Okay, thank you. Thats exactly right. Now we have to recognize the Senior Member here. Well, it is a treat to welcome former colleagues, current colleagues ive worked with, every member of this panel in some form or another, inside and outside of government. Its a treat to welcome everyone here on behalf of the center of law and security on the nyu school of law that i am privileged to serve as a distinguished senior fellow at. Welcome to this program and welcome to my colleagues. This is really a treat for me to be joined together with you once again to talk about a really important and timely subject, the issue of National Security and how the executive branch and the legislative branch address some of the most Critical Issues of our time and i will do some very brief introductions in a minute, but you will understand the theme here is every single one of these distinguished Public Servants served in the executive branch and the National Security community and the searching top ekic
We have to recognize the Senior Member here, and treat to welcome current and former colleagues and i have worked with this panel in some form or another inside and outside of government. It is a treat to welcome everybody here on the nyu school of Law Community where i am a distinguished fellow. Welcome to the program and my colleagues. This is a treat for me to be joined together with you once again to talk about a really important and timely subject, the issue of National Security and how the executive branch and the legislative branch address some of the most Critical Issues of our time, and i will do some very brief introductions in a minute, but you will understand that the theme here is that every single one of the distinguished Public Servants served in the executive branch in the National Security community and the searching topic for today is how has that service informed your view as legislators and how can we be best poised from both branches perspective to confront some of
,ncluding the president s taxes aspects of the Mueller Report. How would you like to see this play out . Rep. Pocan we want to get this done expeditiously. That means taking the bombshell allegations and the confession by the president this week to what happened in the dealing with it very promptly. That will be the focus. We have had adam schiff and jerry nadler just yesterday had a great conversation about next steps. I think you will see the Intelligence Committee with what happened this week, the president asking another government, a Foreign Government to essentially get dirt on his political opponent. The fact he withheld money from a country just days prior that Congress Approved. And the fact now that after we have seen the whistleblower, there could be a coverup within the white house. Very serious allegations. That alone is what people are focused on right now. We want to deal with this as quickly as possible. Timeline fora wrapping up this investigation and bringing articles
On the making of his online project, the valley of the shadow government which tells the story of the civil war from the perspective of two communities, one northern and 17. The talk was part of the Gettysburg College civil war. Nstitute annual Summer College good afternoon. I am Peter Carmichael, member of the History Department at Gettysburg College. Welcome pleasure to professor edward airs for the robert bloom lecture. Rightthe top your boat professor of the humanities and Professor Emeritus at the university of richmond. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including in the presence of mine enemies, civil war in the heart of america, which was the winner of the bankrupt prize. He is the winner of the new south super excellent book i read in grad school many years ago. Thin the author of the light of freedom, the civil war and emancipation. And the 2018 lincoln prize winner. One of the things he has done throughout his career, he has made it a point to speak to public a
Ukraine for tion help. And that the white house e tried to cover it up. On thursday, the acting director of national intelligence, joseph mcguire, testified before congress about the complaint which he called quote unpreced ted. It centers phone call the president held with the ukraine president in july where he asked him repeatedly to open a torruption investigation his 2020 president ial rival, joe biden. On tuesday, House Speaker nancy pelosi announced the start of a formal impeachment inquiry against the pepresident accusin him of betraying his oath of president tr called the p fice. Impeachment inquiry quote a witchhunt and attacked the credibility and charactetlof ujoining us now via skype from washington dc is political reporter jessica taylor. And here in studio the editor politics and government, scott shafer. Jessica taylor and scott shafer, thank you for bein here. Scott, of course given californias representation and congressional leadership, we are playing a prominent ro i