News July 21, 2019

News Stories

• Trump and Democrats align more closely on student debt than they think

  SPEAKER: Sheila Bair

  (Yahoo Finance) – So it is with income share agreements, or ISAs — a new way to finance college, where students are only obliged to pay an affordable percentage of their income after they graduate, instead of a fixed-debt obligation. While the concept of ISAs seems to have support among Republicans and Democrats, its very name is prompting partisan sword-fighting.

• President Trump, don’t embrace left-wing ideas to get something done on drug prices

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox News) – In this column, I want to sound a warning about how things could go wrong, particularly when it comes to the president’s efforts to lower prescription drug prices.

• Former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair: I’m not sure why Powell locked himself into a cut

  SPEAKER: Sheila Bair

  (CNBC) – Sheila Bair, former FDIC chair, discusses Powell’s comments to congress, the economy and the markets.

• Newt Gingrich on Politics, Biotech, and Investing Advice

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (The Street) – Newt Gingrich, a former Speaker of the House, weighed in on the U.S.-China trade deal, President Trump’s social media presence, his focus on gene therapy and his advice for investors. 

• Extract from Niall Ferguson’s The Ascent of Money: Populists reaped the rewards of the financial crisis — now they are set to trigger a new crash

  SPEAKER: Niall Ferguson

  (The Times) – The redundancies at Deutsche Bank show we’re still feeling the economic effects of 2008. In an extract from a new edition of his book The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson warns more turmoil is on the way

• Can Ilhan Omar Overcome Her Prejudice?

  SPEAKER: Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  (Wall Street Journal) – I once opened a speech by confessing to a crowd of Jews that I used to hate them.

• How Photographer Cristina Mittermeier Kept Her Cool When Surrounded by Sharks

  SPEAKER: Cristina Mittermeier

  (Conde Nast Traveler) – Cristina Mittermeier didn’t set out to be an award-winning wildlife photographer. She’s a marine biologist by trade. But when an exhibition at the Houston Museum of Natural History included some photos she had taken on her ex-husband’s camera—and credited him—she saw an opportunity.

• Trump Is Baiting Democrats

  SPEAKER: David Frum

  (The Atlantic) – The president is trying to divide the House caucus and force it to fight the election on his terms. So far, it’s working.

• Buzz Aldrin on the moon 50 years later

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox News) – Buzz Aldrin has been a close friend of mine for many years. He is an American icon and hero, who will forever be remembered as one of the few Americans who took the first small steps into the next era of humankind.

• Sheila Bair: Millennials are falling into the credit card debt trap

  SPEAKER: Sheila Bair

  (CNBC) – Former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair discusses her ‘Invest in You: Ready. Set. Grow.’ op-ed on how credit card mismanagement is adding to millennials’ financial woes.

• Spicer thinks White House can prevail on census citizenship question

  SPEAKER: Sean Spicer

  (Fox News) Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer discusses the census citizenship question.

• A Fine Time to Become an American

  SPEAKER: Niall Ferguson

  (PragerU) – Renowned Oxford-trained historian Niall Ferguson recounts his recent experience of becoming an American citizen. His unique impressions are both moving and surprising — even to him.

• Trump Should Push Qatari Emir to End Unfair Subsidies

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Newsweek) – The US economy is a behemoth. With an estimated $21.06 trillion gross domestic product, no other country on the planet can match our overall economic strength—without cheating, anyway.

• Why the Fed should oversee Facebook’s Libra

  SPEAKER: Sheila Bair

  (Yahoo Finance) – Facebook (FB) Mark Zuckerberg’s recent announcement of ambitious plans to launch a new, global cryptocurrency called Libra has been met with understandable alarm, particularly among regulators and consumer advocates.

• Trump’s Recessional

  SPEAKER: David Frum

  (The Atlantic) – The president’s speech existed only to provide a reason why he needed to stand in one place long enough for five waves of warplanes to cross the sky.

• Scott Gottlieb on joining Pfizer’s board, drug prices, and ‘Medicare for All’

  SPEAKER: Scott Gottlieb

  (CNBC) – Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb was recently elected to the board of Pfizer. He joins “Squawk Box” to discuss the news as well as his thoughts on drug prices and “Medicare for All.”

• Two women prevent a man from taking his own life

  SPEAKER: Sanjay Gupta

  (CNN) – Jen Principe and Toni Musso, two women who convinced a man not to take his own life, say they were inspired by CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s story on suicide prevention.

