jerry dunleavy? guest: the incident he is referring to that loudoun county a judge, i believe yesterday in juvenile court, did conclude that a teenage girl had been sexually assaulted by a teenage boy who had been wearing a skirt and the girl's restroom. that is what a judge concluded yesterday. that incident, the father showing up at the school board meeting and protesting, that incident was one of a number of incidents cited in the national school board association's letter calling on the justice department to take action. that letter has apologized for. host: melissa, bloomfield, iowa, independent. caller: thank you. speaking of the national school board association, i would like to hear what you have to say about biden offering the person in charge of the national school board association that sent that letter to the government a job in the government and i would like to let biden and everybody in the government know we american people run this country, he doesn't. thank you. host: go ahead. gues

jerry parscale -- >> [applause] >> thank you very much. good evening. i want to thank john for those kind words and on behalf of my fellow trustees, thank all of you for being here. it's an honor to welcome you to the latest installment of the reagan foundation speaker series, a time for choosing. as most of us regulates no, it is a phrase made famous by president reagan's pivotal 1964 speech. as has been said at the start of each of these events, that speech referred to often as the speech set in motion a chain of events that would launch a political career, defined the conservative movement and reshape a party. today, the party once led by ronald reagan is facing its own time for choosing. what are its core philosophies? what should the party's and for? what domestic policy and foreign policy positions are absolutely essential? in may, june, july and september, guests at the reagan library heard from speaker paul ryan, vice president mike pence, secretary mike pompeo, and governor chris christie. they offer their own views and perspectives in answer t

host: jerry in new jersey. caller: my question, i have a question and then i have a statement. the question is how equipped are we to help taiwan, in other words, what would be our -- how could the ability to help them if china tries to take them over, how far would we go? but the comment that i have before i hang up is twofold. c-span i noticed put this man on to try to cover up for biden's statements trying to help him out because i see that biden has to kind of help him out in every situation because he misses steps. but the main comment i have is that now that china has equipment that we left in afghanistan, how prepared are they going to be to just overtake that we wouldn't have the ability to protect ourselves? i think china has something on biden that biden's working with china and it scares me to death. i think more has to be investigated with the that. there's something going on with china and biden. host: all right. jaken stokes. guest: in terms of what the united states would do in the context of contingency or conflict over taiwan, u.s. policy has for many decades b

and jerry issueds the order, -- issued the order, disbanding the army. i didn't know it was going to happen. i know senior members of the joint chiefs of staff didn't know it. cia didn't know it. the suddenly the army is totally disbanded, and you have these hundreds of thousands of people who are armed and trained in the use of arms who are set free. and within a few weeks, they're lining up wanting their pensions, and we had to pay some of them in order to keep some peace. and then we started to rebuild an iraqi army, and it's taken some time. so i think it was a bad decision. if jerry bremer was here, he would tell you it was the right decision. but i think it was the wrong decision. and most importantly, it was not what we told the president we were going to do. host: given that the u.s. is now out of iraq, at least in terms of being a combat force, what ultimately is the -- what's the legacy within the military, and within policymaking community, as you understand it, what are we going to be like because of the iraq experience? gen. powell: let me s

and jerry issueds the order, -- issued the order, disbanding the army. i didn't know it was going to happen. i know senior members of the joint chiefs of staff didn't know it. cia didn't know it. the suddenly the army is totally disbanded, and you have these hundreds of thousands of people who are armed and trained in the use of arms who are set free. and within a few weeks, they're lining up wanting their pensions, and we had to pay some of them in order to keep some peace. and then we started to rebuild an iraqi army, and it's taken some time. so i think it was a bad decision. if jerry bremer was here, he would tell you it was the right decision. but i think it was the wrong decision. and most importantly, it was not what we told the president we were going to do. host: given that the u.s. is now out of iraq, at least in terms of being a combat force, what ultimately is the -- what's the legacy within the military, and within policymaking community, as you understand it, what are we going to be like because of the iraq experience? gen. powell: let me s

guest: so, a couple points, jerry. in terms of the overall budget, the numbers we are talking about our 10 year numbers. what the president has made clear his along with spending increases or tax cuts for the middle and working classes, there are no tax cuts for the rich in this bill, we will offset those with increases in other places, including increases on the wealthy. people who make more than $400,000 a year. if you make more than $400,000 a year, it's possible your taxes will go up. if you make a lot of money and capital gains, which is you are invested in the stock market, you might see prices rise. taxes may go up on corporations, which saw taxes slashed by president trump. and in our view, some of those need to be rebalanced. if those move, as written, it will not add to the long-term debt of the u.s. on immigration, the numbers jerry said were wrong, we are not seeing 2 million people, in. t -- come in. there probably will not be an immigration portion of this bill. we do not have enough votes for immigration

this is a jerry who heard -- jury who heard evidence about the boat manifesto, the respondent wrote after he ran over tamerlan in which he justified his actions on the basis of jihad and showed how proud he was of them. this after he needn't worry about tamerlan at all. he thought he was fine. ms. >> -- >> there's really an interesting sort of evidentiary question here and i would like your explanation of the standard that implies. this evidence is inadmissible many times over in a regular trial where we have rules of evidence. but in the mitigation phase of the penalty on a capital case may be the rule is anything goes. and if that is the case, that's what i want to know. is it really anything goes? suppose we had in this case was quintuple hearsay about something that tamerlan supposedly did years ago in russia. one person in russia told another person in russia told another person in russia down the line that he did certain things. and that is admitted. then what can he do in response? can you then introduce evidence to show that actually didn't happen or can you introduce evidence to

