Program. Good evening everyone. Its a pleasure to welcome you for our program. If you could put away our cell phones, we would appreciate it. If you are wondering why there are bright lights in here, you are going to be on tv. Im kidding, the speaker is going to be on cspan. When we get to the q a, wait until we bring the mic to you. The speaker will repeat the question so you can hear it. Our speaker is teaching at columbia and working for David Rockefeller he joined the cia in 1980 nine and became a Political Leadership analyst on the middle east. He moved to the history staff in 1996 and was appointed chief historian of the cia in 2005. And his biography as director of Central Intelligence was recently declassified. His articles and book reviews and technical collections have appeared on studies in intelligence and intelligence in National Security and the oxford handbook of intelligent security. He has taught intelligence history at George Mason University and georgetown university
Of the relationship between president and cia director and how it is influenced by the president s needs and interests. One cia director george w. H. Bush later became president himself. Good evening, everyone. My name is ruth robins and its a pleasure to welcome you here tonight for our program. A couple quick things first, one is, if you could please put away your cellphones, turn them off, silence them, any electronic devices, wed appreciate it. If you wonder why theres such bright lights in here, youre all going to be on tv, cspan is taking, kidding, youre not going to be on tv, the speaker is going to be on cspan. When we get to the q a they usually want to bring a mic down so they can record it. If you have a question try to wait until they bring the mic to you, the speaker will repeat the question so you can hear, but this is so they can hear it, however they work it. Our speaker tonight is David Robarge who received phd in American History from columbia university. After teachi
Wisconsin, the house is coming in. Thank you so much. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. January 16, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Gracious and merciful god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. The house prepares to recess for a week of constituent visitation and in home districts. As the nation anticipates the Martin Luther king long weekend. As we remember the heroic struggle of the civil rights movement, the badges and incidents of slavery from continued through policies still operative today, though recently being addressed through efforts at criminal Justice Reform and sentencing reform. The pains of racism,
I see that as a feature, not a bug in our system of government. You help the president fight for his share of the turf based on article to authorities. Each branch takes care of what it has to do to defend its own boundaries. It makes it easier to just everyone will see everything through the lens of today, not 10 years ago or 10 years from now. I represented a lot of people in the u. S. Senate. They really love that they have a big say in picking who is on federal courts but in the constitution the president makes the nomination with advice and consent of the senate. The question when mike lee speaks, what about the stuff the senate has come up with over the years, Institutional Senate prerogatives where the constitution refers to the senate but is a subset of the senate. It is my job to say the senates view is i think we should take this seriously. The view is the president makes the choice and they will hate when i say this but i will get in trouble with somebody, and that is someth
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