A rolls royce right and today you make it robotic you know you make it like you can make a nice. So the luxury of being i think question and redefined in a way. But what i realize now is did luxury in the digital age worse is the analog is its about having a means of seamless communication you know clothing world is becoming one luxury is to have a 1000 friends around the world luxuries for affords me to work and im working 49 countries right now if Frank Lloyd Wright was alive today or because so can imagine what they could be doing how prolific they could be we thought they were prolific then you could be very prolific now so these are the new forms of luxury and then i personally i realised in the last couple of years what is luxury for me and i concluded that it was free time because i really. As that the majority of us work so hard and were so inundated with a lot that we when we have that moment to be alone or to be with someone we love to be with our family or to. Meditate or to
Democracy movement worldwide. To week two of impeachment hearings, President Trump says he will, quote, strongly consider testifying in writing after nancy pelosi invited him. Tonight the update. Voters react. A new reuters poll shows the majority of americans tuned out to the hearings. The New York Times reporting, quote, voters are wornout by the fog of political news. Tonight, the latest on adam schiff, the speech by the impeachment leader this weekend, where adam schiff applauded the quote resistance against trump, claiming that he is ready to kick out the quote charlatan trump. The debate. The legitimacy of the hearings at stake. The field in chaos, democrat leaders now warn according to the Washington Post that the primary fight to pick a democrat frontrunner could last into the summer. Just months before the election. This as both president obama and pelosi increasingly warn that the far left 2020 democrats, the average american will not want what they are selling, that american
All right. Today we are talking about u. S. Empire abroad. And im going to start with the question like always. So lets start with a question. So the question for today is why did the u. S. Become a global empire . Why did the u. S. Become a global empire . Why did the u. S. Become a global mpire . Ok. Why did the u. S. Become a global mpire . Ok. Before we get too far. Im going to start with the first slide here. This is a political cartoon from a magazine in 1899. It says school begins. Uncle sam to his new class in civilization. Now, children, youve got to learn these lessons whether you want to or not. But just take a look at the class ahead of you, and remember that in a little while, you will feel as glad to be here as they are. All right. So it might be hard for you to see. But the students are latered, cuba, puerto rico, hawaii and the philippines. And these are supposed to be students that are named for the states that were already part of the United States. And if you will in
Congressional subpoenas and cant be forced to testify before congress. Lets bring in attorney david rifkin, he served during the reagan and georg george h. W. Buh administrations. Welcome. Thank you for coming today. David, how strong is this president s case for saying that his aides dont have to testify because of this immunity . Very strong. It is a wellestablished immunity, paul, dates back to 1971, an opinion written by william republica renquist, been reaffirmed in nine administrations and both parties, fully case law. Ittheres a group of people tht see the president every day, he communicates with them, the 1971 opinion says the president is a coequal branch, he cannot command that members of congress appear before him. They cannot command he appears before them. I want to emphasize one more point. The reason the president has a strong position, theres another form of absolute immunity based upon 1989 opinion, he went on to be a chief judge in the fourth circuit. That stands for
Empire . Why did the u. S. Become a global empire . Ok. Before we get too far. Im going to start with the first slide here. This is a political cartoon from a magazine in 1899. It says school begins. Uncle sam to his new class in civilization. Now, children, youve got to learn these lessons whether you want to or not. But just take a look at the class ahead of you, and remember that in a little while, you will feel as glad to be here as they are. All right. So it might be hard for you to see. But the students are labeled, cuba, puerto rico, hawaii and the philippines. And these are supposed to be students that are named for the states that were already part of the United States. And if you will in the back this is supposed to be an africanamerican cleaning the windows, an indigenous student at the back, and this is supposed to be a Chinese Student that are excluded entirely. This is whats summing up the stuff were going to talk about in this class. Background. Lets do the definition of