taught the class prior to the vice presidential debate which took place october 7th at the university of utah. >> all right. in that case i'm going to share my screen and we're going to start talking about the electoral college, everybody's favorite thing. okay. so today we're going to start our week of talking specifically about the electoral college, what it is, how it works, why it's important, why george c. edwards doesn't like it. in fact, why most political scholars kind of hate the electoral college. it's not popular among the political science set. you'll get a whiff of george edwards book which hopefully you've read most of it, if not all of it. you get an argument against the electoral college.

the class prior to this year's vice-presidential debate which took place on october 7 at the university of utah. >> this evening it's a pleasure to introduce a friend to the association and a friend of mine. rhett: this evening it is a pleasure and honor to introduce a friend to the association, and a friend of mine, margaret eslie davis. she is an award-winning author of books about the history of the west. her books have been praised by reviewers in the los angeles times, washington post, npr and new york times. her most recent book is "the lost gutenberg." in a starred review, kirkus described the book as "an engrossing read for any book lover." davis' work has been featured on good morning america and excerpted in "vanity fair" magazine. the author has appeared on c-span's book tv, the history channel, as well as the discovery channel. she is a lawyer, graduate of georgetown university, and joining us from the hills of los feliz in los angeles county. thank you for joining us, margaret. margaret: thank you, rhett. it is a joy to be here for your weeklong celebration in honor of first lady j

which to place on october 7 at the university of utah. in that case, i am going to share my screen and we will start talking about the electoral college, everybody's favorite thing. ok. start a are going to week of starting specifically about the electoral college, what it is, how it works, why why mostrtant, political scholars hate the electoral college. hopefully you have read most of the book so far, if not, all of it. you get an argument against the electoral college, but it's a useful book because he lays out all of the common arguments for think isl, which i helpful for allowing each person to make up their own mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. i do a whole week on this one elect the's how we president, but very few americans understand the process. theou take a course in american presidency, you should probably walk away understanding how this process works. but also because it's really important in how it structures how elections turnout. we started our discussions of presidential nominations by

university of utah political science professor james curry teaches a class about the creation of thelectoral college and explains how it works as part of the presidential election process. professor curry taught the class prior to this year's vice-presidential debate which took place on october 7 at the university of utah. >> this evening it's a pleasure to introduce a friend to the association and a friend of mine. rhett: this evening it is a pleasure and honor to introduce a friend to the association, and a friend of mine, margaret

. >> on lectures in history, university of utah political science professor james curry speaks about creation of the electoral college and explains how it works as part of the election process. professor curry taught the class prior to the vice presidential debate which took place on october 7 at the university of utah.

next, on lectures in history, university of utah political per finance -- political science professor james curry teaches a class about the creation of the electoral college and explains how it works as part of the presidential election process. professor curry taught in class prior to this presidential debate which took place on october 7th on the university of utah. author brandon wynford discusses -- book john herbie wheeler john hervey wheeler. 10:00 p.m., three films to watch -- mark veterans day. professor curry: in that case i am going to share my screen and start talking about the electoral college, everybody's favorite thing. today we are going to start our week of talking specifically about the electoral college, what it is, how it works, why it is important. why george c edwards doesn't like it. why most political scholars kind of hate the electoral college, it is not very popular among the political science sector. we are going to go into george c edwards book, hopefully read

university beer that deals with the most diverse aspects of sustainability, including tourism. i have an appointment with my he's a research associate at the center for sustainable tourism at the university of utah spider. how did you get interested in sustainable tourism? sympathy and yeah, i studied here at the university avenue and my master's in sustainable tourism management management. that's always been an interest of mine. i've always enjoyed travelling and i've seen what kind of affects tourism. and that's how i 1st got into the subject to him. or he, how would you define sustainable tourism in and that children as not had to go towards was sustainable tourism is part of the overall concept of sustainability. it's about keeping the impact caused by tourism to an absolute minimum and giving the americans not only through impact on nature on the but on the local population of the prefer call for the negative also for negative effects have to be reduced. so the tourism can be used as a positive factor for the region's local populations. and for some not all of what can viewers or travelers like me pay attention to in order to be as sustainable as possible while travelling to with different

