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>> lou holtz recorded man's right tackle. i ended up left out.et more into radio and student government. i was student body president my senior year. at that point, the south was solidly democratic. i was the only republican on the board of trustees at nc state. >> eboni: bringing everybody together. >> eric: my daily consumption of news in the morning, drudge, "the wall street journal" ," i , i have been reading "the federalist" because of you. tell me about "the federalist." >> >> mollie: we like to publish conservative and libertarian commentary, particularly libertarian commentary talking about virtue. >> eric: big fan. >> kat: mollie, you're going through the stories, do you think people will stop trusting "the washington post" or do you think people want to hear these things? >> mollie: you have a divided public. people who hear what they want to hear from "the post" are going to believe whatever it is reported. credibility for the media general is bad, not just for "the post," but for everybody. republicans and conservatives. a poll shows

then you will hear from jason of holtz man vogel. jason specializes in campaign finance. in 2007, campaigned election magazine named jason a rising star of politics. he lectures on campaign finance and provides commentary to the media on election-related matters. he has a ba from college of william and mary and law degree from william and mary law. elliot burke is last. he is manager of the firm and current partner in los angeles. he served as a partner and practice group at mcgire woods and has been named by chambers usa as a national best lawyer and one of washington's best lawyers. he is a graduate of wake forest and emory school of law. i will turn it over to claudia who will deal with the lobbying disclosure act. >> i don't want to make this too much in the weeds but there was a lot of complex issues with regard to lobbying, legislation, and disclosure that everyone should be aware of if one is intending upon engaging with federal officials, office holders and other employees here in d.c. and otherwise. we should have a powerpoint. oh, we do. okay. so, first slide. o

what was of officials concerned about when meeting with russian officials douglas holtz-eakin >> theyparticularly concerned about the russia's ambassador. because of the tides of russian intelligence agencies. according to the associated press physician officials warned that oakland that they will almost certainly under surveillance by the fbi and cia.current and former officials told them that they did not take the warnings seriously and one transition official even out the obama white house for a copy of the cia's classified press file on the russian investor for flynn to know exactly what he was dealing with. officials did not know if than ever look through those documents but we do know that they deleted had a series of conversations. lease one was picked up by us intelligence agencies including discussions of sanctions against russia which he later lied to the vice president about was eventually forced to resign. quest and what about - quest currently three looking into the involvement in our elections good until he is a former and current trunk aids cooperated. they said a forme

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george callas, senior tax adviser in the office of the speaker, douglas holtz-eakin, president of the american action forum, and mark prater chief tax counsel at the senate finance committee. [ applause ] >> good morning. we're all very fortunate to be here on the tax reform panel. president trump, majority leader mcconnell, and speaker ryan have all declared that tax reform is the number one economic priority for this year. if there were three people that i would pick to be in a room and write a new tax plan for me, it would be mark, doug, and george right here. we're privileged to have them. george is the senior tax counsel to speaker ryan. doug is the president of the american action forum and former director of the congressional budget office. ever since the time of alexander hamilton, economic policy making has been about improving the conditions for better economic growth. we're sitting in dc today because of a deal that alexander hamilton cut where he traded away the capital of the nation in order to assume state debt and give the nation a better credit rating. and so i believe

let's ask economist douglas holtz-eakin, president of the american action forum and former director of to see you. >> thanks for having me. paul: so let's deal first with the 3% growth issue. jason furman, foreman white house economist under president obama, wrote for us this week that you just can't really get there for any extended period anymore because population growth is too slow, and there are too many structural barriers. what do you think of that? >> i don't agree with that. i mean, a lot of the structural barriers were erected by jason furman and the president he served, barack obama. so if you got serious about tax reform, if you got serious about regulatory reform, if you had a sensible, targeted national infrastructure program that enhanced national connectivity with economic performance and if you took off the table the potential that the u.s. itself would have a sovereign debt can crisis by getting the budget back to balanced as they promise, you could get the 3% growth. that's certainly within the reasonable bounds. 4 or 5, no. but 3 is a sensible number. paul: well, bu

we were humbled to meet with oshua holtz's mom. despite the human rights abuses, the beatings, the violence, the murders and repression and political prisoners, despite all of this, the people are refusing to be silent and they are rising up and protesting. this is just amazing. and with that, i'm pleased to yield and honored to yield such time as he may consume to my good frnd, mr. castro of texas. welcome, mr. castro. mr. castro: and thank you for your incredible work on this issue and see subcommittee chairman duncan. the people of venezuela are in dire need of humidity assistance the dire critical food and violence in the venezuela are reaching a breaking point. three out of four have lost significant weight in the last year due to food shortages. in 2016, the nation suffered a homicide rate of 91.8 of 100,000 people making it the most second violent country in the world. we have the reason to believe more of the people of venezuela want to leave. last year, the united nations gh commission for refugees said colombia should exp

in the next hour, doug holtz-eakin, the american action president, former cbo direct -- director. >>in or, led a slump in -- highlighting the challenge for the nation's leaders and maintaining growth. still what this is francisco blanch of bank of america merrill lynch. pointing towards the finance ministry's response to this, always pumps you whenever you get a downgrade. the ratings company has underestimated the capability of the government to reform. it is the commodity market underestimating china's ability to boost demand? >> china has a bit of a credit issue. everyone realizes that. china has continued to move higher and that is not helping the metals markets. i don't think it is an issue that the chinese government won't be able to control for now . the economy is ok, more or less. we are going through this leadership contest. i don't see a lot of downside risks. is that theclear metals are not going to like any orancial related issues upgrades, or increasing rates. jonathan: pick any metal and it is a proxy for chinese growth. it has been for a long time. as you look from ir

charles: joining us now, american action forum president douglas holtz-eakin.ou're going to ever hear bill gates sound. what do you say? >> he's a little more bullish than i am. i think the ideas innovation is in good shape, no doubt about that. but the translation of those ideas into actual business productivity has been missing for a couple of years, remains missing in action. and until we close that loop, until we get real, strong productivity growth back, we're not going to see top-line gdp go above 2%, see wages growing at a pace americans need and expect, and we're not going to have people feel like the economy's performing well. charles: doug, when you saw productivity, because we hear it a lot. i know alan greenspan, the productivity miracle was the thing he pointed to a lot. for many, that's a euphemism for more people losing their jobs and robots and artificial intelligence taking over. that's not what you're talking about, is it? >> no. if you look back to that period in the '90s, we got the unemployment rate down to almost 4%. this was getting more

joining us right now is douglas holtz-eakin the president of the american action forum and a former directoressional budget office. and aaron klein is an economic studies fellow at the brookings institution. gentlemen, before we even get to what happens next with the administration, doug, we've got the budget, going to be revealed this week. >> right. >> and kind of rolled out. what do you expect to see? and how do you think that will play on capitol hill? >> well, what i expect to see is finally the unveiling of the economic assumptions. i think that's the most important thing. there've been rumors that they've got the top line growth rate at 3%. interesting to see how fast they ramp it up and most budgets are put together under the assumption the president gets what he wants. so what are the policies that are generating that faster growth? what do they got plugged in there for tax reform? for infrastructure? a lot of questions about sort of the details of things that he's talked about on the campaign. but we haven't seen yet. >> what do you think it would take to get growth above 3%? >> i