We have a very compelling discussion coming up on what is in a way the Fourth Branch of government and that is the Administrative State that has an impact on all of our lives and businesses. The rise of the Administrative State, will the usb a democracy in the future or a nation ruled by the Administrative State . Our panel will come up in a minute. You will get a preview of tonights Tony Blankley Fellowship Award presentation because the moderator of the panel is one of our two new recipients of the blankley fellowship. Is the chief washington correspondent for the hill and hill tv. At thelso a media fellow Hudson Institute in washington, d. C. , where he cohosts the realignment podcast. As whiteusly served house correspondent for the daily caller and the d. C. News foundation. He received his masters degree any in u. S. National Security Policy from georgetown university, and his bachelors in economics from the George Washington university. Saagar has studied extensively across the g
So effectively, they just disappeared. Yet, in a lot of ways, defund the police defined this year in american politics. For months, it was the central demand of the american left. It was the main thing it wanted. And there was never any question about what defunding the police would mean, and really, it was a remarkably straightforward slogan. Defund the police meant defund the police. Cut off their salaries, get rid of them. But why . What was the point of getting rid of the police come of defunding them . Thats the real question. Its baffling, really. In conventional politics, the goal is always to improve the lives of your voters, give people something they want and in return, they will vote for you. Thats the exchange. But who exactly wanted to defund the police . Was there a constituency for that . Whose life was going to be improved by abolishing Law Enforcement . Was there evidence that any ones would be improved . No, there wasnt. No academic study or white paper from some thin
News coverage is provided. Americans were working than eight years before. We have turned it all around. Once again we have been the economic envy of the entire world. It really is a stroke because the gdp did hit four times during the Obama Administration. The highest was 5. 1 percent. But as you say, it was something. Mike growth like this is something obsolete should be celebrated. With the white house and i think others have been saying is that the numbers during the Obama Administration may have been high but it was largely because there was a recovery phase. When the president began with the economy already, pretty decent shape and really revving it up with the agenda of deregulation and all of that. Hes been criticizing the fed recently for trying to pump the brakes on the economy because he did not want them to raise interest rates. Eric meanwhile, this is been
going on all cylinders in terms of the economy and the gdp. Another blowback of the performance with Vladimir Putin th
A Staggering Number of democrats jockeying for position as donors try to push all of them further to the left. Plus, the Deadly Wildfires raging in california spurring a fierce political debate over who or what is to blame. For the rise in socalled mega fires. Our experts will debate. Hello and welcome to fox news night. Im Shannon Bream in washington. President trump is eyeing a staff shakeup. He says three or four or five cabinet positions are for grabs. Plus, he wants his home insecurity chief Kirstjen Nielsen to be in his words much tougher. Trace gallagher is following the news. Good evening. Good evening, shannon. 6,000 Central American migrants are already in tijuana and a stadium being used for shelter looks like a refugee camp. The Mexican Government says it does not have the resources to house these migrants longterm. But with 6,000 already here and 7,000 to 8,000 more coming, the application process for u. S. Asylum could take up to a year. While mexico has laid out the welc
Senior capitol hill producer chad phil gramm with us. We have playbyplay. First, to peter doocy on capitol hill. What appears to be the empty halls of power, except for our peter doocy. Hey, your company there, peter. Well, shannon, as you know, normally an hour before something huge on capitol hill like a vote or a Government Shutdown, a hole we like one, underneath where lawmakers with offices in the russell building have to go so they can get to the floor, there is nobody here there are people here who are starting to clean up for the night, but i havent seen any lawmakers over in this hallway, and that is after the senate spent most of their day flying lawmakers back in from Christmas Parties across the country to come and try to vote to advance this border wall bill, border wall money bill, and most together was 47 votes. It was enough to move to debate on the measure, but not enough to avoid a shutdown. This ball does not have 60 votes here in the senate, let alone 50 votes. That