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Port please. Welcome our host jen mascot assistant professor of law and code executive director of the sea Boyden Gray Center for the study of the Administrative State at the Antonin Scalia law school and john malcolm heritage is Vice President for the institute of Constitutional Government and director of the me center for legal and judicial studies. Well, i want to welcome you all to the Heritage Foundation on behalf of heritage in the great center. Today has been its been a special day and it is still a special day. We are delighted to be here honoring the 30th anniversary of Justice Thomas...

This book in some ways gives voice to those people and those concerns, and hopefully will cause others in the community to at least engage the question at a more serious level than just the reflex reaction against guns that is sort of a caricature of what the actual conversation needs to be. Host certainly has given me rope to revisit my thinking about guns and with a more historically informed perspective. Thank you for that contribution. Guest thank you for your interview. Next, robert gates at the National Constitution center in philadelphia. He discusses his momentum moyer. Duty memoirs of...

Do under the circumstances, which was to take the hit. One question. Let me just say to build on your observations, i mean there was a lot of goodwill toward general mcchrystal in the white house because during the fall of 2009 and we have are debating options for afghanistan, including whether to go with what he had recommended, this 40,000 additional troops or other options with smaller numbers that have been advocated by the Vice President and others, there were a number of leaks in public statements by the military including by general mcchrystal that made it appear to the white house that...

For making that effort. When i, until i became secretary of defense, i had never broken a bone or had a u surgery [laughter] february of 2008 i fell on the ice and broke this shoulder in three places. Ould ten months later putting a snowplow blade on a tractor, ir pulled a bicep tendon off this arm. My security guards quickly came to the conclusion that alqaeda was no risk to me atcae all compared to myself. [laughter] to me at all comparedo myself. [laughter] and before we start i would like to say that it is good to be back here at the senate and also to apologize to the audience on my right...

For in the president of the United States of america. Im proud that important military figures who are supporting me in this race, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff john shalikashvili, just yesterday, general eisenhowers son, general john eisenhower, endorsed me, general admiral william crown, general tony mcbeak, who ran the air force war so effectively for his father all believe i would make a stronger commander in chief. And they believe it because they know i would not take my eye off of the goal, Osama Bin Laden. Unfortunately, he escaped in the mountains of tora bora. We had h...