where does the budget stand in this process? administration, in their fiscal year 2018 budget proposal, requested less than what nasa received in 2017. and it puts cuts into various of thes, including some exploration programs, science programs, and elsewhere in the agency. and what you are seeing from senator shelby and others in congress, is a reaction to those , and efforts in the appropriations committee to restore those cuts. thatat are the key areas congress would like to see restored to the nasa budget? >> there are a couple of programs in nasa's exploration program. a next generation, heavy lift rocket that will be used for missions beyond earth's orbit, including mars. another is the orion spacecraft, that will carry astronauts on those missions to the moon, mars, and the solar system. both of those programs received less money and 2018 than what congress appropriated in 2017. congress is trying to overturn those proposed cuts. another area is nasa's earth science program. the administration sought to cut $200 million, about 10% of th

will you ensure the administration follows a lot of the land under the affordable care act? but this is important tool to bring about great success to drive down the cost of health care with those states that implemented it and it is different than those exchanges of that context and because it is cost-effective like if you buy in bulk you get a discount to bundle of the individual market. that has allowed them to get better rates into successfully drive down cost as a way to help with cost savings. >> congratulations on the nomination with the market in the foreign relations committee in with those economic diplomacy increase exports but unfortunately with the united states government's that gives american firms a level playing field to travel the world to talk to of the embassies and chambers of commerce. but with those 10 domestic and 35 overseas offices that is a greater challenge. . . incredibly important program and i've heard many, many good things about it over the years. >> what do you think the main mission if he were confirmed? a >> i think it is to promote and in

spur the truman administration. thoughte two schools of . one school of thought argues that the truman administration bumbled because it did not do more. another school of thought which i see myself to as a part of. officials knewn that the main opposition parties -- how do this all play out? this is where it really gets interesting in terms of battles between the united states and bolivia through a new 10 contract. the korean war is the context. war had ahe korean very rapid impact on these prices. beganlivian government pushing for a new contract. this was a smelter. it was those specifically to process low-grade bolivian minerals. this was backed up by lyndon johnson. they refused to renegotiate. we stockpiled plenty. the bolivians were asking for a dollar 83 account. not quite the two dollars ticket of wartime price. $75 -- $.75 per pound of world war ii. the refused to pay a petty -- a penny over a dollar three. it is a pretty big disparity there. very hard to find common ground. they did not intervene, even this impasse with the bolivia

there is the administration, which is the president running things, but the rest of the administration running in the more glacial pace of american administrations normally move i and and then there are the trump voters. those have to be evaluated separately. but the bigger context is domestically and internationally, the trump administration drama is playing out in a const text -- context of restraint. internationally and domestically there are structures governing how american politics and foreign-policy plays out. domestically we have constitutional order set up by james madison and the other founders two centuries ago. not like the does constraints that exist on him domestically. there arenally, institutionalized variance, and is basically the postwar liberal international order after world war ii. american policymakers in conjunction with their counterparts in other countries realize, you know what? and 30 or 40 years, we have seen two world wars, a giant global depression, the rise of tierney's in major countries. we've got to stop this. we have to play international politics dif

during the previous administration, the obama administration, he was also the deputy chief at the u.s. embassy embassyw and the u.s. in cause extent in addition to a number of other important posts. george, who is senior director for -- director for intelligence programs at the center for the national interest. george was a career u.s. intelligence professional who led the russia analysis unit at the central intelligence agency. he was an advisor on russia to vice president dick cheney during the bush administration. he was also the president of a data analytics firm called behavior matrix. we are very pleased to have both of them with us today. we will start with dan. i have asked each dan and george to speak for about 10 minutes. dan: thank you. i will try to hold it to 10 minutes. this is a complicated piece of legislation and i don't know what justice i can do to it in 10 minutes but i will try. this is largely from a business community perspective because i think george can speak to the other. i think it is worth spending a minute to talk about how we got 2014 at look back to the

