[chatter] good morning, everybody. It is a Beautiful Day outside, and you are all here to talk about regulatory policy. I love it. My kind of people. I am the Vice President and director of economic studies here at brookings. I am also the founder and director for the center on regulation and markets, which is a relatively new endeavor at brookings. Its goal is to improve regulatory policy through independent research on regulatory performance and process, and to host events like this where we can have informed debate on regulation, and everything with the word reg in it. There is a long tradition at brookings working on regulatory policy. Way back in the 1990s in my youth and im going to stick by that being my youth i was affiliated on the aei side with the joint study on regulatory structures. That center no longer exists. I want to start something up again, and lo and behold, here we are. It is a particularly opportune one to focus our attention regulatory policy. In recent years we
Hurt our Brooklyn Borough president talk about for today maybe the only divide that matters, and that is americas really basically only two groups of people. One either group of people who live, work, study and enjoy brooklyn. And the other is everybody else who wished they could. So weve got that going for us, too. On this date in late august, our law school welcomed its new class of students of 371 students, plus about 35 international students. They were all enthralled with americans across the country with an external event. That was the day of the totality, the day of the eclipse, and people across the United States and our students and faculty gazed up from, with their safety glasses i hope, and it was as if nature itself was conspiring to bring us together if only for a few hours. But that sense of unity and wonder while pleading was very welcomed from the tumultuous events that continue to roil this country. As of this writing, floridians, some of them graduates of our law scho
Family. And 385 million charitable dollars later, elton john gets celebrated in a big way. Early today starts right now. Good morning. Im phillip mena. And im gigi stone woods. Unending horror is how the cover of one major newspaper reads this morning after 26 innocent lives were lost and ten others wounded. Happened in sutherland, texas, just southeast of san antonio following a deadly rampage when a lone gunman walked into a church during sunday service dressed intact cal gear and used an automatic Assault Rifle to shoot parishioners. The suspected attacker, 26yearold Devin Patrick kelley, was later found dead himself. His victims range in age from 5 to 72 years old, with even the churchs pastors teen daughter among the dead. Its a tragedy that is devastating the small town of Sutherland Springs and the nation in what is a deadliest shooting at a place of worship in the countrys history. We are learning more about the suspected gunman including his military past. For more on this we
Family. And 385 million charitable dollars later, elton john gets celebrated in a big way. Early today starts right now. Good morning. Im phillip mena. And im gigi stone woods. Unending horror is how the cover of one major newspaper reads this morning after 26 innocent lives were lost and ten others wounded. Happened in sutherland, texas, just southeast of san antonio following a deadly rampage when a lone gunman walked into a church during sunday service dressed intact cal gear and used an automatic Assault Rifle to shoot parishioners. The suspected attacker, 26yearold Devin Patrick kelley, was later found dead himself. His victims range in age from 5 to 72 years old, with even the churchs pastors teen daughter among the dead. Its a tragedy that is devastating the small town of Sutherland Springs and the nation in what is a deadliest shooting at a place of worship in the countrys history. We are learning more about the suspected gunman including his military past. For more on this we
Good morning. Im christopher prebrle, the Vice President for defense and Foreign Policy studies here at the cato institute. Thank you for being here today and thank you also to our outstanding conference staff here at cato who do such a terrific job organizing our many events. Welcome also to those of you watching on cspan and online at cato. Org. Following the september 11th terrorist attacks in october 2001 the United States initiated combat operations against al qaeda targets inside of afghanistan and against the taliban government that had harbored the terrorists there. In the ensuing 16 years u. S. Goals have changed marginally, but they typically include defeating al qaeda and other terrorist groups with global reach, strengthening the Afghan Government, and Security Forces to prevent the taliban from retaking political power and denying terrorists a safe haven. Assessments of our progress to date are mixed at best. In june secretary of Defense James Mattis stated, we are not win