In this Majority Report clip, Mark Esper wants to be Secretary of Defense. We need your help to keep providing free videos! Support the Majority Report's video content by going to http://www.Patreon.com/MajorityReport "Secretary of the Army Mark Esper sailed through a relatively sleepy confirmation hearing for the job of defense secretary — save for one heated exchange with 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) over his ties to a major defense contractor. The back-and-forth between Esper and Warren was practically advertised ahead of the hearing, after the Massachusetts senator laid out in a July 11 letter her concerns about an “ethics cloud” and potential conflicts of interest..."* Read more here: https://www.vox.com/world/2019/7/16/20696452/mark-esper-defense-secretary-raytheon-lobbying-warren Watch the Majority Report live M–F at 12 p.m. EST at youtube.com/samseder or listen via daily podcast at http://Majority.FM Download our FREE app: http://majorityapp.com SUPPORT the show by becoming a member: http://jointhemajorityreport.com LIKE us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/MajorityReport FOLLOW us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/MajorityFM SUBSCRIBE to us on YouTube: http://youtube.com/SamSeder ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiNwIz9Mx4c

In the 1970s liberals moved away from bold progressive policy ideas. Instead, they focused on efficiency. President Carter is often viewed as a lefty who just couldn't get things done, but he helped solidify the Democratic Party's transition to this technocratic economic philosophy. Watch the Majority Report live Monday – Friday at 12 p.m. EST at http://www.youtube.com/SamSeder or listen via daily podcast at http://www.Majority.FM SUPPORT the show by becoming a member: http://www.jointhemajorityreport.com/ Download our FREE app: http://www.majorityapp.com Find TMR merchandise on our website: http://www.shop.majorityreportradio.com Spread the progressive message! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to bring attention to the stories that matter to you. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with The Majority Report’s video content! Support The Majority Report by subscribing to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-3jIAlnQmbbVMV6gR7K8aQ Follow us on Social Media: Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/themajorityreport Facebook: http://facebook.com/MajorityReport Twitter: http://twitter.com/MajorityFM Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/majorityreport.fm/ Image Credit, pingnews.com https://www.flickr.com/photos/pingnews/507815491 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/ Image has been cropped and color has been altered. Guest: This history of how you know what I'm calling the economic style of reasoning sort of moved into Washington and spread around and took over. But a big part of what I'm also trying to do is show how that had long-term consequences and it had those effects, particularly for democrats. and I think you know some of my original motivation in writing this book was sort of you know being a product of you know coming of age in the 1990s and sort of seeing the constraints on democratic politics. And so I really wanted a way to tie very clearly this historical story to constraints on what politics on the left look like that I think are still, you know, certainly in place in the Obama administration and I think are still there today. Emma: Absolutely I mean it's you combine despite the changes in aesthetics right of course. and I was young when Obama was first getting elected. It was my first formative political experience. The hope and change thing really got to me. But you look at the actual accomplishments of ACA, Dodd-Frank, etc. they do really do not come close to the ambitions of the policy sets the policy goals of liberals democrats in the 30s and the 70s. Guest: yeah yeah and part of what I'm trying to argue here is that you know is that what we really had happened was that a particular set of tools for thinking about policy kind of first introduced into washington. and then really spread around be ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOCjUccnSFU