this was part of the texas tribune festival. the moderator is lauren lopez of politico. >> i am right here. you can be right here, congresswoman. mayor. hi. >> thank you. >> nice to meet you. >> okay. there we go. six-hour technical difficulties. good afternoon, everyone. thank you so much for being here afternoon. i am a national political reporter forrt politico. i am thrilled to be here in austin with you. at the texas tribune festival. we will have a great discussion this afternoon on border

this was part of the texas tribune festival. the moderator is lauren lopez of politico.

i also want to give a big thanks the texas tribune festival for hosting this great event and sponsoringalso understand the texas farm bureau is supporting this and to hear from them. we have a really good panel. know if you guys realize that. i don't know if the audience realizes that. two texans and an iowan, which is great. ideologicalss the spectrum. frankly, there's a lot going on agriculture, so we have plenty to talk about. we're going to take a few questions at the end, so keep in mind, anything you want to ask the panel and we will leave time for lots of discussion and dialogue. so to begin, we have texas sidculture commissioner miller. you're maybe familiar with the texas department of agriculture. that department since 2015. yes, that deserves a round of applause. [applause] >> one of your biggest industries here. former agriculture secretary, tom. led during the obama administration, he was the longest serving cabinet member in that administration. of the u.s.e c.e.o. u.s. dairy export council. then we have state representative drew springer, who represents almost the largest

more now from the recent texas tribune -- recent "texas tribune" festival with members of the congressional committees. they discussed u.s. house races in texas, the whistleblower complaint against president trump, and the impeachment inquiry. this is an hour. >> welcome all. i'm abby livingston. i'm the chair of the texas tribune and i'm delighted to welcome two of the most pivotal people in the american politics. they have the jobs that are not most well known. to my meet left i have cheri bus tos. >> hello. >> and i have congressman tom emmer and he's the chair of the national republican committee. it took me a while to understand the acronyms. they're not as well known as. >> n.c. chairman or d.n.c. chairman. but these are members of congress who have been elected by their colleagues to basically get the gavel whether that means protect it or take it. and so it is a difficult job. they manage millions of dollars. they decide who gets that money in ad spending and it can be a brutal process if your side is not doing well in the election year. i had one former chairman describe to me what

on evan smith, the seal of the "texas tribune" and i'm pleased to be -- [applause] thank you. and i'm so pleased to be here today with richard stengel, the author of "information wars: how we lost the global battle against disinformation and what we can do aboutbl it" which was published earlier this month. the subject of the book is one rickl knows well. from . from 2013-2016 he was under secretary of state for public diplomacy andnd public affairs n barack obama's state department. no one has served longer in that post in american history. from 2006-2013 he was a top editor at "time" magazine, the publication where he worked on and off as a writer and editor dating back to 1981. his previous books include the bestseller mandell is way, and you're too kind, a brief history of flattery. [laughing] more in new york, rick is a graduate of princeton university and studied english and history at oxford as a rhodes scholar. please join in welcoming richard stengel. [applause] rick, it is great to have you in austin. thank you so much for being here. great to be here. >> congratulat

at the texas tribune festival. we will have a great discussion this afternoon on border politics immigration and the 2020 presidential election. love to welcome our panelists. right here next to me is congresswoman sylvia garcia. a freshman democrat from texas. must've her district is eastern houston. next we have the mayor of san antonio. on a maria coexecutive director of the center for popular democracy based in new york city. for those of you joining fee of the live stream, you can also follow the conversation on twitter using the #. immigrants about lawmakers of color and have frequently use the term invasion. when describing them what is going on at the border. how has the targeting of latinos , impacted your community at all. >> there is no question that el paso has been ground zero for a lot of the cruel and inhumane policies at the border. obviously, my colleagues, my sister who was with me, elected to to congress being the first to latinos from texas, we are close friends. i seen her go through a lot this

