Topics include the impeachment inquiry, President Trumps use of social media, and the role of the courts. From the brookings institution, this is 90 minutes. Good afternoon. I would like to welcome you to our event on impeachment, foreign interference it has been several weeks since nancy pelosi launched the impeachment inquiry. Soon, we will be moving to public hearings. At the same time, as we head into the 2020 election, there is concern about foreign interference in our infrastructure. Theres been concern about sowing societal discord and spreading disinformation. You should have copies of the constitution at each of your seats. So if theres anything that comes up during the course of the conversation where you need to refer to that legal document, feel free to do so. [laughter] do so. To help us think about these issues we have for distinguished host to help us think about these issues we have for distinguished experts. Bill galston is a senior fellow at brookings, writes a column
E. J. good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming. Thank you to those who are joining us online. The hashtag for this event for those who want to quot the very distinguished panel or make any comment is impeachment101. I want to thank john allen for those remarks. I think it would show the seriousness of the think tank if john allens remarks alone could make federalist 65 go viral. Perhaps we can publish federalist cyst i5 as a brookings policy brief and turn Alexander Hamilton into a temporary senior fellow but think you so much. We have become almost accustomed to impeachment but this doesnt make it any less serious or complicated. It involves constitutional issues related to accusations of abuse of power and that loaded but illdefined phrase high crimes and misdemeanors our panel will try to define those for us or talk about how they have been defined at different moments in our history. It is also inevitably political in the high sense of that word and there is a high sense of the
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The research focuses on the intersection of technology, policy, business losses wider ramifications of key technological trends and development. He testified before congress more recently on drums, privacy and intellectual property and also the broad for the Global Agenda Council and cybersecurity. John is going to go through the basics of sections of a note to and sort of like a onetoone introduction and for the rest of our program today. John, welcome good thank you for coming today. I realize theres probably some countrys top experts on seven of two of the room and perhaps people who know a little more. If youre one of the countrys top, you will learn nothing in the next 25, 30 minutes. The goal of this portion of the talk is to make sure we are all starting to think foundation. Im not going to argue in favor or against section 702. I am going to lay out the same place. My understanding is programmatically this one goes until 12 45 in the without much for you and will come back and