Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the fourth and final event in this years leon panetta lecture series. Before we begin, i want to first ask that on this memorial day, we have a moment of silence in honor of all those men and women who have died while serving in the United States armed services. [ event concluded ] [gavel pounding] thank you. This season, we are discussing the health of american democracy. It is very fitting that we recognize the individuals who have even the greatest sacrifice four our freedoms and our way of life. We honor their commitment to country. Our guests and our discussion this evening are particularly fitting four this holiday, because, tonight, we will conclude the 2019 lecture series by looking back to the finding of our nation founding of our nation and the man who first took up arms to fight in the name of liberty and protect our republic. In the wake of victory, they understood they had to create a system of government that would preserve and protect t
For sale in the corner. Thank you. [applause] thank you so much for coming. Please remember to fill out the survey here to help us know how to find programs like this [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] next up on booktv, mark tooley, president of the institute on religion and democracy, talks about his book, the peace that almost was. Its from this years fall for the book festival in fairfield, virginia. Our guest tonight is historian mark tooley. Mark tooley is the president of the institute on religion and democracy in washington d. C. His writing has appeared in National Review online, the Chicago Tribune and christianity today. He also writes regularly for the Weekly Standard asklies outside of northern and lives outside of northern virginia. His new book, the peace that almost was, was published in july of this this year. The book brings readers to the final days in d. C. When some of the most important men in the nation came together to try and prevent disaster and failed. Ple
But it hasnt been so. Our Founding Fathers understood that the executive branch was the branch most prone to war, and so with due deliberation our Founding Fathers took the power to declare war and they gave it to congress. Exclusively. President obamas new position as president , which differs from his position as candidate, is that hes fine to get some input when its convenient for us, maybe after the election. But hes not really interested enough to say that it would bind him or that he would say we need attacks now and come to us tomorrow and ask permission. He thinks whenever its convenient and you guys get around to it. Secretary kerry stated this explicitly that his understanding of the constitution is that no congressional authorization is necessary. I say why even bother coming back in december . They kind of like it, they like the show of it. They understand it might have some practical benefit but its theater and show. If youre going to commit war without permission, its the
Advantages to being here in the 10 00 p. M. Time slot. One, i get to follow the greatest star in cable news, rachel maddow. Hands me this giant audience. Dont blush. Number two, i get an extra hour, one more hour than you do to sit here and try to figure out what they mean when they say things like iran is on notice. Yes. And ive used the whole hour, rachel. I got nothing. We need them to know that were not going to not act. Well, were going you its stunning to me. I dont know. Its just iran. I dont know. Thank you, rachel. We are watching another night of protests, including antitrump protests at the university of california at berkeley over a speech by a protrump editor of Breitbart News that speech was canceled. Thats video that youre seeing from an hour ago. The situation there now does seem to be under control. And we have breaking leak news tonight from the white house. This white house is leaking more than any other white house that is less than two weeks old. And these leaks ar
One, i get to follow the greatest star in cable news, rachel maddow. Hands me this giant audience. Dont blush. Number two, i get an extra hour, one more hour than you do to sit here and try to figure out what they mean when they say things like iran is on notice. Yes. And ive used the whole hour, rachel. I got nothing. We need them to know that were not going to not act. Well, were going you its stunning to me. I dont know. Its just iran. I dont know. Thank you, rachel. We are watching another night of protests, including antitrump protests at the university of california at berkeley over a speech by a protrump editor of Breitbart News that speech was canceled. Thats video that youre seeing from an hour ago. The situation there now does seem to be under control. And we have breaking leak news tonight from the white house. This white house is leaking more than any other white house that is less than two weeks old. And these leaks are astounding. A president threatening to march troops i