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To you all the time and is terrible for everyone else. | |
| And so it erects a nice little fence around the industry and keeps everyone else out. | ||
| And so one way to combat that is to have as principles-based rules as you can to say, here is the objective that we're trying to achieve. | ||
| You go figure out how to achieve it. | ||
| One firm might achieve it one way and another another way. | ||
| And that makes it harder for any one firm to keep all its rivals out. | ||
| But it is an important issue that we have to think about. | ||
| Well, thank you very much, Commissioner Peirce, for taking the time to talk with us today. | ||
| Great to be here. | ||
| Thank you all. | ||
| We will be back in 15 minutes at 1145 for a panel talking about the Federal Reserve. | ||
| This afternoon, the United Nations Security Council is holding an emergency meeting at the request of Poland to discuss Russia's drone incursion into Polish airspace earlier this week. | ||
| President Trump has suggested that the incursion could have been a mistake on Russia's part, but the Polish government maintains that it was a deliberate act of aggression. | ||
| We'll have live coverage of the Security Council meeting at 3 p.m. Eastern on C-SPAN. | ||
| You can also watch on the free C-SPAN Now video app or online at c-span.org. | ||
| Your solutions to the rise in political violence. | ||
| That's our conversation here in the first hour of the Washington Journal this morning. | ||
| Let's begin with the Washington Post reporting on some poll, a poll that they feature in the paper this morning. | ||
| Experts who study political violence agree its frequency and seriousness is increasing significantly as more Americans believe the system does not work for them and feel frustrated and helpless. | ||
| A February poll by Bright Line Watch, a group of political scientists tracking democratic norms and institutions, found that while only 2% of Democrats and 3% of Republicans support violence against opposition party leaders in general, that rises to about 10% for opposition party leaders who enact harmful or exploitative policies. | ||
| While a great majority opposed political violence, that still left nearly one in 10 who were willing to tell pollsters they favored it. | ||
| Listen to the leader of the Republican Party in the Senate, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, addressing the rise in political violence in an interview with Punch Bowl News yesterday. | ||
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No matter what side of the political aisle you sit on, everybody just laments that sort of thing happening. | |
| And I think it is a reminder that these are not normal times. | ||
| Obviously, people feel very deeply and strongly. | ||
| There's a lot of division, politically speaking, in the country. | ||
| And people feel strongly, but they ought to be able to confine that to the ways in which under our Constitution we can express that, you know, through speech and in assembly and all those sorts of things, that the protections that we have in this country enable people to make their voices heard in a way that doesn't include violence. | ||
| So there's no place ever for violence. | ||
| And this is just yet another sad occurrence. | ||
| And I think it's incumbent on all of us to do what we can, people who are in public office and people who aren't. | ||
| You know, people who are activists, people who are engaged on the issues of the day and feel passionately, and a lot of people do, but they need to express that in ways that are silly and don't resort to violence. | ||
| Senator John Thune, the Republican leader in the Senate, do you agree with him that it's incumbent upon leaders and even those who are not public figures, activists, and others to tone down the rhetoric? | ||
| Here's Democratic Congress Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia lamenting recent acts of political violence and the killing of Charlie Kirk during your hearing yesterday. | ||
| Mr. Chair, I appreciate the comments that you were making right as I walked in about the sadness over Mr. Kirk's death. | ||
| I put out yesterday, as many of us did, a comment praying for his family and for the university community. | ||
| But I was struck when I walked into the Armed Services Committee meeting today that many of my colleagues knew him. | ||
| I never met him. | ||
| So for many in this body, and I think many who are here, he was an acquaintance or a friend. | ||
| I know how devastating it was to Senators Klobuchar and Smith when their friends were killed a couple weeks ago. | ||
| And so this is something that is not just in the news, but it is something that is personal to people in this place. | ||
| And it's just too common. | ||
| It's just too common. | ||
| You know, we have a colleague in the Senate, Mark Kelly, whose life was ineratically changed by political violence. |