Cliche of a everything wrong that can happen to somebody. Eventually i asked her what i asked everyone i photographed. How do you what me to describe you . She shot back with Something Like it is what i am. A prostitute, and a child of god. Sunday on q a. Lori robinsoneral was the first woman in u. S. History deleting combat command. She discusses defense policy and international security. She spoke at the brookings institution. Michael welcome on to brookings. I have the honor and pleasure of welcoming general Lori Robinson. Im glad youre here to join us. She was a Lieutenant Colonel when she first came to brookings in 2001 and we spent a year with hurt and her midcareer military education. Its an education for us at brookings. It created a friendship and a fan club at brookings that continued over the years. You know her story and will talk about her story before we get into some of her observations on Strategic Issues before the country, and that have time for your thoughts and ques
Constitutional system, madam speaker, defended by our men and women in uniform, it is safeguarded that freedom for 230 years. Each one of us in this chamber bears a sacred duty, passed down to us through generations and affirmed in our oath of office to preserve and protect oui of office to preserve and protect our constitution. Madam speaker, our nations frame is recognised this republic is fragile and that extreme partisanship can be among the most severe threats to its survival. That is why in federalist 65, Alexander Hamilton road, quote, there will a lwa ys hamilton road, quote, there will always be the greatest danger that impeachment, the impeachment decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties than by real demonstrations of innocence or guilt. Here, madam speaker, our democratic colleagues have been working to remove this president since the day he was elected. Searching for an offence on which they could impeach. Failing to find one, madam speaker, th
Will come back to the auditorium. Both those president here and watching at home. I am again senior fellow, burried pleased to welcome you to the second panelist of the 2019 Institute Surveillance conference. This continues the theme, focusing on oversight. With respect to two controversial programs. Surveillance on section seven oh two of Foreign Policy and a provision of section 215 that provides for a burried large scale automated collection of phone records. Both of these programs have had some serious complaints. That come to live over the past year. And so we thought it useful to examine how those arose, what the nature of the problems of the discovery is and how the Intelligence Community is responding to them and whether the response is adequate. So the discussion will be headed up by prizewinning port reporter, Charlie Savage. His book power wars is probably the best portrait of nast National Security policy making. In a president ial ministration. I will pass you on to Charli
Lets kick it off with blake. On the eve of the impending vote in the house of representatives likely tomorrow night President Trump has just sent this fivepage scathing letter to the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. The president saying he is doing so to put the words on paper, quote, for the purpose of history. The president writing at one point, saying, of democrats, quote, you are the ones interfering in americas elections. You are the ones subverting americas democracy. You are the ones obstructing justice. He also writes of pelosi saying quote, even worse than offending the Founding Fathers you are offending americans of faith by continually saying i pray for the president when you know this statement is not true unless it is meant in a negative sense. Its a terrible thing you are doing but you will have to live with it, not i. That the president to the speak of the house. Speaking of the president , earlier today, here in the oval office he hosted his counterpart from guatemal
Good morning and welcome to the Cato Institute. My name is julian sanchez, im a senior fellow here and im grateful to everyone has come out bright and early to the auditorium at cato for our 2019 surveillance conference. Weve been doing this for some five years now. When we launched this in the aftermath of disclosures about both a fake election by former contractor snowden, the nsa itself was a fairly obscure agency unfan with most americans and as we kick off our 2019 conference, we find that now even intelligence oversight is itself very much in public headlines. We have an impeachment proceeding kicked off in significant part by reports from the from the Intelligence Communitys Inspector General. We have forth coming next week a breathlessly awaited report on allegations of misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act during the 2016 president ial campaign. We have proceedings aired, going to be from the house Intelligence Committee. So even intelligence overseers now are at