host: lonnie, thanks caller: a health savings account. host: thanks for calling in to tell us about it, lonnie. many of our viewers, perhaps, have not participated in those tele-town halls. interesting to hear your perspective. jo. lewis, colorado. good morning. caller: hello. host: go ahead, joe. i am listening. caller: yes, this goes back to a very simple thing. we cannot put parties before country. this is not about republicans or democrats. this is more about, if we take away that tax incentives for advertisement and lobbying from the pharmaceutical companies, then you bring down the cost of health care. but, the bottom line is, if you democrat, n or if you re republican or democrat representative will not attend a town hall meeting or an your questions directly, we should go back to what the constitution gives us, the right to recall these politicians. if you take away the donations politicians get, republicans or democrats, and take away the tax credit for expensing
insanity. david frum served as a speechwriter for president george w. bush, is now a senior writer in the atlantic, and his current pace, how to build an autocracy. first explain the autocracy you worry about. guest: when people worry about overbearing governments they conjure up images from 70, 80 years ago, that are as out of date as radio and 70 rpm records. that is not how things are done. there are fewer democracies in the world today than there were in 2005, and many countries they continue to have elections are less democratic than they were south africa, nelson mandela, the philippines, hungary, poland. argued they have i argued they have come to expand democracy. if you are donald trump, and your role as a trillion or you need to shut down how would you do it? it is more possible than you think. i did not come up with any unlikely scenarios. it is step-by-step things you can do in the context of an american government. host: give us a sense of what that vi
we have worked with members of congress and with the obama administration in the policy space that also the political space. host: where on the spectrum of the democratic party do you fall? guest: we would be described more as centrist democrats. host: there was a recent article in the washington post, about house democrats and progressives are furious, talking about the democratic retreat. fromof the criticism came the progressive change campaign that it is aing wall street funded think tank that shows them learning the exact wrong lessons of the trump era. i want to give you a chance to respond to that and what you were talking about at that retreat. guest: what a nice way to be described. , actually i was treated extraordinarily well by tough democrats. every year, they do a policy retreat, and i am honored to be , and ithe guests spoke to house democrats. i was treated very well by all wings of the party. but there are some outside groups that believe there should be puri
back from the podium. thank you very much. and c-span has been bringing you live coverage from the conservative political action conference held just outside washington dc. we will hear from vice president mike pence here, and his remarks are scheduled to start in about 40 minutes. first, a look at the future of the democratic party. we will watch that leading up to the vice president s remarks. jim kessler, senior vice president for policy and one of the cofounders of third way. and for viewers who are not familiar with it, what is third way? guest: a think tank in washington, d.c., and center-left is probably the best way to describe us. jim: we have worked with members of congress and with the obama administration in the policy space and also in the political space. host: where on the spectrum of the democratic party do you fall? jim: we would be described more as centrist democrats. host: there was a recent article in the washington post, headlined about house democra
hillary clinton s e-mails. this is risk & reward, i m elizabeth macdonald in for deirdre bolton. julian assange s website exposing 1100 e-mails connecting the justice department to hillary clinton s campaign. here s a revealing exchange from hillary clinton s campaign spokesman brian fallon. he writes in pay 2015 to huma abedin, also cheryl mills and john podesta that d.o.j. folks tipped him off to upcoming status hearing on the hillary e-mails. we could have window into the judge s thinking about the proposed production schedule as quickly as today. let me do a recap here. the judge was essentially saying the state department you have to produce hillary clinton s e-mails that were on her private servener her home in chappaqua, the nation s top secrets are at stake. the fallout cascading. trump pouncing on the e-mail revelation releasing a statement the republican national committee also weighing in, saying we have former senator scott brown, endorsed donald trump. give