Host Chris Murray's special guest is Lora Ries (“Reese”) is Senior Research Fellow, Homeland Security, at The Heritage Foundation. She has over 23 years’ experience in the immigration and homeland security arena. Mrs. Ries twice worked at the Department of Homeland Security on management and immigration policy and operations issues. She also worked in the private sector as a homeland security industry strategist and in government relations. She previously worked in the legislative branch as Counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, and started her career at the Department of Justice’s Board of Immigration Appeals and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a law degree at Valparaiso University in Indiana. 

Host Chris Murray talks with Desmond Lachman who joined AEI after serving as a managing director and chief emerging market economic strategist at Salomon Smith Barney. He previously served as deputy director in the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Policy Development and Review Department and was active in staff formulation of IMF policies. Mr. Lachman has written extensively on the global economic crisis, the U.S. housing market bust, the U.S. dollar, and the strains in the euro area. At AEI, Mr. Lachman is focused on the global macroeconomy, global currency issues, and the multilateral lending agencies. Experience Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University, 2010 Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University, 2009 Managing Director and Chief Emerging Market Economic Strategist, Salomon Smith Barney, 1996-2003 Deputy Director, Policy Development and Review Department, International Monetary Fund, 1994-96 Senior Adviser, European Department, 1990-94; Division Chief, Western Hemisphere Department, 1984-90, International Monetary Fund Education PhD, economics, Cambridge University BA, University of Witwatersrand

Chris Murray's special guest is EJ Antoni.  Mr. Antoni is a Research Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget. His research focuses on fiscal and monetary policy. His work has been featured with a variety of news outlets including Daily Caller, Fox News and Fox Business, Wall Street Journal, National Review, CNBC, Washington Times, The Center Square, Washington Examiner,Breitbart, The Federalist, and others. He is also a regular guest on many podcasts and radio programs, including WMAL’s Vince Coglianese Show, heard in the greater D.C. area, where he is the in-house economist. Antoni’s research has also been featured with numerous think tanks and institutes including the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, where he is a senior fellow. Previously, he was an economist at Texas Public Policy Foundation, an economic consultant for FreedomWorks, and has taught courses ranging from labor economics to money and banking. Antoni holds master’s and doctoral degrees in Economics and frequently speaks at colleges and financial institutions.

Host Chris Murray  talks with Bill Dunkleberg.  Mr. Dunkleberg is  Chief Economist for the National Federation of Independent Business, where he focuses on entrepreneurship, small business, consumer behavior and the economy. Mr. Dunkleberg is Professor Emeritus at Temple University.

Research Fellow in The Heritage Foundation's Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget joins host Chris Murray. 

Chris Murray is a veteran financial professional who is focused on helping clients achieve their ideal financial future. Chris got his start in the industry in 1989, and, after working for other financial companies, he decided to follow his drive to help others. In 1995, he founded Murray Financial Group, a firm dedicated to helping individuals and families overcome the challenges of creating a steady financial foundation.

Chris Murray is a veteran financial professional who is focused on helping clients achieve their ideal financial future. Chris got his start in the industry in 1989, and, after working for other financial companies, he decided to follow his drive to help others. In 1995, he founded Murray Financial Group, a firm dedicated to helping individuals and families overcome the challenges of creating a steady financial foundation.

Chris Murray is a veteran financial professional who is focused on helping clients achieve their ideal financial future. Chris got his start in the industry in 1989, and, after working for other financial companies, he decided to follow his drive to help others. In 1995, he founded Murray Financial Group, a firm dedicated to helping individuals and families overcome the challenges of creating a steady financial foundation.

Chris Murray is a veteran financial professional who is focused on helping clients achieve their ideal financial future. Chris got his start in the industry in 1989, and, after working for other financial companies, he decided to follow his drive to help others. In 1995, he founded Murray Financial Group, a firm dedicated to helping individuals and families overcome the challenges of creating a steady financial foundation.

