natha105

I have three questions:

1. Do you think that Turkey's actions here (which seems like a calculated strategy to try and trap the Saudi's in as many lies as possible), is being driven by Russia as a geopolitical move to undermine the Saudi/American relationship?
2. While it is certainly crass to ask this of a journalist - political assassinations of journalists in this region is relatively common. Why has this one caught so much attention?
3. Having read some of Jamal Khashoggi's writing I have a bit of a hard time understanding why he would be specifically targeted. Do you have a theory about what he did that pushed the Saudi's over the top in making the decision to murder him?

Because the immigration process is supposed to evaluate whether a person would be a benefit or detriment to the USA and if they would be a benefit we let them immigrate. You can bypass that process with birthright citizenship which seems like a pretty big bad thing.

Every good experiment is an unethical experiment.

I would like to dispense with the legal questions. I agree the constitution prohibits this. I agree trump lacks the authority to do this. Instead of focusing on questions of law, lets instead talk about "should". Why should someone be a citizen based on place of birth? Does this not create an incentive to cross the border to give birth? Does this not create families where a young child is a citizen with the right to stay and the parents are non-citizens in the country illegally and subject to deportation? Given the current horrific state of immigration law, what are the policy reasons for this policy continuing?

I just wanted to say thanks for doing this (both the AMA and the platform). Reddit is a tough audience to try and sell the upsides of Lobbying to because I think it has largely bought into the notion that the government is corrupt and it was the lobbyists who corrupted it. As you know, changing a group's perceptions can be almost impossible to do. I've always found lobbying fascinating so let me ask you my question:

What's your best war story? The time you were most proud of getting an idea to click with a lawmaker.