. >>> several people injured when a car crashed into a cobra testing site at the university of utah. police say the driver enter the parking lot going in the wrong direction. drive was asked to move, the then accelerated into the mobile testing site, we are told nine people were injured, while the cause of the crash still officially is under investigation for television station reports the driver may have had a medical incident at the time of the crash. >>> coming up the we head to the sierra where it is not just a cold storm brewing this weekend, the concerns about the potential fire and ice. stirr we want to bubbles at this price? is this for real? oh, it's real... believe me. i mean this is upexpected. you would say... remarkable? absolutly. a remarkable deal. thanks. i get that all the time. wait... what?! ♪grocrey outlet jingle >>> examiner reports the deal would give officers a 6% raise down the line. in exchange, for delaying the previously scheduled pay hikes. it is meant to help the city divert money to the covid-19 crisis, but would cost about $9 million more overall. >>> t

. >> on lectures in history, university of utah political science professor james curry speaks about the creation of the electoral college and explains how it works as part of the election process. professor curry taught the class prior to the vice presidential debate which took place on october 7 at the university of utah. today we are going to start a week of starting specifically -- prof. curry: today we are going to start a week of starting specifically about the electoral college, what it is, how it works, why it's important, why most political scholars hate the electoral college. with the book, hopefully you have read most of that if not all of it, you get an argument against the electoral college but it's a useful book because , he lays out all of the common arguments for it as well, which i think is helpful for allowing each person to make up their own mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. i do a whole week on this one because it's how we elect the president, but very few americans understand the process. if you take a course in the american pre

of slavery and race. this talk is from the university's great lives lecture series at 8:00 p.m. eastern. enjoy american history tv and every weekend on c-span3. >> on lectures in history, university of utah professor james curry teaches a class about the creation of the electoral college and explains how it works as part of the presidential election process. professor curry taught the class which took place on october 7th at the university of utah. >> all right. in that case i'm going to share my screen and we'll start talking about the electoral college, fsh's favorite thing. okay.

of slavery and race. this talk is from the university's great lives lecture series at 8:00 p.m. eastern. enjoy american history tv and every weekend on c-span3. >> on lectures in history, university of utah political science professor james curry teaches a class about the creation of the electoral college and explains how it works as part of the presidential election process. professor curry taught the class which took place on october 7th at the university of utah. >> all right. in that case i'm going to share my screen and we'll start talking about the electoral college, fsh's favorite thing. okay. so today we'll talk about the electoral college, what it is, how it works and why most scholars kind of hate the electoral college and it's among the political science set which homely you've had so far and you get a full-throated argument against the electoral college and it is a useful, instructive book because lays out all of the common arguments for it, as well which is helpful for allowing each person to sort of make up their mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. so this is really -- i do a whole week on this one because it's how we like the president and

taught the class prior to the vice presidential debate which took place october 7th at the university of utah. >> all right. in that case i'm going to share my screen and we're going to start talking about the electoral college, everybody's favorite thing. okay. so today we're going to start our week of talking specifically about the electoral college, what it is, how it works, why it's important, why george c. edwards doesn't like it. in fact, why most political scholars kind of hate the electoral college. it's not popular among the political science set. you'll get a whiff of george edwards book which hopefully you've read most of it, if not all of it. you get an argument against the electoral college. he lays out all the comments for it, which is helpful for allowing each person to sort of make up their mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. so this is really -- i do a whole week on this one because it's how we elect the president but very few americans understand the full extent of the process. at the very least if you take a course in the american presidenc

middleton helps oversee the university of utah hospitals intensive care unit is preparing for another in two weeks, we'll be having a different conversation again because we'll see our hospitalizations increase across this state and, again, it's the suffering that weighs on me, the suffering of patients, the staff who feel helpless. >> i'm declaring a new state of emergency to address hospital overcrowding. >> reporter: the crisis leading governor herbert to issue a two-week state of emergency, urging all utahans to mask up. ramping up testing across the state even deploying more national guard to help with testing and contact tracing. >> it's crazy to think that this lady right here is -- this is what she is now, just memories, it's heartbreaking. >> this is one of the last photos taken of them together. >> reporter: but lindsey wooten said those measures are too little, too late, her grandfather died of covid-19 last month, days later the woman she calls her best friend, her mom, also lost her life to covid. her father battled the disease for 46 days in the hospital now home recover