is the administration reversing those plans to change the $20 bill? >> i'm not aware of any policy change. i'd certainly have to he can which into that. peter. >> daca -- >> sorry. i promised i'd come back to you. >> on daca, in february the president said he would treat dreamers with heart. does the president stand by his statement to treat dreamers with heart? >> absolutely. the president stand by his statement. right now this is currently under review both from a legal standpoint primarily and until that review is complete, again, as i answered before, we don't have anything to add further on that front. >> with rescinding daca be treating dreamers with heart. >> again, i'm not going to get into a back and forth --. >> russia for a moment. the decision to -- >> see. he jumped in there for you. teamwork. >> by the state department on closing three facilities in this long tit for tat that has been going on with russia. a lot of analysts now say that relations between the u.s. and russia are at the lowest point since the cold war. do you agree with th

aside from not wanting to play into rhetoric associated with the obama administration which the trump administration considered weak, is there had a substantive difference in the way that this administration is litigating this? >> absolutely not, apart from the kind of unbalanced president that we have, that in terms of everybody else in the administration, what they're actually doing, i don't see it as different, but i was a speech writer for a president of the united states and secretary of state and we used to trot out phrases like strategic patience, all the time and then we'd giggle about it, you know, behind closed doors because these phrases don't mean anything. one of the things i used to laugh at if you want to make an informed policy in washington, use the moderator strategic before every mundane concept. i'm going to be strategically patience. >> a bold new strategy. >> you can make it far in the think tank world saying the administration has no strategy, for any different administration. we're not just going to engage, we're going to have strategic engagement. these things

if the administration did show confidence to get disaster relief. there is enough money, everyone's going to get the funds that they need. would you agree? >> 100%. i think the whole first half of that press conference was about not politics but just policy positions and results. i think they did a great job at focusing on the facts at hand, not getting into all of the politics surrounding it. and i think what the government of texas is conveying, what fema is conveying, what homeland security and the trump administration is conveying is that they're going to do whatever it takes to make sure the people in texas and in louisiana are taken care of. this is a good week for president trump. >> cristy, would you agree with that? this is a very fast response from the president. he went straight to the state of texas. he's going back with the first lady this weekend. probably going to stop at houston and also lake charles, louisiana. are you happy with what you're seeing from president trump as commander-in-chief over his first natural disaster? >> yeah. i

the position in the administration has been that the u.s. is open, at some point, to talks with north korea under the right conditions, namely that they abandon their nuclear aspirations, and there are interesting comments earlier this week from secretary of state rex tillerson, who came out and praised north korea for refraining from provocation since the u.s. kind of laid out this marker for them and basically implied that if this continues on this path, the u.s. would be ready to sit down. i think a lot of people look at this and say, well, publicly announcing detailed plans to strike near guam is not exactly refraining from provocation. on the other hand, you haven't actually tested anything in the last several weeks. the state department officials are saying that secretary tillerson is being intentionally vague about what are the markers and what is the timeline for the u.s. it to enter into north korea. do you think that is a smart strategy, given the risk of not miscalculation to leave vague and open what north korea has to do? >> a f

commit to ill you notifying congress that the administration is attempting to or if the aw administration explicitly moves to explicitly undermine any the law?rovisions of >> people who know me know that i have a big mouth. [laughter] smart as mr. as cap lurks n i've heard too. [laughter]. >> thank you. do you think it's important to functioning export import international ng trade? >> senator, i think it's a very exports in ol nor the united states. secretary ross has said it's an tool box.tool in our the president has said that he it's a good program. it's a program actually that can money for the united states. i share those views > there are those in the cabinet that have said from time consider it they controversial. t may have some detractors but it is supported by the majority and both parties. draft regulation along with existing chinese law hat would require u.s. cloud providers to transfer properties, surrender brand name. country has these restrictions and i would assume that the united states wants to to verything that we can stop these restrictions. >> absolutely. area for a

