richard sylla. [applause] sylla: thank you for that kind introduction. for coming outu on hamilton's 261st birthday. society and the museum for sponsoring the event. it is an honor to be here. my topic is timely. congress passed a tax cut, that is estimated will add -- $.1500,000,000.5 trillion dollars to the national , my topic is hamilton on fiscal responsibility. merits ofill be the the recent tax cut, and i think there are some, there is little regard theton would law as not passing the test of fiscal responsibility. hamilton would regard many of the fiscal policies and some of the monetary policies of the past half-century, the middle of 1960's, as not passing the fiscal and monetary responsibility tests as he defined them in the early to mid-1790's, during and after his tenure as our first secretary of the treasury. there is probably a good site to that -- good side to that. ago, theore 50 years first part of our history, maybe the policies would have passed hamilton's tests. a matter of your arithmetic, but you may be surprised when i tell you, i

sylla: yes. next question. >> i am puzzled by your response that hamilton would have found tax cuts to be fiscally irresponsible given the fact there is another part of the namely that if you cut back government expenditures, that would correlate with decreasing taxes. and that hamilton was an ardent defender of private property, that he thought that there should be limited government, that perhaps what government was making expenditures on was outside the purview of a properly limited government. so of today's expenditures, which d think -- do you think hamilton would advocate cutting? dr. sylla: you were surprised that i said hamilton would've thought tax cuts were fiscally irresponsible? you know, when you are running up expenditures as we are, and cutting taxes, that doesn't seem -- to me or to alexander hamilton, to be fiscally responsible. but your other part of your question is more about whether hamilton would've ever wanted to cut taxes? >> [inaudible] dr. sylla: oh. >> [inaudible] agree

sylla is hereby recognized as a national provide scholar -- to accurate, objective, and insightful information to the public about the united states of america possible markable founding father, alexander states of- united america's remarkable founding father, alexander hamilton." announcer: you are watching american history television, i weakened every weekend on c-span3. like us on facebook at c-span/ history. we talk aboutt, the 1968 north korean capture of the uss label. author of as the book on american foreign-policy. this interview is about 15 minutes. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] >> mitchell lerner is a historian who was in demand these days. korean studies is on a lot of people's minds. you have written a book about a particular incident in history, therea pueblo incident, which is marking its 50th anniversary. by asking you to give the story of the pueblo. lerner: it is amazing to the extent which it has been forgotten by the american people. the uss pablo was an -- an old world war ii cargo carrier that had been retired. it was old and dilapidated. it was

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sylla well, of course it is good news that she has entered into some of these agreements. but, remember she has done this without having a free—trade agreement with. tuesday ms on the basis of international trading new rules, and the fact that she is operating at the fact that she is operating at the moment under eu rules, the year doesn't have a big trade agreement with china. the uk can go ahead, and enter into these sorts of arrangements, but all done without a free—trade deal. it shows what can be done, even without the uk having a trade deal, but it also shows what can be done what we are still in the eu. 0k, thank you so much for joining us from cambridge. more on our top story — the us congress has released a highly controversial memo which accuses the fbi of abusing its powers to spy on donald trump's election campaign. our correspondentjane o'brien is in washington. jane, we are already seeing lots of reaction from all sides on the significance of this memo. just, for viewers here, you haven't followed all the twists and turns of the political battles over t

we hear about chicago but baltimore's per capita rate is worse, it's worse in the city of sylla bus worse, it's worse in the city of syllabus missouri only. it's right there at the top. gun violence is a huge problem. people don't feel safe, they fear gangs in the street and fear their own police force. they are trapped in no man's land to a certain extent. thank you very much. the winter olympics are still going on in seoul, let's take you through some of the main stories. the first one involves this short track speed skater disqualified for grade piero after finishing second. she was awarded bronze. almost immediately she started receiving online comments. many abusive or threatening. the canadian olympic committee has come to her defence, it says the health, safety and security of all our team members is our top priority and as such we are working closely with speed skating. south korea has approved a plan to pay for the cost of hosting north korea's delegation. there are just 22 athletes competing, the entire delegation has more than 400 people in itand delegation has more than 400 pe