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. -- theing us now heritage foundation member. and another person from the center of -- here to discuss ongoing budget liberations and the 2002 -- 2000 15 gop budget released this week. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> just to remind our viewers of what the heritage foundation and the center for progress points. >> heritage foundation is a conservative think tank here in washington dc. full spectrum of policy issues. my expertise is in federal audit matter and i'm glad to be here today. >> the center for american progress is a progressive think tank, also covering wide range of issue. i cover budget policy, i get to work with subject matter experts across a whole range of issues. >> i will start with remain at first. the house has been in control -- for some time now. also underite house control -- of the parties. is this budget a continuation of the budgets we had seen -- or are there noticeable differences? >> notable differences include reconciliation package. -- is from congress supposed to cut $200 billion in

host: our guest is from the heritage foundation. you can read his work on heritage.org. good morning. caller: good morning. i would like to ask the representative think that he is talking about, voter id, how is it that he would allow -- yes, my question is how with the licensesative allow -- and you have kids who are in colleges and they would not accept college id as a form of voter id? guest: i will be happy to talk about that. that has been brought up in the texas id law. , would point out in georgia the university id is allowed to vote, not in texas where a gun license was. there was a big reason for the difference between the laws in those states. the difference was in georgia, the georgia university system does not encourage illegal aliens to go to school there, does not provide them with in-state jewish and. texas does. texas provides in-state tuition for illegal aliens. the university iv in texas would have been a route for people illegally in the country to vote. that is not the case in georgia. that is why there is a difference between the statutes in those st

viewers what the heritage foundation and the center for american progress are. guest: the heritage foundation is a conservative think tank in washington, d.c. of policyffect issues, my expertise is federal government matters. a progressive think tank covering a wide variety of issues. i cover budget policy. romina.will start with has been in control by the republicans for quite some time. the difference is the white house is also under control of the same party. is this budget a continuation of the budget that has come out of the house, or are there notable differences? guest: notable differences is a reconciliation package, proposing to cut $200 billion in what are called autopilot or entitlement spending programs. that is the biggest proposal cut to these programs yet. the reconciliation the occult also includes instructions for tax reform. see the house gop setting up for a tax reform package with the president. trying to do so while cutting spending at the same time. able: what are not differences that you see? guest: let's be clear about what a congressiona

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they came up with an idea that was actually raised, suggested by the heritage foundation. the heritage foundation found its way to this body in 1993 in legislation introduced by republican senator john chafee from rhode island that called for doing five things. number one, creating exchanges, marketplaces in every state where people who didn't have coverage could be part of a large group, and buy their coverage, get their coverage. number two, the folks who bought their coverage on the exchange might be eligible for a sliding scale tax credit, low-income people would get a better tax credit, reducing their premiums than people whose income was higher. number three, the idea of an individual mandate, if people had to get their coverage, they would have to pay a fine. you can't force people to get coverage. massachusetts, they say at least we'll find them. maybe over time the fine will go up, and most people, including young, healthy people would elect to get coverage and be part of a group to insure that's actually insurable, as opposed to people who are just sick or anxiou

and the republicans apparently turned to the heritage foundation and said help us come up with an alternative, and heritage did. and the alternative came up, but there's a market-based approach to providing coverage for people. and the idea was that in every state across the country, something called an exchange or marketplace would be created, which is really a large purchasing pool for people who don't have coverage. and so, the idea of the exchanges originally suggested by heritage introduced in the united states senate by a republican senator from rhode island named john chafee -- very good man. marine veteran, former governor, and a greatly admired u.s. senator. he offered legislation to do really five things. as far as i can tell, all ideas suggested by the heritage foundation. number one, create purchasing pools in every state. number two, for people who didn't have coverage could buy their coverage through a much larger purchasing pool. by doing that bring down the cost of coverage. the second thing in the chafee legislation in 1993 was allow folks who bought their coverage through th

arkansas state representative david dunn, thank you, david, wood county, west virginia clerk , heritage foundation senior legal fellow and manager of the election law reform ,nitiative, a real expert hansots perkowski -- perkowski. and alan king. think you very much. each of you has been entrusted with a great responsibility of helping to advance the cause of fair, honest and lawful elections. your work will help protect our democracy. this will be a very transparent process. it will be very open for everybody to see. you will approach this important task with a very open mind and with no conclusions already drawn. you will fairly and objectively follow the facts wherever they may lead. i look forward to the findings and recommendations your report will produce. as soonare your report as i can and as soon as possible with the american people, so the full truth will be known and exposed if necessary in the light of day. we call on every state to give us full support and total cooperation in this effort. most of them have really done brilliantly and we appreciate it. and the rest, all of that inform

