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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republican in the senate saying these things, do we have to give up the wish it wasn t trump wing in congress anymore, or is this where we re at at the republican party? i think we have to give up on that idea. think of the people who aren t running for reelection and they made a choice. do they have to try to win over the trump voters or do they just bow out? you have people like senator richard burr of north carolina, senator roy blunt of missouri, and they knew that it was going to be very difficult for them to win reelection, especially if they had a tough primary which was expected. so in addition to looking at how people are running their races to get reelected, you also have to look at the people who decided to make that choice, to actually not move further right, not embrace the former president s lies about the last election. and as far as senator grassley is concerned, a source told me that he s getting a lot of blowback in iowa from his for
has his minions coming after him. it s not just general milley. plenty said i couldn t speak out when i was in uniform or when i was inside. secretary austin has restrictions. general kelly needs to come out with everything he s got and try to organize others who can counter the narrative that trump has somehow captured the military or had this free reign over the pentagon. it wasn t trump s military. it was america s military. no one can say that more powerfully than someone like kelly. and this idea people like general didn t want to speak out, i think that was wrong but we re now dealing as a country with extremism in our military. in our congress. what good do you think that group could do by speaking out?