Cspan2. Cspan2. Hi, everybody, im david, welcome to the National Book festival in the difficult time of the pandemic. One single they think we can do and i know youre loving it as i am, is to read good books. I wrote a book that was published this summer, the paladin, about a cia officer whos struggling with one of the central problems of our times, which is knowing whats true and what isnt. And its my great pleasure to have with me today two people who wrote two of the very best books of this summer about issues related to our new technologically sophisticated world and the dangers. First, i want to introduce bart gellman, my former colleague at the Washington Post who wrote an extraordinary memoirs and his dealings with Edward Snowden and the technology and surveillance and the title of the book says, the american surveillance state. And another outstanding office, thomas rid who teaches at Johns Hopkins and his accurate measure of history what weve come to call disinformation, the w
All right. Welcome to hannity. Vacant tonight, as your mentally vacant president shuffles through the halls of the white house in his maximum stability sneakers, lawyers, bureaucrats in the democratic party, theyre hard at work. You setic e, determined to get donald trump by any means necessars y and are using americas system of justice as a political weapon. Now, this is as well, oliver stonwe, e, the new warfare, which is called lawfare in atlanta, where the bogus case against trump is now in limbo. Gracef well, disgraced Fulton County d. A. Fani willis just appearedul on conspiracy theorist extraordinaire Rachel Maddow show en masse dnc y to blast trump supporters. Orters a and congressman jim jordan. Im sure that Fani Willigressmas no political bias or ulterior motives. She just wants justice to be served. Right. Okay, chairman jordan, he will jud tonight, straightt, ahead. Meanwhile, in florida, where the biden doahead. J is waging in lawfare war campaign down there agains lt trum
Americans we mourn with gold star families, but we cannot feel their pain. Theres nothing anyone can say or do to really comfort families suffering the loss of a loved one, but there is a lot people can say or do to cause grieving families additional pain as weve seen over this past week. As members of congress we are there for our constituents. They are our family. It is our obligation to speak up when they are hurt. The loss of an American Service member should be should not be politicized. Our Fallen Heroes should be honored. Sergeant la David Johnson is an american hero. Sergeant Jeremiah Johnson is an american hero. Staff Sergeant Brian black is an american hero. And Staff Sergeant Dustin Wright is an american hero. The 28 men and women who have lost lost their lives in service to our country this year are all american heroes. Let us honor their sacrifices and comfort their families, as has been the tradition in this country, until the last week. Mr. Speaker, i yield back the bala
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Quorum call quorum call a senator madam president . The presiding officer the senator the majority whip. Mr. Cornyn thank you, madam president. Id ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Cornyn madam president , it may not look like it now, but were actually making great progress in moving forward with a critical piece of legislation that would reauthorize the federal aviation administration, and in the process make flying safer and more efficient for all of our citizens. Members across the aisle have worked together on this legislation, and i know well have an important vote at 5 30 on monday and hopefully be able to process some of the amendments that have been agreed upon by the managers of the bill which are a part of the managers package. But i wanted to turn to a topic that has concerned me a lot over the last year and troubles me more each day, and that is the use by former secretary of state Hillary Clinton of a