but andrew sullivan, then the editor of the new republic, asked me to be legal affairs editor at age a tremendous opportunity. the new republic in those days was one of the few political magazines writing at length about legal topics, and i had this amazing opportunity thanks to andrew sullivan to write about the law and the constitution for a magazine that featured giants like felix frankfurter, all my constitutional heroes. the most exciting opportunity i had, and i did it with great gratitude and relish, for a long time. the new republic was a small group of shining journalists and intellectuals. such a beautiful group of people, who were determined to seek the truth, with conscience, a tradition going back to the days of frankfurter. back in the early 1990's, what a thrill to be a young kid out of law school, working with people like fred barnes, mickey kaus, andrew sullivan, charles lane, all these giants who have gone on to such great careers in journalism, and i was privileged to be a young staffer at that exciting time. brian: the constitution center. how big of a deal is it?

what april to be a young kid out of law school working with people like mike kenzie, andrew sullivan, of these giants who have gone on to great careers in journalism. i was privileged to be a young staffer at that time. brian lamb: the constitution center. how big a deal as it? what kind of a budget does it have? where does the money come from? what you do on a day-to-day basis? jeffrey rosen: it is a beautiful temple to the constitution across from independence hall in philadelphia. come see it. inspiring space and the only education center devoted to constitutional education. a hall of statues of the signers, signers hall where the kids can touch george washington and benjamin franklin and see how tall they were. there are original copies of the constitution and the declaration of independence and bill of rights. it is also a national education center, which is devoted to bringing liberals and conservatives together to educate people on the constitution. we have an interactive constitution online to bring together the top liberal and conservative scholars to write about every clause

you know what is interesting, new york's magazine andrew sullivan did same thing candace owens did, tookhe point she is practicing hate speech. go ahead. >> thank you for having me, liz. high ironic in banning candace from twitter, twitter actually proved her exact point, that there is a huge double standard when it comes to how we deal with race in america. somehow it is okay to disparage entire broad groups of white people but then nobody rightly so would find it acceptable to say the same thing about black people, african-americans or jewish people. i think candace made a very good point. twitter did the right thing, by apologizing. liz: here is the answer from the "new york times," danielle. "the new york times" is getting lasted for an incompetent response to criticisms of its hiring of sarah jeong. here is what they said. for a period of time, sarah jeong responded to harrassment on twitter imitating the rhetoric of her harassers. she sees this approach only served to feed the vitriol we see on social media. she regrets it. we don't condone it. here is why this is being criticized

rights and he was very much in favor of the 1975 marriage that wasn't finally recognized with andrew sullivan and his partner, he actually got his congregation to campaign, harvey attended the people's temples and i found some letters at the historical society were harvey actually wrote to jim jones about his going to the people's temple. harvey could be very gushy and very romantic in his letters and he said something like i saw today what you wanted me too see and i will be back and it's just as lovely exuding letter about how much he appreciated jim jones and at one point jim jones had taken people to jonestown. : : : help me please my people are getting social security checks. harvey milk wrote to the post office and said this is unfair. these people have worked all their lives for these checks and i am sure in he was using lines at jim jones sent him. they were learning new agricultural methods that can feed the hungry all over the world and it's a very lovely letter. you didn't really know who and what jim jones really was. i can imagine how traumatized and how awful it must have been f

andrew kerr and michael sullivan who republicans in the state, some of them like him. welcome. [applause] andrew, let me start with you. give an overview. what is the 1789 alliance? >> the 1789 alliance is an organization essentially that was created to help catalyze support and build a network of organizations similar to what michael built in texas with the power of texas, focused on empowering citizens to hold their state and local governments accountable to the citizens so perpetuating self-government. what we do is build and launch new organizations across the states, connect with activists and donors that are interested in perpetuating this mission and have an independent organization and networking together, existing organizations, sharing best practices in creating reinforcement network of independent organizations across the state. >> this has been around how long have you guys been around? >> 12 years now. >> how many times is it republicans in texas have come after you guys for exposing what bad guys were doing? >> for us, an interesting dichotomy. the fractions, i see

and joining stage are two guys who know how to do that with the 1789 alliance, andrew kerr and michael sullivan who republicans in the state, some of them like him. welcome. [applause] >> so let me start with you, just give an overview, what is the 1789 alliance? is an organization that was created to help catalyze and support and build a network of organizations similar to what michael has build in texas with empower texans, it is focused on empowering citizens to hold their state and local governments accountable to the citizens. perpetuating self-governance. what we do at the alliance is to newd and launch new and -- organizations to connect with activists and donors that are interested in perpetuating this omission, having an independent organization dedicated to that but networking together existing organizations, sharing best practices, and creating a reinforcing network of independent organizations across the state that are dedicated to the same mission. >> how long have you guys been around? -- 12 years, which i am still surprised to be alive at this point. >> how many times have the re

unbelievable number >> that was brian sullivan's rbi this morning >> but i don't think it's an outlier. i think there's some strain in china. did you read -- andrewi read this i couldn't believe that i read this is that not unbelievable let me read this quickly they're quoting an economics professor talking about president xi's stance on everything and the problem with the united states. and he says that this trade dispute delivered in his words a strong dose of sobriety allowing us to realize a huge technological gap still exists between us and the u.s and do we continue to calmly recognize our huge gap u.s. and humbly learn from them or do we insist on walking a populist path of anti-american. that sounds so different than what we think of -- that they're really powerful and that they don't need us -- >> but also the recognition that they're learning from us all the time and -- >> yeah, learning and stealing the technology are -- coming up. we talked more about this trade war fallout. we'll talk about the commodity prices and the stocks that could take a hit if tariffs remain in effect. stay tuned. at&t provides edge-to-edge intelligence, cover