• America’s Asylum System Is Profoundly Broken

  SPEAKER: David Frum

  (The Atlantic) – Until the United States establishes and articulates clear rules, the crisis at the border will continue.

• Wodehousian Boris Johnson is the past, not the future

  SPEAKER: Niall Ferguson

  (The Globe and Mail) – Like fears of a European superstate, party hierarchies are passé

• Kamala Harris Will Be The 2020 Democratic Nominee

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Newsweek) – The first Democratic debates reinforced an instinct I first had months ago. Kamala Harris had the best debate of the 20 people on stage. She had the best one-liner. She had the most commanding presence. She felt the most energized and best prepared.

• Don’t expect trade deal soon, says former US ambassador to China

  SPEAKER: Gary Locke

  (CNBC) – Gary Locke, former U.S. ambassador to China, joins  “Closing Bell” to discuss the latest in U.S.-China trade relations.

• Newt Gingrich: Iran is very close to breaking

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox News) – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich reacts to President Trump’s handling of Iran, North Korea and the border crisis.

• Life lessons from the native tribe with the healthiest hearts in the world

  SPEAKER: Sanjay Gupta

  (CNN) – A few years ago, I read reports of an indigenous tribe living deep in the Amazon rainforest whose members had hardly any evidence of heart disease. In fact, the researchers concluded after a year-long study that the Tsimane, as they are called, had the healthiest hearts in the world, a title previously held by Japanese women.

• Trump, Xi Jinping to meet tonight at G20 Summit amid trade tension

  SPEAKER: Gary Locke

  (Fox Business) – The threat of new tariffs looms over the meeting between Trump and Xi at the G20 Summit. Former U.S. Ambassador to China under Obama Gary Locke with more.

• Spies keep America safe — Here is how they operate

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox News) – The intelligence community plays a vital role in our national security. The brave men and women who serve our nation in this capacity rarely – if ever – are recognized publicly for their courageous work.

• 3 reasons why a former Secretary of the Navy worries about Iran

  SPEAKER: Ray Mabus

  (Radio.com) – Navy Veteran Ray Mabus was the Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) the day Osama Bin Laden was killed. In addition to being SECNAV for 8 years, he served as the United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1994 to 1996.

• Sheila Bair: Banks Stronger Than Before Crisis, But Not Strong Enough

  SPEAKER: Sheila Bair

  (Bloomberg) – Sheila Bair, founder at Volcker Alliance and former head of FDIC, discusses the 2019 Federal Reserve big bank stress tests.

• The Democrats Are Forfeiting Their Biggest Advantage

  SPEAKER: David Frum

  (The Atlantic) – Instead of defending Obamacare, the candidates are abandoning it.

• Senate HELP Committee should pass Lower Health Care Costs Act

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox News) – Sen. Lamar Alexander’s leadership in the Senate has produced the best opportunity for bipartisan legislative progress in health care before the 2020 election.

• Boston College Naming New Baseball & Softball Training Facility In Honor Of Pete Frates

  SPEAKER: Nancy Frates

  (CBS Boston) – Boston College baseball and softball players will soon do their training inside the Pete Frates Center. BC is honoring their former baseball captain by naming their new training facility after him, the school announced Wednesday.

• Balkanising technology will backfire on the US

  SPEAKER: Henry M. Paulson, Jr.

  (The Financial Times) – Washington’s decision to blacklist Huawei, preventing US companies from buying its products, may be a death sentence for China’s leading technology group.

• The FDA’s Challenge on E-Cigs

  SPEAKER: Scott Gottlieb

  (The Wall Street Journal) – Electronic cigarettes are less harmful than traditional cigarettes, but they aren’t safe. There’s evidence they can damage the lungs, and they’re also a path to nicotine addiction.

• How Trump found his 2020 campaign chief

  SPEAKER: Brad Parscale

  (Herald-Mail Media) – If Brad Parscale had not lost his job and gotten food poisoning in 2002, he might never have bought a how-to book on building websites or found time to read it and start his own web design and marketing firm.

• Norman Stone served up wise words to Thatcher, and Guinness and Nietzsche to me

  SPEAKER: Niall Ferguson

  (The Times) – A mercurial genius, the Oxford historian who died last week at 78 won the ear of power and the hearts of students, including this Sunday Times columnist

• Former FDA Chief Gottlieb on Juul: Don’t know how it proves public health benefit

  SPEAKER: Scott Gottlieb

  (CNBC) – Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former FDA commissioner and CNBC contributor, discusses Juul’s recent city-wide ban in San Francisco. Gottlieb tells Becky Quick that investors had to know Juul planned to sell to youths.