unfortunately, the last administration often gave them exactly the opposite. some -- like making things worse with an aggressive regulatory rampage. others were signs of omission like failing to address an outdated tax code that has made american companies increasingly uncompetitive in a global economy. and as a result, has moved investment and jobs offshore. then in november american chose to go in a different direction. they elected a pro-growth president who would sign legislation from a pro growth congress. ever since we've been working to turn the tide back in favor of the middle class. we've undertaken what has been described as the most ambitious regulatory rollback since reagan. we've pursued policies that can once again encourage job growth and american investment. and just last week the administration and congressional leaders and most importantly the chairman of the senate finance and house, ways, and means committees issued a joint statement outlining shared principles for unleashing the american economy through comprehensive tax reform. comprehens

it's day 212 of the trump administration. on bracing for a day of protests, including a right wing rally. after what happened in charlottesville, big questions about how many will show up and what will happen if anything gets out of hand. >>> steve banyan, jacked up, out of the white house and back at breitbart. in a new interview, he's promising a wide ranging fight. >>> plus, what this resignation means for president trump. is he now a lame duck en

during the truman administration, americans were digging deep. to rebuildingnt western europe and japan. there is only a certain amount of money. between 1940 six and 1952, the united states would provide more economic assistance to belgium, a very small country, and luxembourg, about the size of this room. we were providing more money to belgium and luxembourg than to all of latin america combined. i would point out that from 1953 to 1961, we provided more economic aid to communist yugoslavia and to all of latin america. , this denial of economic assistance had immediate regional ramification. the dreams of latin american democrats vanished. in 1948, military officers overthrew new, popular governments in peru and venezuela. elsewhere, the pace of change and reform slowed dramatically. without economic support, without u.s. economic support, the progressive governments that had come to power between 1940 and 1946 could not find the promised social reform that would legitimize constitutional role. as the mexican foreign minister put it, economic c

i'm blowing the whistle on the trump administration." according to news reports as many as 50 other senior interior department officials have also been reassigned since ryan zinke became head of the department. joel clement, welcome to democracy now. can you talk about the action that you took? joel: i took action on the trump administration because i believe today retaliated against me for disclosing the fact that these alaskan villages in the arctic are threatened by climate change. and my work with the federal government was to try to get that out of the way. what has been the response by the trump administration? joel: there has been no response yet. i didn't hear anything before or after the assignment. >> could you talk about the directive for your reassignment from your work as a scientist to basically work as an accountant and how that happened? joel: there was no explanation for that. the irony is not lost on me. the intention was to get me to quit. i think that may have been the intention behind many of the reassignments. it goe

but the truman administration postponed the conference. every year, there was a different excuse or what they could not have it. the united states had new challenges. the soviet union's domination of eastern europe. the greek civil war. the stagnation of western european economies and the collapse of chinese national ist forces. by comparison, the assessment of latin america was that let -- latin america was largely immune to soviet aggression. as the u.s. ambassador put it to the brazilian press, they asked him about the economic aid, when will it come, the u.s. ambassador put this to the press -- "the situation might be graphically represented as a case of smallpox in europe competing with a common cold in latin america." needless to say he could've chosen better words than that. and then of course there was , only so much money. the secretary of state tried to explain the political and economic reality why there would be no marshall plan for latin america at bogota. marshall advised latin americans to trust in free-trade principles. lat

here may have been quite a bit with the former administration. my concern is when you've got the press like "washington post" talking in their workings and workings in inner corporation with the former -- nistration has created press no longer is a free and independent press, so where is to be drawn that keeps them from being another government, which they have become and actually continuing ress working inside with certain as to s in washington what to say, such as in the ence to reports of lynch, the government, the former government administration with the press with talking points, so they only what theor spoke about wanted to say and actually worded it. about the te sure vetting thing, not seeing that with the trump administration nd i'm concerned about the actual freedom of the press in working with the government like hey have with the obama administration. host: got you, jamie, we'll leave it there, thanks. say to this d the last thing i journalism the being produced in this climate is propaganda. always good tois have a little tension bet

