[inaudible conversations] welcome. My name is a gene healy. Im a Vice President here at the Cato Institute and ill be your moderator today. Thank you all for coming out to the first cato event of 2016. Today, we are going to spread the new years cheer and take the chill out of your bones with an in depth look at remotecontrolled executions, the creeping surveillance state, and the seeming permanence of the imperial presidency. So merry new year. Our focus today is the extraordinary new book by Charlie Savage, power wars inside obamas post9 11 presidency. Charlie has been with the New York Times since 2008, and he has been the indispensable reporter on executive power issues since well before that. In 2007 while with the boston globe he won the Pulitzer Prize for his work on the Bush Administrations signing statements. Is 2007 book, takeover, the return of the imperial presidency, was named one of the best books of the year by the washington post, slate and esquire. To describe power wa
he released one hostage. he accepted food. i understand from charlie colson they come in with amphetamine to stay alert. and nuts to eat and food to maintain themselves? why the showing of good faith? this is not the typical jihadi suicide operation we have seen in the united states and mum by paris and elsewhere. if a jihadist wanted to kill and massacre they would do it from the beginning. this is something to bring a lot of media for many many, many hours. probably this is messaging others of the capability of being able to do the matter. i don t know, i m theorizing here. they need the exposure. judge jeanine: if the intent was
but we re getting there. by the days and both the senate and the assembly leadership said they were going to make those cuts and there were going to get the budget to the governor on time. that budget however will only stand as long as voters say yes to the tax increases. if they do not, that lawmakers will have to come right back here and try to do it again. the doctor says this will not hurt, but this is going to hurt? this is to hurt. but it will hurt much more if they don t get that money. thank you. to have seen cuts in the past because of california s budget woes and if the governor has his way, state workers will see their pay cut once again. cbs 5 political reporter grace lee has more on those taking the brunt of these particular cuts. the idea of another salary cut did not go over well with the state workers that spoke to today and is not just a employees. this budget stands to affect millions of californians and that s what drove rallies across the state