Humiliation that began about the opium war but at the same time it is easy for a lot of people including myself to think of Something Like the opium war like an anomaly or something very particular to very particular timer and place and i have to stand guilty of thinking about the opium war thatbo way. But great scholarship, truly great scholarship like killer hi, a lot of work that is done at the Lawson Institute forces us and me to see the world in a totally new way. This book has forced me and enforces all readers to really focus on the internal and incredibly expansive relationship between drugs and war. That relationship extends from work conducted by people who were often on a form of drug, some kind of psychoactive substance and it extends towards an conquest of drugs or the raw material for drugs and it extends to wars for markets and for outlets of drugs and of course were all familiar with wars against drugs. But as peter argued so effectively, this phenomenon, this interacti
Ng this race with china right now i would submit what Ronald Reagan did when we beat the ussr with free markets and a Strong National defense because it is all related. In order for us to be a diplomatic to be military powerr and economic power so winning this race is critical to our future and American Leadership and freedom loving people all over the world. People talk a whole of society and mobilization of the question is who will be involved of course but what is the proper role of government versus private sector . We are talking about socialism in one a socialist response but where do we divide the line with private sector . Right now we haveob the left from taking an entire takeover of our economy looking at the polls and the Green New Deal and medicare for all. What we need is the approach donald trump is taking that he laid out in american approach laying out the principles around freedom and individual rights and liberties and to layout the principles that encourage the innov
Businessman tom steyer and former south bend there Pete Buttigieg announced that they were suspending their campaigns and then this morning senator Amy Klobuchar also says shes dropping out of the race now both buttigieg and klobuchar and also theyre throwing their support behind former Vice President joe biden the host of inside bay area politics Catherine Heenan joins us now with a panel of political experts to break down what we can expect tomorrow figure out what the and today and joining me now is Tom Del Beccaro a former chair of the state Republican Party Michael Yockey michael former advisor to a nancy pelosi, yes it was a blowout in South Carolina. But i dont think anybody envisioned this on the eve of super tuesday, his rivals, lining up to indoor and a better lie here might endorse at this is unprecedented in american history. The notion that you would drop out right before a month of campaigning for really everything will go heading to this direction. This is a brokered Con
Meeting focused on steps taken to improve border facilities to provide medical care as well as medical evaluations given to migrants while they are in customs and custody. [no audio] subcommittee will come to order. The meeting today to receive testimony on the adequacy of dhs efforts to prevent child deaths in custody. The chair is authorized to clear the and recess at any time. Underwood will question. Representative garcia permitted to sit in question witnesses. Without objection, so ordered. Jaclyn was seven years old. Alonso, eight years old. Cordova, 10 years old. An, 16 years old. Carolos, 16 years old. Died in theen custody of the United States government in the past 18 months. They were migrants from Central America who died of preventable conditions that went untreated. Three of them spent the last hours of their lives in detention facilities on the southern border. We must never forget their names, suffering, or the terrible losses their families had to endure. We are here t
Welcome everybody. Am the director unfortunately, there are travel our guestsone of that were going to join us for the panel will not be able to make it anymore. We are mindful that there is an all male panel and we are doing as much is possible to include women in our vents. In our events. It is important to address how resolutions can be important to all venezuelans. We are discussing a very timely topic the implications of the tr,ican treaty, known as for its initials in spanish. The United States and 11 other invoked at the treaty to facilitate original response to the crisis in venezuela. On september 23 the 19 membert of countries voided and agreed to onose targeted sanctions Nicolas Maduro and also pledged to meet again within two months to discuss additional measures. These deliberations have potential implications for u. S. Policy and that is why we are here to walk us through the implications and what the treaty means, and how this affects the crisis. A timely issuey because