. >> with me in our studios today are professor howard penniman of georgetown university, mr.phen hess of the brookings institution. we have talked of many different aspects of this 1976 american presidential bicentennial year, starting with the primaries back in the winter and going straight to the conventions and the rest. this afternoon, we want to talk about the nature of the campaign, what the campaign is, what it tries to do, how the party organizes. let me turn first, if i may, to professor penniman and ask him the simplest question -- why? >> the answer is a good many things, but i guess the parties at the state and local level. got them working to bring out the vote, working to get voters registered, working to get the candidates known, working to get the issues insofar as there are sharp issues dividing, known. it has become of special importance in the united states because we don't have elections simply because there are issues or when we have elections, there may not be issues that are sharply dividing. we have president elected in november every four years with n

with me in our studios today are professor howard pennyman of georgetown university and mr.phen hess of the brookings institution. we have talked of a -- of many different aspects of this 1976 american presidential bicentennial year, starting with the primaries back in the winter and going straight through the conventions and the rest. this afternoon we want to talk about the nature of the campaign, what the campaign is, what it tries to do, how the party organizes it. let me turn first, if i may, to professor pennyman and ask him that simplest question, why? >> well, why? the answer is a good many things. among other things, i have to get out and get the party organizations at the state and local level activated. and get them working to bring out the vote, working to get voters registered, which is a special problem here. working to get the candidates known, working to get the issues insofar as there are sharp issues dividing known. this takes on a special importance in the united states because we don't have elections simply because there are issues or when we have electio

exposure putting us well into 2021 well put people at risk many thanks that jellyfish from georgetown university thank you for. moving on there have been scuffles between thai police and anti-government protesters who have defied a ban on public gatherings. with. with demonstrations in central bangkok come a day after thailand's government announced the ban for an emergency decree failed to quell that growing protest movement which is calling for the prime minister's resignation and reforms to the monarchy. as bring in peter pan and she is a political commentator and a professor at business school joining me from bangkok many thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera a you surprised that despite this emergency decree we've seen the people back on the streets. not really because i think that has been boiling fundament or not the situation have been handled foiling the protests have shown that the death of the anger and frustration of people in bangkok particularly the protests who are not even. the fear the of it elevated state of emergency decree why do you think we're seeing the bubbling of these

surprise should we be by the current situation lawrence are gostin his university professor at georgetown university he's also director of the o'neill institute for national and global health law welcome to day w. were you surprised that this happened. well i certainly wasn't shocked i mean the president is probably the most protected human being on earth you know he's been getting cold the test series is getting medical monitoring but he's been very lax in his behavior he he basically doesn't wear a mask he goes into the crowds he shakes hands he has big political rallies and so no i mean the virus is all around us and if you're not truly careful. you can easily contract a virus so we're talking about a 74 year old mom 6 foot tall obese and exhibiting mild symptoms were told while doctors be looking for well you know he's in a very high risk group. is age is ease is it is out of an old age he's got preexisting conditions like a prior history of cardiovascular risk and he's also. by c.d.c.'s definition obese certainly well oh wait those are the for those are 3 major risk factors and so doctors will

coming up, lawrence gostin, georgetown university professor. i'm jonathan ferro. this is bloomberg. word news, i'm ritika gupta. house speaker nancy pelosi and the white house accuse each other of doing the same thing when it comes to a pandemic relief plan, and that is moving the goal posts when it comes to what is in the actual legislation. pelosi says the house could pass a bill this week. still, an agreement with the white house isn't certain, and the republican-led senate may not act before the election. biden calls questions about his son hunter's business dealings a smear campaign. he says the release of documents allegedly belonging to his son may have been part of a russian disinformation campaign. biden's claim has not been substantiated. more deliberate blackouts in northern california. the state's largest utility pg&e cut power to 2.1 million people to prevent live wires from falling into dry bush and starting wildfires. winds as high as 50 miles an hour swept through an area north of san francisco. blackouts may last until tomorrow. forgroup is now on course the biggest

