Renovation and research looks at Election Security as camping 2020 approaches. We will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is is next. 24 hours ago at the white house, President Trump announcing the death of isis leader albaghdadi after a late Night Saturday raid in syria by u. S. Special forces. This is washington journal. We will start with your calls and comments on that raid and what it means for u. S. Military presence on the broader war on terror. Republicans, call 2027488001. For democrats, that line is 2027488000. Independents and others, 2027488002. You can send us a text as well. That is 2027488003. Make sure you put your name and where you are texting from on that. You can tweet us at cspanwj and we welcome your posts on our facebook page, facebook. Com cspan. That announcement coming just after 9 00 eastern yesterday morning during part of this program and we will show you some of the comments from President Trump in
Witch hunt which is a fascinating read that tells us all details that weve been going through since 2016. This is a followon to your bestseller the russia hoax which was a New York Times number one bestseller. Im sure this will be as well. Youre off to the races are already number three . Guest its great to be with you. Thanks for having me. When i first heard the president use the term witch hunt in that tweet, much like he used fake news, the fact the election could be rigged, all of these things for people like me who spent most of my adult life profession life in washington, d. C. , you kind of recoil because they are bold phrases. Now you have barred this phrase for your book. Why . Guest because its very telling. What people tend to forget about witch hunt is there are no real witches. But this overwhelming irrational desire to believe that witches exist is what propels the witch hunt. Thats what happened here, an astonishing array theoretically smart people convinced themselves
How specific it is, president eisenhower calls his assassination capacity the health alteration committee. So i have located documents in the National Archive that refer to innovation for the health alteration committee. President kennedy called the executive action. Jumping forward to reagan he called it preemptive neutralization. Bush called it lethal direct action and obama called it targeted killing. Going back to after the vietnam war and president reagan developing a capacity for preemptive neutralization and this is because we sell the first rise in terrorism. What i also found very interesting, i interview a gentleman named lewis for this book and he was the 19th director of the secret service, he went on the record to expla explain, how the capacity to protect the president of the United States is the flipside of the coin of the executive action capacity or preempt neutralization capacity if you will. That comes from the fact that richard home so famously said if you have a ca
Ideas, she has to send the police, basically x. This is where it breaks down because and this is the, i think, why maybe its become popular and the idea of fairness, is they can fake fairness with things like charity and being your brothers keeper. I believe we should be our brothers keeper. I believe in christianity and the idea that we should take careover of our people. But that has nothing really to do with government, you know . They believe it and they conflate it and they say, oh, well, charity is if i come to your house and take your money and give it to somebody else. Its not charity when the government comes. Its also very uncharitable with the way the government does it. Ultimately, if you want a little bit of socialism, the violence from government may be tolerable. You want a little bit more, youre going to have a little more state violation are. But if you really want to take the property, and when mao came to take the farms or stalin, truly there is a point at which peop
The november 21 deadline. Later, jeff moore doc of the Washington Times talks about the Justice Departments investigation into the origins of the russia probe. Host it is the washington journal for october 29. The bill will vote on a the house will vote on a bill sanctioning turkey. Loseddoor Hearing National Security Council official who will express concerns about President Trumps ukraine phone call and thursday, presentmocrats will current procedures of the impeachment inquiry and. Stablishing new ones. Epublicans, 2027488001 democrats, 2027488000. And independents, 2027488002. If you want to text us about this coming up vote on thursday, 7488003 is how we will bring a resolution to the floor that confirms the Ongoing Investigation currently being conducted by committees as part of the impeachment inquiry including requests for documents, subpoena, testimony, and other investigative steps previously taken or to be taken investigation, this resolution establishes the proceedings for