here below we have john yoo on the left. john, stand up. jen was deputy assistant attorney general for the office of legal counsel and the bush justice department. john wrote a number of key legal memo supporting bush's post-9/11 counterterrorist policies. then bruce, standup bruce was associate deputy attorney general under president reagan and also was chief policy adviser to rand paul during the 2012 presidential campaign. and harvey is going to be our moderator. harvey is currently the dean of the national war college. harvey's last job was director, the less government job you worked for the director of national intelligence. so thank you harvey rishikoff. [applause] >> there wasn't a single founder who doubted that going to war with the most important decision a republican made. the war power is the most important are because war is the greatest threat to the public. since the executive has more incentive to go to work in the legislature the founders placed the power to declare war in the legislature, not in the presidency. the founde

thousands of times against people never charged with a crime only weeks later white house legal advisor john yoo codified the legal framework for brutal tactics that have been banned for decades and guantanamo bay became the experimental front for the u.s. as secret torture program for seven hundred seventy nine. in men and boys were detained many of them harshly interrogated prisoners endured physical abuse like frequent beatings as punishment for minor offenses such as keeping too many salt packets in their cells they were also forced into intense stress positions and shackled they're required to stand for eighteen to twenty four hours at a time off and urinating and death are kidding themselves it's a tactic that former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld personally encouraged in two thousand and two saying quote i stand for eight to ten hours a day so why is standing limited to four but standing for long periods of time pales in comparison to what else prisoners alleged took place namely rape according the washington post the f.b.i. was told by release detainees that they were quote raped a

here below we have john yoo. he was deputy assistant attorney general for the office of legal counsel in the bush justice department. john wrote a number of key than those supporting bush's post-9/11 counterterrorism policies. and then bruce was the associate general under presidents ronald reagan and also the chief policy advisor to rand paul during the 2012 presidential campaign. harvey is going to be the moderator and is currently good enough for national war college and his job was that the rector of the -- the u.s. government job he worked for the director of national intelligence. [applause] there wasn't a single founder of the delta that the decision that republic could make. the war power is the most important power because the war is the greatest threat to the republic. republic. the war concentrate power in the executive. it has more of an incentive to go to the war than the legislature and the founders placed the power to declare the war in the legislature. the founder who understood the war better than

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author john yoo talks about the law on powerful nations. saturday on book tv tv's afterwards. how republicans can make gains for the spanish vote. sunday at noon on in-depth, the three-hour conversation and your phone calls with the former chair of the u.s. commission on civil rights, mary francis barry, on "american history tv," on c-span3, authors and historians talk about the burning of washington of the war of 1812. saturday on real america, the building of the hoover dam. and sunday night at 8:00, the anniversary of president gerald ford's pardon of richard nixon. find our television schedule at c-span.org and let us know about the programs you're watching. or e-mail us at comments@c-span.org. follow us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >>> more from day two on the symposium of the british burning of washington, d.c., of the war of 1812. hosted by the white house historical society, the u.s. capitol historical society, and james madison's mount pelier. steve vogel, author of through the perilous fight, six weeks that saved the nation. this is about 55 minutes. >> our

john yoo author of "point of attack" and bruce fein author of "constitutional peril" debate war and foreign-policy views of drones and the meaning of the constitution. this is about an hour and a half. >> welcome everyone. tonight the committee for the republic is hosting a debate on war and the constitution

how can we control these types of presidential decisions backed up by john yoo and a host of lawyerswho in my opinion did not serve the government while in the people well by the allowing of this type of overreach by the president. thank you. [applause] >> i think we are doing now because it was conveyed about one year ago when president obama was poised to launch about 600 cruise missiles into syria and the american people were awakened from their unfortunate slumber and wrote in an campaign with members of congress and said no we do not want another war. the president retreated and the congress hemmed in hot in do it do anything we we ultimately did up with this rather amateurish believe that if we destroy the chemical weapons it was all right to kill them by other means and we think we accomplish great things. that shows, the syrian example shows that the congress and the president still are responsive to what the american people believe are the requirements of danger that justified going to war. [inaudible] >> how do you understand those roles as constitutional -- [inaudible] >>