possible that wilson would not have been elected. >> michael teaches politics and history at georgetown university, and will thomas is the chair of the history department here at lincoln nebraska at the university of nebraska and josh is joining us from phoenix. welcome to the program. >> caller: hi, good evening. great show. thank you for your show. i just -- i wanted to ask something a little different. i wanted to see if the gentlemen could speak to mr. bryan's foreign policy attitudes and what he thought about, say, the spanish american war or american -- european colonialism and if he ever went abroad. what would the gentlemen think how he would handle, for example, now afghanistan and iraq and the invasion? what was his mind set back then in terms of, you know, how the major colonial powers around the world were going into other countries and controlling them and such and what was his theory about all of that and how did he feel and in general his foreign policy. thank you very much. >> thanks for the call. he served as our 41st secretary of state so maybe that best reflects his views on for

. >> georgetown university, teacher of politics, the life of brian, and the chair of the history department, here at the university of nebraska, and josh is joining, us from phoenix. good evening, welcome to the program. >> yes, hi, good evening. great show, thank you for your show. i just wanted to ask something a little different. i wanted to see if the gentlemen could speak to mr. brian's foreign policy, what he thought about the spanish american war, or european colonialism? if he ever went abroad? and what does the gentleman think that he handled, for example, now afghanistan and iraq, and the invasions, what was his mind said back then, in terms of how the major colonial powers around the world were going into other countries controlling them, and such. what was his theory about that, about all of that, and how did he feel in general his thoughts, thank you very much. >> josh, thanks for the call. he served as our 44th secretary of state, so maybe that reflects his views on foreign policy. >> in some ways really before, that it does. after all, he served the spanish american war, boy

he's been hired by georgetown university. talk about a strong signal to the deep state.saying we got your back. strzok is teaching a counterintelligence and national security course this fall. i would have thought it would have been on stonewalling. joining us tonight, our all-star panel, sidney powell, general michael flynn's defense attorney, tom fitton, the president of judicial watch, and just the news editor-in-chief john solomon. all three of our panelists have new books out, i'm going to recommend all of them to you, and we'll present them at the conclusion of our panel discussion. great to have you with us. let me start, john, with you. these reports are just devastating to the bidens, and now we have the remarkable, the remarkable statement by the head of the office of national intelligence, the number one intelligence officer in this country saying adam schiff a liar, in effect. saying that that there is no russian intelligence operation here, this is not a disinformation campaign, these laptop e-mails are for real. and their import, you think, is what? >> yeah

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our risk of infection and if we are infected trying to protect others during freshers' from georgetown university's medical center as always we appreciate your time and thank you very much indeed thank you ok we're hearing from u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi she's saying that continuity plans are in place after president tests positive for virus nancy pelosi says going into crowds without a mask was quote a brazen invitation to the virus. several world leaders have sent their well wishes to the trumps russian president vladimir putin wished his american counterpart a swift recovery saying his vitality good spirits and optimism will help him cope the prime minister of india also reacting on twitter saying wishing my friend donald trump and the 1st lady millennium a quick recovery and good health. we've also heard from the president of the european council for modern not let's go to dominic cain who's in dominick there are your leaders who are holding a summit in berlin at the moment they're clearly going to be reacting to. the news that donald trump has to run a virus. the president of the european

from georgetown university. gary served as research assistant to a political scientist, political economist, and author, and teaching assistant to former u.s. secretary of state madeleine albright, who is here for a private dinner earlier this year, just to drop a name or two to impress you. gary joined the william jewel college faculty in 1992 and now serves as chairman of the department of political science and director of the international relations major. the william jewel student body has voted him professor of the year an amazing four times. gary is also a long-time supporter of the national world war 1 museum and memorial, and for that we are very appreciate. please give a warm become to dr. gary armstrong. [ applause ] >> good evening, and thank you for coming tonight. there should be lots of interesting questions, on the 100th anniversary of the senate's first rejection of the versailles peace treaty. what a great moment to talk about america's place in the world. it was a time of growing polarization a

