And im also helping out here with the lnp, kirby Junior Center for constitutional studies and citizenship, a topic which we will be talking about at length today in the book featured today, which Say Something about in a moment. Tim added, a detail of a teacher who is enthusiast mystically excited about having art. The odyssey from the teaching in her high school and i laughed because in the graduate School Government where we teach people on capitol hill who are involved in legislation in the executive branch this weekend literally kicked off a one credit on the odyssey and what you can learn about it for civilized so i sort of had an out loud cackle as im prepping for this talk and my i id also like to thank and welcome cspan listeners watchers and film for filming tonight. Cspan is going to be wisely i think televising this timely book this important book now tim goeglein is Vice President of external and Government Relations for focus the family. He has served as a specialist assis
don t. attorney general merrick garland facing the self righteous indignation of ted cruz and other republicans. new reporting tension between the fbi and justice department over the mar-a-lago raid. cpac is back, home of normal conservatives nothing more than a clown show. it does reflect the current state of the republican party. and from performative to alarming, republicans and ron desantis s florida are cracking down on lgbtq people and moving to cancel the entire democratic party. we begin tonight with a lingering question from the 2016 presidential election. what was going on inside the fbi? remember, just 11 days before the election, fbi director james comey announced that the agency was reopening its investigation into hillary clinton. effectively costing her the election. the motivation behind comey s move seemed to be coming from the fbi s new york field office, which, according to reuters, had a faction of investigators based in the office known to be host
College campuses. I will yield so he can say a word about the tragedy that occurred in texas. I thank you, mr. Chairman. Welcome. Let me just say briefly that before discussing the important topic of todays hearing on sunday a gunman shot and killed 26 church goers in texas. We now know that information concerning his courtmartial for Domestic Abuse should have been submitted by the air force to the instant criminal background check system. Should have been prevented from purchasing firearms from licensed gun dealers via the brady background check system. Yesterday before this information came to light, i wrote to you, mr. Chairman, requesting that the briefing planned for our members tomorrow afternoon by atf on the issue of bump stocks. Be expanded through the fbi to discuss the background check issues. Related to southern springs. And in that briefing be conducted as a formal hearing open to the public. Now tat we have even more information that theres been a break down in the imple
Please welcome back the president of christians united for israel action, gary bauer. [applause] i do get to introduce gary bauer to you. I am tamara scott. I get the honor of not only introducing gary but im working with him on christians united for israel. Just last tuesday when our secretary of state, thats right, our secretary of state put us in a very dangerous position, god already had 5,000 christians on capitol hill waiting to talk to their legislators, as if he had it planned. You could be part of the action fund as well. Please stop by the booth. We have a very special offer. If youd like to be part of next years summit in d. C. Only today, the money has to be turned in today, 25 registration. That is the cost of the first registration 10 years ago fortunes united for israel. So stop by. Get one of those, and give us your money. Join us next year on the hill when we stand up for israel. I get to introduce gary bauer. Somebody i have admired and known for several years watched
I was standing in the green room. I just wanted to go to the bathroom and took one step out and the guy who looked like he could play for the green bay packers, he said would you like to take a step back . I said, i would love to take a step back and i didnt have to go to the bathroom anymore, so all is well. All right, folks, listen, youre seeing the logos of all of our sponsors and wed like to give a special thanks to all of them to make it possible for the 12th annual summit. And hold applause until im out and well shout and tell appreciation. Frc action. American association action. American values, Family Research counsel, the Kennedy Center for christian statesmanship and first time sponsors association of mature citizens and Christian Health Care Ministry and pleased for our student sponsor, wesleyan, and fox radio. And Heritage Foundation and united in purpose and Washington Times and the official newspaper of the value voters summit and finally meese note that the plan has thi