Professor watching the debate with us and well join us live in a few minutes to breakdown the big take aways from tonights debate. The debate lasted for three hours. If you didnt watch it all, well get you caught up. Here are the highlights in under two minutes. Reporter in the third democratic debate, one after another, the top contenders on the stage open the debate with a common message, their mission to defeat donald trump. What unites us up here, the ten of us is much stronger than what divides us. Reporter but the unified front quickly dismantled after the conversation shifted to health care. Former Vice President joe biden going headtohead with Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders over their support for medicare for all. 160 Million People that like their health care now can keep it. I never met anybody who likes their health care insurance. Reporter chiming into the debate taking aim at sanders. While bernie wrote the bill, i read the bill. Reporter and in the harshest
And independents, 2027488002. You can tweet us your thoughts at cspanwj and post on our Facebook Page. That is at facebook. Com cspan. Joining us on the phone to explain this proposal from the Trump Administration is anna, she covers Homeland Security issues for the publication. A morning to you. Guest good morning, pedro. Host could this could you explain this proposal and how it changes from the current policy . 2015, a judge of the Central District of california ruled in a settlement that children in i. C. E. Custody and any person with that child could not be held in custody more than 20 days. This is under the Obama Administration and at the time, you have families going through dockets seeking asylum being held 45 days, sometimes 90 days. The issue at hand was you cannot just indefinitely detain a family. Now what we have is any family weather they present at a port and does not have documents or illegally crosses and says i have a credible fear of returning will be taken into cu
Nfib is unique. We represent the little guy. Small businesses and independent Business Owners. Our average member has five to 10 employees. They are very small. They are in all industries and all over america. One of the key things about nfib is you have to be an independent business owner. We have no publicly traded companies at all. We are truly a memberdriven organization. We were created 75 years ago under the principle and the guiding the guide of one member, one vote, and we follow that today. Members every year vote their ballot at the federal and state level and they set policy for nfib. We dont sit in a room in d. C. And decide what is good for Small Business. They tell us and we take that to the state capitals and the hill 50 to lobby on their behalf. Pedro when it comes to going to the hill what is the main , message you delivered at the white house if you have that kind of relationship . Brad one things most policymakers dont understand is that Small Business makes up half
Historians talk about religious influence on u. S. Politics and Foreign Policy in the 20th century, and address the question of why this is not a highly studied topic. This was part of a two Day Conference called remaking american political history. Thank you all for coming. I will be chairing this roundtable today. I will give you a brief overview of what were going to talk group,nd introduce our and then we will get started. 15 years ago [inaudible] oh, there we go. Thank you. There is a switch on the mic. 15 years ago, in a journal of American History article, john butler challenged historians of modern america to Pay Attention to religion. In particular, he noted, religion of the continuing importance in 20th century american politics deserves sustained attention and analysis. Of american religious history have proliferated over the past 15 years, yet in political history, religion has often retained a jackinthebox surprising,olorful, anomalous, idiosyncratic, but left on the perip
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