america pro patriotism curriculum in public schools as author and professor of media studies at georgetown university the one and only chris chambers chris thank you for coming on today. thank you so chris 1st as a as a university professor a teacher but also a father whose own child graduated from high school just a few years ago do you find a staggering lack of patriotism an anti-american sentiment in our education system today was it in your son's history school books or. well i mean to read well what's being taught now is 1776 might. a lot of rote memorize the engine and it's not only there now also the. dates and names a lot of old kind of troops that even you know the most i would say. who serve a bit of history departments in the biggest universities don't even follow anymore this is from the college level. to try to marry it's not in there you know so i mean we're. already and it's not helping a lot of kids who are going to college and are not getting indoctrinated. why while the. professors there get any of the. older white male professors who were giving them what they should have been gett

maryland judy fisher is an associate research professor of microbiology and immunology at georgetown university medical center she says while trying to pass to be getting healthier the message is around his recovery have been confusing . leaving the hospital obviously that's not what is recommended when one is on quarantine. the president has access to resources most people don't have but normally one doesn't. doesn't recommend that the person leave their quarantine site to have to go to joyride. he didn't expose the crowd but he and the secret service were certainly in a small closed space together it's really difficult to interpret the messages that have been shared and clearly there is there are issues of patient confidentiality even for the president and clinicians are bound by their duty to be somewhat cautious about what information they share that's that they've been very forthcoming in listing the cocktail of medications. which are a combination of a antibody an engineered monoclonal antibody treatment that is. experimental dexamethasone which is generally reserved for patients who appe

with julie fisher who's an associate research professor of microbiology and immunology at georgetown university medical center she's joining us from washington thanks for your time will we'll talk about the specifics of the medications that the president is on in just a moment but 1st just give me your initial reaction to the president posting a video on twitter and then he left the hospital took a short drive around the area waved to his supporters what are these 2 events tell you about how the president is doing. well i think they tell us a lot about the current political situation and the image that the president the white house are projecting. that said in the tweet he looks pink he looks typically healthy and doesn't seem to be suffering so. combined with the really confusing messages about medications that it just added to the confusion about his actual condition right now leaving the hospital obviously that's not what is recommended when one is on quarantine. the president has access to resources most people don't have but normally one doesn't. doesn't recommend that the person who leave

let's speak now to dr daniel new see who is our joint professor of infectious disease that georgetown university joins us. scott from hanover in new hampshire go to d.c. welcome we were talking about this just before the statement from sean connolly and discussing the risk factors the president has being 74 and overweight it seems as if he's in pretty good shape. yes based on the press conference that we just heard by a group of 10 of his health care providers doctors and nurses and clinical pharmacists. it seems that he is stable and perhaps has improved a bit in terms of less cost no fever not on oxygen at this time. his blood tests were reported for his liver function and for his kidney function and for his heart. report is normal by his doctor dr. donnelly so those are good good updates i'm glad they provided that information these experimental drugs. as if it and the drug the antibody treatment provided by region are on. in a sense donald trump has become one of the guinea pigs isn't a test see them out how important do you think the decision might prove to have been to administer those dru

positive for coke at 19 but julie fisher is an associate research professor of microbiology at georgetown university she says large clinical trials and needed. there were more than. 2500 patients that received ground as of their treatment and they were compared to controls that had not in 30 hospital sorry and in hospital and 30 countries so this kind of large study really helps us understand and make sense of whether these treatments given under extraordinary conditions are actually benefiting patients in a way that can be measured in a way that it could be extrapolated benefits populations of patients worldwide all of us would like to see is what frequently is called a magic bullet a drug that is already in existence that is safe and that works effectively in patients who have reliable way we would like to see that unfortunately in this case this trial at least which is a fairly large trial suggests that the benefits of a dose of the may be. they were seen in the study though in terms of survival or in terms of shortening the duration of symptoms in people who are already severely ill which is som

