On the 2020 election and the impact of the impeachment inquiry against President Trump. The Texas Tribune hosted this hourlong event. Abby welcome all. Im Abby Livingston. Im the chair of the Texas Tribune and im delighted to welcome two of the most pivotal people in the american politics. Of the most pivotal people in the american politics. They have the jobs that are not most well known. To my meet left i have cheri bus tos. Hello. And i have congressman tom emmer and hes the chair of the National Republican committee. It took me a while to understand the acronyms. Theyre not as well known as. N. C. Chairman or d. N. C. Chairman. But these are members of congress who have been elected by their colleagues to basically get the gavel whether that means protect it or take it. And so it is a difficult job. They manage millions of dollars. They decide who gets that money in ad spending and it can be a brutal process if your side is not doing well in the election year. I had one former chai
The Texas Tribune hosted this hourlong event. Welcome all. Im Abby Livingston. Im the chair of the Texas Tribune and im delighted to welcome two of the most pivotal people in the american politics. They have the jobs that are not most well known. To my meet left i have cheri bus tos. Hello. And i have congressman tom emmer and hes the chair of the National Republican committee. It took me a while to understand the acronyms. Theyre not as well known as. N. C. Chairman or d. N. C. Chairman. But these are members of congress who have been elected by their colleagues to basically get the gavel whether that means protect it or take it. And so it is a difficult job. They manage millions of dollars. They decide who gets that money in ad spending and it can be a brutal process if your side is not doing well in the election year. I had one former chairman describe to me what its like during the house floor and tell a colleague im so sorry, i just cut off your Television Ads and youre going to l
Thats a significant contrast to where the Democratic Caucus is and the extent to which you have had particularly the democratic members and seats who have a huge disconnect between what their constituents wnat and why those voters sent them to washington and whats happening here with the Democratic Caucus and where youve got members who went home who are democrats who promised that they would bring jobs back and who promised they would work across the aisle and who promised that they would find Common Sense Solutions to problems their constituents were facing and instead what weve all seen is a terribly radical, dangerous agenda coming out of the democrats and one that were going to see continue certainly. We are already seeing that now. Both in terms of the kinds of substance that theyre focused on. Their efforts to kill fossil fuels and their efforts to fund the american citizens and their determination to go down the path of impeachment and on impeachment, what were seeing is and th
It took me a while to understand the acronyms. Theyre not as well known as. N. C. Chairman or d. N. C. Chairman. But these are members of congress who have been elected by their colleagues to basically get the gavel whether that means protect it or take it. And so it is a difficult job. They manage millions of dollars. They decide who gets that money in ad spending and it can be a brutal process if your side is not doing well in the election year. I had one former chairman describe to me what its like during the house floor and tell a colleague im so sorry, i just cut off your Television Ads and youre going to lose reelection. Yall might have heard of a man named rahm emanuel. He leveraged that job to very high levels of the american government. And so i find the job fascinating. But i would like to start off and ill start with congressman bustos. Can you describe to me what this job is . Sure. Hello, everybody. First of all, thanks for being here. I want to thank the texas tribune. Im
That was off the record. [laughter] i think we will get started. Thest want to thank American Political Science Association and sees in for foriding and cspan providing a broader environment for what is clearly a very important and relevant topic in 2019. That being this roundtable on the tropic of the Trump White House and the White House Press corps. Cohen. Is dave i am a professor of Political Science an actual professor of Political Science at the university of akron. Im an assistant director of applied politics. Im also a board member of the been press club and have over a decade. And im a member of the white house transition project, which for those who dont know, it is a nonpartisan effort to provide by presidency scholars to provide information on president ial transitions and white house operations to those who are transitioning into the white house. Its a very Important Organization that happened to be one of the founders of that organization is martha kumar, who i am happy t