The presidency and is one of the nations leading constitutional scholars especially with regard to president ial power and the author of an equally excellent previous book imperial from the beginning that the constitution of the original executive, Jack Goldsmith is the henry l professor of law at harvard, it is someone who youre probably aware has seen the executive branch from the inside during a high profile, extremely tense tenure in the Bush Administration office of Legal Counsel during a key early. On the war on terror, jack is one of our thoughtful commentators on the modern presidency and then the atlantic, and books like the terror presidency and power and constraint. So it is one of the most misleadingly titled books in recent memory. It makes a convincing case the original design the framers had for the presidency that office had little in the way of Emergency Powers or independent war powers and no rightful claim to executive privilege that shielded its inner workings from
Will give us the overview of the book, jack will give us some comments on the book and we will take it from there and tried to yield as many of your questions as possible and you can submit those questions through the event page or over twitter, facebook or youtube using the cato events. First our first guest is her author Saikrishna Prakash, the distinguished professor of law at the university of virginia as well as a senior fellow at uba center for the study of the presidency and is one of the nations leading constitutional scholars especially with regard to president ial powers and the author of an equally excellent previous book imperial from the beginning, the constitution of the original executive. Jack goldsmith is the henry l professor of law at harvard, someone who youre probably aware has seen the executive branch from the inside during a high profile extremely tense ten year in the Bush Administration office of legal capital during a key early. In the work. Jack is one of ou
Lets get right to our top story this friday morning. Bay Area Health Officials encouraging everyone to stay home this 4th of july weekend. Now this comes as the state and the bay area continue to see a rise in coronavirus cases kron 4 Sarah Stinson live in Contra Costa County this morning. She has all the details sarah good morning. And theyre good morning marty i live here in Contra Costa County one of counties in the bay area that seeing a major surge in cases terrible time they cant believe were heading into the 4th of july weekend and were seeing a spike in cases when we were doing so well and now were seeing that resurgence. So officials are asking us to stay home and be safe. Why lets take a look at the increases that were seeing across the bay area in all of our take a look at your screen there are quite a lot of numbers but just to name a few Contra Costa County is seeing a 129 increase in cases in a 111 increase in deaths from may 31st until yesterday that the county saw a 207
The democrats are moving the goalpost today and now saying that trumps phone calls, the transcript itself is a smoking gun. We have that debate. Also tonight, we caugh show youw the calls and media to impeach trump started months, months before trump was elected. Before he was even an office. And we have sound from the democrats, including nancy pelosi who admits the push has been to stop trump from getting reelected. The sun has voted to overturn president Trumps National Emergency Declaration to get more money to build the border wall we have that in a study number aboard apprehensions, so for this fiscal year that is bigger than the population of seattle. We also have the dollar amount that border towns are spending on illegal border crossers. Thank you for joining us im elizabetelizabeth macdonald. The evening edit starts right now. Liz thank you for joining us, youre watching the fox business network. Lets get to Edward Lawrence in washington on trump impeachment in the ukraine co
Legislative report. That report was released today and im requesting a hearing on the report so we can better understand the citys use of these conservatorships. Contributed to a decrease in the total l. D. S. Conservative caseload. Interestingly, that caseload has increased somewhat over the last year. Now one of the perhaps surprising things i learned from this report is San Francisco is conserving gravely disabled people at an alarming average and is ranked ninth among counties in its per capita rate. So whats going on . Are there fewer people in need of conservatorships in San Francisco county or are we failing to meet the needs of residents that cannot take care of themselves . Part of the explanation of that decline is the loss of the last decade of appropriate placements of people suffering from serious mental illnesses. Plainly, theres more work to do, and the report and the experience of my office over the last year suggests that the lack of placements may not be the only reas