11 pages of prepared statements in his testimony delivered today. What it weaker about did we hear about today . What new do we learn from the statement . Kevin c. we learned from the 11 page statement that there were four previously undisclosed meetings with russian officials that he has since now this over the weekend on friday, he has added to the Financial Disclosure forms that he has put forth to his additional forms that he needs in order to get that National Security clearance. He just walked out of the Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing room where i just was. He seemed upbeat. He was smiling and waving to reporters. At one point, he was interjected by a protester. He just kept moving. We are awaiting comment from Jared Kushners, the president s soninlaw, at the white house where he will speak at what im told is 1 15 p. M. This afternoon. There pushing back in pushing back hard. The president tweeting earlier today that he is pressuring what he described as his beleaguered at
We have three states that will be a little tough for us, that is west virginia, montana, and south dakota. Im sure we will talk about south dakota. But we have strong incumbents in the red states. We have two more tossups, iowa and colorado. Our candidates are running very strong but they are very tough. If you talk to anybody on both sides of the aisle, as he races tighter and tighter, the maps become narrower. What gives you the confidence if you look at all the , all sayaround town that the republicans are favored. Youre going to have to run the table in places like North Carolina, iowa, colorado. Where is your confidence coming from . Out of those six races, they have to pick up four of them. Races, the at the ,emographics, kay hagan somebody who, 18 months ago they said there was no chance she would be winning. Here she has, to five days out, and she has a small but steady lead. Phenomenalve a infrastructure. If you look at the early vote numbers, absentee vote numbers, those are
The National Federation of independent business when they challenged the Affordable Care act all the way up to the Supreme Court. Host given all that experience, professor barnett, what do you think of the constitution . Guest like the constitutional law. I like it more than those who want to change it by creating interpretations of what is supposed to mean by eliminating large parts of the constitution. Host heres your book, by the way, restoring the lost consultation the presumption of liberty. When we had that argument between a living document in a strict constructionist argument, looking at the constitution, is that a fair argument . Guest i wouldnt put it quite that way. I want to follow the constitution and thats what keeps it alive. As firstrate construction, it was justice goalie when he says he went to correctly construe it. Neither strictly and are liberally, but accurately thats the thing we have to aim for. Host the subtitle of your book is the presumption of liberty. Gues
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I think he makes a very good point, but this is not iraq or afghanistan. The antiinterventionist tendency as a result of our problem deployments in afghanistan and iraq. What were doing in ukraine is a little bit more active, little bit more intelligent a little more active. Host possible sanctions . Guest that is diplomacy. It does not cost anything to issue sanctions. Sanctions talk is having an impact. A positive impact. Host who does it impact and who does the cost . Guest it costs those that are causing and promoting violence in the ukraine. Host what about the people of the ukraine . Guest that is the beauty of the sanctions. We put the sanctions on iraq all the sanctions on iran. Sanctions against a few oligarchs does not hit the people of ukraine. They pay no cost for it. If it leads to better policies, that is their benefit. Host ukraine Opposition Leader urges demonstrators for truce as protesters seize government building in kiev. Guest that sounds like it is the right thing