i want to thank the texas tribune. i'm a newspaperwoman, that's my guac background. > i forgot to do bios. >> we're not afraid to talk about ourselves. [laughter] that's what i did. i was a newspaperwoman. i have a great appreciate what abby livingston does out in washington. and then i worked in health care very briefly worked in healthcare for another 10 years. worked in marketing communications, public relation first a health system and nonprofit health system. and while i was doing that was on the city council which any city government folks here? no. i think it is a great training ground for serving in congress because there is actually no excuse for not getting the job done. you've got balance the budget every year. you've got to answer to your neighbors and all that sort of thing. i love the fact that, you know, journalism i think is a great background for pretty much anything you go into, if you know how to write, if you know how to communicate su sippingtly. if you care about people and their stories and what

. >> now from the 2019 texas tribune festival a conversation with former 2016 republican presidential campaign managers on the likelihood that donald trump gets reelected. they talk about the field of democratic nominees to see which has the greatest opportunity to eat the president in the general election. joining them on stage with danny diaz from jeb bush's campaign, jeff roe from ted cruz's campaign and terry sullivan from marco rubio's campaign. this is an hour. >> good morning. how is everybody doing? lively. to get you coffee, thanks for being here. i am the chief political correspondent for politico magazine, auto -- i'm supposed to read this. author of the new york times best-selling book

i'm evan smith, i'm the ceo of the texas tribune and i'm pleased to be here -- thank you. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. >> and i am so pleased to be here today with richard, author of information wars, how we lost the battle against disinformation which was published earlier this month, the subject of the book is one rick knows well from 2013 to 2016 he was under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs in barack obama's state department, no one has served longer in that post in american history. from 2006 to 2013 top editor at time magazine, publication where he worked on and off as writer and editor dating back to 1981. rick's previous books include "the new york times" best seller mandela's way and you're too kind, brief history of flattery. [laughter] >> born in new york, rick is a graduate of princeton university and studied as scholar, please join me in welcoming rick stengel. thank you for having you in austin. >> great to be here. >> congratulations on the book, it would be a great success, it's so interesting and could not be more of the mo

at this event hosted by the texas tribune festival. >> thank you for being here. this is titled from within, the topic on domestic terrorism. of course con spored by law fair -- of course sponsored by the law fair and university of texas. this will be 60 minutes l.ta we will leave time for questions. we already know some of you have some questions that you want to ask our all star panel here. secondly, in previous sessions, at the stival, whave heard some very interesting ring

country, referring to republicans leading in texas voting badly for the gop and he was at the texas tribune festival which we covered on the c-span networks a couple weeks ago. he made the point the republicans need to lose in 2020 to rebuild, part of the c-span video library. >> the vision has been a constant in the republican party until now. at the 500 day mark of the reagan presidency he had the support of 77% of republicans at the 500 a mark of the trump residency he has the support of 87%. there is less dissent in the republican party than ever before. it is his party which is why those of us who care about the two party system think what should happen in 2020 is the republican party gets a bullet are rated so the old story about hitting the mule over the 4 head with a 2 x 4 get his attention and something needs to be done to get the republicans attention. >> host: your reaction to that assessment from george will, not a fan of donald trump but longtime republican, supporter of ronald reagan. >> guest: he made a comment in my book how america's political parties change. george has wri

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thank you to the texas tribune festival.e are going to take a short right, but at 4:30, our last conversation of the day is on agriculture in the modern world. please come back. thank you so much. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> join us today when charlie cook looks at campaign 2020 and the upcoming elections. he will speak in a conversation hosted by the -- in washington, d.c. live coverage on c-span, online at c-span.org, four listen live on the free spin radio and. later tonight on

