Thank you, emily, and good evening. It is a great pleasure to introduce William Seale. I have known william for a very long time because he married my good friend and college classmate, lucinda smith. I married a brilliant historian, and so did she. [laughter] William Seale is a charming and witty texas gentleman whose interest in history and buildings has fueled a long career in both. He is a native of beaumont, texas, holds a ba from southwestern university, an ma and a ph. D. From duke. He left texas in 1969 and spent two years in columbia, south carolina, restoring the home of wade hampton. He then came to washington in 1972 to write a history of state capitols with Henry Russell hitchcock. He, lucinda and their two sons settled in lucindas native alexandria. At this point in his career, he focused on two things; Historic Restoration and writing. His twovolume history of the white house was published by the White House Historical society in 1986 with the second edition in 1996. He
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You have proposed six constitutional amendments on topics ranging from Campaign Finance and sovereign immunity and political gerrymandering to gun control and the Death Penalty and the anticommandeering principle. All of these are cases where the Supreme Court ruled differently and you dissented in many of these cases. Tell me why he decided to write a book and why he decided to propose the six constitutional amendments . Guest well its sort of a project that just kind of grew to tell you the truth. The immediate cause was the killing of the schoolchildren in connecticut and the New York Times story about the fact that the anticommandeering rule places an obstacle in the way of the governments total information on background checks to precede the purchase of guns. I had not actually realize before i read that New York Times story that rule does in fact increase the likelihood that a person wont be eligible who would be allowed to purchase guns who shouldnt. That did not cause that part
All of these are cases where the ruled differently, and you dissented in many of these cases. Tell me why you decided to writh the book and why you decided to propose these six constitutionai amendments. Ing with el,itu its sort. Proj guest well, its sort of att project that just kind of grew, to tell you the truth. The immediate cause was the killing of the school childrenii in connecticut. And the New York Times story about the fact that the anticommandeering rule places an obstacle in the way of the governments getting total to precede the purchase of guns. I had not actually realize before i read that New York Times story that rule does in fact increase the likelihood that a person wont be eligible who would be allowed to purchase guns who shouldnt. That did not cause that particular tragedy but it likely may have been a cause of the similar tragedy. Host this anticommandeering rule which is your First Amendment and i have dogeared all of them. With these hightech pieces of paper.
Hearing this from the president s own former expert in the field. Some of you on this committee appear to believe that russia and its Security Services does not conduct a campaign against our country and that perhaps somehow for some reason ukraine did. This is a fictional narrative perpetrated and propagated by the russian Security Services themselves. Well talk about that tonight. And lisa page breaking her silence. Talking about being accused of treason by the leader of the free world. And if that werent enough or because it is too much the ridiculist comes back. And once again now hiding behind a stonewall, the white House Counsel late yesterday in a letter to chairman jerry nadler called his Committee Proceedings baseless and highly partisan and saying accordingly under the current circumstances we do not intend to participate in your wednesday hearing. The letter holds open the possibility of participation in future hearings but to be real, weve heard that song before. Whether it