Sometimes it seems nothing is happening on the senate floor. The action is going on elsewhere. Order. The senate has been carrying out its duties in 1789. The framers believed the senate should be the venue through which statesmen would lift america to meet its unique challenges. We are still a work in progress in the United States senate. We should act like a senate instead of a kindergarten. Wait until you see what happens with this bill. Made up of 100 members, two from each state, this is how many have come to know the senate today. Democrats have been putting up roadblocks one after another. It is not what the founders had in mind. There is a great deal of human affection around here. It is in private. You came to the wrong town at the wrong time. With a history of conflict and compromise, we will go inside the senate to tell its story. Its informal workings, we will learn about it as a legislative body. Following the footsteps of members in the core doors around the chamber, we w
[inaudible background conversations] [inaudible speaking] the panel is titled American History, renegades and sponsored by the Mississippi Library commission. Tracy carr, with the library commission, was in the room for the very first organizational meeting of the festival we couldnt do this without the Mississippi Library commission or libraries from all over the state so thank you very much for your support. We are in the room today courtesy of foreman watkins law firm, our gratitude to them. Our panelists are tom craven, eric j dolman and Peter Houlihan. You can purchase copies of their books from vendors outside and you can find the times are authors will be signing in your program. We will hear from our panelists for about 40 minutes then open the floor to questions. Please come to the podium in the center of the room to ask your questions. Help me welcome our moderator for this panel, kitty blunt director of Mississippi Department of archives and history. [applause] thank you. Im
alex. i can t wait to see what you have coming up next on this. thank you, my friend. i can t wait for you for the next hour. all right, alex. have a good friday night. you too. so, how is that weaponization committee going? you know, the house republicans big jim jordan, matt gates project, the special select subcommittee that was going to expose what exactly? it seems like jim jordan doesn t even know. now one republican s trashing the subcommittees process as, quote, very much amateur hour. speaking to on the condition of anonymity they added that airing this quote, stuff on live television would make us look like morons. [laughter] here is congressman dan goldman, a democratic member of the subcommittee in an actual former prosecutor who has actually worked on actually vest geishas. when they come and testify, you ll have exit access to the transcript like everyone. you mean your staff isn t gonna turn it over to our staff? we re just in the? back when the
so, how is that weaponization committee going? you know, the house republicans big jim jordan, matt gates project, the special select subcommittee that was going to expose what exactly? it seems like jim jordan doesn t even know. now one republican s trashing the subcommittees process as, quote, very much amateur hour. speaking to rolling stone on the condition of anonymity they added that airing this quote, stuff on live television would make us look like morons. [laughter] here is congressman dan goldman, a democratic member of the subcommittee in an actual former prosecutor who has actually worked on actually vest geishas. when they come and testify, you ll have exit access to the transcript like everyone. you mean your staff isn t gonna turn it over to our staff? we re just in the dark? when the transcript is done where going to give you the transcript. i mean the dozens of whistleblowers we ve already talked to you or staff. what you want me to do with th
part of the life of a healthy society. f a healthy society so if i don t write a score of columns, my hundred columns a year on books and another score on culturalmatters i m not doing my job . politically the country is obsessed with the presidency. it s the presidency and then everything else although they had one of our three branches and one of our many governments his job is outlined inarticle 2 is to take carethat the laws are faithfully executed which makes him definitely . to those who make the laws in article 1 . but we have this swollen presidency that attempts to absorb all the energy of the country and a lot of the space and incorporated of journalists. so that thefirst task of a political columnist is to say i m not really a political columnist . that among a lot of other things i think as as i said about you you always said as a younger person coming up that i see the temptation for political writers to score points rather than make points. but you and maybe it