So what could go wrong. [laughter]. Thank you. Thank you for coming and we have a lot of people here today. As you probably recognize by now, we have to socially distance and follow other sorts of guidelines and regulations today. So thank you for your patience. And thank you for following those. We have here today with us Jeffrey Sutton, its an honor to have him here. Fluid last night right through the storm. So we are grateful that he got here safely and that we are able to have this event today. Jeffrey sutton is a judge for the sixth circuit where he serves since 2003 news nominated by george w. Bush. His former general of ohio, in private practice, and is clerked for several judges including Justice Antonin Scalia as essential gives new book targeted so todays event, the essential scalia. That is the new book that he edited another friend of ours who has been here not too long ago and also talked about another scalia book brightest of all about scullion in this chapter. It and Jef
1968 was the year where the real decisions between the party that we see now were first locked in cement and we saw as one of the more poignant scenes in this book what literally became the last liberal standing on a Republican Convention stage in 1968, and it was the moment when mayor john lindsay of new york was forced at least half against his will to second the nomination of spiro agnew to be president of the United States after lindsay himself wanted to get that nomination, he then had to second that nomination for agnew and that was the last time a National Republican of significance stood on a Republican Convention stage as a liberal and john lindsay eventually left the Republican Party not long after 1968 so we now have a world in which when people hear that you are a democrat or they hear that youre a republican, they think they know everything about you. Its not just a know whether youre a liberal or conservative, they think they know everything in 1968 had more drama and cha
With incarceration . And here is what my attorney told me. He said we have to to stop up pp up walking that people up the were mad hatter in start locking of the people we are scared of. Those of the people the need to be incarcerated in stop blocking a people for the petty crimes but in the state of oklahoma. We have the idea. I agree with the statement although i would say we need to look harder who we think we are afraid evanston remember the peoplewe in prison are still in prison and we all imagine what you do with the rapist in the murder . Sebelius officially committing murder is a veryy tiny percentage of the prison populate population we have seen that are of poverty and racism of hand as a result theyre not necessarily bad choices but this is mirrored throughout the globe whether we talkhat about blacks and latinos from south africa when the Aboriginal People so we should be careful around this division is far moreds. Complex. Super max is 1 dash solitary confinement driven pr
Its incumbent upon us to build a safer community, not through prisons that dont build Safer Communities and in my belief in the belief of many people love looked at this issue, and likewise, you deserve to be served well by a justice by a Justice System as a victim in terms of restitution and reparation and healing and all of the things that victims are deserving of. I think many of us do and i think also believe in our capacity for empathy being tremendous that we can empathize with victims and build a criminal Justice System that serves their needs well. Host lets hear from jim in temple, texas. Go ahead, jim c3 hello. Caller one of the things the public should know is that it is so expensive that many people go ahead and take prison and then of course, we need to consider people coming out of prison should get a little bit of credit for having paid their so that they dont have too lo lose. You are bringing up an important issue which are the issues of probation and parole. Im glad y
They were assisted by a number of agencies, but the work of one deserves special thanks and that is the work of the and National Security agency. 25thvent marks the cias major declassification event since 2007 and our second. Who we are fortunate once again to have people with us to know more about the president s daily brief than anybody else i can think of and thats john brennan and jim clapper. Both have been very supportive of intelligence transparency efforts. Director clapper has instituted a transparency counsel and the event today is the result of that counsel. An event would not happen without the support of director brennan. Have a document like this on your chair with an agenda. The introduction will be very brief because the agenda has all of the biographies in it. For those of you watching home, you can see that what on the cia. Gov website. Ant to thank the mexican Nixon Library for this space. Director ofrect the the museum. [applause] nixonlzey welcome to the library an