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woodrow wilson, why? a very question. it's especially a good because wilson as policymaker was basically a failure. his great policy initiative was to be one of the major architects of the political settlement. after world war one, and the chief goal of that settlement was to prevent another war. yet 20 years later, world war two broke out. moreover, woodrow wilson believe that the key to preserving peace was the internal organization that he chiefly designed known as the league of nations. but he was not able persuade the united states senate to give the united the legal basis for joining the league of nations. the united states did not join. so as a policymaker was a failure. so how can be considered a titan? it's because of political ideas that he placed on international stage. ideas about the proper organization of the world, international politics and internal national economics. these ideas became closely identified with them that they came to be known wilsonian ism, wilsonian ism consists of the idea national self-

so the class today is woodrow wilson. in the origins of government propaganda and the book we're reading. what's a book published? right. and we're reading this book in connection with propaganda, because propaganda is what walter lippmann was reacting to. this is a photo of walter lippmann who looks like a quite buttoned down guy, which he was became one of our great public intellectuals. but we'll get to him in a minute. when he wrote public opinion in 1922, he said, persuade john has become self-conscious a self art and a regular organ of popular government. what happened at the end of world war two? world war one is that propaganda became established in all developed countries and clearly in the united states that we're going to get. we're going to talk about that on. he he was an ardent propagandist at the beginning of the war. and then became disillusioned at the end. so first, let's do a little of the bio. so emily, jacob, do you got. so, walter. from 1889 german-jewish family in new york that we lived until 1974 a

and that existed even after woodrow wilson discriminated.crimination within the federal government when he entered office. so we think about that trajectory. one of the things that is essential is to understand not only did it provide greater economic security and possibility, but also that these forms of work are a kind of service to the nation. we don't want to forget that. operating in federal civil and civil service means that you are supporting the functioning of the country. and so, given this long trajectory of ongoing discrimination, that these forms of employment in service to the nation were actually one of the few areas that black people could rely upon to enter the middle class. it's potentially devastating that the loss of that sector. >> and it will it will affect black people disproportionately. aaron imani was just talking about woodrow wilson in 1913. woodrow wilson became the first southerner to win the presidency since before the civil war. and almost immediately after his election, he began a policy of segregation within

woodrow wilson was absolute nonsense. i think what's interesting hearing pat and reading book about lady bird is these things seem to ebb and flow because between them was. eleanor roosevelt. right. i mean, we had edith wilson pretend, you know, don't, don't look behind the curtain. i'm not doing anything important. i'm certainly not acting as the executive while he has a stroke. and then you've got, you know, pat not taking credit for anything and getting accused of being plastic pat lady had her own causes but was constantly giving lyndon credit for things that she should have taken the credit for and in between there was eleanor who very publicly political views and agendas that differed from her husband and in fact had use her as a trial balloon you know, to see if he could get little bit more extreme with things. so it's just how it it just underscores what a banana's job first lady is and how each woman has to define it for herself and figure out, you know, how to fill that and reflect american womanhood, which is a

. >> abc seven news i-team reporter melanie woodrow has the seven on your side story. >> marine corps veteran wesley skelton is dumping out $2,500 worth of golden eagles, along with what he thought were trump silver coins. >> he said that he was going to help the people become millionaires. i could trade these in for cash at bank of america, supposedly $110,000 apiece. >> 110,000 apiece. >> correct. >> which is why skelton bought 324 of them. so you thought you were getting. >> over 35 million? >> skelton became aware of the project after watching what he now knows were fake. likely, ai generated videos of president donald trump on telegram. >> and i want to congratulate everyone who has already gotten their trump golden eagles and exchange them for a new future. >> there were also fake videos of bank of america ceo and even elon musk. >> you can even visit any tesla shop and trade your trump golden eagles for a tesla car, or use them to invest in tesla or spacex stocks. >> a bank of america spokesperson tells seven on your side, it's a scam that bank of america has nothing to do with

reporter melanie woodrow explains the action being taken by the alameda county district attorney. plus a warning period for drivers in san francisco as they get accustomed to the new daylighting state law. but we'll tell you which other traffic violations are receiving top citations. all of that coming up at 530 when i see you on abc seven bay area streaming tv. >> yes, if you're watching us on regular tv, world news tonight with david muir is next for sandhya patel and all of us here. thanks for joining us. i'm ama daetz. >> and i'm dan ashley. we appreciate your time. we'll see you at six. i'll see you >> david: tonight, several breaking stories as we come on the air. the chaotic scene in court. you'll see it. ceo murder suspect