pacific,astern, 5:00 on lectures in history, the university of utah political science professor teaches a class about the creation of the electoral college and explains how it works as part of the presidential election process. >> let me introduce today's speaker, dr. tera hunter, professor of american history and professor of african american studies at princeton. she is a specialist in 19th and 20th century history. race,ecializes in gender, labor, and the history of the united states south. a little bit about her publications, which are multiple award-winning, her most recent book is "bound in wedlock: slave and free black marriage in the nineteenth century." published in 2017. a book about african americans and marriage in the 19th century, a winner of multiple .wards and a variety of other prize s. the list goes on and on. let me mention her first book about women after the civil war. another multiple prize-winning book. agreed to come here today and talk with us specifically about the history of emancipation, the end of slavery during the civil war, a topic always on people's agen

whichsor curry talked took place on october 7 at the university of utah. rhett: this evening, it is a pleasure and honor to introduce a friend to the association, and a friend of mine, margaret leslie davis. she is an award-winning author of books about the history of the west. a region that she lives in. her books have been praised by

new study from the university of utah finding statewide mask mandates help decrease covid-19 cases. help people to feel safe to shop more. masks help to decrease the spread of covid by as much as 50%. studies from

of our hospital system. >> reporter: the surge wreaking havoc on hospitals. >> is utah at a tipping point when it comes to covid infections? >> i think so. >> reporter: dr. elizabeth middleton helps oversee the universityspital's intensive care unit and is preparing for another surge. >> ask me in two weeks, we'll be having a different conversation again, because i think we'll see our hospitalizations increase across the state. and again, it's the suffering that weighs on me. it's the suffering of the patients, it's the suffering of the staff who feel helpless. >> i'm declaring a new state of emergency to address hospital overcrowding. >> reporter: the crisis leading governor gary herbert to issue with a two-week state of emergency, ordering all utahns to mask up, despite previously resisting a mandate, banning residents to socializing from people with different households, ramping up testing across the state, even deploying more national guard to help with testing and contact tracing. >> it's crazy to think that this lady right here is -- this is what she is now, is just memories. and it's heartbreaking. this is one of the last photos taken of them together. >> but lindsay wooten says those efforts ar

. >>> now on american history tv, a political science class from the university of utah about presidential debates and their influence on voters. we will hear about different strategies used by candidates and how candidates debate differently based on whether they are ahead or behind in the polls. >> okay. we're going to start today by talking about candidate debates, and that is like my favorite thing about a campaign, whether i was on a campaign staff or a candidate. so i'm really excited to talk about this today. i'm going to give you a little bit of history here, so presidential and vice presidential, general election debates have become really the highlight of the campaign season and something we just expect to happen. that has not always been the case. it's also common in other races, particularly high-profile races, so when was the first presidential debate? here's a trivia question, historical trivia. anyone know? give you a hint? no one recognizes those people? this is a false hint. that's lincoln and douglas. a lot of time people think, you hear the famous lincoln/douglas debates

nathan hatton is a pulmonary specialist at the university of utah hospital.s very good to have you both here. if i could start with you, dr. simon southeagmon simonson you now at least have a mask mandate and i hope that's going to help. can you tell us what you hear from patients as you go room to room? what are they saying to you? >> most of them followed the masking rules, most of them tried to isolate, usually they can identify an issue or two, a place where they maybe didn't follow the rules as stringently as she shouthey should have and if maybe that may have contributed but most importantly they just wonder where they got it from or what they did or what they could have done to have not gotten it. >> dr. hatton, by making steps such as mask wearing a political point rather than a public health point, did the states' political leaders do residents there a disservice? did they put their health in danger? >> yeah, i mean, i think this is clearly a very difficult situation. we know now that masks clearly work. this is no longer sort of a political point or