host: gary last caller in open morning.his up next, joined by heritage foundation bruce klinger to look the trump ons for administration when it comes to north korea. we'll be right back. >> today at 7 p.m. eastern, join american history t.v. for a live museum of the american revolution in philadelphia. the museum's president and c.e.o., michael quinn and collection and exhibition vice stevenson will introduce artifact and exhibits throughout the museum, including washington's war tent and a piece of the old north bridge from the battle of concord. stories about the american revolution and you can participate in the live program calls and phone tweets. watch american history t.v., ive from the museum of the american revolution today eastern on 7 p.m. c-span 3. sunday on q&a. i'm not asking anybody to ompromise value or belief, asking them to open their eyes o other people so that you can your place. mrs. gladstone discusss her book "the trouble with reality, moral panic in our ime," in which she looks at reality today and how that criteria has changed over the years. the set up the begi

and the thing that interests me is that it happened at the heritage foundation? that is a weird place to drop this -- >> he was a petri dish at the heritage foundation. >> but when we think about all of the internal rivalries and politics in the republican party, bannon versus ryan this is something to keep an eye on as they try to get this health care bill through. >> curt you worked there, what do you think? >> this is vintage steve bannon. at the end of last year as the campaign was heading to the closing sides on the pages of breitbart there was a headline that paul ryan was colluding with hillary clinton at the expense of donald trump. and i think brian is right this is the -- one of the more consequential relationships to watch. and at some point i fully expect to there to be a turn against paul ryan. steve has made it no skrecret ty don't want ryan in as speaker. they had the idea to replace the leadership figures with people that were aligned with them. paul ryan is part of the establishment in the republican party that steve wants to destroy. >> interest

romney that ran for president he instituted in massachusetts and it was put together by the heritage foundation was first introduced to the united states public in nine hundred seventy two i richard nixon the democrats' health care plan was rolled out by harry truman in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight and it was single pair and so i mean those are the two clear positions that either one of which you can construct something around lacking those two i don't know what the republicans have other than let's just go back to the bad old days where we're all getting essentially screwed by the insurance kind of stuff i wouldn't be so easy on trump i mean this is the guy who wrote the art of the deal he didn't write the art of the deal he hell is going to write or he had a ghostwriter he put his name on the art of the deal and we're see why it was a ghostwriter and not him that wrote it he has failed to really engage capitol hill in any sort of meaningful way but on the other hand you're right i mean the heritage foundation supported the individual mandate they pushed it in romney care they were o

mccormick, arkansas state representative david dunn, wood county west ,irginia clerk mark rhodes heritage foundation senior legal fellow and manager of the election will reform initiative -- a real expert -- hans. and general counsel of the public interest legal foundation -- great group -- j christian adams and jefferson county probate judge in a linking. thank you. two i very much. each of you has been entrusted with a great responsibility to help advance the cause of fair, honest, and lawful elections. your work will help protect our democracy. this will be a very transparent process. go to be very open. see.verybody to you will approach this important task with a very open-minded and with no conclusions already drawn. you will fairly and objectively follow the facts wherever they may lead. i look forward to the findings and recommendations are report will give and i share your hand ass soon as i can soon as possible with the american people so the full truth will be known and exposed if necessary in the light of day . we call on every state to give us full support and total corporation in this e

at the heritage foundation.i'm going to talk about the book a little bit, can't cover the whole thing in this presentation but i'm going to hit on some of the highlights and we will have time for question and answer at the end. i just would provide a little background. the reason i wrote this book was as a joint special operations university, we started on the history special operations and discovered that the engagement. and there's not enough understanding among the policy world of what actually they do. i'm going to start off by a little bit of intro. even in the policy world there's not too many people who i think understand what the different parts of special operations forces are so i want to talk about that for a minute. at the top you have special operations command, us so, and that is the umbrella organization for special operations forces located in tampa and i will talk about how that came into existence. although it are the component commands within the special operations world and all the services h