terrorism, the reason why there should and shouldn't be separate laws for domestic terrorism, the texas tribune festival and austin is the host of this hour-long event. law thank you evan, thank all of you for being here, this is titled from within the topic on domestic terrorism, law, couple of quick reminders, this will be 60 minutes total but we will leave plenty of time for questions, we know that some of you have questions you want to ask our no kidding all-star panel here, secondly in previous sessions at the festival we have heard some very interesting ring tones, we would not like to hear any more of those interesting ring tones, so please remember to silence your phones but if you do want to take pictures, taken videos, etc and treat them yes they hashtag at trip fest 19 is how you will do that, we will take questions at the end and the microphone will be passed around so if you want to get the attention of the microphone please look around as we move to that portion of the program. quickly i'm david the chief operating officer and i work in the counter terrorism center both before and

day, this article concerning the deteriorating conditions at the mexican border appeared in the texas tribune about the consequences of the trum's -- trump administration's migrant protections protocol. the article describes america's inhumanity unfolding in a border town which i as a child spent much of my time and which my ancestors are buried. it is a story about america's cruelty for which the president of the united states is directly responsible. as i thought about what i could do about this situation, i couldn't help but ask myself, what would elijah do? by creating obstacle after obstacle, the trump administration does everything within its power to prevent asylum claimants from having their rightful day in court, whether they are entitled to stay or not. it's the latest obstruction is a migrant protection protocol which is anything but protection. the m.p.p. forces asylum claims to wait in dangerous mexican border towns as their claims are processed and proven to be nothing more than a weapon used to destroy americans' long-standing reputation as the world's greatest melting pot. it

>>> well, joining me now, the national politics reporter for news day and abby livingston for texas tribune. welcome, ladies, emily, how surprising is it to see the president back down? >> reporter: very surprising. i want to underscore something kelly said. the fact that this the a rare and remarkable move by president trump who is a man who doesn't apologize, who doesn't acknowledge wrong-doing, who doesn't really show any real personal growth. for him to back down in the public shows he is affectled by the criticism particularly from members of his own party. when we think of other instances, whether it's inauguration crowd size or obama wiretapping oval office or hurricane hitting alabama, the trump in the past has gone so far as to fabricate evidence to make himself feel right even if he is wrong. this is very big, indeed. >> abby the president faced allegations that he used his office to enrich his own businesses throughout his presidency, he is facing a lawsuit that challenges his ownership of the luxury hotel that's just five blocks from the white house. but do you get a sense of th

at this event hosted by the "texas tribune" festival. >> thank you, evan. i thank all of you for being here. this is at the university of texas. a couple of quick reminders. this will be 60 minutes total but we are going to leave plenty of time for questions. we already know some of you have some questions you want to ask our, no kidding, all-star panel here. secondly, in previous sessions at the festival, we have heard some very interesting ring tones. we would not like to hear any more of those interesting ring tones. please remember to silence your phones. if you do want to take pictures, take videos, et cetera, and tweet them, yes, #tribfest19 is how you'll do that. we'll take questions at the end. the microphone will be passed around. if you want to get the attention of the microphone, please look around as we move to that portion of the program. quickly, i'm david priess, chief operating officer of lawfare. i worked in counterterror at cia both before and after 9/11. now revisiting the terrorism issue from a different perspective. i'm here to bring out

this event took place last week at the "texas tribune" festival in austin. >> thank you. welcome and i feel like i probably don't need to introduce my fellow panelists here, because anybody knows who they are. but on my left we have texas land commissioner george p bush who is your speaking on behalf of the bush brand. [applause] susan page is washington bureau chief for "usa today" and author of the recent and currently i guess to best-selling biography of barbara bush called the matriarch that you will be signing copies of it after this. [applause] and michael beschloss, one of our best well-known presidential historians who has written so many things and so many books, but i'm going to be asking you about some of the stuff i found in my old well-worn copy of character above all. the first thing i'd like to ask all of you is, we lost our bush and george bush just so close together. what kind of reassessment do you think this has brought for the country as to what the bush name stood for and what's the significantly was of all the work that they did in so many arenas of p

