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In fact, why most political scholars kind of hate the Electoral College. Its not popular among the Political Science set. Youll get a whiff of George Edwards book which hopefully youve read most of it, if not all of it. You get an argument against the Electoral College. He lays out all the comments for it, which is helpful for allowing each person to sort of make up their mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. So this is really i do a whole week on this one because its how we elect the president but very few americans understand the full extent of the process. At...

Watch quote washington journal 7 00 eastern tuesday morning. Join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, Text Messages and tweets. Continues. Host we are joined next by former federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator craig fugate. Thank you for being with us on washington journal this morning. Guest thanks for having me. Host a number of items on our plate including the covid19 response. First, to the response to hurricane laura. The hurricane coming effectively the same week marking 15 years since hurricane katrina. What lessons do think fema and the federal governm...

Roughly referring to the war powers resolution enacted in 1970. That law is complicated. One of the things it does is says if the president puts troops abroad into hostilities and we havent been attacked, if he does that, he needs to follow the law which says notify congress. Tell them what youre doing. Justify it. Whats the legal authorization and whats next . How long will they be there and so forth . Thats what the president claimed to be doing which is to say i notify you were on which doesnt quite meet the qualifications and requirements in the law . Democrats on capitol hill te seeking t...

Process. Even more, mr. Durham, is initiating and conducting his own criminal investigation. And with the attorney general talked about this week is that they know that there are people in those intelligence agencies who were spying on the trump campaign. Imagine federal agencies, f. B. I. , c. I. A. , spying on the campaign of a candidate for president. Republican or democrat, we should equally be alarmed that that happened. I hope it gets rooted out. I hope whoever did that, abused their power, gos to jail. But it happened. Its being investigated in a criminal way. But horowitz himself point...

And speechwriter he looks at the enormously sympathetic portrait as a politician and how he came to form his political values and his habits and had a real sensibility of how to approach the foundation of that was strongly held moral conviction. And then to tell the story of lincoln telling people and how his father rented him out as an indentured servant to do work on other peoples farms in the backwoods country of kentucky. And then the money was taken away from him and then what that meant to pill for somebody elses labor so unlike other white politicians whether they were anti slavery abol...