thank you and as we pass ou microns i ll take the time to introduce my distinguished panelists. an honor to be with them many of whom i ve worked with and for in the past. closest is tebi troy. at juel labs. he has written the become about the process of use of powers during emergencies his book is titled shall we wake the president. two centuries of the disaster management in the oval office. run out and get it i m sure he will speak to it. next to him is ms. haines. a lurking at columny law school. deputy director of the cia. national security legal adviser and my boss. that s avril haines. and carl wagner, former associate deputy general counsel for whomland defense. from him 2004 to 2016. a colleague at my at the pentagon. the go to guy for let deployment of the military. we have a distinguished panel in dealing with emergencying pl we won t have opening replarks. right into the discussion our hope is we are short on time but trying to keep time at the end for comments
the book about the process to be used during emergencies, and his book is titled shall we wake the president, two centuries of disaster management in the oval office, run out and get it and i m sure he will be able to speak to it during this panel. and next to tevi is avril haines, a-columbia law school and prior to that deputy daschle security adviser, deputy national director of the cia and most importantly before that my client and my boss. next to avril is carl wagner, formally associate general counsel fore for homeland defense at the department of defense from 2004 to 2016, the go to guy for all questions about the deployment of the military, domestically, possecomitas. we won t have opening remarks. we are a little short on time but we will try to keep some time at end to have some comments. we have a hard stop at 12, so if someone could flag at 11:45 to wrap up the discussion and turn to question, that would be great. we thought we would start, with we heard a lot a
i wanted to do a few minutes on how your father invented the iowa caucus. and i wanted to hear all the bedtime stories he told you about going out to iowa in 1972 for george mcgovern, the first time any presidential candidate played attention to the iowa caucuses, and winning it and how he created political history with everyone wanted to follow in karl wagner s footsteps, managing a winning presidential the monster he helped create, in other words. [laughter] we were working monday night because of coral. he did that to us. he was looking down on us with a smile on his face, and also probably a frown. [laughter] brilliant, it was a brilliant move when he did it. and i m just sorry it has become an enduring phenomenon of this absurd thing. because all i knew was that carl was, hey, no one is paying attention to this thing. we can go out there and win it, and and then you re off to the races. only a son of eye what would come up with a plot like that. thank you c
bedtime stories he told you about going to iowa in 1972 for george montgomery, the first time in a presidential candidate paid attention to the iowa caucuses, winning it, and how he created political history with everyone wanting to follow. karl wagner s footsteps, managing a winning, presidential the monster he helped create, in other words. we were working monday night, all because of carl. he did this to us. he was looking on us with a smile on his face, and probably, a frown. brilliant. a brilliant move when he did it, and i m just sorry that it has become an enduring phenomenon of this absurd thing. all i knew was karl said, no one is paying attention to this, we can get there, when it, and get credit for it. then we re off to the races. only a son of iowa would come up with a plot like that. thank you carl wagner. thank you kara wagner. have a good show, lawrence. thank you alex. today, on the witness stand, in federal court, in manhattan, e. jean ca
thanks to all of you at home for joining, us we have a lot to get to tonight. i want to start on december 14th 2020, a day we should not particularly remember. it was supposed to be a routine, day a boring day for state electors across the country as they officially cast their presidential votes. as we know very well, that was not the case in some states, including the state of georgia. democratic party electors, they re in the senate chambers, they are official, they are, certified and they vote for joe biden, but, georgia republicans, they met at exactly the same time right behind those closed doors, we re not, official not, certified they still met and certified on a, trump they say to keep his lawsuit alive. even as democratic parties remaining in the georgia state senate for the first time in 28 years to select a democratic president and vice president, one floor below at the state capital, georgia republicans were convening their own meeting to select their own