reflects our belief in the american entrepreneurial spirit that i am an american families and small businesses to keep more of their hard-earned dollars to the senator from vermont i know the budgets are not particularly exciting that's what this budget means. after failing to pass the so-called health care bill. the leadership is back again. while i totally disagree, i do appreciate that they are not giving up in terms of trying to protect the interest of the class against the majority of the american people. it is a plan that will do incalculable harm to the sick, the elderly and the poor. the budget we are debating on the floor of the senate this week is the robin hood principle in reverse. benefits of the republican plan would go to the top 1%. even more incredibly, the top one-tenth of 1%, one-tenth of 1% would receive some 40% of the tax breaks over a ten-year period. a tax proposal which gives 80% of the benefits to the top 1%, 40% of the benefits to the top one-tenth of 1% is not a tax proposal benefiting the middle class or working families of this country. it is a tax propo

reflects our belief in the american spirit went by allowing american families and small businesses to keep more of their dollars they will enervate and invest money in ways that will grow the economy. our nation's best days and those of its citizens are ahead of us. the time to act is now. we don't change course nation will continue to experience a sluggish economic growth of last decade. i urge my colleagues on both sides to support america's hard-working families and employers and help at the nation on a better course. approving the budget focused on progrowth tax reform does that. i yield the floor and yield the balance of my time. >> i ask unanimous consent to be permitted to repeat my and the marks the for the recess. >> another budgets are not particularly sexy and exciting discussions and a lot of people wonder about a trillion here in a hundred billion there, what does it all mean? it means a lot. what it means is if this horrific republican budget is implemented, what it will mean his enormous amount of pain for tens and tens of millions of working-class and middle-class and

i would say that's what you told the american people during your campaign. now i hope you will tell your republican friends right heree n the senate that they should respect the campaign promises you ran on as if they pass a budget that cuts medicare or medicaid but he would veto that legislation. i hope the president has the integrity to do that. i don't think he will, but i would hope he does a. poll after poll tells us that the overwhelming majority of the american people do not want congress to cut medicare or medicaid. in fact i think in this country today if you ask people what their deepest concern is about jobs and income i think even more so, they are concerned about the health care they have, and whether they are going to havet it tomorrow poll after pol tells us the american people do not want congress to cut medicare which by the way is the most popular health insurance in this country, and they don't want to see medicaid cuts because they know among other things about two thirds of nursing home dollars.oc 94% of democrats want to either maintain

internal report issued by the american meat institute. it lays out the strategy for influencing the decisions of high profile organizations. this organization is the i r c international agency for research on cancer little. this institution based. is the worldwide reference on cancer. in two thousand and six. the scientists classified nitrites in the probably carcinogenic category of products group too. and that was bad for business. so lobbyists are fighting to have this classification changed. page sixty four of the document. changing the r.c. nitrate nitrate classification from two to be. possibly carcinogenic. the strategy has a name i challenge. it notably involves the two scientists we were interested in andrew wilkow ski and nathan. brian. armed with our brand new file it was time to set off to meet the meet sectors heavyweights. welcome to nashville tennessee the capital of country music and notably the hometown of joint catch. here at the american meat institute is holding its annual conference. in this huge building to be precise

it invests in the american people. i ask my colleagues to vote for the congressional progressive caucus budget. the chair: the time of the gentlelady has expired. does the gentleman from california continue to reserve? the gentleman from california continues to reserve. the gentleman from arizona is recognized. mr. gri shall -- mr. grijalva: thank you, mr. chairman. i'm prepared to close. in the debate on the budget, on the republican budget and how it contrasts with the progressive caucus budget, we've heard a lot about needing to control mandatory spending. but that was -- that that was the real issue here. runaway mandatory spending. make no mistake my republican colleagues talk about cutting mandatory spend they mean they want to cut medicare, and sos to pay for the trillion dollar tax scam and creative numbers that are part of their budget. for the wealthy and for the corporations in america. the other issue that we hear over is by making these major cuts to the wealthiest and the rich that somehow their net gain a

we want to protect the american people. that's why i hope everyone here would come down in favor of the middle class and reject this assault, this ripoff, this shakedown of the middle class that the republicans have on the floor, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky reserves. the gentlelady from tennessee is recognized. mrs. black: thank you, mr. speaker. it's now my honor to yield one minute to the gentleman from west virginia, mr. mooney. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mooney: thank you, mr. speaker. we had a democrat president, john f. kennedy, who cut taxes when he was president. i think he'd take issue with a lot of the things said by his own party. it's been 30 years since we addressed taxes in this country. president ronald reagan addressed it 30 years ago. we are way overdufort tax cuts in the united states of america. everybody knows that the 35% tax rate on corporations have driven companies overseas. west virginia saw just a couple

