Maintain a competitive market. The Hudson Institute hosts the hourlong conversation from earlier this week. Good afternoon. My name is harold furchtgottroth. Im a fellow here at the Hudson Institute. Ill be your host for today. Thank you so much for joining us. We are very pleased and honored to have with us the honorable makan delrahim, assistant attorney general at the u. S. Department of justice. He needs no introduction. And he has been working in and around issues related to antitrust for a great deal of time. He has a very distinguished resume, which you can find at the department of justices website. Before we get started, i have two requests. One is if you could take your cell phone and put it on silent mode so that we dont have unnecessary interpretations of that sort. The second is for the q a session, we will have cards that you can write questions and those cards are going to be passed around. You can write your questions. Theyll be collected. And ill sort through those. We
Thank you very much, everybody. It is great to be with the president of romania, who has done a great job. Is a political season going on in romania, but i imagine youre going to do very, very well. We have a great relationship with romania. The United States and romania have gotten along better than ever before, so i want to thank you for that, and we have got big trade going on, business. We have a lot of trade with romania. They are very talented people. We buy, thereby they buy. We have a lot of romanian people in the United States, and they are tremendous people, they work hard and are very, very successful. How many do you have in the United States, you know . Has anyone figured that out . Pres. Iohannis we have a lot of romanians in the state. Pres. Trump i think i know most of them. Pres. Iohannis great people. I think a quarter of a million or so. Pres. Trump its a lot. A very large population, and they love romania, too. Have never forgotten romania. They are very much inclin
Theanies that are on cutting edge of the science. What we do is two things. We hold meetings and conferences over the world. We bring investors together with small companies, sometimes Large Companies and they make deals and decide whether to invest in companies are not. We do Public Policy advocates. Federal level both before congress and regulatory agencies. How much does your Organization Fund . Caller guest one thing i try to do is meet the freshman members of congress. Begin by 100 and introducing technology and what are the policy issues that are conducive to the success of . Nnovation how much of the conversation have you focused on the cost of ascription drugs . Caller most of them. Host do you think prescription docs cost too much . Caller there is a group of patients who have diseases for which we have already developed cures. There might not one of them should never be a without the medicine they need. We believe in that imperative and makes her that does not happen. The sec
Future achievements are empowered by the past achievements. The things that you will be discussing today will one day be enshrined in this museum. Dont forget about us, we need hardware. Last month that our museum in washington, at the unveiling of Neil Armstrongs apollo 11 ship, Vice President pence spoke about the renewed commitment to human spaceflight. And at the National Air Space museum, we see evidence of that commitment every day. Countless children have stood in this very spot and marveled up at the Space Shuttle discovery, parents,ed to their grandparents or teachers to ask how something so big could fly so high. Our museum is where the country comes to understand its heritage of adventure and discovery, and to pass that torch on to new generations. We are at the dawn of a new space age, with a challenge to return to the moon and beyond. The americans who will make those first flights, including the first woman on the moon and the first humans on mars, were not allowed to see
Eastern this morning. Join the discussion. Washingto continues. Host 441 days to go until election 2020. We are joined now by David Wasserman, the house editor of Cook Political Report. Lets start with what the Playing Field looks like right now. How many seats the republicans need to take back to regain control of the house and how many seats you think are in play this cycle. Heres the basic math theres 235 democrats in the house, 197 republicans, one independent who left the Republican Party and theres two republican vacancies, one in north carolina. We expect one of them will stay in republican hands. The other will be very competitive, the ninth district. Depending on the results of that special, republicans could need to pick up 19 or 20 seats to retake the majority in 2020. Host when it comes to the house map, we saw the house flip in 2018. What is the likelihood or how often hasnt happened in history that the house has flipped in one election and then flipped back the following