Corruption. Live coverage now on cspan3. I bear the distinct honor of introducing myself on the aai stage as the gene kirkpatrick fellow in foreign defense policy studies here. I hold four degrees in Political Science, one of them a ph. D. From the university of south carolina. This event is a discussion of my latest report called dismantling the authoritarian corruption nexus, which is now available for download on the aei website. Read it, share it, let me know what you think. For followup see my aei scholar page or find me on twitter at clay r fuller. The American Enterprise institute is a nonpartisan nonprofit educational organization. The institute takes no institutional positions on any issues and the views expressed in this report are mine and mine alone. Im going to make some brief comments on the report. Then we are going to invite our distinguished guests to the stage. I will give them an introduction and i will sit with them and we will chat about this topic until about 4 00
Hi, lets get this show on the road. Wow, thats loud. Okay. Here we go. All right. So welcome on behalf of our bipartisan and bicameral leadership to this briefing of the Helsinki Commission. Its mandated to monitor compliance with International Norms and standards in europe. This includes norms in the military affairs, economic and Environmental Affairs and human rights. I cover that second category. I do a lot of work on anticorruption economics and im so honored and pleased to have with us minister john pimrose, prime ministers anticorruption all the way from the european union. Even if we have other questions or concerns were ending sharp at 10 15. So just the briefest of opening remarks. Globalized corruption is one of the greatest threats facing the United States today. Authorize attorney klepto crats hide on our shores and allies providing protection for stolen assets and a vector of influence into our political system. Once established they set about hollowing out the rule of la
Full report says na youll be shocked, the way they treated our troops. Lets see how the markets responded to, a, a collapsing venezuela, b, oil cuts in nigh gather yeah and a new fire breakout near canadas oil patch. Yes, we cover it all. Varney company about to begin. And where is the market going to open this morning . Probably pretty much flat or lower. Remember, we were up 175 points yesterday. Now, the situation is getting worse in venezuela. To be facetious, its a socialist country and theyre running out of other peoples money and its a political and a humanitarian country. They have a deal with china to trade oil for loans. Look at oil around 47 a barrel, close to 48. It hit 48 yesterday for the First Time Since november. Theres a back drop to the oil story. Nigerias Production Cut by 40 . A tax on Oil Facilities to blame. In canada, that wildfire turned back towards oil drilling facilities and thats another anxiety for oil supply and then theres venezuela, thats a huge oil prod
Active serious criminal and Counter Intelligence investigations being brought to a halt. With hundreds of thousands of employees being required to show up for work with the risk of being fired if they dont, even if they are not being paid for a second month now, the president s top Economic Advisor has said that its nice these federal workers are volunteering to come to work without pay, they are not volunteering. They have to come to or they will lose their job. The employees and soup kitchen to feed families now that they are going into a second month with zero paychecks. Wi wilber ross said today when asked if federal workers were doing that, he was asked and replied quote, i dont really quite understand why. Why are they doing that . Then the president himself commented as far as he understands, local people and specifically local Grocery Stores are undoubtedly happy to help people out in circumstan s circumstances, dont froGrocery Stores give you stuff . Isnt that how it works for