we join the conversation on tax reform at the aspen institute. looking at the potential benefits for low income workers. >> let me repeat that. the bold reforms outlined today will usher in a new era of happened safety and performance in the skies and spur the adoption of state-of-the-art air traffic controlly control technology. the administration consulted with a wide rain of stakeholderrer in aviation system passenger advocates pilots, air traffic controllers aviation experts airport manager and others. we will continue to work with them as this proposal moves forward. these reforms will benefit everyone who flies as well as hard working air traffic controllers who operate the system. as you now, safety is number one. these reforms will accelerate the deployment of new air traffic control technology that is critical to managing the national air space with more precision, enhancing safety. passengers will benefit because these reforms will improve the passenger's quality of life. how many times have we heard families on vacation, working moms an

the moment. we want to get back to andrea mitchell now in aspen. >> thank you. more from washington now john podesta, one of the chief victims of russian hacking. pressed on why the obama white house did not do more to expose the kremlin before the election. >> i think they were, the president and the entire administration were dealing with an unprecedented incidence of the weaponization of, fruits of russian cyber activity, and i think they were trying to make the best judgments they could on behalf of the american people. >> podesta testified before the house intelligence committee yesterday, and joining me now is from washington, california congressman adam schiff. thank you for being with us. first of all he will's talk about john podesta's testimony. what have you learned so far? >> well i can't go into the particulars. i think it was valuable for him to come and testify before our committee. we're looking at a number of things obviously we're looking at the issue most people are focused on in terms of whether there was any coordination between the trump cam

live here at the aspen ideas festival joining me now the chairman of the u.s. chamber of commerce and all state ceo tom wilson tom, thank you for joining us. >> good morning, john. >> so two days ago the chamber put out a statement in favor of the senate bill on health care >> yep. >> why >> well, first, what are businesses objectiveson health care s care the first and most important is we provide insurance to 177 million americans, 60% of americans get their insurance from our businesses. we have to continue to do. that as it relates to the government provided portion of that, then there are a couple things happen. the affordable care act is not sustainable today. it needs to be revised i think everybody agrees with. that we do think as well there needs to be a good transition plan so, you know, we're where we are. we want to go some place else. this plan has about $112 billion of transition money. it's over like 2024. i don't know whether that is the right people or the right amount of money the dwlad there is a transition plan in there is a good thing. the o

and ceo of the aspen institute. with us this morning. aol co-founder and chairman of the investment firm revolutions. you're going to go see president trump later this week. i want to talk about that. you spend some time with tom price yesterday and have a host of leaders coming today, and for the rest of the week let's start with you, though, because this is your last. i don't know if it's your last you're going to be coming back, right? >> if you invite me. >> i will invite you i will invite you back but you have been running this for so many years by the way, congratulations. >> thank you >> this whole event is in testament in part to you to all the people who do come every year, right? actually let me ask it this way, what's the one best idea you think you've heard over the past 14 years running this institution? >> you know, i think general mccrystal came here and talked about serving in the military and serving in other ways that got people out of their zip codes, out of their comfort zones, that that had been

former acting attorney general sali yates who was fired by president trump spoke at the aspen ideas festival in colorado earlier this week about the justice department's russia investigation and her brief tenure in the trump administration. this is an hour. [applause] >> before we begin the discussion, it's worth saying about the idea of the rule of law. the concept of the rule of law goes back a long way. the greeks and romans and meaning has evolved over time. but it

we'll bring you the full conversation from the aspen ideas festival, tonight starting at 8:00 eastern on c-span. yesterday on capitol hill, the senate intelligence committee heard from career diplomats and experts from the u.s. and europe as they testified at the senate intelligence committee on russian influence in elections. this is about two and a half hours.

. >> >>> welcome back we want to get to our john fort who is from the aspen festival. >> peter orszaglly we're not solving the core problem with the election that is trying to make its way through congress take a listen. >> the big shame of the fact that this is taking even longer in addition to the problems with the bill itself is that whole agenda has been put on the back burner and it is unlikely that we're going to see any significant movement towards a, you know, a morrow bust value based payment system while policymakers are consumed with what's happening to medicaid and what's happening to the exchanges it just takes up all the oxygen in the room. >> so what can happen in between now and whenever we actually get a vote on this do they tip the scales in the direction of actually solving the problem? >> nothing good. again, the problem here is we're creating a huge amount of uncertainty both on the exchanges for how insurance companies are going to price their plans but then again, the whole more or bigger agenda of how do we move the entire health care system towards a value-bas

. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff, reporting from colorado at the aspen institute's spotlight health conference. as congress fights over replacing obamacare, we tackle the controversy over drug pricing with stephen ubl, head of pharma, the nation's largest pharmaceutical trade association. >> we think, as an industry, the pricing model needs to evolve. we need to move away from paying for volume, to paying for the value of care. >> sreenivasan: and, uniting a community through health. how one muslim-based group is bringing a chicago neighborhood together by focusing on its most basic needs. >> how you going to change anything in your neighborhood, if you really can't start with the place that really sustains the neighborhood? and that's the food, right? >> woodruff: and, it's friday. mark shields and david brooks are here to analyze the week's news. >> sreenivasan: all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> the ford foundation. working with vision

president of the aspen institute. author, biograver are you ready franklin einsteinen kissinger and this fall da vingy. >> presidential pull it'ser prize winning jefrd, jackson, fdr churchill. apologies if i left anyone hout walter isaacson to you to start us off. how do you keep yourself appraised of how far off of plumb, dead center normal we have grown? >> this is a totally uncharted waters here. every single day something is coming along. and i almost find it puzzling that there is not more of a rebel onin washington who is are going to be judged by history. we can look how eisenhower. was judged it's almost like the frog in boiling water, we've been inured to things unthinkable it seems to me day in and day out whether it's about the character of the president and the way we have to explain it to kids or the way the government is being operated. >> john meacham you can go all your life and not hear more than one mention of the frog in boiling water experiment. yet i used in conversation today to describe exactly

. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff reporting from colorado at the aspen institute's spotlight healthe. i get reaction to the senate plan from one of the architects of obamacare, former secretary of health and human services kathleeen siebeilius. >> fixing the affordable care act is important. the trump administration, i would suggest, has done nothing but sabotage the act since they came to office. >> sreenivasan: also ahead on the newshour, ng

the aspen institute, you get ideas festival where you get ideas across. and she's reminding us one of donald trump's curses i think he has brought to washington is the shrinking of the power of the presidency. people used to really look up to the executive branch and now every day donald trump seems to be doing something to make it look smaller. today in the news cycle we have a picture of a president in the united states who made fake time news magazine covers to post in clubs. what message does that give young people? i'm not saying other presidents didn't have low moral standards. nixon clearly had problems. bill clinton had problems but donald trump seems to be shrinking the presidency and the respect of the american people. and now operating at about 36% in the polls. >> how significant is it that former ag, acting ag, she's speaking out about a sitting president like this? >> well, i think it's somewhat significant and she's a respected figure but at the same time, don, donald trump won 306 electoral votes. sally yates won zero. he was elected by the

. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff, reporting from colorado at the aspen institute's spotlight healthnce. as congress fights over replacing obamacare, we tackle the controversy over drug pricing with stephen ubl, head of pharma, the nation's largest pharmaceutical trade association. >> we think, as an industry, the pricing model needs to evolve. we need to move away from paying for volume, to paying for the value of care. >> sreenivasan: and, uniting a community through health.

do you think -- when i was talking about doing this panel, i was having discussions with folks at the aspen institute and they said is the supposition of the panel that the tax code is the best way to help low and middle income people. one of the answers i got was good, god, no. but it's the only thing people are willing to talk about. when you talk about job skills training and funding that, it seems that the support for low and middle income families is such a multi-variate problem, but maybe it starts with the amount of revenue we bring in. excuse me. so much of the programs that support those families under government spending is -- it's discretionary, it's what lawmakers want to do in any given year. it fluctuates. i think mir -- mireya can speak to that issue. >> i believe that tax reform gives us an opportunity to look at ways to help the low-wage workers when we talk about, whether it's the vita program or job training. and e.i.c., e.i.c. is an important program for working families. it's a program that has encouraged working and families can work towards the job skills and growing.

you did something with the aspen institute about this area. >> we just published an article with the ute earlier this week, and we do believe that working with parents and children together, in two generations, that we can really focus on moving families out of generational cycles of violence, and we have the results to show it. about 76% of our families are showing improvement in their protective factors, which means improvement in their ability to keep their kids safe against all odds, against all the risks, against all their own generational cycles of violence that they may be coming through. so we're very excited about this program. >> katie, we have about 10 seconds left. most important thought you have you want to leave people with? >> parenting is tough, and if you need support and you need help, call our phone support line 24/7. it's 415-441-kids. and, as we said in the beginning, it's gonna take all of us working together to prevent abuse, but we can. >> katie, thank you so much. we appreciate it so much. and we had the talk line on the screen for everybody, and we will have

