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I really believe the United States is having a stress test of democracy. This is more important than ever to choose the right person to be in the white house and to leave the country the right way. Not only with commitment to the nation, she is a soldier. She was able to step down from the position on congress to serve as a soldier. She is somebody that does not follow the current. She speaks up. She has the strength to do that. I believe it could be a very strong voice at the white house to be ...

Congress returns for work the first week of january. Here is what is ahead. The house has yet to decide on impeachment managers and sent the two articles of impeachment to the senate. The impeachment will hear the cases against President Trump eventually. We also expect the senate to take up the u. S. Canada mexico trade agreement, which of the house approved before leaving for the holidays. And congress will hear President Trump deliver a state of the Union Address on february 4. Watch the hous...

Own, worked up. So many people have no idea you need towork, bring us the workweek, the pensions, unions, the folks who brought us the weekend. I wanted to explain to people, unions have achieved a whole lot in american history, but now they are really in decline and have really taken it on the chin. As a result, things are considerably worse for workers than was the case 30, 40 years ago. Featured nonfiction authors this weekend and every weekend on booktv on cspan two. Fall, the this National ...

There are few people in washington, d. C. , and in america had the impact of senator Johnny Isakson. Think of senator isakson, no question, there are come to our s that mind. Senator, you are, you have been incredible statesman, a phenomenal leader, both in here in the United States senate, and in our country. Thank you t to say for all that you have done for us. First personally when i came to congress, you were one of the first individuals to and to give me advice and encouragement and to day,...

Julian welcome back to the Cato Institute for the 2019 cato surveillance conference. I remain senior fellow julian sanchez. Thank you to those present and those watching at home for joining us. As i mentioned at the start of the conference, we focused on issues of surveillance oversight at this years conference. This morning, you heard about an array of institutions that work to oversee the secret you seven the secret use of intelligence collection ranging from the fisa court to the inspectors g...

So, lets talk about fake news. Have you heard the joke about the reporter who asked a tough question of Elizabeth Warren . [laughter] neither have i. But im a journalist, i run a Journalism Program. I just want to plead with all of youd not to give the 99 of journalists gave the rest a bad name. [laughter] i was looking through some Washington Post headlines and my favorite one recently was from last week. This is the headline. This is true. This is not fake news. This is an actual headline in t...

Hasnt yet declared spelling bee day a national holiday, some of our competitors are stuck at work. Are onour competition the hill for late votes. We will do things differently and have the journalists compete for their champion and when our politicians arrived, they will battle it out and the winners of each round will go headtohead to find out who is the champion. Lets get started. Competing for the press team this year, we have our defending champion, Alexandra Petri from the washington post. ...

Grand tradition in america, speedy and fair trials, we want both. The leaders seems obsessed with speedy and wants to throw fair out the window. Maria joining the conversation from new york fox business Dagen Mcdowell this morning, the wall street journal Senior Writer Jon Hilsenrath here in dc and fox news con contributor byron y. The letter that the president sent to Speaker Pelosi says it all, ive got it in front of me and goes through both articles and pokes hoes. If you were looking for wro...

This is our meager attempt to try to do that. Before we get started, let me just say that this is being recorded by cspan. You know the routine, which means that when you get the mic, speak into the mic, wait for the mic before you speak. And be aware of the fact that its being recorded. So before we get started with our discussion, let me introduce the men to my left. Jim banner who edited the book president ial misconduct, which is our kickoff for our discussion tonight, is a visiting scholar ...

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