Bauer, who is my supremely wise, talented, and collegial codirector of the nyu law schools legislative and regulatory process clinic, i wanted to welcome you here today to the fourth year of the Sidley Austin forum. We are joined this year by another nyu law entity, the center on law and security, a nonpartisan, multidisciplinary institute. And the director, richard gold brenner who is here, has been invaluable in helping pull together the program for this afternoon. This forum would not be possible without the generous support of Sidley Austin, a Renowned International law firm. So it gives me great pleasure to introduce peter roskam him, who is a partner in their Chicago Office Company Knows a lot about what we are talking about today. He served his district in illinois in the u. S. House of representatives for six terms, from 20072019. And during that time he held a number of very significant positions. One of those most pertinent to what were talking about today is that he chaired
Cable Television Companies, and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Washington journal continues. Stern tells us to talk about his expense writing his book republican like me how i left the liberal bubble and learned to love the right, and you chatted with us in the fall about the time this book was being published. What the impetus was for writing this book you going out, a lifelong democrat, decided to live life as a republican. Guest like a lot of people, i have been concerned about the polarization in this country how much the left hates the right, how much the right hates the left, and i decided to do something about it. We are all increasing increasingly interacting with people that agree with us. The book is built around my journey. Understand to someone, you have to see things from his point of view. I spent a year traveling the country, talking to folks i would not ordinarily talk to, consuming media from what i thought was the other side, and the book
It is just under one hour. Washington journal continues. Stern tells us to talk about his expense writing his book republican like me how i left the liberal bubble and learned to love the right, and you chatted with us in the fall about the time this book was being published. What the impetus was for writing this book you going out, a lifelong democrat, decided to live life as a republican. Guest like a lot of people, i have been concerned about the polarization in this country how much the left hates the right, how much the right hates the left, and i decided to do something about it. We are all increasing increasingly interacting with people that agree with us. The book is built around my journey. Understand to someone, you have to see things from his point of view. I spent a year traveling the country, talking to folks i would not ordinarily talk to, consuming media from what i thought was the other side, and the book is about that journey. Host you changed your Party Registration w
Polarization in this country how much the left hates the right, how much the right hates the left, and i decided to do something about it. We are all increasing increasingly interacting with people that agree with us. The book is built around my journey. Understand to someone, you have to see things from his point of view. I spent a year traveling the country, talking to folks i would not ordinarily talk to, consuming media from what i thought was the other side, and the book is about that journey. Host you changed your Party Registration when you did that. Why . Guest if youre going to commit to seeing things from another point of view, you are going to commit. For me, then that changing my media mix, changing who i talked to, and it also meant being a republican for a year, and that meant walking down to the Voter Registration office in washington, d. C. , leading my 94 democratic ward, and registering for a year as a republican. Was one of the statements deep down i love suspected i
Us this morning is jon fortt and good morning to both of you. Regulators are ordering apple to pay back taxes to ireland. Lets get to Julia Charter will i in brussels with the latest. Julia . Thanks, kate. As you quite rightly said, apple has been ordered to pay over 14. 5 billion, the irony is ireland doesnt want the money as the irish finance minister, they say they believe apple owes nothing and they want to protect the relationship they have with Companies Like apple and other u. S. Firms apple has hate back, saying they ultimately believe this ruling will be overruled, but i think the statement cuts to a bigger issue, which is what does this mean for other companies trying to invest in europe . Their statement says it will have a profound and harmful effect on sleismt and job creation in europe and apple follows the law and pays all the of the taxes we owe wherever we operate. This is a point i think the competition commissioner made to me, that this is not really about the tax ra