however, michael levin of california, chairman of the house veterans affairs subcommittee on economic opportunity, delivered

levin." mark: welcome back one of the great experts on china is michael pillsbury director of chinese strategy hudson institute. defense policy board chair, and he wrote that unbelievable book the 100-year marathon. michael welcome back my friend. >> thank you, mark. mark: give us a general summary or run down on where china is right now via view of the united states. >> one big word to you is mark is comprehensive. we face a comprehensive challenge from china in way that's very different from the soviet union and the cold war. the case of the cold war, the soviets did not invest in us they were not anywhere near stealing technology the way china is. their level of effort was much lower if you will, the closest they ever got to our economic side was about one-third of our gdp chinese is pushing at 80 prnght of our gdp after the damage of the virus to our economy, the chinese were pulling out ahead much faster than what we are. so their comprehensive challenge is to become number one country in the world by far they say anybody who worries about this doesn't understand if for the last 2,000 yea

levin". ♪ mark: welcome back. one of the great experts on china is michael pillsbury, director of chinese strategy, hudson instituteat unbelievable book the 100 year marathon. michael, welcome back my friend. >> thank you, mark. mark: give us a general summary or rundown on where china is right now vis-À-vis the united states. >> the one big word to use mark is comprehensive. we face a comprehensive challenge from china in a way that is very different from the soviet union and the cold war. in the case of the cold war the soviets did not invest in us and were anywhere near stealing technology of which they are and the level of effort was much lower, if you will and the closest they forgot to our economic side was about one third of our gdp. chinese havarti pushed 80% of our gdp and after the damage of the virus to our economy the chinese are pulling ahead much faster than we are so their comprehensive challenge really is to become the number one country in the world by far and they say anybody who worries about this does not understand and for the last 2000 years in china already was number one country in the world

levin thank you for your time thank you. you know for the depth of markets and more we turn to both co-host christine and michael. strategies michael let's start with the u.s. and p. and nasdaq they're both hitting record highs this is despite the the jobless claims despite congress pushing or in spite of the. american people really needing that stimulus hasn't passed yet will a deal get done in time. course a deal will get done is there anybody in d.c. that really cares about it anymore either you don't see the market is valued say earlier you can question you know the valuation of the market this is the most overvalued market we have ever had in the history of our stock market if you look at the median p. e. ratio on the s. and p. $500.00 it's now at $31.00 according to ned davis research the s. and p. 500 would have the crash why 45 percent just to return to your normal valuation and if you listened to mr powell press conference i mean another paraphrase but this is my jerk decision of what he said he said that the us treasury only can remain solvent under severe all interest rate policies and you can only jus

host: 2014 mark levin, neil joseph, luis rodriguez, ron paul michael korda, arthur brooks all appeared neil degrasse tyson was with us in 2017 and here is a portion. >> i was asked by "the new york times" from congress and they thought they would havede fun and asked people what solutions do they have forgetting things through congress and fixing things? the way they asked if you were president what word you do? what solutions do you have? so i will back if i were president, i would it be president. [laughter] you can find it on my website is called if i were president it will take you my favorite is "the new york times" probably duplicated it on my website because they cut out a paragraph because there wasn't enough space in the full response is there and it comes down to the expectation if you run for office, you somehow can change everything. and i'm notot convinced of that. it is a little opposite of the lobbyist they go straight to the politician to influence a politician to serve the interest of the lobbyist it represents. for me, any elected official represents people put him in

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however, michael levin of california, chairman of the house veterans affairs subcommittee on economic opportunity, delivered the democratic address on legislation to protect veterans. >> apart with recourse at the heart of my district. we mourn the loss of three enter 20,000 americans to this pandemic, including more than 5500 veterans. a profound tragedy for our nation. each individual loss was somebody's parent or grandparent. a son or daughter. a friend or coworker who will be deeply missed. especially during this holiday season. the holidays are also challenging for many families who are struggling to make ends meet. for our heroic front-line workers and for small businesses trying to endure this pandemic. i am proud the democrats negotiated an emergency coronavirus relief and omnibus package to save life and livelihoods and crush the virus. this is an important step which we must build on in the biden and harris administration. we took important action to honor the service and sacrifice of those who have won the uniform. thes proud to sponsor johnny isakson veterans health care b