While i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate to occasions that i am not under investigation, i nevertheless concur with the judgment of the department of justice that you are not able to effectively lead the bureau. It is essential that we find n leadership for the fbi that restores public trust and confidence in its vital Law Enforcement mission. I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors, signed donald j. Trump, president of the United States. Let me go to you first, attorney general jeff landry. Listen, you understand the job as well as anyone else, obviously, on a larger scope. Many have been scratching their heads why this hadnt been done earlier. Apparently, the Tipping Point was the flipflop and the conflicting information whether or not huma abedin had sent hundreds, perhaps thousands of mailto her husbands laptop or just a handful. How could they get that wrong . Yeah, its amazing that they did if, in fact, that was true, and evidently it is. I think
Duty to give president ial nominees a vote. Appointment shall be made with the advice and consent of the senate that is very different than saying every nominee was teased about. What about the views the president of the senate . Joe biden was a senator for many decades. He was a loyal democrat. He developed friendships in both parties and before becoming Vice President he served as chairman of the Judiciary Committee in circumstances similar to where we find ourselves today. It was in elections here as campaigner in the underway, a president and a Senate Majority just like we have today and heres what we put on the washington post. The democrat from delaware, chairman of the Judiciary Committee has urged president bush into the Supreme Court until after warning that any nominee quote, would become a victim of a quote power struggle, end quote, over control of the Supreme Court. Biden said he was also urge the senate if bush decided to name someone. The article continued corbin said se
Demonstratedatedly the ability to reach our homeland. Antiterrorneed an strategy that stretches from morocco to southeast asia. At the same time our adversaries are becoming more diverse. Throughout the next decade the u. S. Must be able to check chinese ambition in china. How does the president respond to these challenges question mark challenges . He failed to prevent russia from dictator syrian assad. Themselvesten find and their problems downplayed by the administration. They cannot rally around American Leadership while they not understand the positions of the u. S. Particular information this year on preserving capabilities of the next president. Because the Intelligent Community is being stretched thin, we must prioritize throughout the community. Our mission is to protect the American People by providing sight in order to additionally, amid the growing it is critically important that we ensure the Intelligence Community act as careful stewards of taxpayer dollars. Over the next
They have brought surprises to the president s. We have a distinguished panel with us today. We will hear from each panelist. The panelist will then exchange questions and we will take questions from the audience. Duffield. Have Stephen Stephen is Vice President for. Olicy at crossroads gps stephen worked for senator jon the john roberts nomination and confirmation. He will discuss the expectations asarding judge robertsrole chief justice at the time he was confirmed in 2005. Next, we have jan crawford, who is the chief correspondent for cbs news, and also a graduate from the university of chicago law school. Courtvers the supreme regularly and published a book in 2007. She is going to speak about how Justice Roberts tenure has coincided with public expectations at the time he was confirmed. We are also joined by the partner. Mike has argued numerous cases court. The supreme he will discuss some of the hot button issues that have arisen s 10g chief justice year. Last but not least, we
I would just like to say, first of all, final thank you all of you for coming, but also to barbara for helping us all think, not just about one thing or another, but a bottle of that thank you. [applause] welcome everybody. Thanks for bringing the weather to American Enterprises is today. My name is gary smith on her resident scholar and attract the maryland security for studies at aei. Todays event which is cosponsored by the Federalist Society is a Panel Discussion of john yoos latest book point of attack preventive or International Law and global welfare. Our format today will be quite simple. John will start off with an overview of the books thesis and then we will followup with their group panelist comments and ill with their two panel is coming tonight might throw in a pointer to as well. Following that we will open up the floor to your questions and have a good robust discussion i am sure. Before turning the mic over to john let me briefly introduce her to guest panelist Michael