate country and we have an awful lot of government activities that affect poorer members of our population in one way or the other. we have welfare programs, welfare spending of one kind or another that adds up to well over a trillion dollars tuesdays. that can be in things like health care, direct income supporters of one kind or another. we are not here to talk about those policies today. we want to talk about another set of government policies. those that are put in place offense for what seems to be on the surface very well-meaning purposes. in fact, they may in some cases be necessary policies of one kind or

this 90 minute event was hosted by the heritage foundation. mr.ilboldt: good afternoon, welcome to the heritage foundation in our auditorium. we welcome those joining us on our heritage.org website and those who will be joining us via c-span television network. for those in house, we are the -- asking the courtesy that mobile devices have been turned off or silenced as we prepare to begin. for those watching online and in the future, you are welcome to send questions or comments at anytime by emailing speaker@heritage.org. we will post today's program on the heritage homepage for future reference, as well. leading our discussion today is a senior research fellow and regulatory policy.

we've done some really amazing research at the heritage foundation, a number of other studies that put the job losses between 500,000 and a million. we can't afford to do that. we have too many unemployed people right now. our steel workers, oil workers, we just had a report that there was an increase in mining jobs. we're seeing a turnaround in the coal industry. >> 400 mining jobs were added in the last month. but also worth noting that the steel worker in union from the steel workers came out yesterday speaking out against this move. we've also heard a backlash from a lot of different companies saying -- >> did you say that the steel worker union came out against it? >> a steel worker union came out against it. >> okay. because i've talked to a lot of the steel workers and they are dead set against this. >> absolutely. >> because they know that their jobs are in jeopardy. >> that's a controversial point. jeffrey, i know you have a different opinion on the economic side of things. jeffrey? >> it's just unbelievable. every word has been a lie for the last two days. so much ignorance a

welcome to the heritage foundation. we welcome those who join us on our web site, those joins us on cspan tv as well. we ask that your cell phones or mobile devices have been silenced. for those watching online e-mail speaker at heritage.org. mr. spencer oversees a wide range of trade issues. he previously served as director of heritages row institute for economic policy studies where he spear headed our work please join me in welcoming jack spencer. >> good morning everyone. welcome everyone to the principals for tax reform, conversation wot house. what a great day to be here. i think i saw the sunshining this morning, the humidity has jet to set in i think i even heard a bird chirping this morning. it's a great time to be in washington. we have a president not just threatening to shape things but he is actually shaping some things up. we have a congress talking about shaping things up. thank god they are working to appeal the obamacare mob strosty. and paris, what a day that was last week. liberty sucking quagmire. th

rabbit hole, the heritage foundation and the-- >> can i get in here. >> eric, eric. eric: i've got to bring in lisa and let you talk a little about the globalist, anti-globalist, america first agenda that donald trump won on and he's implementing it. >> let's be clear, president trump wanted n.a.t.o. members to spend more, he's unsuccessful at it. they're submitting reports and trying to move forward toward increasi increasing spend on defense and merkel committing more to defense. there are those under president trump that we didn't see under president obama. as to the climate agreement, i dare, i dare the democratic party to try to take that messaging to the american people in 2018 and 2020 and convince them that somehow this was a good deal by all reports we've seen, it's going to cost the american people trillions of dollars, millions of jobs. we're committed to decreasing our emissions to 2028. >> lisa. >> i'm not finished. and 2025 when china can increase their emissions by 2030. mit researchers telling us even if all countries are doing their part, the decreas

that is what the heritage foundation wants to help us do. we have chairman brady speaking here a few months ago, laying out his plan, plan that provides a strong foundation for moving forward. and we are excited to host the secretary of the treasury street -- steve mnuchin to give us his words on tax reform. and today, i am very excited to host members of the house freedom caucus to give us their thoughts on tax reform. so let me please introduced our guests. this is jim jordan from the great state of ohio, and his colleagues, also from the great state of ohio, he honorable warren davidson. we also have the honorable dave brat representing the seven sisters of the commonwealth of , a district where, i might add, spare a friend amount oftime -- spend a fair a bit time. honorable mark meadows, representing the 11th district of north carolina and the chairman of the house freedom caucus. [applause] good morning. it is great to be here. it is always great to join so many of you that are here. i see some very familiar faces. it is always good to

