role and what can the us and japan do as allies to strengthen institutions and make sure institutions are working for our common values and interests? it is a timely topic because washington is not thinking much about the institutions right now. we are distracted, confused, polarized. personally i have faith over the medium to long-term the public supports engagements but the trump administration pulled out of the transpacific partnership. our attendance was pretty weak in terms of rank. our role in the world trade organization has diminished. we are fighting with the united nations. we are not stepping up. japan on the other hand is playing quite a significant role. prime minister abe pushed for continuation of the transpacific partnership in new form in the g7 which we hear about. he is the bridge between donald trump and europe and canada. one of the things we will talk about is japan bridging the us institutions or setting the agenda or actually just responding? all of the above is true to some extent but the us right now is lucky to have a japanese government that is active in mu

because a lot of these institutions just have one view of the world and president trump is changing that now with the impeachment this is clearly a pure political play from the democrats they know they can't be president trump in the election representative al green said the only way to really get rid of trump is to impeach him and this is exactly what they're doing and just look at those articles of impeachment they are so weak abuse of power obstruction of congress they're absolutely weak they are not crimes and this is going to be a problem for the democrats to your point because they are boring americans that death with a crime list impeachment that's purely political you know and you know it irrespective of the side you're on the institutional damage is very real i mean this for example the whistle blower i mean up until this point of something that we listen to we took we thought it was important but the way this whistleblower has been presented to us it's all actually an invention a farce i mean it's water cooler talk and they've even changed the statutes and what it means to

but what about the institutional damage left in the wake of the energy. pietschmann trial. i'm joined by my guest man in orlando he's a socialist activist and political commentator in greenwich we have tom perelli he is a america's voice news contributor as well as executive advisor to cloud hobe and in personal we cross the ned ryan he is founder and c.e.o. of american majority as well as author of the new book restoring our republic all right gentlemen cross-like rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate tom let me go to you 1st in greenwich here i mean one of the things watching this entire saga which is unwatchable i have to tell you and my guess and our viewers that this is the 1st major political event i refused to watch because it's unwatchable i played hooky from school to watch the watergate hearings but i can't watch this just on watchable and one of the things that so does really disturbing to me is that all through this we've seen the face of courts destroyed with the the idea of a whistleblower has been destroyed we hav

how does it stack up against the institutions that by their calibers are the same institutions? so where did i come up with these, like albany? that's what i came up with those figures. it's a very much underutilized college results online. and they even the college results.org. >> it seemed like the organization has the biggest financial -- the default rate for since you don't graduate considerably high for that person to do. what should be done potential to department of education to address this issue? you could invest money and some in support services and generate a positive return. >> you may not about this betsy devos has just been held in contempt for refusing to obey a court order which required should not collect money that was owed for students who went to a for-profit college, which went bankrupt. that's a whole other terrain i just left out of this conversation entirely. you get more students graduating, , fewer students dropping out and paying their bills if you're expanded pell grants, both the amount of money and you cover not just tuition and fees but all the ot

bush institute. failures and the need to learn from experience as we go, we thank everyone for joining us today. director of the human freedom initiative, and the george shelby bush initiative, lindsey has years of experience in human rights and democracy work at our sister organization and the -- lindsey also has extensive experience working for several members of congress including house leadership, he has been a tremendous partnership in this event and lindsey please come up and introduce yourself, thank you very much. good morning i have the longest title so i think that, director of human freedom at the giorgio bush institute, it's quite a mouthful, so the bush industry is really proud to be a partner of this and are also grateful for usaid for all the financial support they have provided. we have this is a kick off for a longer partnership look at how our democracy and governance can combat violent extremism around the world. we add the bush institute to try to do three things we aim to stand w

successful institutions also invest in themselves. they invest in their employees, infrastructure and overall work environment and experience. they think and plan towards the future. the bottom line is that is hard for people to be invested in their work. attract is able to staff and committees like this one and continued to be productive despite the many challenges the institution faces. congress is fueled by people who believe strongly in the mission. fulfilling that mission has become harder over the past several decades primarily due to decisions and choices congress has made. today is about looking inward. it appropriately to kick off by putting article one front and center. today's hearing will help us understand the factors that have contributed to the expansion of executive branch powers since world war ii and shed light on how and why congress has reduced its own capacity to fulfill its constitutional obligations. most important the, we will consider what can be done to restore congress to its rightful place as a coequal bran

