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75% or more are black. collin there is, i believe, a supreme court ruling that states that schools cant force students to stand for the pledge of allegiance, right? that that actually violates our first amendment rights. if they wanted to pass a rule making, they could. they changed the rules in 2009 to make them be out on the field on display. were not north korea. the government cant order you to stand through the national anthem at all. at what point given the scope of the nfl contract are pl...

Married couples and eliminating the so-called debt tax but reduction of corporate tax rate from 35 to 20%, a provision the president has called nonnegotiable. visiting scholar at the american enterprise institute. welcome, senator, great to have you here. >> thank you, paul. paul: so as you look at this plan, how good is it, do you think, in terms of helping the economy? >> i think its very good in terms of helping the economy. i think with what we are doing legislatively through rule-making, th...

Deduction for individuals and married couples and eliminating the so-called debt tax but reduction of corporate tax rate from 35 to 20%, a provision the president has called nonnegotiable. visiting scholar at the american enterprise institute. welcome, senator, great to have you here. >> thank you, paul. paul: so as you look at this plan, how good is it, do you think, in terms of helping the economy? >> i think its very good in terms of helping the economy. i think with what we are doing legisla...

Impact than that. i think what has happened is that the internet and the capabilities of it have changed so dramatically since the last time the fec took a serious look at this. we havent done any rule making on internet political activities. when we started that, youtube had been in existence a few weeks. so technology has really taken off from there. some people are relying on an advisory ruling from 2002. the technology has totally changed since then. when facebook came in in 2010, 2011, to a...

So there is room to try to increase the disclosure or some of the regulations about how money that is spent on internet advertising is regulated. but, you know, there are these sort of hurdles that you run into that are not unique to the internet, and that is following the money through all the way to its origination point is complicated. weve seen that with tv. well see that, i think, if there is a move to regulate the internet in a more aggressive way. and there are in fact those moves. a fede...

Sort of hurdles that you run into that are not unique to the internet, and that is following the money through all the way to its origination point is complicated. weve seen that with tv. well see that, i think, if there is a move to regulate the internet in a more aggressive way. and there are in fact those moves. a federal election member named ellen weintraub called on the fec next week at its public meeting to open up a discussion about increased rule making on this. expect a lot of resistan...

The administration, there are things happening in the background. hes deregulating, were at the lowest point in rule making from federal agencies in 17 years. theyre happening quietly behind the scenes while the rest of the chaos is happening. so the other thing is that his approval numbers with his base are actually still good. the overall numbers are cratering but if you look in the counties that elected donald trump, they still support him. the honeymoon will not last forever, weve got to get...

Things happening in the background. hes deregulating, were at the lowest point in rule making from federal agencies in 17 years. theyre happening quietly behind the scenes while the rest of the chaos is happening. so the other thing is that his approval numbers with his base are actually still good. the overall numbers are cratering but if you look in the counties that elected donald trump, they still support him. the honeymoon will not last forever, weve got to get closer to enacting legislativ...

Benefit over the last couple of decades. we have done that through innovation, not through government mandates. record paris? why go to paris and agreed to 26-28 reductions, if you take every action that president obama took, every climate action, rule making that he engaged in, we still sell 40%. it was a failed agreement from the beginning. with the president realized is that he doesnt want to take that approach. >> martha: you know who doesnt agree with you? al gore. here is al gore with chri...

Enforcement agency. so when i hear the president say that hes not covered by any conflict of interest rules, i think, well, thats just vin tang mcgahn. it sounds like the way he interpreted the law at the fec where he specialized at ways to avoid investigations. >> if you are going to be a government agent or work in the government, why would you avoid enforcing the law? >> well, i think it came out of his libertarian philosophy that he didnt like the campaign finance laws and didnt think people...