Just as a quick disclaimer is a nonpartisan educational organization. The institute takes no position on any issues. The views expressed in this report are mine and mine alone. Im going to make some brief comments on the report. And we will invite our two distinguished discussants up to the stage. Then i will sit with them and will ask a few questions and we chat about this topic of dismantling the corruption nexus until about 4 pm. Then we will take questions from the audience. And we were dismissed promptly at 430. What is this all about . I am a political scientist. This means our study and explain how the political world works. Not my job to offer my opinion. It is my job to explain how things work. My work stems from actual personal frustration. Letting you know my opinion. I have been frustrated with being able to predict terrible outcomes in the worlds authoritative regime. Looking around and seeing terrible things that are going to happen. Then being frustrated by the fact that
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
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A hearing on federal Law Enforcement use of financial this follows a congressional investigation examine how the fbi and other Law Enforcement agencies have used their authority to monitor the Financial Data of the ameri evidence on generally six 2021. This is just under three hours. Subcommittee will come to order without objection the chairs authorized to declaree to todays hearing on the weaponization of the federal government the chert not recognize the gentleman from kentucky mr. Matthew to lead us on the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the unite states of america. And to the republic for which it stands one nation, under god indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Appreciate the enthusiasm. [laughter] wi start with Opening Statements and then move into our witnesses the chert recognizes himself or an an Opening Statement. Bignment was colluding with big tech to censor americans as the first thing we learnedlearn but now it is Big Government inclung
Im charles payne. This is making money. Breaking right now wall street is coming around to a. I. , playing catchup as a matter of fact. There were flury of up grades this morning but great youre playing catchup. Youre ahead of the game. The bears have made a trench. Beware, this market is going to fall apart. Microstrategy is on fire. Theyre calling Michael Saylor, the moderndaybunk bunker hunt. That is not a good thing to be called. He was ridiculed and laughed at. Talk about a special guest how expensive taco bell is. Scott martin is back. Looks like he is having the last laugh. My takeaway on the again, once again, where the market and the street are all off base particularly when it comes to main street. We have a lot of evidence on that today. All that and so much more on making money. Charles all right, well i guess you could say better late than never but all of sudden wall street cant get enough of a. I. , right, including nvidia at the top here. Bank of america now, they have