he argues for the creation of financial institution that is work in the interest of progressive investors. >> hello, everybody, welcome to little city books, the best bookstore in the world as we measure it. thank you all for coming tonight, we know it's drizzly. >> this is a very important and interesting book. mark was the -- he directed, i always get it wrong, financial institution industry for many years which basically what they did was funnel money to people who were marginalized, i'm sure he could tell you more about that if you want to ask him. and we also have here tonight adam moss who is a magazine guy, esquire, many other things, he and mark were roommates at college and have always known each other for a very long time, thank you for coming out here, adam. so i'm going let them go on from here, thanks for coming. [applause] >> hi, everybody, is this registering. lift it up. all right. is that better? anyway, welcome, thank you for coming, it's really great to be here with mark who i have known for 41 years, 3, 4, 44 years. >> sorry. [laughter] >> my freshman roommate and soph

institutions.ry these reports and testimony will committee's efforts to oversee the regulators' work on a range of issues, including hold megabanks ccountable and promote diversity and inclusion. -- highlight that represent representative phillips would make sure that information is not disclosed. ensure that congress gets important aggregate data kerps,ends on supervisory like matters -- concerns, like matters requiring attention and immediate uiring attention that apply to the industry or segments of the industry. it's also worth noting that democrats took the house ajority in 2019 and provided vigorous oversight of these prudential regulators, it had than three years since either the fdic or the ncua estified before the financial services committee. congress must not neglect its duties.t so h.r. 4841 will help ensure robust and regular oversight of our prudential regulators. this members to support legislation, and i reserve the balance of my time. the peaker pro tempore: gentlewoman reserves. t

and institutions, and narrowly actual harm, to holds all institutions accountable for misrepresentation, provides with more options to continue their education should their school close, and allows faster relief by allowing arbitration. level importantly, the 2019 rule is stimated to save taxpayers $11 billion from the 2016 obama rule. simply cannot afford to return to the outdated, costly, and confusing obama-era rule the majority seeks to return to effect today. urge a no vote on the joint resolution, and i thank you and yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the yields back the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from north carolina reserves. the gentlewoman from nevada is recognized. mrs. lee: mr. speaker, i'd like to first clarify the record that filed students that claims in the past 20 years is because students didn't right tod they had the file those claims. 1/2 'd like to yield 1 minutes to the gentlewoman from washington, ms. jay pal. -- ms. jayapal. the speaker pro tempore: the entlewoman from washington is recognized for a minute and a half. ms. jayapal: thank you, mr. speake

, is a way to improve the institution as a whole. >> mr.raham to follow up on that. >> follow up on that, point a large part of the federal government is being funded but not, authorize not reauthorized. is it your thought then that no congressional directed spending or grant, whatever you want to call it, earmarks, would take place without authorization and just because something is authorized, doesn't mean that the funds will be released? >> it's certainly an interesting sort of hostage taking approach to improving authorization and i don't mean that pejoratively, although i'm not pro hostage taker either. i do think that when you look at some of the most contentious fights around we authorizations over the past decade, especially faa, you really understand how the failures of public policy can present really serious safety challenges for americans, great industry disruptions where the government should be disrupting industry and putting those two together is part of the process and making one dependent on the other i think facilitates po

and i think any way that you can increase that within this institution is a way to improve the institutions a whole. >> mr. graves has a followup on that. >> a large part of the federal government is being fund but has not been reauthorized. is it your thought then that no congressionally directed spending or grants, whatever you want to call it, earmarks, were to take place without authorization, and just because something is authorized, does that mean the funds would be released? >> it's certainly an interesting sort of hostage-taking approach to improving authorization. and i don't mean that pe jor j e pejoratively, although i'm not pro hostage-taking either. when you look at the fights over reauthorizations over the past decade, especially faa, you really understand how the failures of public policy can present really serious safety challenges for americans, create situations where government shouldn't be disrupting industry. putting those two together is part of the process and making one dependent on the other i think facilitates policy-making in this country. as you pointed out, whe