joining me, politico senior washington correspondent anna palmer and also from the texas tribune, matthewcretary perry factors into the ukraine controversy. >> it is interesting timing to be sure and certainly members of the house who are looking at this impeachment inquiry aren't going to stop asking questions and wanting him to come to capitol hill. they have subpoenaed him, the deadline is today. it is unclear whether or not that he will agree to turn over documents and agree to talk to them, but even some republicans including fwr francis rooney sa that he wants to hear what he has to say and all the facts to come out on ukraine and just because he is stepping down doesn't mean that he doesn't need to come to the hill. >> and so rick perry is facing a subpoena. here is what he told bill hemme represent. >> you have a subpoena deadline as of today for documents as it relates to any involvement that you had with ukraine. will you meet that deadline as of today? >> our general counsel is taking a look at that right now. and when they send their answer in at the end of the day, whatever t

we want to thank the great people at the "texas tribune" for having us. [applause] and i need to thank pfizer for the wonderful sponsorship, thank my brilliant panels here for making this sound smart. stick around for the next panel. jim jordan and mark meadows and chip roy, it will be a fun conversation and i'll be signing copies of my twice affirmation book at noon. this guy has a copy. thank you, guys here [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] there's a look at life events coming up today on the c-span networks.

and we are back with abby livingston of the texas tribune. peter alexander, to you first. i know you're absorbing this information, just as we are. a five-day cease-fire. do we know what this means for the u.s. troops? and is anyone saying anything yet about the 218 civilian lives already lost. for what? >> reporter: yeah, stephanie, you make a good point right there. and as we heard from the vice president just moments ago, he said, a lot of this will be made clear when you see the agreement. but i think critics will view this cease-fire right now, this agreement that mike pence said was based on the strong relationship between president trump and president erdogan of turkey. and say, in effect, the u.s., the president, with his abrupt withdrawal of u.s. troops from that region, set a fire, now is returning there to try to put the fire out. but the bottom line is that vacuum has been filled with death and with the recent infiltration, in effect, of russian troops there. this is a complicated, challenging situation that a cease-fire doesn't simply erase. will the kurds abi

joining us now by skype is abby livingston, the washington bureau chief for "the texas tribune." we just heard from someone from texas, concerned about corruption, not necessarily for impeachment right now. talk about how texans are reacting to their lawmakers and their various stances on impeachment. what is going on in texas? guest: i think we are still trying to figure this out. the polling is still pretty unclear, but what it seems to be is that this is a very gerrymandering state and folks in the republican district are happy that members oppose impeachment and democrats are happy their members are for it. i think the most interesting places to watch our north dallas and west houston. these are the two extremely competitive zones held by democrats, and they are part of that big wave of freshmen who came out in favor of an impeachment inquiry. neither member seems to be backing off of it, and they are comfortable where they are. host: we hear that there are a number of retiring texas house members. we will put their names on the screen, but several republican retirements. what

this event took place last week at the "texas tribune" festival in austin. >> thank you. lcome and i feel like i probably don't need to introduce my fellow panelists here, because anybody knows who they are. but on my left we have texas land commissioner george p bush who is your speaking on behalf of the bush brand. [applause] susan page is washington bureau chief for "usa today" and author of the recent and currently i guess to best-selling biography of barbara bush called the matriarch that you will be signing copies of it after this. [applause] and michael beschloss, one of

abby livingston is washington bureau chief at "the texas tribune" and katie bowe williams, correspondentne. good afternoon to you both. what is the latest on the reporting and everything that matt bradley just suggested? he put this all in perspective. give me your thoughts on all that matt reported. >> well, so, i think one of the things that the trump administration is really hoping for right now is that there will be some kind of action in ukraine to investigate burisma, because it will offer credibility to their narrative that the real corruption here, the real problem here is with the bidens, is with biden's son, hunter. >> but one thing, matt just said it's not entirely clear that this is even going to be looked at with burisma while hunter biden served on the board. >> that's been one of the persistent questions about the allegations that the trump administration and rudy giuliani in particular have made against hunter biden is it's not entirely clear that the timeline even matches up, the timeline of when hunter biden was actually on the board of burisma, when the biden -- or whe

