With that ill turn it over to secretary acosta. Thank you and good afternoon it is a pleasure to be here to update President Trump on the optimistic outlook ons the American Work force today we specifically discussed our process to implement executive work on apprenticeship and it is jobs, more jobs and even more jobs and department of labor implementing vision to ensure that americans have the skills that they need to fill good safe, jobs. There are 6. 2 million job openings here nationwide. This is the highest number on record. Yet 7 million americans are looking for jobs. Americans want to work american companyiesment to hire. We needs to close skill gap between those skills that are demanded by the work force and those skills that are offered by the american people. This is why the president signed this executive order to extend apprenticeship to all sector of our economy. Because of the command driven education man enthusiastically received, by private industry, education institut
You usually do not speak back thank you for coming. Another of our speaker series. If i could ask you to silence your cell phone, turn off the cell phones, it is the politest thing to do. All the way off. Anyway, as a reminder we have dinner upstairs after for those that wish to stay. One of our prefix dinners. Thank you again. Tonight we are proud to have james zirin to speak with us. He is the author of two books. Mother court, gels an supremely partisan how raw politics tips the scales in the United States Supreme Court. As many of you know he is post of a Television Show in the metropolitan area and we usually have a range of personalities on his show. He is a leading litigator having served as an assistant United States attorney in the Southern District of new york and the Criminal Division under the former speaker robert [applause] thank you for the overly and excessively generous introduction. As you begin to describe my accomplishments i kept looking behind me to see who youre
Announcer washington joirnl continues. Host we are joined by james zirin the author of supremely partisan, how raw politics tips the scales in the u. S. Supreme court. He is here to discuss his book which argues that the Supreme Court has become increasingly partisan in the cases he says were politicized and threatened to undermine Public Confidence in the court. Thanks for joining us this morning. Guest im delighted to be here. Host so what inspired you to write this book . Guest i was a practicing lawyer. I of course followed the Supreme Court for many years. And i became alarmed in recent years reading the cases at the 54 decisions and the 63 decisions, which seemed to be decided along partisan lines. So that you had the liberal wing of the court, all justices appointed by democratic president s, and the conservative wing all appointed by republican president s. And they were taking political positions, which could easily be identified with the ideas of the respective parties that a
Controlled by republicans. Recent polls show that americans are growing tired of divided government which brings us to todays question for our viewers. Do you believe divided government can work . Those who prefer one party rule over both the executive and congressional branches can call 2027488001. Those who prefer a divided government can call 2027488000. And those who are undecided can call 2027488002. You can also reach us on social media on twitter and on acebook. Host americans are growing increasingly dissatisfied with the diving board divided government. It says one in five americans believe its best for the president to be in one political party. The lowest level of public support in gallups 15year trend. Host it says its showing that one Party Control is falling out of favor. This is likely because Many Americans have witnessed the government increasingly in gridlock believing that legislation will get passed only if there is one party in scroll that party pushes it through.
Trump as a practicing lawyer i followed the Supreme Court for many years and became alarmed in recent years reading the cases of the 54 decisions and the 63 decisions which seemed to be decided along partisan line so had the liberal wing of the court, all aopinioned by democratic president s and the conservative wing all appointed by republican president s, and they were taking political positions which could easily be identified with the ideas of the respective parties. Oducti about thing wed care bit. Excerp rights and preproductive rights. Lets look an an exert. You say the courts dramatic porlarization is a recipe for the undermining of our greatest institution and has not been fully appreciated by most otherwise well insured americans. What did you mean by that . Guest theres lessis confidence in the decision and to public at large doesntt accept their decisions and afte, all, the Supreme Court is alexander hamilton, doesnt have an army, doesnt have any money so its power comes fr