• Trump plans to live tweet during Democratic debate

  SPEAKER: Sean Spicer

  (Fox News) – America First Action PAC senior adviser Sean Spicer discusses the impact the president live tweeting the debate could have.

• Why Congress doesn’t deserve a pay raise

  SPEAKER: Scott Walker

  (The Washington Times) – Bottom-line: Most Americans already believe that Congress is paid too much.

• The David Rubenstein Show: John Kelly

  SPEAKER: John Kelly

  (Bloomberg) – David Rubenstein sits down with former White House Chief of Staff General John Kelly for a conversation about working with President Donald Trump, his military career and his views on immigration and the Mexican border issue.

• Trump’s campaign chief says end of Mueller probe a “good thing”

  SPEAKER: Brad Parscale

  (CBS Evening News) – With President Trump formally kicking off his re-election bid,  Brad Parscale discusses the latest polls, immigration and the end of the Mueller probe.

• Former FDIC chair says it’s time for Fed to issue its own digital currency

  SPEAKER: Sheila Bair

  (CNBC) – Sheila Bair, former chair of the FDIC, discusses Facebook’s new cryptocurrency and the possibilities for the Fed’s own digital currency.

• President Xi Needs to Resolve This Directly With Hong Kong, Says Hudson Institute’s Michael Pillsbury

  SPEAKER: Michael Pillsbury

  (Bloomberg) – Michael Pillsbury, director of Chinese strategy center at the Hudson Institute, discusses President Trump’s comments on Hong Kong-China relations, the U.S.-China trade negotiations and the future of U.S.-Hong Kong relations.

• Hong Kong democracy protests are a critically consequential moment that matters to all of us

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox News) – One of the most important struggles on the planet is taking place right now between the people of Hong Kong and the dictatorship of General Secretary Xi Jinping.

• A salute to great teachers

  SPEAKER: Niall Ferguson

  (The Boston Globe) – ‘Boris sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of responsibility (and surprised at the same time that he was not appointed captain of school for next half). I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else.”

• Spicer says chemistry with Trump is key to replacing Sanders

  SPEAKER: Sean Spicer

  (Fox News) – Sarah Sanders did a phenomenal job as White House press secretary, says former White House press secretary Sean Spicer.

• What the people of Hong Kong are resisting (and what they see coming)

  SPEAKER: Newt Gingrich

  (Fox News) – Over the last several days, more than a million Hong Kong residents have flooded the streets and demonstrated against a proposed law that would let the semi-independent government there turn residents accused of crimes in mainland China over to communist authorities in Beijing.

• Gottlieb’s legacy could be felt for years

  SPEAKER: Scott Gottlieb

  (Modern Healthcare) – Dr. Scott Gottlieb accomplished a rare feat during his two-year tenure as head of the Food and Drug Administration—he earned praise from Republicans and Democrats alike.

• Former soldier, quadruple amputee, has new lease on life

  SPEAKER: John Peck

  (Mid Hudson News) – Two-time Purple Heart recipient Sgt. John Peck, who has been traveling across the country telling his story of inspiration in his book “Rebuilding Sergeant Peck: How I Put Body and Soul Back Together After Afghanistan,” visited the Hudson Valley, Wednesday evening, to talk with locals about his experiences overseas that left him a quadruple-amputee and his journey to receiving a cutting-edge organ transplant.

• Carly Fiorina’s advice to 2020 candidates

  SPEAKER: Carly Fiorina

  (Newsy) – Carly Fiorina knows what it takes to stand out on a debate stage. Now she’s giving advice to 2020 candidates, particularly the women.

• Trump’s Astonishing Confession

  SPEAKER: David Frum

  (The Atlantic) – The president says he’d do it all again.

• Chasing Health With Sanjay Gupta, MD | Rich Roll Podcast

  SPEAKER: Sanjay Gupta

  (The Rich Roll Podcast) – Dr. Sanjay Gupta discusses his remarkable career, the importance of storytelling in journalism, what it was like covering conflict zones overseas, the current state of healthcare in America, and insights he learned doing his CNN original series, “Chasing Life.”