Chris Murray is a veteran financial professional who is focused on helping clients achieve their ideal financial future. Chris got his start in the industry in 1989, and, after working for other financial companies, he decided to follow his drive to help others. In 1995, he founded Murray Financial Group, a firm dedicated to helping individuals and families overcome the challenges of creating a steady financial foundation.

Chris Murray is a veteran financial professional who is focused on helping clients achieve their ideal financial future. Chris got his start in the industry in 1989, and, after working for other financial companies, he decided to follow his drive to help others. In 1995, he founded Murray Financial Group, a firm dedicated to helping individuals and families overcome the challenges of creating a steady financial foundation.

Chris Murray is a veteran financial professional who is focused on helping clients achieve their ideal financial future. Chris got his start in the industry in 1989, and, after working for other financial companies, he decided to follow his drive to help others. In 1995, he founded Murray Financial Group, a firm dedicated to helping individuals and families overcome the challenges of creating a steady financial foundation.

Chris Murray is a veteran financial professional who is focused on helping clients achieve their ideal financial future. Chris got his start in the industry in 1989, and, after working for other financial companies, he decided to follow his drive to help others. In 1995, he founded Murray Financial Group, a firm dedicated to helping individuals and families overcome the challenges of creating a steady financial foundation.

Chris Murray is a veteran financial professional who is focused on helping clients achieve their ideal financial future. Chris got his start in the industry in 1989, and, after working for other financial companies, he decided to follow his drive to help others. In 1995, he founded Murray Financial Group, a firm dedicated to helping individuals and families overcome the challenges of creating a steady financial foundation.

Chris Murray is a veteran financial professional who is focused on helping clients achieve their ideal financial future. Chris got his start in the industry in 1989, and, after working for other financial companies, he decided to follow his drive to help others. In 1995, he founded Murray Financial Group, a firm dedicated to helping individuals and families overcome the challenges of creating a steady financial foundation.

Chris Murray is a veteran financial professional who is focused on helping clients achieve their ideal financial future. Chris got his start in the industry in 1989, and, after working for other financial companies, he decided to follow his drive to help others. In 1995, he founded Murray Financial Group, a firm dedicated to helping individuals and families overcome the challenges of creating a steady financial foundation.

Chris Murray is a veteran financial professional who is focused on helping clients achieve their ideal financial future. Chris got his start in the industry in 1989, and, after working for other financial companies, he decided to follow his drive to help others. In 1995, he founded Murray Financial Group, a firm dedicated to helping individuals and families overcome the challenges of creating a steady financial foundation.

Chris Murray is a veteran financial professional who is focused on helping clients achieve their ideal financial future. Chris got his start in the industry in 1989, and, after working for other financial companies, he decided to follow his drive to help others. In 1995, he founded Murray Financial Group, a firm dedicated to helping individuals and families overcome the challenges of creating a steady financial foundation.

Chris Murray is a veteran financial professional who is focused on helping clients achieve their ideal financial future. Chris got his start in the industry in 1989, and, after working for other financial companies, he decided to follow his drive to help others. In 1995, he founded Murray Financial Group, a firm dedicated to helping individuals and families overcome the challenges of creating a steady financial foundation.

Chris Murray is a veteran financial professional who is focused on helping clients achieve their ideal financial future. Chris got his start in the industry in 1989, and, after working for other financial companies, he decided to follow his drive to help others. In 1995, he founded Murray Financial Group, a firm dedicated to helping individuals and families overcome the challenges of creating a steady financial foundation.

Chris Murray is a veteran financial professional who is focused on helping clients achieve their ideal financial future. Chris got his start in the industry in 1989, and, after working for other financial companies, he decided to follow his drive to help others. In 1995, he founded Murray Financial Group, a firm dedicated to helping individuals and families overcome the challenges of creating a steady financial foundation.

