Papadopoulos talking about the origins of the counterintelligence investigation into russia and the 2016 president ial election. Later, several senators speak about u. S. Policy in syria and the recent withdrawal of u. S. Troops in the region. Next, House Administration subcommittee takes a look at Voting Rights and election procedures in the u. S. With the legal experts mobility right advocates cancel right leaders among the witnesses. This hearing comes as a new cspan survey shows 55 of americans believe that the federal government should still oversee election and administration in states and localities with histories of voting discrimination. Good morning. The subcommittee on elections and the committee of House Administration will come to order. I would like to think members of the committee as well as our witnesses and those in the audience for being here today. I today. I ask unanimous consent that all members of five educative days to revise and extend their remarks and that an
Justice. We want to thank our friends here at nyud. C. And the nyu center for cohosting this event with us this afternoon and for being such a great partner to the Brennan Center for justice. On behalf of the Brennan Center, we are pleased you have joined us for what we know will be an exciting and interesting conversation on president ial ethics law, and this is a particularly good moment to have this discussion. The Brennan Center, for those of you who do not know, is a nonpartisan law and policy institute that seeks to improve our broken systems of justice and democracy, and we like to use the tools of advocacy, research, litigation, and strategic negotiations to do just that. We work on what we think are very cutting edge issues, such as voting rights, money in politics, ethics, criminal justice reform, racial justice, fair courts, and a host of other issues to, again, do just that, make our democracy and justice systems stronger and more effective for all americans. Please follow
Particularly good moment to have this discussion. The Brennan Center, for those of you who do not know, is a nonpartisan law and policy institute that seeks to improve our broken systems of justice d democrac and we ke t use the tools of advocacy, strategic negotiations to do just that. We work on what we think are very cutting edge issues, such as voting rights, money in politics, ethics, criminal justice reform, racial justice, fair courts, and a host of other issues to, again, do just that, make our democracy and justice systems stronger and more effective for all americans. Please follow the Brennan Center if you dont already on facebook and twitter. Be sure to check out our videos and podcasts on itunes, youtube, and in the multimedia section of brennancenter. Org. And with that said, i am pleased to introduce our moderator for todays program, kimberly atkins, who is the chief washington reporter and columnist for the boston herald. Please join me in welcoming kimberly. [applause]
He is a serial liar, no beliefs, he lives in his own reality. I am telling you, this is not a guy that you want. When i make the judgment on not voting for trump and i am not hillary either, i am homeless right now. Because in part because i worked in the white house and in part because i read history, the issues, thinking about a president , i dont think there is any individual issue that takes precedent in my mind over what i would refer to as the public character of the president or they are public or private aspects. On that a little more, you need a person who has prudence, judgment, some amount of wisdom, and what used to be understood as character, not just how they act, the whole of who they will are, and in my estimation what i have seen from donald trump, this is not a state secret, no erratic and unprincipled and narcissistic, the idea that that man, from the commanderinchief, to the head of department of justice to the irs, to the fbi, should be a frightening prospect. When
Sexes them or racism. I am curious when we find the situation is a people are restricted to free speech zones we dispelled as if we were targeted and told to be restricted to the free speech zone for the advertising for an event we had coming and others had not been for their evens. But we also find for putting up signs it and unfair manner because some of them and it turned out the Young Americans for liberty was an organization to be signed up for the weekend and we have to pay this time for leaving the signed up over the weekend we have to figure out another way. And luckily ive was there lehr being infringed upon and we ended up contacting fire to have this handled in a due process like manner before we had a fine imposed upon this. How do we turn this tide had be turned that tide moving forward . Mind standing is we have good success it has been successful and correct me if i am wrong but to my understanding that regard to public universities have found that restricting free speec