the fact of the matter is, when i was responsible as incident commander at the university of arizona, where i am now, one of the things we decided, we need to have one person that the public trusts communicating. more or less like franklin roosevelt with his fireside chats, and would give information from a trusted source. instead, so many people were speaking, many of them politicians who had no subject-matter expertise. people didn't know who to believe and it divided us even more. so communication is key. when and if something like this happens again, subject matter experts should be there communicating. they should be in coordination with the political leaders so we make sure we are all aligned, and the public sees a clearly focused, scientifically-driven message that will reduce their morbidity and mortality. that's probably the best thing that we've learned from the last four years with covid. - i mean, i want to ask you about that, though, because dr. fauci was highly communicative. i mean, there was hardly a television program, a cable news show, a radio show, a podcast, that

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so it's a particular spiral and twice in four there were a couple of scientists at university of arizona that analyzed the stresses on plants as they are growing and as the and spiral forming plants as the cells are subjected to stresses. that causes them to twist and make a spiral pattern. and they found that the energy of those stresses is minimized, the smallest when spiral takes the form of the spiral. so at you may or may not not that nature always takes the path least energy when it's possible, when it when it can't. human beings don't do that. but but non-human does that. so that's sort of a explanation of why we find fibonacci spirals in nature. well, we're going to enter the kingdom of magic. there was 12th century italian mathematician named leonardo fibonacci, and he discovered a particular sequence of numbers called the fibonacci series and series of numbers is very simple. each number is the sum of the two previous numbers. and that's how you make the series numbers. so two is equal to one plus one. three is equal to one plus to five is equal to two plus three. if you didn't

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rubenstein stay duo at weta in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universityom the potential impact of trade tariffs to the confirmation votes for president trump's cabinet, let's look at the political stakes with amy walter of the cook political report, and tamara keith of npr. great to see you. we saw over the weekend confusion at usaid as elon musk essentially took over the agency and threatened to shut it down, concerns about the number of firings at the fbi and doj and markets in study after confusion about whether or not terrace will go into place. is this what trump voters voted for? >> i think it depends on which trump supporters you're talking about. some people voted because they were concerned about the price of eggs and everything else. were frustrated with president biden refusing to step aside and then having vice president harris come in in a way that made it seem rate. there are people upset about what was happening in gaza. and then there were people who really just wanted to blow up the boxes, felt like government wasn't working for them and

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rubenstein studio at weta in washington and in the west at the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universitymp administration is continuing to dismantle the u.s. agency for international development posting this message on the agency's main page. it says "all usaid direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, poor -- core leadership and specially designated programs. secretary of state marco rubio had this to say. >> our goal for usaid was to align the programs that it fulfills with the foreign policy of the united states. and yet over the last two decades, it has not and it has gotten worse and worse and multiple administrations have complained about but none have done anything about it. we are going to do something about it. this is not about ending foreign aid, it is about structuring it in a way that furthers the national interests of the united states. >> for perspective we turn now to andrew -- the administrator for usaid during the george w. bush administration, he is now at

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rubenstein studio at weta in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universityd federal funding freeze announced by the trump administration last week blocked by a pair of judges is destabilizing a wide range of programs despite the court interventions. over the past few days, some health care and head start programs report they've had sporadically been blocked from funding, forcing some to shut down. lisa desjardins has been investigating what has happened and joins us to share what she has found. who is being affected? >> news hour has been doing three days of reporting to figure out what is happening. i wanted to talk about two specific areas. one area, head start programs around the country, and community health care centers. both are funded in large part by the department of health and human services. hhs. here is what we know. there have been funding problems in the last week and day. head start programs in 27 states have felt these funding freezes. many still feeling it. those serve 20,000 kids and families, the affected program. community health centers

of human rights, anticorruption and human law. her work is focused on russia, poland and other countries in eastern europe and add junk professor at arizona state university school of law. the fact that she is not on the program may have something to do with attacks on certain government agencies here in the u.s. right now. >> so i wanted to talk a bit about court dissents. i worked a lot with courts in russia and central europe the last 15 years. i wanted to examine how we see court systems adapt and see antidemocratic -- and i wanted to point out a point of resilience that i have seen in central europe considering of what we are talking about today is how things have gone wrong and how things have improved or seen a little bit of resilience. so one of the major cases we think about on attacks of the court especially in europe is the hungarian case. in 2011 and 2012 and there was a reform, one of the laws that was passed was lowering the retirement age. now it's a very common strategy that we have seen to try to pick out a bunch of judges at once so you can pass the court with your preferred judges. the hungarian judges were not prepared for how they sho

studio and weta in washington and from the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universityadministration recently announced that the national institutes of health, or the nih, will make big changes in the way it funds researchers. white house officials say they will save $4 billion by capping so-called indirect costs or what you might think of as traditional operating expenses -- that's funding universities receive on top of money for direct research. those can range from 30% to 70% in additional funds. the administration wants to cap that at 15%. scientists say the move will have a huge effect on their work. we spoke to medical researchers to hear what they had to say. >> hi, my name is carol lebond, and i am a professor of molecular biosciences at northwestern university. >> i'm dr. rachel hardiman, and i'm the blue cross endowed professor of health and racial equity at the university of minnesota school of public health and the founding director of the center for anti-racism research for health equity at the university of minnesota. >> my name's theodore iwashina. i'm an

