Mr. President. I ask unanimous consent the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Barrasso thank you, mr. President. This week, the senate is moving through a series of votes to fill vacancies in the federal appeals court. President trump has nominated highly qualified, mainstream judges and legal scholars to do these jobs. Now, democrats have responded once again with delay and with obstruction. It is clear to me that we need to change the rules in the senate that govern how we debate nominations in this body. All year, democrats have been putting up roadblocks to nominations. They have forced the majority leader to file cloture so that they we can confirm nominees like these four judges. President trump, as of last mister president , as of last friday, democrats have forced the senate to file cloture 47 times when we had to have cloture vote on Donald Trumps nominees. There are only 6 cloture votes of the previous president , 5 for obama, none for georg
Delivered with menace, no one does it quite like Rodrigo Duterte, elected President Of The Philippines a year ago. Since he came to power, around 7000 people have been killed. Human Rights Groups are aghast that the majority of filipinos seem to like his iron fist. My guest is one of the president s most fierce critics, senator antonio trillanes. Is duterte taking the phillipines and the region in a new direction . Antonio trillanes, in manila, welcome to hardtalk. Hello, stephen. Thank you very much for inviting me. We speak at a difficult time for your country. In mindanao in the south of the philippines, you have a National Emergency with a town that for weeks has faced a siege because it has been, in essence, taken over byjihadist gunmen. The president says this is a National Emergency and it is time for the country to unify. Do you agree . I agree that what is happening in marawi is a National Crisis and something that we should deal with decisively. But i feel that the armed forc
Delivered with menace, no one does it quite like Rodrigo Duterte, elected President Of The Philippines a year ago. Since he came to power, around 7000 people have been killed. Human Rights Groups are aghast that the majority of filipinos seem to like his iron fist. My guest is one of the president s most fierce critics, senator antonio trillanes. Is duterte taking the phillipines and the region in a new direction . Antonio trillanes, in manila, welcome to hardtalk. Hello, stephen. Thank you very much for inviting me. We speak at a difficult time for your country. In mindanao in the south of the philippines, you have a National Emergency with a town that for weeks has faced a siege because it has been, in essence, taken over byjihadist gunmen. The president says this is a National Emergency and it is time for the country to unify. Do you agree . I agree that what is happening in marawi is a National Crisis and something that we should deal with decisively. But i feel that the armed forc
Delivered with menace, no one does it quite like Rodrigo Duterte, elected President Of The Philippines a year ago. Since he came to power, around 7000 people have been killed. Human Rights Groups are aghast that the majority of filipinos seem to like his iron fist. My guest is one of the president s most fierce critics, senator antonio trillanes. Is duterte taking the phillipines and the region in a new direction . Antonio trillanes, in manila, welcome to hardtalk. Hello, stephen. Thank you very much for inviting me. We speak at a difficult time for your country. In mindanao in the south of the philippines, you have a National Emergency with a town that for weeks has faced a siege because it has been, in essence, taken over byjihadist gunmen. The president says this is a National Emergency and it is time for the country to unify. Do you agree . I agree that what is happening in marawi is a National Crisis and something that we should deal with decisively. But i feel that the armed forc
That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] hello this afternoon. Thanks for coming. Good to see you all. I think we need to know introduction. At least robert caro, i hope you read all his books and are as enamored of them as i am. We are here because we are enamored, to talk about writing. Not so much the subject matter per se, but why writing matters. We both feel, as i am sure you do, that writing matters quite a bit. How it matters is a task for the writer to come to terms with. How are you going to get people to read, turn the page, to be as enthralled with your subject as you are. If you know robert caros work, you know he is a master of the enthralled. We thought we would talk a little bit about that. I hope you saw there was recently an interview with bob in the paris review and one thing that i thought was so wonderful about it was bob talking about certain working methods was one of the things he said reminded me of walt wh