. >> joining us is the president of american enterprise institute robert dore talking about multiple issues, including campaign 2024, the future of conservatism. thank you for joining us. >> glad to be here. >> it is not the first time we've had people from your organization on, but how do you define where your position is when it comes to political positioning? >> it is a community of scholars. they take their own views on various issues. we don't have institutional positions. we have a perspective that is kind of right of center. we believe in free market and free people, the strong american role in the world. they are all independent players in their particular field. they call every issue as they see them. >> where do you see -- as far as conservativism overall, you can even take it down to the republican party, where is it and what are the influencing factors? >> it is divided. it has been in the past. it is not that new. between the free market, freedom focused emphasis on having less regulation, lower taxes, a strong american role in the world, are optimistic and positive, and

the next half-hour, with tim carney of the american enterprise institute. numbers to call in, 202, 748, -- the numbers to call for democrats, (202) 748-8000, republicans (202) 748-8001, independent (202) 748-8002. tom, republican line. caller: good morning. i think donald trump would get the nomination whether he was in jail or not. these cases, aldo dershowitz has no these cases down pretty well. it is all to try to defame the president. the main thing i want to remind everybody else is that the dossier that was used to create a false intelligence investigation against donald trump and was leaked to try to keep them from being the president in 20 16. then the hunter biden laptop, the fbi knew was legitimate and allowed the democratic party to impeach the president over phone calls to ukraine regarding be crime family. that was covered up by the fbi and they worked with twitter and facebook to keep it off of the internet so that biden could become the president. host: i think i got your point. guest: the point that tom is making, i'm not going to agree with

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pat mccrory, danielle pletka of the american enterprise institute and marcos mulis sass, the founder of daily coast. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. donald trump's inevitabilitiy, the idea that he cannot be beaten in this republican primary has been a source of strength for him. at wednesday night's debate could look like without trump on wednesday, but we still live on this version of earth and until one of trump's opponents is recognized as a viable challenge by republican primary voters, it is a debate that may have to be put on hold until 2024. that said, a failure of imagination turned the idea that trump could never win in 2016 into faulty conventional wisdom, and it's that same failure of imagination now to believe that he can't lose the republican primary that we should be cautious of. the main threat to trump has always been his legal troubles and his campaign may be cashing in on his mug shot released on his booking nig

then the american enterprise institute hosts a discussion of the march on washington and martin luther king jr.'s "i have a dream" speech. also, an author and journalist talks about the life and work of dr. martin luther king jr. in the first comprehensive biography of the civil rights leader in over 30 years. exploring the american story, watch american history tv saturdays on c-span2, and fi a full schedule on your program guide or watch online any time at c-span.org/history. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more, including cox. >> the disease is extremely rare , but friends don't have to be. >> this is joe. >> when you are connected, you are not alone. >> cox supports c-span as a public service along with these other television providers, giving you a receipt to democracy. >> all this week, c-span has examined controversial oral argument cases heard by the u.s. supreme court during its 2022-2020 three term. next, we hear a case lookinat if the elections clause of the constitution permits a state to regulate federal elec

guest is so good, it seems like every two to three weeks you've got somebody from the american enterprise institutethere. i don't know if the kiggans are still running it, but it used to be a huge warmongering organization. no i think they have graduated to the american institute for war or something. i wonder if you could speak about the influence in a lot of these propaganda houses. guest: don't be surprised. they hired me because they saw the work that i'm doing. we have lots of departments and scholars do lots of great work. that is one reason they are often appearing here on c-span. we've got people who do education policy, foreign policy and i don't agree with all of them. but none of them -- those scholars and donors don't interact. they don't influence what we write about. nobody gets to tell me what to write about. i was talking but the corporate welfare, i criticized donors in my article on them getting subsidies. but they basically keep all of that information from me as far as who funds the institution. and brookings, i would say the same thing. the research we do is based on what we fi