host: david jolly and jennifer paul merry from the "texas tribune" festival. james, louisiana, lived true the next and. good morning. -- lived through the nixon times. good morning. caller: i got drafted. teenagers going home. we had the shaw of iran and we had the american people being held hostage. i had to go in on that. god.rices, oh the economy, jobs. there was a lot going on back then. it's not the same now. we can't pair nixon and clinton to this. were politicians. career politicians their whole life. this was a businessman. they knew how to do it. even clinton, that was foolishness from the very beginning. that they knew the ins and outs of what they were doing. trump has no idea plus one listen to no one. i get hired of people saying that this is going to cause a civil war. have faith in this country. too many people have died for the colors to keep flying. people have been trying to keep this country down since we started. stop being scared. fear is what the russians did in the 60's on kennedy. but he stood tall and went on and had the mines planted

the texas tribune festival which we covered a couple weeks ago, he made the point that republicans seemo losing 2020 in order to rebuild as part of what he had to say. [video clip] >> division has been a constant of the republican party until now. at the 500 day mark of the reagan presidency, he had the support of 77 percent of republicans. on the 500 day mark of the trump presidency, he had the support of 87%. there is less dissent in the republican party than ever before. it is his party which is why those of us who care about the two-party system think what should happen in 2020 is the republican party gets obliterated. you get in on the old story about hitting the mule over the forehead with a two by four gets his attention. something needs to be done to get the republicans' attention. host: your thought on that sentiment from someone who has not been a fan of donald trump but was an early supporter of ronald reagan. guest: he has made a comment on my book on how america's political parties have changed. george has written that he is not a republican anymore. he does not identify wi

texas. the privacy and technology have been published because of the chicago tribune, washington post, on and on. the legislative fights he's been a part of reforms to the information actor most recently the 2019 effort in the house weighing in foreign intelligence surveillance act section 702 mass surveillance programs. thank you and welcome to all of you. i would like to begin by having you tell us how you developed the obsession with drones. >> first i would like to think the institute for having me. i feel honored to be here with such a great panel. it really does mean a lot to be back in the space. and it's been an incredible journey when anything about the fact that seven years ago i was a pretty scrappy undergraduate in upstate new york. every morning i would read the times and the breakfast cafeteria and there would be a story about drone strikes in war zones. and if not that there would be a story about how drones were being increasingly used in the civilian airspace. both raised unfamiliar and urgent questions. i was doing my research with history students, immigrations in the 1960s

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joining us now by skype is abby livingston, the washington bureau chief for "the texas tribune." we just heard from someone from texas, concerned about corruption, not necessarily for impeachment right now. talk about how texans are reacting to their lawmakers and their various stances on impeachment. what is going on in texas? guest: i think we are still trying to figure this out. the polling is still pretty unclear, but what it seems to be

joining us now by skype is abby livingston, the washington bureau chief for "the texas tribune." we just heard from someone from texas, concerned about corruption, not necessarily for impeachment right now. talk about how texans are reacting to their lawmakers and their various stances on impeachment. what is going on in texas? guest: i think we are still trying to figure this out. the polling is still pretty unclear, but what it seems to be is that this is a very gerrymandering state and folks in the republican district are happy that members oppose impeachment and democrats are happy their members are for it. i think the most interesting places to watch our north dallas and west houston. these are the two extremely competitive zones held by democrats, and they are part of that big wave of freshmen who came out in favor of an impeachment inquiry. neither member seems to be backing off of it, and they are comfortable where they are. host: we hear that there are a number of retiring texas house members. we will put their names on the screen, but several republican retirements. what