Signup for a newsletter. This event concludes with time for your questions that if you like to ask the speaker something locate the q a button wherever it is on your display or you can submit your questions. We will get through as many as time allows. If you go to the chat section we have included a link to our website we can purchase a copy of another if youre we have book or would like to contribute to the series with also included in the chat link. We appreciate any and all support. Lastly, as you may know if you purchase to participate in virtual large gatherings we apologize in advance pick the thing that can still does occur will do our best to resolve any issues. And now im so pleased to introduce two nights speaker. Calvin baker is a novelist, journalist. Is author of four acclaimed novels including race a finalist for best fiction. He currently teaches in Columbia University graduate school of the arts and is taught at yale university, middlebury college. His nonfiction work h
Thank you peter so much. It has been a journey of love for me. I grew up in southwest iowa, a very rural part of the state and the perseverance, the dedication, the hard work that my parents taught me really has carried me through so many different challenges in my lifetime. Opportunities in my lifetime and i wanted to tell the story that could be uplifting. Certainly people will face challenges throughout their lifetime but we all should understand that those challenges dont necessarily have to define us. Im just blessed that we live in a great United States of america and have these opportunities and i thats what i hope to share in this story with other people. The book is relatively revealing and we will goes through some of those things but was not tough to expose yourself like that . It was very hard. Ive been through a number of significant challenges inmy lifetime. I was raped when i was a young woman. With my first boyfriend and really suffered from that but then moving on goin
Professor of lauper he served in all three branches of the federal government to the Justice Department office of legal counsel, and the Senate Judiciary committee and Justice Clarence thomas prayed the previous books include crisis and command a history of executive power from George Washington to george w. Bush. His newest book the subject of todays discussion is titled defend her in chief, Donald Trumps fight for president ial power. John thanks for joining us today. Spivey entrance. Guest thanks adam and thank you its hard to believe ive been a scholar here for almost 20 years. I think im one of the oldest people on the staff. Its great to be here again to talk about a book and it would not be possible without having relationships like those i have aei. So terrific lets jump into the book. The end of the books introduction you summarize the overall argument and theme of the book. You say that President Trump has returned to the framers original vision of the presidency as an office
Could right now be finishing up a major bipartisan package for jobs in healthcare. If our democratic colleagues at act with urgency, unemployed americans would not be facing a total elimination of the structure of health. But instead, jobless americans are staring down this cliff because Speaker Pelosi and the democratic leader have refused to negotiate. They refused to move 1 inch from the speakers far left proposal that was so absurd and so unserious that all moderate democratic members began trashing it in the instant it came out. This is a multitrillion dollar that would tax involvement provide a massive tax cut rich people in blue states. Fund diversity studies of the legal pot industry and a thousand other things with no relationship whatsoever to the crisis. Just a few minutes ago are calling from wisconsin tried to get consent to continue the unemploymentnc assistance, to prevent it from expiring tomorrow. In the democratic leader objected unless he got to pass the entirety of
Get to your thoughts in just a minute. Golda, a Technology Reporter with axios, joining us on the phone to talk about this hearing that will be taking place at noon eastern time on cspan3, on our website cspan. Org, and you can listen on the go with our free cspan radio app. Committee iswhat holding this hearing and why . Is the House Judiciary Committee antitrust subcommittee. They are holding this hearing because they have been having an investigation of the Digital Markets and Big Tech Companies in the past few years and this is a culmination of that investigation. Host why are they investigating these companies . Guest they are investigating these Big Tech Companies, apple, amazon, google, and facebook, because amongst the democrats and some republicans, these there is a feeling that these companies are too big, take up too much of the economy, gobble up competition by acquiring Smaller Companies, and amazons case by both selling products and being a platform, and in apples case ru