congress? that you would serve. so with the library of congress with the comedian bob hope and to emphasize the comedic genius to serve the troops pull whatever profession you are in. that was the keeper crow so what can i do is the library of congress. and to connect with us. and even day bookmark to emphasize ask a librarian. and ask a question to receive expert assistance but then there is the tip me and iff i only had a library and. [laughter] but but the incredible experience to get bad dream job. >> that and owning a bookstore. [laughter] you could do both it is a possibility but to have that in about two months into the job what is that award from the library of congress?. >> it has so many collectionss, film and photographs of george gershwin's the great american composer. into a given that award to the outstanding contributor "the vaccine race" singh and i was asked to present the george gershwin were to smokey robinson. that was not a hardship. [laughter] i remember to said never thou

and it's really opening up the library of congress and you can fill in the plank in the library of congress has it, you can connect with us, history, there's a table, a table outside with all of the projects and things and even a bookmark that emphasizes, ask a librarian whether you're visiting the library of congress or online, ask us a question and receive expert assistance from our librarians and subject specialists and then there's the tin man here, if i only had a librarian. [laughter] >> that and owning a bookstore. >> you can do both. that's a possibility. but to have that and then about two months into the job, can you tell people what the award from the library of congress and experience? >> the library of congress has so many collections, sound recording, film, prints and photographs and has collection of george, great american composer, summer time and all of that. each year an award for outstanding contributor to american song and two months in i was asked to present the george award to mr. smoky robinson. now let me just say that was not a hardship. [laughter] >> and i thought,

you're not seeing major deflation out of this congress. legislation out of this congress. host: you write the companies are on track to spend the most in lobbying since 2009. these numbers come from the center for responsible politics. industry, pharmaceuticals $144ealth insurers, million. electronics, 68 million. oil and gas, 64.3 million. if you look at the top 10 list of spending by industry, it is striking how many of them are involved in health care. he health-care debate was the -- the health-care debate was the first focus of congress in the first few months of this year. you see hospitals and nursing homes, health professionals. health care has always for the last several years been toward the very top of lobbying expenditures. you have this relentless focus on health care over the years, that is what is bringing out some of that spending. hed the opiod story in te post," some of that reporting was informed by some of these numbers. these are publicly disclosed. there are disclosure laws as far as what these firms have to disclose as far as what they are spending a

now congress has to do their job. one, congress doesn't even have to be involved.f he wanted to put the sanctions back on himself, the way it's written, he could. he could just waive what obama did like magic. and two, it puts, in some ways, republicans in congress in the worst possible situation, once again adding to all the things that you talked about that they have to deal with. now you want us to deal with the enormity of a deal done by the executive branch, that involves many other countries? a nuclear iran? it puts them in a terrible box right now. >> he's also boxed himself in, because he set up this predicate whereby in a certain amount of time, he said, if you don't take these actions, congress, i am going to walk away from the deal. we're going to be all writing stories and wondering, well, what's he going to do? is he going to unilaterally say this is over, or is he going to take what congress gives them, if they're able to produce anything? >> it's important to understand, it's hard for members of congress to explain this. but even people who really op

in other words, there should be two houses of congress, and it was why two houses of congress? well, most of the state legislatures that existed under the colonial days had two legislative bodies, and that was because the british system had a house of lords, a house of commons. and so, most of the colonial legislatures had two houses. one was the so-called upper house, generally smaller, and a lower house, somewhat bigger, and that was always taken there were probably two houses of congress. james madison's view under the virginia plan was that each house should be proportional. there shouldn't be each state having the same number of votes. so, rhode island, let's say if they were involved, shouldn't have the same number of votes in one of the bodies as virginia or massachusetts. and that was the big debate. now, obviously, madison being from a large state, biggest state in terms of population, that was not surprising. that didn't go over well with the small states, and so, that was a major debate for quite some time. ultimately, it was resolved in what we now know as the conne

should he be kicking it to congress? >> well, if he wants to take it to congress, i can live with that, but i also believe that congress has to be very circumspect how we proceed. i believe iran and its leaders have engaged in serious terrorist activity, they're bad actors. we all know that. the question is how do we confront iran on the nonnuclear activities now and their meddling in the region causing instability and chaos everywhere they go. i think that's the issue. if congress acts, i suspect we should try to act on areas outside of the nuclear agreement to put pressure on tehran. that's what i think we ought to do. >> congressman, everyone knows you're retiring after seven terms. you had been considering it awhile. you made the decision in the mid summer. did president trump play a factor in your decision? >> well, part of this decision was personal. i have run for office 13 times, four for statehouse, two for senate, seven times for congress. 13 and 0, it is nice. that said, i think there has been some frustration

