america's pre eminent political science as john mearsheimer, professor of political science at the university of chicago. john, it is terrific to be with you today and look if there ever was an inflection point in foreign policy, donald trump coming in seems to be one of those. and so let me just ask you, what do you think donald trump strategic map looks like? what should look like from the mirror shiner perspective, a well, he's inherited a set of problems from jo by the 2 principal problems that he's inherited that he has to deal with or the conflict. so we're the genocide in gaza. number one. and number 2, he has to figure out how to settle the ukraine war. we could say there's a 3rd big issue we asked to think about, which is how to deal with the ran and especially iran's nuclear program. but the agenda has been clear since the day that trump got elected as to what are the problems he has to solve. which disturbing is that there's no evidence that trump and his advisors have come up with any sort of meaningful solution for dealing with any of these 3 problems. i think that's both the parent and the

let us begin at the beginning with ariel, who is the daniel 11 professor at the university of chicago harris school of public policy. i went to the university of chicago for my phd work and i love the place and i'm always happy to welcome people who work there to brookings. ariel directs the center for human potential and public policy and codirects the behavioral insights and parenting lab. she is a development of psychologists who studies economic conditions, parenting, and child development. the floor is yours. ariel: thank you so much and let me thank doug for including me in this interesting exercise. i am a develop mental psychologist in my role in the report was to think about children and i also think when we think about children we need to think about families. one of the first impressions i want to leave you with his we were not able to aggregate a lot of these metrics. we have macro economic conditions that we have individual level conditions. one of the things i think about when i read this report, especially when i think about children is they are nested in families and c

with ariel kalil the daniel leven professor at the university of chicago at harris school of policy. i went to the university of chicago for my phd work. i love the place i'm always happy to welcome people who work there. ariel directs the center for human potential and public policyte and coat directs the behavioral insights and parenting lab. she is a developmental psychologist who studies economic conditions parenting and childd development. ariel, the floor is your. >> thank you so much. and let me thank doug for including me in this really interesting exercise. might roll the report was to think about children. we think about children we think about families. one of the first impressions that i want to leave you with is that we were not able to aggregate metrics up. we have macroeconomic conditions and that we have individual level conditions. but, one of the things i think about when i read this report as they are nested in families and communities. we think about children flourishing we want to think about the interrelatedness of a number of these conditions and how they shape

you are in college at the university of chicago. a democrat. you now call yourself a conservative democrat. first of all, how is the president doing on his number one promise with getting out the most -- the worst of the worst illegal immigrants? >> he has been doing a great job so far. i wake up every day and read the headlines and i get impressed by his createively but i think he can go further such as with his bid to end birthright citizenship. he could start printing papers for the undocumented children here that are currently being born and then force the governments to accept those citizenship paper diplomatically. i go to chicago and see the immigration crisis at the forefront in front of my school, on the corners. i don't think we should wait until unpopular mayors like johnson lose their elections. i think if mayors like him obstruct tom homan or president trump they should be arrested, put on trial because they weren't afraid to put him on trial when he was just running for office. i would say let the voters in the community talk about

talk about what you call the chicago of the university of chicago calvin principles of institutional neutrality, of free expression and merit in hiring if i can oversimplify those do you have thoughts on what it would take or how it would be that law schools and universities generally i guess what schools in particular would get there to to adopt the chicago trifecta that you advocate. well a number them have adopted the free speech principles. i said georgetown's policy or stanford's policy, for that matter, are pretty good on paper. a lot of them are now belatedly. since october 7th, adopting institutional, you know, better late than then, you know, come on in. the water's. you know, not too many say that they discriminate based on ideology, in hiring. but it's a it's a truism that, you know, places like or george mason's law school can play moneyball and hire people that would otherwise be in higher ranked so-called more prestigious schools if there wasn't discrimination, you know. yeah there should be savvy, entrepreneurial deans who who play moneyball who say, look, the bar is v

julie lafont hunt, who was a black lawyer, first female lawyer to graduate from the university of chicago and was an amazing, amazing person. and nixon, 1969, wanted her for the supreme court. i dug up some papers again in the archival gems. everyone had forgotten about drew fontaine, who became his deputy solicitor. she was one of the highest ranking women in the nixon administration. and again, these stories we forget or we never knew. i had never heard of her. so i thought that was amazing. so pat was supporting the scenes women of any color. we just want a woman on the court who is qualified as jewel. certainly as mildred lilly, certainly. but what happened with the aba is? the names were leaked and. so that is what happened. and they quashed mildred lilly before that got anywhere. and then with jewel did not progress for other reasons, but he later names her deputy solicitor general. so there's of that and then i can't neglect barbara franklin barbara franklin, who actually had dinner with night, who's an amazing person and later worked president bush, but started under president nix

