Fortunate to have a military leader such as you serving in a time of great peril. I want i want to ask a question of you if the objective were to destroy isys, not to we cannot a great but utterly destroy what would be required militarily to accomplish that objective . It would not be possible to destroy. I do think the military aspect is critical. If the timeframe i suggested is not feasible feasible but let me ask you a followup question what will be required to destroy isys and what timeframe is necessary . If that were the objective what would be required to accomplish it . Clicks from my perspective today this is a longterm endeavor a longterm endeavor on the order of years, not months. And what would be required to do that in whatever timeframe is necessary . From military perspective we need to take action to deny sanctuary where everything takes root that will require us to build local forces in the Partnership Capacity with local forces that would be the defeat mechanism. Mech
Almost never his litigated in the this is an area of law and there is lots of learning based on opinions and the posturing of congress. These debates rarely it in the court. The george w. Bush administration. And both the administrations refuse to enforce the statute on the grounds they are constitutional power rendered that statute again person born in jerusalem commenced litigation that first went to the court three years ago. The court said no and direct the dc circuit to decided on the merits. Some some people thought the court was depriving itself an escape route. Would not be able to use the political question if they concluded it would have been desirable seem to be a lot disconcerting noises they were being forced to decide something that had a lot of Foreign Affairs and political visibility. Obviously obviously taking sides owns and controls yours is politically loaded question. In the court did address the merits and so he was right. Justice kennedy writing for the majority i
Until june 25th of this year when we had these two companion decisions that came down. King is precisely exactly like webber. The majority opinion said look you cant look at forward in isolation and give it a broader meaning because the broader purpose was to give subsidies to poor people. The precise facts in king were as follows the statute dealing with subsidies, said they are available for purchases made off an exchange established by the state under statute 131211 of the statute and the question was what if you made an exchange off of an exchange of the federal government under 1321 and does that qualify and in other words does state mean state. Which is not a question for the nonjudicial mind but was one that bee fuddled six members of the Supreme Court. And they analyzed it in precisely the way they had done in webber. Listen the broader purpose was to provide substance and were not going to be Fuddy Duddies and worry about language or exactly what congress has done. I wont walk
If you want to post on our social media pages do so on twitter at cspan wj and if you want to make a longer response you can do so on facebook. Com cspan. The decision coming out yesterday comprises the headlines of all the major newspapers today. To the decisions out of the Supreme Court yesterday, specifically looking at texas on this health and Safety Standards that were imposed by the texas lawmakers. Those were overturned yesterday and we are going to talk about the larger implications not only for the state of texas but for other providers and it impact on campaign 2016. You can give us a call and make your thoughts known. 202 7488000 four republicans, 202 7488001 four democrats, and 202 7488002 for independents. There was a lot of activity outside the Supreme Court yesterday, people supporting and andblican supporting opposing the decisions. Byponding to the decision the Supreme Court, here is what she had to say. Today women across america have had their Constitutional Rights v
And welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. Were winding down what has been a very volatile week with losses across the board. The dow and s p 500 scratching out tiny gains on the week. For todays session, though, dow and s p down by half a percent. The nasdaq is a standout for the week, up 2 on pace for its best week in more than two months. Thats mainly thanks to apples 11 rally so far this week, pulling back a little bit down 1 right now. Were also tracking oil down about 2 at this hour. It is at a fiveweek low. Welcome, everybody. Im tyler mathisen. Here what else is happening. Iphone 7 hits the shelf. It is flying off of them. Ceo tim cook greeting elated customers, reports that some apple fans in hong kong have been buying the phones and then selling them for twice the price. Exxons accounting under investigation by new yorks attorney general. The wall street journal says the probe focuses on why exxon is the only oil firm not to write down the value of assets amid a price plunge