melanie woodrow shows us how i tricked him into investing and what we all can learn from his mistake. join us for those stories and more at 530 on abc seven. bay area streaming tv. jillian ama. >> all right. a lot of good info. thank you. karina. and you can download the abc seven app or head to abc7 news.com and join karina in two minutes. >> and if you're watching us here on tv. world news tonight with david muir is up next. for sandhya patel, the entire team. thanks so much for joining us. i'm julian. >> glover and i'm ama daetz. we'll see you again at six. a glorious round table pepperoni pizz... huh? behold, the pepperoni, grilled chicken and bacon pizza from round table! three magnificent toppings. try it at round table pizza! still have moderate to severe ulcerative colitis... ...or crohn's disease symptoms after taking... ...a medication like humira or remicade? put them in check with rinvoq, a once-daily pill. when symptoms tried to take control, i got rapid relief with rinvoq. check. when flares tried to slow me down,... ...i got lasting remission with rinvoq. check. and man

she helped on the book the ordeal no, not the ordeal of woodrow wilson. what was the other one with gibson? george, i'm looking you. i know like george will know george. well, no, no, she was she did work a little on the magnum opus, but on the. huh. not american. it might have been the ordeal of woodrow wilson actually would have been writing that around 55 to 57. okay. george is nodding that. so she happened to be there when hoover decided who to endorse in was it was it in 54 or 52? maybe it was 52. when was there a contested presidential primary? it was taft and eisenhower. i think so. she was there? yeah. she has extraordinary stories about herbert hoover. so she's a young woman, 20 something single living in new york, working for a former president and. there are. and she that, you know, he would always take he was a man of complete habit. a creature of habit. he would, you know, work all day. but then at a certain time, he would have his martini he would sort of he's refers to cocktail time. that is something about the time that the day where i'm g

monitoring the safety zone that we have established and that safety zone is for all waters north of the woodrow wilson bridge on the potomac river. so the area that you see here in the graphic in red, that's the coast guard established safety zone that only our vessels that's been prevented for this operation are going to be allowed to get into the coast guard. have right now on the border for what we call us mobile assets. that's monitoring that area. and then we have two coast guard cutters. that's also an area to ensure only those authorized vessels are in the area. and if there is any other vessels that have to get through this area or need to transit, you need to call on coast guard channel 16 or either call the coast guard command center so that you can request permission to see if there's any possibility of you coming in those areas. but right now, that waterway is closed only for those involved with this operation. and coast guard's primary missions. right now for this incident remain to ensure the safety of the public and first responders. and we will do that by ensuring no one is in t

line for them to i agree on the 15th of, of january including things like and where does this dr. woodrow to when does is our withdrawal, how many prisoners, the pro 5 of the businesses on that with the less it's, it's good that it is happening and i think it, it gives us hope that the stage 2 will continue. according to the time i, we know that there will start negotiating very, very soon in a couple of days and hopefully it will lead to the end of conflict. but most importantly, tester need to a permanent solution of this issue. and for that to happen is that has got to accept the end of occupation. what this shows is the morality of the whole process. and when you look at these process is coming out this spend decades in prison, many of them were arbitrary and rounded up. some may have been, so is really course, according to is really low captured by his riley's accused by his writers. all his old one sided and they'd been in prison for, for decades, as you can see, the from the way they look how frail they are and how badly they've been treated. and the whole injustice of probation is

prevent government censorship speech which has been on the rise in a very aggressive way not since woodrow wilson but in modern times, since barack obama and certainly joe biden. he's had enough of that. free speech bill of rights president. this is important to understand. what else makes import of the great conservative president right now? taxes. president trump in the past, tax cuts, the biggest gross tax cuts in american history over $5.5 trillion over ten years. the corporate tax rate from 35 to 21%, the largest reduction of the top marginal in history and he wants to cut 21 to 15% for companies in america and locating in america, why? massively increase economic growth, prosperity, jobs. child tax credit increased by 573.4 billion over ten years, other than any previous change, specifically targeting families. trump tax cuts included some of the most substantial reforms of the tax code in american histo history. tax cuts and jobs act nearly doubles, standard deduction simplifies state filing now of course new trump presidency, several policies including extending expired 2017 tax cu

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abc seven news investigative reporter melanie woodrow is here.e background on this situation, because obviously if you hear free, then you don't expect to get a bill later on ever. >> yeah, right. >> and if you think back to the height of the pandemic, all of these covid tests were being covered by insurance companies. you might remember you were even able to go to an insurance company, or rather, to a place that wasn't necessarily in-network with your insurance. right. and you'd still get the test covered. well, that's not what's happening here. but now a court has put a temporary stop to this. the owner of afc urgent care in newark says the company filed for bankruptcy after more than $30 million in unpaid claims were denied. more than four years after the covid tests were given, the company started billing patients and threatening to take them to small claims court if they didn't pay. in november of 2020, john sheaffer says he took his family to afc urgent care of newark to be swabbed for covid tests. he says the urgent care advertised as free

