Happened. Host james adakai, joining us window rock, rom navaho nation commissioner, intertribal coalition. We thank you for being with us. Guest thank you. Us from tucson, arizona, is representative raul is speaking out on the issue. Congressman, you are ranking ember of the house Natural Resources committee. You have been hearing the debate over the last couple of hours familiar e certainly with what is going on with bears ears, what is your point of view . Guest well, the whole issue at really now is the the authority under the Antiquities Act that president and all his predecessors, ormer president s, all of them, have used Antiquities Act to monuments for a variety of reasons, all of them having cultural historic preservation, conservation issue all the ears and monuments under review, the past that authority, all are justified and the ears, age of bears bringing into boundaries, the totality ith of what that area needs to be protected. Nd the nexus for Antiquities Act native ys b
Authority under the Antiquities Act that president obama and all of his predecessors and former president s, all of them have used the Antiquities Act to declare monuments for, for a variety of reasons, all of them having to do with historic and cultural preservation, conservation issues, and all of the monuments under review, the past ones, all under that authority and all are justified and the shrinkage of this of bringing in the boundaries does not deal with the totality of what that area needs to be conserved in protected. The nexus for the Antiquities Act has always been the native peoples, their sacred sites, their cultural resources, their access to these lands, and i think what is going on in utah is very much an example of many other levels of our public lands in general. The Antiquities Act being the issue here, but also attacks on endangered species act, the attack on the wilderness act, the attacks on the act that allows public input and access, the limiting and denying alm
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In this one volume with its overall size but to encapsulate the entire story with the articles of confederation that led to a the constitution that captures the Amazing Things during that period and the other speaker is a librarian at the American Philosophical Society and the editor of this terrific new volume on the American Revolution i also want to plug is book for a the politics of war please give a great welcome to michael and patrick. [applause]. So we will try to talk about in refashion americas founding in with that in mind i would like to start with you patrick so what do you take to beat the traditional narrative . What do we tell ourselves about . We know the story very well it begins with the stamp act the crisis of the colonys coming together for the first time to announce their opposition to the policy that leads to the twoparty in the boston massacre and independence the story is focused on the eastern seaports the end of boston itself and there is an emphasis and what
This is the first time who are serving in congress right now pick a lot of relatively new or have not been serving for less than a decade, so its the first time where the president is also a member of their party. British Prime Minister theresa may will be the first foreign dignitary to visit President Trump later this week, but before that she will attend the philadelphia retreat with republicans are quarter they were here from the british Prime Minister . Guest one area that the uk and us have a interesting right now is the topic of trade and theresa may back in her country is a dealing with well how her country will proceed with the exit and the us will be a critical trade ally for britain Going Forward and that is something they will discuss. Back to President Trump, is there a disagreement between house leaders, and Senate Leaders in terms of the schedule and the agenda of President Trump . Guest one area as we discussed was trade. Paul ryan himself was a big proponent of trade an