well that's a general use lucy is a joke professor of infectious diseases at georgetown university and he explained some of the critical issues that donald trump's medical team failed to address when they gave an update on his condition is a question that dr shawn dami didn't answer which is is a patient receiving a dexa methadone or it's a type of a what we call cortical steroids usually given if you're in hospital and having trouble breathing so apparent he's not having trouble breathing as oxygen saturation was reported at an apparently normal range but if you do receive dexamethasone for any reason then it. will take away a fever so we were told he has no fever for 24 hours so as long as he hasn't been on the methadone zone or some other steroid that's very good news but if he has been on taxes meant that some or any other steroid that will. make a fever go away so that's important and then the other thing is what clots there's a question about that and dr shonda only said that they're following international protocols for following to evaluate for blood clots i think it's importan

a professor at georgetown university and former senior advisor to jeb bush's presidential campaign.o believe the polls and the current president is behind, what do you want to see in the next few weeks to turn things around? >> he is coming out of the pit several laps behind. he is short on time and money. what i would like to see is what i think the american people have been hoping to see for much of the past year. thisnge, a desire to take pandemic seriously and the economic devastation that it has wrought. desire to work with democrats on capitol hill to get some relief and a tone that recognizes that humility and compassion are part of the job of being president of the united states. the campaignon trail strategy. is to turny conservative districts blood red and amplified in districts they already won four years ago. we me put to you a question were talking about earlier. upd down to south carolina, to north carolina. how do you convince constituents who might be crossing over to biden to stick with the republican party on down ballot races? >> that's going to be awfully tough.

american studies at umw has caught touters plate malkin, journalism and political education at georgetown university, george mason university and methodist college. now, dr. farnsworth and i connected while i was at the university of mary washington, and it's difficult to make personal connections in the covid era but one person that students should absolutely go out of their way to get to know is dr. farnsworth. i was educated and came out in 2013 into a very tough job market and dr. farnsworth reached out and placed me in an internship where he thought i would excel. those people ran, barack obama, hillary clinton and joe biden's campaigned at one point or another. and i would not be where i am today in virginia if we had not built this personal connection. and that is something of value that this college can deliver in any format, digital or in person. and so it is now my honor to present tonight's desk as he presents late night humor and the american presidency. dr. fortunateworth, the floor is yours, welcome to mary talks. >> thank you so much, thomas. >> it's great to see you and roo mind how

has mark zuckerberg in october was here in washington and spoke at georgetown university. he harped on the idea that facebook errs on the side of speech, he would rather people decide for themselves the information they would like to believe than facebook make that decision for them. at the time, it seemed he was defending some controversial content moderation decisions facebook had made that angered people on the left, the democrats. it seemed he was deciding that facebook would not be the speech police. flashforward a year and that has changed. it ist know whether because there have been more pressure from the left to take down misinformation or if there is just so much misinformation out there that facebook has no choice but to act, but it has changed. twitter has been more aggressive from the beginning about saying they will take down information that is deemed to be misinformation from their platforms, from day one. but as we just saw with the hunter biden'situation can lead they ar not better than facebook or any other platform, they still have tough content moderati

the first question is from a student at the georgetown university school of foreign service. i wanted to dig in on it a little more. how will the threat of bioterrorism and biological weapons evolve over the next five to 10 years, and what are the applications? -- implications? ambassador bolton: i am that the spread and course of the coronavirus in this country this year has taught our adversaries a significant lesson about how vulnerable we are and how badly -- fumbled this incident. of a biological weapons attack is similar to the epidemiology of a pandemic at least under some scenarios. we have not done a good job. thats long been the case chemical weapons and biological weapons have been called the poor man? nuclear weapons. a lot of people will look at that. it is not just attacks on the human population. it could be an attack on our food supply as well. clearly something we need to learn and prepare for better in the future. it has also told us something about china and the way they behave. there are reasons to believe we still do not know but a small part of what happ

and concern over the effect these groups will have on the vote process has become so great georgetown university law center has begun distributing fact sheets for each state to help every day american strorts identify these illegal media groups and find the out what you can do if they're intimidating the vote process. they have had to take on the responsibility of educating americans about potential voter intimidation. meanwhile, the trump administration, according to a dhs whistle-blower report, asked the department of homeland security to down play the threat of white supremacist groups, despite being the number one threat to the country. with me now, former fbi agent, c he has been a lead in the research about white extremist groups in the united states. ollie, good to see you again. can you help me and my viewers with the distinction on the continuum of white supremacists and extremists and things like that and militias? >> you know what? a lot of these white supremacist groups call themselves militias. guess what? they are not militias. they are not protected by the second amendment. the se

