ladies and gentlemen, bill kristol. [applause] mr. kristol: good evening. it's an honor to join arthur and welcome you to this annual dinner, and congratulations to boris johnson on i think the 15th irving kristol award. it is a distinguished group that boris joins. before that, there was a quarter century of francis boyer awards, also very distinguished if you look it up, going back to 1977. i member when chris demuth in 2003 told my father the aei board had voted to change the annual award from the francis boyer lecture to the irving kristol lecture. my father was not much moved by these kinds of honors, honestly. but that one meant something to him. aei meant so much to him. i remember later on talking to him and saying, don't you feel a little guilty about francis boyer? and my father said no, not really. [laughter] he had a good run. the irving kristol award has had a good run, and hopefully it has a few good years and it. but it's a dog eat dog world out there. creative destruction, all that are in favorat aei of. mr. kristol: anyway, it has been a gr

welcome to the 2018 annual dinner and irving kristol award.iends and new friends and good food and a beautiful setting to celebrate here at the national building museum a community we have built together. aei is a community of $250 and staff in 1600 supporters and as many of you know we're founded in 1938, 80 years ago, this year. it's our 40th annual dinner. it's amazing. some of you have been to most of them. [laughter] my first aei annual dinner was in 2007 and i was a professor at syracuse university and i was invited as a visiting scholar to attend this wonderful event and my wife esther and i came down from syracuse like country mice and we looked at this crowd and said these are people i only ever see on tv. and we were watching the speaker with binoculars which gives you an idea of what table i got. esther turned to me and said can you imagine hosting this dinner? i said, no chance. america is such a great country and within a year i was president of the american enterprise institute. you never know what life has in store for you. it's

a what do you make of that it's an astonishing fact i mean kristol was one of the leading proponents of the iraq war everything he and his neo con. colleagues who promoted that war everything they predicted was catastrophic we wrong i mean this has to rank as one of the worst foreign policy it ventures for lack of a better term in american history the idea that this guy is now even i mean he you know he shouldn't be allowed on t.v. i mean the guy has i mean it's not an exaggeration to say he has blood on his hands as one of the primary architects of that war a lot of our thoughts and rachel maddow how can she go from being this make this one hundred eighty degree turn and now is it is is a pure v. anality is it just is purely corrupt and has no integrity whatsoever and we shouldn't expect that in american media anymore well was definitely shouldn't expect it american media anymore i mean if you know over the last few years we've watched this absolute degradation over the last twenty years but for the last few years in particular but no it's this part is easy to explain it's trump der

yeah, just like you, dad. >>> resuming our conversation, eli stokols and bill kristol remain with us here in our new york studios. eli, the scenario bill just laid out of the firing of rosenstein, what republicans do you see standing up being willing to die on that hill to protect mueller? >> i don't know how many. i think there may be a handful of them. it there pay be some of the ones like the jeff flakes and bob corkers of the world and then perhaps richard burr, you know, somebody who's had a role as a chair of a committee that has been pretty sort of nonpartisan in his approach to them. i just -- it remains to be seen. at every point, we have watched this play out and we have said, when mueller was appointed and all the republicans were saying mueller is a great guy, impeccable credentials and a lot of the same people have now, you know, basically taken the president's side. so every time you expect people to sort of step back from politics and do something that is motivated not by political interests but national interests, a lot of times they've been disappointed. >> it is ama

eli stokols and bill kristol l, our thanks as always for joining and spicing up our conversation. >>>ing up, a very big name in this country is behind bars tonight. that story when we come back. your brain changes as you get older. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. back pain can't win. now introducing aleve back and muscle pain. only aleve targets tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve back & muscle. all day strong. all day long. >>> the man once regularly referred to . >>> america's dad, bill cosby, is spending tonight behind bars where he'll spend each night for the foreseeable future. the courthouse this afternoon, an american icon suffers a final fall from grace. a judge handed out some long delay justice for dozens of women who say he assaulted them. the 81-year-old cosby was sentence todd three to ten years for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004. that's his mug shot. the judge who se

