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Happened. Host james adakai, joining us window rock, rom navaho nation commissioner, intertribal coalition. We thank you for being with us. Guest thank you. Us from tucson, arizona, is representative raul is speaking out on the issue. Congressman, you are ranking ember of the house Natural Resources committee. You have been hearing the debate over the last couple of hours familiar e certainly with what is going on with bears ears, what is your point of view . Guest well, the whole issue at really now is the the authority under the Antiquities Act that president and all his predecessors, ormer ...

Authority under the Antiquities Act that president obama and all of his predecessors and former president s, all of them have used the Antiquities Act to declare monuments for, for a variety of reasons, all of them having to do with historic and cultural preservation, conservation issues, and all of the monuments under review, the past ones, all under that authority and all are justified and the shrinkage of this of bringing in the boundaries does not deal with the totality of what that area needs to be conserved in protected. The nexus for the Antiquities Act has always been the native people...

Items off the menu first. Todays program is just one of many exciting programs coming up here in the fall season at the National Constitution center. Next week we will tackle the question of is the constitution judeochristian which would be a great discussion. awe moderate that discussion and in just two weeks we are hosting conversation on president ial legacies with Robert Strauss author of the new book worst president ever, theories after this. James buchanan the potus game and the legacy of the least of the lesser president. That should be a, sorted again, a scholar and resident will be mo...

In this one volume with its overall size but to encapsulate the entire story with the articles of confederation that led to a the constitution that captures the Amazing Things during that period and the other speaker is a librarian at the American Philosophical Society and the editor of this terrific new volume on the American Revolution i also want to plug is book for a the politics of war please give a great welcome to michael and patrick. [applause]. So we will try to talk about in refashion americas founding in with that in mind i would like to start with you patrick so what do you take to...

This is the first time who are serving in congress right now pick a lot of relatively new or have not been serving for less than a decade, so its the first time where the president is also a member of their party. British Prime Minister theresa may will be the first foreign dignitary to visit President Trump later this week, but before that she will attend the philadelphia retreat with republicans are quarter they were here from the british Prime Minister . Guest one area that the uk and us have a interesting right now is the topic of trade and theresa may back in her country is a dealing with...