you did something with the aspen institute about this area. >> we just published an article with the en institute earlier this week, and we do believe that working with parents and children together, in two generations, that we can really focus on moving families out of generational cycles of violence, and we have the results to show it. about 76% of our families are showing improvement in their protective factors, which means improvement in their ability to keep their kids safe against all odds, against all the risks, against all their own generational cycles of violence that they may be coming through. so we're very excited about this program. >> katie, we have about 10 seconds left. most important thought you have you want to leave people with? >> parenting is tough, and if you need support and you need help, call our phone support line 24/7. it's 415-441-kids. and, as we said in the beginning, it's gonna take all of us working together to prevent abuse, but we can. >> katie, thank you so much. we appreciate it so much. and we had the talk line on the screen for everybody, and we w

. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff reporting from colorado at the aspen institute's spotlight health conference. i get reaction to the senate plan from one of the architects of obamacare, former secretary of health and human services kathleeen siebeilius. >> fixing the affordable care act is important. the trump administration, i would suggest, has done nothing but sabotage the act since they came to office. >> sreenivasan: also ahead on the newshour, hunger plagues venezuela. with skyrocketing food prices and an economy in freefall-- malnutrition hits the country's most vulnerable citizens. and where low-income americans go when they don't have bank accounts. making sense of the multi- billion dollar industry that is still largely unregulated. >> what's interesting is that even my boss at the payday lender said, "payday is a lousy product but we're filling a need that nobody else will fill." >> sreenivasan: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology,

i remember now acting director of the fbi andrew mccabe last year at a cnbc aspen conference on cybert saying that that was the issue that keeps him up at night. and really the only way to prevent it is to have excellent intelligence which means getting the support and help from the communities where these folks are living, and getting the help from those who are communicating with them online. so in other words, all of those who see the signs of radicalization both in the real world and these days in the virtual world, coming together, sharing that type of intelligence. i remember one near miss with the fbi where thanks to excellent intelligence work an fbi agent confronted an individual armeded with a long knife in the boston area right before he was going to get on a bus and start to attack individuals in the name of the islamic state in levant. ended up shooting him right before he entered the bus and was able to attack individuals. why? excellent intelligence. >> john, we only have reports at this point, but some reports suggest that of these three attackers, one was very well-kn

i sat down with him here at the aspen spotlight health conference today, and began by asking about theest republican plan to overhaul obamacare. it's still a fluid dynamic, as you know. we haven't taken a formal position on the bill. i think it's clear there is a direction towards more autonomy for states to shape their insurance markets as well as shaping their own insurance we'y engaged in this discussion, and the the prism with which we'll look at it is making sure that patients have access to the breakthrough treatments and cures our industry is developing. >> woodruff: the other major healthcare associations, hospitals, doctors and others have been pretty critical. is the pharmaceutical industry alone in a way or almost alone in not being as worried, as critical of what the republicans are doing? >> well, i think it's fair to say that those stakeholders are focused on the same issues that we are, but, again, i think the bill is still making its way through the process, and we'll be very engaged as the possess unfolds. >> we heard president trump during the campaign speak about the

at this event hosted by the aspen institute. >> all right, good afternoon, everybody. and welcome. my name is moyne conway, vice president at the aspen institute and executive director of the economic opportunities program. and i am so delighted to welcome you to today's conversation in our "working in america" series. at the economic opportunities program we do a lot of -- a variety of work to advance ideas that will help lower and med upincome americans. in the working in america series in particular, we look at a variety of issues that affect the shape of opportunity that working americans face and consider ideas that could make things better for working people. we're extremely grateful to the ford foundation, to the prudential foundation, the walmart foundation, for their support of the working in america series. we're going to talk taxes and what tax reform could mean for low and moderate income earners in the united states. if you think about taxes, you probably try not to, one of the things you think about is the complexity of the american tax system. and this is not surpris

now to alive conversation on tax reform under the aspen institute. looking at the the potential workers.for low income >> company will stay in the country. that's the whole point of corporate taxes. two can go right at it. makes my life easier. i do not understand how the two together.ome >> let's start with what corporations are paying now. line rate which is 35%. top tax rate the on corporations. there's lots of studies that have said that tax rate is substantially less than that. we're talking federal taxes. we're not talking entire state, and all that. government accountability a nonpartisanis entity, they looked a the for years, 2008 to 2012, they profitable u.s. corporation. they said they're paying 14% tax rate. that's more than half under what the effective tax rate is. lots of studies that that essentially you're talking about trickle down. if you give more profits to know will spend the money to invest. that will create more jobs and economy. academicsll, most don't believe -- studies don't show that trickle down works. we went through that

