hansen was leading the legal team for the aclu. who did myriad select to lead their legal team? jorge: myriad, like most companies has in-house lawyers. general counsel, internal patent group selected jones day to represent them. susan: they are a big firm in washington, d.c. about two blocks away from c-span studios. we should bring in another important player, the department of justice. the obama administration had an interest in scientific issues and the like. what was the role of the justice department in deciding what level they would involve themselves in these cases? jorge: this is an interesting and unique aspect of the case. the patent office wanted the -- the district court judge dismissed them from the case for various procedural reasons. nevertheless, the patent office seeing they overturned all the patents wanted the government to , step in and advocate on behalf of the patent office. that happens quite often. in the united states, individual agencies can't just go to court. all litigation conducted on behalf of the united states is handled by the department of just

[applause] >> doctor hansen thank you for your remarks tonight. my question is you've been involved for decades in the conservativeht movement, advancg the status quo on the rights. what is the thing you have most change your mind about in that time? things you thought were indelible principles or priorities that you have realized may be that so? >> i think what i have learned is that for all of our power and confidence we are actually very fragile nation. i supported the intervention in iraq not because i thought to be there. there are 23 past only 24 had to do with it. there t are things like the architects of the world trade center first bombing or in iraq. abu was in iraq print suicide bombers are getting bonuses the west bank were in iraq. it almost been exterminated. there is use of poisonous gas. it violated 91 of the accords for his 23 is bipartisan. i effected near majority of democratic senators voted for the house and senate clearly voted for the intervention. so then it happened. and of course 75% supported the war o when statue of sad

hansen is a longtime friend of isi. he was a faculty associate going all the way back to the 90s as i mentioned earlier. he actually wrote an isi book in 2002 called bonfire of the humanities rescuing the classics in an impoverished age. he also has lectured to isi students on topics such as who killed homer the origins of the west and what happened to history. he is the martin and ellie anderson senior fellow at the hoover institution focusing on classics and military history. he is also the wayne and marcia buskey distinguished visiting fellow in history at hillsdale college and he combines the very rare ability to be one of the foremost scholars in his field of classics, but also to be a popular pundant who regularly appears on fox news and rights of weekly column with national review as well as american greatness. he has received a ba in classics from university of california santa cruz. he was a fellow at the american school of classical studies in athens and received his phd from the university of stanford and his

hansen for your remarks this evening. we would again like to acknowledge the legacy of henry and ann paolucci who made this night possible. so, thank you.

hansen david eisenhower was unable to be in the wedding since he was in service in the mediterranean.ts at a luncheon for trisha and ed and out of town guests at washington's -- club. >> the time slept quickly away. in the rose garden, which tricia had chosen as a setting for her marriage, the members of the wedding party rehearse their roles. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> one of the most important thing for people who volunteer to be married is the [inaudible] and even though the very different, they accept the differences in the person. i guess you might say that they should complement one another, interested in different things. and i don't think it necessarily people have to be alike light to be able to have a happy marriage. >> he was my first love. we met at the christmas dance. i will never forget that, because we were dancing together. the only way i will remember about was that i was dancing with someone so tall that i was being smothered! i would find it very challenging. i think one of the things that i always respected from him was his sincerity. he is just a completely sincere person. >> that

i think hansen said overwhelmingly, we trust the constitution. >> and do you feel confident that in many places across the country, there are people who would otherwise cast a ballot for a conservative or republican in days gone by said this abortion stuff, the overturning of roe v. wade, the dobbs ruling is a bridge too far when it comes to my rights. i'm voting this time on my rights. jonathan alter made a point that we think it's just the economy. guys like me who are business journalists like to think its economy all the time. tonight says it might not be the economy. >> well, i think ali what we have seen is that in the past 50 years with a national constitutional preotection that a lot of us frankly took for granted over time that set abortions are on the ballot, it's important to have reproductive choice but people say these are the issues facing me. once dobbs occurred, once a supreme court ruled at the end of june that there is no federal protection, that we are going to turn it all over the states, and then we watch the states strip rights away from women across the country, i

