On the 2020 election and the impact of the impeachment inquiry against President Trump. The Texas Tribune hosted this hourlong event. Abby welcome all. Im Abby Livingston. Im the chair of the Texas Tribune and im delighted to welcome two of the most pivotal people in the american politics. Of the most pivotal people in the american politics. They have the jobs that are not most well known. To my meet left i have cheri bus tos. Hello. And i have congressman tom emmer and hes the chair of the National Republican committee. It took me a while to understand the acronyms. Theyre not as well known as. N. C. Chairman or d. N. C. Chairman. But these are members of congress who have been elected by their colleagues to basically get the gavel whether that means protect it or take it. And so it is a difficult job. They manage millions of dollars. They decide who gets that money in ad spending and it can be a brutal process if your side is not doing well in the election year. I had one former chai
The Texas Tribune hosted this hourlong event. Welcome all. Im Abby Livingston. Im the chair of the Texas Tribune and im delighted to welcome two of the most pivotal people in the american politics. They have the jobs that are not most well known. To my meet left i have cheri bus tos. Hello. And i have congressman tom emmer and hes the chair of the National Republican committee. It took me a while to understand the acronyms. Theyre not as well known as. N. C. Chairman or d. N. C. Chairman. But these are members of congress who have been elected by their colleagues to basically get the gavel whether that means protect it or take it. And so it is a difficult job. They manage millions of dollars. They decide who gets that money in ad spending and it can be a brutal process if your side is not doing well in the election year. I had one former chairman describe to me what its like during the house floor and tell a colleague im so sorry, i just cut off your Television Ads and youre going to l
It took me a while to understand the acronyms. Theyre not as well known as. N. C. Chairman or d. N. C. Chairman. But these are members of congress who have been elected by their colleagues to basically get the gavel whether that means protect it or take it. And so it is a difficult job. They manage millions of dollars. They decide who gets that money in ad spending and it can be a brutal process if your side is not doing well in the election year. I had one former chairman describe to me what its like during the house floor and tell a colleague im so sorry, i just cut off your Television Ads and youre going to lose reelection. Yall might have heard of a man named rahm emanuel. He leveraged that job to very high levels of the american government. And so i find the job fascinating. But i would like to start off and ill start with congressman bustos. Can you describe to me what this job is . Sure. Hello, everybody. First of all, thanks for being here. I want to thank the texas tribune. Im
What are the processes for holding a president accountable . Watch book tv every weekend on cspan2. Today, the chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee talked about the 2020 campaign and the chance for President Trumps recent rally in North Carolina tournd her back, directed toward ill on omar. It was discussed at it was hosted by the question signs monitor. It is an hour. Linda its a little after 9 00. Were going to start and im good to talk a little bit and let the congressman eat quickly. Im Linda Feldman from the Christian Science monitor Washington Bureau chief for our guest is congressman tom emmer of minnesota the chairman of the National Republican campaign committee. This is his first appearance at a monitor breakfast so welcome. Now we will give you bennett queue ground. He was born in south bend indiana and grew up in the dina minnesota attended First Boston College and the university of alaska fairbanks and played hockey for both. Then he got his law degree
Pretty simple. They talk about jobs, a strong economy, a strong defense. But in this particular case i was doing it about ridgecrest and it was about disaster assistance. Just had a multiple of earthquakes, some even yesterday weve been through. They were looking to see where their government would be. Theres a military base there too, see if wed be able to rebuild it. When i answered questions about what was going on in the house for the last week, talked about an impeachment bill coming up. The contempt. And anything else this new socialist democrat majority wanted to do to go after this administration. Whats interesting is, i didnt turn to the republicans for the question, i found a question that i agreed with that came from a chief of staff from a democratic member. That challenged anyone to name one thing that the democrats have done to help the voters around the issues around the Kitchen Table of that telephone town hall that night. I agree with him, theres not one i have found.