You are to ask why writing about liberty at this point but i want to get to a short piece of the book. You write the need for telling the story now is what i see around me this is the most confused historical time i have lived in with a haggard establishment, and Americas National ebola what else are you saying here . Guest i am just trying to direct our attention away, for a moment, from the political mania 363 has surrounded us for days this year so far and counting. We have two more to go. Wednesday we start all over again. I want to dig a break from that id have us look at 400 flash want to take a break from that and have us look at 400 years with the engagement of the idea of liberty. My argument is that is the essence of america, our nationalism. It is the exceptional american ideal. It is something americans have been talking about, writing about, fighting for 44 centuries. For book takes fighting four four centuries. All lay down principles that affect us and liberate us today,
Good afternoon, everybody. Good afternoon and welcome. Here at the unit Franklin Pierce school of law. My name is john and i direct the rudman center. It provides curricular, experiential, and Financial Support for law students interested in public student readers. It serves as the face of the university here in concord by presenting public programming such as todays event. We are happy to be able to partner with the aclu of New Hampshire with an ongoing series of Civil Liberties and the presidency. We are happy to welcome to the law school senator cory booker from the state of new jersey. Not New Hampshire. [applause] senator booker has been a senator since 2013. Before that, he was the mayor of newark, new jersey, from 2006 to 2013. He served on the council in new york. Graduate of Stanford University and yale law school. Moderating todays event will be genie from the aclu of New Hampshire. Neither the aclu New Hampshire nor the rudman center, we are both nonpartisan organizations an
We are showing the progress that we have made in this country. I know the promise of america. My grandmother came here when she was seven years old as an immigrant from mexico. Two generations later, one of theyrandsons is serving in United States congress and the other is running for president. [indiscernible] watching that image it is heartbreaking. It should also piss us all off. My plan includes getting rid of section 1325. To go back to the way we used to treat this. Not to criminalize desperation. Caging kids atis the border and effectively leading isis prisoners run free. After he murdered nine people worshiping at bible study without hurting him then do not tell me that Michael Brown and i on iona jones. What about antonio . What about all of those young men and women whose lives were lost because of Police Violence . They deserve justice also. No matter who you are, no matter what you look like coming you ought to be treated the same under our Justice System and we can help du
The u. S. And the consumer at times. And did somebody say recession . Let us talk about these issues with larry kudlow. Please welcome them. [applause] hello, larry. Please take a seat and make yourself comfortable. Let us jump right into it as we have a lot of news this morning. They pelosi Just Announced democrats and administration have reached an agreement on the deal. Exicocanada how good is this for the rest of us . For the u. S. Economy . Will this make a difference . And is it any better than nafta . Mr. Kudlow i think it is better than nafta. I think it is broader than nafta. It updates nafta. Particularly in some important new economy ways. The way this was designed by ambassador like kaiser ambassador robert lighthizer, in a bipartisan sense, you have domestic content and labor issues which have been resolved. You also have new economy issues in particular intellectual Property Rights which have never been put in one of these trade agreements before. I think financial and Di
But on my left we have texas land commissioner george p. Bush who is here speaking on behalf of the bush brand. [applause] susan page is the Washington Bureau chief for usa today and author of the recent and currently, i guess, still bestselling biography of barbara bush called the matriarch. And michael beschloss, one of the wonderful president ial authors who has written so many things, so many books. I will be asking you about some of the stuff i found in my old wellworn copy of character above all. The first thing id like to ask all of you, we lost barbara bush and george bush just so close together, what kind of reassessment do you think this has brought for the country as to, you know, what the bush name stood for and, you know, what the significance really was of all the work that they did in so many arenas of Public Service . Mr. Bush well, looking back on now. It was world war ii generation. It wasnt about them as individuals. It was the turning of the page of our countrys his