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. >> it is my distinct honor to invite up our keynote speaker tonight doctor dictated david hansen asrize. [applause] doctor hansen is a longtime friend of isi present faculty associate going all the way back to the '90s. as i mentioned he wrote in isi book in 2002 called the bonfire of the humanities rescuing

brent woods, police chief thomas hansen says he's retiring.ing promoted to sergeant them. lieutenant dan captain before ultimately being promoted to police chief back in 2017 hansen's last day will be september. 30th. >> time now is 8, 20 and in national news, president biden just sign the inflation reduction act into law. yeah, democrats say it's going to lower energy and health costs, though. some republicans in congress actually all of them are opposed to this legislation, calling it a tax and spending spree. let's get the latest from rashad hudson. good morning. the new law is being celebrated by white house officials in climate advocates. the next step will be trying to sell it to the american people. >> with this law, the american people won and the special interest last tuesday, president biden signed the inflation reduction act into law, calling the massive climate health and tax legislation. historic. >> it's about delivering progress and prosperity to american families. joining the president were key democratic lawmakers who helped p

. >> well, after 35 years of serving in law enforcement, brent woods, police chief thomas hansen sayser to sergeant to lieutenant and then captain before being promoted to police chief back in 2017 hansen's last day will be september. 30th. in the north bay. a world class runner says the coyote attacked him while he was out for a run on a trail in the marin headlands dean kern, as he says he was obviously shaken by the encounter. he says he just opened up an energy bar and was eating it while running friday when the coyote lunged for the food. >> as i've subsequently it's a real problem with people feeding coyotes, ok? so the main source of all wildlife conflict, wildlife, human conflict, including with coyotes, is access to fit. >> yeah. now leah runner says that he tried to shoot the animal away with his hiking poles, but and in that process, he fell then hit his face on the ground, which is why he had those injuries to his face. the golden gate, national recreation area is underlining the fact that he not injured by the attack. the coyote didn't fact, they went on to say in the pos

the company's products are hot commodity for farmers like den hansen, for all the farmers in iowa and across the nation. the massive problems us farmers face in terms of getting their hands on enough, affordable traditional fertilizers have also help this start up in san francisco to tricity. these 3 friends and fellow stanford university students found the company in 2018. they hoped to create an alternative to industrial synthetic fertilizers, their goal, invent and environmentally friendlier clean energy using more efficient and reliable away to fertilize cross. here is what they came up with. the way that sir nature does it is lightning strikes the ground and we have the nitrogen, the air gets fixed into knox effectively. and the rain captures that knocks as nitrates and rains out of the field. and then what happens then is the grass grows greener. the next couple days after we've containerized that process, i put the lightning in a bottle effectively and connected to solar energy to power it. i can produce those nitrates that go out of the field. sounds easy enough, but of course

. >> after 35 years of serving law enforcement, brentwood police chief thomas hansen is announcing that he's hanging it up. he's retiring over the course of 27 years in brentwood, hanssen worked his way through the ranks as an officer. sergeant lieutenant and captain before he was promoted to police chief in 2017, hence his last day will be on september. 30th. the police department is planning on conducting an internal search to find a new chief. still ahead, former president donald trump's influence is still being felt. >> the 2 major primary elections today, how that could affect the 2024 could affect the 2024 presidential election. i was injured in a car crash. could affect the 2024 presidential election. i had no idea how much my case was worth. i called the barnes firm. when a truck hit my son, i had so many questions about his case. i called the barnes firm. it was the best call i could've made. your case is often worth more than insurance offers. call the barnes firm to find out what your case could be worth. we will help get you the best result possible. ♪ the barnes firm, injur

. >> duane hansen paddled 38 piles down the missouri river setting a world record. >> i was lucky andimes, but i had some pretty close calls, i've never been in a pumpkin going down the river. it's -- it's -- i can't say it's easy. >> he grew the 846-pound pumpkin himself. >>> finally some record-breaking skills involving a rubik's cube or in this case three of them. >> he solved three rubik's cubes >> he solved three rubik's cubes while juggling them and ♪ ♪ this is the moment. for a treatment for moderate-to-severe eczema. cibinqo — fda approved. 100% steroid free. not an injection, cibinqo is a once-daily pill for adults who didn't respond to previous treatments. and cibinqo helps provide clearer skin and less itch. cibinqo can lower your ability to fight infections, including tb. before and during treatment, your doctor should check for infections and do blood tests. tell your doctor if you've had hepatitis b or c, have flu-like symptoms, or are prone to infections. do not take with medicines that prevent blood clots. serious, sometimes fatal infections, lymphoma, lung, skin and o

