Maria we have a big show this morning. Joining the conversation, Deirdre Bolton is here this morning, real clear politics cofounder and president tom bevin and pwc partner, mitch rochell. Thank you for being here. We have a market under pressure as a result of some i guess digestion over this trade deal. Take a look at the markets where were looking at a triple digit decline this morning for the dow industrials. Bloomburg is reporting that china wants more talks before signing phase one of the strayed deal. The u. S. Trade deal. The u. S. And china made progress on friday. China agreed to buy 40 to 50 billion worth of Agricultural Products while the u. S. Will suspend a planned tariff increase set to go into effect tomorrow. Beijing addressing currency and Financial Services concerns but setting aside issues like intellectual property and forced transfer of technology. Senior counsel to the president Kellyanne Conway spoke with me yesterday and heres how she saw it. That would be two a
I want to welcome you in our session and military history, im been here a long time at the university and we have for very young historians so i feel a generation or two and beyond. Ill introduce them in a moment. But before i do, i want to tell you are actually here. Our historians our specialists and the American Revolutionary and particular interest and military aspects. As you learn from listening to them, their approaches for independence are very considerably and speaking up by the way because there is no microphone in here and allows you to do the same we get to the queue or nay. We are going to hear remarks on gender and personal narrative in the meetings of con reds and the influence of military service and state formation and we have called the session the military history of the American Revolution but whatever we call it, our panel is theyre going to illustrate the Central Point of all military history. That is the field encompasses of all perspectives and it could bring to
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Vote the presiding officer on is this vote, the yeas are 52, the nays are 40, the nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the negotiation to reconsider is considered laid considered and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22, do hereby bring to a close debate on the nomination of wendy welcomes berger, of florida, to be United States district judge for the middle district of florida. The presiding officer by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is, is it the sense of the senate that the nomination of wendy welcomes berger, of florida, to be United States district judge for the middle district of florida . The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. The clerk will call the roll. Vote the presiding officer on this vote the yeas are 55.
American presidency, we think people like lincoln and tr and fdr and we think about the 20th century as being the defining century and defining and determining the president ial power. But Stephen Rockwell in this provocative new book turns out all that on its head. His book is called the presidency and the american state leadership and decision in the adams grant and Taft Administrations. The book is published by the Center Studies on the presidency with the university of virginia press. So here to these topics are, first of all, the author of the book, steven rockwell. Steven is a of Political Science at Saint University in new york. He earlier worked as a Senior Research analyst at the Brookings Institution and as an assistant professor in the Political Science and Public Administration programs at the university. Michigan at flint. Steven is the author of indian and the Administrative State in 19th century, which was published in 2010. How government won the west published 2013 and