author john yoo talks about the law on powerful nations. saturday on book tv tv's afterwards. how republicans can make gains for the spanish vote. sunday at noon on in-depth, the three-hour conversation and your phone calls with the former chair of the u.s. commission on civil rights, mary francis barry, on "american history tv," on c-span3, authors and historians talk about the burning of washington of the war of 1812. saturday on real america, the building of the hoover dam. and sunday night at 8:00, the anniversary of president gerald ford's pardon of richard nixon. find our television schedule at c-span.org and let us know about the programs you're watching. or e-mail us at comments@c-span.org. follow us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >>> more from day two on the symposium of the british burning of washington, d.c., of the war of 1812. hosted by the white house historical society, the u.s. capitol historical society, and james madison's mount pelier. steve vogel, author of through the perilous fight, six weeks that saved the nation. this is about 55 minutes. >> our

john yoo shares his opinion on international law and what effect it has on the behavior of powerful nations. mike gonzalez on how he thinks republicans can make gains for the hispanic vote. sunday at noon, our three hour conversation and your phone calls with the former chair of the commission on civil rights. friday night at 8:00 eastern. authors and historians talking about the burning of washington during the war of 1812. sunday night at 8:00, the anniversary of president gerald ford's pardon of richard nixon. let us know what you think about the programs you're watching, call us at 202-626-3400. or you can e-mail us at comments at c-span.org, join the c-span conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >>> also speaking at the symposium of the british burning of washington, d.c., during the war of 1812, homilly schulman director of the dolly madison project. this is about 45 minutes. >> our next speaker will be talking about dolly madison and the british invasion of washington, d.c., in the war of 1812. we already heard some things about dolly madison's role in the war of 18

california governor's race, jerry brown and republican nominee neil cache cary. 8:00 on c-span 2, author john yooes his opinion on international law. saturday on book tv, mike gonzalez and how he thinks republicans can make gains with the hispanic vote. our three-hour conversation and your phone calls with the former chair of the u.s. commission on civil rights. >>> tonight on c-span 3, authors and historians talk about the ever 1812. saturday on real america, the building of the hoover dam, and sunday night at 8:00, the anniversary of ford's pardon of nixon. find our schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us, tweet us or you can e-mail us at comments at xvx c-span.org. join the c-span conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> thursday on c-span, a senate agriculture committee on improving meals in schools. we heard from new york senator gillibrand on the subject.afufç here's a look. >> of course kids like non-whole grains. yes, that's what they prefer. they like sugar even more. if you give your child a choice of sugar or

friday night at 8:00, c-span2, john yoo shares his opinion of international law and the behavior of powerfulv's after words, mike gonzalez and how he gains for the hispanic vote at va eastern and then your phone calls with the former chair of the u.s. commission on civil rights, mary francis berry. friday night 8:00 eastern on c-span3, authors and historians talk about the burning of washington during the war of 1812. saturday on real america, the building of the hoover dam and sunday night at 8:00, the anniversary of the president gerald ford's pardon of richard nixon. find our television schedule at c-span.org. call us at 202-626-3400. send us a tweet. or you can e-mail us. join the c-span conversation, like us on facebook. follow us on twitter.rñh8÷ >>> historian anthony pitch is the author of "the burning of washington" about the events of august 24th, 1814 when british troops burned the white house, the capitol and other government buildings during the war of 1812. he recently spoke at an event hosted by the smith sown i don't know associates. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> good eve

