presidential scandals. at the beginning i d like to thank purdue c-span who s filming this live? hi everyone. who s watching? hi, mom. and especially katherine brownell nicole emmer and leah wright gregor for this fantastic conference. i d like to also thank the three of them for inviting me for participate in this year s planning committee and for agree green to carve out a space to talk watergate and presidential scandals. my name is michael conswitz. i m a research scholar who works at the tenement library and robert f wagner lieber archives at nyu brief side note. i previously worked at the nixon library with my former boss tim. naftali and my first book they said no to nixon examine some of the stories of republicans who stood up to the 37th president within the administration. next week is the 50th anniversary of the watergate break-in. and it s been fascinating to watch. how recent books essays documentaries podcasts and films have framed the watergate saga to the amer
contemporary debates about energy politics and the transition away from fossil fuels depart from a basic assumption that congress makes the law and that energy producing communities must learn how to live with it. in this panel, we propose an alternative way of examining modern energy policy and politics in the united states. our research looks at appalachia not only as a key target of modern energy policy, but rather as a region whose politics broadly conceived have shaped the possibilities and priorities for energy politics on the national stage since the new deal. together these papers offer an appalachia out perspective on modern us energy policy emphasizing the region s importance while pushing back against simplistic regional portrayals that often circulate in national discourse and especially at election time. appalachia we argue has not just been a target for policy, but instead a wide range of actors from workers and ordinary residents to colberts to state party lead
There is a possibility they may see some opportunity for some immunity for some president ial decisions. If they decide it that way, it may have to go back down to the District Court which could cause further delay. I appreciate you not being sidetracked by somebody who apparently wants to scream louder than anybody else. Catherine, the lower courts have been unanimous that trump cannot claim immunity. Does that tell you something . I cant imagine theyre going to say a former president has absolute immunity for criminal acts. What will be a win for donald trump is if theyre saying were sending it back to judge chutkan to determine which, if any he would have immunity for and which he would not. Thats a win because that would delay the trial, which is already delayed. So what of course obviously jack smith and Special Counsel is hoping for, a majority of the court will just say, no, absolute immunity from Criminal Prosecution for a former president and clearly jack smith would say this
Noise and astound you. Government regulations cost this economy 1. 9 trillion a year. Put it in perspective thats about 50 of the tax revenue that the government takes in, thats 10 of our gdp. Do you know what donald trump has done . Cut those regulations by 32 . Hes a bigger cutter of regulations than Ronald Reagan was. If he goes down for one thing in his legacy, its cutting all of this government red tape. Its going to make the economy stronger. It may even be bigger than any tax cut we could all get. Dagen john i no one thing that the dow just among the market gauges is up about 25 this year and stocks were surging even before a tax bill was even really being talked about in washington and why is it . Its cutting all that red tape. Yeah, i agree with that and look, you had the Morgan Stanley plan index has the highest business that weve had since 2007 according to the latest survey because businesses are feeling more comfortable but gerri b. Has great numbers but you also look at r
Noise and astound you. Government regulations cost this economy 1. 9 trillion a year. Put it in perspective thats about 50 of the tax revenue that the government takes in, thats 10 of our gdp. Do you know what donald trump has done . Cut those regulations by 32 . Hes a bigger cutter of regulations than Ronald Reagan was. If he goes down for one thing in his legacy, its cutting all of this government red tape. Its going to make the economy stronger. It may even be bigger than any tax cut we could all get. Dagen john i no one thing that the dow just among the market gauges is up about 25 this year and stocks were surging even before a tax bill was even really being talked about in washington and why is it . Its cutting all that red tape. Yeah, i agree with that and look, you had the Morgan Stanley plan index has the highest business that weve had since 2007 according to the latest survey because businesses are feeling more comfortable but gerri b. Has great numbers but you also look at r