President elect donald trump begins a new political era with a visit to the white house. Ast comes a little later on the republican meets with president obama to discuss the transition. Washington, wall street, and investors watch. Republicans moved to claim a mandate for their agenda of deregulating the Financial Sector and replacing obamacare. As we break down the promises and policies of the Trump Presidency, my guests are Sharon Ohalloran, jim rickards, author of a forthcoming book, one of the few guests that actually called the election, and International Reaction from Michael Fuchs a little later on for what this election means for business as we bring you more interviews. All that is coming up. First lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Heres nejra cehic. Nejra in the u. S. , thousands of demonstrators took to the streets overnight to protest Donald Trumps election as president. Demonstrations and vigils have taken place in urban areas as well as smaller cities. T
Does anybody know the answer to that, how it is being done . Should we be thinking about creating one . Dr. James leduc . I go back to the analogous analogies with the sars outbreak, and at that time both cdc and who led an aggressive effort to make sure that the virus was available to the International Scientific community for analysis. That went very well. I was at cdc then and spent a lot of time packinghouse strains of sars to share with others. So that worked very well. I do not know what the problems are in that, but i suspect it starts with the countries to have ownership of the material. But it is more complex than that, and i really do not have any answers. Okay. I will move to the next question. Medical school. Thank you all for your work and presentations. I wanted to also thank dr. Daniel bausch for bringing us back to the reality of the fact that it is in west africa and the bulk of the diseases in west africa have spend a good time backandforth in liberia. And i can tell
Inequality. If you look at what actually happened to people, a lot of what matters, they are aftertax income and weve had substantial tax cuts in middleclass families, make tax cuts permanent that are worth thousands of dollars a year, had additional tax cuts for the areas like the itc and Child Tax Credit and on top of that you have the Affordable Care act. When you take all that into account, the policies of this administration have substantially reduced income inequality relative to what you otherwise would have had. In terms of the underlying trend in the economy i think that challenge is to with this and their dynamics, technology, education, globalization institutional changes, declining value of the minimum wage, all of those factors i think our continuing you know to create an underlying challenge to inequality and thats what were proposing all the steps we are for minimum wage to education to shaping globalization in terms are good for American Workers and the American Economy
Administration and explains why conservative solutions are needed in washington in leadership in crisis. And finally in a time for truth, another declared president ial candidate texas senator ted cruz recounts his journey from a cuban immigrants son to the u. S. Senate. Look for his book in june. Coauthors Benjamin Wittes and Gabriela Blume take a look at the threats well face in the future and discuss the role governments should play in protecting us next on booktv. So just a few i think weve covered all the housekeeping actually, so i think were good to go, and i will just go ahead and introduce our authors and panelists. So our two authors are Gabriela Blum and Benjamin Wittes. Gabriela blum is professor of human rights and humanitarian law at harvard law school. She specializes in Public International law, international negotiations, the law of Armed Conflict and counterterrorism. Shes also the codirector of the hls brookings project on law and security and a member of the program
House historian and first ladies who had the most impact. Sunday afternoon just before two, James Garfield who served almost two decades and was assassinated 200 days into his term as president. Get our complete schedule on cspan. Org. Benjamin wittes and gabriella bloom are the coauthors. It becomes available to private citizens. They talk about the book, this is an hour and 15 minutes. So just a few i think weve covered all the housekeeping app actually so were good to go. I will introduce our authors. So are two authors are gabriella bloom and benjamin wittes. She is slices in Public International law and negotiations of Armed Conflict and counterterrorism. Shes also on the brookings project. Benjamin witt is is a senior fellow. We also have the print professor of entrepreneurial studies and professor Jack Goldsmith a professor of law. Think you all for law. Thank you all for coming. I will handed over to benjamin. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me and thank you all for turnin