it depends on what congress does and if congress, the united states congress puts our country out ofth our requirements, we are going to get blamed not just by iran but by our allies. before sometimes when you work on something so much, do you think that you are too tied to this to be able to objectively look into the deal? steve are there things i worked on in the obama administration that i would criticize but i have criticized them on the couch. that's when i truly believe that we got the deal, the best deal we could get and prevents them from getting a nuclear weapon and we can talk about the 15 years in 20 years, that is a fair question to have that discussion about when certain provisions. >> harris: i want to remind our audience will quickly where we are right now. we have been given a timetable when the president would be speaking. we are now within that window. if we could at two-minute warning, we will jump to the president. to bring chris stirewalt and is bigger back into the conversation. earlier this week, house democrats asked me with former obama administration officia

in other words, there should be two houses of congress. why two houses of congress? most of the state legislatures that existed under the colonial days had two legislative body, because the british system had a house of lords and commons. most of the legislatures had two house, one upper house, generally smaller and a lower house, somewhat bigger. always taking to it two houses of congress. james madison's view under the virginia plan was each house should be proportional, shouldn't be each state having the same number of votes. rhode island, if they were involved shouldn't have the same number of votes in virginia or massachusetts. that was the big debate, madison being from the biggest state in terms of population that was not surprising. that didn't go over well with the small states and a major debate for quite some time. ultimately it was resolved with what we now know as the connecticut plan and decided we would have two houses, where would be proportional, the house of representatives and the other depending the number of state, each state have senator, decide

representation in congress. originally the text says there can be no more than one representative for every 40,000 people in the house. although now of course there's less. before signing george washington wanted the number changed to 30,000. that's the only time he voiced his opinion and the other delegates unanimously agreed. if you come to the center or go online, you'll see the very first amendment to the constitution that was proposed by not adopted in what became the bill of rights said there should be one representative in congress for every 30,000 inhabitants. and had that passed there would be 4,000 congress people today. a couple other crucial changes. the appointment power. the framers finally decide to allow the president. the courts or department heads to directly appoint inferior officers as designated by congress. without the senate approval. that's the source of the president's power to appoint some people without congressional approval, without that now days it would be hard for any president to

library of congress is not soar bad. mr. tony bennett, the first person to be given the gershwin award for his interpretation of popular song and he was so touched and said am i really the first person, and the people who are going to be part of this program, i can't tell it yet because were still confirming but let's just say old, mature, old genre country, everybody's gonna be there to pay tribute to mr. tony bennett. >> no one has done more with the duet collection. >> just think of all the people. >> that will be televised usually in february of the following year. >> ) the concert usually happens in november. the last one was really something. the expense of the library of congress, and just what this festival is also illustrating is the unifying power of the arts. music and literature and, in fact, last year mr. samuel jackson was the mc and, at one particular smokey robinson song, was at my girl? you were singing. >> well, not well. [laughter] but my lips were moving. let's just say we had everybody from every party,

last, the 18th party congress in 2012. so i'll make some comments on the three general areas that these party congressing usually cover in terms of foreign policy. the first is general statements on the global environment that have an impact on foreign policy and these are programmatic statements about the external environment and the world and obviously its implications for china. and here, i think the party congress will continue to stress the development toward a generally stable international environment, and the concept of peace and development as what's called the underlying trend of the times. i think we'll see that's been highlighted in past party congress statements and i think we'll see this again or something similar to it, but this has always been paired with more negative concerns about the international environment and those in the past have involved primarily for the united states and power politics, local conflicts, hot spot issues that keep emerging, imbalances in the world economy, which may be worsening,

. >> congress has already begun the work and hopefully congress will come through. >> president trump pledged to follow through on his campaign promise to dismantle president obama's signature domestic and foreign policy achievements. >> we are going to have great health care. >> we are very unhappy with iran. >> then pass the buck to a congress controlled by his own party unable to pass significant legislation, challenging lawmakers to either constrain him or to help him achieve the goals in a more realistic way. on health care the president ended government payments to insurance companies that subsidized premiums for six million low-income americans on the obamacare exchanges. the budget office says this move could raise premiums by 20% next year and leave one million more americans without insurance. >> that money is going to insurance companies to prop up insurance companies. that money is going to insurance companies to lift up their stock price. >> the president is already facing pushback from some republicans. >> low-income people are going to have a very difficult time that fo

