president s direct involvement? i would love the president s direct involvement and he has been directly involved. he s passed executive orders. the president is not a king. the president cannot just by fiat claim something to be the case. the system starts with congress to pass laws. the house of representatives has passed, in my time in congress, we have passed most of this major legislation. it goes to the senate to die like most things do but we re going to do it again. we re going to go and go back next week and we re going to pass it again because that s what the american people deserve and we re going to send it back over to the senate and people should vote and go back to their constituents and have to justify their vote and stand by their vote. we re going to make them vote. that s their job. we need to continue to push hard and have the american people m push with us to put pressure on those who are not willing to come to the table. do you think americans should
guns since i was 12 years old, and i became a army ranger and i am a gun owner now and never wwas was it an issue. ar-15 until last couple years when the gun lobby wanted to sell more gungs that s when it became part of the dialogue. we need to stop the insanity and get back to reasonable discussions how to save peoples lives. the president is leaving it up to you, the white house is staying out of the capital negotiations on guns, is this speech a sign that s going to change the president s involvement, would you welcome the president s direct involvement? i would love the president s involve. he has been directly involved. he s pass the executive orders. the president is not a king, he cannot just fiat claim something to be the case. we have a system and it starts with congress to pass laws, house of representative ins in my time in congress we ve passed most of the major legislation and goes to the senate to die like most things do but we re going to go back next week
supermarket in the middle of the black community here to saturdays ago and killed ten people and wounded others. at the services today, it was highlighted by the vice president of the united states kamala harris, journey to buffalo to attend the services. she said she didn t want to speak, she just wanted to sit in the services. she met with members of the other ten victims families and private and came down to the services. but being the eulogist, i broke pour a protocol and asked her to have some words anyways. because i felt it was important that this nation see and hear from her. i thought it was important since this was clearly a racial shooting, that young black women and men see the first woman vice president, first black woman vice president, speak from the heart. at the funeral of an 86 year old black woman, who lived through jim crow, to raise children, one became a fire commissioner here in buffalo. let me share with you some of with the vice president had to say.
Historians. Lets give him a big hand. [ applause ] id also like to recognize and thank three extraordinary Trustees Board chair, pam shafler and rick reese and susan danalo with us tonight. Give them a big hand as well. [ applause ] and we also want to thank our Chairmans Council and Frederick Douglas Council Members who are with us tonight for all their great work and support. One more hand. Thank you. So the program tonight will last an hour and include a question and answer session and q and a is conducted via note cards. You should have received a note card and pencil. If not the staff are walking up and down the aisle and have cards and pencils to hand out. Let them know and later on in the program we will be answering collecting the cards and answering your questions. We are thrilled to welcome Randall Kennedy back to the New York Historical society. Hes the Michael R Klein professor at Harvard Law School where he teaches courses on contracts and criminal law and regulation of Ra
Hes the author of the forthcoming book. The New York Historical society hosted this hour long event. Good evening. Im dale gregory. Vice president for Public Programs and im thrilled to welcome you to our spectacular Robert H Smith auditorium. Tonights program, the First Amendment, the constitution on campus is part the bernard and schwartz distinguished Speaker Series which is the heart of the Public Programs. I would like to thank mr. Schwartz for his support to invite so many authors and historians. Lets give him a big hand. [ applause ] id also like to recognize and thank three extraordinary Trustees Board chair, pam shafler and rick reese and susan danalo with us tonight. Give them a big hand as well. [ applause ] and we also want to thank our Chairmans Council and Frederick Douglas Council Members who are with us tonight for all their great work and support. One more hand. Thank you. So the program tonight will last an hour and include a question and answer session and q and a is