You can find more information in your program guide. Now, heres gordon chang. Good afternoon. If i could have your attention. We are going to get started. Im susanna sheltie president of defense Form Foundation is my great honor to welcome you to our congressional defense and Foreign Policy form. Please enjoy your lunch and help yourself to anything you might need during the program. I know you all are very busy so im especially appreciative of you taking the time to be here for this very timely program. For those of attending the form for the first time, the forms began in 1980s as a way to bring expert speakers to capitol hill to discuss critical topics and bipartisan collegial atmosphere and as we promised, we have an expert speaker to address a critical topic. And very bipartisan collegial atmosphere. One thing to note there are a lot of media here so i would ask during the question answer period if you would reserve that for the Congressional Staff because of their limited time co
Expert speakers to capitol hill to discuss critical topics in a bipartisan collegial atmosphere to address a critical topic and very bipartisan collegial atmosphere. One thing to note there are a lot of media so i put asking thd during the question and answer period if you would reserve that for the Congressional Staff because of limited time restraints on their schedules. We are honored to have a prolific writer and fearless commentator and thinker to address what is happening in asia today especially for the citizens of hong kong and south korea. He is the author of losing south korea coming Nuclear Showdown and the coming collapse of china. Hes a columnist at the daily beast and his risings have been featured in numerous newspapers from the New York Times to the wall street journal and is a frequent commentator on fox news, pbs and bbc and many others as well as a regular cohost and guest on John Batchelor show. On the front lines in the battle for freedom, gordon. [applause] people
Conference continuing through most of the day today. If you missed any of what Vice President pence had to say, you will be able to watch it on cspan. Org. The search bar on our home page. We will also reair his remarks tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan. Coming up next, live coverage of the John Batchelor Radio Program from the stage. Later, we will have conversations with senator ted cruz, education secretary betsy devos, and labor secretary alex acosta. Trumps sonsident eric trump to read tomorrow, we will have President Trump speaking to the gathering after washington journal. Comments fromave Kellyanne Conway and fcc chair ai. High a ajit p [general chatter] [general chatter] you heard Vice President pence mention the reverend billy graham who passed away yesterday at the age of 99. Officepeaker paul ryans announced plans for a memorial at the capitol. Speaker ryan said in a statement, the late reverend billy graham will be brought to the capitol, where he will lie in on in the rotu
Next a discussion about the , future of the Republican Party politicalservative action conference, including Sebastian Gorka, former Deputy Assistant to President Trump. This is 35 minutes. I am John Batchelor, this is the John Batchelor show at seat ,ack, the american at cpac the American Conservative Union and others. I am very pleased to welcome my guest, who know exactly who i am. This is Sebastian Gorka of fox news. Our topic is the strength of the Republican Party here at the beginning of 2018. A Midterm Election year. Always keen on measuring ourselves. We begin, liz with the economy. In the last few days, weve had polls showing that the American People, despite the efforts of others now enjoy the tax cut and jobs act passed in 2017. That significant fact, joined with the observation from an independent forum shows that markets have turned very positive on the future of the u. S. , wall street and main street. What is this is what is a what is the significance of this to you . H
Conservative Political Action with a look at the Opioid Epidemic. And governor Peter Shumlin mary taylor consider ways to reduce addiction and opioid related deaths. Moderator is greta van susteren. Ms. Van susteren good afternoon. Very happy to be here today to moderate this fabulous panel about a very distressing issue, an issue that is bipartisan. It affects republicans, democrats, independents, it affects everybody. And i want to get started right away because this is a problem we all need to think about and talk about. I want to start with the Lieutenant Governor of ohio. Why is this topic important to you . We could be here talking about jobs in ohio and how many jobs you have open. Why do you want to talk about this one . Lt. Gov. Taylor this is an impact on every finally. On every family. Ive also seen it in the state of ohio. Havee talked to people who suffered in the crisis. It has touched every Single Person i have come across. We need good leaders who will stand up and prov