Facing a potential revolt from his farright flank over his plan to bring three different foreign aid bills to the floor this weekend . Its a move his fiercest critics say, could ultimately cost him the speakership. But Speaker Johnson tells me hes not worried about what could happen. Hes going to do what he thinks is right. Even if the bill gets democratic votes this is very simple. Im operating with the smallest margin in us story. I have a o ve margin oy. So in order to getomhing into this underlying package, we have to havthe tes in the orida pass aule. I dont ha all mrepublicans who agree on that ru. And a rule on the floor or is that it requires a couple of democrats ls Speaker Johnson explaining why there isnt. A tougher border measures this legislation as many House Republicans want there to be coming up anjust moments. E of those republicans, coressman chip roy of texas, is goi to ta to ushe said today hes passed the point of giving gra to the speaker. Whats hiresponse to what
Investigation or to personal privacy. Lbj was reluctant because every one has federal agencies thought this was a nightmare. You mean, people can be rummaging through our files . We cant do that. Bill moyers help the newspaper editors to marshal their argument about how we are in favor of open government. One of the fascinating things we found was that bill moyers had actually written a really nice signing statement for president johnson where there is this ringing language that springs from our most essential principles that democracy works best when the people know what their government is doing. They must have access to the policy rules. Government officials should not be able to pull curtains of secrecy. It is best in the light of day. What is great about that we now , know from lbjs own schedule that on the telephone, johnson called moyers and said cut that out. Come on. Moyer has to x through this ringing declaration of freedom information of information and puts in there, yes, i
Turkey is prepping again for elections on november 1st. The Wilson Center is the host of this event this afternoon, and thatll be live at three here on cspan2. Also coming up shortly on our companion network, cspan, democratic president ial candidate senator Bernie Sanders will be speaking at liberty university, and that will be in lynchburg, virginia, the same place republican senator ted cruz announced his president ial candidacy. Senator sanders will be speaking at the con convocation, thatll start at 10 30 eastern. Youll be able to see it live on cspan, and following that we will open our phone lines to get your calls and reaction. Also coming up tonight at 8 30 weve got a hearing examining the security of the u. S. mexico border with officials from the state department and Border Control agencies. Heres a quick preview. To increase security, rule of law and justice in mexico is going to be a longterm battle. I think that we have, we can see what has happened in colombia and the ty
Incident, how would the preventive controls rule that we have just passed have made a potential significant difference in the risk of that disease . So thats an unusual case in many respects. In part because of the vast scale of the damage that it did and the thousands of products that had to be recalled because this firm was selling not only Peanut Butter in bulk but peanut ingredients that went out into thousands of processed foods. It was a catastrophic event for the food system. It also involved intentional conduct by the owner and operator of that facility and well publicized subsequent criminal prosecution and conviction. You know, the the what this will do even in that situation is provide a much stronger basis for inspectors when they go in to facilities to not be reliant just on looking around at the facility conditions and with no access to the records of the facility, now well have a much stronger ability as investigators to go into facilities and make assessments of the sys
More insufficient attention has been placed o on addressing what i call the competency gap. The difference between what College Administrators are equipped to do and what the department of educations office for civil rights is demanding of them. Campuses are ill instituted to ajud indicate allegations of Sexual Assault. While college and universities have a role to play in tackling the issue, we must make sure that we are assigning themselves responsibilities they are capable of performing well. Having defended due process for 15 years, fire is convinced that colleges are simply unequipped to serve as investigators and fact findings in these challenging issues. Rape is a crime. It should be treated as such. Using amateur systems is insulting to victims and disastrous to fundamental fairness. Unsurprisingly injustice for both victims and accused is common place. Sound Public Policy requires adjudicating these cases in courts after professional investigations. Only courts have the power