At the outset i want to thank senator ron johnson and his staff for sponsoring the room for todays event. As you have may have noticed from your program and our panel up here were playing shorthanded this afternoon. Professor coup from Hofstra School of law [laughter] not sure what that was. Professor koo had a last minute conflict which precluded him from flying down this morning. Even without his valuable presence i think you will agree we have a great panel. And the topic of executive and legislative war powers seems particularly appropriate given we just celebrated our nations independence day. After more than 200 years, our government has develop ad track record regarding starting wars and use of military force which can be measured against the founders views and the constitution. It is good to ask, how has the framers understanding been followed, and in what ways has it been ignored . Do the founding principles regarding these topics still have application to our modern era . To
The author writes that the United States needs to take a more active role in tightening borders and increasing security measures. This is a little under one hour. Cspan michelle malkin, author of invasion, you say in your book that the immigration and Naturalization Service has a core culture of corruption. Guest absolutely. And in many cases, that isnt even my words. There are many former and current ins officials who acknowledge that there is a culture of corruption. A climate of abuse is the phrase that doris meissner, who was ins chief under clintongore administration, has used. And she even pointed out, as several former highlevel ins officials have, that this climate of abuse is unique among government agencies. And theres a problem there that is not nearly as rampant as any other Law Enforcement agency. You have an agency thats supposed to be enforcing immigration laws, but in so many instances, from top to bottom, rather than enforce those laws, people either ignore them or are
The dow down 12, now 6 points. Were finishing near final figures down to 13,241. Nasdaq down 8 points and the s p hanging in there, at least for the moment, still settling out but at 1428 and change. Indeed. With the marks losing steam during the fed chairmans press conference. Why dont we take a closer look at todays moves as weve got lots of people lined up here and a couple on the set as well . Randy bateman from huntington funds is over there. Stephanie link, cnbc contributor and bruce mccain with Key Private Bank in cleveland and Michael Pento of pento portfolios, no idea where you are, and bob pisani on the floor of the new york stock exchange. What did you make, stephanie, of todays Market Action . Youre the trader and follow the shortterm swings. What was the message of the market do you think today . The message is the market is nothing is really going to change. Interest rates will be low for an extended period of time. The fact that they tied the rates to unemployment, a lit