risk. nothing less. it does much more. under their unsupported theory, every civil officer is at risk of impeachment if any given group elected to the house decides what was thought to be important service to the country when they served now deserves to be cancelled. they have made clear in public statements that what they want to accomplish is bar donald trump from running from political office again. this is an affront to the constitution no matter who they target today. it means nothing less than a denial of the right to vote and the independence right for a candidate to run for elected political office guaranteed by the first and 14th amendments to the united states constitution. under the guise of impeachment as a tool to disenfranchise. perhaps my friends put the situation simply and sharply last week on his radio show. my friend is a lawyer that serves as an ambassador to former president obama and has friends among you. he described himselves a died in the wolf life-l
your imprimatur on the snap impeachment they returned in this case and can do again in the future if you endorse it by going forward with this impeachment trial this is an untenable combination that literally puts the institution of the presidency directly at risk nothing less and it does much more under there s unsupportable constitutional theory and tortured reading of the text every civil officer who has served is at risk of impeachment if any given group elected to the house decides that what was thought to be important service to the country when they served now deserves to be cancelled and they ve made clear in public statements that what they really want to accomplish here in the name of the constitution is to bar donald trump from ever running for political office again but this is an affront to the constitution no matter who they target today. it means nothing less than the denial of the right to vote and the independent right for a candidate to run for elective poli
a slight rebound in oil. a pretty significant rebound in copper. the treasurycross curve. had two back-to-back be a equities sitive it will be interesting to see what the sentiment is when we come into work in the morning on wednesday. still with us, scott rendon. cohosts joey weisenthal and scarlet fu. appetitealk about risk , when you look across the globe and you may be look at emerging markets, do you see anything attractive given how far we have seen the dollar move higher and the issues in funding markets? think there will be some problems. we are also underweight developed international markets and u.s. small caps. right now, we are very focused on u.s. large caps, u.s. mid-caps. while our targets show positive returns for all of those asset classes, far and away the two best opportunities, at least in capspinion, our u.s. large and mid-caps. we do not want to get overly aggressive in these international markets. right now, we are underweight those markets. well, i di
artificial intelligence, obama administration, report in october and december 2016 on a strategy for this. i haven t really seen a follow-up on that. the follow-up i did see was in the summer, spring of 2017 when china issued similar strategy. walter will talk about research and development, fundamental research and development by the united states and support of research institution, research universities. we a few decades ago r&d and we are now number 12. a lot has been picked up by the private sector but it s not the same thing i don t think going forward. do i think that we need to bring science back to the center of our thinking and our policy making and we just had director of policy for two years to get something in the job. one of the great regrets i have in 10 years as national security adviser, inside nse running process because every as you know, probably had technological aspects to increasingly and bandwidth issues and confident issue
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