history, the idea of the expedition was to encourage more american travel up the missouri river, and more american trade with the american indians. what the story is in south dakota, there is some interesting tales. first of all, when you come into south dakota, you have -- sergeant floyd had just died where the current city of sioux city is. but it was when they got to what is now the city of elk point, south dakota, they elected patrick gass as the new sergeant. it was the first election held in south dakota. interestingly enough, clark's slave, york, was allowed to vote in that election, highly unusual situation. farther up the river, they found a mound, supposed to be inhabited by devils. of course they had to see these devils. but once they got to the top of spirit mountain, what did they see? their first bison. there was acres and acres of bison on this flatland. you have got to remember, these are men coming from me eastern united states, who were used to trees and forests, and hills and rocks. so this open plane was like a farmers delight as well as a hunter's delight, with al

flag flying the standard and then we put up the holiday colors which is a huge american flag and it was a bright sunny day with the wind blowing i don't five or ten knots the flag was unfurled you could see it for miles meanwhile israeli military jets were on their way on the real time audio tape obtained by al-jazeera at one fifty three p.m. the pilots asked the base control room about the ship. right. the u.s.s. liberty was the only ship of any size in the area. the american six three eight including two aircraft carriers was five hundred miles away oh it was a great day and hello i'm jim smith damage control man in engineering i mean i'm twenty years old it's a time i come from a small town you store hay bales and in a summer time for blocking our sun was shining blue sky clouds nice people sunbathing on it that we had lunch and five minutes later maybe here came the jets and when nobody really knew what was happening then we started a fire. captain said to me alert the forward gun math we're under attack and i tried to raise the the two sailors in the forward gun mat

the american people support the dreamers, not because we were so persuasive, but the american people support the dreamers. i am optimistic that we will celebrate, hopefully sell it -- thanksgiving, maybe christmas. potentially withholding support for a bill? sen. pelosi: i said we are going to pass the dream act. our caucus is overwhelmingly supportive of dreamers. i believe if the speaker brought a bill to the floor it would pass overwhelmingly. many of our republican colleagues support the dreamers. it is getting a vote. i would hope that the speaker would give us a vote one way or the other. we think we have them. can you comment on the president decision -- sen. pelosi: show me the money. what is the point? we passed a bill about opioids on this or that. medicaid, which is major funder of how we address opioids. as the governor of ohio pointed out, thank god for medicaid. it would also cut the funding for a substance abuse and mental health agency that is there to address these needs. declaring an emergency means he can have access to funds, but the funds are $58,000. show me the

in the world of american foreign-policy. thank you very much. [applause] we are going to take questions in groups of three. we can get some through the website and twitter. -- theback, we have to microphone. thanks professor mead. great presentation. maybe you could interpret george where ther us and atlantic charter fit in, which seems more of a hamiltonian and wilsonian kind of framework. prof. mead: ok. >> another question? ok, we can go ahead. think george w. bush is someone who tried to repeat the roosevelt idea, which is ok. in many ways, 9/11 functioned in american politics like pearl harbor, a sneak attack by a treacherous energy which summons an enormous public desire to do something about it. was to say we did really want to deal with terrorism, we have to go to iraq. currentted the public from afghanistan to iraq. it turned out, on grounds that jacksonians saw is pretty clear. weapons, give them to terrorists? that sounds like grounds for war to us. and it turned out there were no -- that the weapons program was no

>> yes, we are here for the american people. we do not want the impact to be on the american people. the problem with the tax bill is not just the harm that it does directly in terms of state and local tax deductions, that is just one example. but also, because they take it so deeply into debt, the opportunity cost for our budget to invest in education, it will necessitate a trillion dollars being cut out of medicaid. that is part of their plan. $.5 trillion coming out of medicare. they will at a cost to education , that is about the health and well-being of our families and the future of our country in terms of education being essential. way, any moneye spent on education -- nothing brings more money to the treasury investing in education. , secondaryhood, k-12 education, that is a fact. they undermine that opportunity for investment and they are increasing the deficit, not saving any money. so we would hope that -- i think what these numbers walk the membersr -- what these are walking the plank for, they will have to answer for

