Having me. Acy is in real peril. If we what led to it was the fear that our democracy is in peril. If we continue to engage in politics the way we have the last 10 years in this country, i think my generation is going to be the first generation to leave less opportunity and not more to the people coming after us. That is about as unamerican an idea we could be facing. Familyr reaction . My wife was for it. We had a checkered career in business. Running the democratic rePublic Schools, its own challenge. She was up for another challenge. My daughters had different reactions. We have three daughters. The girl who was then 14 said, you should absolutely run. Reaction right out of the shoe. It made me glad that she was so proud of my Public Service. The longer we talked, she sought as an opportunity for me to be out of the house during her 15th year of life. Be burning the place down from i know right now. My 20yearold daughter, her reaction was, if you run and tell the truth and you lose,
P and move, and all the calamity and disruption a left of peoples lives, the way that opioids and other unhappy things came in and destructive things came in to fill the void. The over policing, the sense that the attention paid to those issues and to us came at campaign time, if then, and disappeared from the agenda in between. Those are things folks are feeling in a lot more places than the southside of chicago. We have that in common. So the opportunity to have broad, focused, and sustained attention in solving those problems, and bringing all the perspectives we know we need from all of these different in which i have solved problems in the past, i think it is a service i want to be able to offer i want to talk about your chicago roots. First, lets talk about your entry in the race. It has only been a couple of weeks. Goin fact, we were ready to about a year ago and some change. We were within a week and half of announcing when my wife was a diagnosed with uterine cancer. It made s
It is an honor for me to join all of the distinguished lawyers in this room. Thank you for that introduction. I am the 85th attorney general. [laughter] attorney general barr chinese has come in handy because i find that when you read congressional enactments from right to left, they make a lot more sense. [laughter] [applause] attorney general barr it is an here this evening. And to deliver the 19th annual Barbara K Olson memorial lecture. I here this evening. Have had the privilege of being friends with ted since we first met in the reagan administration. Ted was head of the of his of legal counsel. Of the office of legal counsel. I miss barbaras in bullions d barbaras ebullience. I was trying to figure out what would be an appropriate speech to give here at the Federalist Society. I was having difficulty. I thought the notre dame speech had done so well. I was just going to deliver it again. [applause] but,ney general barr recognizing that this years annual convention is a ritualism
Our discussion, let me introduce the men to my left. Jim banner to edited the book president ial misconduct which is the kickoff for our discussion tonight is a visiting scholar in history at George Washington university. Having spent most of his career teaching at princeton, he is the founding director of the history news service. His most recent book is being a historian being a historian and he hasory edited and written numerous books including the one we are featuring tonight. He also was one of the creators of the National History center. Editorinchief of the quarterly review. Let me tell you how i know jackson. So, i was a graduate student at yale and people would always say there is this great historian, hes going to be so great, you are a few years older. He was one of the historians who proceeded to define a field which is basically how to think about culture in a way that spoke to many different parts of our political life. That might not be how the describes himself, but tha
Can you help walk the American People through what happens next . We have another week of hearings. There will be an Intelligence Report written up. And then what . Does the president get, as he says, to confront his accuser . Speaker pelosi when you say confront his accuser, you mean confront the whistleblower . I will make sure he does not intimidate the whistleblower. The president could come before the committee and speak all the truth he wants. You dont expect him to. Speaker pelosi if he wants to take the oath of office, or he can do it in writing. He has every opportunity to present his case. That is the funny thing about facts. They do not change. We have the transcript. There was no linkage of security system. We have the two guys on the call. President zelensky said, no pressure. Just be clear, are you they didnt know their aid was held. They didnt do anything. I understand you are saying the aid was released. But to put a fine point on it, are you comfortable with the invest