that's what the heritage foundation wants to help us do. we had chairman brady speak laying out his plan, a plan that provides a foundation for moving forward. on july 13, we are excited to host secretary of treasury steve nugent to give us his views on tax reform. today i'm excited to host members of the freedom caucus to give us their thoughts. without further ado let me introduce our guests. i would like to honor jim jordan and warned davidson. we also have with us the honorable dave bratt representing the seventh district of virginia. the district where i spend a great deal of time and i'm very happy you are there. and now i'd like to invite mark meadows to come say a few words, he represents the 11th district of north carolina and the freedom caucus. >> good morning. it's great to be here. it's always great to join so many of you that are here. it's always good share a panel with three people who are a lot smarter than i am at that way when the difficult questions come in we will refer them to some of my colleagues. in a few remarks i

. >> good morning, welcome to the heritage foundation. douglas and sarah's auditorium. elcome you to who are on our heritage .org and on c-span tv. for those in house we would ask that courtesy that our mobile devices would have been silence or turned off. for those watching online or in the future, you're welcome to send questions or comments simply e-mailing speaker at heritage .org and of course we will post today's program on the heritage front page for everyone's future reference as well. meeting our discussion today is daniel and he is our policy analyst in european affairs and margaret thatcher for freedom and it focuses on transatlantic security issues, his writings have been featured in real clear world, foxnews .com, breitbart .com and his provided expert analysis in over 100 radio and television appearances. is also served as a panelist at the transatlantic thing take conference in brussels, belgian and provide a parliamentary evidence united kingdom house of the lord select committee on the arctic. prior to joining us on heritage at the thatcher center he wor

thinking to the audience for coming to the heritage foundation. reminder that this is on our webpage within 24 hours. there are also copies available of doctor mark moyar's book in the lobby. i'm sure he would be happy to sign those for anyone that would like to after the program. if you can please join me in a round of applause for doctor mark moyar and for his discussion. [applause] >>. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> you are watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. >> what big books you have coming up this fall? >> into books. one is a worldly affair. new york and the united nations. their unlikely relationship. it is talking about how the un found its place in new york amongst some controversy. and then when they donate land it cemented its place in its current location. it is a cool book with some sidebars. like a restaurant open to the public.if you make a reservation 24 hours in advance. a lot of people do not know that. the original home o

and medicine the medicaid expansion which again a lot of this was in the original heritage foundation program but isn't the problem of the republicans have that that obama did do you know it was like a sleight of hand he took their program put it into law and now there's certain around on what about we're trying to erase the legacy of barack obama and by the way the billionaires are leaning on us because they don't like paying these extra taxes i mean i think it that each party in power tried to address health care as you said for decades and i think they want to do it because they want to be the first people across the finish line to claim credit for a successful health care overhaul the the tommy douglas syndrome i mean you know it's happening with both parties it's always funny to how the party in the minority seems to be the one obsessed with transparency the republicans that in two thousand and ten now the democrats are doing it again and the bill let's remember this bill coming out has its skeletons but obamacare had its skeletons to the premium skyrocketed out of control jonath

coming up monday morning, heritage foundation discussion on the recent testimony of former fbi directorames comey and his conversations with president trump. beast, and author will talk about his new recent republic article "the great democratic divide "can liberals learn to embrace middle-class america?" do a discussion on last week's terror attacks in iran. discussion coming up sunday morning at some :00 a.m. a.m. 0 sunday night on "afterwords," anne marie slaughter on her book, "the web."board and the >> what strikes me, we knew there was a state. state-to-state relations is still very, very important and i think of it as the chess board world because how do we essentially be to our adversaries. we think about a move and we try to anticipate what move they are going to make. that world is there and is important but equally important is the world of the web. the world of the criminal networks, including terrorists and arms traffickers and drug traffickers. bigworld of businesses, network supply chains, global corporations, and the world of nongovernmental organizations. i think of all