the more the american people see, the less they'll like it. right now cbs poll yesterday, two days, sunday, said 58% of the american people believe that the trump bill is tax cuts for the wealthy. only 19% believe it's nor -- for the middle class. that number is going to get worse, my colleagues, just as the health care thing got worse. and the american people turn against you as we democrats shine the bright line on what it really did. you cannot govern from the hard right, as wealthy as they are, as much as they threaten you with primaries. it's not going to work. we still have a foundation of democracy here. we're still a foundation of honor and truth. and when honor and truth and sunlight hit this bill, it will crumble. now i say to some of my colleagues, we want to work with you on a good tax reform bill, one that is revenue neutral, one that doesn't favor the wealthy. we believe small businesses should get tax breaks. we believe money from overseas should come back and be used to create jobs. there are lots of things we can do in common

so that we can deliver comprehensive tax reform for the american people. mr. speaker, our tax reform plan is both pro-family and pro-worker. the typical american family will receive a $4,000 pay raise under our plan and will turbocharge the economy through enabling gross domestic product growth to reach 3.% minimum for the next five years. mr. speaker, i look forward to working with the house leadership, chairman brady, and all of the congress -- congressional members to pass this fair and simple tax reform package. to make this country a great as it can be. i yield back the balance of my time. mr. walker: thank you, representative norman. as you see, three promises, three months. october, november, december. three promises, three months. repeal, reform, and secure. that is the promise from the republican study committee making up 157 members, 17 of the 20 chairmen. now is it in our ability to make sure this gets through the senate and gets pass bd into law by the president? we can't promise all that but we're doing our job to get these pieces of legislation th

not only to the american indians living here, but also the trappers and traders living among the american indians, and encouraging trade. in central south dakota, fort pierre south dakota, it is the heart of the lewis and clarke story. it is so important, about their connections with american indians, and how that went, and how it could have gone. they're pushing of diplomacy, the pushing of trade, the economy, they are pushing military strength. and the scientific exploration. corps, of discovery, what they're all about. >> this weekend we are featuring the history of pierre south dakota, together with our cable workers. learn more about peer south c-span.org/american cities -- c-span.org/cities to her. >> it became clear that my impression of breitbart and has as having an outsized influence on the 2016 election was an understatement. in the extreme. breitbart was the driving force on the right side of the political spectrum. a",unday night, on "q and will helton talks about his feature story, down the breitbart hole. peoplentinue to hear talk about breitbart as this shoutycal, machine.

in the west there are native americans or indians. and to the south and west there are also spaniards. all of these groups pose a threat to jefferson's vision of an empire of liberty. he knew for his empire of liberty to be successful he had to remove these threats. if he did so it would preserve the young republics cherished principles and imperialistic europe. here lies major challenges. remember i said jefferson is an idealist. the waywn mind, here's he rationalized creating a new republic, a larger republic. the time most americans believe a large republic was inevitably doomed to fail. because large republics cannot sustain themselves. they collapse from their own corruption. jefferson said this republic will not do that because certain things. it wouldot territory satisfy that energetic nature of our government. allow people to just share in their own rule. those chosen people would have a chance to buy land at low prices. once you bought that land, the revenue drive would extinguish the nations that. once that happened jefferson

we are concentrating on the agenda we have for the american people. the president shares that agenda , is going to do a good job i think promoting that agenda, and we intend to achieve what we set out to achieve before the end of the year. bush, atrker, george what point do you have a competition as a leader of this party to weigh in on these criticisms of the president was mark -- president? sen. mcconnell: what i have an obligation to do is to achieve as much cohesion as i can among 52 republicans to try to achieve these goals for the american people that we set out to achieve, and tax reform is what we are about. if there is anything that unifies republicans, it is tax reform. we have been looking for the opportunity to do this literally for years. we now have a president who will sign it, who believes in what we are trying to do, and we will concentrate on what our agenda is and not any of these other distractions you all may be interested in. >> think about it. what is driving the news today? the president's feud with senator corker, with you, mcc

one that we can support in order to unlock tax reform for the american people. without question there are plenty of things that i wish were included in what the senate passed. ideas that the house put forward earlier this month when we approved our budget. for

