2027488922 for others. We want to hear from you and you can call we will take the calls in just a minute. We want to replay what john kasich had to stay. Americas at a crossroads. A choice we make as individuals and a nation about which path we want to take when we come to challenging times. America is at that crossroads today. The stakes in this election are greater then any in modern times. Many of us have been deeply concerned about the current path we have been following for the past four years. Tois a path that has led division, dysfunction, irresponsibility, and growing vitriol between our citizens. Pathnuing to follow that will have terrible consequences for americas soul because we are being taken down the wrong road by a president who has pitted one against the other. He is unlike all of our best leaders before him who worked to unite us, to bridge our differences and lead us to a united america. Joe biden is a man for our times , times that call for all of us to take off our
Freeman talks about her life in writing, she appeared in her monthly call in program in depth in september 2019. Joanne freeman, youre gonna hate this opening question. [laughter] trace the arc of our nations history from 1783 to 1861, the political history of our nation. Wow. I wont use the word hate. [laughter] thats a little daunting. Trace the arc. Im gonna do historian thing and speak generally. I guess i would say if youre looking at american politics from the beginning straight to we could even go past the civil war you are talking about paradoxes and conflict and improv. The periods i tend to focus on really more the early part of the earth and its the improvisational nature of that that really fascinates me more than anything else because the nation was founded in a world of monarchy and the United States was a republic beyond that there was a lot of open grounds theres a lot of improv in those early decades about what the onation is, how it functions, the tone of the governme
Washington journal continues. Ast our guest is representative our guest from new york, he is a member from the Small Business committee. We welcome you back to the shows, sir. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me once. Again on the Small Business front, what are the differences between the house and the senate in the next scolded relief package, especially comes to the business effort. I think certainly, we would like to see a bigger carved out for Community Banks and the Credit Unions i have a longstanding relationship with Small Businesses in main street. We want to see main street help. And the past we bailed out wall street, detroit, the airline industry. I think the main street deserves to get an injection in their economy. Their biggest employers and the country, and as such, i think that they are having a rough time reopening. We need to help them out, so when we carve out and fund a bigger percentage of the funding for these Community Based banks and Credit Unions, we are
Professor of lauper he served in all three branches of the federal government to the Justice Department office of legal counsel, and the Senate Judiciary committee and Justice Clarence thomas prayed the previous books include crisis and command a history of executive power from George Washington to george w. Bush. His newest book the subject of todays discussion is titled defend her in chief, Donald Trumps fight for president ial power. John thanks for joining us today. Spivey entrance. Guest thanks adam and thank you its hard to believe ive been a scholar here for almost 20 years. I think im one of the oldest people on the staff. Its great to be here again to talk about a book and it would not be possible without having relationships like those i have aei. So terrific lets jump into the book. The end of the books introduction you summarize the overall argument and theme of the book. You say that President Trump has returned to the framers original vision of the presidency as an office
While we will continue to fight for the passage of this bill in the senate, we wanted to highlight today the efforts of the Congressional Black Caucus defined find on many different manifestations of systemic racism. That thisly inspired new movement has elevated the issue, and that people understand this was not a tragedy, one tragedy, and anomaly, but it was a manifestation of much deeper problems in our country. Proud to be joined by members of the Congressional Black Caucus who have been on the front lines, and the house of representatives, fighting for change, and they will share those areas where they have been fighting for with you today. After you hear presentations from members of congress, we will open it up to hear your questions and comments. Right now, i have the honor of introducing representative barbara lee. She is is apart of the congressional caucus and is the founder of the task force in the house of representatives to address poverty. And we have a slogan in the hou