Professor of lauper he served in all three branches of the federal government to the Justice Department office of legal counsel, and the Senate Judiciary committee and Justice Clarence thomas prayed the previous books include crisis and command a history of executive power from George Washington to george w. Bush. His newest book the subject of todays discussion is titled defend her in chief, Donald Trumps fight for president ial power. John thanks for joining us today. Spivey entrance. Guest thanks adam and thank you its hard to believe ive been a scholar here for almost 20 years. I think im one of the oldest people on the staff. Its great to be here again to talk about a book and it would not be possible without having relationships like those i have aei. So terrific lets jump into the book. The end of the books introduction you summarize the overall argument and theme of the book. You say that President Trump has returned to the framers original vision of the presidency as an office
I think it is good in a world where theres quite enough to divide people that we should cherish the language and the emotion that unite us all. Jacqueline kennedys 1,000 day as first lady were defined by images, political spouse, young mother, fashion icon, advocate for the arts. As television came of age, it was ultimately the tragic images of president kennedys assassination and funeral that cemented Jacqueline Kennedy in the public consciousness. Good evening, and welcome to cspan series influence and image. Tonight well tell you the story of the wife of the 35th president of the United States Jacqueline Bouvier kennedy. We will tell you more about her life story. President ial historian and author of many books on the presidency and has a special focus on the cold war era and the Kennedy Administration. Barbara kennedy is a political scientist and wrote part of the jack Jacqueline Kennedy biography. I want to get into more details about the white house years about the assassination
Other papers as well are writing stories about the popes visit coming up to the United States next week. Host see those events on cspan3, listen to them on cspan radio. You can also find out more at cspan. Org. From ohio, this is marcia, democrats line. Caller im with the heartland rehab. Im going to talk about our into our stateme and illegally. He was bought and paid for by the code others. It is on a video where he was elected. First of all, he took away our rail which was 135,000 jobs. Then, jobs ohio was unconstitutional because he was not privatizet it, but stimulus money. Every law he put in in the first week was unconstitutional. He took away our state taxes. About taking down the debt in ohio. That blackixed so people and the middle class could not vote last year. He slid right ain. He gets on their with aids euro on the polls and flies up in a he gets ons there with zero in the polls, and flies up in seconds. Georgia. Ace in caller how are you doing . Host sign, thank you. Ca
Is white and the victim is black, it is found to be justified in 17 of the cases. Black victim, justified in 17 . Lack shooter, black shooter, justified homicide 1. 4 . States,tand your ground it is justified only by nine percent. ,here stand your ground laws 70 justified. Nonstandard ground states, only nine percent. Here is the other statistic that had me very angry. That wasbi data provided by paul henderson. When an older white man kills a it is cheatedman it is deemed to the file 49 . Man killsolder black a younger white man, it is seen justifiable nine percent of the time. It is not black people feeling sensitive and victimized as we often hear in these debates. A victim. El like these statistics are galling and troubling and why probably most of your black friends and people who care about black people were so devastated after the Trayvon Martin situation. Thecally we felt like government verdict gave a license to kill black people. A piece about how i had been with a bunch of m
Compensation. When we lost on the floor of the house, i was sure it would be turned around. Two factors. First of all, bill knows this, when a measure is coming up, the people who are for it tend to take for granted that it will happen, and the people who are against it scream and yell. You hear disproportionally from the antis. We heard from all the people who thought it was terrible. After the vote, people started hearing from other people who thought that not doing it was terrible. And of course and i would say this is not purely hindsight here. Hank paulson will verify this. We talked that night, and hank, who had done a great job, was in despair. The day the vote was going on, there was a gathering in the well of the house of the bipartisan leadership ready to go into the usual drill of trying to change members vote. I will take credit for going to steny hoyer and others if they do not do this, this is too serious, dont win this by these kind of tactics. We will pay a big price. I