"the national review" institute hosted its ideas summits in washington, d.c. among the speakers, kevin hassett, who chairs the white house counsel of economic advisors in is just over 30 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen, please hassett. airman kevin [applause] >> brooke is to inspirational. it reminded me a little bit of that speech that john belushi gave in "animal house." i was ready to charge on out here. >> good morning wake-up speech. kevin is a longtime friend. i've got on the the age now write don't refer to anybody as an old friend because it hastop meanings. although i notice your contributions have fallen off lately. >> they have. >> we should work on that. -- describe it as an in-house think tank for the white house? >> that's exactly right. and the national review thing is a funny story. i don't know if you know but i was very humbled by it. i want to -- college, a pretty liberal place and i was a very liberal guy. i came from massachusetts, of all places and my college hoom roommate subscribed to national review. and back the

"the national review" institute hosted its ideas summits in washington, d.c. among the speakers, kevin hassett, who chairs the white house counsel of economic advisors in is just over 30 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen, please hassett. airman kevin [applause] >> brooke is to inspirational. it reminded me a little bit of that speech that john belushi gave in "animal house." i was ready to charge on out here. >> good morning wake-up speech. kevin is a longtime friend. i've got on the the age now write don't refer to anybody as an old friend because it hastop meanings.

[applause] >> among those speaking at the national review institute's ideas summit was education secretary betsy devos. this is just over 30 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us. please welcome to the stage j north linger and u.s. secretary of education, betsy devos. [applause] >> those names were definitely announced in the wrong order. took a pleasure to have secretary devos. she is from michigan. as she puts it, she went away to school to grand rapids at calvin college. dick got married. he is a member of our board. they have been involved in education for decades as philanthropists, reformers, and political warriors. i'm glad you are ed secretary. [applause] i'm glad you are education secretary, are you? >> i am, indeed. most days i am. >> did you ever think you would be secretary? you were in the trenches so long, and here you are at the levers of power. or dreamr had a goal about being education secretary. when the opportunity arose, i could not say no. i have been involved in , advocating for education freedom and school choice for more than three decades. this

discussion with tucker carlson on populism and the future of the republican party from the national review institute ideas summit, this is about 35 minutes. [applause] michael: hi. i am michael brendan dougherty. i met our next guest 14 years ago, i was a nobody who just moved to washington. to avoid law school or graduating college at all. i landed a job that did not have any letterhead, i wrote letters to people whose writings i liked and one of them was tucker and i told him a story of three years earlier i had been in a borders bookstore and i saw his book, "politicians, partisans, and parasites: my adventures in cable news." [laughter] and i had $20, that was all the disposable income i had. i picked up the book and sat in a chair and read it cover to cover, and i put it back on the shelf. [laughter] [applause] michael: i wrote him a letter and i told him the story, i put it back on the shelf because my friend had called me earlier and said you have to see "lost in translation." it is peak scarlett johansson. [laughter] so i told the story in a letter and i send it to tucker, he does not know w

she spoke at the national review institute 2019 ideas summit in washingto washington >> if you don'tthe freedom to debate and discuss ideas freely, you don't really have learning ultimately. i think there is a r many campuy >> pope francis issuing sweeping new sex abuse legislation for vatican personnel and diplomats. it requires the immediate report of abuse allegations to a va vatican prosecutor you are up to date that's the news update this hour sa sara, wilf, back to you. >>> we have a news alert on apple. josh lipton with the details >> news here breaking on apple apple canceled its air power product. this statement from apple. after much effort we concluded air power will not achieve our high standards, and we have canceled the project we apologize to those customers who were looking forward to this launch we continue to believe that the future is wireless, and are committed to push the wireless experience forward the airpower was introduced a while ago, back in september of 2017 it is this pad that allows customers to charge multiple apple products at the same time. i think a

