Ive seen pros stents and catholics who swore never, never shake hands, and ive seen a man walk out of a prison cell thats held him for 28 years to become elected president of a majority ruled and free south africa. Ive seen the Carolina Panthers win eight games in a row and go perfect in the nfc south division, so dont tell me its impossible. Its just hard. Thank you very much. Its been a pleasure talking with you today. [laughter] [applause] great stuff, joe, spectacular. As youre thinking of questions, we have a boom mic in the back to bring around to anyone with questions. We will not leave here until we get questions from a student or two, so get them cued up. Im mike holly, board member of the World Affairs council, and as you prepare to ask questions, i have to say one ning, and that is, if youre in the a member of the World Affairs council, we need now to be. Thats true of everyone in the room, but also true for those of us watching on cspan, sign up on our website. Well be glad
Liberty a minute. Repo book and join the conversation, go to booktv. Org and click on book club to enter the chat room. Next on booktv from the Heritage Foundation in washington, d. C. , a discussion on the legal arguments against the Affordable Care act. Trevor burrus, editor of the book and a panel, all law professors and bloggers for the volokh conspiracy website, talk about the impact of the arguments on the obama to debate, both in public and in the courts. This is about an hour 15. Thank you much for being here, and i applaud you hardy souls who braved the cold weather today in order to be here. We are here today with several distinct which panelists to talk about a fascinating book. It was a fascinating about a fascinating case of National Federation of independent business is versus sebelius, better known as the obamacare case. And as i read this book, i thought that i was really watching some very, very smart people who obviously respect each other but who are in no way, shape
David. Thank you and thank you to all of you for being here. It is good to have you here. My colleagues are going to talk about specific policy issues in their area of we can per tease. Im going to open with more general, philosophical, political discussion. A lot of people believe that politics are a struggle for power and certainly if you look at history that is what politics is. It is the continuation of war by other means. It is a quest for power for your race, tribe, religion, region, whatever, your industry these days. Politics is a lot about power. But we always hope that some people in the discussion of politics and policy will stand for something bigger, something broader. Like the Public Interest, freedom and justice, the ideals of the declaration of the independence and the pledge of allegiance. We hope in washington thats what think tanks do. Think tanks are separate from abstracted from the daytoday struggles for either political power or special interests benefits from pu
Another sloppy day in times square. Welcome to morning joe. Weve been promised mika like 8,000 pounds of snow being dumped on our well, boston got it. We havent gotten it. Boston, i think, you know they dont get no place to put that snow. Theyre getting hammered, man. Well get to that. Unbelievable. So last night, pretty excited, the university of alabama had a screening of selma. Nice. Just down the street from here. University of alabama grad
sponsored it. A lot of people may or may not know that. Nan a giant in the publishing filed also there. But it was an extraordinary movie. I cant wait to see it. Have you seen it yet . Okay. So we can know briefly about this. I was stunned at the depiction of lbj as somehow this guy, you aint going to get no voting rat. Aint going to lbj in many ways, of course not my kind of politician odd logically but on the issue of civil rights he dragged america from 1865 into the 20th century. He alone. Saying, lbj saying this will cost democrats the sout
A procedural vote. Just before midnight last night, both Senate Leaders went to the floor to blame each other for not coming up with a good deal. The bill were voting on will affect us for not just in the days to come but in the months and years to come, and we need the best bill possible. We, democrats, have seen some real flaws in the bill that was put on the floor by the republicans. We had a good bipartisan bill developed on a bipartisan basis with members in the senate over the last 48 hours until the democratic leader and the speaker of the house decided to blow it all up and play russian roulette with the markets. So far, senator mcconnell was right about the markets. Take a look at the futures, down big time. Senator schumer and treasure secretariy Steve Mnuchin are set to meet as we speak and the senate is expected to reconvene at noon. I want to go straight to Garrett Haake on capitol hill. Where do things stand right now . All weekend long we heard were getting closer, were