jayne: you mentioned the drug abuse institute and of course the alcohol institute. i don't think anyone would disagree the federal government does not have a coherent marijuana policy. it is illegal federally, it is becoming increasingly legal medically and recreationally in states, and researchers say this hampers their ability to study it. recently, nih awarded an academic who is funded in part by the marijuana industry a multimillion dollar grant on the study of the benefits of marijuana affecting ptsd. this comes as i have been told about the very grave concerns of marijuana's effects on mental illnesses. the link to psychosis, schizophrenia, and other illnesses. given that, and the fact that nih had to shut down and alcohol benefit study in part because of industry involvement, how is nih going to avoid industry influence and satisfy the worried parents of those with psychosis and other conditions and marijuana supporters who hope the drug is considered objectively? dr. collins: so i share with the doctor deep concerns about the potential harms that widespread

german business confidence falls unexpectedly in the closely watched by the munich evil institute indicates that 2020 is not necessarily going to be business as usual for europe's strongest economy also coming up the european union and china join forces with 15 other w t o members to keep the body's appeals court alive despite u.s. action to block it. and how the system of micro credits designed to help the poor can easily turn into a debt trap. welcome to be a business i want to get johnson berlin good to have you with us now is the 1st indication of how business is doing in the new year confidence among business leaders in germany inge back slightly in january a monthly barometer from the unit based in for institute fellow north point 4 points compared with december as well short of analyst expectations on the upside manufacturers benefited from some clearing up of uncertainty in recent weeks as the u.s. and china struck a trade truce and the next steps for brics it became clearer but confidence among service fell back the data points at a difficult year ahead. for more on this difficult

bush institute. it's wonderful to have them cohost the event with us today. usip was founded thirty-five years ago by congress nonpartisan national institute dedicated to the notion that peace is very practical and very possible. we firmly believe today's complex foreign policy challenges require the best thinking and partnership across the aisle. last year congress asked usip host a bipartisan congressionally mandated with a request to a comprehensive plan to combat extremism in the world's most fragile states. the principle of recommendation is the us should adopt a policy of prevention with a strong focus on government. congress passed the global fragility act to take those task force recommendations to create a binding commitment to a long-term prevention strategy. so it's good to know bipartisan action is possible and today we have the change to talk more about the opportunity to seize that momentum we have before us. we have a great program planned for you. i am delighted to introduce a very go

bush institute. having years of experience in human rights and democracy at our sister organization also extensive experience working for several members of congress and a terrific partner in this event in many other initiatives please come up. thank you all very much. [applause] >> i have the longest title in the room it's a mouthful f left we are proud to be partnering with this and also for the financial support provided. we hope this is a kickoff with a longer partnership how democracy can combat violent extremism around the world. to that human freedom initiative to stand with those living under tyranny and to develop leadership in democracies and from one of our scholars from tunisia. i have the honor of introducing from the keynote address the 18th administrator since august 2017 and has the unmatchable cv with his experience a congressman from wisconsin ed and ambassador to tanzania and my all matter that republican institute to see the governance program the president and ceo for the institu

impeachment that's purely political you know in you know irrespective of the side you're on the institutional damage is very real i mean this for example the whistle blower i mean up until this point of something that we listen to we took we thought it was important but the way this whistleblower has been presented to us it's all actually an invention a farce i mean it's water cooler talk and they've even changed the statutes and what it means to be a whistleblower just because of this situation this is the degradation that i'm really worried about what say you in go ahead. well look peter i'm a revolutionary socialist and i'm not a democrat at all and i would like nothing more than a see donald trump impeached that would warm my heart but you know impeach him for the right things i mean there's human rights violations going on on the u.s. border still i mean i think it's absolutely insane to impeach him for what's going on with ukraine look at what's also gabbert said she had it dead on censure him do something that could get bipartisan support impeachment in its nature is political it's not

lightness institute for economic research at the university of munich good to have you with us now you say that the german economy is starting the year in a cautious mood why is that. yes so what companies are telling us is that the current situation has improved somewhat odd but they are skeptical as regards the coming months so they see some risks ahead as you said the good news is that manufacturing which is a key sector of the german economy is doing better so we have a better reading there is skepticism in the in services and in construction now construction has been booming for a long time so maybe this is just normalization and in services it is those service companies that are close to industry that are suffering a little like logistics and some other things but we will have to wait whether that is a sustained. downturn or just. a little dip so we shouldn't take this too seriously at the moment but overall companies it's true companies are skeptic for the coming year and of course the survey doesn't yet take into account the outbreak off coronavirus in china we've seen markets

