On cspan. I have the pleasure this evening of welcoming and introducing two eminent scholars of Richard Nixon and the nixon era. Our moderator is frank gannon, who served as special assistant to donald rumsfeld. He was chief Editorial Assistant to nixon on the writing of his memoirs during the president s years insane clementa. And he has the were distinction of having interviewed the president on tape in 1983. Those materials now reside at the university of georgia in the p body archive. We also have john roy price, a harvard educated attorney who cofounded the rippon society. He promptly joined the new Nixon Administration in 1969, working with Daniel Patrick moynahan on the council, like to working with domestic adviser, as special assistant to the president for urban affairs. John later went into banking later becoming chief of regulations for chase bank. Special note, john is joined this evening by his daughter alexandra and his son phil. Welcome to both of you. Johns new book, th
The area of interest at the time. We get into these legal arguments that the groups we go after our pursuant to that authority and with that authority, somehow or other, it connected adequately to the group we were going after. It is a legal document and it has to be done with some real care. It is not done in the conflicts we have seen. We didnt have aumf in lybia. We have never had an aumf using airpower. I believe the president should get bipartisan support. I think the policy is right. I believe that the policy that he has laid out his right. For this moment to disagree on technical wordings a concurrent or joint resolution doing with those limits, no Ground Troops relying on a coalition. These are themes of this president which i happen to share. It gets to the point of if we are going to try to overcome the complexities of an aumf which might be a complex partisan debate. It leads to that because it is such a legal document that is binding law instead of supporting the title x fu
You and your colleagues have just started to absorb the information. How old you like to proceed in regard to combatting the inas you are insurgency . Isil needs ah be confronted and defeated. It needs to be removed as a threat to Regional Security in the middle east and theres a Security Threat to. United states of america. I think that there will obviously be debates about how to do that, butable that we will be unite the but i believe we will be united . Host can you give us some information about what you would like to see . Some of the options are taking the idea of authorizing, arming, and training the rebels and putting it into funding the government. Others say we should split them up and have two separate votes. And there are still others, i talked to jim moran, and he said that they should come back and have a full authorization of force debate in november after the election. Guest i believe that the process is what we will pursue. I think that there will be a consideration o
And survivor that was shot in the back during a rampage testified about her experience. Three children were injured after a fire broke out inside their apartment. One of the children was left to babysit her siblings. She put out the fire by placing her burning for yearold sister in the bathtub. Three children were at home at the time. The 16 yearold was doing her homework in her bedroom as the other two were playing in their room. A 10 yearold soon ran to her to tell her there was a fire coming from the bunk beds. The older girl picked up for younger sister and putter in the bathtub. She ran water on her. The little girl suffered critical injuries. All three kids were taken to the Childrens Hospital. The teenagers hands were badly burned from lifting her sister. The grandmother says she thinks the boys started the fire by accident. My granddaughter put the fire out. Some of the family is here now as a little girl remains. Reporting from the Childrens Hospital at the university of chica