Cspan nearly 40 times and over the next five hourswere going to share some of those programs with you. First up tonight in 1993, Mister Buckley sat down to discuss a collection of his essays from his book happy days are here again. Here he is on cspans Interview Program from 1993, book notes. On the cover of your new book it says reflections of a libertarian journalist. Do you always call yourself a libertarian western mark. Off and on. As i of course do, its something called the movement was encouraged by me in National Review during the late 50s and the idea was to put out to the straight libertarians and conservatives how much they had in common and how effective this symbiosis would be between them. So from time to time i stressed the fact that every now and then that im a libertarian and in most of what i write theres a certain amount of it that is does not augment or diminish human liberty. Did i remember you saying maybe when you ran for mayor of new york that this may not be yo
Nonfiction books and authors. Cspan2 created by americas Cable Television companies of the Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Beginning now on booktv we will spend time with the late author and columnist William F Buckley. This is part of our summer bins watch series which features one wellknown author. He found the National Review and help to the political Debate Program firing line for several years, also the author of 50 books which included his thoughts on politics, religion, culture, literature and other topics. He appeared on booktv and cspan at 45, we will share those programs with you. First up tonight, in 1993 Mister Buckley sat down to discuss the collection of his essays from his book happy days were here again. Here he is on cspans Interview Program from 1993 book notes. Cspan on the cover of your book it says reflections of a libertarian journalist. You always call yourself a libertarian . Guest as of course you know, something called the
Minds. Lets turn it over to you, tony, and get it started. [applause] abbott walter, thank you. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen for being here. It is always good to be in washington and at the Heritage Foundation in particular. I have a speech which i am going to deliver. I have worked on it. I think it is important that i give you the speech i have written. Thate just begin by saying america is the indispensable country, the only country on earth with the strength and the consistently beat the free world. I like to think that australia is americas indispensable partner. The one country that america can always rely on for help when America Needs it. So with those introductory notes, it is straight to the Heritage Foundation. Back in november of 2014 when australia hosted the annual meeting of the g20, it was by far the most important gathering of leaders ever held in my country. It should have been a diplomatic triumph, but for president obama choosing at that time to give a speech at
To the court and allowing the subscriber to raise whatever objections they have before the court. Like i said, its interesting that some of the testimony thats been giving here, i think its very concerning from some issues of anecdotal evidence and real evidence and discussions, especially on the sec side, when youre giving, you know, your own report saying youre doing more than youve ever done this, yet without this, by choice or decision, however you want to do it. Mr. Calabrese, one last question for you, because my time is now over. But in dissent from the sec request, the commissioner wrote, i am not convinced this is necessary to maintain the efficiency of law enforcement. On the other hand, i am concerned that the judicial mechanism could entrench authority that have potential to lead invasions of privacy and in some circumstances may be unconstitutional in practice. Do you agree or disagree with his concern . I do worry that we will create an unconstitutional or incredibly reck
Will show you that video. We will also hear from the mayor, former white house chief of staff rahm emanuel and hear your thoughts on the video and the shooting in chicago. To7488000 is the number call if you are a democrat. Republicans used 2027488001. Independents and all others 8002. For chicago area residents, the number to call is 7488003. You can join us at facebook. Com cspan. Post your thoughts and send us a tweet cspanwj. We welcome your emails, too. Good morning and welcome to washington journal. Here is how the story is playing in chicago media. Their headline online this morning says shooting video latest stain on chicagos policing record. Mayor rahm emanuel announcing the release of the video. We will show you that momentarily. Here is the front page of usa today. Chicago on edge after video of teens shooting released. They say protesters chanting 16 shots took to the street after a video of a cop shooting of a teen was released. The city braced for more reaction. Wednesday