News December 6, 2019

News Stories

• Trump’s Supporters Are Displaying the Will to Win. Democrats Are Not.

  SPEAKER: David Frum

  (The Atlantic) – The House Judiciary Committee needs a clearer plan for mobilizing public opinion in support of impeachment.

• Former World Bank president faults Trump’s China policy

  SPEAKER: Robert Zoellick

  (Financial Times) – Robert Zoellick, a former World Bank president who has served in past Republican administrations, has delivered a public rebuke of Donald Trump’s China policy, warning the president risks pushing Beijing towards a parallel system that would clash with US interests.

• All the President’s Crooks

  SPEAKER: David Frum

  (The Atlantic) – Again and again, Trump’s core supporters have turned out to be criminals.

• Elephant seal native to Antarctica spotted for first time in tropical Sri Lanka

  SPEAKER: Claire Simeone

  (Mongabay) – Uthpala Adaranga, a ranger with Sri Lanka’s Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWC), was initially doubtful about the call he received of a seal spotted near Unawatuna, off the country’s southern coast.

• Donald Trump’s coming to the UK, Nato’s going nowhere

  SPEAKER: Niall Ferguson

  (The Times) – Tomorrow is the day it could all go wrong for Boris Johnson. It is bad enough opinion polls have him on course to win a handsome majority when Britain votes in 11 days’ time: that alone is enough to make me want to bet on a hung parliament. Worse, President Donald Trump is due to arrive in London within 24 hours.

• Native American women and girls are under attack

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox News) – As we come together with friends and family on Thanksgiving, we should all recognize that many in America – including those indigenous peoples with whom the Pilgrims shared the first Thanksgiving – have little to celebrate.

• Michael Pillsbury: US-China deal possible before 2020

  SPEAKER: Michael Pillsbury

  (Fox Business) – Hudson Institute Chinese strategy director and ‘The Hundred-Year Marathon’ author Michael Pillsbury discusses U.S.-China trade talks.

• Tomi Lahren sounds off after Melania Trump is booed at youth event

  SPEAKER: Tomi Lahren

  (Fox News) – Fox Nation host Tomi Lahren reacts to the ‘epidemic’ of youth disrespect in America on ‘Fox & Friends.’

• Heads, Trump Wins. Tails, We All Lose.

  SPEAKER: David Frum

  (The Atlantic) – Either the president will be elevated above all ordinary law, or future presidents will be hemmed in.

• Hong Kong’s ‘ant tribe’ rejects a life of slavery

  SPEAKER: Niall Ferguson

  (The Times) – Both in China and the territory, workers are turning on their masters.

• Hong Kong voters overwhelmingly push back against China

  SPEAKER: Michael Pillsbury

  (Fox Business) – Hudson Institute senior fellow and Center for Chinese Strategy director Michael Pillsbury weighs in on pro-democracy election in Hong Kong and China trade.

• Gottlieb: There’s a way to regulate e-cigs to protect children but not punish adult vapers

  SPEAKER: Scott Gottlieb

  (CNBC) – Former FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb details what he thinks the administration should do about vaping.

• First Thanksgiving wasn’t like what you were taught in school – Here’s the true story

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox News) – First Thanksgiving wasn’t like what you were taught in school – Here’s the true story

• The mystery of President Trump’s unannounced hospital visit

  SPEAKER: Sanjay Gupta

  (CNN) – President Donald Trump’s unannounced visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center last weekend spurred speculation about his health from the public, and from doctors. In a statement late Monday night, the White House doctor said that the President underwent “a routine, planned” checkup and attributed “scheduling uncertainties” for keeping the trip off the record.

• Hong Kong Elections Might Be Postponed. What Is China So Afraid Of?

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Newsweek) – Anyone watching mainstream news this week might not know that a major bipartisan effort is moving through Congress. That joint Democrat-Republican project is aimed at protecting freedom and democracy while holding totalitarianism at bay.

• Bringing conservatism back to colleges

  SPEAKER: Scott Walker

  (Washington Times) – How organizations like Young America’s Foundation (YAF) make a difference

• Devin Nunes Is Living in a Fantasyland

  SPEAKER: David Frum

  (The Atlantic) – The representative’s claims about stories reporting on the Trump administration are part of a universe of untruth.

