Karen welcome. Thank you all for being here. Before we get started, i just want to tell you that i am so happy to be having this event because we never get to talk about history and historians. We always talk about politics and the law and Foreign Policy. And it is all very interesting. But those of you who know me know that i like the history. And i think it wouldve been a very good thing if more historians were weighing in more frequently and people who write about politics in a historical vein and people who think about whats come before. We dont have enough of it and 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 misco
I was looking through some Washington Post headlines recently, and my favorite one was from last week. This is the headline. This is true, not fake news. It is an actual headline. It said this. Can republicans relearn how to accept political outcomes that they dont like . [laughter] thats what the Washington Post was wondering last week. The more notorious headline was , joel alluded to this, was when we learned about the killing of the isis leader. Did you see the headline the Washington Post gave that . Albaghdadi,was austere religious scholar at the head of the islamic state, dies at 48. That was of actual headline in the Washington Post. I dont know your experience, but that was like the best day ever on twitter. Because everybody started inventing their obituary headlines. There was one that said noted great, noted for his special interest in small children, died at 77. Do you know the author brad thor, the novelist . He put up this one, john wilkes booth, renowned thespian, theat
In the mountain or pacific time zones, 2027488001. You can send us a text. That number, 2027488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media. On twitter, cspanwj. On facebook, facebook. Com cspan. A very good thursday morning, you can start calling now on the legacy of nafta negotiated under president george h. W. Bush, signed into law by president clinton, nafta went into effect january 1994. Back totake you december 1993 at the signing ceremony. These are some of the remarks from bill clinton. [video clip] thehe only way we recover fortunes of the middle class of people work harder and smarter can prosper more. The only way we can pass on the American Dream of the last 40 years to our children and their children for the next 40 is to. Dapt to the changes occurring in a fundamental sense, this debate about nafta is a debate about whether we will embrace these changes and create the jobs of tomorrow or try to resist these c
Your thoughts on whether Mick Mulvaney might not be the acting chief of staff. Guest i would not bet the farm on it, but i would bet several acres. It would be easy for the president to move Mick Mulvaney back to the position he actually holds which is director of the office of management and budget. He is acting chief of staff and the president has said, he likes acting. if that were the case, it would be easy for him to move mr. Mulvaney back to his fulltime job and mr. Meadows over to the job. He makes little secret of savoring chief of staff. Given the close relationship between the north carolinian and the president , he will not be acting anything. Relationship the between Mick Mulvaney and the president from what you can tell . Guest it is more like a Vice President of a Major Company with the ceo. Administers a lot of things, but the president make the final decision. Not be a strong chief of staff in the sense james baker was toes Ronald Reagan, the Gold Standard for chief of
The Christian Science monitor, he was asked about tuesdays elections in kentucky, virginia, mississippi and new jersey as well as the impeachment inquiry. Good morning. Im linda feldman. Washington bureau chief of the Christian Science monitor. Our guest is tom perez, chairman of the Democratic National committee. This is his third appearance on a monitor breakfast. Welcome, chairman perez, and congratulations on last night. For his background, chairman perez grew up in buffalo, new york, the son of immigrants from the dominican republic. He earned his bachelors degree from Brown University and a large degree from harvard. After graduating, he served in a number of government positions, wasked for a federal judge a federal prosecutor, advised senator kennedy, was in hhs under president clinton, became the first hispanic member of the perez was elected chairman of the Democratic National committee, which brings us to today. Now for the ground rules. We are on the record here. Please, no