. >> we'll have congress take a look at it. >> congress has already begun the work. >> hopefully congress will come through. >> president trump pledged to follow through on his campaign promise to dismantle president obama's signature domestic and foreign policy achievements. >> we're going to have great health care. >> we're very unhappy with iran. >> then pass the buck to congress controlled by his own party which has been unable to pass significant legislation, challenging lawmakers to either constrain him or to help him achieve the goals in a more r k realistic way. he ended payments to insurance companies th companies that sup si diesed premiums. the nonpartisan congressional budget office says this move could raise premiums by 20% next year and leave a million more americans without insurance. >> that money is going to insurance companies to prop up insurance companies. that money is going to insurance companies to lift up their stock price. >> the president is already facing pushback from some republicans. >> low income people are going to have a very difficult time. for some it ma

the reason we have this certification congress is because congress put constraints on the deal to do this. that is bringing congress into the conversation. >> and congress did that because president obama didn't give them the authority to be a part of that decision. so they did it to try and control the situation and not let it get to a bad problem. so i think congress was actually thinking of this in the first place. now we should let them follow through and see what they could do to make it better. >> in the reporting on this, they called you the president's iran whisperer. and within that, there was a white house official that described some escalating tensions between yourself and the secretary of state and using the world war 3 tensions. what is your reaction to that comment? >> that is just so much drama. it is all this palace intrigue. every member works very hard to put options on the table for the president. our goal is to keep americans save. i am glad to be living in new york just for that reason. i'm going to continue to do a good job and so is ever member of the nsc. >>

he decertifies it and punts to congress. congress has the power to reimpose sanctions on iran. it's not clear that that's what they are going to do. that there are the votes for that. what they are asking to do short of that is to set new trigger points into the agreement where for instance if iran doesn't comply with restrictions, those would be the trigger points and congress or the u.s. would in effects reimpose sanctions or impose new sanctions on iran. the trouble is to do that and pass legislation to a pose trigger points, that requires 60 votes in the senate. you would need eight democrats to get on board. that's something that is not clear that would happen. at which point if congress doesn't deliver on the pathway that the president is asking them to do so, the president could then tear up the deal as he is promised here. this is a punt, but it's a punt with consequences and unclear now how this ends up. today the iran deal is not being torn up at a later date. if congress doesn't act as he is demanding they do, that's a real possibility. >> thank you for that reportin

party congresses are quinnquennial. five years ago before the last party congress, i invited two people to talk about what they thought were going to happen. we'll have another reprise of that effort in a few minutes. we'll have a 15 minute break. please take advantage of the restrooms and refreshments. and please join us in thanking our presenters today. [ applause ]

it gives congress enumerated powers. since there's no powers of free speech there's no power to bridge free speech. might assume if a right wasn't written down it wasn't protected. they believe they come from god and nature not government and to try to reduce them to a single list would be folly. in the face of objections from the three anti-federalists and state ratifying conventions madison changed his mind. avenues practical politician. he once lost a house election in virginia and came to support the adoption of additional amendments to prevent miss construction of further abuse of powers. we're now going to do in the final section of this wonderful american treasures gallery, we've been seeing these incredibly rare priceless, earliest drafts of the constitution by the california historical society. we're now going to see the first public printings of the bill of rights led by david rubenstein and see how madison's original list of 19 amendments was whittled down to 12 proposed and the 10 that were actually passed. l

congress took language that d.e.a. and d.o.j. wrote, inserted it in the bill, and now congress is the bad guy? i should note here that other aspects of d.e.a. and d.o.j.'s proposed language changed, that that key phrase substantial likelihood of an immediate threat, the phrase that critics now point to as gutting d.e.a.'s enforcement authority, came from d.e.a. and d.o.j. and, madam president, lest we forget, president obama signed the bill into law. on the advice of his own d.e.a. administrator. madam president, i think we need to be candid about what's going on here. owns of -- opponents of the current administration are trying to derail the president's nominee to be head of the national drug control policy. represent tom marino, of course, by mischaracterizing and trying to rewrite the history of a bill that he championed. they are being aided in their efforts by a group of former d.e.a. employees who took an extremely hard line against drug companies when they were at the agency and who are upset that d.e.a. chose to pursue a