october 7th on the university of utah. author brandon wynford discusses -- book john herbie wheeler john hervey wheeler. 10:00 p.m., three films to watch -- mark veterans day. professor curry: in that case i am going to share my screen and start talking about the electoral college, everybody's favorite thing. today we are going to start our week of talking specifically about the electoral college, what it is, how it works, why it is important. why george c edwards doesn't like it. why most political scholars kind of hate the electoral college, it is not very popular among the political science sector. we are going to go into george c edwards book, hopefully read most of it, you get an argument against the electoral college. it is useful because it lays out all of the common arguments for it as well. which is helpful for allowing each person to make up their mind about what they think about this institution genuinely speaking. i do a whole week on this americansry few understand the full extent of the process. if you take a

curry taught in class prior to this presidential debate which took place on october 7th on the university of utah. in that case i am going to share my screen arena start talking about the electoral college, everybody's favorite thing. today we are going to start our week of talking specifically about the electoral college, what it is, how it works, why it is important. in fact why most political scholars kind of hate

curry taught in class prior to this presidential debate which took place on october 7th on the university of utah. in that case i am going to share my screen arena start talking about the electoral college, everybody's favorite thing. today we are going to start our week of talking specifically about the electoral college, what it is, how it works, why it is important. in fact why most political scholars kind of hate the electoral college, it is not very popular among the political science it. and we're gonna do it with george c edwards book, hopefully read most of it, you get an argument against electoral college, it lays out all of the common arguments for it as well which is helpful for allowing each person to make up their mind about what they think about this institution genuinely speaking. this is -- >> i really do a whole week on this because it is how we elect the president but few americans understand the full extent of the process, if you take a course in the american presidency should probably walk away understanding how this process we used to select our chief executive officer works.

new study from the university of utah finding statewide mask mandates help decrease covid-19 cases. they also help boost the economy because they help people to feel safe to shop more. masks help to decrease the spread of covid by as much as 50%. studies from vanderbilt university shows that masks lower covid hospitalizations. one of the blessings here is that the science about what we need to do is so clear. we just need to follow that science. that does it for us tonight. see you again tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. and on the day that the president pardoned the turkey, as it traditional, the talk of pardoned started tonight. a new report out saying trump confidants saying he plans to pardon michael flynn. try to sound surprised when you hear that, rachel. from now until the morning of january 20th. >> michael flynn's lawyer, you'll remember, is the crazy qanon lady who did the press conference with rudy giuliani and then said, you know, the georgia republican governor was in cahoots with hugo ch

. >> tonight on lectures in history, university of utah political science professor james curry teaches a class about the creation of the electoral college and explains how to works as part of the presidential election process. here's a preview. states havewo selected their electorates as a winner take all, the candidate that receives the most aggregate boats in the state gets 100% of their electorates from that state appointed to the electoral college. there are two exactions, maine and nebraska. areaine and nebraska, there first two electors handed out to the statewide winner, and then one elector and upper winner in the congressional districts. andtimes, you see maine nebraska split their electoral votes, and then you will have, for instance in 2016, you have three of maine's boats go to hillary clinton in one go to donald trump. in 2008, you had four of nebraska's votes go to john mccain and one to barack obama. from the district of nebraska. allie has her hand raised. do you have a question? >> i was wondering, is there reason inversions happen where a president can lose the popula

. >>> now on american history tv, a political science class from the university of utah about presidentialebates and their influence on voters. we will hear about different strategies used by candidates and how candidates debate differently based on whether they are ahead or behind in the polls. >> okay. we're going to start today by talking about candidate debates, and that is like my favorite thing about a campaign, whether i was on a campaign staff or a candidate. so i'm really excited to talk about this today. i'm going to give you a little bit of history here. so presidential and vice presidential, general election debates have become really the highlight of the campaign season and something we just expect to

. >>> now on american history tv, a political science class from the university of utah about presidentialates and their influence on voters. we will hear about different strategies used by candidates and how candidates debate differently based on whether they are ahead or behind in the polls. >> okay.

