Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Plus, first, the elite still dont get it. That is the focus of tonights angle. Over the weekend, the libertarianleaning coke network hosted a Rocky Mountain retreatd political leaders. They use the occasion not to amplify and hear the president s policies, but to decry them. 82yearold charles koch has taken the reins of the network. He released this video in advance of the retreat. Now he claims opportunities in the global marketplace are creating anxiety and the loss of jobs at home. In response, we are seeing the rise in protectionists, for countries, organizations, and individuals are trying to protect themselves from these changes. They are doing whatever they can to close themselves off from the new, hold onto the past, and
facilitating the outsourcing of jobs, even through really lame policies, like regulation, or through poorly nego
Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Policies, like regulation, or through poorly negotiated trade deals. Dont get me wrong. Ot the kochs have done great work on tax reform, stuffff like deregulation, and also in the area of education. Last year, they spent 90 million in university programs, and they are committed to expanding their support for k12 education. I have a question for you. How effective other educationn efforts be if americans enter a world where china dominates most Major Industries . Including the areas of stem science, technology, so forth including things like artificial intelligence. Ud we cant just look the other way while china and a lot of other countries, by the way, game the Global Trading system and rack up huge trade surpluses. I. T. , stem, unfair subsidies and so forth. Any fairminded person would
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have to agree with her at the white house economic advisor larry kudlow, a free trader himself, set over the weekend. people will say, well, trump s tariffs are damaging this, that, and the other thing. i say, don t blame president trump. he inherited a completely broken world trading system, including a wto, most particularly china, but not only china. okay? is trying to fix that. laura: remember the kochs a part of the job and sovereignty killing trans-pacific partnership, and then after agreement. bush, obama, and until the campaign, at least, hillary champion. the koch network, like the rest of the g.o.p. old guard, is positively furious with trump s use of tariffs to level the playing field. in fact, they announced last month that they have committed to a multimillion dollar, multiyear campaign to oppose what trump is doing on trade.
enemy. it is trump. and they are resisting him at every turn. sadly, the kochs are too often joining in their ranks. like the bushes, the koch brothers did not support donald trump in 2016. think about that. but they have certainly reaped the benefits of trump s thriving economy. are they prepared to take their profits that they made over the last two years and donated to elizabeth warren because that will be good for their business? you think they will give them a better deal on the things they believe in, tax reform, regulation, so forth? what a pity. if the seas kochs and their well-heeled donors miss the opportunity to support the president and be a part of the america first unity that people believe in. and that is the angle. joining us now the reaction, the washington examiner s byron york. democrat and radio talk show host brett han and monica crowley come out of the london center for. great to see all of you.
monica, the koch brothers have done a lot of good things, no doubt about it. but it is wild to hear them rail on about trump s use of a tool that bush used, obama used, reagan used, and is one of the classic tools of our economic negotiation throughout american history. yes, this is yet another example of the empire striking back against donald trump. trump ran on this premise that he was going to come in and smash the corrupt existing order, the corrupt status quo. that meant the elite ruling class on both sides of the aisle, the media, and the networks like the kochs, who are so deeply invested in the globalist agenda. he promised that he was going to smash all of that and actually represent the american worker, the american taxpayer, and americans economic interests. the reason we have donald trump, among many reasons, laura, is because he went out into the heartland and he said, you know what? icu, i hear you, and i will be