This is an hour. Morning, thank you for that wonderful introduction. Im coauthor of the politico playbook. Sherman, who we write our playbook every morning. For joining us here in austin. To have a great discussion. For those who may not know its the top rated newsletter. Through the noise every day and tell you what you really need to know, whats happening politics. World in its a combination of walter girl. Ite and gossip you can text pb to 66866 if you it. To sign up for his morning were joined here by members of the House Freedom caucus. A specialke to extend invitation to open congress and to our sponsor, pfizer, for politico tent here today. Now im going to introduce our guest. Thank you for the applause. Im going to go down the line. If they dont like a question that means they cant attack us, nd you notice they are on the righthand side of the stage. From the right, jim jordan from ohio, mark meadows from north carolina, who was the House Freedom caucus chairman. Still is. Stil
Political operatives and professionals. We tell you what we really need to know and what is happening around the world in politics. It is a combination of Walter Cronkite and gossip girl. 86 n text pb to we are joined by members of the House Freedom caucus, and i would like to send you a special thanks to our partners for hosting us here and to our sponsor for supporting the tent today. Jake im going to introduce our guests. Thank you for the applause. I will go down the line, and they are very far because they do not like a question and it means that they cannot attack us. You notice that they are on the righthand side of the stage. From ourht perspective i guess. From our this is jim jordan from ohio, the Freedom Caucus founding chairman. Representative meadows who is the chairman. Two more days, so he speaks for the Freedom Caucus, and shift roy, who is on the Freedom Caucus and he has a cardcarrying member. Is there a card . We have a visa card. Jake that is right. You have a passp
On would you anoint to carry that responsibility . Thanks you for being here, i am evan smith. I am spending time today Walking Around and saying hello to folks in the audience at sessions that we consider to be fundamental to the success of this event and are the best aligned with the mission. We worked really hard all year long to get representative andds roy, georgia meadows to have an a diversity of ideas and have folks from all sides. We won people in every room to talk and listen to people they agree within disagree with because we think texas and this country will be better if all of us are at a conversation at the parties of our state and country on all sides. We are honored by the presence of our outofstate guests, representative meadows and jordan. We are pleased that representative roy, although he is not technically in his district. No, this is in your district. You are just pandering, right . Ok. Representative roy has come home doing constituent service. Seriously, the se
I do have an outside voice of mindy. How wonderful to see a full house from our panel. I will do a little housekeeping before we start. This will be a 60 minute session. 40 minutes of conversation. We will take questions the last 20 minutes. For god sake, please be nice when you ask questions. Speeches, ask questions, be respectful to our panelists, and they promised, with the exception of rick wilson, to be respectful to you. [laughter] if youre going to tweet about the event today, please silence earphones, if you tweet about is the hashtag if you are a member of the tribune and you want to give us , there is a stain mexico, a roundtrip fare for two for southwest airlines, we will enter you into a drawing to be the winner of that great getaway if you become a member of the tribune this weekend. That is it. Im going to get started. Hi, i am evan smith, the ceo of the Texas Tribune and the name of this panel, oh, goodness. [applause] stop pandering. The name of this panel is the name o
This is an hour and 40 minutes. We will hear argument in donald j. Trump versus committee on Financial Services. Court, thereshe no doubt the dispute comes to the court involving the house of representatives on one side and the president and his family members on the other. I do want to note the number of statements three rely upon and the Background Information makes it clear that these subpoenas are being targeted to the president because he is president. When you say because, are you raising motive . I am not raising motive but looking to at the real object of the subpoena is. That is another way of saying why they are doing it. The motive precludes motive and rises above concerns that the house or the congress has taken one action and we think they are not. They are not taking the action you can delineate from their statements from authorizing resolutions themselves. There is Something Else completely going on. Many of the cases make it very clear you can inquire into what the real