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richard nixon was bored at amiri two months after theodore roosevelt has lost in the 1912 election to woodrowand also his predecessor, his successor taft. that was an atmosphere of progressive republicans in the house. if i can then lead into legislation, not yet the ones frankea mentioned but healthcar, health insurance. because, it was out of that experience at the death of two brothers to tuberculosis at a time of no health insurance, of course no workmen's comp. no unemployment benefits, no social security. it was imperiled financially. his mother had to go twice come to successive times each for one of her two sons who died of tuberculosis. to work forno there to be able o be in us and it's time for helping not just your own kids but other patients. so, nixon grew up to do something about healthcare. he started as early as 1949. this again i think in his mind is in his interior lot through the family the ability to family at the edged altogether. he proposed in 1949 a national health insurance bill along with later founder of new york in a couple u.s. republican senators. that was a coun

america was there for europe in world war i, woodrow wilson.hurchill leaned on franken but roosevelt -- function -- franklin roosevelt. we have a friendship sprayed when 9/11 happens, the europeans are there for us. you rely on these french ships like you would in life. the trumpet ministry she doesn't have life -- friends. for jd vance to meet with the head of the afd and not the prime minister of germany is kind of appalling as one german said. america's denazified germany, now we are renazifiying it. >> we saw a remarkable scene in washington, d.c., in the oval office in which private citizen and unelected billionaire elon musk essentially just held court in the oval office with a number of reporters while president trump sat silently by. we are seeing mr. musk and the does teams flashing through the federal government workforce. lawsuits challenging his actions and the executive actions of the president. we have seen vice president pence say he's not sure the administration needs to comply with some of the court orders. senator andy kim sai

woodrow wilson established the bureau of efficiency, almost the same name.ing it back to 2025, there are rulings that say he needs to unblock some of the funds you froze and the administration has not complied. does it worry you he is ignoring judicial ruling? >> we have a system of checks and balances. we do not or should not have a system of judicial supremacy. the judiciary is coequal with the legislative and executive branch. amna: so the executive has the right to ignore judicial ruling? >> they have the right to fight judicial ruling when they are overstepping. the notion they are willing by fiat can undermine the president -- authority to control the executive branch is crazy. when you think of that, how much of that authority was usurped? certainly not by trump but even by recent democrats, many of them democrats, how much was delegated by the congress to the executive branch? one might argue that was not a good idea and congress should do more lawmaking, but congress has done that. to argue trump is an authoritarian because he's trying to reduce the

seven on your side's melanie woodrow is here with what she has uncovered. >> ama and dan. a court has now put a temporary stop to this. the owner of afc urgent care says that the company filed for bankruptcy after more than $30 million in unpaid claims were denied. more than four years after the covid tests were given, the company started billing patients and threatening to take them to small claims court if they didn't pay. in november of 2020, john sheaffer says he took his family to afc urgent care of newark to be swabbed for covid tests. he says the urgent care advertised as free. he didn't think much of it until four years later when the bills started coming. sheaffer didn't mind paying for the covid swabs, but didn't understand why he was also being charged for seeing a doctor. >> we didn't see anyone who appeared to be a physician or ask us any questions about our health or symptoms. we simply stood in line and filled out a form and got swabbed and left. >> sheaffer wasn't alone. fremont residents joshua zenzen and van li also started getting bills years after their

richard nixon, born a mere two months after theodore roosevelt had lost in the 1912 election to woodrow wilson and his and also his predecessor or his successor, taft. and so there was an atmosphere, progressive republicanism in the house. so all this accounts for if i if i can then lead legislation, not yet. the ones frank mentioned, but rather health care health insurance because it was of that context of his own family, of the death of two brothers to tuberculosis at a time of no health insurance, of course, no workman's, no unemployment benefits, no social security, that the family was imperiled financially. his mother had to go twice, two successive times each for one of her two sons who died of tuberculosis to work for their being able to be in the sanatorium by helping not just her own kids, but other patients. so nixon grew up with this impulse to to do something about health care. he started as early as 1949. and this again, i think in his mind and in his interior had a lot to do with with the family, the ability of a family at the age to hold together. and he proposed. in 1949

