Good morning. Thank you for getting up early. Our core and the students its great to be with you this year. Just after i addressed this conference in 2015, Prime Minister netanyahu gave an important address to congress. He warned about the dangers of then president obamas plan for a nuclear deal with iran. The Obama Administration ignored him. It was hardly the only time israel would let feel down over the last eight years. The u. S. Israel relationship was in a terrible state when the new administration took office. We all agree on the importance of reaffirming our relationship and charting a new way forward. But we first need to examine what went wrong over the last eight years and that starts at the beginning. Former president obama and i have very different opinions about americas role in the world. We disagreed about our lives with israel, we disagreed whether the post world order remains in our nations interests, we just had a fundamentally different approach to the world. Presid
Audience at to please make that last little check of your cell phone. Make sure that they will not interrupt the preceding today. We will get started right now. The event today is really designed to celebrate the publication of a new heritage special report on Big Government policies that hurt before and how to address them. Is a very states compassionate country and we have an awful lot of government activities that affect poorer members of our population in one way or another. We have welfares programs shall welfare spending that adds up to well over a trillion dollars these days and i can be in things like health care, direct income support at one time or another. We are not here to talk about those policies today. We want to talk about another set of the Government Policies, those of that are put in place for what seemed to be on the surface very wellmeaning purposes and in fact they made the necessary policies of one kind or another for government they may be necessary policies of