jonathan swan from axios, kimberley strassel of the r wall street journal and moa lathey of georgetown universityjonathan, from talking to your sources at the white house and from the trump campaign, what's your sense of what they're really thinking about the state of the race at this point? do they see a realistic, clear path to 170 electoral votes? >> yes, they do. the way the trump campaign is thinking about it is they need to hold the state of texas, florida, north carolina, iowa, ohio, georgia, and then for them, they need to win one in the upper midwest and from their point of view at the moment, from what i can gather from talking to people at the white house and the campaign, the two states they're zeroing in on are pennsylvania and michigan. they won't say this publicly. they're basically giving up on wisconsin. and that's reflected in their advertising spending there which is miniscule. they're playing a little bit in minnesota. frankly, it's not really real. they're putting a lot of their heft into michigan and pennsylvania. but what they see as their biggest advantage here is presiden

michael kazin teaches history at georgetown university. you put the book "a godly hero" together when? >> i started doing research on it around 1996, about 100 years after. it was published in 2006. >> we thank you for your perspective on the life and career of william jennings bryan. our thanks to the staff at the william jennings bryan home who opened their doors to the c-span cameras and to the staff and administration at the bryan lgh medical center, which makes up the campus we're at at the bryan home often called fairview. we'll leave you with more words of william jennings bryan as we continue to look at his life and career. check it out online c-span.org, the conterpd series. in the words of what made an ideal republic, here is what he had to say. >> a republic resting securely on the foundations, founded by revolutionary patriots from the mountain of eternal truth. a republic in practice and proclaiming to the world the self-evident propositions that all men are created equal, endowed with inalienable rights, governments are insti

columnist from the "washington post", senior fellow at the brookings institution, professor at georgetown university and visiting professor at harvard university. he is co-author of the recent near times best seller, one nation after trump and why the white right went wrong pretty snow but code red how progressive and moderates can unite to save our country, he provides a blueprint for change that stresses the need for coalition and first political orientation as it will be across the lines of race, region ethnicity. from democratic socialist to those who was once been called liberal republicans. code red calls for shared commitment, decency and politics focus on freedom, fairness in the future. encouraging progressives and moderates to sustain the unity for democrat victories in the 2018 election and offers a unifying model entered on solving problems, restoring dignity to those left behind in tackling issues like gun violence, low eight wages in healthcare. it's a pleasure to have you both here to join us in this conversation. they will be taking questions later on in our program. so you can use t

the first question is from a student at the georgetown university school. i want to dig in on this a little more. what are the implications for the security? >> i'm afraid the spread of the coronavirus in this country this year has taught our adversaries a significant lesson about just how vulnerable we are and how we fumbled this particular incident. the epidemiology of the biological weapons attack is quite similar to the epidemiology of the pandemic and at least under some scenarios we've not done a good job. it has long been the case and the logical and biological weapons have been called the poor man's nuclear weapon. and i think a lot of people will look at that and it isn't just a taattacks on the human populati. it could be on the food supply as well. so i think this is clearly something we need to learn and prepare for that are in the future and it's also told us something about china and the way we behave. there are significant reasons to believe we still don't know about a small part of what actually happened. i think it's clear that their handli

bachelors degree in journalism from pennsylvania state university at a juris doctorate from georgetown university law center. welcome, mr. martin. our third and final witness today is dr. diana burley. in july 2020 dr. burley was appointed as vice provost for research and professor of public administration at american university. prior to her current position dr. burley spent 13 years as a professor of human and organizational learning at george washington university where she was the inaugural chair of the human and organizational learning department and the direct of executive leadership doctoral program. she's also managed a multimillion dollar computer science education and resource portfolio for the national science foundation. dr. burley received a bachelors degree in economics from the catholic university of america, a masters in public management and policy from carnegie mellon university, and a masters and doctoral degrees in organizational sites and information policy also been from carnegie mellon university. welcome, dr. burley. as our witnesses you should know you each have five minu