which will strengthen article 1 powers for congress. mr. norman: let me begin by briefly quoting article 1 of section 8 of our thirkse necessary and proper clause. congress shall have the power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers in the government, meaning congress must continue to respect and reinforce the idea of the separation of powers in our government but at the same time, congress can ultimately decide when, whether, and how to legislate the powers and authority of another branch of government. mr. speaker, this piece of legislation will go a long way in fortifying the balance of powers and re-establishing congress' authority set forth by james madison and our founding fathers in article 1 of the united states constitution. furthermore, we must be stewards to use our constitutional authority to effectively guarantee and ensure that government is more efficient, transparent, and accountable to all american citizens of our great nation and this bill will do just that. it

last, the 18th party congress in 2012. so i'll make some comments on the three general areas that these party congressing usually cover in terms of foreign policy. the first is general statements on the global environment that have an impact on foreign policy and these are programmatic statements about the external environment and the world and obviously its implications for china. and here, i think the party congress will continue to stress the development toward a generally stable international environment, and the concept of peace and development as what's called the underlying trend of the times. i think we'll see that's been highlighted in past party congress statements and i think we'll see this again or something similar to it, but this has always been paired with more negative concerns about the international environment and those in the past have involved what's been called code word primarily for the united states and power politics, local conflicts, hot spot issues that keep emerging, imbalances in the world eco

congress took language that dea and doj wrote, inserted it in the bill, and now congress is the bad guy? i should note here that other aspects of dea and doj's proposed language changed. but that key phrase, substantial likelihood of an immediate threat, a phrase at critics now point to as gutting dea's enforcement authority, came from dea and doj. madam president, lest we forget, president obama signed the bill into law, on the advice of his own dea administrator. madam president, i think we need to be candid about what is going on here. the current administration are trying to derail the president's nominee on the drug control policy. , byesentative tom marino mischaracterizing and trying to rewrite the history of the bill, that he championed. they are being aided in their efforts by a group of former dea who took an extremely hard line against drug companies when they were at the agency, and you are upset the dea chose to pursue a more collaborative approach after they left. individualslt these or their passion. reject the notion that was some sort of sinister conspiracy at play. i f

he's handing to it congress. he's not going to push congress to take steps that would blow up the deal. lets him get the politics the way he wants them and the way they want them. >> shepard: as a candidate he was glowing to rip it up. now the men say we have to have this deal. he can't be seen going back on the campaign pledge. he has a show today and kicks it to congress that will do nothing. today was all politics? >> classic politics. japanese have kubuki theater, acting that doesn't mean anything. it's all signalling and symbolism. nothing really changes. this was classic washington kubuki theater. with the possibility that congress will do something unexpected. conventional wisdom is congress will not take action. it is possible the dynamics could change. even people who hated the deal at the time it was signed argued against the obama administration calling the deal. iran got things as soon as it was completed and the damage of undoing it now is too great. people who said don't do this two years ago are sa

but i didn't think it was legal -- if you have somebody that guess to congress and they've been in congress for 15 years and went there with $100,000 in their bank account, and now on their salary, and their significant other's salary, they're worth millions of dollars, seem knows that should be a little illegal, like -- i mean, a lot of greed and corruption in lawmakers and shouldn't be tolerated in my view. >> guest: i think you see a lot of frustration when people coming into congress and then 20 years later they're multimillionaires, congress has ethic laws as far as what they can take in gifts from speeches, but i think it is extremely frustrating to people see people come to washington, and they make a living here and they do well for themselves. at the same time that people back home have -- are facing real struggles. >> host: edward from wisconsin. is it mingon. >> caller: yes. >> host: go ahead, please. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. i've called in the past. i just want to say as a republican that i read a book by a michael savage, called "trump's war" and it's an excelle

