biden, joe biden s daughter-in-law who he spent time with in delaware, was also a recipient of that money according to the reports around these documents of two transfers of thousands of dollars. kellyanne conway and juan williams join us in just a moment. first to nancy mace from the house oversight committee. great to have you back. we heard from james comer, the chairman of the committee that there were other unnamed biden family members that were recipients of the money and now we re learning it s hallie that was married to beau biden and later married hunter biden. what are your thoughts on this today? i want the american people to know the united states is not for sale. china will not get away with paying off members of the biden family. this is wrong, this needs to be investigated and the more that we learn the worse it gets. we learned this week that $3 million taken from a chinese company going to a biden family associate. within 24 hours, maybe less than, that mon
From a nowlikely partial shutdown which could affect everything from Student Loan Repayment assistance to Mortgage Loan applications, to air travel. Hillary vaughn is live from capitol hill with the details. Everythings changing. Whats the latest, hillary . Reporter hey, david. Well, were looking at the impact that a possible Government Shutdown might have on the stock market. Historically, a short or long shutdown does not have a major impact on the stock market. Research shows during the last 20 shutdowns dating back to the 70s, stocks have been up 50 of the time during the actual shutdown, and a year after the shutdown of ten days or more, other Research Shows the s p 500 gain on average 18 . But a shutdown, long or short, certainly devastating to the individuals who are temporarily without pay and also the Small Businesses that a rely on people showing up to work in government buildings for tear customer bas. Immediately, any federal worker that is deemed not essential will stay ho
historically? guest: well, yeah. a lot of barometers or maybe indices of what makes a civilization successful i m very worried about because they re all predicated i guess i would clarify that by saying constitutional governments, sizable middle class. it has to be larger in aggregate than the wealthy and the poor combined. and we re starting to see, we ve seen for 12 years until 2017 a steady erosion in the income, 1.7 trillion in student department largely accrued by the middle class, the age of home ownership falling, the age of marriage, age when people get married lengthening, first child born, the demography itself we re down to 1.7. so the middle class is being tested as never before. and also i think you have to have a sense of borders. i would always study what would cause wars, and they were always over borders, and they were not important in strategic defense, but he were symbols that their culture could inculcate common customs, traditions that we unite variou
What problem . Well the book is about most americans tend to assume that markets and deo assume that markets and democracy naturally go together. And the thesis of the book is that in countries with what i call a marketdominant minority, markets and democracy are not mutually reinforcing because markets and democracy basically benefit different ethnic groups. So take indonesia as an illustration. Free market policies in the 1980s and 1990s led to a situation in which the country`s tiny, 3 percent chinese minority controlled an astounding 70 percent of the country`s private economy. The introduction of democracy in 1998 produced a violent backlash. Five thousand homes and shops of Ethnic Chinese were looted and burned. Two thousand people died. A hundred and fifty Chinese Women were raped. The wealthiest chinese left the country, along with some 40 billion to 100 billion of Ethnic Chinesecontrolled capital, plunging the country into a crisis from which it has not recovered. So in countr
Intellectual life of america by writing a biography of Thomas Sowell and i will begin in a way, how do you explain and i think another answer nevertheless i want your answer, how do you explain that one of the finest minds of the last halfcentury is unknown to half a minute half of america . Guest well i got to use todays prologue. Thomas sowell was canceled long time ago. Hes a conservative. Hes a black conservative and way back in the 1970s and i began writing about racial controversies. He was an intellectual at the academy and in the media and he has never really shook that. I thinkk its something is in terms of not writing probably the main reason a lot of people today know names like tanehisi coats or cornel west but not Thomas Sowell withstand hes really written circles around those folks and maybe all of them combined. And not only in terms of the breadth of his work but also the vigor of his analysis. They remain much better known than Thomas Sowell that was one of the reasons