does the administration support funding. on the undocumented immigrants, eligible for long-term relief, help. >> what happens once they leave -- will undocumented immigrants will able to get -- >> eligibility standards range across a number of different programs and if you are an immigrant that has commit add crime, you're going to be removed. i guess the question is if you're looking for assistance that's eligible for citizens, you're not eligible in that case but that doesn't mean we're going to let somebody starve or die of thirst or exposure. i don't think there's too much of a problem there. i'm not sure where they were living before they got into the shelter. i'd be making some pretty gross suppositions at this point. but i understand the hypothetical you're driving towards, just not looking to deal with it. >> coming to the u.s. legally as a crime and that they -- >> it is. >> and deported them and said you're saying that the priority is still to deport people who have committed a crime on top of that. >> that's correc

on day 198 of the trump administration, crack down on leakers, how it is happening and what can come of it. >>> new phase, multiple grand juries working on the russia probe. what the mood is right now inside the white house. >>> repair job, the reason why the president is spending his working vacation in new jersey. >>> new this morning, we have a live news from the white house. this amid calls from right wing critics to fire h.r. mcmaster. late last night, the white house release hadded a statement from president trump which says general mcmaster and i have working very well together. he is a good man and very pro israel. i am grateful for the work he continues to do for our country. >>> meanwhile, robert mueller's team asked the white house to turn over documents related to ousted mike flynn. the request was not a formal subpoena ask marks the first known instance of such a request. here is what democratic congresswoman maxine waters told my colleague, chris hayes, last night about the russia investigation. >>. >> mueller is going to win, drip by drip. people are finding out that th

the trump administration seeks the removal of aliens that have little to fear -- from eyes under the prior administration. in the short run, i expected to increase as the trump -- in the long run however, i believe this will reduce the backlog to more manageable levels. thank you. larry: thank you. first, a disclaimer. i am speaking for the national association for immigration judges of which i am an elected officer. my opinions expressed will be my own opinions informed by many discussions with our members in all parts of the country. i am not speaking on behalf of the department of justice, the review, the chief judge or , anybody else in the government. that is important. naij?is the and i -- nonpartisan transparent , to the public, and judicial independent -- judicially independent. we have had just as much problem with republican administrations as democratic administrations. it is been my spirits that the people at the top don't understand what we do. the decisions they make are not helpful. backtracklet me and talk about our organization. are the basicdges trial judges that hea

you don't see that job title in any of the other administration. most of all, donald trump was able to sort of bridge this gap between, you know, the globalists and the nationalists if, you want to call them that, economic nationalists, and perhaps white nationalists represented by bannon as long as he was inside the white house, he could bridge those two because he didn't have to worry about bannon denouncing him to the public. it's sort of what lbj has said about j. edgar hoover, better to have him inside the tent than outside the tent. tomorrow for the first time, donald trump has to deal with the very real possibility that steve bannon will go out and use breitbart and his other -- the other institutions that he helps to command to put real pressure on the trump presidency and perhaps try to break off certain parts of the people who support donald trump. >> it's such an interesting idea about him having his own constituency and sort of a unique power but a unique form of leverage on the president, something that made it difficult for him to be i

the administration is still reviewing the policy. the second part of your question, what happens to people that are in an illegal status that require assistance. i'd refer you to how i answered the first question. anybody needing food, water or shelter will get it. anybody here illegally that has committed a crime will get caught and thrown out. anybody in between has to wait for a decision or policy announcement on how we'll handle deferred action going forward. >> you believe that is likely to be revealed in the days that are coming up now and what you're trying to manage an emergency? >> i don't know the timing of that. as soon as the president is ready to announce the result of our policy process, he will do so. >> have you been consulted on the >> i have. >> yes. just want to -- hopefully the threat of lawsuits from the state attorney general, is that -- >> say that one more time. >> the lawsuit from the state attorney general for the dsa -- >> it won't of course the policy decision but will affect the timing of it. have to watc

