Took seriously his oath to defend the constitution. This is [applause] this is where i usually offer my caveat, and tell people i am not a philosopher. Im going to do something a little different and im going to speak as a conservative, and as a conservative judge. One who had the good fortune to be particularly ill educated. Having escaped an ivy league education, i find myself free to think however i like. [laughter] i suppose if i have been around when judge story was teaching at harvard i might have rethought that. As a conservative i spend most of my time thinking about the present evils of this world, unlike my liberal counterpart to spend their time thinking up new ones. [laughter] these days, frankly i find myself a little bit like gladys knight, ive really got to use my imagination to think of good reasons to keep on keeping on. For those of you too young to know gladys, youtube. [laughter] as i grow older i have developed a new appreciation for justice ash berries reform, ref
Campaign. Would you support senator feinsteins most recent version of an assault weapons ban . I believe, and we talk about this throughout the campaign, in the second amendment. I believe every lawabiding citizen should have access to guns. I have parents and grandparents and now a son who are hunters and gunowners. But i do believe in common sense measures as put forward by folks like senator manchin and senator toomey, Bipartisan Legislation that would put forward universal background checks to ensure that criminals, terrorists, and the mentally unstable do not have access to guns. I do not support any other form of legislation around guns right now. , one attack has to do with the notion that you want to get rid of the department of education. Do you . 86, and my mom and dad were schoolteachers. By my philosophy is this. One of my first jobs was teaching kids to read. The problem we have is we put billions of dollars in federal funding, and the results of gotten much worse. One out
Details. Well also take you to the white house, where in 30 minutes middle east leaders will begin to meet with President Trump before putting pen to paper on what one top official describes as the beginning of the end of arab israeli conflict. Is it really were going to get to those weather and politics headlines in a moment. We start with that breaking news from kentucky. No arrests after Breonna Taylor was shot and killed by louisville police, but there is a settlement in the civil case nbc news confirming in the millions of dollars and includes several policing reforms as well keep in mind, this is separate from the states criminal case, where a grand jury will consider charges against the officers involved i want to bring in nbcs blayne alexander covering this story, following it this morning for us tell us more about what we know here hallie, good morning to you this is a Major Development in the Breonna Taylor case. It is something that nbc news confirmed just within the past fe
And we can jump into our second panel, which is devoted Harvey Mansfields work on tocqueville and america. I think of the extraordinary things about harveys writing in this area is the way that he combines the study of the spirit of american political life with the study of Something Like the structure of american Political Part of his insight maybe, the most significant part, the connection that he finds between the two, the way that he finds deep in the history of political philosophy, the foundations of modern ideas, executive power of Political Parties, and the separation of powers. So of what we identify with the american way of government and roots it in the tradition of political philosophy in a way very unusual and very illuminating. And harvey connects these over and over again with the spirit American Life and the American National character. One obvious guide for doing that kind of thing is, of course, alexis de tocqueville and has made tocqueville one of his foremost object
Most significant part, the connection that he finds between the two, the way that he finds deep in the history of political philosophy, the foundations of modern ideas, executive power of political parties, and the separation of powers. So of what we identify with the american way of government and roots it in the tradition of political philosophy in a way very unusual and very illuminating. And harvey connects these over and over again with the spirit American Life and the American National character. One obvious guide for doing that kind of thing is, of course, alexis de tocqueville and has made tocqueville one of his foremost objects, maybe most notably in the fantastic translation of democracy in that he undertook, with his late wife, gilbert winthrop, in the superb to that translation, which really stands on its own as a kind of interpretive essay on tocqueville and in a lot of subsequent writing about tocqueville in america in this century, in the that opening essay to the transl