Good evening everybody. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Im yuval levin, director of constitutional studies at ai and it is my great pleasure to commute to a discussion of the land of hope, the new one volume history of our country by the Great American story and Wilfrid Mcclay area is a book that comes a time when questions of who we are as a people, whether we can have a unifying rather than a divisive story and of how to tell the story of our country in a way that neither some shorts our National Greatness north white washes our national sins, are really live questions in our politics and what may be on unusual way and this book is clearly intended to speak to just that moment though there could be a better time to hear from bill about his sense of howto approach these questions. Bill mcclay is a national treasure. Pure and simple. He is first and foremost a teacher. Behold the blankenship care and history of liberty at the history of oklahoma. He has admired and bowl o
An independent voice and is someone willing to strike out on issues that may be other opinions are not willing to strike out on. Guest sometimes i think im a lonely voice. If you believe in balanced budget or believe we should spend less or have a limited Constitutional Government really controversial things like that, limited Constitutional Government, unfortunately we never get the other side but then we lose a lot on our side that are better at it. That is one of my frustrations and i tried very hard to have the same opinion whether republican or democrat president that that constitution was specific. Spending power was ours. Things we should keep our hands on and the power to declare war is ours and i think we too easily give that up in one interesting thing that i found can appear is that democrats are better when its a revolving in president and democrats but when the parties are the same they tend to acquiesce a little bit on the idea of separation of powers. Host in this book y
People think this is a perfectly. Good morning. Thank you. North korea and south Korea Holding their First Official talks to us the negotiations are taking place in the Demilitarized Zone between the two countries and heres what proceeded the negotiations. So the reopening of a cross border telephone line the following day agreed to. Hold until next months Winter Olympics in south korea. In the studio as far as the talks on what is being discussed when its all happening. Secretive atmosphere there and you know just to give you an idea this is all happening happening in a village along the most militarized border in the world the most heavily mined border in the world so theres some tension some tension present nevertheless they have agreed on some things and were getting bits and pieces from south korean press for example the North Koreans have agreed to send a high profile delegation to the winter Olympic Games there is still a geisha include sporting figures as well as performers for
Almost. About four hours residents in that area before did hearing loud explosions there was the use of having small weapons so the fact that these militant groups cant really strike while in targeting these key military institutions as well as. Security areas in kabul remains a serious source of concern for People Living here in kabul todays attack. Didley one for the Afghan National Security Forces remember they were killed not on the front line somewhere in some of the more districts or in the province where this is every day of fighting i think that alone tells you that cities including kabul is becoming another. Front in the Afghan Government just continues to struggle to prevent these militants from carrying out these attacks. The country has been suffering from a spike of terror lately with three major incidents in just the past week. Saturdays attack in kabul was widely condemned and donald trump has reacted by saying that the u. S. Is committed to a secure afghanistan that is
Plenty of time on his hands to entertain visiting friends and supporters. Thank. You. A new and tea party is about to be launched in the u. K. With support from across the channel french m. P. s belonging to emanuel on the march movement not only back to the idea but have reportedly been giving advice to the founders of the new British Party. Picks up the story. This is really a brand new Political Party thats about to launch in the k. Its goals are quite ambitious pledging to transform british politics and reverse brigs it it wants a second referendum on it i think theres no chance of braggs it being reversed the british people have spoken and thats an end of the matter they can bash their head against a brick wall although get is a sore head for the party is launching in the u. K. Its getting advice for of course they can all hear it from the helping hand coming from a manual Michaels Party the republic of march with advisers said to be at a recent meeting consulting about tactics an