Day at 5 00 and 9 00 p. M. Eastern, listen to cspan any time. Tell your Smart Speaker play cspan radio. Former House Speaker nancy pelosi talked to firstyear law students about current affairs, having a career in Public Service, and her experiences with the Late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. This is hosted by the Georgetown Law Center in washington, d. C. [chatter] [applause] one more round of applause for Speaker Pelosi. [applause] this is this is my favorite georgetown tradition. About 10 years ago, we started the tradition of having really an iconic figure, somebody who has made a profound difference in politics in the law, talked to the first year class. Weve had justice kagan. We had justice breyer, we had justice scalia. We had our own doug emhoff. The person who appeared year after year was Justice Ginsburg and Justice Ginsburg, her husband was on our faculty and she really cared so profoundly for this community. Every year, whenever we invited her, she would come.
Years. Ill continue with the introduction, but i want to say a couple things. First of all, please silence your cell phones, tweet up a storm if you want, but silence your cell phones. To tweet, its pelosiatbrookings. And also, we will be circulating cards for you to ask your questions, im going to try to ask as many of them as i can. I want to thank all the folks of brookings who have worked very hard. Nancy pelosi has proudly represented californias district for 27 years. She has led the House Democrats for over a decade. The first woman in American History to serve as speaker the american recovery and reinvestment act and quite a lot of other legislation as well. As you will hear from the remarks, proper legislative been an advocate of clean energy, Government Transparency and accountability it is a pleasure to welcome nancy pelosi to brookings. Thank you for joining us today. [applause] good morning, everyone. Thank you all for being here. Its an honor, its really an honor to be he
Executive order on immigration. Talking about the possibility of the u. S. Sending arms to ukrainian forces. We will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal, live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. This sunday, david brooks, columnist for the new york times, on writing an article and awards he gives that at the end of your. The sydney awards are given to the best magazine essay of the year and they can be journals like the new yorker or the atlantic. If they come around out around that christmas week, and the idea is to step back and not read tweets, even newspaper articles, but to step back and have the time to read something deeper and something longer. It is to celebrate those longer pieces. I do believe magazines change history. The new republic, until its recent destruction was the most influential political magazine of the 20th century, changed history. It created a voice for new liberalism. It gave it a voice. Sunday night at 8
Welcome everyone here today. This is a very exciting day. Im e. J. Dion, a senior fellow here at brookings, as you know, brookings likes to be in the middle of the great debates in our country. This is going to be a year, i think, of really fundamental debates about the future or about what happens to growth and is it shared. We might actually get around to arguing about what should our government spend money on and how are we going to pay for it . Weve had crises, rather than having real arguments about that in the past few years. Its an honor for me to introduce [inaudible] join us today. She has proudly represented californias 12th district for the past 27 years. Ill continue with the introduction, but i want to say a couple of things. First of all please silence your cell phones. Tweet up a storm if you want, but silence your cell phones. To tweet, its pelosi at pelosi at brookings. We will be circulate cards for you to answer your questions and im going to dry to ask as many of th
Trump on trial in the senate next month. Senators would either vote to acquit or convict the president which would result from the president s removal from office. We want to ask you a lot of questions about the impeachment and this moment. Our questioners live in the battleground states of virginia and pennsylvania as well as maryland and washington, d. C. Youll hear from them in one second. But i do want to start with a couple of questions of my own, if i can be so brave, and that is, you said this morning that President Trump in your view abused his power and that in your view he violated the constitution. So do you believe that the president should be impeached . I believe that we should introduce articles of impeachment. This is a very sad day, i think, for our country. Its something that i would have hoped we could have avoided. But the president s actions made it necessary. You cannot violate the constitution in full view. The facts are clear. They were presented by the people w