david m rubenstein studio at weta in washington and from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universityresident trump and israeli prime minister netanyahu met for talks today that focused on hammering out a second phase of the cease fire and hostage agreement between israel and hamas. amna: netanyahu is the first foreign leader to visit the white house since trump's second term began. the two leaders also discussed the future of gaza, which trump has said might need to be "emptied of its population," a potential war crime, since israel's campagin to destroy hamas has also destroyed much of the enclave. president trump spoke in the oval office. pres. trump: you can't live in gaza right now. we need another location. we can build them, through massive amounts of money, supplied by other people, and it could be jordan, egypt, you could build four or five or six areas, probably 1.7 million people, maybe 1.8 million, but i think all of them, i think they will be resettled. geoff: under the terms of the current cease fire, hamas is supposed to release 33 hostages in exchange for israel releas

on all this now we get two views. , evelyn farkas is the executive director of the mccain institute at arizona state universityring the obama administration, she served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for eurasia. and john mearsheimer is a political science professor at the university of chicago. he's written extensively about u.s. national security. welcome to you both and thanks for joining us. evelyn, start us off here. i want to get your reaction to the secretary of defense class remarks, particularly this reversal of u.s. policy, saying the u.s. does not believe nato membership for ukraine is realistic or a return to the pre-2014 borders. what do you make of that and who does that benefit? evelyn: first of all, it is tactically not really a move that helps the president in terms of achieving his overall objective which is peace in ukraine because by telegraphing that our position is now closer to the russian position, it appears we are reducing our leverage on russia. and at the end of the day, everyone knows that if we want this war to end, the one person who can end the war overnight is vladami

and from the west at the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university.trump said today that he's in no rush to do anything in gaza. earlier this week he talked about the need for palestinians to leave gaza, calling it a demolition zone, and for the us to take over the area and develop it. amna: meanwhile hamas is accusing israel of delaying aid deliveries that were agreed to in the cease fire deal. an accusation israel denies. stephanie sy has this report with the latest. stephanie: half a million families streaming back to their homes in gaza on foot, on piggyback, children in tow. for more than one year their home, a battleground in the israel-hamas war. they survived while many did not come up their apartments, their businesses, everythng that makes a community are in ruins. i've minutes of the destruction it rescue workers and families dig trying to locate the remains of loved ones. bones are taken to the local morgue in the hopes that they can be identified in the future. 2 million gazans are displaced while winter's that are elements be done upon t

rubenstein studio in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universitygeoff: president trump said today that he is in no rush to do anything in gaza. he talked about the need for palestinians to lead gaza, calling it a demolition zone. amna: meanwhile, hamas is accusing israel of delaying aid deliveries that were agreed to in the cease-fire deal, an accusation israel denies. stephanie sy has this report on the latest. >> half a million families streaming back to their homes in gaza on foot, on piggyback, children in tow. for more than a year, their home a battleground in the israel-hamas war. they survived while many did not but their apartments, their businesses, everything that makes a community are in ruins. amidst the destruction, rescue workers and families dig, trying to locate the remains of loved ones. bones are taken to the local morgan the hope they can -- local morgue in the hope they can be identified in the future. sheltering intense while the elements be down upon them and temperatures drop. this woman's tent housing her and her children co

rubenstein studio at weta in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state universityhe consumer financial protection bureau has been shut down by president trump at least for this week and possibly much longer, perhaps permanently. the agency, which was created by congress after the 2008 financial crisis, has limited credit card fees, made mortgage loans easier to understand and returned billions of dollars to consumers. but it's also long been a target by many who see it as overly aggressive. rohit chopra is the former director of the consumer financial protection bureau and joins me now. thank you for coming in. this has been known as one of the nation's most powerful watchdog agencies. what has typically fallen under its purview since its creation? rohit: we saw what happened in the years leading up to the financial crisis. mortgages that were setting people up to fail, and it crashed the economy. what congress did is created some real law enforcement with keith -- with teeth to take down crimes against consumers. over the years, we have recovered billions of dolla

of things debate society. you know, very, very organized. and so all all luck to them. similarly, there have been centers and institutes in existing schools. arizona state and florida, university of florida, other places ironically these you know, to instill critical thinking and civics and rigor, know the sorts of things that the rest of the institution has failed in. so that's too hard to do. those sorts things with law schools because again, the accreditation cartel but university of austin thinking about starting a law school eventually so again i'm for all of the above let in that context let a lot of 100 flowers bloom. all right. well, with that, let us, thank our guest ilya shapiro, author of lawless. we appreciate your being

university's college of arts and sciences outstanding teaching award. so i think we're in for a treat this evening. alex has published articles in the journals american periodicals, the mark twain annual american literature and arizona quarterly. he has received fellowships from the national endowment for the humanities and the university of cambridge and of course, from the american antiquarian society, where he was a jay and deborah last fellow in graphic arts in 2018 2019. he has indeed been a familiar face here, participating in our 2022 summer seminar in american visual culture and serving on our short on our short term fellowship selection committee. that same year, the project he worked on as a researcher here is now a book which he's discussing tonight. lost literacies experiments in the 19th century. u.s. comic. if you thought american comic strips began sometime around the 1890s or the early 20th century, alex is book will take you back more than a century earlier. but i'll let him tell that story. alex, welcome back to as. thank you for that kind introduction. scott and thanks to as for for hosting me, this institution just means so much to me. people like lauren hughes, nan woolverton, laura wasser, whic