Other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. Next, mike pompeo reflects on his time serving as cia director and secretary of state under the Trump Administration. Following his remarks, mr. Pompeo took questions from the audience including how to debate conservative points of view on college campuses. This is from a conference hosted by the Young America foundation. Good evening. Its good to see all your great faces out there. Did you have a good day . Yeah. I will give a brief introduction before mime voice gives out. The word to think about with this introduction is leadership. On the screen behind me you see a plaque. About four years ago not too long after we dedicated the us embassy for the first time in jerusalem the capital of the state of israel. [applause] now, why thats important is because politicians for years if not decades said theyre going to move the embassy from the United States from tel aviv to jerusalem, thats the capital where the Prime Min
Irwin joining us with. And kay la, i will start you with. At the windy white house there, as it relates to what were hearing from the Treasury Secretary, and from cnbc language, to Plain English here, what it means. Well, its significant because the Treasury Secretary is saying that as of early june, the federal government wont be able to pay its bills anymore. Its allowed by congress to borrow up to 31 trillion and change, but its going to hit that number next thursday. After that point, treasury is going to be looking under couch cushions to try to finds some additional money. It will be pinching pennies. And it says it will stop contributing or investing into some federal workers retirement accounts, to try to conserve some of that cash in order to avoid reaching that debt limit, or not being able to pay for allies and adversaries that hold the u. S. Debt. So certainly the Treasury Secretary is trying to call on congress and say we need a deal in the coming months. I spoke to a seni
Please welcome them. [ applause ] good morning, thank you very much for being here. Thank you for joining us. So the topic of this session is taxes, taxes, taxes so well start off talking about alabama. Original, original, original. We had a lot of discussion about taxes with your colleague the treasury secretary but i want to get in more detail and ask you some of the more detail. Let me start off with something i said with s. E. C. Theecretary. This is a one and a half trillion dollar Immediate Tax cut. Federal debt is already at 78 of gdp total federal revenues is at 17 , quite low by historical standards, the economy is close to full employment. This is this seems an unusual time historically to be adding such a huge amount to the deficit. Why now . So let me take that question to pieces because you ask a lot of different pieces in there and lets start with the core issue here. When you look at whats happened to the u. S. Work force since the recession, yes, weve created jobs. Were
Politics, Paul Wellstone told us, is about the improvement of peoples lives. I know that the work ive been able to do has improved peoples lives. I would do it all over again in a heartbeat. For a decade now every time i would get tired or discouraged or frustrated, i would think about the people i was doing this for and it would get me back up on my feet. I know the same will be true for everyone who decides to pursue a politics that is about improving peoples lives. And i hope you know that i will be fighting alongside you every step of the way. With that, mr. President , i yield the floor. Mr. Sullivan madam president . The presiding officer the senator from alaska. Mr. Sullivan madam president , i ask that following disposition of the balash nomination the senate proceed to consideration of executive calendar 167 as under the previous order. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Sullivan madam president , i have five requests for committees to meet during todays session of t
[applause] im delighted to bring back lands when it was still santa clara in the audience for those that remember his days. Now his main focus is education and he will talk about corruption in the classroom and part of the remarks will be very nerveracking and make us angry that somebody has to fight that so we are glad that hes here to do that for us. He has an incredible background. There are people who have experienced in the military or think tanks were education and he has a little of all of them. Some things are unknowable he was a chief speechwriter for agent a man in california and also a writer for it ed meese in the reagan administration. He is the head policy person at the Pacific Research institute on the education track and we are delighted to welcome him back. [applause] thank you very much for that kind introduction and all of you for welcoming back here to the Silicon Valley. The Biggest Group therapy session in the area. I started my career after law school and i may r