how appropriate that the mccain institute prides itself on character driven leadership. cindy mccain embodies that kind of leadership each and every day. joining her on stage is nicole biben-sedaka, a professor at georgetown university and leading voice on humans rights causes. nicole worked at the state department, one of her areas of responsibility was the fight against trafficking in persons with an emphasis on the three p's, prosecution, protection, and prevention. it is my pleasure and honor to welcome them both. [applause] >> thank you so much, and thank you to fiu for this wonderful conference and for all of you to attending. thank you to the green family for making this possible. it is an extraordinary opportunity to talk about these issues. i am delighted that there was the forethought to give this topic such prominence. i know we are between dinner, we also know that this is a topic that once people hear about it it is something that people have to take the time to understand and dig into. it is compelling. it is surprising this is even a topic to talk about, i

my question concerns the leadership in the united states and global institutions. although i believe it will continue to be in the interest of the united states to support the leadership roles in global relationships, but it seems that much of the u.s. population has been disallusioned by the outcome of globalization, and they no longer believe it to be the case that it will be beneficial for the united states to support the leadership role going forward. and also it's true that the current global institutions do not necessarily reflect any longer the existing balance of power or the changing landscape like the rise of china or the relative decline of japan. my question is what do you think would be -- is there anything japan could realistically do to change or influence these changing narrative, changing case against so-called globalism in the united states? >> all right. i'll repeat the question later, but this gentleman there with the red tie, come forward. all right. forward, if you would, and this gentleman there, yeah, with the red tie. that's right. could yo

think of the institutions that inspired you as a child much of the work that i do in the patent instituteoes tries to plant the seeds theoretical seeds could be the most fruitful the third and final point individuals matter with an old broken windows policy. now to raise theoretical glass of wine i'm standing right here three decades after the death of that of scare executive and raising a mental glass but also most of all raising a glass. thank you very much. [applause] >> we can now take a few questions. >> when i think of the great society two things come to mind when i think of the great society two things come to mind lbj and the riots in the street. and what i remember about the great society is at lbj was abandoned opposed to the vietnam war was the naacp. so what about the civil rights revolution? how could that not be in your book how do we great the great - - explain the great society. >> it is in my book and very extensively. this is just one chapter. looking at civil rights law the act which came before the voting rights act and revolutionary. following the howard university s

these institutions that are supposed to help us are not the institutions that we can rely upon or trust. these institutions that are supposed to foster and support us in this time of freedom. 748-8200 if you lived in the east and central time zones. 8201 if you live in the mountain and pacific time zones and want to talk to notre dame professor about why liberalism failed. we can also take your social media comment that book tv for tefacebook, twitter and instagr. email is book tv at c-span.org. in your book you write that the narrowing of our political risings come i want you to explain that, has rendered us incapable of considering that what we face today is not a set of discrete problems solvable by liberal tools but a systemic challenge arising from pervasive invisible ideology. there is a lot packed into that sentence. >> did i write that? now it captures exactly what i am talking about. the narrowing of our political horizon, until recent history, the way we have reviewed the span of debate between a liberal right and a liberal left. whether that is libertarian economics against m

bush institute, the national endowment for democracy, and at the national democratic institute.they had been five and his partners in putting all of this together. usip will continue to work with these partners, to continue focusing on these critical issues. we've had a number of sweeping conversations today, and many of you may be eager to drill that in more detail. we are going to work with our partners to schedule and the very near future a set of roundtables where we will really focus on trying to be a little bit more concrete about what kinds of solutions we can start to identify. so as we say to make things dramatic, watch this space. in the meantime let me wish you all a very happy and peaceful new year, and ask you again to please join me in thanking this superb lunchtime panel. [applause] >> have a great afternoon. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> the house will be in order. >> for 40 years c-span has been providing american unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy depends from washington, d.c. and arou