from the aspen ideas festival, in aspen, colorado, this is an hour. >> so before we begin the discussion, it's worth saying a word on the concept of the rule of law. the concept of rule of law goes back a long way. the greeks and romans talked about it and its meaning has evolved over time. but eventually what it's come to mean is basically a fundamental way in which society prevents the situation in which there is an oligarchy or dictatorship. internationally,

do you think that conversation shifts any time soon or is this where we sit >> we are here at the aspen institute. we have our health strategy group and forum. it's a bipartisan forum led by tommy thompson who was a republican governor of wisconsin and secretary of health and human services kathleen sebelius from kansas and secretary of health and human services they're meeting right behind me now. you got people in that room who know pretty much how you can get 70% of this country agreeing on what is a logical way to provide health care in this country. that takes a sort of centrist approach that we're not anywhere near right now obama passed the affordable care act on a party line vote republicans are trying to do whatever they're doing with it they're neither replacing it nor repealing it they're meddling with it on a party line vote. at some point i kind of hope that all of that fails and a group of people, democrats and republicans, are going to be willing to forsake the 20% of their party on the fringes and write a sensible bill that would try to move us away from the costliness t

, aspen, colorado. the director of national intelligence spoke about this. that is a public forum that includes journalists. as we discussed, october 7, intelligence officials discussed this publicly. every president of the united states through decades, not after they become president but after they become nominee, start receiving intelligence briefings, china, iran, in this case, a classic element of those intelligence briefings for the nominees of the republican party would be russian activity. once the president-elect becomes president, he has the authorization to receive daily intelligence briefings from the same people who spoke publicly about russian meddling. i don't know what to say, anderson. it was public and the president had the right to receive anything privately when he became the nominee. >> shawn, does it take senmake you that the president of the united states, given all the high level concern, one hopes in the white house, but certainly in congress about a future hacking that there would

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. >> joining us now for more is walter isaacson on, president and ceo of the aspen institute i don't rn know where to begin, walter. maybe with sessions' testimony in lilt tght of the mueller comt this afternoon how juicy do you think they will be >> well, i think jeff sessions will be very news worthy he's a former senator, so he will get a little bit deference, but i think he will come out swinging i think we saw with that weird cabinet meeting that trump did the dear leader sin drop where he wants everybody to keep praising him, he's always felt -- not always, but the past month felt that jeff sessions has not been as worth coming in praising him so i think sessions will come out and be very strong and say that the meetings with can i see kislyak were above board and the third meeting was simply where he ran into him at an event and that i think he will try to turn the tables and attack or at least denigrate comey for having let the memo out about his conversation with trump. i also think sessions will decline to answer any questions about his own conversations with trump. >> a lot

nicolas: right here is the aspen bag in all the various different colors.emonis: that's almost like a signature design. this is a good product. did somebody bring you this design? -noemi: no, this is me. -lemonis: well, i'm noticing that noemi has a keen sense of fashion. but while noemi's talent tells me this company has a real shot at success, these financials are telling me a very different story. the loss on this statement shows $500,000, which is what you told me. -stephanie: exactly. -lemonis: okay. professional fees of $250,000. stephanie: we went through a tough lawsuit last year. lemonis: was it the divorce? stephanie: yes. lemonis: ah. so, this is not a recurring... stephanie: no. no. this does not happen normally. lemonis: so, if i look at the financials for last year, i take out the lawsuit, which means i still lost $250,000 for the year. we have about $900,000 of inventory. how much of that would you say is wrong? stephanie: right now we're stuck with about $400,000. lemonis: you have cash tied up in inventory that isn't right for your business

the president's associates struggled to respond to the crude twitter attack at the aspen ideas festival. also, the wife of mitch mcconnell and asked about that tweet, her response, the president is new to politics. >> how do you respond to something like that when the president is making comments like that? >> well, the president is a citizen as well. and he says what he wants to say. he's not in politics. and so he's not used to the usual restraints that people in public service have. and so, you know, he's new. he will adapt and he'll learn. >> i assume you do not agree with a comment like that though. you can tell us if you do agree. >> no, i don't agree. >> meanwhile, trump advisor kellyanne conway walked a delicate line defending the president's right to respond, though not necessarily defending the message itself. >> the president normally does not draw first blood. he is a counter puncher, as he said, on the campaign trail. >> do you endorse what the president sent out in those tweets? >> i endorse the president's right to fight back when he is being mercilessly attacked and the

