the chairman and the director, tim riley. we have met at the end of the ugliest, disparaging presidential campaign of modern times, of any time. i would like to close with the words of sir winston as a preview of what you will see at the nclc tomorrow. in 1937 churchill said all the greatest things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word. freedom. justice. honor. duty. mercy. hope. thanks for all you have done to preserve the legacy of winston churchill. i trust we can trust in the future and together we can move forward into broad, sun lit up lands. thank you very much. >> thank you, michael, ladies and gentlemen, we will have a quick turnaround and go to our first panel. i invite our panelists up and i will turn over the microphone to professor dane kennedy of george washington university wlo will be the moderator for churchill and the president. >> more of binston churchill wednesday evening here on c-span3. starting at 8:00 eastern, a kfrksen with the former british prime minister's relationship with friends

the chairman and the director, tim riley. we have met at the end of the ugliest, disparaging presidential campaign of modern times, of any time. i would like to close with the words of sir winston as a preview of what you will see at the nclc tomorrow. in 1937 churchill said all the greatest things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word. freedom. justice. honor. duty. mercy. hope. thanks for all you have done to preserve the legacy of winston churchill. i trust we can trust in the future and together we can move forward into broad, sun lit up lands. thank you very much. >> thank you, michael, ladies and gentlemen, we will have a quick turnaround and go to our first panel. i invite our panelists up and i will turn over the microphone to

nancy pelosi with ohio congressman tim ryan announcing friday he'll challenge her for the top democratic post in the house. we're back with dan henninger, jason riley kissel and james freeman. dan, you've known chuck schumer for a while, what kind of a politician is he? >> he's a politician who loves to do politics, paul. and i will say, that the one thing that's going to happen in washington is that the long eight-year political desert under barack obama is about to end. i mean, but obama's problem in large part was he didn't do retail politics. he didn't like to mix it up with people. donald trump is going to be on that phone all day long. i think both republicans and democrats and one of his main correspondents is going to be chuck schumer. now, whether anything comes of that is a good question. schumer is being pushed by his left. we saw bernie sanders in the back of the photograph and by elizabeth warren and the democratic caucus in the house dominated by people on the left. and the question is whether donald trump's intention to do things to grow the economy, like cutting, say, corporate taxes, is going to get support on the democratic side.

nancy pelosi with ohio congressman tim ryan announcing thursday that he'll challenge her for the top democratic post in the house. we're back with dan henninger, jason rileychuck schumer for a while. what kind of a politician is he? >> he's a politician who loves to do politics, paul. i will say the one thing that's going to happen in washington is that the long eight-year political desert under barack obama is about to end. i mean obama's problem in large part was he just didn't do retail politics. he didn't like to mix it up with people. donald trump is going to be on that phone all day long. i think both republicans and democrats and one of his main correspondents is going to be chuck schumer. now, whether anything comes of that is a good question. schumer is being pushed by his left. you saw bernie sanders in the back of that photograph and by elizabeth warren and especially the democratic caucus in the house which is dominated by people on the left. the question is whether donald trump's intention to do things to grow the economy like cutting, say, corporate taxes is going to get support on the democratic side. >> so that's the key, jason, is he's go