i am a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute. we are honored today to be joined by senator tim scott from the great state of south carolina for a conversation on his very important new book america a redemption story, choosing hope, creating unity. before i introduce senator scott and welcome him to the stage i want to offer a little bit of context as to why the conversation is so important today. how do we take virtues and put them into actions for the communities that have not yet experienced of the american dream as a senior fellow at aei and someone whose run public charter schools more than a decade, i am obsessed with the goal of upward mobility. one of the factors that drive whether a young person of any background acquires the habits of minds and skills that typically lead to success as adults in my time with thousands of young people working at teach for americahe the gates foundatn and now launching the network of charter high schools in the bronx, i've worked with kids from every conceivable background. i've seen child

is too large and has the ability to renew harry schmidt, an expert at the conservative american enterprise institute, who also deals with issues of defense and security calls the strikes of drones and missiles quite reasonable , but such that they will not change the current warfare , according to schmidt, if even the countries of the west allow ukraine to use missiles long-range shelling of russia outside its borders is not the most useful way to use these weapons. they have every right to do so, but the question of whether these types of weapons are worth doing will be most useful if they are used for strikes on crimea and russian military capabilities in the occupied territories. of the need to provide ukraine with more long-range missiles and allow ukrainians to independently choose targets we must provide ukrainians with long-range strike capabilities that will allow them to effectively hit key targets targets on russian-controlled ukrainian territory and in russia itself, these targets will include command and control centers, communication lines , bridges, roads, railways, warehouses where th

my name is ian rowe, senior fellow at icthe american enterprise institute honored today to be joined by tim scott from the great state of south carolina or a conversation on his very important new book america, "america, a redemption story" . truth in hope, creating unity t for i offer context as to why this is so important. how do we take virtue and action for have not yet experienced the american dream? as a senior fellow and someone has run charter schools for more than a decade i am obsessed with the goal of mobility. what are the factors that normally drive whether a young person of the background requires that it's of skills that typically lead to success as adults. in my time working at teach for america pto the white house to mtv and now launching a network of public charter high schools, i've worked with kids from every single conceivable background . i've seen children grow up in disadvantaged situations and unfortunately sometimes re-create that disadvantage as they enter young adulthood but i've also seen many kids emerge from poverty or crime or dysfunction and lead live

out of that counter swing was born the american enterprise institute heritage foundation, coke brothersstry, ÃÃthe federalist society. they are all coming to save money they don't like the federal government regulating them. it's an anti-federal regulation movement that emerges up through the environmental movement i know i could have begun in 16 and got away with it i would've been disingenuous i would've done that to be a marketeer of books rare history began in the days after world war ii was he or she gets dropped we talk about it as victory over japan and the war has ended and we celebrate and i would've been in the street celebrating it. i never could criticize truman for his decision to drop the atomic bomb but i also never criticize a lot of people i write in my book that say what is this mean to the planet? the great doctor albert sweitzer won the nobel prize and just written his doom. what if the nuclear g starts going around the world, oh my god! then john hirschi of the new yorker and other journalists started showing what radiation did to the people in japan. skin melting.

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the american enterprise institute president discusses campaign 2024, the republican party and the future of conservatism. then a former north dakota senator talks about rural voters and campaign 2024. c-span's "washington journal", join the conversations live at 7:00 eastern tuesday morning, on c-span, c-span now, or online at the span.org. -- c-span.org. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we're funded by these television companies and more including charter communications. >> charter is pleased to be recognized as one of the best internet providers. we're getting started building 100,000 miles of new infrastrre to reach those who need it most. >> charter communication support c-span is a public service, along with these other television providers giving you a front-row seat to democracy. >> and we are joined by michael tanner, who was a senior fellow at the foundation for research on equal opportunity on this 60th anniversary of the march on washington. welcome back to "washington journal". folks have seen you over the years on this program and this network with the cato i