person actually makes a big difference to the overall pattern and we've been reading a book valerie hansenes enrolled history, and we know from that book that they're all kinds of big patterns and that it's

including a community engagement officer position in a state went brentwood city manager said chief hansenined the industry standard with his passion and love for law enforcement. the city says the effort to find his replacement will begin soon. 75 members of the united states navy are in san jose for the city's first navy week group is holding events. across the city to engage with the community. ktvu lamonica peter shows us how they spent the day. maybe week is held in up to 15 cities each year. and since 2005 navy week has been celebrated in over 80 different us cities, good stuff , but, you know, just see them and know that they have a talent, a hidden talent. i think it's great. from august 15th to august 21st. you just may see sailors dressed all in white out and about in san jose on monday, one of the bands play traditional navy music on the plaza at santana row. woodwind quintet. we also have our brass funk band here as well, um they were at the jazz festival last weekend. have a great show there . one of the band's members musician first class whitney adams has been playing in the

but moscow says it's repelled attacks and inflicted heavy losses on ukrainian troops. hansen was seized by russia in march. there's the headlines coming up next on how to 0. the stream looks at the new rise in polio cases. and what's been done to stop it spread just a minute if you can, when you 3 and a half now. ah ah, i anthony ok, thanks for watching the stream around the world. new outbreaks of the polio virus, the city, back debt, hate of action, and efforts to try and eradicate the disease. so in this show, we're going to do a couple folks. it will be part history. part, explain as to why in the polio virus is making a comeback, and also a q and a thank you to ask our experts, anything you need to know about how you at the commit sexual youtube is lives. i need that for you. we start in 1956 parents live in fear of polio, sudden attack, and the tragic aftermath. thousands upon thousands of children and adult spelled prey to the crippler. march of dimes buns were needed everywhere needed desperately by patient needed by an army of scientists to search for a preventive. then in 1954

the east bay city of brentwood is looking for a new police chief chief thomas hansen says he's retiringonth after 27 years with the brentwood police department . brentwood city manager plans to name a new police chief before chief hansen's last day on the job, which is september 28th authorities slowing down plans to close laguna honda hospital in san francisco. up next with the latest plans mean for hundreds of patients living there and tens of millions of dollars on the line and the continuing disputes. between santa clara and its most high profile company settlement proposal from the 49ers that county officials will be county officials will be considering today. before treating your chronic migraine— 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting 4 hours or more you're not the only one with questions about botox®. botox® prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine before they even start—with about 10 minutes of treatment once every 3 months. so, ask your doctor if botox® is right for you, and if a sample is available. effects of botox® may spread hours to weeks after injection

earlier i spoke stig jarle hansen, a political scientist and historian, who wrote the 2013 book al—shabaabk it's motivated by the need for al—shabab to show that they are strong and to put the comment to the new president's statements and statements from the new cabinet saying that a war against al—shabab was to be waged. so it's al—shabab showing that they are still strong and ready to fight. their attack is a typical al—shabab attack. these hotel attacks we have seen over and over again but we have seen an intensification of al—shabab attacks after the election this year. president hassan sheikh mohammed was elected on a promise to curb the insurgency. how much success has he had so far? it's very early to put a judgment on this but it is, he is inheriting structural problems in the security architecture of somalia that has to be solved. the security structure in somalia has been very bad at providing security to ordinary somalians and al—shabab have taken advantage of that by pressuring ordinary somalians to pay money to the organisation, so—called taxing, and increasing their wealth. s

student delegate hansen? >> yes. >> commissioner alexander. >> yes. >> vice president boggess. >> yes. >> commissioner hsu. >> yes. >> commissioner motamedi. >> commissioner sanchez. >> commissioner ward? >> yes. >> president lum i will move up items h i'm sorry. ooh, j and k to follow public comment. y please, note that. go ahead. >> i want to rep minds the public if you want to provide comment to turn in a comment card to the front so you will be able to provide comment rat the appropriate time for a particular item or during public comment. >> thank you. and superintendentling? first superintendent report. >> thank you president lam, good evening i'm pleased offer my first superintendent's report i have a presentation this evening where i will introduce myself and speak to my 117 day entry plan. if you wonder why it is 117 days stick arnold for that presentation. in the meantime i will share very excited the first day of school is quickly approaching. we are working hard to welcome our students and familie

