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senator harold burton to the supreme court and in 1956 president eisenhower named democrat william brennan to the supreme court. who has happened to us? what have we become? does anyone not understand this nation is divided red and blue and what it needs is a pux purple heart? lest any of my colleagues think these examples are colds let me remind them the senate has recent examples during times of close political division. as i mentioned previously, president clinton followed this historic practice during vacancies to the supreme court a decade ago. as explained by my friend, the senior senator from utah who was then the ranking member of the senate judiciary committee, president clinton consulted with him and the republican caucus during the high court vacancies in 1993 and 1994. the result was president clinton's selection of two outstanding consensus nominees, ruth bader ginsburg and steven breyer both of whom were confirmed overwhelmingly by the senate by votes of 97-3 and 89-9 respectively. the last two vacancies on the supreme court are textbook examples of the executive branch worki
senator harold burton to the supreme court and in 1956 president eisenhower named democrat william brennan to the supreme court. who has happened to us? what have we become? does anyone not understand this nation is divided red and blue and what it needs is a pux purple heart? lest any of my colleagues think these examples are colds let me remind them the senate has recent examples during times of close political division. as i mentioned previously, president clinton followed this historic...
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host: our guest is michael waldman with the new york university law school and president of the brennan center for justice. good morning mr. waldman. >> tell us what is the center for justice, how are you organized and funded? >> we are a nonpartisan law and policy institute. we work to s
host: our guest is michael waldman with the new york university law school and president of the brennan center for justice. good morning mr. waldman. >> tell us what is the center for justice, how are you organized and funded? >> we are a nonpartisan law and policy institute. we work to s
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they are amazing, the chiefs who run the show mike lynch, martin brennan, aaron sager brawn. the floor staff, the amazing garry myrick, tricia engel, the whole floor staff, thank you. and then three names that i have to give a particular shout out to, because you could truly say without these three we wouldn't have a bill -- jerry patrella, playingen tira, charlie elseworth. my staff, a i'd like to brag about them in i might, my staff boasts some of the most brilliant legislative minds in the country. folks who know the nitty-gritty of every issue in their portfolio, who fashion solutions to the most difficult problems in the country and then turn those solutions into action. so -- and thank you to my executive team who keeps me somewhat on time and is a tremendous asset to the entire democratic caucus. thank you to our phenomenal research team ready to supply the right fact at the right moment. you ask them, look it it up shall find this out, boom! the answer appears right away. to everyone at the senate democratic media center who are clipping and editing videos at 3:00, 4:
they are amazing, the chiefs who run the show mike lynch, martin brennan, aaron sager brawn. the floor staff, the amazing garry myrick, tricia engel, the whole floor staff, thank you. and then three names that i have to give a particular shout out to, because you could truly say without these three we wouldn't have a bill -- jerry patrella, playingen tira, charlie elseworth. my staff, a i'd like to brag about them in i might, my staff boasts some of the most brilliant legislative minds in the...
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former postmaster general megan brennan testified a couple of years ago the absence of real legislative and regulatory reform the postal service would be flat broke by 2024. and what are some of the answers that are being proposed today by our friends on the other side of the aisle? is it cutting costs? is it reducing work force compensation? is it limiting unfunded liabilities? is it requiring the financial condition of the postal service to be considered during future collective bargaining? none, no, not one of those. medicare integration hasn't been talked about a lot, by estimates saving 40 billion over the next decade. we're trying to close 160 billion gap and taxpayers shouldn't be on the hook for that anyway. it's not as if medicare is a shining example of safety and stability. how many of the proposed reforms from the 2018 task force, i believe there are maybe six major ones have been implemented, have there been any? >> i'm sorry, i can't hear you. >> can you hear me, how many of the proposed reforms from the 2018 task force have been implemented? >> so if you haven't noticed,
former postmaster general megan brennan testified a couple of years ago the absence of real legislative and regulatory reform the postal service would be flat broke by 2024. and what are some of the answers that are being proposed today by our friends on the other side of the aisle? is it cutting costs? is it reducing work force compensation? is it limiting unfunded liabilities? is it requiring the financial condition of the postal service to be considered during future collective bargaining?...
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this year prior to joining human rights watch worked as an assistant to the director and counsel the brennan center in washington d.c. and was a researcher at the center for research and education and social policy at the university of delaware. this heath holds a bachelor's degree from western university. ms. heath welcome in you are recognized for five minutes. >> on behalf of human rights watch it's an honor to be here today. thank you to the subcommittee for this opportunity c to testiy about this important piece of legislation. i am a researcher and advocate on racial justice within the u.s. -- an international organization that investigates human rights violations in over 90 countries around the world including in the united states. the concept of reparations is well-established and international human rights law. at its core is the idea that economic and social conditionsor cannot improve without addressing a repairing harm. the u.s. is never fully or properly reckoned with the gross human rights of chattel slavery in post-emancipation policy that continue to affect black people in th
this year prior to joining human rights watch worked as an assistant to the director and counsel the brennan center in washington d.c. and was a researcher at the center for research and education and social policy at the university of delaware. this heath holds a bachelor's degree from western university. ms. heath welcome in you are recognized for five minutes. >> on behalf of human rights watch it's an honor to be here today. thank you to the subcommittee for this opportunity c to...
