French president raises eyebrows by describing nato is brain dead is the airlines weakening can europe create an alternative this is inside story. Hello welcome to the show i am sam is a than nato is experiencing brain death so says french president emanuel microloan many of his European Partners in the alliance certainly dont agree though they call is words drastic and dangerous in an interview with the economist magazine the french president blamed the us saying its commitment to nato is weakening microns cited the us failure to consult it before pulling its forces out of Northern Syria he also questioned whether the alliance is still committed to collective defense and he called on europe to think of itself as a geopolitical power and ensure its in control of its destiny microns remarks come ahead of a summit in the u. K. Early next month to mark nato 70th anniversary u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei or says nato must change or risk irrelevance. They dont run is always the risk
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Have the sole power of impeachment. The house of representatives. Thats one single body. The house can call for the removal of the president. Not the speaker. Not the chairman of the Intelligence Committee. The house. Pelosi and schiff are attempting a total takedown all on their own with no 0 vote. Pelosi and schiff are unconstitutionally trying to you be do the vote of 350 million plus americans. They say its trumps fault for not turning over the documents. Washington post opinion page. They write this is the constitutional crisis we feared. The New York Times opinion page today. This is a constitutional crisis. What happens next. Here is what late show Host Stephen Colbert said last night. People have been musing publicly. When is the constitutional crisis coming . Mark your calendar. Its here. You cant just not participate in your own impeachment. Sir, you are charged with assault and battery. How do you plead . Pass . Trish you get the picture. Thats just a small sample. Why would
Have the sole power of impeachment. The house of representatives. Thats one single body. The house can call for the removal of the president. Not the speaker. Not the chairman of the Intelligence Committee. The house. Pelosi and schiff are attempting a total takedown all on their own with no 0 vote. Pelosi and schiff are unconstitutionally trying to you be do the vote of 350 million plus americans. They say its trumps fault for not turning over the documents. Washington post opinion page. They write this is the constitutional crisis we feared. The New York Times opinion page today. This is a constitutional crisis. What happens next. Here is what late show Host Stephen Colbert said last night. People have been musing publicly. When is the constitutional crisis coming . Mark your calendar. Its here. You cant just not participate in your own impeachment. Sir, you are charged with assault and battery. How do you plead . Pass . Trish you get the picture. Thats just a small sample. Why would
Books that we usually organize events around here at cato. But i can assure you the authors that we are featuring today are serious accomplished economist with decades of scholarly work in forming this publication. The subtitle of the book two economists drink their way through the unfree world gives us the flavor of their unconventional approach for a couple of academics. That subtitle didnt surprise me though. I attempt to run into ben powell and bob lawson at academic conferences around the country and around the world and inevitably they have drinks in their hands probably because we chat at event perceptions and the like but the conversation is always interesting, informative and fun. That is also true of this new book. This is a light book about a heavy topic. So its fortunate for two it is rather that we are featuring today the first day of the late lovell Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman one of the great economists of the 20th century and a champion of economic and overall human