[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. My name is ryan streeter, director of policy studies and its my pleasure to welcome you to this event featuring timothy carneys new book and discussion about the findings and claims and i think you will find the remarks in the panel of interest particularly timely given the moment we find ourselves in historically right now so i look forward to the discussion. Hes going to come out and offer a few words and then he will be followed with a Panel Discussion with Charles Murray known to everybody here and then Megan Mcardie known as Washington Post columnist with a lot to say on this issue as well. Tim is a visiting fellow here at aei an and is also the commentay editor at the Washington Examiner where hes been a columnist for a while. His previous books are what many of you probably know him for. The big ripoff and that is where he carved out a name for himse himself. Its a deep dive and its
Watch after words with Jonathan Karl, sunday at 9 p. M. Eastern on book tv on cspan2. [inaudible conversation [inaudible conversations] good afternoon everyone, welcome to the American Enterprise institute. My name is ryan streeter, the director of domestic policy studies here and its my pleasure to welcome you to this event featuring tim carneys new book and a discussion about its findings and claims and i think youll find both tims remarks and the panel of interest, particularly timely given the moment that we find ourselves in historically right now. So i look forward to the discussion. Tim is going to come up and offer a few words and then he will be followed we will follow that with a Panel Discussion with Charles Murray who is known to probably everybody here, ais own fa chair and Cultural Studies here at aei. And megan mccardle, a Washington Post columnist with a lot to say as well. Tim is a visiting fellow here at aei and hes also the commentary editor at the Washington Examine
Cathedral looks like now you can see their scaffolding holding the structure together french president Emmanuel Macron says that he wants the reconstruction of the cathedral to be done within 5 years and for the first time now and more than 800 years, the cathedral, well be silent on christmas. This exceptional i you this hasnt happened for 850 s. Such a blaze of the tricky part how to know and how to go as false as possible without going to fall. And you really i have to make sure all the everything will stand and will stand for least another 850 and that of course is a long time this years Christmas Mass will be held at a nearby church as for what the cathedral will look like once its finish with the jury is still out many people though believe it will take a miracle to achieve president macrons fiveyear timeline. The north korea leader kim jongun says he has a Christmas Gift for President Trump trump told this to reporters while at his florida residents today, north korea has threat
A raid on an army base. Typhoon 5 fun seeps through the philippines causing havoc with strong winds and heavy rain. We begin this news hour in Northern Syria where thousands of people are fleeing the last rebel stronghold of lib province Syrian Government forces and their russian allies are closing in on the city of mar at newman other parts of italy but been under attack for weeks now while that goes on many syrians are in search of safer conditions for their families thousands are heading towards turkey the violence has displaced more than 130000 people this month alone. Till now the only model may god take revenge on all those who caused this what have we done to deserve this what have we done i plead to god for mercy god to punish them for displacing us accusing all of this for humiliating us for gods sake with being good to live. Oh mama dog joins us from. Turkeys border with syria a moment weve seen this unfolding for several days now this increasingly worsening humanitarian cris
Sound of ripping throughout the nation. Theres going to be a lot of ripping. Carley that sounds like a problem for you. Todd i got home yesterday, instead of saying welcome home, honey, we missed you. My wife says you were too loud during the 8 00 hour. Im going to ratchet it down a little this hour. Merry christmas to you and yours. Griff Merry Christmas. Thank you for having us into your living room now. I have confirmation in my living room, which is in washington now, i was questionable if santa was going to come, he apparently came to the jenkins household. You can see here with lots carley lots of gifts. Griff i got so many gifts. Carley are those all for you . Griff i assume so. Who else would they be for . Carley you have two daughters. Griff i do. Madeleine and mckenzie, Merry Christmas to you guys. Todd i called santa a dirty name yesterday, he didnt deliver to my tree as nicely as yours. Griff theres one thing about the tree. If we can show it quickly, that carley pointed ou