Brenda and david, a little housekeeping. Their books are on sale today and they can be purchasedfrom barnes and noble outside the building at signing table 1. Theyll be signing them and after our brief queuing day, im supposed to remind everyone to leave the room after the event is over. Apeaceful transfer of power will be the idea of the event. Our topic today is e impeachment versus election how to confront a lawless president and our esteemed panelists are david paul, david is the author of engines of liberty how citizen movements succeed. It director of aclu and george Dave Mitchell director of law and policy at Georgetown University law center. An awardwinning author, regular contributorto the new york review of books and correspondent for the nation he lives in washington dc. Annette gordonreed , author of most beloved of the patriarchs is the Charles Warren professor of american legal history at Harvard Law School and professor of history arts and sciences at harvard. She won th
About donald trump out of the newspaper. We have a team of reporters to bring you the latest information right now but im going to begin with cnns pamela brown at the white house. Pamela, secretary of defense mattis is there right now at the white house along with other members of president Trumps National security team. When do you think were going to know the president s decision about potential use of force in syria . Reporter its tough to say when a decision will be made. The president giving conflicted messages. He said today a decision would happen soon, the beginning of the weekend he said a major decision within 48 hours. This time frame passed an enthen on twitter backtracked from previous tweets saying attack on syria could be soon or not soon at all. As you recall, he tweeted yesterday missiles will be coming. The president appeared to get ahead of the administration with that tweet yesterday. The defense secretary mattis told members of congress no decision was made and whi
Your president says the iraq war was the single most difficult. Hes plud in a way that i think his inclinations are at least. So i think he does have good instincts and my main concern is will you be one to listen to what the president actually wants instead of being sun who advocat advocates. I dont think it reflects the million or so people who voted for President Trump because it would be different. So thats my main concern, and i just want to make sure thats loud and clear to everyone. That is my concern. Thank you, senator paul. Thank you, senator murphy. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, director. Good to see you. This is an extraordinary article, i believe, from late last year in the new yorker that speaks to chinas rise coinciding with an american retreat from the globe. And i think weve all seen that as we traveled the world the presence the United States used to have simply isnt there and other countries are taking advantage. This article in part describes a regular meeting