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years this year prior to joining him he works at the special assistant to the rector and counsel of the brennan center washington dc office and was a research at the center for research and education and social policy at the university of delaware. she owns a bachelors degree from westminster university and you are recognized for five minutes. >> on behalf of human rights watch it is an honor to be here today. thank you to the cub committee for this opportunity to testify about this piece of legislation. i am a researcher and advocate on racial justice issues. [audio difficulties] we investigate human rights violations and over 90 countries around the world, including in the united states. the concept of reparations is well-established in international human rights law. at its core is the idea that economic and social conditions cannot improve without progressing and addressing and repairing harm. the u.s. has never fully reckoned with the gross human rights violation of cattle policies and the racist policies that continue to impact black people in the u.s. today. if racial justice is ever to
years this year prior to joining him he works at the special assistant to the rector and counsel of the brennan center washington dc office and was a research at the center for research and education and social policy at the university of delaware. she owns a bachelors degree from westminster university and you are recognized for five minutes. >> on behalf of human rights watch it is an honor to be here today. thank you to the cub committee for this opportunity to testify about this piece...
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, it was first written by justice fortis before he resigned in a financial scandal and then justice brennan edited it and at least some scholars have reported that he really changed this language from the clear and convincing test to really make this new test of intentional incitement and likelihood of incitement. >> this is a unanimous 8-0 decision. are per curiums always unanimous? >> no, i was surprised to reof fresh my memory that bush versus gore was a per curium resulting in george w. bush becoming president for those who don't remember and there were many, many separate opinions that individual justices issued, but-- and the vote was as split as it could be 5-4 and yet there was a per curium opinion. >> what was the story about judge fortis? >> it's could many -- it's complicated because there were some allegations he had too close a relationship with president johnson with whom he had been close politically, that continued after he was on the court, which was improper, violating separation of powers concerns and impartiality of a justice. and yet, as katie said, there were certain f
, it was first written by justice fortis before he resigned in a financial scandal and then justice brennan edited it and at least some scholars have reported that he really changed this language from the clear and convincing test to really make this new test of intentional incitement and likelihood of incitement. >> this is a unanimous 8-0 decision. are per curiums always unanimous? >> no, i was surprised to reof fresh my memory that bush versus gore was a per curium resulting in...
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brennan apparently redrafted it and did take out thehe languageut think about the much stricter test that brandenburg included. >> jim from california. >>caller: regarding free speech today, so much activity is on social media. these are private companies. yet it seems to me if you restrict speech on them you are restricting a great deal of speech that is going on. and with the facebook situation that is recently. so what thoughts do you have on how we incorporate or make sure free speech is carried through to these entities, whenever they are? i don't know how you describe them. >> that's a great question first of all the supreme court unanimously decided a casell that government may not deny access to social media to an individual it was a convicted sex offender who had served his time precisely for the reasons that you state that the supreme court uses very strong language about what incredibly important public platform this was especially for getting news and information sharing. so what about the censorship by social media themselves? many people are surprised to learn the first
brennan apparently redrafted it and did take out thehe languageut think about the much stricter test that brandenburg included. >> jim from california. >>caller: regarding free speech today, so much activity is on social media. these are private companies. yet it seems to me if you restrict speech on them you are restricting a great deal of speech that is going on. and with the facebook situation that is recently. so what thoughts do you have on how we incorporate or make sure free...
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. >> new york universities brennan center for justice holds a discussion on democracy and how the u.s. senate operates. live coverage at noon eastern on c-span2. >> up next and how small business committee holds a hearing to examine the small business economy during the covid-19 pandemic. they hear questions about minority-owned businesses, paycheck protection program loans at the potential impact of a minimum wage increase on small business owners. this is two and a half hours. [inaudible conversations] >> good morning. i called the meeting to order. i want to thank everyone for joining us today for our first hearing of the 117th congress. i welcome all our new small business committee members, and welcome back those of you returning to the committee from the 116th congress. i want to make sure to note some import requirements. let me begin by saying stenhouse and committee rules and practice will continue to apply during hybrid proceedings. all members are reminded they are expected to adhere to the standing rules, including decorum. regulations are members to be -- through video co
. >> new york universities brennan center for justice holds a discussion on democracy and how the u.s. senate operates. live coverage at noon eastern on c-span2. >> up next and how small business committee holds a hearing to examine the small business economy during the covid-19 pandemic. they hear questions about minority-owned businesses, paycheck protection program loans at the potential impact of a minimum wage increase on small business owners. this is two and a half hours....
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our guests this week, john brennan is perfectly positioned to address this critical and evolving set of issues an we are
our guests this week, john brennan is perfectly positioned to address this critical and evolving set of issues an we are
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to balance it out they had on someone from the tobacco industry with the tobacco industry lobby and brennan dawson and every time from the national institute from not smoking and seven words of polymerase inhibitor receptor and would say please. and then to make it sound that was the most * phony in the world i thought that has to be an interesting job. you brush your teeth and say goodbye and then go and sell for a living. bleak. little and there is something i am very dying to ask you i feel awkward. she said i know what is a nice girl like me doing in a place like this? i said yes. exactly. i'm just paying the mortgage., [laughter] host: christopher buckley 2009 from mary jo in dearborn michigan and with a year of wonders in the next nonfiction book and buy a is a ball dickerson and robert caro is writing the multi- volume set onre lyndon johnson here he is talking about one of those. >> and then it takes for me to find out exactly what differences and our life by people in the south. >> you know you love it? >> it takes time to figure that out. >> we on a book tour now we spend two mont
to balance it out they had on someone from the tobacco industry with the tobacco industry lobby and brennan dawson and every time from the national institute from not smoking and seven words of polymerase inhibitor receptor and would say please. and then to make it sound that was the most * phony in the world i thought that has to be an interesting job. you brush your teeth and say goodbye and then go and sell for a living. bleak. little and there is something i am very dying to ask you i feel...