the third is, the qatar question. american policy has been two steps forward and two steps backward again. is it really the change you said it was, or is there something else happening in the administration that you decided not to share with us in that initial statement? mr. bannon: let's take the first. thisnk if you, number one, idea of america first being us against the world -- i think it is total nonsense. he looks at the world in a different way. walter russell mead would say jacksonian. in that, it is what is in the vital national security interest of the united states is what you should commit to. in those areas of the world where it is in the vital interest of the united states, you will have partners that will be in their vital national security interest also, and you the northwestther pacific, japan and south korea, and the gulf with people like the uae and saudi arabia and egypt and bahrain. i think there is a tremendous thing of engagement. i don't think there is anything president trump has done in this administr

moscow radio said the american public has been lost by the demagoguery of those who have been bought apital. according to moscow radio, american society is repressive and are in the opposition of their own people. moscow television set that thousands of political prisoners are languishing in u.s. prisons of tyranny andlt oppression of the authorities. moscow has seized on the case of an american indian activist convicted in 1977 of murdering two fbi agents. it has almost been forgotten here. his legal appeals getting only brief mention in the new york times, the russian paper published seven stories about him this past september. other soviet papers ran prominent coverage. the soviets seem to be using this case to counter western publicity about their own political prisoners. according to another moscow report, americans who oppose u.s. military policy are described as peace fighters who are repressed on a monstrous scale by american secret police. occasional reports of american communist describe them as speaking for widespread attitudes but they are suppressed for challenging the sy

the american people want results. that is what we are focused on. the more unified we are in pursuing solutions that solve the american people's problems, that is what they sent us here to do. that is what they expect. we work for the people who elect us. if we are calling each other names are calling each other out or saying things against each other, what does that do to help a working mom get ahead? what is that due to get a better in the health care he deserves? what is that due to advance tax reform? nothing. that is why we need to stay focused on solving people's problems and being concerned about their issues. that is what our focus is. -- >> you often talk about tax and helping people know about special interests but the has taken issue with -- are you at all concerned that the rollout, that he is not going to like any of them? >> he is going to be in asia. [laughter] >> that was a joke. no, i'm not. we are working very closely with the white house on this. on the big six, we work very hard on the parameters. the tax writers are working on th

the obamacare nightmare onto the american people. it has been a nightmare. you look at what's happening with the premiums and the increases of 100% and 120% and even in one case, alaska, over 200%. and now every congressional democrat has blocked the effort to save americans from obamacare. along with a very small, frankly, handful of republicans. three. and we're going to take care of that also because i believe we have the votes to do block grants at a little bit later time. and we'll be able to do that. premiums have gone skyrocketing. but today 1/3 of all the counties in america have only a single insurer selling coverage on an exchange and next year it looks like nearly half of all counties in our country -- think of that. all of the counties, one half will have one insurer. and many will have none. many will have absolutely created roadblocks for people to have any form of the insurance we're talking about. this is why in a few moments i will sign an executive order taking the first steps to providing millions of americans with

for the richest 1% of americans? here on the floor, we should be wrestling with how to create a foundation for every family in america to thrive, not considering a bill that wipes out health care, wipes out pell grants, does damage to every conceivable thing that would make this nation stronger in order to give the billionaires more zeros in their bank accounts. this bill is destructive. it's shameful. and it's contrary to the very principle of our constitution of government of, by, and for the people. this bill is government of, by, and for the 1%. it must not stand. thank you. the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. rubio: thank you, mr. president. i'm really happy the senate is engaged in this debate on tax policy. it actually is long overdue. it's been 30 some odd years since this country's undertaken a massive reform of our tax code, and it's interesting to go back and think what life was like back in 1986. it was just a different planet, different world, different economics. and so at a minimum, our

will of the american people.hat is why, today, i am asking all americans, republican, democrat, independent, to join with me, and with each other, to demand tax reform that will truly, truly, truly make america great again. [applause] call your congressman. call your senators. let them know you are watching. let them know you are waiting. tell them that today is the day for decisions. that now is the time to heal this self-inflicted economic wound, and that with their action, the future would belong to all of us. if you demand it, the politicians will listen. they will answer, and they will act, and someday, many years from now, our children and grandchildren will remember this moment in history as the time when ordinary americans took control of their destiny and chose a future of american patriotism, prosperity, and pride. [applause] with your help and your voice, we will bring back our jobs. we will bring back our wealth. and for every citizen across this land, we will bring back our great american dreams. tha