and i'm a big advocate of the heritage foundation. changes need to be stabilized.ke it clear that we have individual mandates. make it clear that cost-sharing arrangements reduce co-pays and deductibles. if you do those things, it will reduce premiums by 35%. we will ensure we have a healthier pool of people. and then go to regular order to fix this stuff. >> jon: many republicans say they were sent to washington to repeal and replace. >> they had eight years to try and do that. the number of people that favor that is something like two: one. some things that are criticized the most, the heritage foundation is a good idea and i'm one who favors that. >> jon: we are running out of time and is hour, thank you very much. we are waiting for the white house briefing. that is set to start any minute now. we will take you to the white house live when it begins. definitely doesn't have that... you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™ liberty mutual insurance. wheyou wantve somto protect it.e, at legalzoom, our network of attorneys can help you every step of

great to be back at the heritage foundation. i'm going to talk about the book a little bit can't cover the whole thing in this presentation. but i'm going to hit on some of the highlights. and we'll have some time for question and answer at the end. just to -- with to provide a little bit of background the reason i wrote this book was that -- while i was at the joingt special operations university, we started a course on the history of special operations and -- discovered that there was not a single volume that we could really look to give you a history from the origins in world war ii up through the present and most of what, i think, special operations forces understood about their history is episodic and certain bits and piece but haven't been something to pull it altogether and i was reading this too special operations have become huge part of -- our overseas engagement and there's not -- i think enough understanding among the policy world about what actually they do and start off with a little bit had of intro. even in the p

leader that we're seeing from donald trump who listen this is all demagoguery the heritage foundation came out with a study that says the paris climate agreement we would have lost two hundred thousand jobs from two thousand and sixteen to twenty four in the heritage foundation's always right really in dollars if they grow what they're doing they take that billionaire money from those fuel billionaires and they just spend us into through the last seven million manufacturing jobs under barack obama we need to do things to create jobs not take them away julio rivera alex lawson thank you guys both and that's the way it is tonight and don't forget democracy is not a spectator sport get out there get active tag. all the food we can. every. experience. that you get out of the old world. according to. there's a real irony going. establish implant things that responsible points new people and there is always well that's what i think it was always c.n.n. supposed to be a little more area now wholesale surveillance you feel you have all made milo soon to do so since then trump has used the soc

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i think it was an idea from the heritage foundation. it was a good idea. it was a good idea in 1993. it was a good idea in 2006 in massachusetts and it was a good idea when we folded it into the affordable care act as one of the major pillars. i want to go back and revisit 2009 just for a little bit. there are those who believe that there was no bipartisan involvement. it was just hustled through without a lot of thought or debate. as it turns out i think we spent 80 days all told in the united states senate in 2009 debating the bill in committees, two committees of jurisdiction. i served then and serve now in the finance committee. we spent a lot of time in debates and markups. people had a chance to offer amendments, debate it. the health, education, labor, pension committee spent a lot of time that year, 2009, similarly, bipartisan hearings, bipartisan amendments, debate. all told i believe over 300 amendments were offered. in senate committees of jurisdiction. i'm told that one of the amendments -- 160 amendments offered by the republicans were adopted

welcome to the heritage foundation and our lewis lehrman auditorium. we, of course, welcome those who will join us on c-span booktv in the future. for those watching online, you're welcome to send questions or comments simply e-mailing us at speaker@heritage.org and, of course, we will post the program on our heritage home page for your future reference as well. welcoming our guest today and leading our program is dakota woods, senior research fellow in our center for national defense. mr. woods served in the u.s. marine corps as well as in an assignment in the office of net assessment. upon retirement, he helped organize the national bio surveillance integration system. for five years he served as senior fellow at the center for strategic and budget tear assessments -- budgetary assessments. please join me in welcoming dakota wood. dakota? [applause] >> thank you, jon. it's a real pleasure to have you all here, but to have dr. crane all the way down from carlisle where he took the hyperloop, was that it? the fastest run he's ever made to d.c., so we'r