, highest and most revered institutions rather in the uk and still experience this kind of vitriol. it is damning and i did not think it is particularly good luck and there are parts of the press that have not engaged in this. but to see some of the stories we had seen to see some of the stories we had seen about meghan markle, i think it is really unacceptable and i can understand how painful that would have been. i am not sure i had seen the story said that is why i would say that she is on the whole had very positive press and she has had access and did she notjust added the today programme at some point? and guest edited though. that has come through having the platform as a royal and therefore some of what you call vitriol might come down to ignorance. she is in a position to address the ignorance by being a woman with particular things to say from a particular heritage and in a very prominent... i should also say i think if often this kind of story in the past few days has been taking us in the past few days has been taking us to in the past few days has been taking ustoa in t

researchers from different research institutes in the country and students are studying. the visitors from ethiopia want to expand the testing of old a variety that their own institute to establish which ones could withstand stress factors such as dryness or acidic soil an important step to boost sustainable farming in ethiopia or. point b. . not back to africa from seeds for the soil to the sun in the sky silly money issues a self described energy entrepreneur here in the nation's capital is developing what he calls off the grid homes and he shows us yet again that renewable energy makes business sense. right mc he who guy play my music was involved in one of nigeria's most impressive greenhouses broking these innovative friendly. if attracting a growing following among the media there. this is a greenhouse an apartment complex in the heart of. everything here operates on renewable energy. and his family have lived here for 3 years now the architect cares about the environment and says the green apartment has even made his life more comfortable and he never had any black

you were given back of the great institution. you do great work, i got a picture with you but i would be proud to have another one. mr. quarles or chairman mcwilliams. i want to thank you all for your work and the progress, $50 million in capital. it is a long time coming. i want to go onto the community reinvestment act. the occ is taken the lead. also i am looking forward on the work. i am trying to get this done in a safe amount of time so i am talking fast. on the rewrite, chair quarles, is the fed going to play a role along the occ and the fdic. >> we have been engaged. the proposal that is evolving has benefited from a lot. >> if you look at that, that's been -- a number of other changes and banking system that hopefully we can modernize it and i look forward to what you do there. chairman williams, i want to ask you a question. you are going through and looking at all the clutter and guidances and one advisory letter and secret memo and facts that's been long used. can you give me an idea of where we go from here? >> when

welcome to the american enterprise institute. i'm director of social cultural and constitutional studies here at aei. it is my great pleasure to welcome you to a discussion of land of hope, the new one volume history of our country by

think of the institutions that inspired you as a child and laid the plan for your own institution. much of the work that i do, and the manhattan institute does, is trying to plan the seeds try to plant the seeds. a theoretical seed can be the most fruitful seed. the third and final point, individuals matter. without these scholars, individual scholars, there wouldn't been no broken glendale policy. without boulware, and oregon. if you think your name, and i would now i would like to raise a theoretical lesson going, what we remembered for doing this work but you may be wrong. i am sitting right here in manhattan in 2019 with you, three decades after the death of that eight ge executive. everyone in this room is raising a mental glass to reagan, to public policy work, but also most of all, there raising a glass to the name of boulware. q very much. [applause]. amber lee has kindly agreed to take a few questions. >> when i think about a great society, two things come to mind. lbj in the race of revolution in america. the civil rights revolution. the riots in the streets. the great so

all political institutions very weak and the 3rd the awakened by 1st move some made by the president but it can not last for long and in the law that transforms the system he it should definitely establish order to stall or strengthen political institutions that's why. we can speak about the timing of this report reform so that's why i. go in on not well shortly before 2024 but it's going on no because it takes a lot of time to establish institutions to change them to check whether they can to make them practically useful but mr petrov i'm sure you would agree that putin doesn't want to see a russia governed by and not that putin and i personally don't see any ah there are alternatives to you putin is and that would satisfy logic if we can on personal and historical grounds other than democracy what is the other scenario that would provide an absolute curative guarantees for him personally without empowering ave individuals while also ensuring his place in history not only as somebody who raised russia from its knees but also somebody who put it on to path of stable politically stabl