eastern, university of utah clinical science professor james curry talks about the creation of the electorallege and how it works in the alleged section -- in the presidential election process. film, african americans in world war ii, patriotism and valor. the 1966 film, the army in taiwan. at 8:00 p.m. eastern on the presidency, james conroy on his book, jefferson's white house. monticello on the potomac, about the fiscal stain on the white house during the jefferson presidency and how he used it as a social and political tool. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. washington journal continues. wehle.oining us is kim she is a professor of law at the universe the baltimore. thank you for your time. guest: thank you for having me. host: can we start with the president's claims about voter fraud? how would you analyze that? guest: voter fraud is a crime. it carries a five-year prison sentence under federal law, which is why it is really rare. i think there has been some confusion around voter fraud and just maladministration, mistakes that are made. there are hundreds if not thous

of control. a new study from university utah finding state law mask mandates helped decrease covid-19 cases, theylso helped boost the economy because they help people feel safe enough to shop more. utah study bolsters similar studies out of kansas that found masks helped decrease the spread of covid as much as 50%. a study from vanderbilt university also showed that mask mandates helped lowers hospitalizations. one thing that's a blessing and a science that we need to do is so clear, you just need to follow that science. that does it for us tonight. see you again tomorrow, "way too early with kasie hunt" is up next. >>> this lineup, those you selected so far, a lot of familiar faces among them. what do you say to those who wonder if you're trying to create a third obama term. >> this is not a third obama term, because we face a totally different world than we faced in the obama/biden administration. the president has changed the landscape. it was america first but america alone. >> joe biden defending his cabinet picks

of control. a new study from university utah finding state law mask mandates helped decrease covid-19 cases, theyhelped boost the economy because they help people feel safe enough to shop more. utah study bolsters utah study finds that masks help to decrease the spread of covid by as much as 50%. studies from vanderbilt university shows that masks lower covid hospitalizations. one of the blessings here is that the science about what we need to do is so clear. we just need to follow that science. that does it for us tonight. see you again tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. and on the day that the president pardoned the turkey, as it traditional, the talk of pardons started tonight. a new report out saying trump confidants saying he plans to pardon michael flynn. try to sound surprised when you hear that, rachel. try act

of destabilizing the country and undermining his leadership, are brought to justice. the province in northern utah global krone virus cases of supply 60000000. the johns hopkins university tracker here shows the u.s. has the highest number of infections in the world and its 2400 people died over 19 in the latest 24 hour period. a 6 month high case is also celebrating in latin americans known as john holmes reports from mexico city. the situation in mexico, there's various factors that sort of echoed across the region. one of those is the amount of people that work in the informal economy in mexico, that's between 50 and 60 percent in the region as a whole, talking here about latin america. it's more than half of the work that's done in the region is in that informal economy. and what that means is people don't have steady jobs, they don't have that safety net. and so they have to go out on the street. they have to go out to work whether they like it or not. a lot of people have put it to us when we're talking to them. even i get coded, or i go or i die of hunger. so that's not a very palatable choice. to many people and it doesn't help to stop the sort of chain of infec

it's not really the governor of oklahoma or utah going into the corporate boardroom or going into the university to say we are going to enforce this upon you, but whether that's fair or not is an ideological suspicion that it's not equally applied. >> tucker: exactly. most americans want to followovs the rules, but the rules have to be reasonable and fair or they won't.e professor, great to see you. that's right. thanks so much. we are out of time. thanks for watching, thanks for trusting us. sean hannity, right now. >> sean: think you and welcome to "hannity" paired we begin with this fox news alert. tonight, the deadline for george's recount is less than three hours away. still at this hour voters in the peach state have more questions than answers and thousands of uncounted ballots, most of which were casper president trump they've just been turning up all week. 2,755 ballots just unearthed. another 284 were discovered in walton county. this all in addition to the 2600 uncounted ballots in floyd county that were discovered just a couple of days ago. if you're keeping track, that's over 5,600

and we had governors of north dakota and utah announcing that the last couple of days, but we need all 50 states to pass that hurdle so that we have a universal usage and we can do our best to promote prevention. >> especially since our understanding of those masks has evolved that at first we were told we were wearing them in order to protect those around us, necessity research suggesting it also offers protection to the person wearing it. i do want to ask you about the pfizer vaccine because there's a lot of optimism and excitement around it. there's also a lot of, you know, questions about how that vaccine gets disseminated, who is going to be first in line to receive it. what can you tell us what is your understanding how long it might take to get to most americans? >> we're all heartened by this preliminary news from pfizer this week that a vaccine candidate is over 90% effective in trials so far. so we need to see the final results. that was announced through our press release, so we need to see the data and have the medical analyze be published. we hope soon we'll have a vaccine authorized or approved by the fda. there could be a secon

