Thank you for your introduction. Its a great privilege to be here. Inviting the it council, in many cases the of many people here and heritage for very long time. And also admired the way that heritage works across policy areas so that you really do here and integrated message. Not least among which, i think, is the attention of the Heritage Foundation to the power of culture, by which i mean people of beliefs, ideas, habits, expectations, and the way that these achieve some form of institutional expression. On this issue of culture and how it relates to the economy, the heart of my book, becoming europe. Because the becoming europe is certainly about what has happened to your and why it is now regarded as the sick man of the global economy. But my book is also about how some of these cultural and Economic Trends are starting to manifest themselves in the United States, particularly over the past five years. And in some respects i think its rather ironic that america is seemingly drift
Ready well. In terms of the intensity of the drought, remember 1988 that came out with no corn and all things considered, we took 4 billion bushels off of our corn crop estimate by the end, but that was about the size of the 1988 crop. To me, because of no till practices and a lot of that helped by biotech varieties and because those developments and seed varieties and were able to get a better crop than i wouldve had otherwise. For senator stabenow, you just answered your question about livestock problems. Id like to continue if you could discuss problems for the renewable fuel industry raised by the lesson production, higher prices, et cetera you see ahead for that. I think that clearly this past year because of corn prices weve seen reductions in margins economic producers. If you look at the weekly levels of ethanol Production Company took a big tip and has been remaining buffalo that cabs under the renewable fuel standard for conventional fuels. We have revised estimates downward
History at west point is written in study after getting the courage at the enterprise institute. They would get the study into the white house directly to president bush, to the pentagon to the secretary of defense to some of the support and its an eyebrow so that basically by the time petraeus becomes the top commander, everything is all lined up. Its lined up so that he can go in and impose the strategy that he wants to impose in the United States government this isnt a coincidence. Its been very exquisitely coordinated. You can watch this and other programs online at book tv. Up next on book tv, samuel argues if our elected leaders do not find the courage to reform the economy and Government Spending soon, the u. S. Could find itself in the same terrible Economic Situation as many European Countries do today. This is just over an hour. Coming to speak at the Heritage Foundation today it is a great privilege to be here. Ive always been a great admirer of heritage and the council in m
Travelers reuniting with family members who thought they were going to be denied entry and a key question that could face Donald Trumps Supreme Court pick. Is he likely to be against any executive order that bans travel . We have new insight this hour for you, and then theres saturday night live lampooning the Trump Administrations daling briefing. Its not a ban im sorry . Its not a ban. The travel ban is not a ban which makes it not a ban. But you just called it a ban because im using your words. You said ban. You said ban. Now im saying it back to you. Well have more on that in a moment. But we begin with politics and the Trump Administration after an Appeals Court decided this morning to deny its request to immediately reinstate the travel ban. Vice president mike pence is confident the executive order will prevail and push back at critics in his own party during an interview with my colleague chuck todd this morning. Many believe theyve done it hastily and you have the opportunity
Report also coming up turkish a german journalist mashallah tolu is out of jail as an its done full court orders her and five others released but they still face terror charges will get the latest. Austrias new Prime Minister is sworn in adding a right Wing Coalition hes pledged to get tough on immigration but thousands turned out in protest. Im sumi so much going to good to have you with us on this International Migrants day we are looking at an astounding number there are an estimated sixty six Million People around the world who have been forced to leave their homes seventeen percent of them are in europe the greek island of lesbos for example is now home to thousands of micro some the main camp there is the more rio refugee camp but it is those who are outside the camp in makeshift homes who live in particularly squalid conditions and tensions with the local community are rising dip is all over south has this exclusive report from less. Can barely move his fingers its the morning a