what caused the watts riots was underemployment in the african-american in community in the ways that labor unions made it difficult for african americans to get work for employers refusing to hire. the unsanitary living conditions in south los angeles historically segregated that was the driving force. with those two years and many of them and that was a resistance the recent surge of killings and the first recorded killing of the african-american male from lapd april 1927 the community launches a massive protest campaign. >> and the refusal of those local leads to address the issue of police brutality was the trigger for 1965. >> 17,000 in the los angeles jails today what is the california population?. >> i don't know offhand. >> as a liberal progressive beria why such a large prison population?. >> that is a good question. >> and that the state level in particular much of that is the of policies that led the rise of mass incarceration and all of that comes out of foster angeles. also about california and it is also about the country's. >>. >> and it comes back to the policies and p

and the health of the american people. make no mistake, last night the president single-handedly decided to raise america's health premiums for no reason except spite and cruelty. cost sharing reduction payments are essential to lowering health insurance costs. because of president trump's decision to cut them off, these st sharing payments -- premiums will sore according to a nonpartisan c.b.o. headed by a republican appointee, republicanned -- appointed by a republican in congress. the c.b.o. says that premiums will soar. refusing to make these vital payments spikes america's health premiums by 20% in 2018. middle income families will be hit hardest because of president trump's decision last night. middle income families will be hit the hardest. taxpayers will pay more, ending these payments will increase the deficit by nearly $200 billion over 10 years. what is he thinking? alsorday's executive order mr. ehlers:ier in the day seeks to raise premiums on americans with pre-existing medical conditions. sorry. you have a pre

turkey is not happy with the american attitude with. the leader of the organisation that carried out to quit and. is claimed by the turkish authorities and the american attitude in syria is also some other item on the agenda indeed there. professor we don't mean to interrupt don't mean to drop that professor debate i just commit that there are several issues that we can investigate now this conversation where both the americans are sit on either side of the fence not so you say syria is one of them syria backs forces that turkey doesn't like and for our viewers it's a very complicated situation as the ongoing violence continues in syria where most forces are trying to fight eyesore. yeah you are right however for turkey syria is not only about the fight with ice so syria is also turkey's ongoing problems within its own territory with the separatist. and. extension in syria. forming a belt in syria in the north of this country which is largely disturbing turkey and the american party has been. supplying this organization with. ammunitions

they must be offered all the rights and privileges antsds help that we would offer any american citizen across the world. >> your district the 13th district of new york has a particular connection to puerto rico. can you talk about it. >> yes, i represent el beario, east harlem which is really the cradle of the puerto rican migration to the mainland, to the united states. and so they settled their many, many -- >> morning. good morning. good morning, everyone. what an event-filled morning it has been. really one that marks a transformative moment for our country. this morning had, when the republicans voted to advance the budget that they put forth, they made -- they drew a line in the sand between the middle class and working families. and the very wealthy and corporate america in our country. it's really unfortunate but it is at least an opportunity for the american people to understand more clearly what the debate is here in washington, d.c. on one side of that line in the sand we have the republicans in congress who are. their dna committed to a mission of getting tax breaks to the

the american flag -- do we love our american flag? huh? [cheers and applause] i think people forgot how patriotic we are. i think people forgot how much we love our country. they have learned over the last week. haven't they? [cheers and applause] but the american flags will soar high above the roads and our cities and towns will proudly display that flag. our children will be raised in homes filled with love. communities filled with airplanes going back and forth. that's okay. but communities filled with hope and a nation filled with pride. we'll build this future together as one people and one nation under god. with your help and your voice we'll bring back our jobs, we'll bring back our wealth. for every citizen across this land we'll bring back our great american dreams. this is a great and proud state. i am so honored to be with you tonight. thank you, god bless you, and god bless the united states of america. thank you very much. thank you. [♪] charles: president trump wrapping up his tax reform pitch in middletown, pennsylvania. with

not the theft of the american treasury of the forc four to $5n for the richest americans. that is what is being proposed. has there ever been a train robbery as audaciousus as this fact of the national treasury for the richest americans to do. here on the floor we should be wrestling on how to create a foundation for every family in america to thrive not considering t the bill that wips out healthcare and telegrams, does damage to every conceivable thing to make the nation stronger in order to give the billionaires more zeros in their vacant -- bank accounts. it is more shameful and the principle of the constitution oa government of, by and for the peoplele >> the senator from florida since the country has undertaken a massive reform in the tax co code, to go back and think what life was like in 1986 just a different planet and a different world. this is an important debate so people can understand that are watching at home, the budget is not you and i am thinking of it as a plan on what you were going to spend money on end with the federal budget is as an outlining of the