typically, we democrats enjoy -- especially in the current administration. host: what about folks in the intelligence community who say they are dangerous? that it really can endanger national security when sensitive information is leaked out to the press? caller: i don't think that's correct. when the real sensitive information is leaked out to the press, there has to be a reason for it. it's probably because we want open consideration. host: the aclu tweeted their reaction to this new policy. every american should be concerned about the trump administration's threats to step up efforts against whistleblowers and journalists. that is the reaction from the aclu. we are getting your reaction to the policy. stacy is calling from brooklyn, new york on our independent line. caller: good morning. i agree with the aclu that the doj's crackdown on leaks would be a crackdown on public employees who know there's corruption within their agencies, they may intimidate them into not reporting that corruption. we face a bigger threat from not having people speak out about

bush signed an authorization allowing the administration to use the u.s. military against those responsible for the terrorist attacks a week earlier. over the last 16 years, the white house is still using that broadly written authorization as the legal basis to fight the islamic state in syria and iraq. the trump administration has informed congress its seeking new changes to the 2001 resolution. in a closed hearing, secretary of state rex tillerson and defense secretary james mattis offer the administration perspective on the military authorization before the senate foreign relations committee, expanding on their earlier public statements. >> our mission and purpose and reason for being in syria is unchanged. we are there to defeat isis. all of our efforts are focused on defeating isis, denying them their caliphate. >> in a letter to bob corker, the state department's bureau of legislative affairs wrote "the united states has sufficient legal authority to prosecute campaign against al qaeda and associated forces, including against the islamic state of ira

it was slow rolled by the reagan administration. thats never been a program the trump administration is in today, that they will give the hug to and say i understand why this funding has to be there, to help children and families avoid the catastrophes with which we have seen in the past. massachusetts, if you know mayor rabbit, that is great. he was a big ally of mine at the time. it took courage for him to stand up. impact remaining superfund sites in massachusetts? if thisthe consequence occurs? >> there is no way to know exactly now. we have not seen how the cut's would be taken. it could slow down cleanups. it could cut staff. again. a 30% cut is a huge cut in one fiscal year to a federal program. i think it would cause a lot of disarray, having to figure how to deal with the cut's. just like when there is a threatened furlough. i can't tell you exactly. say -- ir to >> even if the epa task force comes back with recommendations, if there is a 30% cut in the funding, of these sites, there is going to be great harm because the tri

, they were going to be in the next administration. so we're working really hard with the new administration. fortunately, the new head secretary was in the prior administration as well, so that helps, but what we're working with va right now, on a written plan in place. and if you have a good written plan and good institutional commitment throughout the organization, that plan is then shared with the congress and you have stability there in terms of the committee structures as well. some of the members, that can help transcend changes in leadership in the departments and agencies. i continually meet with new leaders in the executive departments and agencies. i mean, it is one of the greatest advantages i have with the 15 year term in government. continuity. i take that continuity very seriously in terms of trying to make sure that i use that perspective that i have to help new leaders as they come in to the federal government. maintain continuity for things that are being done well that should be continued as well as things that haven'

one of them worked for the clinton administration. you couldn't find a single pro trump attorney to hire. >> it was manipulated by director comey who was trying to get a special counsel appointed. >> from the day he was appointed, robert mueller has been attacked over and over by the president and his allies. breitbart previously run by the chief strategist steve bannon said he was too close to fire him. they were looking for could not flicks of interest among the staff and donald trump tweeted, you are witnessing the single greatest witch hunt in merge political history led by some very bad and conflicted people. but now they're turning to rod rosenstein, the man who hired mueller and who currently has the power to fire mueller. in a rare public appearance this week, rosenstein defended mueller. saying the department of justice doesn't do quote fishing expeditions. last night, hannity on fox used some of the same arguments used against mueller. >> the russia investigation, which is being overseen by the deputy attorney general, is bey