university of washington, right now the midwest is under siege in getting hammered by coronavirus spike, bu let's loot the states north dakota, south dakota, iowa, wyoming, wisconsin, nebraska, minnesota, illinois montana and utah, dewey and south dakota, stutzman north dakota, jones iowa, paul montana, calhoun iowa have rates per capita that are higher than new york, detroit, new orleans, miami, and some of the states the governors were resisting mask mandates, how do you get it down, cannot stop and slow in the midwest as well as spreading like wildfire in a wheat field. >> you really hit on it and the problem is this, though states that you mentioned have the highest rates of covid-19 in the world and we know those people, the nicest kindest people that you ever hope to meet with heartbreaking to know they will lose their lives and maintain that social distancing and wear masks if you have to do temporary shutdowns, aggressive social distancing, do it's only for a couple of months. eric: thank you for your work and your dedication and thank you for your advice, blunt as it is, i think this country and we all need to hear and abide by it before gets so much worse. thank you. arthel: thank you, a young woman d

university of chicago. in a newly published paper she looked at six states currently experiencing surges including utah as casesn the community rose, she found weekly cases among nursing home staff more than tripled and resident cases more than quadrupled from june to october. >> we find community spread is the largest predictor of which nursing homes experience cases and then which nursing homes experience a severe outbreak with lots of death. >> reporter: part of the solution includes rapid testing of staff on site. 87% of nursing homes now have access to rapid testing machines, but a kaiser health news study says concerns about accuracy and a shortage of testing supplies have prompted many facilities to continue to send samples to laboratories. experts believe eliminating test delays and reducing community spread are critical to reducing nursing home infections. >> just think it's common sense to do everything we can whether you believe it's political or not political. it just seems common sense to protect the most vulnerable among us. >> the avalon valley rehabilitation center says it can't comment on indiv

of north dakota and utah announcing that, just last couple days. but we need all 50 states to pass that hurdle so that we have a universal -- universal usage. and we can do our best to promote prevention. >> right. especially, since our understanding of those masks has evolved. at first, we were told that we were wearing them in order to protect those around us. new research, suggesting, it also offers protection to the person wearing it. i do want to ask you about this pfizer vaccine because there is, of course, a lot of optimism. a lot of excitement around it. there is, also, a lot of technocratic questions about how that vaccine gets disseminated. who is going to be first in line to receive it? what can you tell us? what's your understanding, once this vaccine is green lit, how long it might take to get to most americans? >> well, we're all heartened by this preliminary news from pfizer this week that a vaccine candidate is over 90% effective in trials, so far. so, we need to see the final results. that was announced through our press release. we need to see the data and have the medical analyses be published. but we are hopeful that, so

university of washington's model has estimated about 22,000 deaths at the start of the calendar, because of the colder, drier air and the realities across icus across the country but particularly in south dakota, utah, where they're having surge capacity issues. so this is going to play itself out like it as in the last nine months and the models will be correct. we have the president we have for the next 72 days. this president because of the lack of engagement on transition, that's having devastating consequences for pandemic response. let me just say hhs for example is not sharing data, has not been sharing data on hospital level capacity locally or regionally. so one hospital in one part of the town doesn't know what's happening with the hospital on the other end of the town that matters when you're trying to figure out where a patient should go for resource allocation. we don't understand what they're doing when it comes to therapeutics. why they're clearing remdesivir and plasma doesn't pan out. what about aligning on messaging for the nation when it comes to thanksgiving travel, especially all of the student out there that are on campuses that want to go home and see mom and dad. we need a s

. >> on lectures in history, university of utah political science professor speaks about the creationthe electoral college and explains how it works as part of the election process. the fessler curry taught the years class prior to this election. which to place on october 7 at the university of utah. in that case, i am going to share my screen and we will start talking about the electoral college, everybody's favorite thing. ok. today we are going to

taught the class prior to the vice presidential debate which took place october 7th at the university of utah. >> all right. in that case i'm going to share my screen and we're going to start talking about the electoral college, everybody's favorite thing. okay. so today we're going to start our week of talking specifically about the electoral college, what it is, how it works, why it's important, why geo