Thank you for taking this opportunity to discuss your new book. To have a little that of time and with those overreaches with those powers and now you are presenting him as the Constitutional Order regarding president ial powers. What changed your view . How did you move from where you were before to what you have presented in your new book . It with your work on executive privilege this would be fun. I wasnt a supporter of his of the 2016 election and it worried me he was populist and it seemed designed to stop populist it was really anti democratic with the electoral college. So coming in as a populist to achieve an agenda to receive that mandate for to restrain to go beyond the constitutional restrictions on his power. And i urge them to use the president ial powers for National Security and Foreign Affairs to understand Domestic Affairs but his role but i found his critics because they think trump is so outrageous a large attack after attack on his legitimacy. His critics for examp
Glad to see you looking so well. Im honored to be with you all today and i want to start by thanking arturo for this opportunity to share my vision for latinos in our country. If i have the honor of being elected president , i want to thank you for your opening remarks. We have seen a lot of ups and downs in the Latino Community. None more stark than the last 3. 5 years. Donald trump his administration have pursued an allout assault on latino communities, from the moment he came down that golden escalator saying he was going to take on the mexican rapists. It started the moment he announced his presidency. Feeding the flames of fears and racism against latinos. It is baked into every aspect of how he has governed. This week was an especially poignant reminder of the terrible consequences of allowing that kind of hate to grow unchecked. Butought we could defeat a, it only hides under the rocks. When a president breathes oxygen in, it comes roaring out. On monday, we marked the oneyear a
He received his undergraduate and masters degrees in history. I got to know david when he was running on Hillary Clintons campaign. He is a distinguished fellow, National Security and board of law school. Scholar of the university of texas. He spent many hours together in the situation room and previously served president home and security and counterterrorism. Middle Eastern Affairs and counterterrorism, john received several awards for his contributions including National Security panel, Public Service medal and fbi director medallion. Please join me in welcoming david and john. David, congratulations on the release of the book before we get to the specific aspects, can you give an over view of what the book is about . Why you wanted to write about this topic. I want to say thank you for being here and i am excited to talk about these issues. I would say i wrote this book because after 2016 after russia attacked our democracy, i found bizarre, dangerous the operation was treated as u
We have seen a lot of ups and downs in the Latino Community. None more stark than the last 3. 5 years. Donald trump his administration have pursued an allout assault on latino communities, from the moment he came down that golden escalator saying he was going to take on the mexican rapists. It started the moment he announced his presidency. Feeding the flames of fears and racism against latinos. It is baked into every aspect of how he has governed. This week was an especially poignant reminder of the terrible consequences of allowing that kind of hate to grow unchecked. Butought we could defeat a, it only hides under the rocks. When a president breathes oxygen in, it comes roaring out. On monday, we marked the oneyear anniversary of the tragic mass shooting in el paso where a gunman explicitly sought to target latinos and 23 beautiful lives were stolen from us and their families. I know what it is like to lose a child. It is awful. The stakes of trumps irresponsible policies, of divisi
And overnight while the casket was in the rotunda, according to abc, close family members and staffers took turns sitting vigil overnight while lewis lies in state in the rotunda. Also happening on capitol hill today, the attorney general, william barr, will be testifying before the house judiciary about his performance. Well begin a conversation on that. What do you think about mr. Barrs performance as attorney general . Do you agree with him at 2027480000 is your number. Disagree, 2027482001. You can also text us at 2027488003. Or join us on twitter and facebook. Com cspan. Joining us on the phone is todd, a Legal Affairs staff writer with cq roll call. Remind our viewers why this hearing is taking place. Hi, good morning. Well, this is basically something that used to happen all the time and does happen all the time. Its an oversight hearing. And you have the house, which is the closest representative to the people of the United States in the government and they get a chance to brin