week non leader that we're seeing from donald trump who listen this is all demagoguery the heritage foundation came out with a study that says under the paris climate agreement we would have lost two hundred thousand jobs from two thousand and sixteen to twenty four in the heritage foundation's always right salient dollars if they grow what they're doing they take that billionaire money from those fuel billionaires and they just spent the last seven million manufacturing jobs under barack obama we need to do things to create jobs not take them away julio rivera alex lawson thank you guys both and that's the way it is tonight and don't forget democracy is not a spectator sport get out there get active tag. it's called the feeling of freedom to. everyone in the world should experience pfleger and you get it out of the old the old. the old according to just. welcome to my world come along for the ride. i think the average viewer just after watching a couple of segments understands that we're telling stories there are critics can't tell when you know why because their advertisers won't let them. i

for many years has this in their sights and we know that the heritage foundation has a big influence on the white house on the other hand we do have bipartisan legislation working its way through congress and they would not privatized they would help the post office get on a much more stable foundation be able to serve the people for generations to come as it should so we're hoping that that is what will take your union has been very progressive on health care in and provided very well what do you make of the conversation here in washington the fight over health care well our union is on record for medicare for all everybody and nobody out so i think in general we think it's the debate between bad and worse do you think the democrats are pushing hard enough for single payer not at all we think that there would add to the affordable care act which has deep problems it's not affordable it hasn't solved the health care problems has been a boon to the pharmaceuticals it's been a boon to the insurance companies and we think medicare fraud medicare already works in these if we expanded to

. >> they heritage foundation looks at the most recent supreme court term. first the battle of legal scholars look at some of the significant cases followed by journalists who cover the court. live coverage on c-span at 11 a.m. eastern. >> later a look at the state of u.s.-china relations including military issues. economic ties and comedic interest in the asia-pacific region. the center for strategic and international relations here some specialists from both nations. live coverage at 1 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> during wednesday's question time and a british house of commons prime minister theresa may answered questions on the uk's role in combating isis and pay increases for public sector employers specifically teachers and nurses. this is 45 minutes. >> order. question to the prime minister. >> number one, mr. speaker. >> thank you mr. speaker. today marks the 69th anniversary of the nhs, and last week -- [shouting] >> last week solve the immediate anniversary of the 999 service i know members will want to join in paying tribute to the incredibly dedicat

wouldld be likely to come from the list that donald trump put out last summer, all vetted by the heritage foundation. >> i want to get to those religious cases. but first line for democrats,er go ahead. >> i would just like to say i consider this playground issue just to be another skirmish with the separation of church and state in this country.h said the founding of this country said that rationality and science are the instruments through which progress is to be attained. in this country today, rationality and science are beginning to lose credence in the public and is under constant assault. the people that say this country is a christian nation are wrong. it's not a christian nation. the people who claim to beo christians are the same ones who vote for healthcare plansnty will be disastrous for a lot of people in this country, resulting in the cutoff of medicaid funds. >> we will talk a lot more. >> i think this is rooted in the idea that it does matter and it ought to be the basis of policy decisions in this country, there's a whole book called politics according to the bible, and in it the gu

our new site at the heritage foundation, they lay this out with a letter from lamar smith.en cite hillary clinton, who was secretary of state, cited phony environment groups that were being funded by the russians. she described herself as an environmentalist and expressed frustrations that the russians were propping up these organizations to advance their own estrus. if the united states fracking revolution accelerates it puts russia back on their heels. >> tucker: their entire economy is built on it. at least the story has an explicable logical motive, the idea that trump got the support of putin because they're both fascists, if not a compelling motive. this is a clear motive that makes economic sense so it's easier to buy. is it legal? if this is true, that we learned that u.s. environmental groups took money for the russian government, is not against the law? >> that's why lamar smith and other congressmen are costing for an investigation to at least look at the financing. you're getting all these questions about how much influence they have on donald trump, it logicall

if you look at people and that oppose it, aclu, heritage foundation, justice, cato r institute, mike lee, justice thomas, the list goes on and on, think of a policy where america is more united than forfeiture.o civil it is a shame to swim against diminishing and support for law enforcement by supporting a policy that america ates, why does america hate this policy? it is unfair, unjust and unconstitutional. host: go to cato.org, if you cato o check out the institute. a republican, go ahead. aller: thank you, the cesspool is filled with the legal system. to attorneys that bring laws the books have someone they can sue and take their money from. not, the legal system has nothing to do with morality anymore. people.e enemy of the for every law created, there is criminal act that the people suffer under, that is what is taking place, sessions is the by this, sappointment he is an attorney. >> seeee the rest of this "washington journal" segment at c-span.org. we'll leave the last few mince for how freedom caucus chair mark meadows. he'll be talking about his conference's agenda, includin

