Within the political structure. Shinzo abe, the Prime Minister of japan, people underestimate the challenges facing him. Accusations of corruption, the battle just got steeper. We cant overemphasize how steep the economic challenge has been. He is famous for his three arrows he has reduced unemployment, but low deflation and low inflation continues to hobble the japanese economy which as you know depends on an elder situation that creates a Social Security bill. To take care of those people as they get older. Is facing challenges on that. Things he has done to jolt the economy have proven very uneven in terms of their impact. Now he is an issue where, this cronyism, this school that was connected to his wife, other people in his cabinet have done things that have caused scrutiny. He has jettisoned some of them. The underlying challenge is, can he marshall his forces in a way to continue this relentless focus on the economy . The defense issue is another issue with japan. There is treme
Could be sent to speaker heritaheritage speakerheritage. Org. Leading our discussion today is Michael Sergeant Research Associate in thomas a. Rowe institute. He over sesees and examines our surface transportation aviation water ways and other policy issues related to infrastructure around the country, a regular contributor to the daily signal, please join me in welcoming Michael Sergeant. Mike. [ applause ] thanks, good afternoon and thanks for joining us at the heritage foundation. In terms of sheer lip service, infrastructure was one of the most prompt issues in the 2016 campaign. Both candidates addressed it as a way to deal with our crumbling roads and bridges and delap p e dilapidated airports. Now the new president is poised to offer a 1 trillion infrastructure plan and has the democrats following suit with our own 1 trillion proposal although still very few specifics these issues will come to the forefront as Campaign Promises run up against reality. The questions we must addre
Impact on jobs and the economy. This is just over an hour. Good afternoon. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation in our douglas and sara allison auditorium. We welcome to those on our cspan. Org for these occasions. We ask the courtesy that cell phones and other mobile devices have been silenced or turned off as we begin. For those watching online and here in house we remind everyone questions or comments can be sent at any time to speaker heritage. Org and post the program on the heritage home page for your future reference as well. Leading our discussion today is Michael Sergeant Research Associate in our thomas a. Rowe institute for Economic Policy studies an leads our efforts to formulate free market policies and overseas and schexamines infrastructure around the country. He is a regular contributor to the daily signal and his commentary featured in the boston post, washington herald and fox news. Please join me in welcoming michael. Good afternoon. Thanks for joining us at the Herita
Impact on jobs and the economy. This is just over an hour. Good afternoon. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation in our douglas and sara allison auditorium. We welcome to those on our cspan. Org for these occasions. We ask the courtesy that cell phones and other mobile devices have been silenced or turned off as we begin. For those watching online and here in house we remind everyone questions or comments can be sent at any time to speaker heritage. Org and post the program on the heritage home page for your future reference as well. Leading our discussion today is Michael Sergeant Research Associate in our thomas a. Rowe institute for Economic Policy studies an leads our efforts to formulate free market policies and overseas and schexamines infrastructure around the country. He is a regular contributor to the daily signal and his commentary featured in the boston post, washington herald and fox news. Please join me in welcoming michael. Good afternoon. Thanks for joining us at the Herita
Stretching for results he pre r prefe prefers. Reaction from lawmakers was swift. From nancy pelosi, his views on womens right deeply troubled. I am troubled by the nomination of judge gorsuch and will fight to make sure that the american peoples voice are heard. Hes been nominated to fill the seat of the late judge antonin scalia. Also we want to take you out to live pictures in washington, d. C. Weve seen two weeks of protests across the country since President Trumps inauguration. Tonight another one starting to pick up. Live pictures. Around 9 00 p. M. Eastern time at the Supreme Court. People starting to gather protesting the choice of judge gorsuch. Well our Investigative Unit is on the story. Judge gorsuch is a judge in the tenth circuit of appeals in denver, colorado. Known as an originalist and a judge who interprets the meaning of the constitution as i. D. Wu written and adopted by our founding fathers. That is similar to the late justice antonin scalia. They were very close,