we want the american people to wake up in the new year with a new system. our tax raters on the house ways and means committee will work with the senate finance committee to turn this framework into legislation. i want to thank our counterparts in the senate and the administration, and i want to officially thank president trump for his leadership. to him, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that is all about more jobs, fairer taxes, and bigger paychecks for american families. for all of us, this is a now or never moment. the choice before us is really clear. we can succumb to the talking heads on tv and the special interests who want to maintain the status quo, or we can work together to seize this moment and do what the american people sent us here to do. we can write to the occasion and write our own future. -- we can rise to the occasion and write our own future. we can finally get this done for more jobs, for higher wages, for bigger paychecks, for a stronger economy. for our workers, for our children, and for the more prosperous and were confident

let's try to accomplish these things for the american people. hink we can do that and are in the process of it. >> do you trust the president in these negotiations? do you trust the president as a partner in getting these things done? >> i do. >> okay. let's talk about former trump adviser, steve bannon. he declared war on you and the rest of the republican establishment this week. take a listen. >> mitch, i don't know if you are watching today, i don't know if you are watching. i have been getting calls. it's like before the ides of march, right? the only question, this is an analogy or metaphor, whatever you want to call it. they want to know who is going to be brutus to your julius cesar. >> what do you think of bannon recruiting candidates with the goal of taking you out as leader? >> you know, this element has been out there for a while. they cost us five senate seats in 2010 and 2012 by nominating people who couldn't win in november. in order for the president's agenda to advance, we have to be able to elect people who support the agenda. s

sail across the oceans, american trucks will glide along our highwaysso beautiful will those highways be, smooth, beautiful, no potholes. [applause] friendsump: have many in the trucking business and they tell me it has never been like this. they will buy beautiful new equipment and by the time it goes from los angeles to new york and back they have a big renovation job on their hands. they say they have never seen it like this before. they will be beautiful organic, smooth, beautiful highways again. flag -- we love our american flag. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: i think people forgot how patriotic we are. i think people forgot how much we love our country. they have learned over the last week, haven't they? american flags will soar high above the roads, our cities and our towns will proudly display that flag. our children will be raised in --es built with love communities that are filled with airplanes going back and forth, that is ok. communities filled with hope and a nation filled with pride. we will build this future together as one people an

anyone and you go there resist the american designers of. your review to do it in the. local mall there has been happening with the. result of the news other than. hello again now the u.n. chemical weapons watchdog has reaffirmed its claim that syria is to blame for a deadly incident in april in an internal report more than eighty people were killed on the eighth on the fourth of april in what's thought to have been a sarin gas attack on the rebel held town of cancer kuhn in northwestern syria the government was widely blamed even though no evidence was found to back that up with a u.n. chemical weapons watchdog did assign a special panel to investigate but none of the experts visited the site in their conclusions were based on witness testimony and items tested by a third party the incident saw the u.s. launch a missile strike on a syrian military airport which it claimed was where the chemicals had been located a quote from that internal report made it into the hands of several mainstream media who seized on it is irrefutable proof that the syrian government's at faul

better future for the american people. i think that the biggest evidence for lack of experience in a job is the president of the united states. >> so i fully intend to make on the basis of my knowledge, my legislative -- i think i'm a great legislate or. i know the budget. i don't believe that i have -- self-promotion is a terrible thing. but clearly, somebody has to do

that i think has been consistently the american idea. that great song written in 1893 by a lady who came to the kathy lee bates who came to the top of pike's peak and looked out, she says america, god shed his grace on the. one of the characteristics of grace is its undeserved. it is as robert frost said in his inaugural poem, a gift outright. it's a gift that's given and it's a gift that's given that america can serve a higher purpose. that seems undeniable. i'll give you one example. napoleon bonaparte, one of the great converts in human history, someone known for seizing territory, what is it that led him to the consternation of most of his advisers including his own two brothers who tried to stop him, to give away a sickly for peanuts and area five times the size of transit itself, the louisiana purchase? we have 15 states carved out of that. double the size of the country. when jefferson brought that deal home, a deal he didn't look for and he wasn't expecting, it was napoleon giving it to the country, or issue gates said there is an

