The meeting comes just days after antitrump forces met in washington d. C. To talk about their strategy. Joining me now dr. Sam clovis is with me on the phone. Sam, thank you so much for the time. So how did the meeting go . Well, i happen to be in the iowa, so i wasnt present at the meeting. But i can assure you given the people involved, im sure it was very frank, it was very direct, and also i would suggest that probably everybody came out of there with a lot better feeling of where we are. Deirdre okay. A better feeling about where you are. Because as i mentioned just a few days ago, people who dont want trump to be the nominee also met also had a similar strategy session. Well, i really think, you know, again, i hate to use the phrase. But i think theyre whistling past the graveyard. I think what theyre really out there doing is a lot of wishful thinking. If you take a look at where we are the path of the delegate count. We stand an excellent chance of getting to 1237 before the c
Democratic party, that needs near new unanimous support from our community, and we have to climb over obstacle after obstacle to vote. Africanamericans are standing in long lines in the rain to vote. And we elect a party that until recently would not even break its breath to talk about the issue. In fact, was on the wrong side of the issue for way too long. Clearly, for very the Latino Community, immigration is number one. For women, choices number one. The africanamerican humidity has a thousand problems, but for us mass incarceration, where you stand on locking up an entire generation of africanamericans for something we know kids are doing right now, is the number one issue. Anybody i dont care who you are, i dont care what you did in 1963 or 2009 or yesterday if you grab a microphone and you say you are a progressive and you dont speak about this issue with some passion and some heart as ifme concern and care, it were your children under this level of threat, you cannot and should
Make vur your mute your television or radio when you call in so you wont feed back. Or you can send us a tweet. Same question, should the u. S. Invest more in africa . We will get to your comments and your posts in just a bit. E u. S. africa summit getting underway today in washington. It is a largely economic gathering. African leaders converge on the summit. They write it is a largest gathering of african government officials in washington in an effort to bolster the u. S. Relationship with one of the worlds Fastest Growing economies but preparations for the historic summit have been overshadowed by the march of the ebola virus in west africa, a crisis that has claimed more than 700 lives and has International Health officials scrambling for solutions. Here are some comments from the or as well. Ct some have cast africas otential in a new light. An unprecedented threeday conference between u. S. Officials and more than 40 african heads of state underscore the gains that have been mad
His official title is Deputy Director and Research Director of the National Security archive now, of course, it is not that in and say. The nsa that he works for is one of washingtons greatest gems, the place where classified american meets its maker and as hopefully declassified allowing transparency in government that seeks to shine a light on what goes on behind the scenes inside of washington. He is also the coauthor of becoming enemies, a book on american diplomacy during the iraniraq war which i think is safe to say is the best book on american diplomacy during that war. He now has a new book, irancontra, which is based on an extraordinary amount of research and documents and diaries and interviews with individuals. It is literally a mountain of material and documents that i dont think anyone else has ever systematically and seriously looked at, unless you are a prosecutor. But in the end, as your book shows, they did not look as well as they should have. The picture that emerges
He carries these views into irancontra. He is a member of the House Republican investigating committee. He feels a little bit insulted by the way because senator inouye on the senate side has seen fit to name rudman as vice chairman of the committee. Lee hamilton by all accounts refus to name cheney as vice chair. It sets off a kind of a running conflict. Throughout the hearing, cheney asked the point repeatedly that the problem is not the president , the problem is congress. Congress overstepped its bounds in the 1970s, tried to take over president ial power. It was unconscionable, unconstitutional. And it is the cause of a whole lot of Serious Problems for the american way of doing politics. He repeats this in the minority report at the end of the congressional hearings, and that report gains new life years later when cheney reminds people who are this is i think 2005 so hes been in office as Vice President at this point for four years, and people in the media and public are still tr