[inaudible conversations] welcome. my name is a gene healy. i m a vice president here at the cato institute and i ll be your moderator today. thank you all for coming out to the first cato event of 2016. today, we are going to spread the new year s cheer and take the chill out of your bones with an in depth look at remote-controlled executions, the creeping surveillance state, and the seeming permanence of the imperial presidency. so merry new year. our focus today is the extraordinary new book by charlie savage, power wars: inside obama s post-9/11 presidency. charlie has been with the new york times since 2008, and he has been the indispensable reporter on executive power issues since well before that. in 2007 while with the boston globe he won the pulitzer prize for his work on the bush administrations signing statements. is 2007 book, takeover, the return of the imperial presidency, was named one of the best books of the year by the washington post, slate and es
if the egos are getting in them way. juddson and john seem to have dalliances with groupies and they re married at the time. there are ways in which they mirror our ideal of rock musicians of the 1960s and 1970s and these internal struggles richmond the group apart. by and large, after the civil war, the hutchinson family singers, asa moves out west. the brothers founded hutchinson, minnesota, and then asa moves to colorado and john remains centered in lynn, massachusetts. abby will remain in new york and in orange, new jersey, and new york city, and travel the world. she ll be in egypt and other places. she has married again ludlow patton, extraordinarily wealthy to whom she wed. and the hutchinsons won t be that social voice they were in the 1840s and 1850s and by and large they ll be what a lot of singer from the 1960s are today. they make money off of what they once were. they re had-businessessed. they re repeating old music. going on stage as a relic that people want to
in comments at cleveland these people. they are not watching rachel and state university, vice- they are not watching john presidential candidate paul ryan criticized federal anti- kennedy. independence and moderates. it was written the other day poverty programs and argue for a strategy encouraging private about the way the narrative charity. this is a half-hour. changes. basically, political porter s take a look at the polls. hello, colorado. [cheers and applause] obama gets out there and says romnesia. if you perceive obama as willing thank you so much. look at this. wow. [applause] thank you. thank you so much. cut winning, that is great. [applause] if you perceive obama as was in, that is embarrassing. does it color the news they get? so warm. wow. [applause] wow. [laughter] it does depend. getting the news by watching something on saturday night live, which we use as a great arbiter. thank you very much for that warm welcome. a lot of folks who are very pass
his ballot. romney campaigning throughout ohio today then he s in worthing on the industries and later the northwestern part of the state. now live at 1:15 eastern we ll bring you president obama in richmond live here on c-span. would you support military action in iran? if need be, yes. as a last option, yes 6789 under what conditions? if sanctions don t work. if they are about to have the ability to develop a nuclear bomb, we use every option possible as would israel and that would be the last option we d use. i think we stand with israel and do not let them develop a nuclear weapon. under what conditions would you recommend it? i don t know right now but we better exhaust everything else. and at the end of the day if that is what is needed, i m still serving. i ll be the first volunteer but we re going to have a darn honest discussion about what is needed. with less than two weeks before the election follow the races on c-span in campaign 2012. tonight live
in ohio. later, more like a campaign coverage as a vice president joe biden travels to lynchburg, virginia. this weekend, book-tv is will be in austin, texas. from 11:00-6:00 eastern, you can hear from douglas brinkley and others. sunday from noon-6, a book about ulysses s. grant, infiltrating drug cartels and inside the house of representatives. the texas book festival, live this weekend, on book-tv, on c- span 2. next, we will talk about covering presidential campaigns with political journalists who have moderated presidential debates. they talk about the impact of conventions, television ads and voters this campaign cycle. this is one hour, 10 minutes. [applause] thank you very much and a warm welcome to you. we are so pleased that you joined us, and judy woodruff, thank you for serving on our board. [laughter] i would like to ask each of debates that we just went through. we we re not sure you would make it through the traffic on time. we decided to start off