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ne of the first histories in merica, in the first couple of years of the 19th century, and if you read the book it is heavily providential. god uniquely has blessed the united tates. this is an exceptional nation. this is a christian nation all ver this early book. one of the great female writers of the early 19th century. her brother was young but very ctive. they all of pro to this christian nationalism in a slightly different way. but hey use the language and rhetoric as a christian nation in one form or another. when the book came out we were in the 150th anniversary of the civil war. hat is fascinating is both the north and the south view than war as a holy war to some xtent. both sides were articulating a view that truly the christian nation and god is on our side. he kind of says no, we are all uilty. both read the bible the same ay. but this is not the way it played out. many northern christians will believe that the union was somehow created by god. it's actually a wig senator itter he refused to join the republican party in the 1850's ecause it was a party of division. he wan

merica is historically unique. america truly is exceptional. one of the tragedies in the last three or four years of this presidency was the moment in 2014, but echoed 2011 and 2012, when president obama was asked if he believed in american exceptionalism. you could see the president's heels turning. the look on his face was "of course i don't believe in american exceptionalism, but i do not believe that is an acceptable political answer." he paused and said "sure" with a shrug that means the opposite of sure. the same way that i assume greeks believe in greek exceptionalism and brits believe in british exceptionalism. it was an intended humility to say, i don't want to say yes as if we think we are better than other people, but that is not what did means. it is an historical claim about the american founding. american exceptionalism is understanding that what happened in the late 1700s, in particular 1787 and 1788 at the constitutional convention, was truly unprecedented in human history on any mass scale. our founders made an anthropological

on "bloombergup review,merica's year in on the whole, 2016 was not the best of time for hedge funds.a matter of perspective. >> is there too much money? flex $3 trillion isn't what $3 trillion was 10 years ago. david: this is bloomberg. ♪ david: you are watching the "bloomberg best," 2016, america's year in review. i'm david westin. 2016's revisit some of most compelling conversation with investors, financial leaders, and economist. market volatility was a theme throughout the year, especially in january as a global selloff raised fears of a recession. it was the topic of much discussion of the world economic forum in dallas -- in dallas -- in davos. >> it feels a little like 2009. will countries that are growing keep growing and sustain that growth versus commodities downdraft and the expectation is china won't grow as fast. >> you make it sound sensible. >> it is always sensible. day, companieshe like ours just have to keep driving the consumers america's continue, the question is how it plays out. >> i would say that we are in an environment in which is very important to have a we

if the role knows nothing else, let it know this, merica stands with israel. [applause] mr. pence: the truth is, you cannot respect the world while refusing to call islamic extremism by name is an abdication of leadership. as president reagan taught us, peace comes through strength. providing for the common defense of the united states is the chief responsibility of our national government. with everything happening in the world, i believe my fellow conservatives, i believe it is imperative that conservatives again embrace america's role as leader of the free world and he arsenal of democracy. i believe the time has come to dramatically increase defense spending. without rebuilding our military, no strategy or innovation, no matter how brilliant, will be sufficient to protect the american people and the sovereignty of the united states. among other measures, we could provide future combat in the marine corps. we can rebuild our navy. a safer america is a more prosperous america. of course, our strength begins at home and our families, communities, businesses and states. seco

who want to come here, rebuild their lives, and contribute to this wonderful society and sustain merica's generous impulse. mr. speaker, i think it's appropriate to leave you tonight with some comments on the future of democracy. some of what i talked about are ideals, they give us a chance to envision and create a more inclusive government, economy and society. given that the future of democracy depends on quickly moving forward in the right irection, there is a mood of both curiosity as well as urgency here. curiosity as to how we're going to translate this moment and urgency not to waste it. even though the election was a proxy for many open and deep philosophical divides of our country, now there is the possibility of great change. as president-elect trump said, on the night of his election, we must now come together, and i want to be president for all americans. president obama very generously and graciously extended a hand of friendship to president trump and said, president bush was so extraordinaryly helpful to me in this transition, i will work the same in any way he wants with p

is the edward house person behind it, a collection of academics drawn from ,merica's elite universitiesand if you consider the post world war and how it should be constructed in the aftermath of the first world war, bringing in academic expertise in the policymaking fulcrum. one lessonichols: that world war ii policymakers take from this, they need to start that process wait before, even before the u.s. gets into the war, right? i think you see walter lippman's language very much in will sony and arguments in late 1917. to what extent do we want to attribute authorship to lippman, i do not want to tread into that territory. at the inquiry is really important. you look at the architecture of american foreign-policy, one of the isngs i was alluding to hear the pretensions of science, the new role of american expertise and how that impacts public opinion, the attempt to shape public opinion based on international relations. knowledge,rivileges but is also full of his own sense of self. famousn there is that quote, in just one night they redraw the borders of europe. i think it is crucial.

