Marketing officer for the Ronald Reagan president ial institute to those that defend our freedom around the world to men and women please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. And had the fortune to have many journalist print and broadcast speak here over the years but tonight covering six president s beginning with president reagan and speaking of we are first introduced in 2002 with a handful of other experts to share stories the president reagan stories we then used to make that experience that much more rich and then to discuss copies of his book prisoners of the white house and ultimate insiders white house photographers and how they shape history 2017. Covering the white house as 1986 he has material for many more books especially continuing insight into the white house of donald trump and p
Youre in warfare all the history going back 100 years or more is the executive branch lies lies lies the u. S. S. Me Mexican American war illicit u. S. S. Greer a gulf of tonkin resolution every time so we know theyre probably lying about this stuff. Bruce fein a former senior official and department of justice and a constitutional scholar has identified 12 impeachable offenses committed by donald trump but as he notes many of these constitutional violations are not unique to the trumpet ministration they have been normalized by democratic and republican administrations these longstanding violations for this reason were ignored by the Democratic Party leaders seeking to impeach the president they chose to focus exclusively on trumps attempt to get the ukrainian president to open an investigation of joe biden and his son. Hunter in exchange for 400000000. 00 in u. S. Military aid and a visit by the ukrainian leader to the white house ignoring these institutional violations during the im
So now, to go back and listen to what has happened to weapons from truman to trump is really remarkable. All from the midwest and college thinking he would be a literature major but watergate changed him to Political Science and then he went on to graduate school at mit and it was International Relations and nuclear strategy. Then he moved to washington with the house of representatives house policy advisor but you know government work, he decided that wasnt for him so then he left and wrote the widely acclaimed book of armageddon. And t then spent time at the boston globe because they were looking for experts inn defense he stayed there 20 years as bureau chief in moscow, bureau chief in new york city. And by the end of 2002 started writing stories and has written for previous books before tonight what i am really excited to have is our guest fred kaplan and his book the bomb. [applause] thanks for coming out. Just said my first book was 1983 about the small group of defense intellect
A purely political one by the House Speaker pelosi trying to save the seats of the half dozen or dozen democrats who won districts that otherwise voted for trump and there was no principle to the standards or the Decision Making whatsoever but also when we confronted big headwinds was precisely when we started to focus on charges that democrats and republicans were complicit in flouting the declare war clause flouting oversight power flouting the Treaty Authority flouting the appointments clause flouting the appropriations clause all those kinds of things nancy pelosi yourself was complicit in some of those for example saying nothing when mr obama went to war with libya on his own expanded the war in syria on his own did what was really should have been a treaty with iran to constrain their Nuclear Ambitions without a treaty but just an executive agreement which i should treat as a supposed to be. Exactly there is what you already declared but absolutely and the reason why it was very
No longer see them and we know that the executive branch is inclined any time youre in warfare all the history going back 100 years or more is the executive branch lies lies lies the u. S. s me Mexican American war you listen to us as greer a gulf of tonkin resolution every time so we know theyre probably lying about this stuff. Bruce fein a former senior official and department of justice and a constitutional scholar has identified 12 impeachable offenses committed by donald trump but as he notes many of these constitutional violations are not unique to the trumpet ministration they have been normalized by democratic and republican administrations these longstanding violations for this reason were ignored by the Democratic Party leaders seeking to impeach the president they chose to focus exclusively on trumps attempt to get the ukrainian president to open an investigation of joe biden and his son hunter in exchange for 400000000. 00 in u. S. Military aid and a visit by the ukrainian