. >> in the east bay after 35 years of serving law enforcement, brentwood police chief thomas hansen announced that he's going to retire over the course of 27 years in brentwood, hanssen worked his way through the ranks as an officer, sergeant lieutenant and captain before being promoted to police chief back in 2017, his last day will be september. the 30th the department is planning to conduct an internal search for the new chief. developing news, the los angeles district attorney's office is requesting. >> no bail for the woman accused of plowing through a red light and killing 6 people earlier this month. prosecutors say nicole linton suffers from serious mental health problems and could pose a danger to the public if she is freed ahead of her trial. they say the icu nurse has been involuntarily committed for psychiatric treatment on several occasions in court this week, clinton's attorneys denied that she has a dangerous driving history. she is facing murder and manslaughter charges in connection with that august 4th crash. >> in national news now, former president trump's lammy

. >> katie hansen works for animal care centers of new york city.rendered so far this year. that is up 22% from the same time last year. >> due to the economy a lot of people are needing to go moved to different places. they have lost their job or they cannot afford the 30% rent increase. that is one of the biggest reason that people are having to surrender their animals. >> reporter: lisa and veronica were able to both get their dogs back. their local shelters have foster care programs. >> i am grateful for that. >> chef tori from the shelter in kansas city said they are literally desperate for help there. they need lots of volunteers to keep their programs going. we are hearing the same thing from shelters across the country. if you can help foster a dog or a cat or adopt one please reach out to your local shelter. >>> one of the men accused of stealing gaga's dogs has been sentence behind bars. authorities mistakenly released this 19-year-old named james howard jackson from jail. the sheriff department blames it on a clerical error. his time on t

and hansen, attentions in the occupied territory, had been increasing for months. israel called the missile strikes preemptive, meant to offset a future attack by islamic jihad. the p i. j was preparing and attempting an eminent and credible attack on these rarely civilians near the border of gaza. forcing is ready to close down roads and civilian activity in the proximity of the gaza strip, essentially paralyzing tens of thousands of israeli citizens for 3 days. but the palestinian ambassador said israel so called right to security had become a license to kill. this was an unprovoked and unjustified aggression. it's real reason is barely veiled. the upcoming is the election and the desperation to appeal to appease the extremist us of acid are called on both sides to fully implement the cease fire and allow fuel shipments into gaza so that hospitals and public services can continue to operate. she express sadness for the civilian casualties, but cautioned against a rush to judgment until all of those 2 casualties and all of those that can be fully investigated. and she also reaffirm the u.

student delegate hansen? >> yes. >> commissioner alexander. >> yes. >> vice president boggess. >> yes. >> commissioner hsu. >> yes. >> commissioner motamedi. >> commissioner sanchez. >> commissioner ward? >> yes. >> president lum i will move up items h i'm sorry. ooh, j and k to follow public comment. y please, note that. go ahead. >> i want to rep minds the public if you want to provide comment to turn in a comment card to the front so you will be able to provide comment rat the appropriate time for a particular item or during public comment. >> thank you. and superintendentling? first superintendent report. >> thank you president lam, good evening i'm pleased offer my first superintendent's report i have a presentation this evening where i will introduce myself and speak to my 117 day entry plan. if you wonder why it is 117 days stick arnold for that presentation. in the meantime i will share very excited the first day of school is quickly approaching. we are working hard to welcome our students and familie

i echo what hansen said and believe this resolution should be passed. >> thank you. upon you are excused now. we will now take public comment. do we need to move item approximate read it in the record prior to public comment. i believe that this item has been moved at first read thanksgiving is not necessary. >> thank you. we have 23 speaker cards. how much time would you like. how many? 23 speaker card in person and 7 hands online. we will do a total 30 minutes a minute each. i will call 5 names at a time lineup when you hear your name and forgive me if i mispronounce. i worked as a school volunteer for 10 years. above all i have been on the roof top in local school for past 20 years. part of the public school system. ede a quiet holiday the kids are enjoying the food and unwrapping gifts my kids you can imagine what ede mornings electric like run to say prayers, coming home dpeting off attire and running back to school. why can't we have ede off? with 250,000 muslims in san francisco, i request we respect the diversity like your 170 days and [inaudible] thank you.

