Good evening everybody. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Im yuval levin, director of constitutional studies at ai and it is my great pleasure to commute to a discussion of the land of hope, the new one volume history of our country by the Great American story and Wilfrid Mcclay area is a book that comes a time when questions of who we are as a people, whether we can have a unifying rather than a divisive story and of how to tell the story of our country in a way that neither some shorts our National Greatness north white washes our national sins, are really live questions in our politics and what may be on unusual way and this book is clearly intended to speak to just that moment though there could be a better time to hear from bill about his sense of howto approach these questions. Bill mcclay is a national treasure. Pure and simple. He is first and foremost a teacher. Behold the blankenship care and history of liberty at the history of oklahoma. He has admired and bowl o
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Detroit, it is the democratic president ial debate. The candidates are waiting in the wings. And whathey have to say. Getting a question of our priorities right. Going headtohead with senator elizabeth warren, longtime friends fighting for the same cause and the same voters. We should dream big, fight hard, and wherein. The progressives at centerstage defending their ideals against a crowd of more moderate challengers. Mayor pete buttigieg. And former texas congressman orourke with to translate Fame International support. I am willing to serve u. S. Nx president of the United States of america. Four candidates will put their heartlands on display. Senator klobuchar. Former colorado governor hickenlooper. Congressman tim ryan. It is time for us to unify this country. And montana governor Steve Bullock in his first president ial debate. We are here to make sure that donald trump is a one term president. It iselan. And washington outsider Marianne Williamson. This time we will win with lo
Bret good evening. Im bret baier. Breaking tonight, were covering two big stories. Both happening on capitol hill right now. House Speaker Mike Johnson rolls the dice on a foreign aid package with his own speakership on the line. But, first, the exceedingly rare event of an Impeachment Trial for a merv the president s cabinet never got off the ground today in the u. S. Senate it. Took a little more than three hours for the democrats in the senate to end the proceeding before it began against Homeland Security secretary alejandro mayorkas. Raising a lot of questions about constitutional process and politics. Senior Congressional Correspondent chad pergram starts us off tonight live from capitol hill to show us what happened. Good evening, chad. Bret, Senate Democrats stuck together to end the trial before it even began. They did not vote to dismiss the articles of impeachment. They voted along party lines to rule the articles Ou Out Of Sync with the constitution. Raise a point of articl
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