Bauer, who is my supremely wise, talented, and collegial codirector of the nyu law schools legislative and regulatory process clinic, i wanted to welcome you here today to the fourth year of the Sidley Austin forum. We are joined this year by another nyu law entity, the center on law and security, a nonpartisan, multidisciplinary institute. And the director, richard gold brenner who is here, has been invaluable in helping pull together the program for this afternoon. This forum would not be possible without the generous support of Sidley Austin, a Renowned International law firm. So it gives me great pleasure to introduce peter roskam him, who is a partner in their Chicago Office Company Knows a lot about what we are talking about today. He served his district in illinois in the u. S. House of representatives for six terms, from 20072019. And during that time he held a number of very significant positions. One of those most pertinent to what were talking about today is that he chaired
Thank you all very much. Mr. Horowitz thank you. I really appreciate what you have done. Do you have your team here with you . Would it be okay if they raised their hands, is that all right . If theyre okay with it, im okay with it. Thank you all. You have labored hard and your work product is impressive. I just want to thank you all for what youve done for the country. Mr. Horowitz im dying to hear from you, but i bet i havent made 20 minutes of Opening Statements in a year. Im going to take a little longer to lay ow what i think is before us as a nation. Crossfire hurricane was probably the best name ever given to an investigation in the history of investigations, because i think thats what we wound up with, a crossfire in a hurricane. Theres been a lot of media reports about your report before it was issued. I remember reading all these headlines, lawful investigation with a few irregularities. Low level people kind of got off track. If thats what you get out of this report, you cle
Tweeted that, and i quote, how can the wicked witch hunt proceed when it was started, influenced and worked on by peter struk and lisa page who exchanged Text Messages critical of candidate donald trump . Your investigation found that while lisa page attended some of the discussions regarding the opening of the investigations, she did not play a role in the decision to open crossfire hurricane. You also found that while struck was directly involved to open, he was not the sole or even highest level conditionmakdecis. That was made by prestap as you have indicated, and by consensus after multiple days of discussions of meetings. Most importantly, you found that the decision had a proper factual basis and that there is no evidence that quote, political bias or improper motivation influenced. So based on your investigation, personal political views expressed in Text Messages did not motivate the opening of the investigation of ties between Trump Campaign advisers and russia, is that corre
I see that as a feature, not a bug in our system of government. You help the president fight for his share of the turf based on article to authorities. Each branch takes care of what it has to do to defend its own boundaries. It makes it easier to just everyone will see everything through the lens of today, not 10 years ago or 10 years from now. I represented a lot of people in the u. S. Senate. They really love that they have a big say in picking who is on federal courts but in the constitution the president makes the nomination with advice and consent of the senate. The question when mike lee speaks, what about the stuff the senate has come up with over the years, Institutional Senate prerogatives where the constitution refers to the senate but is a subset of the senate. It is my job to say the senates view is i think we should take this seriously. The view is the president makes the choice and they will hate when i say this but i will get in trouble with somebody, and that is someth
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