subjected to this radical gender ideology forcing all across the country it will explain more as men hansente's my understanding is this is for kids for what first-12 grade we know what sections are for what age? his age or appropriateness even considered here? >> we know is this is teacher training for that k-12 system. we sought from portland and los angeles that they are teaching these ideas that girls can have, and boys can have regina's as young as first and second grade. so i suspect that at the same as having at san diego, but here's the basic idea. there taken radical gender theory and they are injecting it into the elementary and secondary school system with the intent of destabilizing people's identity to make them into a radical gender activists. it's something that is happening in district after district has to be stopped. >> hannity: let me put up the slide presentation and these are questions that kids may ask apparently. what does taste like? is it okay to? how to gay people have? are you telling me, this is the information they're given to to teachers so that they are prepar

here now mollie hemingway, senior editor at the federalists, fox news contributor and david hansen, senior fellow at huber. molly, of course they all have the dangers of giving us the forward to big lied to justify these roles that they have taken on as proxy centers for joe biden, but don't you think this is ironic as the biggest lie is the claim by facebook, twitter, and google that they are somehow unbiased and simply working for the public good. >> the social media company is are a huge threat to public discourse, the political debates, they meddled heavily in the 2020 election, the even meddled in previous elections, but they really ramped it up in 2020. they censor affective voices that go against what they would like people to say. they do platform people for sharing true information such as what they claim as misinformation and disinformation, the story of the biden information in the hunter biden laptop. and do things like privilege communication doing this to the top of inboxes while repressing public communications. they do, and when you think back to the russia collusion hoax w

also put a minimum corporate tax at 15% and the many staggering joining us right now richard davis hansen. is he right? is no new taxes on this? >> no he is wrong you're right. there's new taxes, the new regulations, use mansion of government. it somehow were between a rock and a hard place. we have 9.1% annual inflation and we have two quarters of negative growth any of the pick your poison brian. arnold reagan broke it and he was very unpopular and 81, and 82. very courageous. he broke inflation. the interest rates to break inflation have got to go up. it spending to go down. you have to deregulate and encourage the economy, but when you do that interest rates go up we could get two, three, four, five, six quarters of negative growth. and so we brought back a stagflation and a whole generation has a witness for two generations since 1980 in the carter years. they keep pointing to this 3.6 unemployment rate, no don't use the recession word. that is also misleading because it there is a lag behind employment and recession by that i mean consumer confidence is down. people are buying less.

and that's "dangle" joining me today richard david hansen sr.and david turner, executive director of howard the future. you say that class plays an enormous role in this entire discussion, explain. >> we have a rarefied class as you said, subject to the consequences of their own ideology and their lifestyles are much different than the people that they dictate to you. to california, sounds great to have electric cars and gas cars, but we import 25% of our electricity from out-of-state. and it's almost all generated by fossil fuel. and we only produce about 20% of renewable. and we have natural gas and we have the highest gas prices in the highest electricity prices already in the continent of the united states. and yet we have about one out of every three people in the united states that is on public assistance lives in california and 21% of people live below the poverty line. so you have a penal society of coastal lead and they don't have to commute a long way, they live in 68 degrees weather and they have all of these ideas and they are dictat

paul: hansen with misses of the weekend. next miss to dr.n for the national institutes of health. dr. fauci had a pretty long and respected public career. his problem hills boot remembered by the last covid chapter which was essentially public health experts ruling and imposing damaging lockdowns, mask vaccine mandates and not innate dissent from any outside voices. if we have learned anything that pouches of the world do not have all of the answers and so good riddance of that philosophy. paul: alright joe joe? >> i'm getting a hit to united kingdom politician for lifting the veil a little on how politicians let them pull them into these lockdowns. he admitted in a magazine interview this week british politicians did not ask hard enough questions about some of the font pandemic models put in front of them but did not think enough about enough costs associated when you talk about how politicians let science to shape them kudos to them for doing that. paul: all right jason. >> paul, a federal court has upheld a rule that says a day care worke

