Good morning, it is Sunday September 8. 58 days until election day. Im Melissa Murray Filling in for my friend Ali Velshi whos up for the day. In two days, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will finally meet Each Other in person for the first time. The two candidates have never even spoken to Each Other before. But on tuesday night, they will go headtohead in a 90 Minute Debate in philadelphia. The debate will certainly highlight the two Contrasting Visions For The Future of the country. And as you imagine, they are preparing for the upcoming meeting in very different ways. Harris has been in pittsburgh since thursday where shes doing Debate Prep with a little campaigning on the side. Yesterday the democratic nominee visited a local spy store, where she briefly met with workers and patrons and bought seasonings. But most of her time in pittsburgh has been spent inside a hotel where shes been huddled with a team of advisers getting ready for tuesday. Harris hasnt participated in a debate s
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By george will. Let me also welcome our cspan audience as well as those watching through catos live streaming. Released just two days ago by harper column broad side this book is sure to receive wide attention and deservely so. I just learned that its available at costco so people who are watching us on cspan after this forum can run right out and pick up a copy of the book. Its likely to receive wide attention as i said, because it speaks in a fundamental way to the politically divisions we see in america today, divisions about health care, gun control, affirmative action, immigration and so much more. But about the far more fundamental division we see in our understanding of our basic law, the constitution and what it authorizes. If we want a better understand and appreciate those surface divisions, thats where we have to turn because thats where theyre grounded. Just to be clear in speaking about the republican constitution and the democratic constitution, professor bar net is not m
At first, my publisher, editor, and i were thinking should we just call it scalia but we wanted something larger because he is larger. It talks about his italian ba background. And the originalism is him looking back at what they founders wanted in the document and how it should be interpreted today. It was the committee, the title of the original, reflecting him as an original, and a first generation and a proponent of the originalism theory. There is no one like him ever on the Supreme Court. Is that what you thought about . So many people are intrigued by my choice. The first biography i did was Justice Oconnor but for people that dont know the court he is one of the nine, a conservative, and outspoken but why focus on him . He is an original. You know firsthand and have been following him and close to him for decades. He is so distinctive in style but he is distinctive among his career as well. You mention the opera. I think of Justice Scalia as someone who might have been an opera
By getting all the justices to dance the salsa with her. I use it to set the scene of a contrast its been between the woman who i is a genuine, somersaults come into this institution thats a wonderfully traditional, used to certain rhythms. The rhythms frankly our salsa. She and she did this wonderful displays that show everybody up, the end of term party, and justice belly at usually shakes people up, he says she can be trouble. It was a perfect line for a little bit of what greeted her there. Host did you go to that party . Guest no. It was tough to get the information. You know how secretive this court is. A lot of people arent aware of how we never know what goes on in the conference, journalists are never invited to the end of term party. Chief Justice John Roberts sent out invitations for this particular party he reminded all the staff, it was just full time staff, no contractors or parttimers, it is a very tight family. All the justices are appointed for life, many of the employ