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Whether you are watching over zoom, youtube, facebook, twitter, or our webpage, we are delighted to have you with us. We are recording this, as is cspan, so you may find yourself on cspan at some point in the future. We dont know when. Before we turn to aspects of the upcoming term, i want to say a few words about Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg, who died two weeks ago. I first met Justice Ginsburg 37 years ago, when i was a judge there. Judges are randomly assigned to the courts of appeals, and my ...

Senate shouldnt confirm her. I think she will continue on to the Supreme Court. Brennan but what gave pause last time . Sometimes it is hard to predict how judges are going to actually rule on individual cases. But is there something we should be scrutinizing here in terms of her stance . Democrats are assuming she is against Affordable Care act and against roe vs. Wade. Are those fair as assumptions . I dont think those are fair at assumptions. I remember being a very young law student hearing ...

Democrat who remained loyal to the union during the civil war. In 1864, Abraham Lincoln at a johnson as Vice President to his take it to bolster his reelection chances and johnson ascended to the presidency following lincolns assassination in april 1865. The radical republicans in Congress Found johnsons reconstruction policies too lenient. As a response, they put forth the sweeping 14th amendment which included provisions to ensure former slave citizenship and equal protection and due process o...

Coming up, former Trump Campaign advisor carter page and former director keep james comey who saw the fbi trump russia probe testified today saying he only learned about fbi abuses and the probe by reading about them after the fact and government watchdog report years after he left the bureau. And then comey claiming it was run buy the book, all this leading republicans ask how does comey know so little about an investigation that he launched and ran with it was comey who pushed for the Mueller ...

Advisor carter page and former director keep james comey who saw the fbi trump russia probe testified today saying he only learned about fbi abuses and the probe by reading about them after the fact and government watchdog report years after he left the bureau. And then comey claiming it was run buy the book, all this leading republicans ask how does comey know so little about an investigation that he launched and ran with it was comey who pushed for the Mueller Probe in the first place, then jo...

Hate. [laughter] it is a little daunting. Trace the arc. Im going to do a historian thing and think generally. I guess i would say if yo they e looking at american politics from the beginning, we could even go past the civil war, we are talking about paradoxes and conflict and improv. The periods but i tend to focus on more at that part, its the improvisational nature of that fascinates me more than anything else. Its because the nation was founded in the world of monarc monarchy. What that mean...

Cannot afford rent and they can still be evicted in the middle of it and then that while not providing them universal basic income or universal Health Coverage with a single pair or medicare or all system because the things that people in other developed countries in the world this is the richest country in the world the United States other people take medicare for all for example Single Parents as they take that for granted and so now you have the certainty of a country that is on top of that c...

International be back again in just under an hour in the meantime crosstalk stay with us ill try. Hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered on Peter Lavelle rage of description fear and despair how has the United States found it so in such a state of turmoil growing income inequality systemic racism or poison politics take your pick what is the difference between a protest and a riot and is it accurate to say the us is becoming a failed state. Thank. You discuss this and mo...

The mainstream liberal media and im pointing this to r. C. Right now is. Grabbed onto systemic racism and then and thats part of their mantra and the case i suppose could be made for that but the phrase i cant repeat that resonates with me because i think that talks a beyond race its actually a class issue with the ruling elites do not like to to frame things in terms of class and i think nick did a very good job of doing that and im coming from this from a complete servitude perspective here be...

A multitrillion dollar bail out. Wall street and big corporations did not in fact dressed the actual problems that were or before the crisis you had 80 percent of americans that were living paycheck to paycheck less that ive heard dollars in savings for more than apple americans and now youre telling them that theyre supposed to take a leave or its the americans without any any income so that they cannot afford rent and they can still be evicted in the middle of it and that while not providing t...