joining us, journalists and at the aspen institute, author of "the threat matrix: the fbi at war."ing piece for "wired" where you profile this new legal team put together by mueller. broadly speaking, without naming names here, broadly speaking, what does, you know, the personnel on this team, what does it tell you? >> well, this is a fascinating piece that bob mueller is assembling. it may actually be the most experienced and most talented group of fbi investigators ever assembled under a single task force at the department of justice. >> talk specifically about the most significant hire. >> sure. so, you've got all sorts of names here that matter a great deal to people within the justice department community. michael dreeben is joining the team from the solicitor general's office, the unit that argues in front of the supreme court on behalf of the government. it is one of the most experienced criminal appellate lawyers in the united states. but then from there, you also have a series of hires that point in interesting directions to where this investigation may be going. >> such a

to talk about the future of policy under this white house, walter isaacson, president and ceo of the aspeninstitute. good to see you. good morning. >> good to be back with you. how's everything? >> happens on a day where we get survey results from the business roundtable. according to jamie dimon, the urgency of tax reform cannot be understated. how much -- how receptive is the hill to that? >> you know, it would seem you would want to focus an agenda on infrastructure and tax reform. at the moment they have gotten themselves very clogged up, when i say they, the white house, pushing health care reform. i don't think the senate is going to be able to do health care reform before the summer. that clogs everything up. you have two very important things that were key to the trump agenda really improving infrastructure which he sort of made a big deal of yesterday, but then didn't send anything up to the hill. likewise, tax reform. he says his bill is doing fine but he actually hasn't written a bill or sent it up to the hill. >> we got a lot of cars kind of backing up on the freeway, feels lik

former acting attorney general sali yates who was fired by president trump spoke at the aspen ideas festival in colorado earlier this week about the justice department's russia investigation and her brief tenure in the trump administration. this is an hour. [applause] >> before we begin the discussion, it's worth saying about the idea of the rule of law. the concept of the rule of law goes back a long way. the greeks and romans and meaning has evolved over time. but it eventually has come to mean is a fundamental way in which society prevents the situation in which there is a dictatorship. and internationally today to understand that it has several requirements. first and most important is that government officials and their agents are accountable under the rule of law. that's absolutely critical. second is that laws are protective of the fundamental rights of citizens including among others, the right to freedom of speech and freedom of press. a third is that laws are made in an open and public manner and that they are fair minded and the fourth is that the enforcement of laws is done by in

while i was in colorado for the aspen spotlight festival last week, i spoke with kenneth davis, president and c.e.o. of the mount sinai health system, which includes seven hospitals and more than 140 ambulatory centers and practices in new york. dr. ken davis, thank you very much for talking with us. you were quoted recently as commenting on the house version of the republican overhaul of the affordable care act. you said it would have a fairly devastating effect on the country. is that the way you feel about the senate version too. >> absolutely. i think if anything, there are aspects of the senate bill that can be even more problematic. particularly the glad path per capita or block grants is going to produce a lower reimbursement for the states that's even in the house bill. >> woodruff: what about the effect on hospitals. >> there are a number of things that impact hospitals. all of them collectively, particularly for hospitals that have a reasonable number of medicaid patients are pretty difficult. there are substantial cuts. for instance, the public health and hospital corporation i

from the aspen ideas festival, in aspen, colorado, this is an hour. >> so before we begin the discussion, it's worth saying a word on the concept of the rule of law. the concept of rule of law goes back a long way. the greeks and romans talked about it and its meaning has evolved over time. but eventually what it's come to mean is basically a fundamental way in which society prevents the situation in which there is an oligarchy or dictatorship. internationally, the understanding is that it has several requirements. the most important is that government officials and their agents are accountable under the rule of law. second is that laws are protective of the fundamental right of citizens, including among others the rights to the freedom of speech and the freedom of press. a third is that laws are made in an open and public manner and that they are fair minded. and the fourth is that the enforcement of law as done by independent tribunals, by adjudicators that are independent of the forces that be. with that, i will begin by asking our commentators to talk a little bit, before we turn to

oklahoma: former congressman now with the aspen institute discuss how founding father james madison might view the current congress. the presidency, the court, and the media. from the national constitution center in philadelphia, this is about one hour and 45 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen welcome back to freedom day. a round of applause for the next phase of this incredible discussion. we have judiciary, and now it's time to discuss congress set of my article one of the constitution. joining us are two of america's congress,holars on nicky edwards. he is a former congressman from oklahoma, and he is author of "the parties versus the people: how to turn republicans and democrats into americans." , co-author of a book that will set up the tone of our discussion. the other ones were too optimistic. "the broken branch: how congress is feeling america and how to get it back on track." please do me in welcoming mickey edwards in norm orstein. welcome. >> thank you. >> norm, you have a striking title of a book that was quite a runaway hit when it came out, "the broken branch." our topic is, w