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woodrow wilson established by executive action the bureau of efficiency. it's almost the same name as elon musk's doge. amna: to bring it back to 2025, there are rulings that say he needs to unblock some of the funds that he frozen and the administration has not complied. does it worry you if he's ignoring judicial rulings? >> well, as you just say, we have a system of checks and balances. we do not have a system or at least we should not have a system of judicial supremacy. the judiciary is a co-equal branch of government. with the legislature and with the executive branch. amna: so the executive has the right to ignore judicial rulings? >> the executive has the right to fight judicial rulings when they are overstepping and in this case the notion that the judiciary can by fiat undermine the president's legitimate authority to control the executive branch to me is crazy. i mean, even when you think about some of that executive authority, how much of that authority was usurped? certainly not by trump. but even by recent presidents many of whom were democra

. >> abc seven news investigative reporter melanie woodrow is here with the story. that's scary. >> it really is. and kristen and dan, i was able to get this viewer her money back. and of course, she was thrilled about that. but the whole incident raises questions about security protocols in place for this type of fraud. orinda police are now investigating. >> it's been absolutely ludicrous. >> after nearly two months of trying to get her money back from chase bank, catrina, who asked that we not share her last name, called seven on your side. back in december, a woman used a fake driver's license to make two withdrawals from a teller at the orinda chase branch, totaling $1,500. >> i have never been to the branch in my life. >> a banker later told catrina that the suspect didn't have a bank card or pin, just a fake driver's license. it was when she went to make the third withdrawal that the teller became suspicious. >> and they said, okay, i need you to confirm your identity via a code that will send to your cell phone. she said, oh, okay, i forgot my phone in the c

unimaginable that any president other than donald trump would have ever done anything like that, including woodrowd term as president, and franklin delano roosevelt, whose health was fading rapidly in his final year of the presidency. while he was still successfully strategizing victory in world war two. franklin delano roosevelt died in office in 1945, on his very last day of life at his weakest. he was immeasurably smarter than donald trump and most other presidents of the united states. every time donald trump speaks now, it becomes obvious that this country and the world would be much better off if joe biden were still president. joe biden would not be tweeting pictures of himself wearing a crown and calling himself a king and trying to overrule local laws in cities about traffic, cities that didn't vote for him. that is how governor hochul began her press conference today, in which she announced the inevitable she would not use her power as governor to just begin a process to try to remove the mayor of new york, eric adams, who donald trump has decided should no longer be a criminal defendant

abc seven news reporter melanie woodrow is here with a seven on your side investigation. >> mel ama andwas able to get this viewer her money back. and of course, she was thrilled about that. this whole incident raises questions about security protocols in place for this type of fraud. orinda police are now investigating. >> it's been absolutely ludicrous. >> after nearly two months of trying to get her money back from chase bank, catrina, who asked that we not share her last name, called seven on your side back in december. a woman used a fake driver's license to make two withdrawals from a teller at the orinda chase branch, totaling $1,500. >> i have never been to the orinda branch in my life. >> a banker later told catrina that the suspect didn't have a bank card or pin, just a fake driver's license. it was when she went to make the third withdrawal that the teller became suspicious. >> and they said, okay, i need you to confirm your identity via a code that will send to your cell phone. she said, oh, okay. i forgot my phone in the car. let me go get it. and that's when she never retu

abc seven news i-team reporter melanie woodrow has the seven on your side story.ey actually weren't. >> they were not. kristen one of these golden eagles. you can see it here. it's pretty small. worth $59. that's how much it cost to purchase them. supposedly the trade in value more than $100,000. one pittsburgh man thought he'd be a millionaire. turns out this is a worth less than its weight. marine corps veteran wesley skelton is dumping out $2,500 worth of golden eagles, along with what he thought were trump silver coins. >> he said that he was going to help the people become millionaires. i could trade these in for cash at bank of america, supposedly $110,000 apiece. >> 110,000 apiece. >> correct. >> which is why skelton bought 324 of them. so you thought you were getting. >> over 35 million? >> skelton became aware of the project after watching what he now knows were fake. likely, ai generated videos of president donald trump on telegram. >> and i want to congratulate everyone who has already gotten their trump golden eagles and exchange them for a new future.

