Yesterdays panel rolled that the health care individual mandate is unconstitutional. The here is the oral argument in its entirety. You may proceed. Thank your honor and may it please the court, i will be sharing my time with mr. Letter from the house of representatives and dividing rebuttal time. To start with the issues raised in the court in the supplemental briefing order, we think the states were clearly injured by the judgment below and are aiming to appeal it. Judge elrod you might want to move the microphone. Mr. Siegel after this up a, all parties agreed this court has appellate jurisdiction. That is because of the continuing enforcing of the Affordable Care act until the court orders not to do so. They now welcome it, and the participation of the states and house of representatives and ensure their will be an ensure there will be an adversarial presentation of the issues in this case. Turning to the other issues in this case, the central feature of this appeal is that when ju
Activist. Uighur human rights activist. Good morning, everybody. Please take your seats. Were going to start our program. L welcome to the hasnt visited. I am nina shea, i directed the center for religious freedom here at hudson, and i went to wish everyone a happy holidays. And im also, what to draw your attention to the crisis in china against the uighur Muslim Population there. It is one of the worst human rights and religious persecution situationsth of our day. In fact, of our age. It is both a crisis of religious persecution and of Human Rights Violations of epic proportions. In we will be hearing more about that through the session today. All people should be concerned for china as a rising power, aims to make this a model not only for other groups within its borders but is exporting this model. It is of deep concern to me as someone who monitors religious freedom around the world, and i knowio it is to you hear here s room in the audience. And it is my deep privilege to introdu
Its something weve said all the time. The weakest, the thinnest, the fastest in u. S. History. Schumer admitted trying to ask for more witnesses that what happened over here was wrong. Now we have the own speaker of the house who is so embarrassed that she add mitsz the failure of this impeachment that she will not even send it to the senate. So embarrassed that i watched in her press conference she wouldnt even take your questions. That is not a good legacy to have. Shes admitting defeat by not sending it, by refusing to send the impeachment over, she knows this outcome is not good. She knows the facts are not there. Theres no basis for it. At the end of the day the American Public needs to move on. So with that, let me open it up for questions. Yes . Pelosis legacy, do you worry about your legacy, defending a man who suggested last night that john dingle might be in hell, attacked a 16yearold girl last week, is it okay to defend a man who talks like this . Am i worried about my legac
Washington post columnist David Ignatius hosted a conversation with two experts on iran. They discussed irans political future and impact on the greater middle east. This is an hour and a half. Ladies and gentlemen, while my fellow panelists are getting wired up, let me begin our discussion of iran upheaval and repression. Im David Ignatius. Im a columnist for the washington post. Have visited iran several times as a journalist and have a longstanding interest as a commentator and analyst in iran. Im delighted to be joined by two of the people i think understand iran the best in this country. Ill move from my left. Maziar bahari was my colleague as a newsweek reporter in iran. He worked for newsweek from 1998 until june 21st, 2009, when he was arrested and imprisoned in tehran. Youll know if youve read his wonderful memoir, then they came for me, what that imprisonment was like, and if you havent read the book, you can go see the movie because it was made into a movie by jon stewart ca
This morning about his report on the russia investigation during the 2016 president ial campaign. He took questions from members of the Senate Homeland security and Governmental Affairs committee. The chair is senator ron johnson of wisconsin. This hearing will come to order. I want to thank Inspector General horowitz and his team for being here. I know in the hearing you had everybody raise their hands. If youve raise your hands and identify yourselves all the people who did this excellent work, i appreciate that. I want to thank you for all your hard work and efforts for preparing the report. The bipartisan praise you have received for your effort is welldy served and i share those sentiments. The release of this report is an important step in providing the public many of the answers to the questions that have festered for far too long. As thoreau as it is, its scope is narrow. Many important questions remain unanswered. Much attention has been paid to the reports conclusion, but the