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tonight former acting attorney general sally yates spoke on the role of law under the trump administration at this year's aspendeas festival. here's a look. >> one of the things that concern me a bit as folks have talked about the special counsel investigation that is going on top bob mueller is doing, i know bob mueller of folks ought to have tremendous confidence in him. i mean, he is the consummate professional. [applause] he is going to call like he sees it. he's going to do this the right way. but bob mueller is going to be decided whether or not crimes were committed, that they could be used for prosecution or for impeachment. surely that's not our bar for the next, that's not the standard of conduct that we are looking for from a president or our administration. it shouldn't just be by the committed a felony or not. it should also be whether or not you are observing the kind of norms that we've been talking better today that are so essential to really the fabric of the rule of law. and so while i have total confidence in bob mueller and disability to conduct this investigation, i don't think that we sho

let's bring in john carlin, chairman of the aspen institute cybersecurity and technology program and also partner at marison and forrester. good to have you with us eamon mentioned the possibility that this is a ransomware attack what do we know or what can you from your experience surmise about the kind of attack this is and the possible origin of it? >> look, this is another reminder that the era of cyber insecurity is here and if you're a business -- and every business these days is a tech business -- you are vulnerable ransomware is a global plague. and as eamon says, it's extraordinarily well funded because many companies are not prepared when a cyberattacker goes into their system, encrypts data or steals data and threatens to release it. and because they're not otherwise prepared to get their business up and running, they feel they have no choice but to pay. >> but your presumption is that this is a ransomware attack. where do most of these attacks originate? can you make any -- draw any conclusion from your experience as to who may be behind it >> now, let's divide that into t

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the "washington post." i'm also joined here if aspen by the bureau chief for usa today. so let's talk about this.ell me what you think. i don't like projecting what will happen two weeks from now with this president. are you saying right now, or into the future, you see a weakness? >> well, look. i think at the beginning of this negotiation, mitch mcconnell told trump to back off in a polite way. to keep out of the business of certain negotiating. this is a chamber full of, what is it? four? people he ran against is ridiculed so he is not widely loved. i think the senate is a totally different ball game than when he was able to strong article, finesse, and here's the other thing, we're not sure how this happened. but with his tacit approval or certainly his knowledge, trump-related super pac was going to run some ads against dean heller and that blew up big time. and our sources tell us that in a very heated call last saturday mr. mcconnell called up the white house chief of staff and said it was beyond stupid they were doing that. and they brought it up in yesterday's meeting in the white house.

i'm vice president at the aspen institute. i am so delighted to welcome you to today's conversation and are working in america series. at the economic to the needs we do a lot of writing for ideas that will help low and moderate income to thrive in a changing economy. in the working of america series, in particular, we look at a variety of issues that affect the shape of opportunity that working americans have considered ideas that can make things better for working people. we are actually grateful to the foundation and the credential foundation and the walmart foundation for their support of the working in america series. in today's conversation, as you see, we'll talk taxes. and what tax form could mean too low and moderate income workers in the united states. now, if you think about taxes you probably try not to but if you think about taxes one of the things we think about is the complexity of the american tax system. this is not surprising because this country relies on the tax code to do a lot of policymaking. so, when we

we'll bring you the full conversation from the aspen ideas festival, tonight starting at 8:00 eastern on c-span. yesterday on capitol hill, the senate intelligence committee heard from career diplomats and experts from the u.s. and europe as they testified at the senate intelligence committee on russian influence in elections. this is about two and a half hours. >> i call the hearing to order. today the committee convenes its seventh open hearing of 2017 to examine russia's interference in the 2016 u.s. elections. in the 12th open hearing this year, to date our open hearings have largely focused on the domestic impact of russia's activities. today's witnesses, however, will highlight for the committee and for the american people russia's interference in the european elections. we hope to gain additional understanding of russian efforts to undermine democratic institutions, worldwide as the committee continues its inquiry. the intelligence committee assessed in january that moscow will apply lessons learned from its campaign aimed at the united states presidential election to further i

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