they came up with an idea that was actually raised, suggested by the heritage foundation. the heritage foundation found its way to this body in 1993 in legislation introduced by republican senator john chafee from rhode island that called for doing five things. number one, creating exchanges, marketplaces in every state where people who didn't have coverage could be part of a large group, and buy their coverage, get their coverage. number two, the folks who bought their coverage on the exchange might be eligible for a sliding scale tax credit, low-income people would get a better tax credit, reducing their premiums than people whose income was higher. number three, the idea of an individual mandate, if people had to get their coverage, they would have to pay a fine. you can't force people to get coverage. massachusetts, they say at least we'll find them. maybe over time the fine will go up, and most people, including young, healthy people would elect to get coverage and be part of a group to insure that's actually insurable, as opposed to people who are just sick or anxiou

he's currently at the heritage foundation but notably he and a very few other group of americans have met. the only people to have met with north korean diplomats and i asked him, does he think north korea is open to negotiations about their nuclear program? the answer is sobering. take a listen. >> they made very clear, very emphatically clear that denuclearization is totally off the table. there's nothing that the u.s. could offer to induce them to abandon their nuclear arsenal. they became irritated when we tried various options of things that would get them back to the negotiating table. they said quite simply, accept us as a nuclear state and then we're willing to talk about a peace treaty or fight. >> i mean, that is stark, dave and christine. accept us or we're going to fight. i mean, this is a very, very dangerous escalation. people have complained or sort of wondered whether north korea's been bluffing and what his true intentions are and what his capability is but it is showing in black and white and technicolor what its increasing capabilities are, so this is very, very tro

let's bring in the president of district media group and heritage foundation fellow and don callowayouri state representative and founder of pine street strategies. thank you guys for talking to us. let me just ask you, first, don, any chance that tax reform is going to happen in this year? >> no. that's the very short answer, but tax reform is a very complicated process. the last time it happened was 1986, and that started with ideas and bills that were filed as far back as 1979, which by the way was a very good year. i have been around a few years now. i have seen drafts coming out of the house ways and means committee and we have seen some good ideas coming from those tax reform drafts but have not seen a substantial ideas that contain within those so we can pass a bill in the last five months of the legislative calendar year. what we will probably see a series of tax cuts for individuals, high net worth individuals and corporations that will probably be stuck into some of the necessary bills for government to remain funding and the debt ceiling and such through the end of the cal

that's what the notion, the heritage foundation is saying if there is a fix on exchanges that would beental to the pam detrimental with the plan. >> we don't want mandated health kashgs socialism. and part and partial what chuck schumer wants to replace it with. distinctive about the health care plans offered by republicans, it puts choices back in the hands of the american people. relegates and mandates the states to the oversight. like medicaid. no oversight of medicaid. an exponential growth of medicaid and i worked on this 15 years. there's so much done in medicaid to exploit the process. in north carolina we have 60,000 providers many of those providers learned how to exploit the system. we don't, haven't been using the capabilities of the software to identify those who are exploiting the system. or to look at those, who is really, should be able to get medicaid, and are food stamps, grown exponentially. when the federal government is funding all the money and the states doing the allocation, there's no oversight. when we move it back to the states. accountability. what's that the

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lindsay you are from the heritage foundation. a big proponent of school of choice, the whole gamut, education savings accounts, vouchers, tax credit scholarships. some people in this room might be interested or not expecting the fact that you don't really want the trump administration going there. so if you can talk a little bit about that, where you come from there and give us a little idea of what states are doing interesting things and what we should be paying attention to. >> i want to thank everyone for being here. it's nice to be here. thanks to ewa for having me. i think we've got a great panel. on the school choice front, you totally nailed it. we are, i have been a huge proponent of school choice, heritage has long been a huge proponent of school choice, it is our specialiperspective is ae above. charter schools, voucher options, tuition tax credit scholarships, you mentioned the new cool kid on the block, education savings accounts, which is where i really think the education choice movement is going right now. we see s