cheers and applause] north carolina has lost nearly half of its manufacturing jobs and snapped up. .mericaost -- since nafta america has lost 70,000 theories since joining world trade organization. china joins the world trade organization, and since that time we have lost so much. we are living through the greatest jobs theft in the history of the world. there has never been a jobs theft like there has been in this country. .nd we stopped a little we have not really started, because we won't really start until january 20, but we are stopping it. and one of the wealthiest men in masa, great guy of japan, he has pledged that he $50 billion into the united states because of our victory. $50 billion. he is going to be investing in. he's a great guy. administration will renegotiate our terrible trade deals, stand up to four and cheating, and a few to every last american, and we will do this. we will defeat the enemy on jobs, and we will defend american jobs. and we have to look at it almost as a war, because that's what's happened to us. that's what's happened to our workers. these are great pe

. >> trump, kanye,merica. >> better than 2016. >> polarizing, sea changing, confusing. >> change, progresserous. >> exciting. >> unpriblgt. >> tumultuous. >> tumultkmous. >> son. >> i've got another one. breathe. because of madison and hamilton d their constituon,e've survived 240 years. >> i think we're going t survive the next four or maybe eight. >> i think we'll survive. we'll be fine. the constitution will be there with us every step of the way. remain vigilant, fight for what you believe in, but know that this country is stronger than any one president or any one leader. >> and let's all get along. >> easy for you to say. >> that may have exceeded the three-word limit. >> were you counting? >> just over. >> he's got a privilege. it is his show, after all. >> now it is your turn. tweet "morning joe" your thoughts on the new year with the hashtag 2017 in three words. >> three. only three. >> you are limited to three. >> keep it clean. we're really asking for it. speaking of twitter, new analysis is out this morning about what news topics people tweeted about the most this year. with us

professor or a political scientist or a history in lit kind of class and they assigned democracy in merica and you looked at it as a daunting 15,5 -- 1500 page book, rip the front page off and it was written as a bunch of travel reports. as toqueville tried to explain what was happening in america in the late 1830s and 1840s, back to europeans who couldn't make sense of this experiment. this experiment in republican government, this experiment in self-governance, what made it the case you had a canal revolution? that you had a pro toe railroad revolution, it was the putting out sort of production revolution that wasn't the factory system, but it was something that was going to approximate a moving assembly line. you had this massive economic innovation happening in the 1830s and '40s. the europeans didn't know why. they said the americans we thought the people were founded on the idea they'd have pluralism and they believe all these crazy religious things they're not going to kill each other and they'll have cultural diversity and pluralism and now all of a sudden they're economically prod

in fact, not just to make this president-elect trump, but any president has to keep in has been mericaprised. this, harbor and we learn i think the most important material on pearl harbor became years ago, out 20 after the cold war had ended. he nsa, national security agency came up with materials that was in their holdings that that if we had been decrypting the right message hadn't focused on messages, iplomatic instead focusing on the japanese naval cipher, we would have been able to pick up the clues, could actually had the dots to connect to know that the attack hawaii.e on there is no disagreement among istorians that the roosevelt administration expected some kind of aggressive act by japan 1941.cember of the issue was where. would the japanese attack a colony? would the japanese attack philippines? colony. an american or would they attack hawaii? one thought they would attack hawaii. the lesson for the policymaker oday is to keep a very open mind and not to get stuck in think. in 2001, people worried about laden, it was thought he would attack abroad, not in the united states.

the most privileged person in merica, health care and health outlooks, are better if the poorest person in health care has access to health care -- person in america has access to health care. quanltity, quality, cost. is there in other reason, no other reason to do the affordable care act than cost, it would have been essential. the costs were un-- the rising cost of health care were unsustainable to businesses, big and small, families, individuals, the federal government. and any other government entity. because the costs were going up like this. unaffordable. and so now we have the cost rising at the lowest rate ever since all of this was measured. are there some places where we should iron out some accommodations in one state or another? yes, let's do that. but you don't say the 20 million, forget about it, the 123 million, that's why the disease loops are so much with us -- groups with so much with us. the difference it has made in their lives, no pre-existing condition as a barrier to access and no lifetime limits is remarkable. so we're very proud of it and we're going to put tog