Arthur brooks, president of the American Enterprise institute. Then, a journalist because about his imprisonment in iran. This week on newsmakers , the president of the American Enterprise institute, arthur brooks, joining us from the aei studio in washington. Joining us in studio, we have James Hohmann and alex roarty. If i could begin, what is the American Enterprise institute . Mr. Brooks aei is a thing take think tank that has the same sort of mission as a research university, but without the students. We have a dedication to the Free Enterprise system. We do a lot of work on economics, foreign policy, health, and education can be have been here since 1938, doing work on how the American Enterprise system can benefit people around the world. Host what role do you think aei plays in republican thinking . Mr. Brooks for the longest time, although it backed the late 1930s, republican policymakers, and for that matter, democratic policymakers tankhave relied on think analysis. Our scho
A group that is a japanese terrorist group in the 1990s and it was a mixture of Eastern Religions and buddhism and a new age. They said that the whole world was wrong and only they knew the whole truth. They wanted to obliterate the world by using a special type of toxic gas and the plan did not go as planned. It was called sarin. Once you are exposed to it, you dont live long. They went to the subway. I dont know if you know about tokyo. Its 36 Million People. The tokyo subway is attended by four Million People every day. They go to the subway and they released the capsules, but only 12 people died. That would be an example of a cooked up religion who was caught by the japanese and he is going to die by hanging. That was the case of al qaeda and islamism. They get motivated. When kem wal weapons were used in world war i, we never defined that. It was mustard gas. I know that the german army was in defiance of the geneva convention. During the treaty of versailles, germany was punished
Global basis. Indeed it has specifically targeted canada and canadians, urging supporters to attack, quote, disbelieving canadians in any manner, vowing that we should not feel secure even in our homes. It would be convenient to dismiss such statements as the mere rambling of lunatics were it not for the fact that isils deeds have been fully in line with its words. More shockingly, isils words are matched by its actions. In the territory isil has occupied it has conducted a campaign of unspeakable atrocities against the most innocent of people. It has tortured and beheaded children, it has raped and sold women into slavery, it has slaughtered minorities, captured prisoners and innocent civilians whose only crime is being or thinking differently from isil. Indeed by late last summer, isil stood on the brink of committing largescale genocide in northern iraq. It was at that moment that canadas allies in the international community, led by president obama, decided to intervene. Canadians
You can find us on social media you can send us an email these are some how some of the numbers were broken down. Journal,ll street the rate slips below 6 since the recession started. The economy shows sluggish growth. The New York Times in a frontpage story says also in the washington post, we are joined now by reporter who will be breaking down the numbers with us and diving into the data. Good morning. Thanks for joining us. Thanks are having me. Host what drove the improvement this month . , theres the things always a debate over the decline in unemployment if people are finding jobs or losing their attachment with the labor force and not even being part of it. One of the good pieces of news is it looks like it was more people finding jobs. The number of jobs rose substantially. There was a decline in the labor force. We have seen months where people are dropping out and it makes it look like an improvement. This was not one of those months. There really were job gains for people.
Thank you for joining us. You are taking on this job after a pretty bad year for democrats. A lot of republicans who people did not think could get reelected in places like maine did. There were losses of governorships in illinois and states where they should not have. Even in a bad year. As you take on this job, looking ahead, what lessons did you take away from 2014 that democrats can really apply in 2015 and 2016 . You bet. Thanks for having me james. First, i would pushback on that a little bit. We have three great new governors in pennsylvania, rhode island, hawaii. Keeping colorado in connecticut even with the u. S. Senators lost, in the face of millions of dollars in negative ads people spent against them we certainly did not get everything they wanted in 2014, but i think we got some real stars in their. When i look to 2015 and 2016, the way i won the way i governed, was by focusing on the future, fiscal discipline, education, and improving the economy, trying to find common se