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institute which was the tobacco's industry's lobby here and he was this gorgeous, attractive woman name brennan dawson, and every time the scientist from the national institutes of, you'll know, not smoking, whatever, said something, presented the evidence, which had to at least seven worlds in it that were incomprehend incomprehensible. she would -- oh, please. sort or squirt lemon juice on this guy and make it up so as this he was just being the most preposterous phony in the world. i thought that's got to be an interesting job. get up in the morning, brush your teeth, say goodbye to the kids and sell death for a living. so i called her up and said i have to hang out with you. if was a little oblique what i was up to and i got to hang out with her, and at one point after could couple consecutive days i said, you'll in the, there's something i really dying to ask you but i feel a little awkward. she said -- she was smoking and she -- beautiful smoker in her office and she is like lauren backal and she said i know what a nice girl leak meek doing in a place like this and i said yes, that's exac
institute which was the tobacco's industry's lobby here and he was this gorgeous, attractive woman name brennan dawson, and every time the scientist from the national institutes of, you'll know, not smoking, whatever, said something, presented the evidence, which had to at least seven worlds in it that were incomprehend incomprehensible. she would -- oh, please. sort or squirt lemon juice on this guy and make it up so as this he was just being the most preposterous phony in the world. i thought...
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bipartisan policy sensor we had the need that 1.5 billion in the brennan center pointed at closer to 2.6 billion so clearly we thought there were a lot more needs then were met by the 400 million from the congress and another 500 million or so so do you think that election officials have everything they needed to run this successfully? >> i think ultimately the next week the election will be successful election officials will get the job done. i think that they certainly could have used more resources, particularly from the federal level. elections are run at the local level but those local election offices are running elections, not just for local offices but for state and federal offices as well and so being a shared response ability should mean that funding gets shared appropriately to and so the brennan center has been pushing for congress to appropriate more funding and i think we will continue that push going forward and there should be should not be dependent on there being a pandemic to provide the level of funding necessary to run elections appropriately but there should be
bipartisan policy sensor we had the need that 1.5 billion in the brennan center pointed at closer to 2.6 billion so clearly we thought there were a lot more needs then were met by the 400 million from the congress and another 500 million or so so do you think that election officials have everything they needed to run this successfully? >> i think ultimately the next week the election will be successful election officials will get the job done. i think that they certainly could have used...
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by kevin collier, a and larryt nbc news norden, the director of the election reform program at the brennan center for justice. just a reminder, if you have questions as we chat, feel free to drop them into the chat below. voting is on everyone's mind at the moment, and with coronavirus, more voters than ever are trying mail-in ballots or voting early. alternatives to our usual voting methods, a lot of people are asking will voting become digital, as well? thent to kick off conversation by asking, why would we even want online voting? my bias is coming from seattle where we have a robust mail-in ballot system, and the process is already quite easy. i'm curious what the conversation would look like around, why do we need this kind of technology? i think the appeal is in norma's. -- is enormous. in theory, it has largely been attempted in this country for military deployed service members. it could be used for people with disabilities who don't have a lot of ease getting to the polls. if we somehow had a robust online voting system, it would drastically increase voter participation. the bigge
by kevin collier, a and larryt nbc news norden, the director of the election reform program at the brennan center for justice. just a reminder, if you have questions as we chat, feel free to drop them into the chat below. voting is on everyone's mind at the moment, and with coronavirus, more voters than ever are trying mail-in ballots or voting early. alternatives to our usual voting methods, a lot of people are asking will voting become digital, as well? thent to kick off conversation by...
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>> guest: are you talking about the brennan and hillary clinton related release ? yes, so there were three pieces of i guess intelligence information or three pieces of information. i learned early on in july that the russians had information that hillary clinton had, with this scheme suggested by an advisor, foreign policy advisor to raise the issue of russia collusion and conspiracy with the russians to distract from her emails. and then that was elevated to the president of the united states briefing by john brennan, brandon confirmed that it seems and also the cia referred to the fbi later in the yearas well . so really it seems to me a pretty and primary endorsement of the validity of the information and certainly fits in with and my theory of the case it's obvious that they wanted to distract from their own criminality by making up garbage about president trump and it worked in many ways in the sense that the justice department's largely been frozen ever since that hillary clinton and obama and all the rest have not been subject in my view to serious criminal
>> guest: are you talking about the brennan and hillary clinton related release ? yes, so there were three pieces of i guess intelligence information or three pieces of information. i learned early on in july that the russians had information that hillary clinton had, with this scheme suggested by an advisor, foreign policy advisor to raise the issue of russia collusion and conspiracy with the russians to distract from her emails. and then that was elevated to the president of the united...
