It is an honor for me to join all of the distinguished lawyers in this room. Thank you for that introduction. I am the 85th attorney general. [laughter] attorney general barr chinese has come in handy because i find that when you read congressional enactments from right to left, they make a lot more sense. [laughter] [applause] attorney general barr it is an here this evening. And to deliver the 19th annual Barbara K Olson memorial lecture. I here this evening. Have had the privilege of being friends with ted since we first met in the reagan administration. Ted was head of the of his of legal counsel. Of the office of legal counsel. I miss barbaras in bullions d barbaras ebullience. I was trying to figure out what would be an appropriate speech to give here at the Federalist Society. I was having difficulty. I thought the notre dame speech had done so well. I was just going to deliver it again. [applause] but,ney general barr recognizing that this years annual convention is a ritualism
Responsibility and make more constructive official contribibo multilateral cooperation instead of adding negativity. Amy well have more on the United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement after headlines. In news from washington, democrats have begun to release transcripts of testimonies from the closeddoor impeachment inquiry into whether President Trump withheld military aide from ukraine to pressure the ukrainian president to investigate trumps political rival, joe biden, and his son. One of the released transcripts shows the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch, said she felt threatened by the president s words after she read a transcript of the july 25 phone call between trump and ukrainian president zelensky. Another topic to secretary of state mike pompeo my michael mckinley, testified he told pompeo three times they should make a Public Statement in support of yovanovitch. Contradicting pompeos claims in an abc news interview last month that he had never he
Amy President Trump is moving ahead with his pledge to withdraw from the landmark paris climate agreement. We will speak to 350. Org cofounder Bill Mckibben. Then we willll go to yale to spk to a student who is fighting to stop the deportation of his hundred mother. She is receiving stage four Cancer Treatment and is being held in a private detention jail in georgia. Plus, it is election day and much of the United States. We will look at a new york city Ballot Initiative that could change the way voters selectt their candidatates in future elections. It lets you choose whethero vote for one candidate like you always have work to rank your favorite. If your first choice does not win, your boat automatically goes to your second choice. The first candidate to get a majority wins. Amy rankeked Choice Voting. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace e report. Im amy goodman. The Trump Administration has formally notified the United Nation
To the bottom get of the campaign to deport critically ill children and their families. It appears this policy has thankfully been reversed after congress and the American People outcry at the cold inhumanity on display in this policy. I am going to treat this hearing is not only an honor of the memory of our late beloved chairman, elijah cummings, but as a hearing indirect pursuit of a policy directive that was close to his heart, the threatened deportation of Sick Children that his very last official act before his death was to issue subpoenas to hold the administration to account. On wednesday, in the waning hours of his life through all pain and difficulty, chairman cummings recognized the stain this policy would leave on our nation, and he made holding the government accountable his final official act. And we now have a sacred obligation to follow through on his subpoenas to make sure that we defend some of the most Vulnerable People on the planet, Sick Children who have come as s
school night here for this next hour. it is. we have andrew luck laurence tribe. and stanford historian jack rakoff, who is an expert on the impeachment clause. all of their previous statements about this case on this program, have been vindicated today, by the appeals court. and so, each guess will get a victory lap, that s how it s going to. work quite a ruling, quite vindication. i will be watching. thanks alex, thank you. will thanks alex, thank you. well donald trump has many bad days ahead of him, as criminal defendant trump. none will be more painful than the days he spends in winston daughters winston chutkan told the new york times that when he won a scholarship to go to high school in jamaica, quote, i wore shoes and experienced indoor plumbing for the first time in my life. winston chutkan worked very hard, did very well in high school. he went on to become an orthopedic surgeon, one of jamaica s most prominent physicians. when his daughter tany