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About the life of Edward Snowden is released today. What do you think it should president obama pardon Edward Snowden . If you think yes, call this number, 202 7488000. You dontnk not, if think the president should pardon Edward Snowden, call this number, 202 7488001. If not by phone, you can weigh in by social media. Our twitter handle is cspanwj , and Facebook Comments are coming in at facebook. Com cspan. Go to the website of the American Civil Liberties union, the aclu, you will see this posting by the executive director there, anthony romero. Obama should pardon Edward Snowden, and we are...

[inaudible conversations] welcome. My name is a gene healy. Im a Vice President here at the Cato Institute and ill be your moderator today. Thank you all for coming out to the first cato event of 2016. Today, we are going to spread the new years cheer and take the chill out of your bones with an in depth look at remotecontrolled executions, the creeping surveillance state, and the seeming permanence of the imperial presidency. So merry new year. Our focus today is the extraordinary new book by Charlie Savage, power wars inside obamas post9 11 presidency. Charlie has been with the New York Time...

[applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon and welcome to the kid institute. Let me also welcome our cspan audience. Im roger pilon, the director of the Kansas Center for constitutional studies and your host for todays Forum Working the publication of a new book by professor David Bernstein, lawless the Obama Administrations unprecedented assault on the constitution and the rule of law. This book in this form could not be more timely. This yesterday as we all know we witness the president said he was directing officials in his administration to expand the reg...

Nixon had a movie on the wall that showed the campaign. He had an idea that people would write down the questions and pass them on and they would answer just the questions the staff wanted them to answer, but it looked like they only came from the audience. So these are all yours. I might put them in a certain order, but i promise not to edit them. So one of the questions that we have is would the Civil Rights Act have passed if nixon had won in 1960 and 64 . I think it probably would have, because in 1957 when the Civil Rights Act was pending on the senate floor and lbj scaled it back and com...

He said the time has finished, so i will have to finish. Can you hear me . Were good to go . Okay. Im going to ask a few questions and engage in a bit of discussion here, and then turn it over for questions. Sir, one thing thats allowed isis the Islamic State to make gains in iraq have been the divisions in iraqi politics and iraqi society. Theres been a lot that iraq is developing a more inclusive government, but your government doesnt have a minister of defense, it doesnt have a minister of interior, theres a plan to engage the sunni tribes but the plan has not yet been implemented. Can iraq...