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the groups filing these lawsuits like the part about democracy, the brennan center, the league of women voters, let's think about it for a minute. a democratically elected legislature let's say in virginia, democratically elected legislature, every one of those seats in the house and senate passed a law that said you have to have an absentee ballot signature if you are going to do that and they did that to protect the voter and its system. that law then went to the democratically elected governor of virginia who signed the law making it represent the will of the people. in comes the league of women voters and they decided the democratically enacted provisions of the state election law they just don't like it so what do they do they file a lawsuit in the western district in front of george norman kane, u.s. district court judge, the commonwealth of virginia that champion of defending the statutes capitulates and raises a white flag. i was in on one of these conference calls because the foundation filed a brief in the case. and i heard something i've never heard before. the judge asked th
the groups filing these lawsuits like the part about democracy, the brennan center, the league of women voters, let's think about it for a minute. a democratically elected legislature let's say in virginia, democratically elected legislature, every one of those seats in the house and senate passed a law that said you have to have an absentee ballot signature if you are going to do that and they did that to protect the voter and its system. that law then went to the democratically elected...
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with you want to trust the brennan center for justice or the heritage foundation's database tracking voter fraud the results are the same. the actual fraudulent vote by mail votes cast over the past two decades are minuscule. there is no legitimate concern over voter fraud yet it is more likely for americans to get struck by lightning been to commit mail voting fraud. the voter fraud is more rare than winning the mega millions. misinformation about voting by mail is dangerous and could cause millions of americans to alter their plan and that would be a mistake and exercising their right to vote and that's why house democrats oppose numerous bills to this committee and through the full house to help americans vote safely, accurately and without fraud during this pandemic and we need to continue to do that. my question to mister spencer overton, we seen misinformation targeting communities of color, from foreign state actors including iran and russia have attempted to change the political opinion of minority voters to depress voter turnout. we've seen this despicable information and di
with you want to trust the brennan center for justice or the heritage foundation's database tracking voter fraud the results are the same. the actual fraudulent vote by mail votes cast over the past two decades are minuscule. there is no legitimate concern over voter fraud yet it is more likely for americans to get struck by lightning been to commit mail voting fraud. the voter fraud is more rare than winning the mega millions. misinformation about voting by mail is dangerous and could cause...
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>> the brennan center the doctrinene to provide that information and that exist to be a trusted source of information we have these recommendations from fellow key ines and that is terms of a critical place to go with actual information to ensure it's available. >> in the final 30 seconds what can voters to? >> number one to recognize what they see online maybe false so they need to pay attention to that. number one if they are voting by mail one of the big issues we see the ballots are rejected because something was not filledot out so pay attention in terms with voting by mail and the most important thing is they have to participate don't be discouraged participation is critical. >> i will spread that throughout my district thank you and i yield back. >> we have now been joined by the chair the full committee from california madame chair you arear recognized. >> thank you very much madame chairwoman i just wanted to minutes toa few will listen to this incredible panel and thank you for your leadership as chair of the elections committee and the members have joined you today i wish ou
>> the brennan center the doctrinene to provide that information and that exist to be a trusted source of information we have these recommendations from fellow key ines and that is terms of a critical place to go with actual information to ensure it's available. >> in the final 30 seconds what can voters to? >> number one to recognize what they see online maybe false so they need to pay attention to that. number one if they are voting by mail one of the big issues we see the...
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former cia director john brennan talks about his life and career. and donald trump junior offers his thoughts on what he calls liberal privilege. find a full television schedule online @booktv.org or on your program guide. : : : "the unelected: how an unaccountable elite is governing america", i had a chance to read parts of this book and it's really amazing. james copland is senior fellow at the manhattan institute where he is also director of legal policy and you have read his work all over national media, you've seen him on television you've heard on radio and, by the way, he holds the jd and mba from yale where he was an owen fellow in law and economics, also a ba in economics from none other than unc chapel hill where he was a morehead scholar. jim, so glad to have you with us here for our shaft spirit society. thank you for joining us >> thank you for having me, donna, always a pleasure to speak to the good folks at the john locke foundation. i've said it before, as someone who has worked many years at a national think tank, so much policy hap
former cia director john brennan talks about his life and career. and donald trump junior offers his thoughts on what he calls liberal privilege. find a full television schedule online @booktv.org or on your program guide. : : : "the unelected: how an unaccountable elite is governing america", i had a chance to read parts of this book and it's really amazing. james copland is senior fellow at the manhattan institute where he is also director of legal policy and you have read his work...
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former cia director john brennan talks about his life and career. and donald trump junior offers his thoughts on what he calls liberal privilege. find a full television schedule online @booktv.org or on your program guide. : : : "the unelected: how an unaccountable elite is governing america", i had a chance to read parts of this book and it's really
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former cia director john brennan talk about his life and career and donald trump junior offers his thoughts on what he calls liberal privilege. find the full television schedule online at book tv job board or on your program guide. >> your watching book tv on c-span2 this sunday evening. we are pleased to be alive with the authors diamond and silk. their book is calleduprising . who the hell said you can't ditch and switch. the awakening of diamond and silk. i want to ask you both what you mean by ditch and switch. >> what we mean by ditch and switch as we want people to ditch what we call the democrat plantation and switch their party to the republicans to vote for donald trump. wetalk about the mindset of being on a plantation, of being controlled . that's what we're talking about. the reality that being implemented into people every day, that was being implemented into us as democrats. we wanted people to get that ideology, that way of thinking and know that there's something else on the other side and that's what we did , we ditched the democrat party and switched our party to republica
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former cia director john brennan talk about his life and career and donald trump junior offers his thoughts on what he calls liberal privilege. find the full television schedule online at book tv job board or on your program guide. >> your watching book tv on c-span2 this sunday evening. we are pleased to be alive with the authors diamond and silk. their book is calleduprising . who the hell said you can't ditch and switch. the awakening of diamond and silk. i want to ask you both what you mean by ditch and switch. >> what we mean by ditch and switch as we want people to ditch what we call the democrat plantation and switch their party to the republicans to vote for donald trump. webo
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the former cia director john brennan speaks about his life and career in his book undaunted. my fight against america's watch book tv. this weekend on c-span two. cap next it's book tvs monthly in depth program with the harvard university professor jill lepore. a truth of the history of the united states in a newly published if that about the cold war origins of mining. harvard professor jill lepore. before we get into the substance of your book as a historian what is your contemporary view of how our world is going to be viewed. >> i think we have so little perspective on this that it's quite isi
the former cia director john brennan speaks about his life and career in his book undaunted. my fight against america's watch book tv. this weekend on c-span two. cap next it's book tvs monthly in depth program with the harvard university professor jill lepore. a truth of the history of the united states in a newly published if that about the cold war origins of mining. harvard professor jill lepore. before we get into the substance of your book as a historian what is your contemporary view of...
