Chairman of the American Enterprise institute or trustees. Its my pleasure to welcome you to aeis irving urban kristol e summit, featuring renowned scholar nicholas eberstadt. Nick holds the chair and political economy at aei. Nick is being honored with this years Irving Kristol award and is simply put one of aeis and americas great intellectuals. At this moment in our nations history, his work and his lecture today will point the way forward for our country and offer a vision for how to revitalize our nation and oppose pandemic world. His scholarship and that all of aei scholars has served to help americas leaders navigate our nations the story challenges throughout the course of this year. Although many challenges still lie ahead, aei is wellpositioned to meet these headon by supplying the visionary thinking and actionable policy solutions that our nation needs. Aeis college will promote free people and free markets, increased economic and social mobility, revitalize constitutional o
Founder of boomers 3. 0 a Consultancy Firm that advocates for a more positive outlook on aging. It assists organizations to create meaningful relationships with baby boomers in our youth that test culture. Phd in american studies from the university of minnesota. As well mba from the university of georgia, he is also a Smithsonian Institute fellow. He has written for the new york times, the atlantic, the washington post, and has made recent appearances on npr and cbc radio. Please give a big warm welcome, we welcome him back here. [applause] , thank you for coming, everybody. First things first, i want to ask, how many people think about aging . They think that they are getting older . [laughter] it is just not on your radar. You do not think about it . You dont think about it much . Ok. For those people who do think about it, do you think about it in a positive way . How many people think about it as a positive experience . How many people think it is a negative experience . Wow. We a
A new Health Care Replacement bill that passed the rules committee a short time ago and will be considered by the house when they return. Caucus members spoke with politico about this this morning. Thank you for the foundation for making this possible. Before getting started, we want. Ou to remind you to tweet us well track them here on stage d would like everyone to use snapchat. Join us in welcoming to the stage House Freedom caucus members, justin amash of michigan, founding founder jim jordan of ohio and mark meadows from north carolina. [applause] what is the definition of the Freedom Caucus . Mr. Meadows, start with you. Mr. Meadows if we stay on script, i think we founded it i know you have founding members. And give a voice to millions of america americans thought were forgotten and believe needs to have a voice here and expects to have a voice but has been disappointed. Thats what we are all about. Mr. Jordan, what is the biggest misconception about what you guys stand for. Mr
Will vote yes. This is 35 minutes. To russ and the entire foundation for making this possible. We want to remind you to tweet us appropriate questions and we will track them here on stage and we would like to encourage everyone to use the Snapchat Filter for the event. Please join us and welcoming to the stage House Freedom caucus members, justin amash of michigan, Founding Member jim jordan and mark meadows from north carolina. [applause] thanks so much for doing this. This is getting complicated. A full team here this morning. All right, lets get started. Lets start with some simple basics. What is the definition of the Freedom Caucus . Mr. Meadows, start with you. If you all give the same answer, you get a bonus point. Mr. Meadows if we stay on script, we will all give the same answer. I think we founded it i know you have Founding Members here. We founded it to give a voice to millions of americans thought that felt like washington, d. C. Had forgotten them, so the forgotten man or
Strike from his maralago resort in florida where he is hosting the president of china. President trump on tuesday, syrian dictator Bashar Alassad launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilian. Using a deadly nerve agent, assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women, and children. It was a slow and brutal death for so many. Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack. No child of god should ever suffer such horror. Tonight, i ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in syria from where the chemical attack was launched. It is in this Vital National security interest of the United States to prevent and determine er the spreadd det and use of deadly chemical weapons. There can be no dispute that syria used band chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the chemical weapons convention, and ignored the urging of the un security council. Years of previous attempts at changing assads behavior have all failed and failed very