Demonstrators and protesters there now are occupiers and squatters, seizing part of the downtown. Some six city blocks of seattles capitol hill area. Antifa and other anarchists, black lives matter and other radical left groups have gone from owning the streets for a couple of weeks to owning what they may think is permanently an autonomous zone. In just a week, calls to defund the police have turned to we are the police in at least that autonomous zone in seattles capitol hill region. Its still under the control of antifa and other farleft groups. A border wall of sorts has been constructed around the perimeter of the zone. Anyone who isnt welcome is met by scenes like these [background sounds] [bleep] dont go away mad, just go away i want to know [bleep] [background sounds] lou a stern, rough crowd there. The states democrat governor, jay inslee, appears clueless about what is actually going on in seattle. Those, not his words, but effectively his answer when asked. Washingtons democ
Demonstrators and protesters there now are occupiers and squatters, seizing part of the downtown. Some six city blocks of seattles capitol hill area. Antifa and other anarchists, black lives matter and other radical left groups have gone from owning the streets for a couple of weeks to owning what they may think is permanently an autonomous zone. In just a week, calls to defund the police have turned to we are the police in at least that autonomous zone in seattles capitol hill region. Its still under the control of antifa and other farleft groups. A border wall of sorts has been constructed around the perimeter of the zone. Anyone who isnt welcome is met by scenes like these [background sounds] [bleep] dont go away mad, just go away i want to know [bleep] [background sounds] lou a stern, rough crowd there. The states democrat governor, jay inslee, appears clueless about what is actually going on in seattle. Those, not his words, but effectively his answer when asked. Washingtons democ
This webinar will have a straightforward format after my introduction he will offer 10 minutes or so of remarks, then i will have questions for the senator and we will have a discussion about the economic challenges facing our nation and what congress should do to address them. We will take a couple of questions at the end. Thank you for joining us. If you have a question for senator rubio, submit it by email. Econtalk on aei twitter. Those are listed on the events web page. I am honored to be joined by senator rubio, thank you for being here. Senator marco rubio is the senator from florida, served in local state government, including as speaker of the Florida House before being elected to the senate in 2010 and reelected in 2016. He serves on the Senate Committee of appropriations, the Foreign Relations committee, the special committee on aging as acting chair of the select committee on intelligence, and most important to our discussion is chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Bus
Enjoy booktv now and over the weekend on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] all right. Good evening ladies and tillman. My name is jasmyne post. Im a scholar here at university of louisville and its an honor to welcome you to our Mcconnell Center event. In celebration of Constitution Day we thank you for joining us for debate on did america have christian founding . Its my pleasure to introduce aa moderator for this the next debate. Olde providence 24th dean or the Brandeis School law at the university of louisville. Prior to becoming too brandeis Dean Crawford said at the robert professor of environment the tw at Tulane University law school in new orleans. Before killing he was a tenured member of the faculty at Georgia State University College of law in atlanta where he found and codirected the center for comparative study of metropolitan growth which has developed new models for fieldbased fuelbased education and comparative and environmental landuse law. Dean crawford is a lot of t
Why did you want to write about Political Parties . Your first book was focused on political lobbying. In the universe of potential reforms, the electoral college. The money in politics which we hear a ton about. Executive power. You chose to focus on parties as a linchpin. Can you talk about what drew you to parties . Tell us about the process. Great to be with you again matt. A fun reunion on cspan. So why did i write this book . I wrote this book because i was worried about american democracy. I saw hyper partisanship as a serious problem affecting our country and i wanted to think about if there was some way to maybe solve that problem. It kind of flowed in an indirect way from my previous book which was about the growth of corporate lobbying. In that book, i had concluded that one way reason they were so powerful was because they wrote a lot of the laws. Because there was not a tremendous amount of expertise. After that book came out, i went talking to folks in and around congress