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and on sunday at 9 pm eastern on "after words", former cia director john brennan about his life and career in his book undaunted. my fight against america's enemies at home and abroad. he's interviewed by new york times national security reporter julian barnes. what book tv this weekend on c-span2.
and on sunday at 9 pm eastern on "after words", former cia director john brennan about his life and career in his book undaunted. my fight against america's enemies at home and abroad. he's interviewed by new york times national security reporter julian barnes. what book tv this weekend on c-span2.
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director john brennan speaks about his life and career in his book undaunted my fight against america's enemies at home and abroad and is interviewed by new transnational scaredy reporter julian barnes. watch book tv, this weekend on c-span2. >> you are watching to your unfiltered view of government. created by america's cable television companies as a public service and brought to you today by your television provider. >> former georgian republican congressman is with us now. currently serves as the ceo law enforcement education and in the first hour we asked the question today,he was are they concerned the political divisions in this country will spur violence before or after the election and how would you answer that ioquestion? >> guest: it is a question that we should never really have to ask but the state of the country today is such that it is a relevant question to ask unfortunately and we have seen over the past r six months or so significant violence erupting in cities from coast to coast and in america's heartland so it does raise the question in people's minds how much of th
director john brennan speaks about his life and career in his book undaunted my fight against america's enemies at home and abroad and is interviewed by new transnational scaredy reporter julian barnes. watch book tv, this weekend on c-span2. >> you are watching to your unfiltered view of government. created by america's cable television companies as a public service and brought to you today by your television provider. >> former georgian republican congressman is with us now....
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james madison and james monroe and on sunday at 9 pm eastern on "after words", former cia director john brennan speaks about his life and career in his book undaunted, my fight against america's enemies at home and abroad. he's interviewed bynational security reporter julian barnes . watch tv this weekend on c-span2. >> was live coverage of the senate confirmation hearings for judge amy barrett, starting monday with opening statements byjudiciary committee members judge barrett . live coverage on c-span and c-span.org. listen live on the free radio and be ready to visit c-span to view a playlist ofillegal use . >> good friday to you, more on that governor gretchen would in michigan story in a minutebut first to those polls that we mentioned . this is the usa today story from yesterday published
james madison and james monroe and on sunday at 9 pm eastern on "after words", former cia director john brennan speaks about his life and career in his book undaunted, my fight against america's enemies at home and abroad. he's interviewed bynational security reporter julian barnes . watch tv this weekend on c-span2. >> was live coverage of the senate confirmation hearings for judge amy barrett, starting monday with opening statements byjudiciary committee members judge barrett...
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begins with voter id washington did adopt that served our voters well we do not have issue with the brennan center challenge i am part of the way because it was not politicized too much and has worked well with our system. online votert. registration since 2008 and a vote by mail state completely since 2011. so in the last ten years the activities and advancements have expanded access with a prepaid postage in 2018 and in 2019 and all of these really great advancements and i'm not taking credit for apply have been the election administrator to enact the laws. build out the commentating controls and security measures. and then in 2019 to roll out a near real-time statewide voter registration system. this is the backbone for the activity we do so these ballots will be available 20 days before election and then with the elections director 18 days prior to election day. is with those drop boxes that voters can drop in their ballot if they don't want to put into the usps we are thankful for that because certainly that is an issue now oregon and washington differ washington is a postmark state so
begins with voter id washington did adopt that served our voters well we do not have issue with the brennan center challenge i am part of the way because it was not politicized too much and has worked well with our system. online votert. registration since 2008 and a vote by mail state completely since 2011. so in the last ten years the activities and advancements have expanded access with a prepaid postage in 2018 and in 2019 and all of these really great advancements and i'm not taking credit...
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first witness today is going to be michael german who is a fellow at the brennan center for justice, then vida johnson who is an associate professor of law at georgetown university law school. we'll also hear from -- and often activist and then we'll hear from mark napier who is the sheriff of team at county arizona and finally will hear from heather taylor who is the president of the ethical society of police in st. louis. the witnesses will now please unmute so i can swear you in. please all of you raise your right hand if you would. [witnesses were sworn in] >> thank you. let the record show the witnesses have all answered in the affirmative. thank you, and without objection your complete written statements will be made part of the record. you are given five minutes within which to give your oral presentation and then all of the distinguished members of the committee who have arrived, including ms. tlaib was just joined the committee, are going to ask you questions. with that, mr. german, you are now recognized for five minutes. >> thank you for inviting me to testify today about
first witness today is going to be michael german who is a fellow at the brennan center for justice, then vida johnson who is an associate professor of law at georgetown university law school. we'll also hear from -- and often activist and then we'll hear from mark napier who is the sheriff of team at county arizona and finally will hear from heather taylor who is the president of the ethical society of police in st. louis. the witnesses will now please unmute so i can swear you in. please all...