. >> i just want to thank -- what is great about john yoo, the -- or louie hart. he basically explains there will be more books based on his footsnotes, the classic akerman move. so i look forward to coming back again debating books six, seven, and eight in the trilogy. >> i have been insulted repeatedly. first called sam plan that power and then bruce acker felony and the ultimate one of being canadian. me a cause me to stop writing books. so i just want to point -- based on the headlines today there was poll out that harvey and gary referred to that said americans are weary of war, they don't want to pay the costs for maintaining a system. they don't want to pay for the big military and don't want to intervene, and this combines our common interest in the presidency and national security and international law. this is exactly the same attitude the united states had in the 1930s. you could almost take the poll results very similar to inter war period. might seem we well save money. seemed in 1930s we saved money on defense. its cost the country and the world a lo

democratic incumbent jerry brown and republican nominee neel kash kari, friday night at 8:00 on c-span2, john yoo shares his thoughts on international law. saturday, mike gonzalez on how he thinks republicans can make gains for the hispanic vote. our conversation and your phone calls with the former chair of the u.s. commission on civil rights, mary frances berry. 8:00, authorst and historians talk about the burning of washington during the war of 1812. saturday on real america, the building of the hoover dam. sunday night at 8:00, gerald ford's pardon of richard nixon. find our tv schedule on www.c-span.org and let us know about the programs you are watching. call, send us a tweet, or you can e-mail us. conversation, like us on facebook, all of us on twitter. -- follow us on twitter >>. >> earlier today, the national alliance on mental illness held its convention in washington, d.c., with former congressman patrick kennedy and virginia state senator creigh deeds. the session was about 15 minutes. -- 50 minutes. [applause] >> hello, everyone. welcome to our national convention. i am so excited to

california governor's race, jerry brown and republican nominee neil cache cary. 8:00 on c-span 2, author john yoores his opinion on international law. saturday on book tv, mike gonzalez and how he thinks republicans can make gains with the hispanic vote. our three-hour conversation and your phone calls with the former chair of the u.s. commission on civil rights. >>> tonight on c-span 3, authors and historians talk about the ever 1812. saturday on real america, the building of the hoover dam, and sunday night at 8:00, the anniversary of ford's pardon of nixon. find our schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us, tweet us or you can e-mail us at comments at xvx c-span.org. join the c-span conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> thursday on c-span, a senate agriculture committee on improving meals in schools. we heard from new york senator gillibrand on the subject.afufç here's a look. >> of course kids like non-whole grains. yes, that's what they prefer. they like sugar even more. if you give your child a choice of sugar or

friday night on c-span2, john yoo. words, mike gonzalez.day at noon, a three-hour conversation and phone calls with the former chair of the commission on human rights, mary frances berry. c-span3, a talk on the burning of washington. on saturday, the making of hoover dam. sunday, president gerald ford 's pardon of richard nixon. 26-3400 and let6 us know what you think about the programs we are running. >> now, a conversation on affordable housing for seniors. we will hear from chris herbert, from the harvard joint center for housing studies. this is 45 minutes. [applause] >> good morning. excited to see so many people here, the day after labor day weekend. we heard some grumbling that no one would come, but this is a testament to the importance of the issue and that people are ready to get back to work. forme thank the hartford their funding of this report and to the aarp team. this is an issue that we need to spend more time on. this grant gave us the opportunity to do that. thank you. the folks wenk work with most closely at the foundatio

tonight at 8:00 on c-span 2, author john yoo shares his opinion on law and the effect it has on nationssaturday on book tv afterwards, how he thinks republicans can make gains for the his tannic vote at 10:00 p.m. eastern. sunday at noon, three-hour conversation and your phone calls with the former chair on civil rights. tonight at 8:00 eastern on american history tv, authors and historians talk about the burning of washington. saturday, on real america, the building of the hoover dam and sunday at 8:00, the anniversary of gerald ford's pardon of nixon. find the schedule and let us know about the programs you have been watching. kaulg us at 202-626-3400 or #c123. you can e-mail us at comments@c-span.org. follow us on twitter. >>> next, day one of the symposium marking the 200th anniversary of the burning of washington d.c. during the war of 1812. first, andrew lambert on the >> > coming up, day one of the symposium on the british burning of washington and the war of aspects of the war. dolley madison and the creation of the american nation. that is followed by alan tay lar. remarks by j

