Welcome you to this beautiful campus for such an important conversation on government oversight and accountability in conjunction with the launch of our new student publication. Oversight projects. Org. This project is yet another example of this telework of our student leaders in creating a go to source about the work of federal oversight, accountability and ethics watchdogs. We could not be more proud of our students, the effort and enthusiasm here at Washington College of law. And our Law School Community is especially grateful that the launch of this project is made possible and is elevated with a cadre of leading experts who will sha theirhtn oversight and accountability with us today. So my warm welcome to all of you again. Please join me in welcoming the organizer of todays event, professor fernando look order, the faculty director of the Washington College of law, law and government program. Thank you, fernando. [applause] thank you very much, dean nelson. Welcome everyone. Im
I am right here. You can be right here, congresswoman. Mayor. Hi. Thank you. Nice to meet you. Okay. There we go. Sixhour technical difficulties. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much for being here afternoon. I am a National Political reporter forrt politico. I am thrilled to be here in austin with you. At the Texas Tribune festival. We will have a great discussion this afternoon on border politics immigration and the 2020 president ial election. Love to welcome our panelists. Right here next to me is congresswoman sylvia garcia. A freshman democrat from texas. Mustve her district is eastern houston. Next we have the mayor of san antonio. On a maria coexecutive director of the center for popular democracy based in new york city. For those of you joining fee of the live stream, you can also follow the conversation on twitter using the. Immigrants about lawmakers of color and have frequently use the term invasion. When describing them what is going on at the border. How has the ta
welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing this businbusy news day with us. the president called the latest debt ceil ing meeting productiv and a sign of good progress. but kevin mccarthy s morning after update is rather bleak. nowhere near a deal. this as the treasury begins checking how long agencies can pay their bills. plus legal quick sand for donald trump. his words at a cnn town hall push e. jean carroll to seek more damages and his instructions about how to handle classified documents end up in the hands of the special counsel. and swing voters dread the idea of a biden/trump rematch, but their focus group on what happened if there is one is quite revealing. the biden team arriving last yhour. they are now with the team behind closed doors. both sides say there s mgood faith, yet both sides also say there is little progress. this morning the speaker telling fellow house republicans the two sides are nowhere near agr agreement,
hello, and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. a midair mystery. the united states shoots down more unidentified objects flying over north america. right now, washington knows about as much as you do. not much. what s gone on the last two weeks or so, ten days, has been nothing short of craziness. and the military needs to have a plan to not only determine what s out there but determine the dangers that go with it. plus, the republican house speaker convenes what he calls the heads of the five families of the republican caucus. he wants to forge a consensus and to prove wrong democrats who predict that house republicans in the end will blink and vote to raise the debt limit. and alive under the debris. sniffer dogs, thermal cameras find signs of life in both turkey and syria, but for every miracle, there is mourning. tens of thousands pinned beneath twisted metal destined for mass graves. up first for us, tr
taiwan, despite these warnings we have been discussing from beijing. the biden administration showed support for her decision. we want to make sure that when she travels overseas, she can do so safely and securely. we ll make sure of that. there s no reason for the chinese rhetoric. there s no reason for any actions to be taken. it is not uncommon for congressional leaders to travel to taiwan. it is very much in keeping with our policy. our will ripley is in taipei, the capital taipei, taiwan, this morning. and will, i wonder, we ve heard, as we discussed, rhetoric like this, inflammatory rhetoric often from china as it regards taiwan. they amped it up, but i wonder what taiwan is feeling about this visit, particularly from such a high level? reporter: well, there s certainly a difference probably what they re feeling at the president s office versus what we would be observing evidence folks, this is pretty universal, don t care much about it. they re not following it