in fact, the administration had come to congress and asked for this money and congress said no.resident said all right, i will order it directly from the treasury. well, you cannot do that. the defining power of congress is the power of the purse. the federal judge issued a historic ruling and said this is wrong, you can't violate the constitution come on the matter what you're complaining about with congress, you have to play within the rules of the constitution. so obviously there's a lot of pushback to that. >> bret: democrats including one who was a part of the leadership during these set up of the law who is now the california attorney general said this today. >> the trump administration is deciding not to follow the law. everyone has to follow the law, everyone of us has to pay our bills. just because donald trump's president doesn't mean he has to follow the law. we did not mean to have an executive decide which of these subsidies for americans would be paid in which wooden. donald trump is deciding which ones he wants to pay. he doesn't get to do that just because he is

the republican-controlled congress, mind you. for months, all year really, and every saturday when we talk, there have been questions about who's coming and who's going in the white house. you know, i think that those questions continue to swirl around this presidency, but he'd much rather talk about other things like the stock market. but i think at the end of the day, he's really hungry for a legislative win, whether it's on health care or tax reform. it's looking like we could see permanent tax cuts and comprehensive tax reform a bit more difficult. general kelly also suggesting that health care reform might not be done until this spring, but the president is clearly with the action on iran as well as health care daring congress not to act ahead of the 2018 midterms. >> let's talk about iran. mike, republican senator bob corker, his remarks this week about president trump's rhetoric, putting the u.s. on a path to world war ii. is that a sentiment shared to other republicans in the senate, and how damaging could that be for the

i think very much it will be reflected in the party congress statement. it reflects the larger emphasis by the regime which began, the defense of stability and the advancement of peace and stability alongside the protection of china's rights and interests. using china's greater influence to advance those interests. at the same time, i think there will be efforts to emphasize multilateral diplomacy as have occurred in the recent party congress in the idea of reforming global governance which has also been a theme in past congress meetings. in the defense and security rounds in particular, i think you'll probably hear the phrase which was again made after the 18 party congress on a search for a common comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security. in this regard you might hear the placement of the party the three principles dealing with hot issues. it imposes solutions on others. it's kind of a dig at the trumpp administration even though it predates that administration and adherence to political settlement and opposition to the use of force. i think

but by congress. we all know how gridlocked congress has been over the years. it's been nothing coming out of this congress. i predict they won't be able to do -- they couldn't do repeal and replace. at it for nine months. stalled everything else out. couldn't do repeal and replace so now they are on comprehensive -- what they call tax reform which is also -- which is only tax breaks for the top 1% when you peel everything back. they are not going to be able to do that because my friends in the freedom caucus will prevent them from adding $1.5 trillion to the national debt. and i support them in that endeavor. they can count on my vote for that. but this is nonsense, ladies and gentlemen. we have to stop protecting these corporate wrongdoers and put the hands back into the courts and to the american people. and with that i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields. the gentleman from louisiana is recognized. mr. johnson: i'll yield. >> thank you. you made reference to the decision of -- the word you used to describe bureaucrats -- mr. johnson: let me tell you

but congress needs to weigh in. sure that oure adversaries and our allies, and most importantly our troops know that we speak with one voice. so i hope that as we go along we relativeabout the importance of signaling that we might leave or might not finish and might not have congress weigh in at all to go for 16 years before we actually weigh in or have any skin in the game. i said, onto aspire to be more than just part of a feedback loop. article one authority is more than that. with that, i will pull back. >> thank you. -- if welanks time could all sprint over and spread back, you can start again as soon as we get back and we will recess for about 14 minutes i hope. you're welcome to come into the back or do whatever. >> following a short break for votes on the senate floor, the senate foreign relations committee continued their hearing with defense secretary james mattis and secretary of state rex tillerson on the authorization for use of military force. this portion of the hearing is two hours long. [apple pound

but congress needs to weigh in. we have to make sure that our adversaries and our allies and most importantly our troops know that we speak with one voice. and so i hope that as we go along, we can talk about the relative importance of signaling that we might leave or might not finish, and not having congress weigh in at all. to go for 16 years before we actually weigh in or have any skin in the game -- we, as i said, ought to aspire to be more than just a feedback loop. article one authority is more than that. so with that i'll hold back. mr. corker: thank you. if you'll keep miles an hour fins understand -- minutes and 15 -- four minutes and 15 seconds on mr. flake's time. we'll recess for about 14 minutes i hope. thank you. you're welcome to come into the back or do whatever. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] >> well, the chairman of the senate foreign rel

now it is going congress.nder and murry, they were out there doing things and then they disappeared. we need to stabilize that market. we have eight governors of both parties saying this was an essential thing to do and i hope alexander and murry will do it and i hope this will be absolutely bipartisan. this has to be demanded for our folks. >> these payments have to continue period? >> yes, for a while. >> and then what? >> chuck, we have a long program of how we can give states flexibility within guard rails. what we don't want to have numbers is massive numbers of people lose health insurance and at the same time they could have benefits that are flexible but they meet the needs of people and longer term we need to pay for quality health care. that's a bigger issue. >> you have been working with a lot of governors around the country that share your concerns on this, both republican and democrat. do you know if the white house reached out to any of these did the white house reach out to you? >> i don't know.

