It is the largest republican field of candidates to take the stage. Fox news is calling it a high stakes showdown. We want to begin with your comments on the Voting Rights. Is it still needed . Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. Send us a tweet, join us on facebook. Thank you for being with us. There are two forums. The main event at 9 00 eastern time. We want to get your comments on what questions you would ask the candidates. It seems the republicans like to violate Voting Rights act every chance they get. How does it showing your id heres the piece who says the federal Appeals Panel rule yesterday that a strict voter identification law in texas discriminated against blacks and hispanics and violated the rights act of 1965. A decision that defines the reach of the law. The case is one of a few across the country that are being closely watched. This after a 2013 Supreme Court decision that blocked the most enforcement tool, federal oversight o
Insightful with respect to the wall and if we have time at the end i will be happy to take some questions. Let me start with kind of what weve been spending our time on at the department the. This is the operational policy challenges of the department so the first challenge i want to discuss its counterterrorism and as joe and others now counterterrorism was the Founding Mission of the department and it continues to be the cornerstone of what we do compared to 2003 when the department was established the terrorism threat today is more challenging and more decentralized and diffuse and arguably more complex. We are more concerned about the foreign fighters who leave this country and others have traveled to another and take up to the fight and link up with a terrorist organization. They are concerned about the terrorist organizations adapted and skilled use of the internet to publicly recruit and inspire individuals. To prevent the travel of the foreign terrorist fighters the secretary r
Primary in virginias seventh district. [laughter] political newcomer david brat defeated the sitting House Majority leader, cane only assume future millionaire lobbyist, eric cantor. Cantor was basically the fourth most powerful republican in washington behind mitch mcconnell, john boehner and an ar15 that fires baby eagles dressed like jesus. How, how. [laughter] thats. They said the picture wont be ready until the show. I said, well, all right. Whatever you can do to make it realistic. Thats really quite lovely. How the hell did this happen . He had all the name recognition. He outspent his opponent 401 and still lost by an astounding 11 points. Cantors campaign spent more at stake houses than brat spent on his entire campaign. Jon well, okay. That makes sense. Its very hard to conduct your campaign when you got the meat sweats. My budget platform. Brruff. Lord have mercy. Let me ask you a question whom is this david brat fellow . Hes a College Economics professor. A 3. 4 rating out
That, that. No [cheering and applause] i even think thats understating it. That was last nights republican primary in virginias seventh district. [laughter] political newcomer david brat defeated the sitting House Majority leader, cane only assume future millionaire lobbyist, eric cantor. Cantor was basically the fourth most powerful republican in washington behind mitch mcconnell, john boehner and an ar15 that fires baby eagles dressed like jesus. How, how. [laughter] thats. They said the picture wont be ready until the show. I said, well, all right. Whatever you can do to make it realistic. Thats really quite lovely. How the hell did this happen . He had all the name recognition. He outspent his opponent 401 and still lost by an astounding 11 points. Cantors campaign spent more at stake houses than brat spent on his entire campaign. Jon well, okay. That makes sense. Its very hard to conduct your campaign when you got the meat sweats. My budget platform. Brruff. Lord have mercy. Let m
Break. I thought we were getting there in the questioning between senator blumenthal and judge barrett. Andrea mitchell, when he started going down the road of, well, was that correctly decided . And then all of a sudden he got to one she didnt want to say that. Theres the giveaway right there when it comes to right to privacy. Exactly. She was moving to say, you know, brown and then the case in virginia with interracial marriage but the minute he got to the right to privacy in griswold which of course was the predicate for roe she was not willing to go there or to gay marriage or gay sex other things that had been criminalized involving same sex relationships. She has really put up four corners around it. What he was saying at the end which we couldnt really hear, the point i was making earlier, that judge ginsburg before she was confirmed did not really lay down a law or a rule. She was very precise and that has been of course what others have followed but they have all as he pointed