This committee and others in front of the men and women that they command, in front of the American People to express the grave concerns they have about sequestration and what it could do to our military, our military readiness and everything we do through our military. I heard members of congress on both sides of the aisle and on both ends of the capitol express grave concerns about the impacts of sequestration, about what could happen. Ive heard my own constituents, people from throughout utah, many whom are currently serving or have served in the military express similar concerns. Its an interesting conversation. Its sad we have to be having this conversation since sequestration was something put into law at a time when nobody believed it would ever happen. It was supposed to be so bad that we would do anything and Everything Possible in order to avoid it, yet it has arrived. My first question, which ill leave open to any of you who might want to answer it, id like to know a little
The National Federation of independent business when they challenged the Affordable Care act all the way up to the Supreme Court. Host given all that experience, professor barnett, what do you think of the constitution . Guest like the constitutional law. I like it more than those who want to change it by creating interpretations of what is supposed to mean by eliminating large parts of the constitution. Host heres your book, by the way, restoring the lost consultation the presumption of liberty. When we had that argument between a living document in a strict constructionist argument, looking at the constitution, is that a fair argument . Guest i wouldnt put it quite that way. I want to follow the constitution and thats what keeps it alive. As firstrate construction, it was justice goalie when he says he went to correctly construe it. Neither strictly and are liberally, but accurately thats the thing we have to aim for. Host the subtitle of your book is the presumption of liberty. Gues
Booktvs after words. Historian harlow under recounts how George Washington transform the office of the president. All this and more on booktv on cspan2 this weekend. The full schedule is available at booktv. Org. Most people dont understand how it works. A lot of people write books and spend the next two years trying to get somebody to publish their books. I have never experienced that. People say how do you get a book published . I say look, but i finally felt i had something. Write books for the purpose of writing books. The first three, four books actually i did with a cowriter. Basically i would dictate them to a tape recorder and sent them the tapes and they would transcribe things. I did myself with my wife, she did a lot of research and helped with editing and of course she is quick to point out this is the first one that hit number one on the New York Times bestseller list. I enjoy working with my wife so certainly i will be doing that from now on. Fortunately it does tend to c
I think he makes a very good point, but this is not iraq or afghanistan. The antiinterventionist tendency as a result of our problem deployments in afghanistan and iraq. What were doing in ukraine is a little bit more active, little bit more intelligent a little more active. Host possible sanctions . Guest that is diplomacy. It does not cost anything to issue sanctions. Sanctions talk is having an impact. A positive impact. Host who does it impact and who does the cost . Guest it costs those that are causing and promoting violence in the ukraine. Host what about the people of the ukraine . Guest that is the beauty of the sanctions. We put the sanctions on iraq all the sanctions on iran. Sanctions against a few oligarchs does not hit the people of ukraine. They pay no cost for it. If it leads to better policies, that is their benefit. Host ukraine Opposition Leader urges demonstrators for truce as protesters seize government building in kiev. Guest that sounds like it is the right thing
Democrats, 202 5853880. Republicans, 202 5853881. Independents, 202 5853882. You can post your comments or email them at cspan. Org. To help us understand what is happening, we are joined by john herbst. How do we get to where we are now . There is great dissatisfaction, not just among people in the center and west of the country, but even in the east with his role. Corruption, which is a major problem in the ukraine, has become worse. You had his rejection of the trade deal and tens of thousands of protesters came out to protest. He made the mistake of cracking down. The crackdowns are not well received in the public. We had tens of thousands of demonstrators demonstrating on one day. After the crackdown, we have hundreds of thousands in the streets. The numbers have ebbed and flowed ever since. Insistingters are that he give up our. They want a ukraine that has democratic freedoms. Host who are the protesters . Guest they appeared spontaneously. Protesters that occurred the protests