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i mean it's insane bill kristol is effectively a professional liar i mean he advocated for the iraq war in one of the most just honest ways promoted a bunch of lies that terrified the american people i mean the american war is peace i forget about that very problem for i have say good bye and that are well and note thanks for being on the kaiser report thank you that's going to do it for this edition of the guys are part of things guys are safe here but i think our guest can some are saying he's the editor in chief of the washington babylon dot com an excellent web site john to catch us on twitter as kaiser report until i stop by off . in twenty forty you know bloody revolution of. the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be increasingly violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it you know we're here to put a premium put to do it through me in the new bill is that i do believe it or the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. it invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these an article that will ensu

i mean it's insane bill kristol is effectively a professional liar i mean he advocated for the iraq war and one of the most just honest in who ways promoted a bunch of lies that terrified the american people i mean the american war is peace i forget about that problem for guessing about and that are well ian note thanks for being on the kaiser report thank you that's going to do it for this edition of the cars are part of the nice guys are safe here but i think i just can't some are saying he's the editor in chief of the washington babylon dot com an excellent web site joining catch us on twitter as kaiser report until i stop i off. ministry's please fools is in the city administrations of many countries depend on one corporation that doesn't want a boy who doesn't run from one. this is not the guns in the woods. and into the sea it's in the supply from proprietary software you don't know the source code that is such a security risk when you have a. blackbox operating in the public eye to microsoft's dependency puts governments on to cyber threats not only that some seem to think of

i mean it's insane bill kristol is effectively a professional liar i mean he advocated for the iraq war in one of the most just honest ways promoted a bunch of lies that terrified the american people i mean the american war is peace i forget about that any problems or have taken by him that are well in note thanks for being on the kaiser report thank you that's going to do it for this edition of the guys are part of the nice guys are safe here but i think i just can't some are saying he's the editor in chief of the washington babylon dot com an excellent web site john to catch us on twitter as kaiser report into like i off. the wall we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race is on offense clearly a dramatic development only really i'm going to lose east i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and tom. not that who gets down to the leaks floors lead. when you. look at that is was more than a book a movie about. it's course it's the it's. just show. it's hard to imagine decades after the war

welcome to the 2018 dinner of the irving kristol award.we're here tonight in this beautiful setting to celebrate a t the national building museum, a community we have built together. aei is a community of scholars 250 and staff and 1600 supporters. we were founded in 1938, 80 years ago this year. this is our 40th annual dinner. amazing.

and msnbc cristian farias and bill crist kristol, editor at large of "the weekly standard." maya, when you look at the rudy argument there, if everything is on the table potentially, that means mueller would face trump in a certain situation, by woodward's reporting undercutting that and would make it seem like this is all posturing. put that not context of bob mueller sending a trump aide to jail today. >> well, if -- first of all, let's just say, a broken clock is right twice a day. and the broken clock of donald trump has said he's afraid of a perjury trap. that's actually rudy giuliani talking point, which is interesting that the president used that today. i think what we have heard from the president is that he is concerned, despite the fact that he has repeatedly expressed his willingness. if i'm donald trump, i'm going to listen to my lawyers and i'm not going to talk to bob mueller. the reality is, it's going to call into question whether or not mueller's going to then take the step of a grand jury subpoena. i don't think you're going to see that anytime soon because

ladies and gentlemen bill kristol. congratulating boris johnson. it's a distinguished group that they have joined. that's always a very extinguished group. they told my father that the board have voted to change the annual award and lecture my father i was not much moved by these kind of honors obviously. but that one meant something to him. do you feel a little guilty or a little bad about francis bowyer. he have a good run. it has have a good run. with the people like charles murray. in the second award. and really a wonderful talk. my mother who is slightly indisposed. she's in good shape. can be here tonight. center since her best to 70 old friends. in the former colleagues. it's good that they give the award to a magazine editor. i said my mother, she said i love it. they have read it since. they became mayor of london. it's not just a the magazine editor. it's what i certainly agree with. it is when the sale say a word of about my father at this time but about arthur. and are there did not know i was good to do this. they were also extraordin

