Good evening. Welcome to mount vernon. My name is kevin butterfield, director of the fred w Swift National library. It is my pleasure to welcome you back here. And the Ford Motor Company each month sponsors a free book talk like this one. An opportunity for the community to come and learn from the greatest historians in the field. Thank you for being here tonight. We are thrilled to have you. We will hear a brief hesitation from susan swain, copresident and chief executive officer of cspan. She will be joined by brian lam, the founder and executive chairman of cspan and moderating an esteemed group of historians discussing the american presidency. The american presidency is, as you know, a fascinating subject of inquiry in every possible way. [laughter] in the constitution, there is not much said about it. Article one is quite long. Article two is quite shorter. As you can imagine, the executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States of america. Full stop. That is th
The schedule we are going to start on time. The new time. On behalf of myself and bob bauer who is my supremely wise, talented and collegial codirector of the nyu law schools legislative and regulatory process clinic i wanted to welcome you here today to the fourth o year of the for. We are joined this year by another nyu law entity, the reef center on law and security, a nonpartisan multidisciplinary institute and the director, rachel, who is here has been invaluable in helping pull together the program for this afternoon. This b forum would not be possie without the generous support of sibley austin, a Renowned International law firm and so it gives me great pleasure to introduce to you, peter who is a partner in the chicago office. He knows a lot about what we are talking about today. He served his district in illinois in the u. S. House of representatives for six terms, from 20072019. During that time he held a number of very significant positions. One of those most pertinent to wh
Been claiming for Services Rendered to the Port Authority which were not actually jews at all subsequently that very person was convicted of forging those documents and was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment he in fact absconded so isnt in prison and very recently in the last month came back to kuwait where the Kuwaiti Court even though he didnt been convicted have allowed him out on bail while his appeal against that is that the contrast to what happened to marsha couldnt be more stark somebody convicted and absconded marcia whos been under investigation this is been hanging over her head and since 2012 shes been actively pursued by the authorities since 2015 so much so that shes been on bail when she was on bail and her American Green card expired she wasnt able to go and go to the states because she only and the bail conditions are like there are accuser and yet she was then detained for 472 days since november 27th 17 until just this june while he has been treated completely differ
Is. In a sense this is bizarre why is this happening i havent even told you that the same time this you you mentioned about these the sky idea that she them bears old she actually bought of a Company Brought civil proceedings in the Kuwaiti Court saying this money is due in owing and the quaids the civil courts both at 1st instance and on appeal actually agreed and said yes this money is due and owing and should be paid thats part of the allegations against us and the right out if it doesnt know what the left hand is doing some people wages you think when you think about the Death Penalty which has just been reintroduced. What you expect them was justice from a middle east or talks in any way well 1st stock or wait whos just stepped out has as chair of the Security Council for this last month and who has signed all the un treaties particularly the basic rights of every. One should expect in relation to a fair trial should respect them secondly we have many many nonnationals in kuwait a
Actually agreed and said yes this money is due and owing and should be paid thats part of the allegations against us and the right out if it doesnt know what the left hand is doing some people may just say you think what you think about the Death Penalty which has just been reintroduced. What do you expect them was justice from a middle east or talk or see any way well 1st stop kuwait whos just stepped out has as chair of the Security Council for this last month and who has signed all the un treaties particularly the basic rights that everyone should expect in relation to a fair trial should respect them secondly we have many many nonnationals in kuwait and indeed in the gulf states generally who are coming there to do business acting and behaving lawfully they need to have to expect and have the confidence that the judicial system will treat them. Fairly and not arbitrarily as this is happened in this case there was a big conference here about our british investments and there was a g