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And a fellow at Christopher Newport university where he serves as the universities prelaw advisor. He is the author of most recently emancipation, the union army, and the reelection of Abraham Lincoln. He is currently at work on the three books including lincolns advice for lawyers, the final voyage, and please join me in welcoming jonathan w. White. [applause] thank you so much for having me. Can you all hear me in the bleacher seats . I love having an opportunity to come to new york city. This...

He said the time has finished, so i will have to finish. Can you hear me . Were good to go . Okay. Im going to ask a few questions and engage in a bit of discussion here, and then turn it over for questions. Sir, one thing thats allowed isis the Islamic State to make gains in iraq have been the divisions in iraqi politics and iraqi society. Theres been a lot that iraq is developing a more inclusive government, but your government doesnt have a minister of defense, it doesnt have a minister of in...

Defending every attack doesnt seem smart. Cant we go on offense . And he said, when i go beyond the line of defense, i cant do that without the sanction of congress. So it was very clear initially from the beginning that a president could defend against imminent attack without congress, although you should get congress on board later. Congress though had to declare war, any going on offense against anyone other than imminent defense, took a congressional declaration. That was the clear understan...

They are doing. I want to thank my publisher and my editor is here. [applause] now, what i want to mainly talk about today is some of the stories that are in the book. , and arizona, a new law came into effect that banned ethnic studies. The conservatives took over the review of the board of the estate board of change the rules so that and they change the curriculum, so slaver is no longer mentioned. They changed it so no longer would there be references to the of the Civil Rights Movement read ...

Peshmerga. So, there was a unity and continues to be, for the most part, i think, on this particular issue, but at the same time, there are questions about and keep hearing them, are we doing enough, you know, is is this policy of what appears be to be sort of mission creep, where we dribble in additional troops bit by bit is that the most effective way going about it . Another issue that has been there for this administration, previous ones, is middle east, the peace process, jerusalem, excuse ...

Getting to the iraqis the equipment they needed, the technical advisers and assistance say needed, the targeting cells, the isr, started to work with congress on getting more. And throughout 2013, i led 14 meetings of the Deputies Committee on that very issue. We were seized with this before isil was just one quick question, when you lay out a goal, do you think it is wise to signal to your enemy what you may or may not do to accomplish that goal . In other words, no combat troops on the ground ...

Whose first senate race i covered and there was like night and day between the first and the second half of the race that is a common trait of Hillary Clintons. She was pretty terrible and 2008 much better of the her book tour was terrible and her campaigning for other candidates the last two months was much better. It was a source correction on what had taken place. I have no idea who it will be in my home state of new york. It overall pretty popular in the patterson years. He still had a prett...

From the governments in central and eastern europe. Yeah. In particular the Czech Republic, slovakia, hungary. The defense minister of the Czech Republic recently and the president or sorry the Prime Minister of slovakia both said that stationing nato troops on inner territory would be akin or remind them of the warsaw pacts invasion of 1968. This is a remarkable thing to say. Both of these countries are nato members. Both of those men are old enough to remember what the actual warsaw pact invas...

To make a 30second comment on what you just said. I am not going to yield to you. Im going to ask my questions of the gentlemen. The president has dispensed the law, suspended the law until he says otherwise. That is not what you normally think of as prosecutorial discretion, typically involves suspensions of criminal law, not the Immigration Laws, at least the civil aspects of immigration. And president obama sites an opinion of the justice Departments Office of Legal Council to justify his exe...

Weeds here, to maintain a practicing license has to get a certain amount of continuing medical education every year. And whats happened over the past decade and a half is more and more of that continuing medical education has been funded by the Drug Companies or the companies that make certain products. And the challenge is as the questioner pointed out, the funding passes through and its technically an unrestricted grant and there are various fire walls in place. Everybody who has looked at thi...