Additional f is provided by. Corporate funding is provided by. Ken starr, welcome to firing line. Youve been involved in both impeachments in this countrys modern history. In the 1990s, you led the probe that investigated bill clinton and ultimately recomnded grounds for impeachmen most recently involvedo as defense counsel in president trumps impeachmentl. Tr true . [ chules ] true . True. True . I wou quibble a little bit with the description in the clinton impeachment because i was serving as independent counsel, so its such a different role. Do you think its fair to say that you were involved in the impeachment, though . I was involved in t impeachment, yeah. Okay. You got me. Great crossexamination. I want to make sure the introduction to the program is accurate. How is it you came to be involved as a defense attorney for president trumps impeachment . The president called me and asked me to be involved. And then i made it very clear that i could not walk away from my public comme
Good evening. My name is deirdre cross, director of the Public Programs at the national africanamerican s aim of history and culture and it is my pleasure to welcome all of you to this Wonderful Program and introduce these speakers in our discussion entitled historically speaking, Thurgood Marshall, a life and American History, evening with spencer crew and paul think of it. Paul finkelman. For those streaming the tag ision, our twitter historically speaking. We are also thrilled that this program will be broadcast through cspan book tv to be aired at a later date. Begin this compelling new biography, we are introduced to the constant battles for inequality faced by africanamericans through a study of Thurgood Marshalls extraordinary courage and his belief in the power of the law to change society. Thurgood marshall, a life in American History follows his career from his youth in baltimore, maryland, to his days. T Supreme Court justice his inspiring story illustrates how pervasive rac
On cspan leading to a senate trial. Live, unfiltered coverage on cspan. On demand at cspan. Org impeachment, and listen on the free cspan radio app. Joining us at the table, ofeel jaffer is the founder the National Security institute at George Mason Universitys law school, also Vice President of a firm called iron net cybersecurity. Good morning. Jaffer. We will get started talking about cybersecurity. Guest it was started by keith alexander. We do Cyber Defense, so we look behavioral threats on not just one company, but an ecosystem. Host lets talk about Cyber Defense. We saw the commentary piece you wrote, iranian Cyber Attacks are coming. Considering where we are in this situation, what are you expecting in the area of Cyber Attacks . A the it looks like escalatory de situation. We responded with the death of emstom soleimani qass soleimani and then they had a debate internally. How big do we go. My assessment was they would come back with a response, but it would not be so big as t
This process. If you would like to participate ifphone, call 202 7488000 you a democrat. Republican, call 202 7488001. If you are an independent, call 202 7488002. You can also post a comment cspanwj, that is our twitter handle. They ride to that the speaker said that she would move forward next week on sending the articles of impeachment to the senate, setting the stage for the trial of President Trump. Nancy pelosi withheld the articles for several weeks as democrats sought assurances that the senate trial would include testimony from witnesses blocked by the white house. Republican from kentucky made no such guarantees and said that he mcconnell made no such guarantees. He said he would dismiss the articles against President Trump if they were not sent over soon. A dismissal as a coverup and it deprives the American People truth,ruth, get the nancy pelosi wrote. There is a lot of reaction coming into this, including this story in the Washington Examiner blunder or brilliance is the
National Constitution Centers symposium on 100 years of Supreme Court clerkships. The symposium took place at the George Washington University Law school in washington, d. C. Celebrating the 100thans of the Supreme Court clerkships. Im jeffrey rosen, head of the National Constitution center in philadelphia and a law professor here at g. W. The National Constitution center is so honored to have con veed this Extraordinary Group of former Supreme Court clerks to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the federal statute creating the Supreme Court, clerkships, and we have just heard a wonderful panel about experiences during the clerkship and now we will hear one about life after the clerkship. And moderating this panel is joshua matt. Pub lusher of the take care blog, adjunct professor at georgetown. He is a very distinguished constitutional lawyer and author of important book on impeachment, we he came to the National Constitution center to discuss with riveting detail recently. He clerked