• Voters want an end to our rigged economic system

  SPEAKER: Sheila Bair

  (The Washington Post) – The tango requires close synchronization between two partners. For decades, the government and moneyed interests have been performing a political version of it, gliding across a ballroom strewn with special breaks, boondoggles and bailouts.

• CNBC full interview with Goldman Sachs’ Lloyd Blankfein

  SPEAKER: Lloyd Blankfein

  (CNBC) – Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs senior chairman, joins CNBC to discuss his response to Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)’s president wealth tax ad, the state of the U.S. economy, Trump’s progress, if CEOs are paid too high, and income inequality.

• This is what the Trump administration should do on vaping

  SPEAKER: Scott Gottlieb

  (The Washington Post) – When regulations are contemplated to address an epidemic of teenagers using e-cigarettes, vaping advocates complain loudly. The restrictions will obstruct adult access to these products, they say, foreclosing the opportunity for smokers to use the devices to quit cigarettes.

• Governance makes a difference Nobel laureate

  SPEAKER: Paul Romer

  (CGTN) – Professor Paul Romer of New York University, a Nobel laureate in economics, who said, although the pursuit of proper governance might be “a constant battle,” we can make it happen.

• Trump impeachment smells fishy in the Midwest

  SPEAKER: Niall Ferguson

  (The Times) – Middle America isn’t hungry for hearings, but Trump 2020 is no sure thing

• Tensions are toughening in transatlantic trade

  SPEAKER: Harry Broadman

  (Gulf News) – The recent decision by a WTO dispute panel clearing the way for the US to impose tariffs on the EU as a penalty for its provision of illegal subsidies to Airbus ends a very short-lived trans-Atlantic economic courtship. Indeed, the WTO’s action was the largest such ruling in the organization’s history – it has ignited US-EU trade tensions to unprecedented levels.

• Can Africa’s continental free trade area overcome its high risks?

  SPEAKER: Harry Broadman

  (Financial Times) – A large pool of adjustment funds to offset dislocation costs must be integral to the AfCFTA

• Forced U.S.-China Decoupling Poses Large Threats

  SPEAKER: Harry Broadman

  (Forbes) – There are two putative goals of the current US administration for proactive policy “decoupling” between the U.S. and China.

• Trump hospital visit raises questions about his health

  SPEAKER: Sanjay Gupta

  (CNN) – President Donald Trump’s visit to Walter Reed on did not follow the protocol of a routine presidential medical exam, according to a person familiar with the matter.

• 6 Reasons The U.S. Economy Is Thriving, According To Star Economist Todd Buchholz

  SPEAKER: Todd Buchholz

  (CRN) – Despite the current technological and political turmoil, the U.S. is also in the midst of a golden age of prosperity.

• Conversations with John Anderson: Featuring Niall Ferguson

  SPEAKER: Niall Ferguson

  (Conversations with John Anderson) – Harvard and Stanford Universities Senior Fellow and prolific author Niall Ferguson is one of the world’s pre-eminent experts on history, politics and economics. He shares his current insights on the rivalry between China and the USA, Trump, Brexit and more.

• Understanding America requires you to understand THIS

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox News) – As Washington continues to seem more and more partisan, it’s important to remember that things have been much more hostile in the past.

• There Will Be No Victory in Dishonor

  SPEAKER: David Frum

  (The Atlantic) – President Trump’s pardons for three service members accused of war crimes will have lasting consequences.

• Taking Instruments to New Heights

  SPEAKER: John Edward Hasse

  (WSJ) – The Allman Brothers Band’s eponymous debut album, released Nov. 4, 1969, rose to the level of classic art, pushing the boundaries of electric guitar, rock and improvisatory American music to establish the Allman Brothers as one of the foremost rock bands in history.

• Conyers Jazzed Up the Capitol

  SPEAKER: John Edward Hasse

  (WSJ) – Jazz has lost a friend and champion. Within the arts community, longtime Rep. John Conyers, who died Sunday at 90, was regarded as one of the most persistent and influential advocates of this uniquely American music.

• Lest we forget, history has lessons to teach

  SPEAKER: Niall Ferguson

  (The Times) – This is the time of year when I get the paper-flower question. Living in California, but born in Britain, I am one of a tiny number of people here who wear a poppy in the week before Remembrance Day. Hence the question: “Hey, Niall, what’s with the red paper flower?” I don’t mind explaining. I wear it in memory of my grandfathers, John Ferguson and Tom Hamilton.

