About the life of Edward Snowden is released today. What do you think it should president obama pardon Edward Snowden . If you think yes, call this number, 202 7488000. You dontnk not, if think the president should pardon Edward Snowden, call this number, 202 7488001. If not by phone, you can weigh in by social media. Our twitter handle is cspanwj , and Facebook Comments are coming in at facebook. Com cspan. Go to the website of the American Civil Liberties union, the aclu, you will see this posting by the executive director there, anthony romero. Obama should pardon Edward Snowden, and we are launching a campaign to make it happen and we have got a lot of help. Mr. Romero writes host they point out here at the aclu site that they are being joined in this campaign by Amnesty International and human arty havech, and they an impressive list of more than 100 former National Security officials, legal scholars, technology and business leaders, human rights activists, and artists on board. A
[inaudible conversations] welcome. My name is a gene healy. Im a Vice President here at the Cato Institute and ill be your moderator today. Thank you all for coming out to the first cato event of 2016. Today, we are going to spread the new years cheer and take the chill out of your bones with an in depth look at remotecontrolled executions, the creeping surveillance state, and the seeming permanence of the imperial presidency. So merry new year. Our focus today is the extraordinary new book by Charlie Savage, power wars inside obamas post9 11 presidency. Charlie has been with the New York Times since 2008, and he has been the indispensable reporter on executive power issues since well before that. In 2007 while with the boston globe he won the Pulitzer Prize for his work on the Bush Administrations signing statements. Is 2007 book, takeover, the return of the imperial presidency, was named one of the best books of the year by the washington post, slate and esquire. To describe power wa
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[applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon and welcome to the kid institute. Let me also welcome our cspan audience. Im roger pilon, the director of the Kansas Center for constitutional studies and your host for todays Forum Working the publication of a new book by professor David Bernstein, lawless the Obama Administrations unprecedented assault on the constitution and the rule of law. This book in this form could not be more timely. This yesterday as we all know we witness the president said he was directing officials in his administration to expand the regulation of the Second Amendment rights of americans in several ways these repeated usurpations have served to divert attention from a long list of domestic and Foreign Policy disasters, but theyve also serve fortunately to direct our attention to the constitution into what are its bedrock principles, separation of powers. That will be our focus today as we canvassed the many constitutional assault
Nixon had a movie on the wall that showed the campaign. He had an idea that people would write down the questions and pass them on and they would answer just the questions the staff wanted them to answer, but it looked like they only came from the audience. So these are all yours. I might put them in a certain order, but i promise not to edit them. So one of the questions that we have is would the Civil Rights Act have passed if nixon had won in 1960 and 64 . I think it probably would have, because in 1957 when the Civil Rights Act was pending on the senate floor and lbj scaled it back and compromised, dropped entirely this provision that would have allowed the attorney general being sued and compromised the jury panel, effectively all white juries in the south, nixon was close to tears. It seems so paradoxical now, but he had a good record on civil rights. In 1960 when Martin Luther king was in jail, nixon didnt do it because he thought it would look like a grandstand play and he didn