trump. we ll hear from former clinton and obama trade officials as they talk about protectionist policies. the role of the u.s. in the world trade organization, and president trump s proposed renegotiation of the north american free trade agreement known as nafta. this is an hour and a half. glad to see everyone here. i am john mayo, a professor of economics, business and public policy at georgetown university s mcdonough school of business. i am also the executive director of our host institution for today, the georgetown center for business and public policy. i will tell you that we are delighted today to have a discussion on something very important, near and dear to the georgetown center, and that is the subject of trade policy. and in particular, we are going to examine the issue of whether trade remedies, thinks tariffs, quotas and the like, remedy act to remedy unfair trade practices, or are they themselves simply protectionist policies? tod today s panel will be m
c-span 2 and watch anytime on c-span.org. and listen on the free c-span radio app. next, a discussion on the future of u.s. trade policy and current trade protection measures proposed by president trump. we ll hear from former clinton and obama trade officials as they talk about protectionist policies. the role of the u.s. in the world trade organization, and president trump s proposed renegotiation of the north american free trade agreement known as nafta. this is an hour and a half. glad to see everyone here. i am john mayo, a professor of economics, business and public policy at georgetown university s mcdonough school of business. i am also the executive director of our host institution for today, the georgetown center for business and public policy. i will tell you that we are delighted today to have a discussion on something very important, near and dear to the georgetown center, and that is the subject of trade policy. and in particular, we are going to examine the
he doesn t know what year it is. the choice in 220. for all new homes, offices and buildings by 230. has difficulty keeping his train of thought. broadwalk. and if you think i am announcing my he s on an obstacle course that makes it look like he s not up for the job. why are the trump supporters attacking donald trump? it s updated. every time the attacks come you find more clips of donald trump just wandering around. i mean, you know, the jonathan swan interview by the way, i was off yesterday and missed the jonathan swan interview the part where he was with the charts and the graphs? putting the papers in his face and the charts and the graphs. first of all, let s talk about jonathan swan for a second. you know when chris wallace comes at you, he has none chunks in one hand and clubs with spikes in another. and jonathan swan is more subtle, would you like a brownie, and you don t know what you ve eat enuntil you wake up the next morning in the b
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sessions you should stop this rigged witch hunt right now. it s a dirty disgrace, would that be a problem? you bet it would be. if he had sent jeff sessions a memo to that effect or said it in a meeting, would that be important evidence? in an inquiry into obstruction of justice? it certainly would. i know that, i m not an attorney, i m sure you know that as well. because he types it out on twitter for the whole world to see, including jeff sessions, are we supposed to ignore it as just the president blowing off steam? why? and it s far from the first time that we have been told so treat the president s public statements as something else, something other than what they say. remember this from july of 2016? russia, if you re listening, i hope you re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. this is why this is important. this is how the new york times
cnn has learned the president s tweet today was just hours after his legal team updated him
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mines you re able to prepare quite fully, and they re not able to have the off the cuff statements or have a genuine authentic action. preparation doesn t lead to you being able to have an assessment of truth telling. i want to ask you one more question. they re reporting that the president s lawyers want to reject it, but the president is pushing them to keep negotiating. at what point does the president do it against their counsel snil. i think given this presidential administration, any time, remember, the beauty of being able to have the negotiation tactic here is that he can have his lawyers in the room. as long as he s negotiating, he has the ability to say my lawyers can come with me, if it gets to the point where he has
is himself speaking his mind. does that explain why the president was so freaked out on twitter this morning and this week. he s got a lot of reasons to be freaked out. if his impetus was the fact that mueller wants to ask