slightly in the sense that his father was this great professor of romance languages at the university of chicago, was around all these other nobel prize winners. and this is attitude was they don't achieve there i want be a man of action unlike these people who just talk he he finds that like a few years after college when, he goes to wall street and. he's in awe of clarence dillon, head of the read. and he kind of i think, a several instances i describe in the book he just kind of his view of the world is i would actually operate is that people like clarence dillon they call up world leaders and they say this is what you should. and then when he reads in the newspaper like, this thing has happened, just assumed this is how the world works, whether or not that's actually why somebody acted the way they did. but then throughout the course of the thirties, he is placed in kind of a higher level of responsibility being on corporate boards, being oftentimes executives, secretary in the room who have the kind of sum up, okay, what's here is our conclusion wins. and he gains the confidence in arguing

trump's former chief economist from his first term, tom philipson, who's now an economist at the university of chicago. and he said that most economists and republicans agree that essentially lower regulation, less spending are pro-growth policies. but there will be short term disruptions that inevitably occur because of this, jake. >> all right. and, evan, a day after the fbi provided some information but not specific names about thousands of employees who worked on the january 6th investigations in any possible way, a top department of justice official, emil bove, is now accusing fbi leadership of, quote, insubordination. tell us about that. >> yeah, jake, this is because he says he's been trying to get the fbi to provide a name of a core group of fbi employees who worked on these january 6th cases, and he said he had been getting some resistance. and so, as a result, he finally did issue that memo on friday that implicated, perhaps up to more than 5000 employees. and so today, he is trying to put some clarity to everything, saying that you're not necessarily going to get fired for simply working on

we'll hear next from tom ginsburg, professor of international law the university of chicago and director of inquiry on expression. his latest book democracy and international law the winner of two book awards. tom. >> thank you, wayne. thanks to everyone for being herement i actually thought i'd start, greg gave the rule of law and give you my definition of democracy, a focus on this point. everyone knows that democracy requires election ins which the loser concedes. that itself has been under threat already in the united states. of course, that's not enough, that's too thin of a definition, for a lawyer you can't have those be meaningful unless you have certain co-rights, a right to vote, criticize the government, the right to assembly and such. so we need to slightly thicken that. so the third part of my own definition of my colleague rule of law is what we call the bureaucratic rule of law ap that's particularly relevant today. so as greg said you obviously need the rule of law election with the votes counted. neutral people doing that. but more broadly, in my view, democracy requires

he was at the university of chicago. he ran for alderman at one point, didn't win. i don't think. but he was very good at using data to think about how government should run in campaigns. he was sent and we talked about very white house going to switzerland. he went to italy he had a rather grand impression of himself, so much so that he would run around and tell people that they really shouldn't pay attention to. the ambassadors his just come and talk to him which made him persona non with the ambassador. he also had had a very lovely mistress he took up with and he was very flamboyant. he actually ran a pretty good bureau of of a propaganda bureau there, but he was eventually sent home because he was just the ambassador just got sick of them. that aside he is considered the author, the pioneer of data driven modern political campaigns and. he ia quote from him. it is clearly in evidence that the science of creating and transmting publiopinion under the influence of collective emoti is about to become the principle. science civilization to the mastery of which all governments d a

of interrogation. andrea canning (voiceover): the two attorneys are based at the northwestern university school of law in chicagober of wrongfully convicted defendants and say what they learned about dassey's case astounded them. nobody was in brendan dassey's corner at the moment he needed help the most. andrea canning (voiceover): beginning, they say, with this man. andrea canning: give me one word to describe len kachinsky. unbelievable. unconscionable. andrea canning (voiceover): len kachinsky came on board to defend dassey just after that interrogation got avery's nephew arrested. drizin and nirider discovered that the attorney had made legal mistakes that caused him to be removed from the case. he has faced online vitriol from dassey supporters. andrea canning: is it ok if i read you some of the comments? sure, go ahead. disgusting human being. a pure disgrace to the wisconsin judicial system. a man with a sickened soul. i've seen it. andrea canning (voiceover): in one instance, kachinsky, working to cut a plea deal while dassey was in jail, had arranged for his client to speak with investigators. but kach

