Good morning and welcome to the Cato Institute. My name is julian sanchez, im a senior fellow here and im grateful to everyone has come out bright and early to the auditorium at cato for our 2019 surveillance conference. Weve been doing this for some five years now. When we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about both a fake election by former contractor snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency unfan with most americans and as we kick off our 2019 conference, we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment proceeding kicked off in significant part by reports from the from the Intelligence Communitys Inspector General. We have forth coming next week a breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act during the 2016 president ial campaign. We have proceedings aired, going to be from the house Intelligence Committee. So even intelligence overseers now are at
Illian. Has joke at the end it reminded me of churchhill as well. Do you expect Boris Johnson to try to emulate his idol . Will he try to boil down the middle now that he has such a big church and keep all of these voters with the conservatives for longer . Christopher well, i thought that was a most interesting part of his speech. In my opinion, perhaps the most effective was his candid and disarming, even charming admission that a lot of the voters who put him back into power with a large majority have him on probation. A very nice parallel with his election as the mayor of london when a lot of traditional labour voters supported him and they have now supported a conservative party. That, i think is notice also in the rhetoric, one nation conservatives. He remindednation, himself that that is the formula. What does that remind you of . , not labour,labour but new labour. That was the slogan of tony blair. Clearly looking to put a very personal stamp, which arguably could be churchhil
A few minutes now the ceremonies being attended by the royal family seated on the podium at the noriegas abbey ahmed the Nobel Committee and its secretary on the pictures there is a nobel chairman who will be also delivering a speech and explaining why the Nobel Committee choose to select as its peace prize winner this year the ceremony also being attended to by the norwegian royal family keeping with a tradition that goes back to 1000. 00 or 5 and theyre taking a seat right now and the rows of seats behind the royal family are occupied by representatives of governments the government the store ting and the diplomatic corps as well and other specially invited guests so the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony about to begin in oslo lets bring in our diplomatic editor james space as we wait for the speeches to begin james normally you and ill force would be in oslo covering this ceremony and all saw the interview with a Nobel Peace Prize laureate but a very Different Program this year while there
Facebook, amid antitrust scrutiny facebook is going on a charm offense with republican lawmakers and now, Mark Zuckerberg and one of facebooks board members, a major trump donor had a secret dinner with trump. This is corruption, plain and simple. This is how the government keeps working for corporations and the wealthy and the wellconnected its no wonder the Companies Like facebook have been allowed to consolidate economic and political power without any real accountability. Jonathan does she have a point . David for Elizabeth Warren, billionaires are corrupt, everything about them is corrupt they steal, they cheat, they exploit and despite the fact these two men are tremendous businessmen, youd think its in the president s interest to meet with potential businessmen. Elizabeth warren wouldnt stoop to having dinner with them its such hipocracy david. President obama met with tech executives in secret in 2014 and Elizabeth Warren herself met with jamie dimon. Hes a billionaire too back
Much more. Making money begins right now. Charles market picking up on yesterdays late buying even as the media guessing game continues. Phase one is on. Phase one is off. It never end, right . Yesterday i had the honor of interviewing Vice President mike pence and i was asking him about the roll of tariffs now and into the future and it is clear the administration believes strongly in the roll of tariffs. I think through the long history of this country the night has always used tariffs and access to our marketplace to strengthen this economy and President Trump took office and made a commitment that he would put american jobs and American Workers first and use the authority he has as president of the United States to control access to our marketplace with tariffs. Charles so i think the media has been totally wrong on this. If you crunch the actual numbers, the cost of tariffs, assume they all fell on america, which of course they dont it would be the proverbial drop in the bucket fo