Timothy carneys new book and a discussion about its claims and i think you will find both tims remarks and the panel of interest particularly timely given the moment we find ourselves in strictly right now so i look forward to the discussion. Tim is going to come out and offer a few words and then he will be followed with a Panel Discussion withCharles Murray who is known to probably everybody here. Hes a high chair and Cultural Studies here at aei and Megan Mcardle who is probably known to all of you, Washington Post columnist with a lot to say on this issue as well. Tim is a visiting fellow here at aei and hes also the commentary editor at the Washington Examiner where hes been a columnist for a while and you are all aware of his columns to his previous books on cronyism are what any of you probably know him for. The big ripoff and obamanomics. But this new book alienated america is a New Enterprise for him, adeep dive into whats going on in the heartland and im holding this book up
Watch after words with Jonathan Karl, sunday at 9 p. M. Eastern on book tv on cspan2. [inaudible conversation [inaudible conversations] good afternoon everyone, welcome to the American Enterprise institute. My name is ryan streeter, the director of domestic policy studies here and its my pleasure to welcome you to this event featuring tim carneys new book and a discussion about its findings and claims and i think youll find both tims remarks and the panel of interest, particularly timely given the moment that we find ourselves in historically right now. So i look forward to the discussion. Tim is going to come up and offer a few words and then he will be followed we will follow that with a Panel Discussion with Charles Murray who is known to probably everybody here, ais own fa chair and Cultural Studies here at aei. And megan mccardle, a Washington Post columnist with a lot to say as well. Tim is a visiting fellow here at aei and hes also the commentary editor at the Washington Examine
Schumer just arrived at the white house. Reporter i caught up with chuck rounds, a republican from north dakota, who last night was a no vote and this morning changed to yes after promises from Mitch Mcconnell i asked him what was going on. He said leadership has them in a Holding Pattern for the next couple of hours as they figure out what theyre going to vote on, whether it will be the bill the house passed last night, that 30day shortterm funding bill, whether it will be Something Like four to five days which democrats and some republicans have proposed to ramp up the pressure to get a deal done on immigration whether it will be something in between. He says republicans in the rank and file dont know yet. Senator schumer and Democratic Caucus are surely meeting this afternoon to figure out next steps from their approach after that 90minute meeting with the president. As i said, when he came back to the capitol, he had little to say about the meeting, but just that it was productive
Court. He was killed last month in a shootout near Police Headquarters in the case of friendly fire. We just learned the name of the officer who shot him. Im andrea roane and prince georges chief is outside the courthouse with more on what happened in court today and who the officer involved is. Reporter its such a tragedy for the Police Department and the name of the officer who fired on officer colson by accident was released as Court Proceedings unfolded. The incident was described was the officer intentionally firing at a target he thought was a threat during a chaotic gunfight outside the district 3 Police Station on march 13 but it turned out to be a fellow officer jacai colson who was killed. It came as the three brothers accused in this incident, michael ford and his brothers malik ford and elijah ford were arguing probable cause for them to be held on a seconddegree murder charge because they were not the ones who pulled the trigger because officer colsons death came out in te
Tensions between Robert Muellers investigators and the Justice Department that exploded in the public view. N nbcs reporting goes further into the substance of the heart of that dispute. An official said they described the evidence on obstruction as compelling and said it includes more information that has been made public, specifically lie believe the evidence is stronger than barr suggested. Its bad news for the president when it comes to russian interference in the 2016 election. Some on the special counsels team said the findings paint a picture of a Cambridge Analytica pain whose members were manipulated by a russian intelligence operation. Both made clear this comes from associates of the investigators and the team did not leak any information itself, but it raises the question, what is it that so troubles muellers investigators right now that they are breaking their silence. Why would a it lipped operation want this information to go public . As the Washington Post points out, s