Growing up on long island they said get the federal job to do work for thel post office. Why . Because they take care of their own. I have family who owned business. Business. Equity to work for the government and this whole thing is out of control. Half the people unit in . They can complete a full sentence we are breaking away to keep our over 40 year commitment to live coverage of congress. Today the senate is scheduled to hold a procedural vote to start work on a shortterm spending bill that would avert a Government Shutdown this coming saturday at midnight. The focus boat is set forn time. Now live to the floor of the senate here on cspan2. The chaplain let us pray. Lord and king, you are forever. Send your light and truth to guide our senators. As they move into crisis mode in an attempt to avoid a Government Shutdown, give them insights that will help them solve the riddles of these times. Empower them to possess discernment in order to know what is right. Imbue them with a pass
[no audio] good afternoon. Welcome to fdd, the foundation for defense of democracies. Im the founder and president. Im pleased to welcome you today to our conversation, understanding al qaeda through a massive trove of Osama Bin Ladens files. In may of 2011 committee Navy Seal Team went to pakistan and killed Osama Bin Laden. They had a second mission. To take as much information as they could from his compound. We should learn a huge amount of information we didnt because it was under lock and key. Lobbyists and pressures to weease information are given an advance look by who said this information should be available to scholars and journalists and others. With that, im pleased to hand the conversation over to our moderator, kimberly dozier, whos had a distinguished career reporting on intelligence and National Security issues. She covered the war in iraq in 2003 and was wounded in a car bombing in 2006. Todays event will be live streamed. I encourage guests here and online to join in
The presiding officer duly noted. Mr. Lankford mr. President , i want to be able to address this body to talk about an issue that we dont talk about enough, the deficit. Its an issue for whatever reason weve stopped talking about in washington, d. C. Were talking about tax policy, as we should. Were talking about Disaster Relief areas, which we should. Talking about health policies, which we should. A lot of other things. We have stopped talking about debt and deficit. I think thats a mistake for us. See, as the trend has moved, since 2011, at a high point when the deficit spending that year was 1. 3 trillion in overspending in a single year. Since that point, deficits have gone down a little bit each year until 2015. In 2016, our deficit number, thats a single year overspending started going back up. It went up in 2016. It went up again in 2017. Turning the wrong direction. As you will recall and as many people in this body would recall, deficits were a major topic for us starting in
Hedge Fund Managers to keep the ultralow tax rate. It is called carried interest. Really a nice pay much less than you. Forgive me if i call it a racket. We reported these tax details yesterday the market rally at the value of all stocks have gone up 623 trillion since the election. As things move forward today, stocks inching higher again with just 414 points from dow 25,000. I will say it again, ive never seen anything like this before. We have seen Government Shutdowns before and another one is looming. Congress has until next friday to fix it. This is politics. Previous shutdowns have no impact on the economy or the markets. Thursday december 14th, 11 days until christmas. Do you know where your package is . Varney company is about to begin. You know, the president was not whispering. Hes not known to speak in a low voice. We lost the audio. Tens of millions of people get an increase in their paycheck in february next year. He was talking tax cuts right here. By the way, hes readin
Winston churchill and nuclear weapons. We have another very special lady, please welcome edwina sands. [ applause ] good morning. Can you hear me all right . Clear as a bell, i hope. Well, its lovely to be here for another conference. Each one i come to seems to be even better than the last. Now we have kevin, kevin roane here, who has written this very, very good book. Churchill and the bomb. So one of my grandfathers best quotations, and there are so many to choose from, is this one. The further backward we can look, the further forward you are likely to see. We think most of us, that history is past. Done and dusted. Over with. Just a memory. But history has a way of coming back to bite us. As Ronald Reagan said, here we go again. I remember when the cold war was over. But then it wasnt. I remember further back when people were scared of the abomb and then worse of the hbomb. And now today, the specter of nuclear war has once again reared its ugly head. Kevin roane is professor of m