Booktv continues down the former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell. He talks about prosecutorial misconduct and what can be done about it. This is about 90 minutes. Good afternoon. Welcome to the Cato Institute. My name is tim weich. Today we want to examine some distressing legal trends that are at work in the criminal law area. Our guest speaker today Sidney Powell is just written a new book entitled licensed to lie exposing corruption in the department of justice. And the book recounts several cases in which ambitious prosecutors used illegal and unethical tactics to win their cases. Before we get to our panel of experts i want to take a minute or two to lay something of a foundation for the discussion thats going to follow but before he do that let me ask those of you who came with cell phones if you would just take a moment now to quickly doublecheck and make sure that they are turned off as a courtesy to our speakers. It includes our panelists. [laughter] okay, thank you. The firs
Again and said, ill bet it makes you mad, dont get . [laughter] that was such a good start, i told all over iowa. Scott, you might be the ones turning it around. [inaudible] thats what i did. You probably heard in utah. You are exactly right. Let me see if i can do to i wanted to make four points. Let me see how quickly i can make it. Went i think about my job as United States senator given my background, i think about how can i give bill haslam more tools to be a better governor . Because i know if i give them those tools he will do something with them. And i think of the federal government in the internet age as a place where we ought to invest in things that empower states and people to do things for themselves. Kind of in the way apple created ipad with that telling you what the app is, you can create an app and a lot of people can use it. So here are four tools that we worked on, three in a bipartisan way, one is not one is partisan in washington by dont think it is so much among
Never gotten anything done. We dont need that advice. They dont want to do any better than we do, and really they dont know how to do it at all. Guess we are all pioneering a little bit we would try to find a fairway to reward outstanding teachers, give them 10 months and 11 months contracts, pay them more for being good. Good. So theres a 10th of a penny in washington. Is it partisan difference right now but i dont think the democratic and republican governors would have the same difference of opinion democratic and republican senators have. So i bring this to your attention, and you may want to talk to your senators between now and the end of the year. We need to fix no child left behind. We need to get rid of the way, but we dont need to do it in a way that creates more of a National School board. We have two very distinct points of view right now in washington. So on market place fairness we are bipartisan. On this we are partisan. On changing the workforce act, we got that done in
Nunn and republican david purdue live tomorrow at 11 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Now to the race in new yorks 19th Congressional District where twoterm republican incumbent chris gibson is running against democrat Sean Eldridge. Theirntly competed in final debate courtesy of Time Warner Cable news. This is an hour. Hello and welcome to our Time Warner Cable news debate tween the candidates or the 19th Congressional District. Participating in tonights debate or congressman chris gibson, who has been in office for two terms hes a republican and his democratic challenger Sean Eldridge. These two have gone head to head several times, and will be continuing that conversation this evening. Here are the rules the candidates have agreed to moderators will ask as many questions as we are able to get to. Responses initially will be limited to one minute with rebuttals allowed at the discretion of the panelists. About halfway through, panelists will have the opportunity to ask. Uestions the order
And she said, well i will vote for you. And that is what you want for the state. Not a rubberstamp for barack obama. Chance why he wants her in the senate as his proxy. Of georgiahe people deserve better, and in georgia the name of those failed policies, again, is Michelle Nunn. Can i get a rebuttal to that . Purdue, forgive me, but i dont believe you. I am the true outsider in this race, and i dont have any political it a local connections, and i am the true outsider. We have to move on, or can i answer that . You can answer that. To be partery proud of the Republican Party, and many people have said it the message is resonating them. Resonating with them. I want to talk about Michelle Nunn, though. Two and ais killing half million jobs, and he has loaded up 7 trillion of more debt with nothing to show for it on the jobs front. We have fewer people working today than at any time since jimmy carter was president , and in georgia, 400,000 more people had to go on food stamps than actual