. >> good morning, and welcome to the heritage foundation. this is the sarah allison auditorium, and we thank you all who are joining us on c-span or our website. for those in-house, we would ask as a courtesy that you silence your mobile phones. for those watching online, you are welcome to send questions or comments to us at any time by simply emailing speaker@heritage.org. hosting our guests tonight is jack spencer, the vice president for heritage's institute for economic freedom. mr. spencer oversees heritage's research on a wide range of economic and trade issues. he previously served as director of heritage's economic policy studies and spearheaded our work on lending taxes, regulation, energy and the environment. prior to that, he specialized in nuclear energy issues. please join me in welcoming jack spencer. [applause] jack: thank you, john. welcome to this conversation with the house freedom caucus. what a great day to be in washington. the sun i believe was shining. i think i saw the sun shining this morning. the oppressive washingt

this 90 minute event was hosted by the heritage foundation. mr. hilboldt: good afternoon, welcome to the heritage foundation in our auditorium. we welcome those joining us on our heritage.org website and those who will be joining us via c-span television network. for those in house, we are the -- asking the courtesy that mobile devices have been turned off or silenced as we prepare to begin. for those watching online and in the future, you are welcome to send questions or comments at anytime by emailing speaker@heritage.org. we will post today's program on the heritage homepage for future reference, as well. leading our discussion today is a senior research fellow and regulatory policy. he handles telecommunications and regulatory issues. prior to joining us here he was vice president for policy of the competitive and reprise institute. he also served as deputy chief at the office of lands and policy at the fcc and was at one time associate director of the president's council on competitiveness in the office of vice president dan quayle. please jo

it would have cost $2.5 trillion by 2035 according to the heritage foundation study.have been devastating. this is a good day for america when you have a president who's willing to stand up for the united states on the world stage. he's willing to defend u.s. national sovereignty and today president trump sent exactly the right message to the world that he will stand up for the u.s. national interest and as you pointed out earlier no surprise as to how the condemnation sweeping across the atlantic from europe and you are going to see the combination continuing for the next few days the next few months in the next few years as well. lou: every leader has his or her detractors. this president has mostly in this country a politically motivated and organized detractors if you will and national left-wing media committed to that and. but listen to germany working to save our earth alone and a leader of belgium i condemn this brutal act mexico the united states leaving a dark legacy. irresponsible decision, sad day for the world from denmark. i mean what is wrong with these

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this is brought to you by the heritage foundation. >> good afternoon, welcome.ning us on our website and those who will be joining us via c-span television network. for those in house, we are the courtesy that mobile devices have been turned off or silenced. for those watching online and in the future, you are welcome to send questions or comments anytime by emailing speaker @heritage.com. we will post this on our website.

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i made differ on foreign policy with the heritage foundation but what is happening right now is that i really don't know what conservative or write is and it isn't just these grass roots organizations but they fear the trump campaign machine. so now i do believe that donald trump is a deal maker i hope that ends up with conservative policy that the way i have watched him campaign and to study him good and bad but i do wonder if this is another tactic because he is chock full of tactics the whole way through so maybe he will shake up the system as he promised to do. whether that is policy time will tell. >> a little bit of a personal question but people go through what you went through not as publicly as you did and it speaks volumes to your character you could withstand those fleeing the sand arrows what sustains you during that time?. >> my wife and son. [applause] i went through some dark times. but again i want to be clear that no question it was awful for pope with a terrible one occurred i don't want to repeat because it's still stings though little bit. couldn't they call me re

jim damint on the first day, at the time now, at the heritage foundation came up to me after i got swornid how are things on the far left. i said they're great. how are things on in the nut case right. and he laughed. we had a good relationship, just giving each other crap. but it was a relationship. and my republican colleagues said oh, i see, he became a comedian because he likes to laugh. i laugh a lot myself. it really does help. and the senate is a town of 100 people and you have to make some kind of collegial relationship. and humor is -- there's a reason i went into comedy. and humor is a way i forge relationships sometimes. >> you mentioned earlier in this conversation that donald trump is the president and you're right about that. one could debate given what the rugss m russians may or may not have done and if he won it fairly and squarely. but he is the president. i've thinking about a couple of books that you've written before this one. one or two books with the word liar in it. and it seems to me that what troubles you both about donald trump is not his antics, not that he wo

