[ applause ] so good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the kansas city public library. Robert merry is, this is his second presentation in the somewhat hallowed calls of the kansas city public library. Five star library this week from library journal. Thank you. [ applause ] hes a graduate of the university of washington. He has a masters degree from Columbia University school of journalism. Hes been a reporter for the observer, the wall street journal, managing editor and editor in chief of Congressional Quarterly and more recently the editor of the National Interest in the american conservative. The american conservative has about us passage saying it is collaborate but it sounds a lot like robert merry. This is a description of their philosophy. We believe in constitutional government, fiscal prudence, sound Monetary Policy and delineated borders, free markets and restraint in Foreign Policy mixed with diplomatic acuity. We adhere closely to our institutional maxim idea, pri
1984. Esis the thesis is simple. Look at the big picture. Auge the strength of the party holding the white house and determine wether an election is a change election. I determined regardless of the republican nominee that 2016 was going to be a change election and any generic republican was going to win. I was that i got this little note on my Washington Post interview which said congrats. I do not think he read far enough to get to my second big prediction, that he would be impeached. How did i reach that . It was not a formal model. It was my study of his entire career and his campaign. Who,nd this was someone starting back in the early 1970s when he was sued by the department of justice for discriminating against minorities in his real estate company, this was someone who had no regard for the law. This was someone who had no regard for the truth. Reality was whatever served him at the moment. This was someone who had spent his career enriching himself and promoting his brand with
Donald trump on the president ial ballot rejecting the state efforts to try to brand trump illegally and thus keep him off the ballots this year of its big news no matter how you slice it. Its big for a nation divided by trump, big for an election that is legally intertwined. Its between trumps efforts to overthrow the last election laws and efforts to run right now. There is no way around dealing with what trump has brought. This is also big news for the court itself. Big news longer for voting begins. As the time is reporting today, the decision is the most important ruling. Of handing the presidency to bush the most important such ruling in 25 years. Thats how it played out as the news broke. One of the unprecedented legal questions over the election has been resolved. And unanimous decision they keep donald trump on the ballot. Not just a colorado but across the entire nation. Monumental Supreme Court decision. Huge, inanimate decision today. Reversed colorados decision to ban dona
An overturned tractortrailer. Police and crews still out at that scene. They just got enough debris cleared out to let two left lanes squeeze by. This is in the area of the inner loop between pennsylvania avenue and allentown road. The crash is closest to the suitland parkway overpass. As we move things over i want to show you a look at the delay though because this is still very much impacting inner loop drivers. We are at a standstill by ritchie marlboro road. That delay extends past Central Avenue. My best advice so you dont get stuck in about an hour and a half of extra traffic this morning hop off the inner loop at least by Central Avenue, work your way through the city and then hook back onto the inner loop at branch avenue. That will definitely save you some time. Be prepared because of bailout traffic. Secondaries once you get off Central Avenue are going to be jammed. Same story on pennsylvania avenue. Folks seeking those alternates. We do have a rubberneck delay impacting the
An overturned tractortrailer. Police and crews still out at that scene. They just got enough debris cleared out to let two left lanes squeeze by. This is in the area of the inner loop between pennsylvania avenue and allentown road. The crash is closest to the suitland parkway overpass. As we move things over i want to show you a look at the delay though because this is still very much impacting inner loop drivers. We are at a standstill by ritchie marlboro road. That delay extends past Central Avenue. My best advice so you dont get stuck in about an hour and a half of extra traffic this morning hop off the inner loop at least by Central Avenue, work your way through the city and then hook back onto the inner loop at branch avenue. That will definitely save you some time. Be prepared because of bailout traffic. Secondaries once you get off Central Avenue are going to be jammed. Same story on pennsylvania avenue. Folks seeking those alternates. We do have a rubberneck delay impacting the