Resident fellow here at American Enterprise institute. It is my pleasure today to welcome to the aei professor Cass Sunstein. Hes the University Professor at harvard law school. He formerly was professor of law and professor of science at the university of chicago for many years. He was the administrator of the office of information and regulatory affairs, commonly known as oia come in the obama administration. Hes written more than a dozen books, and im happy to say that hes spoken a number of times here at the aei. We can trim a good friend of aei. Hes here today to talk about this latest book, which is called republic. I think that a reader would not have pronounced the word that way 20 years ago. Its an important and interesting book, so please welcome Cass Sunstein to aei. [applause] okay, well its a thrill to be back here. You all do amazing work, and ive learned so much from whats produced here on the legal and regulatory matters, and i really think you on behalf of millions of
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone, good afternoon. My neighboring is michael, resident fellow of American Enterprise institute and its my pleasure today to welcome to aei profess or Cass Sunstein. He was the administrator of the Office Information of regulatory affairs, commonly known as oir from obama administration. Hes written a dozen books and herest hes here to talk about his latest books which is called republic. I think that a reader would not have pronounced the word that way 20 years ago but its an important and interesting book so please welcome Cass Sunstein to aei. Okay. Well, its a thrill to be out here and you all do amazing work and ive learned so much from whats produced here on legal and regulatory matters and i really thank you on behalf of zillions of people. I was blessed or cursed for the last several years to live in the waldorf towers, which is pretty heavy stuff from a boy from massachusetts and i lived there because my wife embassador of united
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Also Congress Gets back to work tomorrow after the shooting at a gop baseball practice. What role did overheated rhetoric play in that tragedy . Congressman mo brooks was there and helped save the lives of scalise and others. He will join us live. Plus, the war in afghanistan, more american troops are likely on the way, but are are we winning this war . Ill talk with House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry as we look ahead right now on sunday morning futures. Maria President Trump making a big announcement on friday, the rollback with of president obamas outreach to cuba. [applause] usa usa usa maria the announcement welcomed with open arms by a cheering crowd in miami who were chanting usa. President trump stopping short of a full reversal of the obama administrations deal with the communist country, but the new policy moves to restrict individual travel to the island. It cracks down on the flow of u. S. Cash to the cuban military and demands key reforms in havana. Join
Senate side for next week. Can you give us a sense of the white house role in what they would like to see happen . The timeline is that is expected this week and then potentially vote on thursday. The white house says it is not yet aware it has the 50 votes they need but they will have a better sense at the end of the week and their confident things are heading in the right direction. Give us a sense of that confidence. What is this based on . Are they willing to take a gamble even if the votes arent there . A they were looking at a vote towards march. They pulled it at the last minute. They realize they do not have the votes and do not want to puts up a bill only to fail. Its still an unknown whether we could see a similar scenario play out in the senate. Right now things feel very talk unknown as we havent seen the w bill tax. Which talk about the objections but once we get this bill which is coming on thursday or friday of this week and will have a better sense of what issues senato