Chris Murray is a veteran financial professional who is focused on helping clients achieve their ideal financial future. Chris got his start in the industry in 1989, and, after working for other financial companies, he decided to follow his drive to help others. In 1995, he founded Murray Financial Group, a firm dedicated to helping individuals and families overcome the challenges of creating a steady financial foundation.

Chris Murray is a veteran financial professional who is focused on helping clients achieve their ideal financial future. Chris got his start in the industry in 1989, and, after working for other financial companies, he decided to follow his drive to help others. In 1995, he founded Murray Financial Group, a firm dedicated to helping individuals and families overcome the challenges of creating a steady financial foundation.

Chris Murray is a veteran financial professional who is focused on helping clients achieve their ideal financial future. He founded Murray Financial Group, a firm dedicated to helping individuals and families overcome the challenges of creating a steady financial foundation.

Chris Murray is a financial advisor based in Frederick, Maryland, who has been in the advisory business for 22 years. Murray is an employee of Murray Financial Group, Inc. They have worked at Murray Financial Group, Inc for their whole career. Murray maintains Series 63 and Series 65 licenses, qualifying them as both a securities agent and an investment advisor representative, and is registered to advise clients in Maryland.

"Your financial Editor" Chris Murray some of his favorite Christmas music. 

A group of powerful congressional Democrats recently unveiled legislation that would expand the Supreme Court from nine to 13 justices. Nadler exposed what’s fundamentally wrong with the court-packing plans. They in effect would treat courts as if they are just another legislative body. The end result would be that the Supreme Court and other federal courts are subject to constant packing as the political parties take and lose power.

Emma WatersResearch Associate, Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family Emma is a research associate in the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family at The Heritage Foundation.

David E. Bernstein is a law professor at the George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia, where he has taught since 1995. His primary areas of scholarly research are constitutional history and the admissibility of expert testimony. Bernstein is a contributor to the legal blog The Volokh Conspiracy.  Today he talked about the potential fair admissions case before the Supreme Court.

Jeffrey A. Tucker, Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute, is an economist and author. He has written 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He writes a daily column on economics at The Epoch Times, and speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture.

Dakota L. Wood, who served America for two decades in the U.S. Marine Corps, is the senior research fellow for Defense Programs at The Heritage Foundation. Wood’s research and writing focus on programs, capabilities, operational concepts, and strategies of the U.S. Department of Defense and military services to assess their utility in ensuring the United States has the ability to protect and promote its critical national security interests. Mr. Wood originated and serves as the editor for Heritage’s “Index of U.S. Military Strength,” the only annual assessment available to the public of the status of America’s military and its ability to carry out its core functions. Wood retired from the U.S. Marine Corps as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2005. During his service as a Marine, he served with a variety of operational units and in various high-level staff assignments. He participated in the planning and execution of operations around the world to include Operation Enduring Freedom, when he served as a lead operational/logistics planner for U.S. Central Command during the initial operational response to the attacks of Sept 11, 2001, and then as a by-name request in late 2002 to augment and lead operational analysis and logistics planning and execution efforts in support of Marine Corps combat forces for the invasion phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom to depose Saddam Hussein.

Manion earned his Ph.D in government at Notre Dame University, and taught politics, religion, and international relations at Boston University, Catholic University of America, and Christendom College. In addition to teaching, Manion was the staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, under Senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.). He was also a weekly columnist and contributing editor at the The Wanderer newspaper. He continues to be a contributing editor and critic for the Saturday Review and High Fidelity magazines, as well as having appeared in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, The Journal of Economic Development, The National Catholic Register, and Western Horseman with op-eds and book reviews. Manion is currently a member of the boards of the American Foreign Policy Council, the Population Research Institute, and is a founding member of the Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala. He is a Knight of Magistral Grace in the Sovereign Military Hospitaler Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Rhodes, and Malta.

 Erin is a senior research associate in the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation.

Rachel Greszler Rachel Greszler serves as an economics, budget, and entitlements research fellow in the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget of The Heritage Foundation's Institute for Economic Freedom.