On their legislative plans for tax reform and immigration. This is 20 minutes. [applause] good morning everyone. It is a wonderful honor to be here with each and every one of you. I think you for your leadership for our country. I particularly want to acknowledge the great leadership. I think you for the kind introduction but also for the Visionary Leadership is the mayor of new orleans and also as a spokesperson for the values in our country. We are so excited. This was such a treat to learn more about burning tree. They said no, it is great. Thank you megan. For your beautiful presentation about how the arts and infrastructure of cities come together. I want to thank and congratulate lifelong all the people who received awards today on the arts. And other occasions we have seen people get awards for their leadership in the cities on climate. Again, the mayor is in the lead. And in terms of the arts, this is so very important to who we are as a country. The arts i believe, are the mos
You can see that live on cspan, and later at 2 30 p. M. Eastern marx Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell and House Speaker Paul Reinhold had a News Conference at the retreat. Well bring that to you also on cspan. Sunday night on after words, former speech writer for president george w. Bush and atlantic columnist david frum with his book trumpocracy, the corruption of the american republic. Hes interviewed by Washington Post Nonfiction Book critic. Trumpocracy is a book about the study of power. Thats what the suffix means. This is the study of Donald Trumps power, how does he get it . How does he maintain it and how does he get away with if . Trumpocracy is the system of enabling, its system in the white house, the system between trump and congress, the system between trump and the media that enable him and create an audience. Its the system that involves his the republican donor elite, the traditional elements of the republican bheert have succumbed to him and above all the core g
Good morning mayors we have had a busy morning. Welcome to all of you. I encourage you to take your seats. We have a great panel this morning. Welcome our live cspan audience as well. I am the mayor is the city of san diego. Welcome. Our session today is trade. The americas and beyond. One of the most important topics and we have been dealing with certainly in our area in our region. I think all of my fellow mayors are here today the members of the audience in the panel that you will hear from in a second. There has never been a more critical toxicities around the country to Champion International trade and what that means. That is a success and the foundation for many good quality jobs have been created. That is what we will focus on today and get some unique perspective from our fellow mayors and ambassadors. As you know, the us mayors have taken progressive positions on the importance of free trade over the years in terms of transpacific partnership, laws and Environmental Standards
Williams, chair of the Lincoln Forum, and welcome to this panel of forum 22, relating to lincolns enemies. And im so pleased to have it distinguished, every time someone says distinguished i want to run to the merlot bar. Its like saying with all due respect in my courtroom. But we do have some great scholars with us this morning. Stephen engle, the author of a great book about lincoln, and the nations governors. Jonathan white, author of midnight in america, and soon to be with us, the book our little monitor. And of course catherine clinton, no stranger to us, author of mrs. Lincoln, a life, and many other books. And walter stolzier, as well as lincolns secretary of war Edwin Stanton, called stanton, and he told me and i hope im not revealing any confidence, he has a glint in his eye for sammen chase. Good luck with that. Because im sure we will hear about secretary of the treasury sammen chase from professor clinton. So let me start with this. John barre, who is one of our Lincoln F
Lieutenant governor lamb, statewide elected officials, speaker mccaul, president pro tem shultz, members of the court, honorable senators, representatives, cabinet members, our tribal leaders, guests, and citizens of the state of oklahoma. I would like to take a brief moment to thank my fellow oklahomans for the great honor and opportunity of a lifetime, to serve as governor of the great state of oklahoma. Family and i have really loved traveling across the state, meeting all kinds of outstanding oklahomans. Words cannot express how much i appreciate the sacrifices of my entire family, their love and support over the many years i have served the state. That includes my loving husband. He deserves a round of applause for that. [applause] and our combined six children. Two of our children have joined us here today. My daughter, christina, who was three years old when i sat in the back of that chamber, second to the last row, as a freshman legislator. And my son, who was four months old.