The main way they do so is to sell off the Tank Division and plowing that money back into the company. Author and university of dayton profession will take your calls, emails, facebook posts, and tweets on the Founding Fathers and other key events in american history. Indepth live sunday at noon eastern on book tv on cspan2. Next on booktv, aaron says since 9 11 the fbi has a network of over 15,000 informants of miss line up communities around the u. S. And argues the informants spearhead phony terror plots which are exposed by the fbi to ensure the bureau looks like they do a good job of keeping us safe. Hes joined by coeditor of the magazine. This is an hour 15. [applause] thank you, and thank you so much, all of you, for coming out on this night. Trevor and i spent a lot of time together working on this project, and its fantastic to see it come in full bloom. I assume youll walk out with a copy, but in case you have not fully digested it coming in, i want to draw trevor out on how i
All right. Everybody. Good morning, im thomas roberts. Topping our agenda. The power of the presidency versus the power of the nra. As the president is officially sworn in for his second term on sunday, his Unstoppable Campaign machine will relaunch with a new name, organizing for action and a new purpose. Selling his second term agenda. The president s new gun control plan, one of the most ambitious that the nation has seen in decades. And Vice President joe biden who will meet with the Connecticut Governor promised mayors across the country yesterday that the administration is in it to win it for this fight. Theres some who say the most powerful voice in this debate belongs to the gun lobbies and those who demand the stop to these common sense approaches to save lives. I think theyre wrong. High capacity magazines dont have a practical sporting purpose or hunting purpose. As one hunter told me. If youve got 12 rounds, youve got 12 rounds, it means youve already missed the deer 11 tim
We know exactly what happened afterwards. Heres what the time line looks like. The first hearing in the senate is expected to be held tomorrow. The full congress is not scheduled to return until next week. So far, the only consensus in congress is there is no consensus in congress. Im hoping by the time next week comes around and hopefully the president can make his case, that he will be able to get a majority of the house of representatives. I think its at least 50 50 whether the house will vote down involvement in the syrian war. I think the senate will rubber stamp what he wants but i think the house will be a much closer vote. With congress in a holding pattern, the Administration Says proof is building by the day that syrias bashar all ac assa used sarin gas against his own people. Nearly a third of that countrys population being displaced by the civil war. White house officials reportedly say theyre flooding the zone. The president has meetings today with republican senators grah
Care of a few lastminute things. Maybe run the dishwasher one last time. You take out the trash. You do all of these things in order to put your house in order before you leave. You do that so youre not faced with a big stinky mess when you get back home. Thats what people do when theyre heading out for vacation. Turns out, washington did the same thing. Now, contrary to what you may have heard, they actually did get some stuff accomplished before they skipped town today. We have a new u. S. Ambassador. A lot of people expected this to be a big hair are confirmation fight. But Samantha Power got 87 votes in the senate. There you go. Confirmed. The Senate Confirmed one of the top judicial nominees before leaving town. The Senate Unanimously confirmed raymond chen to sit is on the court of appeals for the federal circuit. That is a lot of stuff, including trademarks, patents and claims. The Senate Confirmed b. Todd jones. The First Permanent director in seven years. They said it couldnt
So again, his being here alone, of course there is intel that they will be sharing with the fbi and Community Leaders, but its also again a sense of inspiration for people who have been witnessing this turmoil here for the last 11 days. And before attorney general holder even touched down there, he held a call with civil rights leaders around the country and Valerie Jarrett was also on that call. Tell us what were they trying to accomplish . Monday before the president spoke, attorney general holder along with Valerie Jarrett, obama Senior Adviser of course, along with the head of the Civil Rights Division at doj had a Conference Call with civil rights leaders around the country. And they know there is a lot of concern about the issue. And they had two messages. The first one was they talked a lot about president obama is very involved, hes being briefed constantly about this. The secretary thing holder said, he said it three different times, were having a separate independent investig