friday night at 8:00, c-span2, john yoo shares his opinion of international law and the behavior of powerfuld how he gains for the hispanic vote at va eastern and then your phone calls with the former chair of the u.s. commission on civil rights, mary francis berry. friday night 8:00 eastern on c-span3, authors and historians talk about the burning of washington during the war of 1812. saturday on real america, the building of the hoover dam and sunday night at 8:00, the anniversary of the president gerald ford's pardon of richard nixon. find our television schedule at c-span.org. call us at 202-626-3400. send us a tweet. or you can e-mail us. join the c-span conversation, like us on facebook. follow us on twitter.rñh8÷ >>> historian anthony pitch is the author of "the burning of washington" about the events of august 24th, 1814 when british troops burned the white house, the capitol and other government buildings during the war of 1812. he recently spoke at an event hosted by the smith sown i don't know associates. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> good evening. we are coming up on the 200

tonight at 8:00, author john yoo shares his opinion on law. and saturday on book tv's afterwards, mike gonzalez and how he thinks republicans can make gains for the hispanic vote at 10:00 p.m. eastern. and on in depth, our three-hour conversation withi your phone calls with mary francis berry. tonight an american history tv, authors and historians talk about the burning of washington during the war of 1812. saturday on real america, the building of the hoover dam and sunday night at 8:00, the anniversary of president gerald ford's pardon of richard nixon. find our television schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us at 202-626-3400. send us a tweet at #c123 or e-mail us at comments@c-span.org. like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >>> our coverage of the symposium continues with university of virginia historian john stagg. this is a little more than an hour. >> let me introduce john stagg. he has edited so far 20 of these critical volumes of madison's personal correspondence. and we'

on c-span 2 friday night at 8:00, john yoo discusses law and the effect on powerful nations. mike gonzalez and how he thinks that hispanics can make a difference in the vote. your phone calls with the former chair on the u.s. commission of civil rights, francis berry. the burning of washington during the war of 1812. saturday on real america, the building of the hoover dam and the anniversary of gerald ford's pardoning of richard nixon. let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. 202-626-3400. send us a tweet at #c123. join the c-span conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >>> on august 24th, 1814, british soldiers american troops outside washington, d.c. the victory allowed british forces to march into the city and burn down the white house and u.s. capitol building. historians recently discussed the battle in bladensburg, maryland, introduced by prince county executive baker. this is an hour. thi >>> first of all, i want to welcome everyone to this round table discussion on the war of 1812. we're certainly happy to have you in bladensbur

friday night at eight on c-span2, author john yoo shares his opinion on international and what little effect it has on the behavior of powerful nations. saturday, mike gonzalez on how he thinks republicans can make gains for the hispanic vote at 10 p.m. eastern. and sunday at noon on "in depth," your phone calls with mary frances berry, friday night on american history tv, authors and historians talk about the burning of washington during the war of 1812. saturday on "real america," the building of the hoover dam, and sunday night at eight the anniversary of gerald ford's pardon of richard nixon. find our schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. 202-626-3400, or you can e-mail us at comments@c-span.org. join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> and we're live this afternoon at the state department where secretary of state john kerry will take part in a groundbreaking ceremony for the new united states diplomacy center. also in attendance this afternoon, former secretaries hillary clinton, madeleine albr

john yoo shares his opinion on international law and what effect it has on the behavior of powerful nations. mike gonzalez on how he thinks republicans can make gains for the hispanic vote. sunday at noon, our three hour conversation and your phone calls with the former chair of the commission on civil rights. friday night at 8:00 eastern. authors and historians talking about the burning of washington during the war of 1812. sunday night at 8:00, the anniversary of president gerald ford's pardon of richard nixon. let us know what you think about the programs you're watching, call us at 202-626-3400. or you canou can e-mail us at cs at c-span.org, join the c-span conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >>> also speaking at the symposium of the british burning of washington, d.c., during the war of 1812, homilly schulman director of the dolly madison project. this is about 45 minutes. >> our next speaker will be talking about dolly madison and the british invasion of washington, d.c., in the war of 1812. we already heard some things about dolly madison's role in the war of 18