Attorney general Jeff Sessions were not introducing a bipartisan prison sentencing reform bill. Will talk about criminal Justice Reform and the role of prosecutors. President trump i want to speak now, directly to americas children, especially those that feel lost, alone, confused, or even scared. I want you to know that you are never alone and you never will be. You have people who care about you, who love you, and you will do anything at all to protect you. President trump yesterday speaking to the nation about the School Shooting in florida that left 17 dead and over a dozen injured. Good morning everyone, the flags in washington remain at halfstaff in memory of the victims and their families. The front pages of the news this morning centering on school safety, and that is where we begin our conversation with you. How to we keep schools safe . Parents and students, we want to hear from you. 202 7488000. Educators, 202 7488001. Aw enforcement, 202 7488002 all others, your line is 202
Institution. Mr. Galston let me try to call this full house to order, if i may. Welcome to brookings. My name is bill galston, senior fellow in governance studies. Thanks so much for coming and welcome also to the people who are watching this event live on cspan. Todays topic is the past, the present, and possible future of the u. S. Senate. The occasion of this discussion is the publication of ira shapiros second book on the senate, this is titled kwoek can thed, broken senate save itself and the country . Those of you that read his first book on the senate will know how passionately he reveres the senate as an institution and will not be surprised to learn how distressed he is by what he describes as its precipitous decline. This topic could not be more timely. We are just days from the expiration of another short term continuing budget resolution, and perhaps even more pertinently from a promised open Senate Debate on u. S. Immigration policy. Will the promise be kept . And if it is
Senatorers namesake Mitch Mcconnell introduced senator schumer and they talked about the relationship. Thank you very much. I want to express my gratitude to you for your service. View, a done, in my seamless job of plugging the gap. When this program started in the early 1990s, i had no idea it could develop into what it had become. I hope youll join me in thanking him for the good job. [applause] weve had a lot of interesting speakers over the years. There might be none more interesting than our guests this morning. You brooklyn. Mer is from always associate a smell of triple x roche sprayed with love. It was his hard work day in and day out that took this kid from brooklyn to the United States and it. It is also why last year Time Magazine named him one of the most influential people. He was elected to the new York State Assembly at the age of 23. In his memoir, chuck remembered his parents actually did not want him to run. Basically life of a corporate lawyer was to be 6 respectabl
Think. Broken can the senate save itself and the country . And im just curious what is your conclusion to that question . Guest tom first of all im thrilled to have a conversation with you. When cspan told me that you were going to do it i felt like i had won the lottery, to see an old friend but also a great senator and Senate Leader and an author too on this subject. They can get much better than that. Host thank you. Im flattered. Guest the easy answer is that the jury is still out on how its going to go. What i tried to convey in the book was first the senate has declined over long period of time, not a couple of years, more like a couple of decades and the senate has declined in a way, the decline goes like that and then its deepens over the last nine or 10 years. What we are facing now i believe its a very diminished diminished and weakened we didnt senate at precisely the time that we need a strong one. All of a sudden we are facing the possibility, lets say we are the facing th
Trump filler but states no investigation nor that the melding campaign altered the elections results. So today, were getting your thought hopes dimets of 13 russians charged with election interference. Republicans can call 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000 and independents 2027488002. The Justice Department special counsel announced a sweeping indictment friday of a notorious Russian Group to have internet trolls charging 13 individuals in three companies with a long running scheme to criminally interfere with the 2016 u. S. President ial election. The Internet Research agency based in st. Petersburg was named the indictment as the hub of an ambitious effort to trick americans online into following and promoting russian set propaganda that pushed 2016 lets owards then look at Rod Rosenstein announcing that indictment yesterday. A grand jury in the District Of Columbia returned an indictment presented by the special counsels office. The indictment charges 13 russian nationals and three