. >> jon: more on this now with john mccormick, washington correspondent at national review nfl about national review instituten the "washington examiner," an examination of beto o'rourke that they titled the unbearable lightness of beto. they go on to criticize the fact that in their view, he stands for nothing. annual review, what does beto o'rourke stand for? >> beto o'rourke is basically standing for whatever the other democrat is standing for right now. he has leaned into medicare for all but some progressives have criticized him for not cosponsoring the bill. he has leaned into impeachment of the president as you heard in that clip just now, he came out even going so far as endorsing third trimester abortion which is something only 12% of the country supports and if you listen to more of that question, the questioner said what about in these cases where it's medically unnecessary, it makes sense medically to deliver the child and beto didn't address the question. he sort of try to make it a generic question about abortion that's a very bad answer for the general election. i think most voters in america s

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there is this from the managing partner of a wealth management firm and the trustee for the national review institute. guest: this is a tax. when there is a tax, people have a tax burden. we are designing taxes to make sure they are progressive. in this instance, because stock ownership is very much concentrated in the hands of the wealthy few, three quarters of all stock wealth is held by the top percentage of our society. we will have an impact on average investors. the reality is existing fees of those investors are much higher than this small tax we want to put in place. there are commissions, overhead fees, clearing fees. we did some research a number of years ago. over can add up to be $800 in fees versus about per year in financial transaction taxes. that's extraordinarily small. those existing fees for investors, those are problematic when funds are being overly managed. very actively managed funds are going to create a lot of those commissions. they will line the pockets of brokers. we should put that money toward investing in the american communities. that's why people like me are in suppor

review"r: "the national institute hosted its ideas summit on friday. the eventon of included a discussion between fox news host tucker carlson and "national review" senior writer national doherty on populism and the future of the republican party. [applause] >> hi. i'm michael doherty. i met our next guest 14 years ago. i was a nobody, just moved to washington to avoid law school or even graduating college at all. and when i landed a job that at any letterhead at all, i wrote letters to people whose writing i like and one of them was tucker. i told him a story three years earlier, i've been in borders bookstore and i saw his book,, politicians, partisans and parasites, my adventures in cable news. and i had 20 bucks. that was all the disposable income i had. so i picked up the book. i sat in a chair at borders. i read it cover to cover and i put it back on the shelf. [laughing] so i wrote them a look at it on the story. i put it back on the show because my friend had called me earlier and he said, you've got to see lost in translation. it's peak scarlet

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review"r: "the national institute hosted its ideas summit on friday. eventon of included a discussion between fox news host tucker carlson and "national review" senior writer national doherty on populism and the future of the republican party. [applause]

institution. stanford university. national reviewntributor and best selling author, his new book "the case for trump," great to have you with us, we recommend this to our nation, a great book, a great author, a great american, so good to have you here. >> thank you for having he. lou: start with one of my favorite quotes to put it in context, you wrote -- from never before, in the history of the presidency, had a commander in chief earned a ain't antipathy,e majority of holders of nation's accumulated personal wealth and permanent federal bureaucracy. i am not sure who wasn't in that alignment, that array, assembled against this president. but you nailed it. it is incredible to think it persists more than two years after he was sworn into office. >> yeah, i think, you know for a guy who was supposed to be a renegade, 80% of his message of standard conservatism. deregulation, and more energy. but 4 or 5 of those issues that we probably agree oyou have to have sovereignty, that meant you have to close the border and address china in a

institute of politics. and a senior writer at national review. we've reached the end of the week.f everything we saw. i want to go over the politics. the plutical reality that emerges. and let me start with you on the question of democrats in congress. politically do they emerge with enough togo forward with impeachment if that's what they were looking toing do? >> yeah. what ecohen did is showed up with reseats for all the anecdotes. he showed up with evidence a trail that leads us to being able to ask more questions that if they said we want to formally start impeachment proceedings the point to open a formal investigation to be able to get to the heart of the heart of the things donald trump is hiding and what i believe this hearing did with cohen is not only did he produce initial evidence but if you listen on the democrat's line of questioning, they were able to pull out names like allen weisselberg and others and to start to ask questions about trump's tax returns that teed up the opportunity to follow ulon some of the conversation started at this hearing. so whether they po

