Isolation full community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. Away. What is true what is faith. In a world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. For a mate in the shallows. The impact of the upcoming fight for the Supreme Court on the 2020 alexion on the surface of politics. Welcome to politicking on larry king confirmation of a 3rd trump nominated supreme god justice looks virtually certain the in baghdad on the 2020 election as a highly politicized question mark and well get one on one perspective from 2 men who come from very different partisan camps but who share experience working in the senate will begin with david brown democratic strategist former majority counsel to democratic senator patty murray on 2 congressional committees and he is in washington ok lets get right to a David Mcconnell said hell have a vote on the nominee really havent before election day. I think hes going to do everything he can to push it through before election day becau
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Book as director of legal policy and he holds a jd and mba from yale and a ba in economics and other firm chapel hill as a morehead scholar glad to have you with us. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. Its always a pleasure to speak to those at the foundation i have said it before add a National Think tank so much policy happens on the state level and it is a Gold Standard think tank that has helped me to shape North Carolina and a lot of the resilience right now to have found a cisco flooding in the middle of a pandemic is due to the great work the John Locke Foundation has done thank you. Thank you for those comments you actually live in North Carolina so your book writes about federal policy but you follow state Public Policy as well and hopefully after we talk about your book you will get your take what is happening with Governor Cooper and Emergency Powers use here in North Carolina but i have to tell you the book is unelected you can buy the book now i think my col
The Mainstream Media has nothing to report youre telling me youre 100 percent certain and exclusive with project veritas founder james okeefe he has the latest on his expose on c. B. S. News and that fake coronavirus testing line in michigan. And finally saturday night live slur as they claim the winner of a vial miss hitler contest is this israel miss israel. Im Steve Malzberg lets eat the press. Easy. By. All right folks lets start with something that happened last sunday on that n. B. C. Show that kind of sounds like ours whats it called meet the press chuck todd aired a clip from a c. B. S. News interview with u. S. Attorney general william barr and he was discussing his decision to drop perjury charges against retired general Michael Flynn. When history looks back on this decision how do you think it will be written well historys written by the winners so its largely depends on. Whos writing the history. I was struck peggy by the cynicism of the answer its a correct answer but hes
Is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the constitution on a nonpartisan basis in order to increase awareness and understanding of the constitution among the american people. And that is what they are trying to do in collaboration with cspan as we invite you to join us in listening to these oral arguments and then convening afterwards with some of americas most thoughtful scholars who filed briefs in our taking positions on both sidesof of the case to help us unpack the arguments we just heard. For an and this has been an extraordinary morning and weve heard three cases involving the president s power to resist the subpoena in the first cases from congress in the second case from the state District Attorney. There are two great scholars and two of americas leading experts on the law of the presidency especially as it relates to the subpoena. Andrew is the professor of law at Joseph Rosenfeld is a lowball at iowa law where he focuses on