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and bill kristol, a veteran of the reagan and bush administrations and editor at large of the "weeklyard." bill, in the hurricane coverage business they talk about an eyewall replacement cycle, like putting an electric mixer into a cake mix. you see the constant churn as it goes on down through the core. are we watching some sort of replacement cycle in the republican party? >> i hadn't thought of that analogy. that's very good. very good, brian. tying together the two big stories of the day. it could be. i don't know -- well, we'll see a smaller republican delegation in the house, probably a minority in the house. ironically, it will be more trumpy, more conservative. a lot of the moderates are going to lose. in the npr poll, for example, which is i think plus 12 overall, it's unbelievable. men are 50-42 republican. women are 28 -- 62-28 democratic. it's the biggest gender gap i've ever seen. it's two, three, four times the typical gender gap, which always women are a little more democratic. i had breakfast with a pollster this morning who said what's striking is in the past college

years later the same journalist that had us believing back then are at the same thing now take bill kristol editor of the weekly standard back in two thousand and three he had us convinced that saddam hussein was on the verge of using his w m d's against the world no one questions furthermore the basic facts about saddam hussein's weapons. now he was very wrong but that did not stop his career not by a long shot in fact he's still the editor of the weekly standard which ironically has been named a fact checker by facebook he comes on television all the time promoting u.s. military interventions just like the old days when you do what a google dictator worth the fight to do what you do is he's in his he's in his departure and i think we could do much more to do that if we don't just do a pinprick attack and i think the sponsor of the case concerning the concern of all of us hawks but a serious attack now another voice in the media chorus backing u.s. military intervention against saddam hussein was judith miller judith miller writing for the new york this is don't even make it into the spotl

bill kristol and nick confisore for "the new york times." let's start with you sung min. >> so major breaking news. we're still waiting for chairman grassley to -- chuck grassley to release his statement on this and any response because if you recall, there were some ways that grassley and his staff and senate republicans were willing to accommodate dr. ford and her testimony. earlier this week they had offered perhaps flying senate investigators out to california to speak with her there at her home if that would make her feel more comfortable. they offered public sessions, private sessions. but the one thing -- two things they weren't budging on was that monday date as well as the -- their view that an fbi investigation before she testifies was not necessary. but now dr. ford through her attorneys has offered a timeline that's not too far from the monday date line. she's still saying she's willing to come next week. she's still asking for that fbi investigation, and this aligns with what democratic senators called for, for days, when all th

washis week, boris johnson honored with the american enterprise institute's irving kristol award. mr. johnson also sat down with aei president arthur brooks to talk about politics and you came brexit relations -- u.k. brexit relations. this is just under aur

. >> later today, former british orange secretary boris johnson will receive the 2018 irving kristol award on the american enterprise institute. we have that line at 7 pm eastern here on c-span2 and a look at our primetime schedule on the defendant works, starting at 8 pm on c-span with the business meeting of members of the senate judiciary committee. discussing judge rex cavanaugh's nomination to the supreme court. the house ways and means committee debating and voting on several new proposals. and on c-span3, members of congress attending a leadership summit on immigration issues hosted by the congressional hispanic caucus institute. >> coming up this weekend on book tv saturday 8 pm eastern, fox news those jeanine hero discusses her thoughts on the trunk presidency and his detractors with her book liars, leaguers and liberals. >> i came out and one of my press people said in the core, they said jeanine,there was already an article on what happened at the dairy farm . and i like really? what did it say? and it said nothing that i said but they alleged that i said x, y and z and i