i went back to my files and i looked at that meeting from the heritage foundation and the name at thetom was mike pence, he was the chair of the republicans study group at that time. he was right at the heart of taking the advantage over this massive, massive catastrophe, what i fear is them taking katrina national. >> scaling it up. >> and remember of the free for all contractors, politically connected. what i would fear is the whole margot lar-- mar-a-lago threat. in terms of the terrorist attack, i was in paris a couple of years ago of attacks in restaurants and people remember this, 200 people lost their lives. the french government declared a state of emergency andnd they banned political protest of more than five people. you could not have the kind of protests that we have seen of courageous protests. what i would worry about and a lot of people would say well, we managed to resist the worst and we can think of the courageous action after they tried to introduce the travel ban and people flying to airports those are the threat that's declared as a national threat security. the o

this was a heritage foundation y idea. so he really did try to get republicans on board and when republicans failed to participate in any way, we all knew they were going to oppose anything he did. so here we are now and we have president trump complaining about the democrats being obstructionists when, in fact, the democrats were more than willing to work with republicans, and now the core of obamacare are exchanges. they were developed by the heritage foundation. there is no reason republicans can't come and work with this and find something that would work -- >> his slogan right now is resist. actually, one of the worst nightmares for the democrats would be if we just went to regular order, put this through the committees and had amendments put on the floor and look at the democrats and say, will you work with us, they're going to get a huge amount of people that don't want to. >> what i don't understand is how you can sit there with a straight face and talk about obstructionism after what the republicans did. it's incr

it was hatched in the early 90's at the heritage foundation. it was first introduced in the u.s. senate in the mid-90's by senator bob dole and about 17 or so republican cosponsors. when president obama decided to take that idea, which had also been pursued in massachusetts by governor mitt romney, all of a sudden the republican members decided they would not give him one vote because mitch mcconnell said his one priority was denying barack obama a second term. host: so democratic leaders have tried harder back then to get a couple republicans on board? guest: i was not here at the time, but i do recall them trying quite hard. in the hopes of getting senator bradley, they worked with him for a month's. they worked with susan collins. they would have loved to have had one supporter to give it a little bit of bipartisanship, again for something that started off as a conservative idea. the democratic concept of health care reform had essentially been medicare for all. this started off as a republican idea. the idea of pulling the uninsured together on exchanges and allowing them to

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coming up friday morning, the heritage foundation and harry stein, the center for american progress discuss the 2018 federal budget. randy cap's the migration policy institute talks about the increase in low skilled worker visas. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern friday morning. join the discussion. >> friday a conversation on the political crisis in new zealand. moving by with the atlantic council center starting at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span two, c-span.org and our free c-span radio app. friday, a look at the global influence of the press. panel of journalists are the center for strategic and international studies talk about how media outlets are influencing the narrative on world affairs. that is live at 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span3, online at c-span.org and on the free c-span radio app. >> sunday on q and a. >> when you look at president obama's domestic legacy, i think there are two things that are very important that will have long-lasting, good consequences to the united states that can be summarized. kagan.otomayor and elena >> the second of our

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likely to come from that list that donald ,rump put out about last summer all vetted by the heritage foundation, all vetted by the most conservative judicial operations in washington. host: we want to get to the other cases involving religion. first, kenneth on the line for democrats from buffalo. caller: hello. issueider this playground just to be another skirmish in the war against the separation of church and state. that the remind people philosophical basis, the founding of this country was the enlightenment. andh said that rationality science were the instruments through which human progress were to be obtained. in this country today, areonality and science beginning to lose credence in the public. and they are under constant assault. and the people that say that this country is a christian nation are wrong. it is not a christian nation. the people who claim to be christians are the same ones who vote for health care plans which are going to be disastrous for a lot of people in this country and resulting from the cutoff of medicaid funding. host: we are going to be talking a lot more about

world to defend ourselves be published in the blue print i mean for this corporate money the heritage foundation led had a big impact on the growth of right wing think tanks much of the ideology for right so that's at the right end of the spectrum then you go to the other end of the spectrum basically the carter administration liberalism and the the people who staff the carter administration trilateral commission it's and dust rule democracies in europe japan and the united states basically liberal internationalists and they have a publication called the crisis of democracy in the crisis of democracy is there's too much democracy in the one nine hundred sixty s. too many people who are usually passive and pathetic the way people are supposed to be started becoming engaged in the political arena pressing for their demands and so on the some that are sometimes called special interests meaning young people old people farmers workers in other words everybody except the corporate sector which is no mention there the national interest but these special interests are putting too much pressure on the st