business and and that in itself is to signal a very important development, which will be followed by woodrow wilson. there's going to be another economic downturn, as we all know, followed by franklin roosevelt becoming, the first democrat after wilson to be elected president, and wilson and fdr understand something. wilson even told fdr at one point, or, i'm paraphrasing, that the only way democrats get back in the powers of the economy goes down downhill. so roosevelt's for that. needless to say, it happens. and when roosevelt is sworn into the presidency, one of the things he's going to really try to champion is the role of government in trying not just ensure greater fairness and equality, but the role of government in reinvigorating the economy so as the gilded age ends or the early 1900s. we get more and more attention paid to civil service reform and ultimately to a different role for the federal government in addressing economic downturns that will be course a big hallmark of fdr presidency. but fdr i think along with some, these other presidents delivers an inaugural address at a ve

monitoring the safety zone that we have established, and that safety zone is for all waters north of the woodrow wilson bridge on the potomac river. so the area that you see here in the graphic in red, that's the coast guard established safety zone that only vessels that's been pre-vetted for this operation are going to be allowed to get into the coast guard, have right now on the border for what we call our small boat assets. that's monitoring that area. and then we have two coast guard cutters that's also in the area to ensure only those authorized vessels are in the area. and if there's any other vessels that have to get through this area or need to transit, you need to call on coast guard channel 16 or either call the coast guard command center so that you can request permission to see if there's any possibility of you coming into those areas. but right now, that waterway is closed only for those involved with this operation and coast guard's primary missions right now for this incident remain to ensure the safety of the public and first responders. and we will do that by ensuring no one is

. >> appointed by the elected president, woodrow wilson. >> elon musk is a private citizen. standing to do what he is doing. >> he is. >> doing things that are patently illegal, gutting usaid, getting access to federal data over taking control of the treasury's payroll department. all of these things are things that he cannot do. those are illegal things. and we have a situation where a private citizen now is effectively the most powerful person in the country. he is more powerful. >> than the president. >> united states, and unlike a president who works in consultation with the congress and the constitution, elon musk. >> is working. >> in. >> consultation with nobody. >> yeah, we. >> saw the democrats vocally responding. your view to where that fits in? i mean, jon stewart had a riff this week about how basically the democrats should do whatever they can to not have chuck schumer respond to anything that they need new energy and new blood. but what you saw there in that rally about musk and about these sort of overreaches seem to be slightly more energetic than some of wha

conducting the salvage operations by enforcing the safety zone that we have on all waters north of the woodrow wilson bridge on the potomac river. uh, essentially, to ensure we keep all recreational boaters and non-essential vessels so that they can, can, can conduct all salvage operations. >> so you oversaw the u.s. coast guard's response the night of the collision. what's been the biggest challenge so far for you and your team? >> well, the challenge is to make sure we keep teams out there 24 over seven, primarily right now to, like i said, maintain the safety of and monitor the security, the safety zone. but we're doing that by bringing in multiple crews from across the coast guard to rotate crews out to keep them fresh and and make sure we maintain presence on the waterway the entire time. >> so the coast guard flies helicopters in this airspace yourselves. how concerning is this data discrepancy between the air traffic control and the jets? reporter. >> well, the coast guard, uh, hilo operation is a different part from what i am responsible for. my area is more so the water assets from th

it's going to get worse, because i think in the past, even when we had terrible presidents like woodrowt, these were people who fundamentally believed in america. i don't think the people running the country right now really care about america. they would rather use it like private equity. we're going to we're going to sell the top and use the rest for spare parts. that's what they want to do. so we are in a very dangerous place. and i tell you this idea of putin ization, i get that. but putin is also a leader and he believes in a greater russia. donald trump doesn't believe in a greater united states. he believes in his own pocket book. and that's how he's going to treat this country. >> but that's why he adores. >> putin, right? >> russia isn't a superpower, but putin was a kgb agent 30, 40 years ago. now he is literally one of the richest men in the world, and trump admires that. what's your take on this? >> well, i don't i mean, i'm a fan and a student of 40 year historical cycles as well. and my hopeful view is that we're at the end of a 40 year cycle. when in 1980 that began in 19

comes in at number 11 followed by james monroe and woodrow wilson. you can explore the results yourself at c-span.org or give us a call and let us know who is your favorite president and why. this is austin in new york, independent, good morning. caller: hi. i think my favorite president would have to be teddy roosevelt. i am a big fan of national parks. when it comes to his foreign policy,, the panama canal opened up a lot of opportunities for us. also, i dig the expansion of the navy. i will leave it at that. host: awesome, cliff in oak oklahoma, who is your favorite president? caller: bill clinton. that was the most prosperous time. balanced the budget. i have friends that were personal friends with him and he was one of the most likable guys you'll ever meet. still, all-time favorite. i guess j.f.k. would be my second one. i was not quite old enough to understand politics, but i really liked him. host: what line of work for you in in the 1990's and why was it so profitable for you back then? caller: we were in the car business but also in the con