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tonight on the reidout and honestly, i m surprised they have this high of a threshold for humiliation. it s so embarrassing. i think jamie raskin was spot on when he said that this impeachment inquiry really ended yesterday when we found out we have a russian asset that was foundational to this impeachment inquiry. fox s jessica tarloff is right, of course. but the republicans utter humiliation has not, will not stop them from carrying water for russia and trump. congressman jamie raskin joins me tonight, as the fbi informant who lied to the fbi, alexander smirnoff, is rearrested today. also tonight, how trump stole the republican party. his daughter-in-law says the party faithful would be happy to see their contributions used for trump s legal bills. but we begin tonight with a question. how do you deal with dictators? today, less than a week after the death of russian opposition leader alexei navalny while imprisoned by vladimir putin s regime, president b ....
the fight for cyber supremacy. land day, no man s surviving america in the 21st century. gatekeepers. e author series, all this week at 8 a.m. eastern, on c-span, c-span.org, and c-span radio. recent debate on capitalism and socialism with editors and academics. nick gillespie argued in favor of capitalism. a new york university professor argued in favor of socialism. michelle goldberg, new york times columnist, moderated the debate. this is one hour and 20 minutes. [applause] they can also much for coming out on a friday night. we are here to discuss that capitalism improves the standards of living and provides economic opportunity. the reason i was intrigued when someone asked me if i wanted to do this i came of age at a when it seems as if alternatives to capitalism had been completely discredited. remember, how much you have seen if there was really no alternative. it doesn t matter what you think of human mortality, the m imaginefact of life, i that if yo ....
professor argued in favor of socialism. this took place in new york city. [applause] thank you so much for coming out on a friday night. [applause] we are here to debate out on a friday night. the proposition that capitalism is the best way to improve standards of living, ensures liberal and economic freedoms and provides opportunity. the reason that i was intrigued when bhaskar asked me if i wanted to do this, i m sort of persuadable on this issue. i came of age at a time when it seemed as if alternatives to capitalism has been completely discredited. i think it s hard to remember or hard to understand if you weren t around then, how much it seem as if there was really no alternative. it kind of didn t matter what you thought of capitalism just like it doesn t matter what you think of human mortality. it was inevitable fact of life after fall of communism. if you are coming of age now, it seems that just as communism had failed, capitalism has now failed. we re gov ....
proposition capitalism is the best way to improve standards of living, ensure political and economic freedom and provide opportunity. and the reason i was intrigued when i was asked if i wanted to do this is because i am sort of persuadablon this issue. time when it at a seemed as if alternatives to capitalism had been completely discredited. i think it s hard to remember if you are not around them. it is hard to remember, how much you have seen if there was really no alternative. it doesn t matter what you think where of human mortality, the m you are in notable fact of life, i imagine that if you are coming of age now, it seems as if communism has failed and capitalism has now failed. we are governed by this comic book villain oligarch, while people are forced to wear diapers, because they aren t given bathroom breaks. this is at a time when wages are stagnant, while tens of millions are investing in silicon valley startups. i m interested to see if i can be be talk ....
much it seemed as if there was really no alternative. it kind of didn t matter what you thought of capitalism, just like it doesn t really matter what you think of human mortality. it was an inevitable fact of life after the fall of communism. if you aregine coming of age now, it seems that just as communism has failed, capitalism has now failed. ofare governed by this cabal comic book villain oligarchs, while people are forced to wear diapers at their factories because they aren t given bathroom breaks. even the one thing that used to be able to say for capitalism, that it was supposed to be efficient at allocating capital, is clearly not true at a time when wages are stagnant, while tens of millions or hundreds of millions are investing in silicon valley startups. i m interested in this debate. i m interested to see if either side can talk me out of my sense of despair and total futility. [laughter] i m grateful to cooper union for giving us this historic great hall t ....