well they were given the big green light by the national institutes of health along with funding as well science magazine reports that a u.s. government review panel quietly approved experiments proposed by two labs that were previously considered so dangerous the federal pigeonholes have imposed an unusual top down moratorium on such research research that is so potentially dangerous and many argue unneeded that hundreds of scientists and researchers signed a letter opposing it all the way back in two thousand and fourteen harvard university epidemiology just mark lips that told science mag quote after a deliberative process that cost a million dollars for consultants external study and consumed countless weeks and months of time for many scientists we are now being asked to trust a completely opaque process where the outcome is to permit the continuation of dangerous experiments. secrecy on top of highly dangerous research what could possibly go wrong this is why we are watching the honks.

well they were given the big green light by the national institutes of health along with funding as well science magazine reports that a u.s. government review panel quietly approved experiments proposed by two labs that were previously considered so dangerous that bedroll pencils had imposed an unusual top down moratorium on such research. research that is so potentially dangerous and many argue unneeded that hundreds of scientists and researchers signed a letter opposing it all the way back in two thousand and fourteen harvard university epidemiology just mark lipsitz told science mag quote after a deliberative process that cost a million dollars for consultants external study and consumed countless weeks and months of time for many scientists we are now being asked to trust a completely opaque process where the outcome is to permit the continuation of dangerous experiments. secrecy on top of highly dangerous research what could possibly go wrong. this is why we are watching the whole x. . thirty. three the. real thing it's like. at the bottom. like you that i got. with that we. welcome everyone watching the hogs. and i'm topical and i do

they conduct field site reviews so that the four nationals who have come here are here for the stated reason. while there is roughly 100 confucius institutes again at colleges and institutes, the state department says hold it field site reviews and only two and they found serious problems that both of those schools. the state revoke more than 30 visas who was only supposed be working at the university that sponsored the visa, but was teaching at confucius classrooms. the state discovered evidence of fraudulent paperwork that was an attempt to deceive the investigators. moreover the state told us they do not collect these information specifically related to confucius institutes and we don't know how many teachers they are or where they are. our investigation also did five failures at the department of education that contribute to it like -- lack of transparency. under law if the u.s. school receives more than $250,000 from a single point source in one year, it is required to report that data to the department of education which in turn publishes it. our investigation found that nearly 70% of the schools that should have reported receiving f

review upcoming programs and watch college lectures, archival films and more. american history tv at c-span.org/history. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> tonight on q&a. >> i had no explanation we would be sitting here in 2019 talking about this work in afghanistan. escalated,has been the way it has escalated every year, the countless lives that have been wasted. the continuous suffering. >> iraq war veteran and former state department official on his article, time for peace in afghanistan. >> it was the same as i had seen 2006,q in 2004, 2005, 2007. there was no difference. the administrations, their desire was to win politically. mastic and political reasons. everything else was secondary. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span q&a. c-span cities tour is exploring the american story. this weekend, we visit cedar rapids, iowa's second largest city. it is located in east central iowa. with the help of our media cable partners, over the next 90 minutes, we will learn about the history of the city, including a visit to grant wood arts studio. fromis is where h

department conducts reviews to ensure foreign nationals who come to the united states on exchange visitor program fees are here for the stated reason. while the roughly 100 confucius institutesagain at colleges and universities in the united states the state department has conducted field site reviews at only two. the state department fencers problems at both of those schools. statement vote more than 30 visas for chinese exchange students at confucius institutes are only supposed working at the university that sponsored the visa or teaching at confucius classrooms at local k-12 schools. state discovered evidence a fraudulent paperwork end quote that was quote an attempt to deceive investigators. moreover,, state policy does not collect these information specifically rare to confucius institutes so we don't know how many confucius institute teachers there are or where they are. our investigation identified failures at the department of education that contribute to lack of transparency and oversight of schools that take money from foreign governments. i do love you school receives more than two what a $50,000 from a single foreign source in one year it is required to report t