the answer, he was trying to better align the definition of american interest with the realities of american power. that is an unarguable proposition. participate in arguing that he was getting the mass wrong as president -- math wrong as president. now we have another president ande america first is not nine iron away from retrenchment . it is at best, a chip shot. there are surprising continuity in policy in america pulling back. , i know they guy most difficult of all maneuvers as retreat because it can turn into route. i will not say we are retreating, that is not the right word. if we are recalibrating, balancing our interests with the reality of our power, we need to do that very carefully and i do not think we are. i think we are leaving the space you have suggested. i think there is a bit of a vacuum, the lack of a push back in the ukraine involving the russians to do certain things. we certainly left a big chunk of the stage vacant in syria that allowed the russians to go back into the region for the first time in half a century. i get the balancing, and i'm looking at john because

he became the embodiment of the new american. the embodiment of the american spirit. and presented to the world an image of the rugged american as important to the 19th century as dr. franklin had been to the previous century. he firmly inherited the frontier mantle of boone, crockett and carson. and with an able assist from james cooper, owen worcester, remington, frederick jackson turner, theodore roosevelt, he made the story of the american frontier into the nation's great creation myths. buffalo bill. astride his snow white stallion, presented an image that all the people of a rapidly changing nation could embrace. no matter where they had come from. when finally he died on january -- in january of 1917, his country about to march into a , new century, into a future, steam, steel, world wars and international power, that country paused and reflected on just how far they had come in so short of time. and it had all been encompassed in the life of one man and with the passing of buffalo bill, the first great epoch of the american story came to a close. thank you very

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 -- could not fund the promised social reform that would rule.mize constitutional as the mexican foreign minister put it, economic corporation was the one way to provide the only sound basis for hemispheric peace. there were immediate ramifications of the denial of economic assistance. i'm not suggesting that the truman administration had any other choice. there is only so much money. there was the issue of western europe. the denial of economic aid took its toll on inter-american relations. after chinese troops crossed the yellow river and attacked u.s. forces in late 1950, the secretary of state hastily convened a meeting with latin american foreign ministers and pleaded for military assistance

internal report issued by the american meat institute. it lays out the strategy for influencing the decisions of high profile organizations. this organization is the i r c international agency for research on cancer. this is to do should face the all fronts is the worldwide reference on cancer. in two thousand and six i.a.r. see scientists classified nitrites in the probably carcinogenic category of products group to a. and that was bad for business. so lobbyists are fighting to have this classification changed. page sixty four of the document. change in the i.r.c. nitrate nitrate classification from two aged to be cool possibly carcinogenic. the strategy has a name i am arcee challenged. it notably involves the two scientists we were interested in andrew bill koski and nathan bryant. armed with our brand new file it was time to set off to meet the meat sectors heavyweights. welcome to nashville tennessee the capital of country music and notably the hometown of johnny cash. it's here that the american meat institute is holding its annual c

the most corrupt political clan and modern american history. e is how the establishment dealt with it under the obama administration. how somebody who was a suspect in that investigation was allowed to be the counsel for hillary clinton. how the blackberries were destroyed and how the laptops that the fbi had were also destroyed by the fbi government. that's a banana republic. you would have to be fired and right now, e.g. sessions has to have a national security -- >> sean: this is not a game anymore, the attorney general needs to wake up now. holder, clinton, mueller, rosenstein. they all knew in 2009. they approved the deal, gregg. >> holder actually sat on the committee if you can believe that. >> sean: he was the one that signed off. one of the nine. >> hillary clinton presides over at. >> sean: guys, we will have you back tomorrow too. we will continue this investigation. we are not going to stop. part two of our exclusive interview with the first daughter, ivanka trump. she talks about how she responds to the vicious attacks from the left

>> well, yes, we are here for the american people. we do not want the impact to be on the american people. the problem with their tax bill is not just the harm it does directly in terms of the state and local tax deduction, that is just one example. deeply they take us so into debt, the opportunity cost for our budget to invest in education, it will necessitate $1 trillion being cut out of medicaid. that is part of their plan. million -- a half $1 million being cut out of medicare. that impact the well-being of our families in terms of education being essential. being --, by the way, any money spent on education -- nothing brings more money to the treasury been investing in education. that is a fact. if they undermined the opportunity for investment, they are increasing the deficit. they are not saving money. what theseart of for is walked the plank something they are going to have to answer for back home. i think the ability to have leverage would have been to to theiris and then go speaker and say, we want something different. they h