Hour and 20 minutes. [applause] thank you very much. Can you times you guys hear me . It is on. Good morning and thank you for joining us inside this airless windowless room on this beautiful saturday morning. We are here to talk about the presidency, scope and limits of executive power a hallmark recurring defining issue of the 21st century for two presidency so far. We are going to move along because we have an excellent panel and im sure all of you are deeply familiar with this topic already. The 10,000foot reminder is that president bush came into office with a very powerful Vice President whose experience as chief of times of staff in the four demonstrations after watergate and vietnam and during the Church Committee had marked him as a strong opponent of executive power and critic of congressional regulation and he used that position of influence in the crisis of the september 11 era to advance, establish precedence as commanderinchief in wartime cannot be bound by the Internatio
Harassment. Congressman Jason Chaffetz chairs this two hour long meeting. Good morning, the Committee Comes to order and without objection the chair is authorized to call recess. We will have hearing about the National Park service. 2016 represents the hundred year since the park service was founded. We find an agency in crisis. We have good, hard working people who do good service for this nation. They serve the public as attending the parks at record numbers but we are having problems. We should be working to increase visitation and providing recreational opportunities to the American People. The mission of the National Park service to is honor the values for this generation and future generations. But that doesnt work when you have multiple cases of longstanding employee misconduct that is distracting the agency from the mission. There is no doubt when you hire tense of thousands of people there is going to be bad apples. They will cause disruption and heartache to a lot of people i
They have emergency officials all over florida. Rick scott says Everyone Needs to keep watch. The biggest threat that could come with all of that rain is the flooding and with that comes the standing water and the threat of more zika. They say, heavy rain would be a big concern. Fda issued about blood banks starting to screening starting to screen for zika. Police could be donati wiout knowing that they are sick becse on avere four out of five people do not show any symptoms. There have been no known cases being done by blood transfusions in the united states. They are putting more money behind fighting the zika vir of the statege budt, and i have the authority to do that without we have allocated 23 million of that we did 5 million to miamidade. There are 15 new travel cases including three in pinellas, one sinarasota, and five of those 15 cases are pregnant women. It seems to be going up up fake money operation. At least two Business Owners fell for this because, as you can see, it l
You can talk about things that went wrong, but you could communicate love for the idea of a service. The extraordinary variety of people went there. We have people with great physical disabilities who are president for longer than anybody else but cannot stand on their own. We have people who are just [inaudible] [inaudible] history disappear and my thought is the word history is mostly made up of the word story plus a hello. We are to be telling our children interesting stories. Host and ken will be with us to take our calls. Well put the numbers up on the screen. They moved up to almost parity with lincoln. Lincoln took care of the greatest crisis. The depression and the Second World War. He is very interesting. You can win a trivia contest. He won three National Elections in a row. But as is the peculiarities of the american democracy is the electrical vote that matters. As they found in 1876 and Grover Cleveland found out when he won the popular vote he won the popular vote again.
And the answer was . Up on the website if youre. Very interesting. Thank you. On that note, im afraid i have to draw this to a close. Please join us right now for a reception. Please note that copies of the book are available outside. Defenseless under the night. Please come back to hear Niall Ferguson of Stanford University talk about his recent biography, henry kissinger. Thank you to her audience and participants. Thank you to matthew dallek. [applause] [inaudible conversations] essay mentioned earlier that she thinks that it confronted americas ugly story of slavery and how brutal it was in the heroism of slaves. Theres going to be a better dad the end kind of thing. An initiative is a family story. The seven generations himself and that caused americans to poor red envelop the libraries that people looking for their own genealogy. So there is an example of the whole country watching a book in the two major effects came from it. [inaudible conversations] okay, everybody. Sit down.