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let me just say this to you guys in front of god and everybody justin brennan had an biographer who had writers block. someone else had to take over the project. i'm saying you better not get siters block. everybody here. some of you are great deal younger than me. we do also. [applause]. i am taking for granted this is a very educated in curious audience. i'm taking for granted that everybody in this room has seen rbg in this room has seen her just once. i'm not to go through all of the cases and strategy and all that. there are otherhe places where you have seen this. there are a lot of young people in this audience men and women in light of that and in all of the conversation that we have these days about balance between work and family life to tell us the story of the elevator thief. >> the elevator thief. was my lively son. it was when he was in the sixth grade. his teacher called him hyperactive. i called him lively. to come down to the school to talk about my son's latest escapades. one day i was sitting in my office at columbia law school 's phone rang. it was the had master. we
let me just say this to you guys in front of god and everybody justin brennan had an biographer who had writers block. someone else had to take over the project. i'm saying you better not get siters block. everybody here. some of you are great deal younger than me. we do also. [applause]. i am taking for granted this is a very educated in curious audience. i'm taking for granted that everybody in this room has seen rbg in this room has seen her just once. i'm not to go through all of the cases...
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a recent report from the brennan center for justice advises, quote, in person voting can be conducted safely if jurisdictions take the necessary steps to demise the risk of transmission of covid-19 to election workers and voters. all my colleagues will take the opportunity to highlight cdc guidance for safe in person voting. they put out really good guidelines showing you how to safely do this just like safely going to school, you can educate people in person, some choosing to do it and some denying kids that opportunity and we talked about that in this committee, mister chairman. just on the same level i would urge we follow the guidelines for safely voting in person. there are options for people to vote. you can request a mail in ballot, vote early in many states, they have those opportunities or you can vote in person as many want to do. we ought to be promoting those guidelines. look at the example cdc put out in these guidelines right here. in sure that poll locations are adequately staff to cover sick workers, provide hand sanitizer for use at each step in the voting process. en
a recent report from the brennan center for justice advises, quote, in person voting can be conducted safely if jurisdictions take the necessary steps to demise the risk of transmission of covid-19 to election workers and voters. all my colleagues will take the opportunity to highlight cdc guidance for safe in person voting. they put out really good guidelines showing you how to safely do this just like safely going to school, you can educate people in person, some choosing to do it and some...
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guidelines for healthy in person voting by the brennan center ballot dropbox guidance created by the cyber securityand infrastructure security agency . and without objection those items are made part of the record. >> may i ask unanimous consent to submit a letter to the secretary of state kyle are doing for the record. >> of course, without objection that is part of the record . seeing no further business before us let me thank each of the witnesses for taking the time to be with us today. your testimony was enlightening and very much appreciated and if there's nothing further, we will adjourn this hearing with many thanks toall of you and all of the members . >> on tuesday treasury secretary stephen mnuchin testifies on the state of the economy in the wake of the coronaviruspandemic . watch at 1 pm eastern or listen live with the free c-span radio app. weeknights this month we are featuring book tv programs as a preview of what's available every weekend on c-span2. tonight at 8 pm eastern we look at books about president from the upcoming presidentialelection . the with tc mcfarlan
guidelines for healthy in person voting by the brennan center ballot dropbox guidance created by the cyber securityand infrastructure security agency . and without objection those items are made part of the record. >> may i ask unanimous consent to submit a letter to the secretary of state kyle are doing for the record. >> of course, without objection that is part of the record . seeing no further business before us let me thank each of the witnesses for taking the time to be with...
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how to be in anti-racist, e brennan candy must choose america must choose to be antiracist in building a more equitable society. looking at the best-selling nonfiction books according to publishers weekly is the room where it happened. former national security adviser john bolton looked back at his time in the trump administration. most of these authors have appeared on booktv and you can watch them online, booktv.org. >> hello, everyone, welcome, thanks for joining us. we have folks coming into this call from philadelphia, chicago, the bronx, cape town, south africa, california, london, portland, oregon, jersey, minneapolis, florida, among other places around the world, thank you for being here. i am a writer. ..
how to be in anti-racist, e brennan candy must choose america must choose to be antiracist in building a more equitable society. looking at the best-selling nonfiction books according to publishers weekly is the room where it happened. former national security adviser john bolton looked back at his time in the trump administration. most of these authors have appeared on booktv and you can watch them online, booktv.org. >> hello, everyone, welcome, thanks for joining us. we have folks...
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. >> tonight on tv in prime time, heels david and former cia director, john brennan discussed the history of russian interference in u.s. elections and how to prevent it in the future. journalist, lisa provides a history of cable news and the rise of the 24 hour news cycle. princeton's julian sellers are explores the political ascendancy of former speaker of the house, gingrich. environmental progress founder, michael shellenberger offers his thoughts on what he calls apocalyptic environmentalism. professors benjamin and dorothy roberts offered their thoughts on how some new technologies reinforce racial discrimination. that will start tonight 7:00 p.m. eastern. for more information, visit booktv.org for check your program guide. >> book tv recently spoke with joni ernst about her life and career. there's a portion of the interview. >> i grew up in southwest iowa, a very rural part of the state. the perseverance, the dedication, hard work that my parents taught me has carried me through so many different challenges in my lifetime, opportunities of a lifetime and i wanted to tell a story t
. >> tonight on tv in prime time, heels david and former cia director, john brennan discussed the history of russian interference in u.s. elections and how to prevent it in the future. journalist, lisa provides a history of cable news and the rise of the 24 hour news cycle. princeton's julian sellers are explores the political ascendancy of former speaker of the house, gingrich. environmental progress founder, michael shellenberger offers his thoughts on what he calls apocalyptic...
