Establishmentoth parties, democrat and republican, into larger institutions, including my profession, still have a hard time wrestling with understanding who this coalition is, how it is formed, and that donald trump did not cause it, he is the result of it. Host lets take a deep dive into your reporting. You write the following the concrete notion of a donald Trump Presidency did not uniformly crystallize until the wee hours of november 9, 2016. In many ways, there has been no other sunrise in american politics since as the American Public remains stuck in the moment that they served surprise notice that guest that sums it up. If you voted for donald trump, didnt about for him, most people recognize that that is where we are today. Not much has moved from that moment. I tell people all the time when they say what has changed . What is going to happen . Do people still like him . I say it is sort of like groundhog day. Nothing much has changed since november 9, 2016. You woke up that m
Welcome to new america. Thank you for coming out in the what the Weather Forecast has called a wintry mix. Thank you for cspan for covering this. And welcome to the cspan viewers. Im going to introduce our moderator, sharon burke who is the Senior Advisor to the International Security program. She runs the resource security program. Shes a Longtime Department of defense most recent position was assistant secretary of defense for energy and security. Ill go to sharon now. Thank you. Sharon thank you very much. Apparently, you realize its snowing. So we thank you for braving the weather for joining us together for a very important situation and a fastmoving situation for sure. I want to start by acknowledging something that we just did with peter. Peter, of course has a new book out that you should all read. And when we were here talking about his book just about two weeks ago, i asked peter, i said you know, youre writing about a president and a National Security team before the story i
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February. No april. Sorry. Is it on here. Just april 19th oh, i have an old agenda commissioner frost commissioner lee commissioner perez commissioner thomas and commissioner joseph. Respect from executive director. Thank you very much you guys okay so sorry work in the hallway on an item coming before i i want to update the commission on a couple pieces of legislation your the agenda says to file numbers clean up items ive talked about for a few meetings and in Land Use Committee there was some southern over one part of 3 different parts of the legislation that was george being worked on those just to remind you are the creation of a waveer for loudspeaker permits weve been doing for a very long time a waiver process in the office not codified we needed to make sure we had a way to do this so that was in the legislation as clean up there was additional timeframe for people for an altered grant not able to chief 3 that has been extended you know for two conventional periods for just ca