Everyone. Im joined this morning by e. M. A. Director brian hastings, Major General sherrill gordon of the National Guard, and secretary taylor of the Alabama Law Enforcement agency. Were here to give an update on Hurricane Sally to the people of alabama. Were here to let the people of alabama know that every resource thats available to the state will be available for the people of alabama during their recovery. We also are here to assure you that we will be working with you as together we start rebuilding our homes, our businesses and our communities in the upcoming days, weeks and months. I know yesterday was very hard for a lot of folks in the cities and counties along the coast and throughout many other communities in our state. 16 years ago to the day, when hurricane ivan hit our state, Hurricane Sally provided an unwanted sequel. Citizens awoke to extensive damage and destructive property. Loss of power and infrastructure and, sadly, even the loss of life. It would be much worse.
Shouldnt there be witnesses. Couple of things to look from an institutional perspective house was the one who is supposed to have witnesses they did create that record in the senators are supposed to serve as jurors and you dont get to retry your case just because you dont like it now that being said if this follows the president from the clinton impeachment which i think it well and i think thats a constructive way to proceed after both sides get to make their case in response the senate will likely have an opportunity to consider additional witnesses i dont think thats a foregone conclusion either way but i think the house made a decision from a timing perspective when they moved ahead with the information that they had. One of the consequences is you dont get to drag it out forever and say well wed like more witnesses. Zack what about the continuing townley more intelligence being obtained by the House Committee this led those from transit to new Rudy Giuliani to the head of ukraine
Vogel former general counsel for the National Republican Senatorial Committee hes in washington and in Mountain View california zach friend who worked for barack obama and john kerrys president ial campaign. Ok what he and the alex do you make the. Shouldnt there be witnesses. While a couple of things look from an institutional perspective the house was the one who is supposed to have witnesses they did and create that record and in the senators are supposed to serve as jurors you dont get to retry your case just because you dont like it now that being said if this follows the president from the clinton impeachment which i think it well and i think thats a constructive way to proceed after both sides get to make their case in response the senate will likely have an opportunity to consider additional witnesses i dont think thats a foregone conclusion either way but i think the house made a decision from a timing perspective when they moved ahead with the information that they had and on
Obtained by the House Committee this led those from transit to new Rudy Giuliani to the head of ukraine live on this is all involved in this you think theres more to the. I think that there is definitely a lot more otherwise the president would have let some of his top advisers speak to the house i mean clearly if he had people that could help clear him he would have let him speak clearly i think that these are people that wouldnt be able to clear him and i think that one of whats interesting is that you know nancy pelosi held onto these articles for some time and i think that it actually show that this was the right decision to make because as some of these senators went home over the christmas and holiday break they heard from their constituents who started to see as alex was noting as not being a foregone conclusion you started to see some cracks in that fire wall as you started to see some of these republicans saying that they be open to witnesses and i think with josh bolton or jo
He is a vietnam veteran and a life long aficionado of books, maps, chicago sports, and music. This afternoon, he will be speaking on his latest book, the tragedy of u. S. Foreignpolicy, how americas civil religion betrayed the national interest. [applause] thank you very much. It was a wonderfully brief introduction, except you left out my doctoral dissertation. [laughter] mr. Mcdougall i thank you all. The turnout is fantastic. I will try not to let you down. , this is a homecoming, or would be, if the Woodrow Wilson center had not changed so dramatically over the years. I was a wilson fellow in the early 1980s and rose most of my pulitzer prizewinning at the wilson center. Was in those days, it the Smithsonian Castle building, presided over by jim billington, his assistant, and sam wells. Is sam wells still affiliated . Yes, he is. Mr. Mcdougall god bless him. Back in those days in the Smithsonian Castle, there was virtually no security in the building. Those were the days, right . T