during the previous administration, the obama administration, deputy chief at the us embassy in moscow in dan. to the left is george beebe, senior director for -- director for intelligence programs at the center of the nassau interest, george was career us intelligence professional, the russia analysis intelligence agency, he was an advisor, and also the president of data analytics firm for behavior matrix. and i asked him to speak ten minutes. >> i will try to hold to 10 minutes. a pretty complicated piece of legislation. i will come have this from a business community perspective. it is worth spending a minute to talk about how we got here and get to 2014, put in place by the obama administration. there were two key elements, one old and one new. the old element was traditional -- individuals and entities were subject to a travel ban. and the middle of specially designated national list and sanction speak. the new element in the obama sanctions were sectoral sanctions which were something new they had not done before. an outright ban, limited sanctions for the financial sector and en

-taiwan relation in the trump administration and the new administration. was at the white house yesterday can tell you the administration is starting to come together but still lagging behind expectations and hopes for appointments of key people but these are coming shortly and very good people in the wings ready to go in that will be familiar to people who watch the u.s.-taiwan relations them basic point about the trumps a mrs.s taiwan policies the status quo is the current means but not an end. i mean that the cross-strait relationship is often cast in academia, and also in the media as subject to potential major revision, and that this revision should be made in the form of some kind of fancyiful grand bargain with china or a small bargain, maybe a bad transactional deal so you can pawn off taiwan for the south china sea or korea. it's not how the trump administration views the taiwan policy in my view. so, i think for the trump administration, they've been essentially testing and probing a bit from even before the inauguration, as you know, with tweets

. >> with the new hierarchy, tell us what it looks like in this administration. >> as we have laid out, i think general kelly will bring new structure to the white house and discipline and strength. we are all excited to work with them. in terms of -- i'm not going to draw out an org chart, but we will keep you posted. >> kellyanne and everyone reports to him? does every special assistant go to general kelly first? >> i think i have been clear that general kelly has the full authority to carry out business as he sees fit. >> a quick one. a real quick one regarding sean spicer. will you be in the administration in any way now that anthony scaramucci announced that he will not be a part of the trump administration? i amm not of anywhere -- not aware of any changes on that front. >> my second one is this. 10 days ago, anthony scaramucci was introduced as new white house press -- communications director. 10 days later, he is out of a job. the president announced on twitter there is no chaos at the white house. how would you describe what has happened over the past 10 days? of course you wi

clarify the administration's message that it has for north korea. the other day the president said, when asked about north korea, we will take care of them. we will take care of everything, and a little bit ago, secretary of state, secretary of state tillerson said that the u.s. is trying to convince north korea that the u.s. is not your enemy. so which one is it? is the president focused on north korea as an adversary or is secretary tillerson that the u.s. is trying to send this message that the u.s. is not north korea's enemy? >> look, like i just said a few minutes ago, big priorities here, which we laid out, i think this is the 30 or fourth time i've done it today, stop the nuclear program, stop missiles, stop the aggression. that is what we're focused on. in regards to north korea, and we'll continue pushing on that, continuing working with our allies and partners to accomplish that. do what is necessary to achieve it. >> are they an adversary? does president trump -- >> i think in some ways they get to decide by the actions that they take. if

the george w. bush administration. he was also serving on the staff in the house with the central intelligence agency, the state department and active-duty naval officers. please join me in welcoming peter. [applause] good afternoon, welcome to heritage and our program on iran. since 2015, a nuclear agreement iran, iraq and yemen. iran's expanding influence in these war-torn countries have been facilitated by the dividends and sanctions provided by the nuclear deal. questions like how should the united states respond, which should be done about the flawed nuclear agreement. how can the united states targeting -- target at home. running is to discuss these and other issues is jim phyllis a senior research developer for affairs and foreign policy studies here at the heritage foundation. policya foreign specialists who has written and spoken on middle eastern issues, international terrorism since coming in 1979. he has offered dozens of papers on iran, its nuclear program and use of terrorism, and has testified for the nuc