director at the institute for constitutional advocacy and protection and is a professor of law at georgetown university law center, previously mary was acting assistant attorney general for national security department of justice, principal deputy assistant attorney general for the national security division, and was with the u.s. attorney's office for the district of columbia. mary, , thanks for joining us, d over to you. >> thank you so much for having me, aspen, and to my fellow panelists. i know our focus here is on the day after, but in light of comments and a light of what we all heard on tuesday night during the presidential debate, i think it's worth talking also a little bit about the prospect of armed groups intimidating voters at the polls. the president of the other night was unwilling to denounce the possibility of civil unrest following the election. he was urging his supporters to go to the polls to poll watch, and he was of course region out to the proud boys to standby. this is really a dog whistle for far right armed groups in the country who operate wholly outside of governmental aut

is an associate research professor of microbiology and immunology at georgetown university medical center she says while mr trump does appear to be getting better the messages around his recovery have been confusing. leaving the hospital obviously that's not what is recommended when one is on quarantine. the president has access to resources most people don't have but normally one doesn't. doesn't recommend that the person leave their quarantine site to have to go to joyride. he didn't expose the crowd but here in the secret service were certainly in a small closed space together it's really difficult to interpret the messages that have been shared and clearly there is there are issues of patient confidentiality even for the president and clinicians are bound by their duty to be somewhat cautious about what information they share that's that they've been very forthcoming in listing the cocktail of medications which are a combination of a antibody an engineered monoclonal antibody treatment that is. experimental dexamethasone which is generally reserved for patients who appear to be very s

. >> woodruff: we take a closer look at today's hearing with victoria nourse of georgetown university. she served as chief counsel to vice president joe biden in 2015 and 2016, and as counsel to the senate judiciary committee when he was its chairman. and, saikrishna prakash is a constitutional law scholar at the university of virginia, and a former clerk to justice clarence thomas. he will be testifying before the judiciary committee on thursday as a witness in favor of judge barrett's confirmation. hello to both of you. so, victoria nourse, to you firster, what do you ma of the questioning from the senators or, i guess in some cases, statements and the answers she's giving overall, what do you make of it? >> well, i think it was fairly predictable that some senators would take this this occasion tk about their own constitutional philosophy, some of these senators are in very tight races as well, so there's a bit of campaigning going on behind the scenes. you know, i think she is being very cautious, as she should, about not undermining her independence, but it's pretty predictable,

>> so, i'm at georgetown university, now.n the institute for constitutional advocacy and protection. we have actually put out fa fact sheets for all 50 states that talk about the laws are in each state, against these armed groups of individuals. they also give sort of a q and a. what you do when you see armed groups of individuals near a polling place. and we're distributing these not just to voters and election officials but to law enforcement, to state and local officials because it really is on state and local officials, this year, to make sure that voters can safely vote. and that's what they all want, and i am seeing people coming together. i've been spending the last couple of weeks talking to mayors, talking to chiefs of police, talking to district attorneys, voting rights organizations, state attorneys general. they need to get together with their communities. make it clear that they're not going to tolerate voter intimidation. they're not going to tolerate armed groups of individuals intimidating people before the po

. >> woodruff: we turn now to the analysis of victoria nourse of georgetown university. was chief counsel to vice president joe biden, and counsel to the senate judiciary committee when he was its chairman. and saikrishna prakash of the university ovirginia. he previously clerked for justice clarence thomas, and will testify tomorrow before the judiciary committee as a witness in support of barrett's confirmation. >> woodruff: hello, again, to both of you. and i'm going to start with you, victoria nourse, what did we learn today from judge barrett that tells us something about how she is going to change the supreme court, if she is confirmed? >> well, i think we learned that she is pable of evading lots of questions. but i think that also suggests something important about how she might rule. so she was asked several times to comment on cases, and she can't do that. but the number of things that she refused to discuss, such as did the president have to leave his office peaceably, were often quite extreme in my view. other justices have answered some of these questions, f