It is nice to see you again. Your book, breaking the twoparty do with the mystery of Political Science and has garnered a lot of attention. I just want to start out by pulling you back a little bit and asking you why do you want to write about Political Parties . Your first book was focused on lobbying within the universe of potential reform college and money in politics and executive power, you chose to focus on parties as the linchpin. Can you talk about what drew you two parties in the process . Its good to be with us light reunion here on cspan. So why did i write this book . Because i was worried about american democracy and i saw hyper partisanship as a serious problem affecting the country and wanted to see if there was a way to solve that problem. It imploded it directly from my previous book which is about corporate lobbying the map book had concluded one reason why lobbyists were so powerful in washington dc was because they broke a lot of laws there wasnt knowledge or expert
[applause] hello eric, please take a seat. Make yourself comfortable. Lori larry. We have reached an agreement on the u. S. Mexico candidate deal. How good is this for the rest of us . We have reached an agreement on deal. S. Mexicocanada mr. Kudlow i think it is better than nafta. I think it is broader than nafta. It updates nafta. Particularly in some important new economy ways. The way this thing was always sense,d in a bipartisan you have domestic content and labor issues which have been resolved. You also have new economy issues. In particular, intellectual Property Rights which has never been put into one of these trade agreements before. I think financial and digital services. They are going to make a big difference. We will get a lot of investments that we might not have had. I pulled out some of the estimates from the International Trade commission. A lot of people were quoting numbers from the itc. Lower numbers. But actually, they gave wide ranges on the u. S. Economy. The r
All three major stock indexes at new record highs. The president highlighting his support for the men and women of our military. The Navy Director Richard Spencer and alex an determine vineman. President trump we spent 2. 5 trillion on rebuilding our armed forces. You let Sergeant Bergdahl go, you let others go, including a young gentleman, a person who president obama let go who stole tremendous amounts of classified information. And you let that person go. So when you have a system that allows Sergeant Bergdahl to go, and you probably had 5 to 6 people killed. Nobody knows the number because he left. And he gets a slap on the wrist if that. Then you have a system where the warriors get put in jail for 25 years. I will stick up for the warriors. Lou the American People understand hes work for them. The president s approval numbers are on the rise, and support to impeach him falling significantly. The radical left are running into head winds, obstacles, every time they try to tear down
New record highs. The president highlighting his support for the men and women of our military. The Navy Director Richard Spencer and alex an determine vineman. President trump we spent 2. 5 trillion on rebuilding our armed forces. You let Sergeant Bergdahl go, you let others go, including a young gentleman, a person who president obama let go who stole tremendous amounts of classified information. And you let that person go. So when you have a system that allows Sergeant Bergdahl to go, and you probably had 5 to 6 people killed. Nobody knows the number because he left. And he gets a slap on the wrist if that. Then you have a system where the warriors get put in jail for 25 years. I will stick up for the warriors. Lou the American People understand hes work for them. The president s approval numbers are on the rise, and support to impeach him falling significantly. The radical left are running into head winds, obstacles, every time they try to tear down this president. They make him on
New record highs. The president highlighting his support for the men and women of our military. The Navy Director Richard Spencer and alex an determine vineman. President trump we spent 2. 5 trillion on rebuilding our armed forces. You let Sergeant Bergdahl go, you let others go, including a young gentleman, a person who president obama let go who stole tremendous amounts of classified information. And you let that person go. So when you have a system that allows Sergeant Bergdahl to go, and you probably had 5 to 6 people killed. Nobody knows the number because he left. And he gets a slap on the wrist if that. Then you have a system where the warriors get put in jail for 25 years. I will stick up for the warriors. Lou the American People understand hes work for them. The president s approval numbers are on the rise, and support to impeach him falling significantly. The radical left are running into head winds, obstacles, every time they try to tear down this president. They make him on