Site. Your thoughts are important to us so please take a couple of minutes to fill one out and submit it to the festival committee. Mr. Mccutcheon and mr. Mark will be signing books immediately after this presentation, copies are also available at the politics and prose tent at the festival here. A quick word about buying books. Even though this is a free event and we want to keep it that way it does help the book festival if you buy a book here. The more books we sell for our events the more publishers will want to send their authors to speak with us, and purchasing books from politics and prose benefits the local economy, supports jobs and the book festival. So if you enjoy the program and youre in the position to do so, please purchase a book. Mr. Mccutcheon is the coauthor of the 2012 and 2014 editions of National Journals almanac of american politics and was coeditor of Congressional Quarterlys politics in america 2010. Mr. Mark is a former Senior Editor at politico and political
President who made the last appointment. That really touched me because i believe that when a president makes an appointment, the whole Political Landscape of the court changes. He is going to pick someone that shares similar viewpoints. Another thing that he said was that justice is relative. He said his job is not to define justice, that is our representatives jobs, and ultimately, our job. Because we elect the representatives. That was my high point. We are going to get some more involved in this. One of the things about the media, and i am sure you have observed this, the media sets the agenda. You tune on your television, you watch television and watched the news cast and the media tells you what is the most important thing. This morning, we are going to turn it on you and im going to pick somebody and ask you to tell us what you want to hear from this group so you can set the agenda. Somebody in the room that wants to set the agenda of this discussion, put your hand up. [laughter
Youth program. Students come together to experience leadership in this nations capital. What did you want to add . It is sponsored by the hearst foundation. Two delegates from each state are chosen to represent the states at the capital. Over 5000 alumni are in this country and they have become stars in law, politics. I am from maryland. What was the high point of the week for you . Seeing the president of the United States yesterday. To see him as an individual and a person was an incredible experience and just being in the room with the president was surreal. What is the first thing you thought of that you did not know you are about to think of when you saw this man standing in front of you . I was telling myself to keep my composure and keep it cool. Seeing him approach on the red carpet in the white house was so surreal and i started tearing up. It was actually quite embarrassing. Just being able to experience Something Like that that so many youth across the country are not able t
Students come together to experience leadership in this nations capital. What did you want to add . It is sponsored by the hearst foundation. Two delegates from each state are chosen to represent the states at the capital. Over 5000 alumni are in this country and they have become law, politics. I am from maryland. What was the high point of the week for you . Seeing the president of the United States yesterday. To see him as an individual and a person was an incredible experience and just being in the room with the president was surreal. What is the first thing you thought of that you did not know you are about to think of when you saw this man standing in front of you . I was telling myself to keep my composure and keep it cool. Seeing him approach on the red carpet in the white house was so surreal and i started tearing up. It was actually white embarrassing. Just being able to experience Something Like that that so many youth across the country are not able to experience is so uniqu
What it means about how they see the race. What it means about how they see the race is they do not have their base locked up. Thats an interesting point. This wasnt targeted toward people who arent already trump fans. Its just to please people who already like trump . I think this and, listen, they may evolve. The week may, brian, as weve grown accustomed to doing, we may there may be adjustments. Mystery baskets. But tonight was about the charming older cuban gentleman, i mean hes there, and its almost like a Republican Convention in the 80s, right . I mean if you dont have that generations cuban vote in florida locked up today, youre worried about florida. Good point. And the older cuban vote. Your Convention Program reveals where you think the race is today, and where i saw them feeling like the race is, is that they dont have the trump 2016 coalition locked up yet. Can i just say the one thing, brian, in that speech that youre talking about, that very emotional speech from the cub