The ability of congress to regulate the executive branch. This is one hour and 25 minutes. Hello, everyone. Panele to the 2019 apsa on prompt, constitutional crisis, and american democracy. Have distinguished panel here for you and we will hear from them individually. We will talk amongst ourselves briefly and then we will take some questions from the large and growing audience. Let me just quickly introduce the panel. Represent and reflect a diverse expertise in different points of view. Professor atwho is Cornell Law School visiting this year at georgetown. Matt glassman is senior fellow at the Governor Institute at georgetown, formerly at the Congressional Research service. Brick is the chancellors professor at uc irvine. Henry olson is a fellow at the ethics and Public Policy center and a columnist with the Washington Post. Ilya and victoria nurse is a woodworth professor of law at georgetown. In the interest of saving time and making sure that we can hear from all of these disting
There are pockets of incompetence. Sometimes these jurisdictions are resource starved. It was not only Brenda Stites in Broward County and the stories of her incompetence. A whole chapter in my book, just incredible, but i would like to point to detroit, michigan, if you look in 2016. You may remember jill stein tried to have a recount conducted there, and a recount revealed just an incredible amount of incompetence, the way votes were counted in detroit. That recount was eventually abandoned and there was no findings of malfeasance, but plenty of findings of incompetence. When there is incompetence, it finds a base those distrustful of the election to believe the election is not fairly run. A poll this week from suffolk indicates the majority of democrats and republicans are concerned that if their side kind ofhere was some wrong doing and how the election was run. , whether that is russian interference, which were copied by democrat operatives in the special election in alabama andee
Certain. Joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnist dan headinger, kim strassel. So you saw it pass the house. I was the thing that surprised me is how relatively little drama there was in the sense that they didnt have to break peoples arms. They got only 13 republican defections. Thats right. And they had votes to spare. Were see an entirely different story than we did on healthcare reform. Why do you think that is . Because healthcare reform failed, so republicans understand their very political lives depend on tax reform. So i think were picking up the pace here and the senate really wants to get this done before the alabama special election, when they might lose another republican seat and have a thinner majority. But the defections, 13 detectors, 12 were from hightax states california, new jersey, new york, in particular. And thats because of the state and local Tax Deduction, right . Right. So basically the house did a carveout for property taxes up to a certain
Certain. Joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnist dan headinger, kim strassel. So you saw it pass the house. I was the thing that surprised me is how relatively little drama there was in the sense that they didnt have to break peoples arms. They got only 13 republican defections. Thats right. And they had votes to spare. Were see an entirely different story than we did on healthcare reform. Why do you think that is . Because healthcare reform failed, so republicans understand their very political lives depend on tax reform. So i think were picking up the pace here and the senate really wants to get this done before the alabama special election, when they might lose another republican seat and have a thinner majority. But the defections, 13 detectors, 12 were from hightax states california, new jersey, new york, in particular. And thats because of the state and local Tax Deduction, right . Right. So basically the house did a carveout for property taxes up to a certain
Discusses a new report on americans saving for retirement. As always, we will take your calls, and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host it is the washington journal for november 20. Retiring arizona senator jeff flake was caught on camera saying the Republican Party was toast if it became the party of donald trump and roy moore. The president reacted to senator flake on twitter. We are interested in the reaction from you. We will show you more of what senator flake said he we want to get your thoughts on his sentiments and if you agree or disagree. 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7488001 for republicans. Independents, 202 7488002. You can post on twitter cspanwj. On our40 comments Facebook Page already. If you want to make your comments known there, facebook. Com cspan is where you turn. Abc news picked up the story of senator flake, caught on camera on a hot mic, by a local news affiliate station. The abc news story goes that t