Weve organized todays hearing. The 2016 election, the American People made a resounding call to drain the swamp. That is modern washington. And sadly this is a bipartisan problem. The American People have lost confidence in washington and especially in congress. And it isnt hard to see why. Enmeshed in back room deals and broken promises, our capitol has too often become a political playground for the powerful and well connected. For members of the permanent Political Class looking to accumulate more and more power at the expense of american taxpayers. As part of his promise to drain the swamp, President Trump strongly endorsed and campaigned on passing congressional term limits. Though our founders didnt include term limits in the constitution, they feared the creation of a permanent Political Class that existed parallel to rather than within american society. As Benjamin Franklin observed, quote, in free governments, the rulers are the servants. And the people their superiors. For th
David, welcome to after words on booktv. Your book is titled you report to me. Who was reporting to . Guest this book is really titled based on a conversation i had with President Trump right as i was becoming acting secretary of the interior and i sate down with the president and had a discussion about potentially taking this role after serving as the deputy secretary. And in our discussion, we got to the end of the discussion and i said to him who do i report to and he said you report to me, which was a very different perspective than i expected. I expected to be told i reported to the chief of staff or someone else. So i walked out of there come out of the oval office with that crystallized in my memory and it turned out that it was actually true, that as i worked with the president , but i founded is thai called him, discussed issues with him and he made, you know, the input that he wanted to make and it turned into a working relationship that was very, very efficient and much diff
How many countries there are, 190 participants, again, 190 countries, here at the un, we once looked at days, there were 193 there, i dont know how it is now, it remains so for now, yes, that means 193 countries, 20,000 participants, its clear that everyone is asking them there in the telegram, is this isolation already or not yet, the same one, its not yet , it seems to me that right now, in fact , i also talked to foreigners there, thats how simple it is to see this whole mess, the isolation of russia, theres a war against us, in general theres a whole huge bloc there, thats how it is in the interpretation of young people who we came to sochi, but we werent afraid and wanted to, so tell me, i think its very interesting, i in fact, i met many delegations from Different Countries here, i met my old friends from germany, whom we met last time, i saw a delegation from north korea, from turkey, from belgrade to belgrade, in general, people from completely Different Countries , and i, of c
He explains the aim of the federalist papers. Good evening. Welcome to class number two of the study of the u. S. Constitution. Last week we looked at the history that led to the drafting of the constitution. I want to recap that quickly tonight as we start because as i tried to communicate last week, the drafting of our constitution, the history of its formation is extraordinary to say the least. It is remarkable moment in all of world history. We are here at 233 years later and our constitution is in the news daily, being referred to as we almost speak here tonight, again and again. In reference to one particular aspect of the constitution. But again, it is alive and well. To think about the fact this came together from a period of midmay until midseptember of 1787 is remarkable. We recall that we said the revolutionary war, and a lot of folks are not clear on the sequencing. It is important to note conflict began in lexington and concord and massachusetts in 1774. These very indepen
At the end of his extraordinary with suzanne and also Salman Rushdie challenged us to defend the First Amendment principle that we must protect the thought we hate, as Justice Holmes called it, and that in america, speech can only be banned if its intended to and likely to cause imminent violence. Thats the principle that comes the brandenburg case. It was articulated by brandeis in witney, and it makes america, as Salman Rushdie said the most speech protective country in the world. And on our first panel, were going to explore the history of that shining idea with three of americas greatest history wins of freedom of speech. And im so excited for the conversation we have, jake and martin gamma from the future of free speech project, akhil amar from yale law school, steve solomon from nyu and jacob rosenbaum. I want jump right in and first say that your book free speech a history from socrates to social media, i think is the clearest and best history of the evolution of the idea that i