The federal judiciary. Probably the longest legacy that donald trump will have will be his Lasting Imprint that he left in terms of the judges he has nominated. He has confirmed 150 federal judges, including two Supreme Court justices quite famously. It is not just the number of the judges at the historic nature of how ideology clean extreme how ideologically extreme they seem. Point is we can win at the ballot box at 2020 and defeat donald trump and win back the senate and yet all of the priorities may well be facing certain power because we have a judiciary that is hostile to the progressive ideas because trump will have any so many trump style judges that will be with us. Host how you activate the grassroots and how are you funded . Lobby andtry to oppose some of trumps most extreme judicial nominees. We were highly involved in the cavanaugh fight last year. We are active right now in trying to defeat some of his more extreme lower Court Judicial appointees like stephen manatt she w
We pride ourselves here at the library among other things on the timeliness and the relevance of our signature programming. Whether were holding forums on local issues or addressing emerging or hot button national topics. He didnt intend on the particular timeliness of tonights presentation. Christopher leonard was a busy man at the end of last week. Taking reporters calls and wrote a coup of oped articles after the death of david koch. Chris spent eight near in the the kochland, the place and the title of his book, pulling back the curtain on the extraordinary Business Empire and the potent Political Network that was put toth by the david koch and his older brother, charles, from their base three hours down the road in wichita. Anybody here had a chance to read the book yet . So, you wont understand but youll knee immediately when you get into it, as you get into it, what im talking about. Its daunting when you pick it up. Its 574 pages and thats before you get to the noteses appendix
Democrats, democrat votes 216, republicans 64 in favor of this, totalling 280. 150 people voting against. This is over the budget deal that Speaker Nancy Pelosi worked out with the white house that earlier today, had a lost House Republicans skeptical whether or not they could support it because of the price tag. It did reach a spending cap agreement for two years and suspended the debt ceiling until july 2021. It has passed the house now so that means they kick it to the senate and the senate has its own batch of skeptics but sources i talked to familiar with gop leadership on the senate side tell me they are confident they too have the votes, at least a broad consensus among republicans and democrats to get it through the senate and then put it on the president s desk, who was a wild card really until this morning, when he encouraged House Republicans on twitter to vote in favor of this bill, saying he is totally in support of this budget deal. So we are expecting if everything goes
Trump in the four years. Thanks for taking that up to the end of the show. Appreciate it. Thank you. That does it for me today. Deadline white house, thankfully, starts right now. Hi, there, everyone. 4 00 in new york. Kicking, claim p xleeming, crying, whining, donald trump and his legal team back dwhoog they do today. Seeking to delay, delay, delay, delay justice. Todays effort at that in the federal criminal case brought by special counsel jack smith for illegally hoarding classified documents at his private club in maralago. The disgraced president watching on with no obligation to do so set to convince district judge cannon to dismiss some or all charges against trump. Did so through various after neuers. First a Motion Wiping away the first 32 counts on the theory the main statute used against trump is unconstitutionally vague. The second even more audacious, a Motion Dismissing the indictment entirely on the grounds of the president s records act completely bars prosecution. The
Thats the focus of tonights angle. I wonder what the leaders of the Chinese Communist parties think about the tiktok debate in the United States. After brilliantly deploying a propaganda and spying operation inside the u. S. , they must be pleasantly surprised to see bipartisan support to help them protect it. Yes. Just like every other social media platform, there is misinformation and privacy concerns. Its important that we dont treat tiktok differently than other platforms. If were going to address this issue, we have got to take the same approach to other media platforms. We cant just single out one. Laura we most certainly can and should. When our National Security in our Election Integrity is at stake, we must act to protect our country. Now, for decades, we have been trying to prevent the transfer of sensitive u. S. Technology to our adversaries in china, in iran, north korea, russia, and so on. And its so bad with china that all g7 Foreign Ministers pledge actions to counter ch