university in california that's a part of that investigation, which was initiated by one of president trump's executive orders. the other universities are columbia and new york, northwestern in chicagond state university and the university of minnesota. twin cities and education and workforce committee found the universities failed to protect their jewish students and made concessions to so-called, quote, illegal and anti-american pro-palestinian encampments on campus. uc berkeley responded, saying berkeley is and always has been 100% committed to having a campus community where every single student feels safe, respected and welcomed without regard for their origins, identities, beliefs or perspectives. >> happening tomorrow, a vallejo school will reopen more than a week after it was forced to close because of a massive copper wire theft. solano wiedenmann leadership academy was left without power because of the theft. the vallejo city unified school district says it has increased security to help prevent future incidents. the school had initially canceled classes r the entire week last week, but r on wednesday, officials were able to place more than 600 elementary and middle school

of chicago and the state of illinois over their sanctuary policies. bay area medical researchers are already bracing for the impacts after president trump's order to cut funding from universities and medical centers. on friday, trump announced the national institutes of health will be cutting in direct cost payments to 15%. those funds cover everything from staff to labs and major research. it means that universities and medical centers will be unable to complete that research like they have before. >> my patients, who are in clinical trials that are funded by the national cancer institute, are they continuing with their treatments? and they can. a lot of patients, as you can imagine, are quite anxious. >> experts are concerned that the lack of funding will have widespread impact. the order is supposed to go into effect on monday. there's a call for change here in california following the president's executive order banning transgender athletes from womens school sports. a group of students, parents and organizations showed their stance in support of the ban at a california interscholastic federation council meeting. the cif is the governing body for high school sports in the

of chicago and the state of illinois over their sanctuary policies. bay area medical researchers are already bracing for the impacts after president trump's order to cut funding from universities and medical centers. on friday, trump announced the national institutes of health will be cutting in direct costs payments to 15%. those funds cover everything from staff to labs and major research. it means that universities and medical centers will be unable to complete research like they have before. >> my patients, who are in clinical trials that are funded by the national cancer institute, are they continuing with their treatments? and like a lot of patients, as you can imagine, are quite anxious. >> experts are concerned that the lack of funding will have widespread impacts. the order is supposed to go into effect on monday. there's a call for change in california following president trump's executive order banning transgender athletes from womens school sports. a group of students, parents and organizations showed their stance in support of the ban at a california interscholastic federation council meeting. the cif is the governing body for high school sports across the state.

of learning works for you. thank you so much chicago. let me try to give you a simpler question to answer. we're 2 from here when it comes to universities, watkin, they do to perhaps, i don't know, attract people, but ok to these departments to humanities. and these studies i find the concept of, of private schools. i think their students are clients a bit problematic, but what can be done to attract more people into this field? a yeah, great question. uh, i think the universities need to go to where the audiences are and speak to the audiences directly where they're usually phone and that will be social media, give them that office and generation. and so uh, tech savvy and it's all over social media. i think it makes sense for universities to target audiences bad and all you know, like, go indoors did some, it's about english in his studies and all the things in oceans that people have in their minds about what the study of english they just don't use about tell them the truth, show them what to tell us. is there any like on the inside, like what kind of discussion top and just give them a sneak peak? and i think during the views and s

chicago. >> good morning to my dad watching in somerset, kentucky. >> we love you, papa. >> visiting from alabama. >> a shout out to the university of florida. >> andd you're with us. glad you woke up with us. >> a little chilly out there. >> it is a little chilly. we've already seen snow and ice. we'll start with your news at 8:00 because that is the story, a rough commute for tens of millions this morning. here is a live look southbury, connecticut, waking up to a blast of winter weather there. fast moving storms sweeping across 17 states, closing schools, making driving treacherous. big cities like here in new york, boston, washington, philadelphia, all in this storm's path. let's check in now, mr. roker, lots of color on that map. >>> that's right. not only do we have winter weather, we have severe weather, tornado watches in effect for much of kentucky right now. we're looking at tornado warnings as well, and we move into west virginia where they've had reports of high water rescues because of heavy flooding. 83 million people right now from fort wayne to portland, talking about winter weather advisories, plus we've also got ice storm warnings