To extend a special welcome to mark green we are honored to have them here today and a very warm welcome to Madeleine Albright who is been a fierce champion of ours for years and many thanks to the National Endowment for democracy that makes todays event possible with your generous support and our good friends and partners in the george w. Bush institute. Its wonderful to have them cohost the event with us today. Thirtyfive years ago funded by congress nonpartisan National Institute dedicated to the notion that peace is practical and possible. We firmly believe todays challenges require partnership across the aisle. Last Year Congress asked to host a bipartisan congressionally mandated with the request to a comprehensive plan in the worlds most fragile state. The principle of recommendation is the us should adopt a policy of prevention with a strong focus on government so passing the global fragility act to take those Task Force Recommendations to create a binding commitment to a longt
For more of the schedule go to booktv. Org. D. C. Circuit court judge Brett Kavanaugh spoke recently the Heritage Foundation about the judiciaries role in maintaining the constitutional separation of powers. Hes introduced by former attorney general ed meese. This is one hour. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation center for legal and judicial studies and to our tenth annual joseph story distinguished lecture. As you might imagine the namesake of our lecture is that eminent jurist, joseph story he was remarkable patriot who carried out the founders vision of a constitutional republic. Before joining the spring for it quite a career of his own. He was a congressman. He was a state legislator. He was the speaker of the massachusetts house of representatives, and he was also even while he was on the Supreme Court a professor at the harvard law school. Interestingly enough he was also noted as one of the most successful authors of the first half of the 19t
Acknowledged the complexities of government. We all learned a lot. We learned about loyalty. We learned about the vote getting processed. We learned a lot about some very archaic rules in the senate and in the house. So it has been certainly for me a very interesting experience. The Health Care Measure faced growing objections from conservative republicans and house members. A tough last for the president that has labeled himself a deal maker. Joe tell us what led to the failure and what comes next. We came really close today. But we came up short. House Speaker Paul Ryan just moments before the American Health care act was up for the vote stunning the political world by pulling it at the request of President Trump. We had no votes from the democrats. Negotiations between gop leaders and both conservative and moderate republicans continued to the 11th hour and beyond. Vice president mike pence canceling a preplanned trip instead racing to the capital to persuade his side to push the bi
1600 pennsylvania avenue. The powerful wisconsin congressman and the architect to repeal and replace obama care in a final Oval Office Meeting with President Trump. The most troubling the worse is yet to come with obama care. I have been saying for the last yearandahalf, that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let obama care explode and it is exploding right now. Democrats publicly pulling for the bill and in the end getting their wish. Today is a great day is a victory. It is a victory for the american people. White House Press Secretary sean spicer telling reporters today no matter the outcome, the president left everything on the field. In washington joe walman. Fox news. Bay area congressman eric swizel had more to say. What we have heard is that young people were going to suffer tremendously under this with the surcharges in having a lapse in coverage and this economy so unstable to have 30 surcharge over their head creates so much financial distress for them. And Hi
Todays rain for a slow commute. Here is a look at the dry. The red is the slow spots and the bay bridge not so bad but 80 is bad and 880 is bad and we got 580 in livermore and 680 is is in fremont. In berkeley the slow traffic and the commute on the right. Aquatic park in berkeley on the righthand population of the screen and it is slow going as it usually is. Highway 101 in San Francisco and it is jammed up getting onto the bridge and once on the bridge the traffic is moving okay. The commute for drivers. In 15 minutes we will have more on the conditions and a lot of action as kids are heading out there for the weekend. You can download the weather app and we are posting updates on facebook and twitter and instagram. Now to a day of high drama on capitol hill where Republican Leaders in the house pulled their Health Care Bill minutes before a scheduled vote. Republicans were split and it had to go down. President trump blamed democrats united in their opposition. When they get togethe