Potential rules to next congress which begins in january with members elected in knost elections. Live coverage on cspan3. Regard also of who covers Congress Next year, i think we can all agree that the integrity means listening to all members like well be doing here today. We took a similarly collaborative approach with the rules package for this congress. Im proud to say the first bipartisan vote on a rules package in decades. That didnt just happen, it took time a lot of conversation and a situation to acknowledge that no party has a monopoly and good ideas. Im proud of what we created together and with the consensus calendar to expedite ideas, with support, the Diversity Office to get the congress to look more like the real world and ideas from both sides to get this place functioning better. And although we were already holding these hearings in committee, we also required that other committees hold them, too, so that all members had a chance to meet across the congress. Hopefully
Please check out more programming and looking about their event series and visit us online at harvard. Com. The communities that show philosophy and disciplines to enhance and improve civic life for the people of massachusetts. Tonights talk talk will conclude the time for your questions this is being recorded by cspan and q a questions will be recorded. There will be a book citing following here on stage off to my right the line will extend into the hallway and onto the stage. Books can be purchased outside thank you for making purchases from harvard books or to help support the independent bookstore. Please silage her cell phone. I am pleased to introduce tonight speakers, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt professors at harvard the author of competitive interior and temporary. And Daniel Ziblatt is the author of the author of democracy. In the recent New York Times review how democracies die it shows how democracies have collapsed elsewhere not just through a violent coup but throug
He then went on to become a report at wplg, and now you know him for his remarkable sunday Morning Program called this week in south florida, which is on at 11 30 sundays and his name is michael putney. Please give him a big, big welcome. [applause] good evening. Thanks to mitchell, thanks to so many others have made the book k fair one of our Great Community events. Ive been coming here for what, 30 years, and its my privilege tonight to briefly introduce to outstanding, smart, tough, politically sophisticated and acerbic women who are going to yes. [applause] who have so much to say about our current political scene and what is to come. Let me begin by saying ana navarro, ive known her for my years. She is just about as acerbic as they come, smarter, whip smart, faster than a speeding bullet with a retort, a come back, a put down. Certainly saw that when the access Hollywood Tape came out. Ana like to quote it verbatim. [laughing] i dont know people at cnn and abc loved it, but i lov
Whatever, whether thats right to say or not, has brought me to, it was such a blessing because now i really understand, i couldnt understand if i hadnt had that background and not only was i poor as a little girl, and i was then my husband, we went broke, my husband is an entrepreneur, as i said, and we went broke, so i was also broke with my children in my adult life but you know, with he came back. No, we dont have the race thing and my husband had a mentor, mr. Kaufman, who owned the Kansas City Royals at one time, who helped us take our 401 k and start my little 5 million business which sounds like a lot but it wasnt the the time but it made little alcohol sips and freps and we started from there, seven of our children worked for us and we were kind of a Family Business and the rest is history. But anyway, my point is, we want to give money. We want to give back but were giving it to the wrong when i met bob i was just, i was like its got to be organic, like one of you gentlemen sa
White house said we have an agreement to fix the dreamer problem, save these young undocumented immigrants from deportation and we will do something on Border Security. I was told that reporters on the hill were blindsided by this. Are you hearing anything from your republican colleagues . Rep. Jeffries to the extent that we had genuine bipartisan opportunities and moments in congress, that is what the American People want to see, the people i represent set me to washington to be part of the solution, not the problem. There should be a pause on the political process when it is time to govern. What we have seen over the last several years is the perpetual campaign playing out in washington, d. C. If we can arrive at a place where President Trump is willing to work with democrats in the house and senate to solve the problems of the American People, dealing with things like protecting the dreamers and getting the economy back on track and moving in a better direction, that would be a stro