[inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] thank you all for save for the second panel. Im alexis and i am a correspondent with the helena covered the white house a long time. Im delighted to talk with colleagues that i know well and have known over multiple white house administrations. We have peter doocy, steve from writers. Could each of you remind us how many president s have covered . I know youre really young steve how many . I started the midpoint of george h to be bush. So i came in late 1990. Before cell phones were thing. So i have five president. Five, all right. I move back to washington in 2005 so i was here for the second half of george w. Bush as president. I didnt start covering the white house until Barack Obamas campaign i had covered the once he was inaugurated i was there ever cents. I came in 96 for clinton, my fourth president there is my 12th the press secretary. This is my fifth president. Lets start. I want to remind everybody that start where we left off. I wanted to
To the National Constitution centers interactive constitution. A panel of academics on President Trumps use of executive power hosted by the Heritage Foundation. This is an hour. Good evening, everyone. Thank you very much for coming to the hosted event with the Heritage Foundation. We are just a year into the frum trump presidency. At the oneyear mark, you would think people professionally analyze politics and would have conducted competent evaluation of how the president has executed his constitutional goodies. Since the President Shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, there is much to discuss. Given that President Trump has taken away from the paths of his predecessors and given the boldness of many policies. Beside controversial boldness, in many ways, President Trump has also been a rather conventional republican president , rolling down regulation, dealing with the minister of state and appointing justices and trying work with congress on legislation. If you are lo
Would have conducted competent evaluations, how the president has executed his constitutional duties. Since the president will take care that the law will be faithfully executed, President Trump has taken away from the path of his predecessors and en the boldness of his of of his many policies. Rolling back regulation, appointing justices, trying to work with congress on legislation. If you are looking for such an evaluation, you would be lost in the hurlyburly of hysteria surrounding trump the man, what trump tweeted, or what he might have implied. Here are three editorial titles. World knowstrump hes an idiot. Odds are russia owns trump. Is it time to call trump mentally ill . This isnt from the onion. Its from the new york times. [laughter] fanatical hatred does disservice to the public. The aim was to bolster public reason and enlightenment. One fears the opposite. What seems like moral righteousness in the press may be hatred on account of the challenge of their dominance over pub
Rep. Schiff it evening i want to give a quick briefing on the events in the committee. I think we have a deeply regrettable line in this committee where for the first beenin the 10 years ive on the committee there was a vote to politicize the declassification of intelligence and compromise sources and methods. I made a couple of motions this afternoon, first we scheduled a hearing today, a business meeting so that the minority memoranda could be made available to the members of the house. We expect that vote to be noncontroversial and it was. The house members will now have access to the minority memoranda. I made a secondary motion that prior to the public release of either memoranda, that the fbi and the department of justice have the opportunity to come and briefed the entire house in a classified session on both memoranda, on the underlying that thematerials so committee could make it responsible judgment as to whether the memoranda should be made public. That motion was voted down
Rep. Schiff good evening, i want to give a quick briefing on the events in the committee. I think we have crossed a deeply regrettable line in this committee where for the first time in the 10 years ive been on the committee there was a vote to politicize the declassification of intelligence and compromise sources and methods. I made a couple of motions this afternoon, or this evening, first we scheduled a hearing today, a business meeting so that the minority memoranda could be made available to the members of the house. We expected that vote to be noncontroversial and it was. The house members will now have access to the minority memoranda. I made a secondary motion that prior to the public release of either memoranda, that the fbi and the department of justice have the opportunity to come and brief the entire house in a classified session on both memoranda, on the underlying facts or materials so that the committee could make a responsible judgment as to whether the memoranda should