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red by the president and his allies that voter fraud is rampant problem when, in fact, to quote the brennan center, is vanishingly rare. ballot collection is an essential service for boaters at risk of being shutout of the electoral process. this service is it more important during a pandemic when voters in high-risk populations may be unable or unwilling to risk their health and safety physically go to the polls. there is no evidence, i repeat no evidence of fraudulent voting activity. the funds in this bill are provided to states improve election security such as enhancing the security of voter registration, databases and voting system and conducting postelection audits to ensure reported results are accurate. this amendment would impose excessive and unnecessary hurdles for states to clear in which access that much needed funds and would dilute efforts to protect against the real threats to our elections. this bill is not the appropriate people to implement new vote federal voting requirements, particularly those that would make it even more difficult for legitimate voters to ask us abou
red by the president and his allies that voter fraud is rampant problem when, in fact, to quote the brennan center, is vanishingly rare. ballot collection is an essential service for boaters at risk of being shutout of the electoral process. this service is it more important during a pandemic when voters in high-risk populations may be unable or unwilling to risk their health and safety physically go to the polls. there is no evidence, i repeat no evidence of fraudulent voting activity. the...
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. >> the next witnesses the director of the brennan center for justice at the school of law. chairman adler's district and went to columbia law school and also at nyu school of politics. still in nadler's district receiving a law degree from columbia university the public policy kennedy school you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you for having me. in this time of reckoning for the country i briefly map out five critical needs each state must address to assure no voters left behind during this pandemic testimony provides more details and a resource appendix the single most important thing that members of this committee can do to protect our elections is to play your part to get state and local administrators additional financial resources. first same-day registration opportunities the moment we are in now makes it plain the democracy works best we are all heard at this time impasse presidential election years we see an increase of voter registration rates we are not seeing that now and this is a surprise. government agencies providing voter registration are those tha
. >> the next witnesses the director of the brennan center for justice at the school of law. chairman adler's district and went to columbia law school and also at nyu school of politics. still in nadler's district receiving a law degree from columbia university the public policy kennedy school you are recognized for five minutes. >> thank you for having me. in this time of reckoning for the country i briefly map out five critical needs each state must address to assure no voters...
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-- at the brennan center we like to quote justice william brennan, fear of too much justice, close quote quickly shut down the rights of convicted defendants to challenge even legal convictions years later and i wondered if you could talk about that fear of too much justice -- >> i think that some of us are misled by the achievements of justice brennan and warrant court. too many of us included saw that social change would be incurred, i'm not sure if that's the word, by the supreme court now and forever. that was an illusion and what brennan is saying, i think, is larger picture, that the case that he referred and was the most important process case in 20th century. he opened, i hoped would lead to something. it didn't. basically the supreme court and supreme court has been pulling back and so much the hope of people like me me and you don't need and that's social change, it's all in discussion and where does it come from and the whole question on reliance on the courts are not enough and, you know, you get into the question of the democrats' failure to deal for the last 30 years to foc
-- at the brennan center we like to quote justice william brennan, fear of too much justice, close quote quickly shut down the rights of convicted defendants to challenge even legal convictions years later and i wondered if you could talk about that fear of too much justice -- >> i think that some of us are misled by the achievements of justice brennan and warrant court. too many of us included saw that social change would be incurred, i'm not sure if that's the word, by the supreme court...
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i am a fellow at the brennan center for justice. please keep up with work by signing up for the newsletter at brennan center.org or following us on facebook or twitter. are you on twitter? >> i would be delighted to follow you. i think you would have an interesting account. and thank you to everyone for coming. [applause] provided a behind the scenes look at the trump administration. coming up, when it comes to motherhood, there's an exception that drives me crazy that it's a sort of woman's problem and how we can approach it. it isn't how do we make more work for parents. it's more okay the more we need to apply to help them fit into the environment and if you are not helping it wasn't designed for me in the first place is actually fixing something that was originally broken. women deserve workplaces that value than and they need us. we have capabilities and there's a greathereis a great study by l reserve bank of st. louis which found over a 30 year period. how scary it have been, clara barton, harriet beecher stowe and other wome
i am a fellow at the brennan center for justice. please keep up with work by signing up for the newsletter at brennan center.org or following us on facebook or twitter. are you on twitter? >> i would be delighted to follow you. i think you would have an interesting account. and thank you to everyone for coming. [applause] provided a behind the scenes look at the trump administration. coming up, when it comes to motherhood, there's an exception that drives me crazy that it's a sort of...
