Continue to will investigate each and every instance of illegal voting. Double voting, phelan voting, people voting outofstate. Outofstate. I want to remind members of a few matters, some of them required by the regulations accompanying House Resolution 965, which established the framework for Remote Committee proceedings. First, members are reminded to on atheir video functions all times, even when they are not recognized by the chair. Members are also reminded that they are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves and to mute themselves after they have finished speaking. Staff have been instructed not to mute members except when a member is not being recognized and there is inadvertent background noise. Members are further reminded that they may only attend one remote hearing at a time. If you are participating today, please remain with us during the hearing. Members should try to avoid coming in and out of the hearings. Particularly during the questions. If during the hearing
Sen. Mcconnell good afternoon, everyone. We just had our leadership elections for the Leadership Team for the next two years. Going, even to get though there is some suspense about whether we will be in a majority or not, which will be answered in georgia on january 5. We have one member of our team that is brandnew, senator rick scott from florida. I will call on my members for a couple words and we will take a couple questions and see you again after lunch. Jump in. Thank you, leader. Congratulations to you and all members of our Leadership Team. This is a terrific Leadership Team and wonderful, very diverse conference. We have some great new members. We are excited to get to work to take on the challenges that face the american people. I think the election made it very clear that people across this country reject the agenda that was put forward by the democrats. If you look at the defund the police movement, the Green New Deal movement, all those things, it was pretty clear voters a
Good evening everyone and thank you so much for joining us. My name is bennett and im a bookseller and Events Coordinator and im going to be your host tonight for literati featuring myles harvey. Lets get underway and i want to extend a thank you for your support of ourVirtual Events programming. We feel lucky that were able to continue to offer Virtual Events and we wouldnt be able to do that and hear about the king of confidence if it wasnt for you all showing up so thank you for doing that. Id like to quickly go over our policy for tonights event. We ask you keep your a video feed disabled throughout the duration of the that event and if you dont we will disable it for you and if you enable it a second time we will have toreview you from the event we appreciate your cooperation. I just wanted to briefly go over our plan for tonight, a reading by both miles and after myles reads from the king of confidence which was published this last tuesday and donovan reads from his book publishe
Im Judy Woodruff and im thrilled to be joining the three amazing authors today. You can see them on the screen. They are George Packer whose latest book the man who ran washington Richard Holbrooke and the man who ran washington and the life and times of james a. Baker, iii. Two brilliant books about two complicated and fascinating men. They were born a decade apart. Baker in houston in 1930 and holbrooke in manhattan in 1941. Baker a republican trained as a lawyer, holbrooke a democrat Foreign Service officers student of Foreign Policy. Their lives are very different and they are project trees but they both ended up in washington where they became major power players. Peter, picking up on that this is a man with great ambition and i was there even before he came to washington. Yeah it was. He was a family of aristocracy. His family built modern houston and he was expected to do great things. A very dominating father who is in part done him the legacy of his family. One thing they were
Despite the hiccups a lot of old order news organizations cheering for its fault. They had to fill time for the crew is follow weighing, can you talk about that, why it was such a big deal for cnn . It was an amazing day a year after cnn went on the air. It was only in several million homes that could receive it, cable was not, the animosity of the networks and jealousy and disbelief on the part of the networks than anybody would care about news 24 7 combined to make a perfect storm march 30th, 1981, when the president was shot, there was a crew, there is always a crew, the White House Pool crew was always with the president in case something happened to him but cnn was not allowed to be part of the pool. They happened to be inside, was a time filler for cnn, cnn need a lot of at that point. It is a long story, i detail in the book but it was a day that put cnn on the map in the minds of the press corps and that helps make them aware there was not just is just for the news but in 24 ho