talk to haem land security experts like dave and sarah and security analysts over at the heritage foundation he will till categorically there's promises to what law officials can say and this particularly in d.c. with open areas like national mall museums people around the world celebrated and sarah says it is increase beingly difficult for law enforcement to draw up. >> we can do barriers and better way to do it is using intell sdwrons get to target in the first place good if they have keys in the hand and in vehicles late at this point do you need to before he it gets to the point you. >> need to ipt september them before they get to the national mall. >> simply put there's no promises when it comes to this type of business. now, u.s. park police responded to "fox5" inquires about their steps in response to london attack today. they're in coordination with partners and did not want to he lap rate what those could be. >> after that attack president trump took to twitter and said "give us back our rights" and set said "we need travel ban as extra level of safety" we'll take a closer look at

earlier this afternoon we checked in with john malcolm, a constitutional expert athe the heritage foundation, worked in the justice department during the george w. bush administration. i posed that question to him. >> well, i think both sides got some points they can use to make their argument. if i were president, there were several things that former directoror comey said i would happy about. he reiterated on several occasions heol told the preside he was not theot subject of any investigation, although the president clearly leanedre on h to try to make that public and was very frustrated with the fact that comey wouldn't do it. he alsoth said that he thought e flynn investigation and the russian investigation touched other but were separate and the president never asked him, but suggested he drop the russia investigation. he also communicated the dan coats, the director of national intelligence or mike rogers, director ofat the national security agency, no one contacted him and suggested he drop h either the flynn or russ investigation. he alsonn said that after the ol office meeting that

can contribute and create iing a ne after tax univer account remina is a policy pert from the heritage foundation. she said americans should be open to new ways to save for retirement. >> universal savings account which has been proposed by dave and jeff flake, it allows them to par tase pit in our requirement savings system. >> now, a spokeswoman said that 401(k)s remain a critical savings tool. the white house has also said it would preserve the 401(k) deduction. but the coalition is still worried there's wiggle room in those promises. 75% of private sector workers any change to the requirement system could felt far and wide and no one can guarantee that retirement will be golden. >> and to read more about how tax reform could change the way we save for retirement, you can head to our website, nbr.com. >>> consolation brands sees better earnings on tap and that's where we begin tonight's market focus. the liquor company raised its earnings outlook for the year following a better than expected profit. helped in large part by strong beer sales. overall revenue u rose, but it wasn't enough to beat

. >> tommy bin onof the heritage foundation is here to talk more about this. thanks for coming in. the republican senators have been called to the white hours, the president, the vice-president, they're trying to get them all on board, but things don't look too good especially that they're pushing this off until after the fourth of july. >> it's a process. this was a rushed timeline to begin we didn't see final billion text for this particular package until last thursday. frankly, a vote this week was very ambition . i would point to what happened over on the house. this exact debate played out on the house side fr a erd p for a period of months. the president was involved and ultimately they got a vonger billion that the majority of the house, including lindsay murphy every republican supported. i believe that's what's going to play out here in the senate. but this is a process. legislation takes time negotiating with 352 individuals takes time and that's what we've decided to do today which is take a little more time, consider some amendments and get everybody on board. senate ma

this is brought to you by the heritage foundation. >> good afternoon, welcome. those joining us on our website and those who will be joining us via c-span television network. for those in house, we are the courtesy that mobile devices have been turned off or silenced. for those watching online and in the future, you are welcome to send questions or comments anytime by emailing speaker @heritage.com. we will post this on our website. today with us, handling telecommunications and regulatory issues with has a heritage and priority was a vice president at the competitive -- and was with citizens for sound economy and a deputy chief at the fcc and was at one time associate director at the president paz council on competitiveness in the office of vice president dan quayle. -- pleasecome me in join me in welcoming him. the other speaker had a more casual approach. we are here to talk about spectrum policy. if you want to talk about neutrality you're in the run place. this is probably the only gathering of people today on key issues that are not talking about net neutr