• Why student loan forgiveness should target the graduates who need it most

  SPEAKER: Sheila Bair

  (Yahoo Finance) – Massive student debt forgiveness — a centerpiece of the campaigns of both Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders — has gone bipartisan. And no wonder. With 43 million people holding student debt and pretty much everyone in the country knowing someone who is struggling with it, the issue has powerful political appeal.

• Gottlieb: Juul can’t keep their products out of the hands of kids

  SPEAKER: Scott Gottlieb

  (CNBC) – Pfizer board member and former FDA commissioner, Dr. Scott Gottlieb discusses e-cigarettes and how the administration is handling them. 

• Many Americans are fighting the Fed. Good for them

  SPEAKER: Sheila Bair

  (CNBC) – By spending less and saving more, a good number of American households are showing their Fed independence. Washington’s policymakers should do the same.

• The First Blast Took His Memory. The Second Took His Limbs. Why This Marine Is Still Fighting

  SPEAKER: John Peck

  (Military.com) – Sgt. John Peck had already been blown up once before deploying to Afghanistan in 2010.

• The Passion of Newt Gingrich

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (The New Yorker) – Discussed Trump’s views on China, whether there was a quid pro quo in the President’s dealings with Ukraine, and the real reason that conservatives will never give up on Trump.

• ‘I had to pinch myself’: B.C. photojournalist inducted into International Photography Hall of Fame

  SPEAKER: Paul Nicklen

  (CBC) – Photojournalist and non-profit founder Paul Nicklen has been inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame in St. Louis, Missouri.

• Nikki Haley’s Audacious Bet

  SPEAKER: David Frum

  (The Atlantic) – Nikki Haley, the bright hope of Trump-skeptical Republicans, has placed a big bet that the Republican future will be almost as Trump-y as the recent Republican past.

• Make No Mistake: Mexican Cartel Murders are Funded by Americans

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Gingrich 360) – The massacre of nine Americans – including six children – in Northern Mexico this week was the latest shocking reminder of a stark reality: Our next-door neighbor has a huge, dangerous organized crime problem.

• First new HIV strain discovered in nearly two decades

  SPEAKER: Sanjay Gupta

  (CNN) – For the first time in 19 years, a team of scientists has detected a new strain of HIV. Dr. Sanjay Gupta has the details.

• Newt Gingrich: US should move all American production out of China

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox Business) – Former speaker of the house Newt Gingrich argues the U.S. should create a tax credit for any company that wants to move its production out of China to any place else in the world.

• The Kentucky Governor’s Race Is a Warning to Republicans

  SPEAKER: David Frum

  (The Atlantic) – The Republican incumbent couldn’t overcome the unpopularity of the party’s agenda. That doesn’t bode well for the GOP in 2020.

• The China threat is real — And THIS is the key to beating back its economic-military machine

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox News) – In the age of Huawei, the Belt and Road Initiative, and China’s state-sponsored companies, we need the United States Export-Import Bank more than ever.

• American Thought Leaders | Newt Gingrich: US Needs a “Grand Strategy for China” That Fosters Freedom

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (American Thought Leaders) – According to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, why is communist-ruled China America’s greatest threat?

• Family seeks answers in mother’s vaping death

  SPEAKER: Sanjay Gupta

  (CNN) – Vaping is believed to have caused one mother’s death, but as Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports, making the official determination is proving to be very difficult.

• Catching up with former Gov. Scott Walker

  SPEAKER: Scott Walker

  (CBS 58) – One year after Scott Walker’s tenure as governor ended he sits down to discuss how he’s moved on from holding public office.

• Watch Obamacare architect and former FDA chief debate Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare for all plan

  SPEAKER: Scott Gottlieb

  (CNBC) – Elizabeth Warren’s $20.5 trillion plan to provide health care for all Americans is being attacked by Republicans and fellow Democrats. Dr. Zeke Emanuel, University of Pennsylvania vice provost and architect of Obamacare, and Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a Pfizer board member and former FDA commissioner, join CNBC to discuss.

• How Carly Fiorina’s Nonprofit Seeks to Help People Become Leaders

  SPEAKER: Carly Fiorina

  (The Chronicle of Philanthropy) – This week’s Business of Giving features Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, a Republican presidential candidate in 2016, and the founder of the Unlocking Potential Foundation. She is also the author of Find Your Way: Unleash Your Power and Highest Potential.