there, there are events at the atlantic counsel we do have duty. there s events we do out of fascination, interest. and there are events at the lank counsel we do out of friendship and long years of bonding. this is all three of those and that s where duty also grows as well. i ve been stealing the ideas for years. and that s why it always kind of upsets when he writes a book because then i can t say that was my my idea or his idea. but this is one of those absolutely brilliant ideas. which is when you hear about interesting ideas look why didn t i hear or say it that way. so just or the first paragraph gives you a sense of how well many of us sometimes engage a little bit too much in mush. but that does not happen to be one of harlem weaknesses. presidents this is a start presence, politician and failed to embrace this simple truth for more than half a century america has lost every war it has started. and you find yourself saying yeah that s right and failed in
no deductions, you want to give to charity that is great, we are not giving you a tax break. if you do that, tax everything and give no right offs, you can set the rates very low. sunday night on c-span s you and a. welcome to the uk 56 parliament. although it was short the parliament witnessed extraordinary upheavals in british politics. alicia: two years ago we had different party leaders, the uk was a member of the european union and the word brexit had yet to be invented. as i once said i want the future once. alicia: new people at the top of. in accordance with the wishes of the rich people the united kingdom is leaving the european union. memorable speeches. they hold our values in contempt, tolerance and decency in contempt. alicia: and prime ministers questions. maureen wrote to me this week with a heavy heart, we have been treated disgustingly. keith: robust exchanges at westminster. you will be here the rest of your life. i am sorry we did it. keit
[ applause ] thank you. thank you so much. good morning everybody. thank you to entire cap team for putting together this ideas conference. thank you to the staff here at the four seasons for looking after us so well. i m glad we could bring a little bit of l.a. weather here for at least a couple of days in washington. enjoy it while it lasts i hear. thanks to all of you mostly for coming here and being a part of this most urgent and important conversation. for the last few months commentators have been calling this a big moment for the democratic party. and they are right. i believe this is an even bigger moment for the american people, a bigger moment for our country. for practically my entire lifetime and maybe yours we have heard politicians at events like this talking about how we are on the cusp of a technological revolution, one that will forever alter the way we work, the way we learn, the way that we communicate, flying cars, solar energy, robots that will make us
prosperity was kind enough in the weeks before i came to actually bombard the telephones, fill the mailboxes, talking about the fact that i was going to come up and visit. i have no doubt that a whole heck of a lot of you don t know what it s like to have afp go after you but it s a fairly common occurrence in a place like montana. i showed up anyway. by the end of the meeting, they acknowledged that 40% of the people that walked through the hospital doors didn t have health insurance. they recognize if they lost that rural hospital, that community was soon to follow. they saw past the rhetoric and understood that not only could expansion improve the health of the friends and neighbors. but at the endst day, it would save that rural hospital which also saves that rural community. their support and then that visit gave their local republican legislator the confidence to defy her party leadership. to defy the coke brothers and actually support the measure and every vote matters
but first, gabriel gatehouse reports from phoenix, where america s increasingly polarised political debate spilled out onto the streets. voiceover: bikers for trump. they came to phoenix, to show support for their president, and, they said, to stop protesters from harassing those who wanted to attend the rally. charlottesville is still fresh in the memory. two radically opposing visions for america clashed, blood was spilt, people died. we don t want to see anybody get hurt. the bikers condemned white supremacists and neo nazis, and so, eventually, did donald trump, but he was slow and equivocal. many saw in him a president who emboldened racist. for all of us to protect people from threats of violence by protesters. but america is in the grip of a cultural war so polarising, you might wonder whether these two sides lived on the same planet. obama for the last eight yearshas emboldened people to come out and be violent because there has been no consequences for any of it, tel