. >> -- jerry pollock. >> that is not a valid point of order. the gentleman from louisiana, mr. higgins is now recognized for five minutes. >> my, my, my. good lord help us to be protected from this threat from within. american pate patriots are done with career politicians insanity. we are nauseated by the continuous attacks on working americans and american industry. this entire debacle of a hearing today has been reflective of the exact reasons why my leagues across the aisle will lose their majority status very soon. we have a smashed economy. we've witnessed a disgraceful retreat from taliban terrorists overseas, abandoning americans. we have a disintegrated southern border, we have unbelievable inflation, medical oppression. we have parents, american parents being threatened by our own doj by having the audacity to exercise their first amendment rights to assemble and address grievance. we have the companies brought before us today, american men and women for a public beating by the democrats on this committee. they have done incredible work to actually lower emissions. th

host: jerry in new jersey. caller: my question, i have a question and then i have a statement. the question is how equipped are we to help taiwan, in other words, what would be our -- how could the ability to help them if china tries to take them over, how far would we go? but the comment that i have before i hang up is twofold. c-span i noticed put this man on to try to cover up for biden's statements trying to help him out because i see that biden has to kind of help him out in every situation because he misses steps. but the main comment i have is that now that china has equipment that we left in afghanistan, how prepared are they going to be to just overtake that we wouldn't have the ability to protect ourselves? i think china has something on biden that biden's working with china and it scares me to death. i think more has to be investigated with the that. there's something going on with china and biden. host: all right. jaken stokes. guest: in terms of what the united states would do in the context of contingency or conflict over taiwan, u.s. policy has for many decades b

host: jerry in new jersey. caller: my question, i have a question and then i have a statement. the question is how equipped are we to help taiwan, in other words, what would be our -- how could the ability to help them if china tries to take them over, how far would we go? but the comment that i have before i hang up is twofold. c-span i noticed put this man on to try to cover up for biden's statements trying to help him out because i see that biden has to kind of help him out in every situation because he misses steps. but the main comment i have is that now that china has equipment that we left in afghanistan, how prepared are they going to be to just overtake that we wouldn't have the ability to protect ourselves? i think china has something on biden that biden's working with china and it scares me to death. i think more has to be investigated with the that. there's something going on with china and biden. host: all right. jaken stokes. guest: in terms of what the united states would do in the context of contingency or conflict over taiwan, u.s. policy has for many decades b

host: jerry in florida, line for republicans. caller: i don't know what i'm talking about but you mentioned earlier about the fdr programs. all those programs ended but this bill joe biden is promoting has programs in it that is going over the next 10 years so will they and after that? some of the programs are with us forever and they are not working or they get or money. is there accounted to latif for all of this? guest: a lot of the do deal programs ended in a number of them continue on so there is an big legacy. one of the worries about the current thing is that is $3.5 trillion but it starts scaling down around 2026. once you have a federal program in place and you fund things like prekindergarten schooling and things like that, you are setting up a group of people who want to continue doing that so it's hard to get rid of it. some of the money they say they will transfer the cost of the program to the state. then you have to worry about what's going on with state budgets as well so it's a complicated system stop i agree tha

host: let's hear from jerry. go ahead. caller: i would just like to say global warming is something that the far left likes to blame everything on, from global warming to they like to blame inflation, the length of blame of innovation. i see the alaska pipeline and you can see the glaciers receding over two decades of time, but by the same token, 2000 years ago, there were 2000 feats of ice in the same place. the reality is that geologically, we go through warming and cooling cycles. the oil comes out of the ground, and it flows right by the arctic ocean, and then it is a hundred seven degrees when it comes out of the ground, even though you can see your breath in shady places when it is the middle of july. obviously, they have to have very hundreds of thousands of tropical conditions, and so, by the warming and drying cycle, the earth is going to warm and cool off at various times, and this is a climate change story. >> this is in the wall street journal. biking artifacts pinpoint europeans crossing. i knew look at wooden

host: jerry in florida, line for republicans. caller: i don't know what i'm talking about but you mentioned earlier about the fdr programs. all those programs ended but this bill joe biden is promoting has programs in it that is going over the next 10 years so will they and after that? some of the programs are with us forever and they are not working or they get or money. is there accounted to latif for all of this? guest: a lot of the do deal programs ended in a number of them continue on so there is an big legacy. one of the worries about the current thing is that is $3.5 trillion but it starts scaling down around 2026. once you have a federal program in place and you fund things like prekindergarten schooling and things like that, you are setting up a group of people who want to continue doing that so it's hard to get rid of it. some of the money they say they will transfer the cost of the program to the state. then you have to worry about what's going on with state budgets as well so it's a complicated system stop i agree tha

host: to jerry, also on the republican line, this time in chicago. caller: thank you, c-span. i am totally with the previous caller. when trump was in, the economy was great. we were highest in energy, employment. the border was well taken care of. our taxes were lower. gas was much lower. biden is ruining this country. i cannot see why people cannot see that. china is communist. we have trouble on the ports, with the border. they want to start paying people $450,000 to be immigrants -- he is destroying everything. he does not even know where he is at or what day it is. he is not running this country good. he does not know anything about business. he has not done anything in 47 years he has been in politics. and i think he is doing a horrible job. host: a florida congressman, a war veteran, spoke on the house floor during the debate ahead of the bill passed to present gold medals to american servicemembers in afghanistan. this is the comments on the floor the house earlier this year. [video clip] >> the fact is, we could give everyone of them 1000 gold medals, and it would not