shortly before 2024 but it's going on no because it takes a lot of time to establish institutions to change them to check whether they can to make them practically useful but mr petrov i'm sure you would agree that putin doesn't want to see a russia government by and not that putin and i personally don't see any ah there are alternatives to you putin is that would satisfy large and if we did on personal and historical. other than democracy what is the scenario that would provide an absolute curative guarantees for him personally without empowering ave individuals while also ensuring his place in history not only as somebody who raised russia from its knees but also somebody who put it on to pass of stable politically stable development in my view a democrat is a sham it's exactly what putin doesn't need it because in this case he will be vulnerable because in this case and in. so the development can lead to questioning him how exactly he was acting as a president did anything send so one way to go he definitely doesn't want so there are no authority around leaders who would like to d

because a lot of these institutions just have one view of the world and president trump is changing that now with the impeachment this is clearly a pure political play from the democrats they know they can't be president trump in the election representative al green said the only way to really get rid of trump is to impeach him and this is exactly what they're doing and just look at those articles of impeachment they are so weak abuse of power obstruction of congress they're absolutely weak they are not crimes and this is going to be a problem for the democrats to your point because they are boring americans that that with a crime list impeachment that's purely political you know and you know it irrespective of the side you're on the institutional damage is very real i mean this for example the whistle blower i mean up until this point of something that we listen to we took we thought it was important but the way this whistleblower has been presented to us it's all actually an invention a farce i mean it's water cooler talk and they've even changed the statutes and what it means to

the "miami herald" is a south florida institution in its own right. it has been around since 1903, and started less than a decade after miami was incorporated. we pride ourselves on reporting local, national, and international news, and the " herald" has won 22 pulitzer prizes over our existence. most recently, we are proud of the work that herald journalists did on the jeffrey epstein scandal. it brought a new sense of overdue justice to this issue, and although it was short-circuited by epstein's death in prison, thousands of young girls and young women who were victimized by his predation finally were able to tell their stories. and, he recognized for the victims that they were. the epstein scandal was, to a large degree, a story about human trafficking. these girls and young women were forced or tricked into performing sex against their will. it happened in our backyard. and, across the country. their story represents untold others who have been victimized in other cases of trafficking. trafficking in persons is a huge problem in this country, sou

that states are forced to give money, tax credits, to religious institutions and secular institutions are they required always to give money out from these scholarships? let's start there. are you saying the constitution is unconstitutional? meaning the constitutional provision of montana is unconstitutional? >> montana's constitutional provision violates the free exercise clause on its face as is applied to this program. >> you are saying states are forced to give money both to secular and religious schools? >> not to the schools, it is a case about giving the money to the families. >> secular and religious families. >> yes, if they give to one, they must give to the other. >> can the state choose not to give out all? >> if you start from that proposition, the montana court said "we don't have a law now, don't give it any". let's assume on the montana court did what you wanted to do, and said it is unconstitutional under the federal constitution, and unconstitutional under the montana constitution, which is what i think it did, by the way. said is unconstitutional under both. let's a

it's about the design of the institutions, the design of the relationships between the institutions, the design of the government, the design of the universities. and so one of the things we found in our neck of the woods down in the southwest is, openness to questioning and looking at and reshaping the design from which then we're getting dramatic enhancements of outcome. >> brian, did you want to make a comment? >> just to follow that on, in my day job i go around the country and see lots of cities, and it really follows on the point, if each of these places has a series of things, which with the proper organization design, as michael said, could jump-start something. what they can't all do is the same thing. if everybody is chasing the shiny object. 5g is an issue that every city has to deal with. everybody has power, to the point that there's a utility, there's an infrastructure around that utility. we need to think about things which are innovative and scaleable and also universally sort of available, the university systems are distributed through the country, and how you think

the manhattan institute is planting the seeds. a theoretical seed can be the most fruitful finally individuals matter there would have been no broken windows policy or no reagan without boulware. so now i would like to raise a theoretical glass of wine. you may be wrong i'm standing right here in manhattan in 2193 decades after the death of that obscure ge executive and everyone in this room raises a mental glass but also most of all we are raising a glass to boulware. thank you very much. [applause] >> she has kindly agreed to take if you questions. >> there are two things that come to mind lbj the civil rights of america and the riots and lbj response was the great society helping blacks get out of poverty and helping them to overcome race. what i remember about great society is that racial spike that lbj was abandoned of the post- vietnam war in the only people that stuck with him was the naacp. so my question is how can that not be in your book and how do we explain the great society without talking about race relations. >> it