That is allowed to speak by radio which theyre not previously that is in such a big deal but that alone makes accidents less likely everybody is on the radio practicing mandarin and english and look much less likely to shoot. I agree we need more and more. With the board of directors. With the chinese building and does a dynamic involvement and infrastructure to see where we are committed to benefit south india and asia. India is ambivalent about the initiative for similar reasons that america is ambivalent. From chinas perspective that makes perfect sense that you move to bring that material you need other ways. They need infrastructure investment. To make the asphalt smoother and the rails pastor and that benefits all of us. Because the big first deal under one belt one road was the announced 46 billion of infrastructure to pakistan it is not clear fall that is invested and they are asking that chinese and some of that is happening but and croats increasingly talking about investment
Good afternoon. I am the director of the cato center for constitutional studies and your host for todays forum marking the publication of a new book by professor david bernstein, lawless the Obama Administrations unprecedented assault on the constitution and rule of law. This book and forum could not be more timely. Just yesterday we witnessed the president telling the nation that he was directing officials in his administration to expand the regulation of the Second Amendment rights in several ways including by expanding the definition of what it means to be in the business of selling firearms. The repeated usurpations from a long list of domestic and Foreign Policy disasters, but they have also served to direct our attention to the constitution. The separation of powers will be our focus today as we canvas the many constitutional assaults of the past seven years. Professor bernstein will speak for about 30 minutes and then we will here opposing commentaries the book and opened upopen
[applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon and welcome to the kid institute. Let me also welcome our cspan audience. Im roger pilon, the director of the Kansas Center for constitutional studies and your host for todays Forum Working the publication of a new book by professor David Bernstein, lawless the Obama Administrations unprecedented assault on the constitution and the rule of law. This book in this form could not be more timely. This yesterday as we all know we witness the president said he was directing officials in his administration to expand the regulation of the Second Amendment rights of americans in several ways these repeated usurpations have served to divert attention from a long list of domestic and Foreign Policy disasters, but theyve also serve fortunately to direct our attention to the constitution into what are its bedrock principles, separation of powers. That will be our focus today as we canvassed the many constitutional assault
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