. >> reporter: katy hansen works for animal care center of new york city.ore than 4,500 pets surrendered this year. that's up 22% from the same time last year. >> due to the economy, a lot of people are needing to move to different places they lost their job or they can no longer afford the 30% rent increase that is one of the biggest reasons people are having to surrender. >> reporter: there is hope lisa and veronica were both able to get their dogs back their local shelters have foster care programs that take in dogs while owners get back on their feet >> i'm really very grateful for that >> reporter: and, shep, tory from the shelter in kansas city say they are desperate for help. they need lots of volunteers to keep their programs going. we're hearing the same thing from shelters across the country. if you can help foster a dog or cat or adopt one, reach out to the shelter. shep >> andrea day. thanks so much. >>> one of the men accused of stealing lady gaga's dogs has been sentenced authorities released this 19-year-old james howard jackson from jail. hi

whether it's wikileaks, or the hansen affair, or aims -- when we had spies in our midst. all of these are damaging when we try to convince someone to spy for the united states. but i think it's important to get to the bottom of it too. there's some wild speculation in the media. some people are saying it's the worst it's ever been. some people are -- >> what do you mean the worst it's ever been? what do you mean? >> it's on par with some really huge espionage cases. we have to take a step back, it's important because it does matter what was compromised or not. on the one hand, of course, the doj in the fbi need to be left to do their work. on the other hand, the dni needs to do the risk assessment. our agents, our allies are watching. let's see how bad it is. we need to take a deep breath. we don't know at this moment, and trump's holding on to these documents is bad enough -- but let's not call it an end of times, end of world event in the intelligent business until we find out. then we'll see how much our agents have been at risk, and our collection systems as well. >>

person actually makes a big difference to the overall pattern and we've been reading a book valerie hansen voyages enrolled history, and we know from that book that they're all kinds of big patterns and that it's the job of students and professional historians to figure out what the big pattern is because in our lives so much of what happens is so complex

incredible incumbents who are doing so well and are such a big contrast to their opponents, with maggie hansen in new hampshire and reverend warnock and you've got mark kelly and you have catherine cardozo masto in nevada. that's what each state's going to look at. and if kansas looked at it that way imagine what these other states are going to see because they have someone with really extreme views in nearly every one of those races on the other side. so that's what i think is going to matter. and i'm telling you right now, don, kansas was the wake-up call and that's what we were talking about today. and i heard it from a few republicans as well. they don't have the 60 votes. so we need the votes to reverse the filibuster so we can actually codify roe v. wade. >> it sounds like what you're sake is there's some optimism, more optimism among democrats after what kansas did last night. >> we've been saying it forever, 70% to 80% of the american people actually want to see reproductive freedom. every poll shows it. and i think the question was with women and men that support them, were they going

while the jury was it allowed to know about the civil case or it's outcome, ed bull's hansen would alsouling that the jury wouldn't be allowed to hear jason's affairs. or the steam is text on his secret phone. and that jason had lied about all of that at first. tara hope, the girlfriend took the stand, but only to testify to the gap in jason's timeline and to the abrupt end to their conversation. >> was your conversation that morning without telling us any of the details, such that you expected it was at a logical stopping point? >> no. >> as to motive, in his opening, the da had mentioned the financial pressure on jason. but in the end, he found it hard to explain why jason would have shot and shirley cold blood. >> there's absolutely nothing i can tell you that would make sense of why it is a sun shoots and kills his mother. >> now, it was time for the defense. jason carter's attorney, christine, had a clear message for the jury. a shoddy investigation, focused on jason early, and never looked anywhere else. and there were plenty of people to question. >> very significant parts of thi

person actually makes a big difference to the overall pattern and we've been reading a book valerie hansen voyages enrolled history, and we know from that book that they're all kinds of big patterns and that it's the job of students and professional historians to figure out what the big pattern is because in our lives so much of what happens is so complex and chaotic and quick that we can figure out. what's the overall trajectory. so some of the patterns we've been looking at are things like the effect of the environment upon us. whether it's all the things that nature hurls at us whether it's a hurricane or you know a flood or a famine or even tiny microbes that drastically affect people like ebola. we've also looked at things that are like mechanical things or technological inventions, and those are also big patterns. so for example the ways in which farming the i know department doesn't seem like a technology but the ways in which farming and the plow and things like that replaced hunting and gathering and that replacement of hunting and gathering by farming led from the neolithic into