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brian weber goes to court and in the opinion by justice brenna brennan, the contract is upheld. now the reason this was important, the 14th amendment does not apply to private business just government, state or federal. but this said private businesses could have affirmative-actio affirmative-action, and they could take race into account and as long as they didn't discriminate entirely which did violated federal law, they could have affirmative-action plans and they do today. nearly every big company has affirmative-action plans and they have it for a very good reason. in the washington area you cannot go into a bank without finding at least one spanish-speaking teller or person behind the desk. and as one person said working for a west coast bank part of our business consist of hispanics they will not come to us unless we have people who look like them and can speak their language. that just makes good sense for higher one - - rest of higher those who speak spanish. now then the court went on to strike down several plans such as michigan and virginia. and what they did, they de
brian weber goes to court and in the opinion by justice brenna brennan, the contract is upheld. now the reason this was important, the 14th amendment does not apply to private business just government, state or federal. but this said private businesses could have affirmative-actio affirmative-action, and they could take race into account and as long as they didn't discriminate entirely which did violated federal law, they could have affirmative-action plans and they do today. nearly every big...
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john brennan is at the center of operation crossfire hurricane. illegal surveillance of the term campaign in our white house. he's the man who began it all. responsible for targeting of individuals in the campaign. i expect this individual to be in high legalig jeopardy in 2020 once this final subpoenas and indictments are brought down. >> peter, good afternoon. >> thank you. it's a real privilege and honor, god bless you. i've been listening with great interest and maybe i should say growing concern, i would really like to ask mr. gorka, we still have confidence in our system as far as rule of law. these people on the far left, i think of them as trader wannabes. they may notot take actual actis but in their speech and in their sentiments, i get the impression they would gladly see the united states damaged and replaced with ever idea they have. they're not actually traders or commit treasonon but -- >> i think we got the point. things were going in. >> i like that phrase. and use it with accreditation. wannabes. there's something strange about i
john brennan is at the center of operation crossfire hurricane. illegal surveillance of the term campaign in our white house. he's the man who began it all. responsible for targeting of individuals in the campaign. i expect this individual to be in high legalig jeopardy in 2020 once this final subpoenas and indictments are brought down. >> peter, good afternoon. >> thank you. it's a real privilege and honor, god bless you. i've been listening with great interest and maybe i should...
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could realize this guy was joe biden's special guest at a state dinner and figure out he worked with brennan and all g the peoples who started to lie to congress within miraculously get away with it. they could see the photograph of this man crying outside the oval office the day after the election crying like a little child. and they realized then when the lawyer comes through for the defense with those weird allegations i have security clearance. you see his feed. january 2017. the coup has started. impeachment. then you realize here we go again. it's just another set up. so that is what we have been dealing with. kimberly, you alluded that do you know how that's never actually spoken about? all-time low unemployment that do you know how that's never actually spoken about? all-time low unemployment for everyone. african-americans. hispanics, women. [applause] all-time high, startup businesses. even his haters say i don't like the guy but he is doing all the things he said he was going to do. [cheers and applause] d trevor know what is not exactly a fan art isn't that what politicians are s
could realize this guy was joe biden's special guest at a state dinner and figure out he worked with brennan and all g the peoples who started to lie to congress within miraculously get away with it. they could see the photograph of this man crying outside the oval office the day after the election crying like a little child. and they realized then when the lawyer comes through for the defense with those weird allegations i have security clearance. you see his feed. january 2017. the coup has...
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john brennan, if you read about who this man was, he was a failure to the cia. but before that more and partly just before he was interviewed with cnn, has this report just before he was interviewed and given a job at the cia. john, voted for the communist party of the cia at the height of the cold war. he voted for the communist candidate for president. then, he was hired by the cia and how did that happen to begin with. that is the first question. and then he washed out as an operator in the caa any failed and became an analyst and an undistinguished career would obama became president, he came back from the client b sent secr to see revenge on the agency. and he did it with an internal organization of scissors very mixed analyst with operators and making in certain instances, analysts responsible for operations and why, because he watched out he was a failure and he wanted to have revenge. on those operators of the cia. they politicize the cia. and especially, used the enron desk a sneak political tool to salvage their on guilt to not only resident obama but
john brennan, if you read about who this man was, he was a failure to the cia. but before that more and partly just before he was interviewed with cnn, has this report just before he was interviewed and given a job at the cia. john, voted for the communist party of the cia at the height of the cold war. he voted for the communist candidate for president. then, he was hired by the cia and how did that happen to begin with. that is the first question. and then he washed out as an operator in the...
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you're doing -- whether or not brennan is being paid by the kremlin is irrelevant. he is doing vladimir putin's bidding. the idea that a president like donald trump, who has green lit the targeting of more than 200 russian mercenaries in syria by our forces, man who instead of sending blankets and mres to ukraine like obama did, sent javelin antitank missiles and an individual who is instigating the toughest sanction regime against moscow, that person is treasonous and a puppet of putin? they have returned a massive, massive return on their investment, even when they didn't pay these individuals. so, it's sad that a party that was so in the tank for the live -- ted kennedy, ted kennedy, had negotiations with the kremlin, trying to elicit their assistance to undermine ronald reagan's re-election. that democrat party that was always on the side of the left, on the side of useful idiots, the fellow travelers, now they're accusing donald trump and conservatives, truly beyond the pale. >> host: and from sebastian gorka's 2018 book while we fight. russia does not share am
you're doing -- whether or not brennan is being paid by the kremlin is irrelevant. he is doing vladimir putin's bidding. the idea that a president like donald trump, who has green lit the targeting of more than 200 russian mercenaries in syria by our forces, man who instead of sending blankets and mres to ukraine like obama did, sent javelin antitank missiles and an individual who is instigating the toughest sanction regime against moscow, that person is treasonous and a puppet of putin? they...