It is nice to see you again. Your book, breaking the twoparty do with the mystery of Political Science and has garnered a lot of attention. I just want to start out by pulling you back a little bit and asking you why do you want to write about Political Parties . Your first book was focused on lobbying within the universe of potential reform college and money in politics and executive power, you chose to focus on parties as the linchpin. Can you talk about what drew you two parties in the process . Its good to be with us light reunion here on cspan. So why did i write this book . Because i was worried about american democracy and i saw hyper partisanship as a serious problem affecting the country and wanted to see if there was a way to solve that problem. It imploded it directly from my previous book which is about corporate lobbying the map book had concluded one reason why lobbyists were so powerful in washington dc was because they broke a lot of laws there wasnt knowledge or expert
He just corrects me every time. All right. Were on our first week back in session of a new year and the majority in this house is really only focused on two things. First, stalling of their self described urgent impeachment, and secondly, blaming america for irans escalation. Now, lets first talk about the impeachment. We sit and read and listen to lawmakers in Speaker Pelosis own party have no idea what shes doing. Senator feinstein, the senator from california, my senator and Speaker Pelosis senator but shes even more, shes the hometown senator for nancy pelosi. She said, the longer it goes on, the less urgent it becomes. So if its serious and urgent, send them over. If it is not, dont send it over. Chairman adam smith, Speaker Pelosis own chairman on armed services, at 9 35 this morning, he said it is time for Speaker Pelosi to send the articles of impeachment to the senate. I understand what the speaker is trying to do but at the end of the day, just like we control it in the house
Impeachment. He also defended the administrations briefing to lawmakers about the situation with iran, including the killing of general qassem soleimani. Rep. Mccarthy good morning, chet. Good morning, everybody else. [laughter] he just corrects me every time. All right. Were on our first week back in session of a new year and the majority in this house is really only focused on two things. First, stalling of their self described urgent impeachment, and secondly, blaming america for irans escalation. Now, lets first talk about the impeachment. We could sit and read and listen to lawmakers in Speaker Pelosis own party have no idea what shes doing. Senator feinstein, the senator from california, my senator, and Speaker Pelosis senator, but shes even more, shes the hometown senator for nancy pelosi. She said, the longer it goes on, the less urgent it becomes. So if its serious and urgent, send them over. If it is not, dont send it over. Chairman adam smith, Speaker Pelosis own chairman on
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