so that's this evening whose left the trump administration. anybody else? where's my phone? onight, in addition to losing his national security adviser and his chief of staff and his press secretary and press secretary and chief strategist, the president also saw the departure of not one but two communications directors and his deputy white house chief of staff and his deputy national security adviser and the deputy chief of staff at the national security council and his assistant press secretary. the president has also replaced the top lawyer on his legal defense team and the spokesman for that legal team resigned. this in addition to all of the staffers and cabinet nominees who withdrew in the face of various controversies before even formally joining the administration. and all of these people have fled before labor day. i mean, what started as a shoe string campaign run by family members and people who worked at his business seems to be reverting back to just that now. but in addition to the administration hallowing out by woodpeckers, there is one piece of staffing news

i've known the fema administrator 15 years. we couldn't have picked a finer lead leader. he's absolutely top of the top and what the president will do as we move forward is continue talking directly with them and the governs. if they have any needs, that's our problem and the president wouldn't tolerate that. as we move out to camp david, as you know, he has a full resources of capability to communicate with us. >> will the president sign an emergency declaration before landfall, as has been in the past, to prepare and set funding in motion before the event happens? >> that's being contemplated. what we'll do is take the governor's request. first, the governor assesses whether he has unmetneeds and the affected communities are unable to respond. he then requests of the president federal assistantance. that moves to the fema administrator up to the president. i believe that's in the process. once it gets to the united states he'll act on that very quickly. i'm under the impression that the governor of texas has made that request. if all the conditions are met and it's appro

is the administration and the federal reserve, are they at odds over regulatory reform? is that a problem right now? >> well, let me just comment on -- i had breakfast with the fed chair yellen this morning. we meet on a weekly basis as have previous treasury secretaries in the fed and we have a very constructive dialogue on a lot of issues including regulation and one of the areas we are focused on working on with the fed is fixing the volker rule. you've seen the treasury put out a report on what we believe are regulatory changes i would say 70% or 80% of them we can work with the regulators. we have a working group on we're going to use congressional support for. we believe in proper regulation. but we also believe we need to make sure that banks can lend, particularly community banks and regional banks >> so there aren't differences now between the federal reserve leadership as it is now and the treasury or the administration on regulate sorry reform >> again, i would say that we are working on a lot of things together with the fed and see many aspects of this the sa

regulations coming out at the trump administration? ct the unlike the prior which is doing more for iranian producers and american producers, we expect we are complying with bedrock environmental laws. what we just want is we are taking advantage of the opportunity where he's a laid-back redundant regulations that were not based on law. that is a good balance to get back to put in place by the congress are then followed by the administration. not putting in place things that kill american energy production anniversaries that aren't producers here at home. leland: here in colorado had not come without its problems, especially for a lot of employers very low unemployment means it is exceptionally hard to hire people. therefore they have to go out of state to recruit. but do the behind me, there's no place in america that has more of those huge skyscraper cranes and in denver. housing has become a major issue in denver and a lot of folks are moving here not only for jobs, but also because as you might know, marijuana is legal here not only

during the bush administration, it did not become institutionalized, we devised the program assessment rating tool. a simple set of 25 questions that ask of each program, is its purpose here, well designed to achieve its objective, does it have short and long-term outcome oriented goals, aggressive improvement targets, well-managed and ultimately is the program achieving its results? we established this tool because we wanted some basis with which to allocate funding and insisted through this tool that agencies and programs begin a process of subjecting programs to these evaluations, the beginning of what we call the evidence agenda that ultimately led to the commission on evidence-based policymaking that i am involved with today. i have to admit we didn't make a lot of progress integrating this data into the budget decision-making process. policymaker's don't have a huge appetite for listening to evidence when figuring out how to make funding decisions. a lot of those funding decisions are highly political so there is room for improvement as a matter of understatement in making more a