congress considered what we call comprehensive immigration reform. that would have legalized millions of unauthorized individuals, and however, these effort efforts have failed. the reason is simple, remembering what happened in 1986, the american people recognize that legalization without enforcement and a way to recognize a demand for chief labor would only continue a cycle for unauthorized immigration. that is why for years congress and the bipartisan fashion work together to strengthen the nation's border security, and interior enforcement, but they have struggled to address some of the thornest elements of immigration. nothing better highlights congress bipartisan commitment to prevent illegal immigration than the secure fence act that. bill authorized the government to construct 700 miles of fensing along the border. it passed with overwhelming bipartisan support including from then senators obama, biden, clinton and even our ranking member ms. feinstein. as president george w. bush said, that bill was quote an important step toward immigration

that's a promise he might regret making. >> i think congress clearly -- republicans in congress wanted to press pause on the health care debate and table it. then the president stepped in and tried to do what congress couldn't do and do something to dismantle obamacare. the sure of the law, and we have point this out, you either have to prop it up, take actions to prop it up or take actions to dismantle it. the question is, analysts are not wrong when they say the actions a president are taking are destabilizing the health care markets. the question is, do republicans in congress move to step in and take action on it, which the president wanted them to do or do they just let this stand. does health care come back on the table or do they stick with taxes? >> health care comes back oot table when they have tax cuts to deal with. we'll get to congress, proving they can do more than one thing at a time. to that point, dan balls calls is cattle prodding. he is disruptive. he's doing what he can to dismantle pieces of the law. the president thinks in the end this might not only get republica

>> well, what does congress do? >> what does congress do. >> this is something else on congress' plate, a theme of the day and headlines this month. jeremy, you were nodding vigorously here because this is something that could take legislative action, but will there be enough momentum toward it? >> they have to do a budget, tax cuts, they have to deal possibly with this iran problem. >> daca, iran, right. >> there's daca. and we may go to war with north korea in the middle of all this. so yeah, congress is going to be pretty busy. but, you know, this is the problem, though, trump has kicked this to congress, but he hasn't really kicked the responsibility to them. trump now -- >> so you think he owns it? >> he -- absolutely. congress didn't act, they didn't repeal and replace, this is on them. by taking action that weakens the affordable care act, that's on him. he can't blame that on congress anymore. and i think that we are going to start hearing the trump care, trump care, trump care siren from democrats a lot mor

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if congress specified an employee of the social administration business would make benefits -- congress has provided for judicial review but if congress didn't, i think the answer as a constitutional matter would be you have no due process clause. >> mr. stewart, is your argument about the new people coming to the border premised on the idea they have no constitutional rights at all? >> it is premised on that. >> if it is premised on that, justice scalia talked about in one of his hearings, surely that couldn't be right. could we torture those people? could we put them enforced labor. surely the answer to that is no, is that right. >> i should be precise they have no constitutional rights with respect to the determination whether they be allowed. >> they do have some constitution sal rights, not to be tortured or placed in hard labor. it's pretty close to that not to be placed in arbitrary confinement. arbitrary detention. if by arbitrary you meant -- >> arbitrary means nobody gave them and civilized hearing so we don't know whether they're being held for any good reason. nobody's made

unfortunately in this congress in february the congress passed a law that president trump flair with passion and a that eliminated a rule that said that the social security administration would send the names of people who couldn't manage their own financial affairs to a bureau to see to it that they were on a list where they couldn't buy guns. if you can't successfully manage your own financial affairs, a gun?you have i would submit not. but that bill was passed on a partisan vote and signed by the president. making it easier for people to get guns who the social security administration has found could not manage their own affairs. no-buye with the no-fly, risk. if you are too much of a security threat to fly on an airplane, you shouldn't be able to buy a gun. the arguments we heard against that were about due process. has anybody brought a bill to give the people on the no-fly list due process? has it come 209 floor -- to the floor? no, and it won't. because it makes sense to have a no-fly list and they should also be people who can't buy guns. we shouldn't have semiautomatic weapo

