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This afternoon. We ask you silence your devices as we begin. Everyone online is welcome to send a question at any time simply emailing speaker heritage. Org. Hosting our discussion is Tiffany Bates for judicial and legal studies. She researchers and writes about the courts, judicial nominations and other constitutional issues. She was cohost of heritages potus one one podcast, a contributor to the daily signal, the Multimedia Organization and coordinator the media advocacy programs. Please join me in welcoming Tiffany Bates. Tiffany. Thank you and welcome to the Heritage Foundation. Thanks for...

Holocaust in this hall of democracy in the capital of the free world, or for that matter, why is there a Holocaust Museum on the National Mall . The answer lies in the fact that this great country was founded on an idea, one of the most consequential ideas in human history. That ideas represented in this majestic space, and engraved at one entrance of the museum, where visitors encounter the most important words ever written about our national values. They begin, we hold these truths to be selfevident. The declaration of independence was perhaps the very first human rights proclamation, and un...

Congress shall make no law your book is called the soul of the First Amendment. So what is the soul of those 45 words . Guest it is basically anticensorship. Basically keeping the government away. It applies only to the government, not private people. The government cannot do these limit freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly. The core of it is to limit the Government Role or two and and avoid a serious governmental role about what people say, how people think, and the like. Why did you think you needed to write a book about the soul of the First Amendment now . Guest w...

Reached that deal late sunday night to avert the end of week government sat down shutdown. The one that is currently keeping the lights on. Passed byll is congress, it will fund the government through september 30. We can talk about that or any Public Policy issue you want to talk about. Anthony is up first, a democrat. Caller good morning. Thanks for the excellent programming cspan has always provided. You had a guest on discussing constitutional law. , theestion for cspan folks that work there, the wouldics, perhaps cspan have a guest on, a mr. Klein, who had been involved in a lawsuit again...

Noon eastern on cspan to book tv. This morning california senator Dianne Feinstein addressed what she called President Trumps an credulous decision to fire fbi director james comey. She made the comments during a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the nomination of Noah Francisco as the next solicitor general and other Justice Department officials. Well show you the hearing in its entirety. Its about an hour. Normally, i dont start until a Ranking Member or members get here. In this particular instance, i can start but im going to stop wherever we are when the Ranking Member gets here so sh...