. >> good morning, and welcome to the heritage foundation. this is that sarah allison

the heritage foundation saying that private sector in russia is so constrained by the encroachment ofd the failure to defend the rule of law that foreign direct investment, for example, is a huge risk in russia today. all of these different ways in which putin's russia is failing its people. listen, again, you know, we can name "putin's russia" is a country with the duma, with the senate, with the president. we are a presidential republic. let's be clear, what really happens in russian today is vladimir putin and his associates in the kremlin and what they say and do. i don't think so, i don't think so. really? yes, and why, i can explain you. if he is the only ruler of the country, then i suppose it is notjust possible for one person to control huge territory, huge quantity of the people. all different aspects. 70% of gdp, of revenues, the proportion of gdp, 70% come from state owned enterprises. that gives you a sense, an indication, of the way russia is run. this is correct, that is one of the setbacks of the structure of the russian economy. but on the other hand, what we have, we

. >> heritage foundation said that. >> you make friends with both decisions, also make enemies with bothecisions. >> hillary last week said nixon got impeached, didn't make mention that her husband got impeached. >> nixon never was impeached, right? >> right. and the poor ndnc did not help her. >> she said the dnc was bankrupt, antiquated. >> the dnc people were including together -- that was a big ka ba kabal. >> donna brazile -- >> right. she says she regrets that decision but provided some information to the clinton campaign about what was going on. >> i felt bad watching that yesterday. i didn't watch it, but seen some of the sound bites. i am an empathetic guy, eamon. >> are you? >> empathetic guy, and i felt bad for her. still do. tough to lose. very tough. eamon, thank you. >> you bet. >> for talking to us this morning. >> happy to be here. >>> when it comes to the market, so much for sell in may and go away. the s&p 500 was up more than 1% last month. joining us for more on the markets is joe tanneus. beth ambivino is also here. thank you both for being here. joe, what do you thi

we turn to the heritage foundation, the federalist society. they have lots of names. are lots of conservative organizations that are reliable and helpful and positive forces. why are we watching an effort to lead these organizations on the part of the republican national committee and all that -- no one would be more better informed or capable than doing that than you, frankly. randy: typical d.c. politics. the establishment ran to the front of the line. and it was hard to get in people who believe like donald trump does. tammy: there is what donald trump wants and what the gop wants. and these days seem to be two different things. the swamp versus the revolution. lou: it's what donald trump wants and what he insists upon. we are finding out there are a lot of folks in the swamp that are part of the architecture of the republican party. but i think we knew that. what do you think? randy: the good news is he's not going to settle. he's going to push forward. lou: tammy bruce, randy evans, thank you both. a terrifying and daring tightrope walk high above the ukraine. th

supreme court appeal the top off other piece of this puzzle to mandate and the irony is that the heritage foundation. came up with a mandate it was conservative principle until bamma care no sudden it's not somehow it's not considered as conservative the mandate was vital to making obamacare work because that is the way you get everybody in the pool so all of a sudden to make the punishment not to make it very low for those who were not in the in the health care system has actually it would actually lessened the impact of the mandate to make sure that everybody was insured just like you when you drive you you have insurance when you drive you can't drive without it yeah well we'll see where this goes we will we will definitely see where this goes and how is the trump administration continues to ramp up catch tensions with north korea young americans have more pressing concerns on their mind a new poll is found that seventy percent of millennialist think the one point four trillion dollars student loan crisis is a bigger threat than north korea we can go on imperial adventures all over the world but

kennedy fought it and went down in flames but it resurfaced in virtually identical form from the heritage foundation as i recall in one nine hundred eighty six that went on to become called romney care mitt romney in massachusetts republican health care program and that was reinvented as obamacare is obamacare actually is arguably the conservative version of health care reform and that's its lineage if that's the case what does that make the senate plan. it makes it a radical undoing of what was a kind of consensus and it's important to make clear what it was it was a consensus that justice medicare provided to everyone over sixty five a basic medical insurance program this could and should be extended to the population as all medicaid was a halfway measure in that direction and here comes the big part it was to be paid for by a modest tax on the richest people amongst us so as to make it as fair as possible those people particularly in the last forty years have been the ones whose income has gone up the furthest whose wealth has increased the most and whose other taxes have been brought down so it