be -- >> congress do specify any crimes it wishes to include tomorrow. there's no limitation. >> it could, but congress chose to identify a category of crimes that it believed gave rise to a substantial risk and we shouldn't expect the impossible from congress when it wants to identify crimes by -- >> even when it's going to put people in prison and deprive them of liberty and deportation, you shouldn't expect congress to be able to specify those? >> we think this law reasonably captures the category the congress thought who's conduct gave rise to serious risk of physical force being used. >> can i get quickly your answer to the question about -- being the altertive that the government could have pursued. so the immigration judge found that this was a crime. >> but on grounds which were not correct because the judge didn't apply the approach, the right way to look at the crime. >> thank you. mr. kroezenkranz. >> mr. chief justify tis, i'll begin with the chief points. justice gorsuch is right. this is not a job the congress canly delegate to the courts a

it was strongly reaffirmed to the 17th congress in 2007 and again in 2012 at the 18th 18th congress, and it's laid out a set of guidelines and policies that were reaffirmed across the the successful party congresses that framed the policy agenda of each term of leadership under huh untau and now xi jinping, expect the 19th congress will strongly re-affirm this 2020 goal. we'll see new push behind reforms that were late out in 2013, perhaps new reforms and certainly energy behind several of the old ones, and xi jinping 's 26 july peeve to the school was built around the theme, renewed impetus behind the goal. it also leads to this third period in prc history that yo was just mentioning and that is to say this 2020 goal will be completed under jinping's leadership, i'm assuming he'll be re-appointed as general secretary and they're already thinking about laying out the guidelines for the second goal, which is enunciationed in 2002 and that's the 2049 goal the so i expect a strong re-affirmation of the policy agenda of achieving a moderately prosperous society by 2020 and then the initi

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on the congress.after that was over, it was the bicentennial, 1989.i was asked to come and give a shorter version of the speech i gave at that gathering at the library of congress. >> the shorter version because members of congress do not like long speeches.[laughter] >> i imagine they were afraid that i would get right away with my excitement and go on forever. >> but it was a very high honor. and i work extremely hard on preparing this. >> one of the people he talked about there was john quincy adams. who had been a member of congress for 20 years after he left the presidency. why did you talk about him and what do you think is so appealing about him? >> john quincy adams had been a diplomat, several diplomatic post, very important diplomatic post. he had been a senator and president of the united states. and after he left the presidency, he was asked if you by any chance run for congress and he said certainly. so he went back and served in congress. until unhis death. and he died on the floor of th

this punlts it back to congress. if they sanction, you do not though deny that, you're essentially doing is opening the door. >> they're partnering with bob corker and tom cotton. they're unveiling legislation that would effectively eliminate sunset provision on the nuclear issue that a lot of conservatives have been upset about. what the republicans in 2016 were upset about was they didn't think obama got enough out of iran. part of the issue was the sunset deal. the iranians continue to be bad actors, continue to be engaged in terrorist activity, continue to develop missiles to threaten israel. we don't want to give them the chance to go back and have a nuclear weapon in 2025 when this sun sets. if the deal can be strength end, and congress can get their arms around what they're doing, it will be a win for trump. that's what he is trying to accomplish. >> president obama said when he signed this deal, he was hoping iran would behave differently in the region, be less aggressive, less hostile. critics say that just

>> we think the law reasonably captures the category congress thought whose congress gave rise to physical force being used. >> did i get correctly your answer to the question about turpitude being an al tern tiff the government could have pursued? the immigration judge found this was a crime. >> on grounds that we think we're not correct. the immigration judge didn't apply the category kal approach. which has been determined to be the right way to look at crime involving moral turpitude. >> thank you, mr. needler. >> thank you cheeief justice. let me begin with justice gor such's central point. this is not a job that congress can appropriately delegate to the courts, into enforcement officials on the ground, congress has written a statute that makes it impossible for ordinary citizens or for law enforcement or for immigration officials to figure out what the law is in congress's el gaited the function to them. it is done it with two features that this court described as dooming the act of resid chul clause. first the piece that most concerned the court. court said was most important. hypo