what joule rewas saying like republican party isn't party of ideas and you can go on msnbc and bill kristol or george talking so -- >> irony of thing is -- part of trumpism is -- is rabbit intellectualism. my friend tom -- and my friend tom nichols about the death of expertise and they say well you guys didn't beat obama. and therefore, everything you've ever done is a failure. well you know, people like us that build this system elected george bush a couple times and politics is win and lose game and sometime use win and sometime use lose and selected over 1,000 republicans to state legislatures all over this country state wide all over this country and we have a quiet e revolution of people who knew what they were doing and now -- if you want to go ahead to take out smartly targeted and tested tv ads based oner data and outreach programs base on research and polling survey and substitute it for rallies with a blond guy screaming kick their as on the stage and try it that way. see how 18 works and see how 20 works you want to go with trumpism. so that depth of expertise is embedded in trum

bill kristol has marginalized himself. he used to be fairly respected.he vote in the national election. i think that tells you everything you need to know about bill kristol's influence and the attempt to derail the duly elected president, donald trump. katie: governor huckabee, faith is always a big issue in these issues, presidential and midterm midterm. how will faith impact the upcoming elections here in 50- 50-plus states? >> well, faith voters really do make a huge difference. in fact, they were the reason that president trump is president. there was a record turnout of faith voters and a record support for this president. and i think they have been more than overwhelmingly pleased, not necessarily with his language, not necessarily with his style, but with the results. and ultimately that's what matters. i'm honorary chairman of a group called "my faith votes." our job is to try to get people to pray, think, and vote. and the real goal is just to inform people that they need to register. if something like 85 million faith voters in this country we

we needed an idea he would come with idea if we needed that somebody would speak with him for mr kristol first state department so the same man who brought us coffee were also able to speak with christopher which is from our point of view was a classical environment allowing us to dictate what should be the world and it was perfect it was the best in his book the new middle east shimon peres wrote the new we germans were a gift from heaven. after the first round of talks the israelis began drafting what they called a declaration of principles the second meeting which took place some three form weeks later was from my point of view the most crucial meeting to make. this meeting of two sides into a channel and what happened was that we came with the people. this one show was discussed today in the building so the paper and indorsed it because the nordica all slow is that you started with an assist and then you postponed the most difficult hoping that the parties would find a way as they walked that road to resolve their more difficult issues all. difficult questions. of security jerusalem

if i was bill kristol and editing conservative magazine, i would have to have a really well thought out position on every public policy issue facing the country. i'm not a magazine editor, i'm a book editor and i have to be prepared to publish everyone on both sides of the question. : : : >> the thing is, that what it means to be a conservative is constantly changing. one of the things that i've learned in my 30 years as a book editor, that, you know, first of all, there's a great deal of variety within the conservative world. most people who are not in that world don't recognize that. but, you know, there are many different ways to be conservative, and, you know, in a philosophical sense, all americans are liberal because our country was founded as part of the liberal movement, of the 18th century. the liberal revolutions of the 19th century. also influenced -- were influenced by the american revolution and the american constitution. and since the founding of this country, the progress of liberal values, equality, justice, fairness, diversity, representation have -- you know, have marc

person is clearly a conservative >> this person is a trump -- >> you heard of a guy named bill krist kristole never trumpers, 97% of them are republicans. >> have somebody who worked in the white house -- >> out of 1200 >> trump may not even know this guy. the "new york times" better have checked that this is not just someone in the weeds out of 1200 that they get to write that. >> i don't know who this person is i can't -- i have to -- >> if it's not a high-profile senior level person -- it has to be someone that -- >> my guess would be that it is. we'll find out eventually. >> the times wouldn't do this -- >> let's hope not. >> they wouldn't do this without it being somebody significant. not just a deputy undersecretary >> the real concern this raises is that this goes to the issue of command and control within this white house >> there's nothing new you have people actively trying to undermine him and thwart him in the administration, it raises the question of who is in charge here of the united states government >> what facts in the op-ed in the "new york times" took it further than what