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Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. Im the director for the center for free markets and regulatory reform. The Heritage Foundation. I would ask for those of you in the audience to please make that last little check now of your cell phones, to make sure that they wont interrupt proceedings today. And we will get started right now. The event today is really designed to celebrate the special report called a Government Policies that hurt the poor and how to address them. The United States is a very compassionate country and we have an awful lot of government activities that affect poorer members of our population in one way or the other. We have welfare programs, welfare spending of one kind or another that adds up to well over a trillion dollars tuesdays. ....
Good morning and welcome to the Heritage Foundation. I am the director of the center for free markets and regulatory reform. Here at the Heritage Foundation. I ask for you please, those in the audience to please make that last little check on your cell phone to make sure that they will not interrupt the proceedings today. And we will get started right now. The event today is really designed to celebrate the publication of a new heritage special report called Big Government policies that hurt the poor. And how to address them. United states is a very compassionate country and you have an awful lot of government activities that affect poor members of the population and in one way or another. We have welfare programs, welfare spending at one time or another that adds up to well over 1 trillion. That can be in thin ....
A couple of questions that are important to dig into when you look at these numbers. The question of course what happened with u. S. Production, just under that level last week. Three weeks of declines in a row. We want to see if that continues. We did have the comments from the uae oil minister saying that oil prices are going to force production freezes. Thats a jab at iran here. A couple of reasons that you could see support for these. Back to you. Thank you for that. Its 8 00 a. M. At apple headquaters. Its 11 00 a. M. On wall street and squawk alley is live. Good thursday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. And along with Business Insider ceo. Its good to have you back. And its google ceo supporting inkripgs on a series of tweets. We build secure products to keep your Information Safe and we give Law Enforcement ....
Companies have to deliver for their employees, customers and shareholders every day. Im proud of all we do and how it figured into the moral fabric of america. It seems senator sanders is missing the point. So its directing commentary back at sanders. Completely understandable. I agree with every word. The rhetoric is just ridiculous. Ge is a great company. Great companies create enormous value for the world and Great Companies focused on the three constitue constituentcies so thats what we need more of in the world. Not fewer. Why has it taken so long for business to start to punch back . And does this kind of stuff play in peoria or has it made sanders a viable candidate . Whats making sanders a viable candidate and trump a viable candidate is a huge inequality developed in this country and corporations do have to account for that. Part of it is were taking high paying jobs and going oversaes and replacing them with low paying ....
Now. It sounds like we have a couple of protesters back there. Get them out. These people. And you know what . And then the audience gets rough with them and the press says how dare they. The trump rally carried on with his speech. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im matt ackland. The rally tonight in kansas city comes on the heels of last nights violent protest before a scheduled trump rally in chicago. Trump had to cancel that event and police in riot gear had to be called in and earlier today a protester tried to jump the stage while trump was speaking in dayton, ohio. Lets get the latest now. Reporter the road to the white house is more like a professional wrestling match. Friday nights matchup between Trump Supporters and trump opponents was called off because of a forecast for more fii vens. Then on saturday morning that prediction nearly came true. Hours later in kansas city trump was unapologetic. Get him out of here. Get ....