Cant be forced to testify before congress. Lets bring in attorney david rifkin, he served during the reagan and georg george h. W. Buh administrations. Welcome. Thank you for coming today. David, how strong is this president s case for saying that his aides dont have to testify because of this immunity . Very strong. It is a wellestablished immunity, paul, dates back to 1971, an opinion written by william republica renquist, been reaffirmed in nine administrations and both parties, fully case law. Ittheres a group of people tht see the president every day, he communicates with them, the 1971 opinion says the president is a coequal branch, he cannot command that members of congress appear before him. They cannot command he appears before them. I want to emphasize one more point. The reason the president has a strong position, theres another form of absolute immunity based upon 1989 opinion, he went on to be a chief judge in the fourth circuit. That stands for the proposition that Nation
Brett brennan thanks very much indeed great to get your thoughts there thanks for joining us there live from West Virginia to be with here. The iraqi Prime Minister is calling for calm after 3 days of government process and left at least 31 people dead 11 alone were killed on thursday as a day has asked for says says to raise their demands with his office so a resolution can be reached is also crack down on corruption sacking over a 1000 Government Employees well theres widespread anger against a lack of jobs per Public Services in iraq imran khan has the latest from baghdad. They defied the curfew imposed by iraqs Security Forces. And for not following soldiers orders bullets were fired at the. Anti government demonstrations in the capital baghdad for the past 3 days have also spread to other cities such as bus are necessary at an m r a as the violence escalated Security Forces blocked major roads and the internet is also blocked in most parts to sever social media i protest as are de
Bullets were fired at the. Government demonstrations in the capital baghdad for the past 3 days have also spread to other cities such as buster the city and amar as the violence escalated Security Forces blocked major roads i mean today it is also blocked in most parts to 7 social media. Protesters are demanding a change of government as well as more jobs less corruption and an end to religious discrimination you know i dont want evidence that has put the curfew we are going out to call for our rights we want to change the regime theyve arrested our people theyve done things to our people that they did not even do to die and they beat them up and humiliated them while firing live gunfire what did we do are we suicide bombers were here to call for our rights. Number of dead has risen steadily and over a 1000 have been injured since the defeat of eisel protesters say. Nothing has changed them despite the promises of politicians. What yellow even with the curfew i swear to god we will not
Iraq when we come back a difficult and dangerous business with the people making palestine its a battle to independence has killed thousands but now theres fresh hopes of ending the conflict in cameroon more that. Hello there still some very warm weather across the southeast and pin to the mid Atlantic States in United States we have got this a clear area here this is where the heat is in place and then this line of cloud is where weve got the dividing line between the much cooler air to the northwest and this warm moist air across much of the south as he had through friday the temperatures beginning to come down so washington d. C. 24 degrees 18 celsius in new york but atlanta 35 that is still more than 10 degrees above the average for this time of year cooling kansas city at 15 degrees and as well here weve got more snow to the rockies as we head through friday by saturday that clears it means fairly swiftly eastwards and then weve got some fairly heavy rain across the upper midwest
Values. I would like to welcome you to the first session of this series titled 100 years of democracy and Foreign Policy let me introduce the participants of the discussion addressing the changing world of democracy and american Foreign Policy over the past century. Neil ferguson, a senior fellow at the center for European Studies at harvard where he served for 14 years as a professor of history. Steven krasner, hes a chair and International Relations in stanfords Political Science department. From 2005 to 2007 he served under secretary of state Condoleezza Rice as a director of policy plan where he worked on foreign assistance reform and other projects. And lastly Condoleezza Rice. Shes the senior fellow on Public Policy at the hoover institution, a professor of Global Business in the graduate school of business, and a professor of Political Science at stanford. She served as the 66th secretary of state of the United States. She also served as president george w. Bushs assistant to Na