Hi im Steve Clemons and i have a question has congress convince the American People that impeaching President Donald Trump is justified lets get to the bottom line. The impeachment inquiry is officially 2 months old and it seems that the only thing that it is really proved is that americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes in one donald trump tried to bribe a foreign country into investigating a political rival to win the elections next year and then the other democrats are conspiring to destroy the president at any cost and their partners are an evil media spewing fake news diplomats and bureaucrats from the quote deep state plus some ukrainians who many believe are the real meddlers in the last election rather than the russians so what universe are we in fortunately we have 3 people in the room who have the answer to that question rena shaw a republican strategist who founded relax strategies a Political Consulting firm here in washington jay newton small contributor to Time
Others to be typical americans, somehow, but they are not a majority of the population. They need more in order to win. The Democratic Party has always been a coalition of out groups, people who are supposed sometimes not to be typical americans but who together when they hold together can be a majority. Of course they dont always hold together, and we get fights within the Democratic Party. And that dynamic has continued even as the composition of the republicans core constituency and of the groups in the Democratic Coalition have chang changed. These were very old Political Parties, Democratic Party formed in 1832 to reelect Andrew Jackson. They succeeded in doing hah. The Republican Party formed in 1854 to oppose the kansas nebraska act of slavery and the territories, they succeeded on that, within a decade or so. But they have continued ever since. And you beginning in your introduction basically going back to election day 2016, you write, quote, panic is a poor guy to reality. The
The hearing will come to order, thank you all very much. Im sorry emily. Today will have a hearing about reauthorizing the freedom act of 2015. We have two panels, basically theres four parts to the act. I want the panels to tell us the good, bad and the ugly of why we need these for tools and why we need to reauthorize the program in your view. What happens if we dont, would you accept any changes, what with those changes be and reset your testimony, im very interested in hearing from the National Security perspective of how the usa freedom act of 2015 is still relevant in 2019 and beyond and the tools available to Law Enforcement in the Intelligence Community provided by this act, how the relevant to the side were still in. Baghdadi is dead but the calls live, the effort to penetrate our countrys ongoing everyday, terrorist groups with a lot of different names are quid pro quo to come here to do us harm to hurt americans abroad in the war is far from over. I wish it were but it is no
The hearing will come to order, thank you all very much. Im sorry emily. Today will have a hearing about reauthorizing the freedom act of 2015. We have two panels, basically theres four parts to the act. I want the panels to tell us the good, bad and the ugly of why we need these for tools and why we need to reauthorize the program in your view. What happens if we dont, would you accept any changes, what with those changes be and reset your testimony, im very interested in hearing from the National Security perspective of how the usa freedom act of 2015 is still relevant in 2019 and beyond and the tools available to Law Enforcement in the Intelligence Community provided by this act, how the relevant to the side were still in. Baghdadi is dead but the calls live, the effort to penetrate our countrys ongoing everyday, terrorist groups with a lot of different names are quid pro quo to come here to do us harm to hurt americans abroad in the war is far from over. I wish it were but it is no
Morning and thank you for being with us. Guest thank you for having me on. Host let me begin on chapter two of your book because you say quote, let me start by describing what i believed to be the enduring character, the political dna of our two Major Political parties. What is there dna . Guest they change their positions on issues over the years. These are very old parties. The republicans started off as the protectionist party and became the freetrade party around the 1970s. With President Trump they are now the trade party. The enduring character is that the Republican Party has always been founded around a core constituency of people who are considered by themselves and others to be typical americans, but they are not a majority of the population. The Democratic Party has always been a coalition of people who were supposed some time to be typical americans but who together can be a majority. They dont always hold together and we get schisms and fights within the Democratic Party.