Defending every attack doesnt seem smart. Cant we go on offense . And he said, when i go beyond the line of defense, i cant do that without the sanction of congress. So it was very clear initially from the beginning that a president could defend against imminent attack without congress, although you should get congress on board later. Congress though had to declare war, any going on offense against anyone other than imminent defense, took a congressional declaration. That was the clear understanding. But we have gotten it wrong virtually sense the ink was dry. It doesnt matter whether president s or congresss or republican or democrat or wig or federalist, we have gotten it wrong. We have gotten it wrong because madison was half right but he want cynical enough. Madison described the provision of the war powers provisions as a check against executive power. The branch most prone po war, most interested in it. We put it in the legislative branch. He saw monarchs and executives overreach
In two months, the u. S. Coast guard, the Shallow Water service, will cover all seven continents on the globe. Today, we are in afghanistan, iran, africa, liberia, in south america, china, we are everywhere and i could not be more proud to serve the service but i cannot be more proud to have a seat that chairman dempsey has afforded me to be a guest on the chairman of the joint chiefs as we deal with many challenges that face us and the world ahead. Really what people ask why do you give to come to work every day . What causes you to get up to work every day is the people we are proud to serve. First of all, we are an all volunteer service and how appropriate we are here with the uso, an all volunteer service as well. Im just delighted to say that my wife fran is one of those 29,000 volunteers. [applause] she kept her maiden name because no one can pronounce zukunft so people would come through Reagan National air force airport at the uso office and asked what her husband does. All of
Complete. Ord is yet that is exactly what we expect prosecutors to do in applying materiality standards to pretrial without any sense of the perspective of the defendant. Complicating the problem further, is the prosecutors dual role. Prosecutor is a minister of justice, but importantly a advocater is also an with the skills, the training and ability to effectively winecute cases and convictions. What is inherently difficult thet the prosecutor making materiality decision is that he cannot be neutral within this context. When deciding whether information is material or relevant, that is exactly what expected to do, to set aside their role as advocates, pour through the open mind,th an recognize the importance of the information to the defense, and an objective decision about whether or not to disclose it. Are subject to what psychologists call confirmation bias. Tend tons that we evaluate what we perceive in a way that is consistent with what believe. R a prosecutor with the responsibi
Administrations goal. When is your reaction to that . Thanks you, senator. Let me take an initial response and ask my colleague to jump in. First, the request h that we are making here that we are support a u. S. To government funded total number of 20 treatment units. Number in aarger global strategy and one of the things we have been doing at the state department is to encourage donations from partner governments around the world. Expertse view of the fix unit number of treatment beds is critical to controlling the epidemic but we resources for Community Care centers that can into rural places and be mobile for spikes in the disease isolation and containment. Let me ask nancy to join in here. Simply that. Looking at a strategy that is care and isolation and safe burials and intensive social to that people change their habits all take be together is what we are all is what we are seeing in how many of the highly toective areas is beginning yield results and we need to keep at that in