Good evening. Welcome. Happy fat tuesday. Thank you all for spending your tuesday with us. Im joe, the executive director. The institute here has been hert over three years now. Ross has been an important member of the institute. Since our founding, hes been our media fellow and hes helped coordinate some of ourur events some more contentiouste event hs been involved in. We are super pleased ross is joining us today. The release of his latest book. All of you know ross is one of the most important commentators on American Culture today, he writes for the New York Times opinion page, hes written more than a few books at this time. They seem to all, at least a couple of them have the title how we became something. Ow you may want to steer clear of that were explained sometime. Anyway, the format is going to be i will engage ross in the conversation about the r book. I had the pleasure of reading it, it is an interesting book. Its not thest typical conservative the ring on the way things
The week lawmakers are excited to start the week with 2020 federal spending bills. Focus will be in a culture, commerce and interior environment and transportation hud department. First vote at 5 30 pm eastern eastern. Not to live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, in spite of our d shortcomings, you have shortcomings, you have promised never to forsake us. In this decisive season of our nations history, grant our lawmakers wisdom and courage. May they remember that history is a fateful stenographer that will judge their words and deeds in the shining light of truth. Lord, provide our senators with the grace to glorify you as they remember you have appointed them for this moment in time. And, lord, we thank you for the courage and professionalism of the men and women in our nations military. We also thank you for the life and
Here is the problem; they dont know where to begin. If they did lying ted. Lying ted. Liar. He comes up did you ever see a guy like this . Ben carson, who endorsed me is a great guy, and lying head, he said ben has left the race. This was on election day. It is not like two days before or after. It is during the election he left the race. People believed him. And thousands of votes were cast not for ben but for ted cruz. It is pure deception and it is lying. There are many other things. During the debates, marco rubio looked over and said you are a liar and i said i never heard an another politician call him a liar so we call him lyn ted. I have met a lot of tough people but never anybody who lies as much as him. I have the tremendous evangelical support and such incredible support. He thought he was going to get the evangelicals but they dont like liars. He walks up and walks in with the bible held high. Held high and then he starts to lie. He is bad. So anyway, i dont think that you
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Slipping, he dismissed it as bias. Im leading in virtd allly every state. Im leading in iowa although Des Moines Register does the poll and im sure that will be negative. Reporter that poll was conducted by one of the states most respected and accurate pollster, it has ted cruz surging. Senator cruz has spent months courting the voters with whom he is now leading. Evangelicals and tea party conservatives. Hes capturing supporters fleeing ben carson who has faltered with the increased focus on national security. You look at the which hes dealt with the senate where he goases in there like a you know, frankly like a little of a maniac. Reporter in the fox news interview the billionaire frontrunner says cruz doesnt have the right temperment to be president. But the poll of Iowa Republicans has the texas senator leading on that quality. On sunday trump enthusiasticically tweeted out a Different National poll showing him with a new high. Cruzs five points behind in second place. Marco rubio