Thats already entering territory that we should have some moral concerns about. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much for being here today. My name is candace. I work with some of the events here in the store, and on bea half of the owners and the rest of the staff, i want to welcome you to politics prose. If you wouldnt mind taking out your cell phones and making sure that they are on silent, we are recording this event this afternoon, and we also have cspan here with us today, so not having any interruptions would be great. Were going to have about an hourlong presentation here with half the time given to our authors presentation and the other half given to your questions. We have one microphone on the side here. If you wouldnt mind using that for your question, we can pick it up on the recording, and everyone will be able to hear you. And then finally, we typically ask that you fold up your
And the importance to unify as a country, to the use this example to use this example of dallas to really be that unifier. What do you expect to hear from ted cruz, from president obama who are both there today, george w. Bush . I expect to hear a lot of discussion about sort of our loftier goals and purpose as americans. And really the role that the police play in our daytoday lives, trish. You know, this is a very, very meaningful moment. I think its very impressive that we do have a showing of sort of across the board. Politics, i hope, is going to be checked at the door, and i expect it will be, and we can talk about what it means to be an american, what it means today, what unites us as americans. And i think the proper dignity for the people who put their lives on the line for us every day will be on display. Trish you know what . I think thats all what were really hoping for. Ellis, this president was supposed to be the great unifier. A lot of people look at what has happened to
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And the Obama Administration has given itself a substantive limit by saying although the president can use military force without congress, that force cannot announce whats been war. What a war versus use of military force is a very fuzzy definition. The bombing in libya was determined not to be a military force. Not enough to war. Without giving the president unchecked power to engage in military force. The president can act independently without congress up until it engages in a war theres a variety of other problems in that including the International Definition of war means essentially that would be every action almost no declared wars anymore. Thats one way in which the administration has tried to do the power it claimed for itself. I think the disagreements as to what constitutes a war, i think that there has been evolution in the Obama Administration towards a view of how war powers are allocated in the constitution. Even the current debate over isis, it sought congressional aut