out of the recounted swing was the american enterprise institute heritage foundation koch brothers industryy federalist society, they're all covered in the same money, they don't like the federal government regulating them. it's an anti-federal regulation movement that emerges after the teenvironmental movement that peters out and 73. i had instead of kennedy begin my book in 1945 i did not want to be people complained and saw how fat my book was. i know i could've begun in 16 and got away with it i would've been disingenuous. because the real history began in the days after world war ii, once it gets dropped we talk about victory over japan in the war has ended and we celebrated. i never criticized truman for his decision to drop the bomb personally. but i never also criticized a lot of people i write my book that said what does this mean to the planning, the great doctor albert sweitzer has witnessed doom with the nuclear genes starts going around the world, all my god and then john hirschi of the new yorker another journalist show what radiation did to the people in japan, horse shows of

eastern what the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the children's mark american enterprise instituteiscussion march on washington and martin luther king jr. i have a dream speech. also author and journalist talks about the life and work of martin luther king jr. the first competence of biography and over 30 years. exploring the american story. watch american history tv saturdays on c-span2. spent a full sedule on your program guide or watch online anytime at c-span.org/history. sunday night on q&a in her book generations san diego state university psychology professor talk to but the differences between six generations currently living in the united states. baby boomers, gen x, general y and. she argues technological advances shaped generations more than anything else. and what impact it will have in the future. >> we can see real division showing up with more people identifying at the extremes of ideology. more polarization between democrats and republicans on various issues. especially around race. i think it is good to know what this is really look like over time? not in a poll at

physician and assistant professor of medicine at john hopkins university and fellow at thee american enterprise institute. john goodman is president of the goodman institute. he'sde a prominent healthcare economist and father of health savings account. doug is president of the american action forum and a former director of the congressional budget office. now with the debt limit facing the country you can expect to see doug on the national television shows dealing with the debt limit and other problems that are connected with it. with that, ladies and gentlemen, i'd like our guests to come and join us. we will have a discussion about medicare i'm going to start us off with a question for you. right now, as you know. millions of seniors are voting with their feet. they are enrolling in private medicare advantage plans. as opposed to traditional medicare. you deal with this in chapter 6 of the book. firstover all. thank you for having the conversation about the medicare program. medicare is two different programs. when you are in the employer market and pick your benefits you sign-up for a health plan thin

physician and assistant professor of medicine at johns hopkins university and a fellow at the american enterprise institutehn goodman is president of the goodman institute. doctor goodman is a prominent healthcares economist and he i widely known throughout the united states as the father of health savings accounts. doug is president of the american action forum and a former director of the congressional budget office. now with a debt limit facing the country, you can expect to see them on your national television shows dealing with the debt limit and all of the other problems that are connected with it. with that, ladies and gentlemen, i would like our guest to come up and join us. we will have a discussion about medicare. >> brian, i will start us off with a question for you. right now, as you know, millions of senior citizens are voting with their feet. and enrolling in private medicare advantage fans which is a defined benefit program. as opposed to traditional medicare which is a defined benefit program. you deal with this in chapter six of the book that is been published by hopkins university press.

political science at the university of maryland and a nonresident senior fellow at the american enterprise institute where she focuses on american political thought and history. she is the author of several books including [inaudible] and her new book is his greatest speeches, how lincoln moved the nation.h let us begin. tell our friends why you argue in your book that lincoln was the black man's president, and you have several speeches of frederick douglass that you begin with including an 1865 on lincoln where he said people have a better reason for lamenting the death of lincoln than the colored people. what is thean significance of tt speech and why do you believe that lincoln was the black man's president? >> thank you foring the kind introduction andus for inviting us. i feel a little out of place because the central theme of my book is let's not focus on the speeches and writings and policies and the like but lincoln's interaction with people in springfield and washington. but the type of book comes from a eulogy frederick douglass delivered on june 1st 1865 in cooper union the premier site t

professor of law at the university of california at berkeley, nonresident senior fellow at the american enterprise institute and visiting fellow at the hoover institution. if you would like to learn more about today's speakers, their biographies can be viewed on our website. after our speakers give their opening remarks, we will turn to you, the audience. if you have a question, enter it in the q&a function at the bottom of your window. finally, i will note that all expressions of opinions today are those of our guest speakers, not the federalist society. with that, thank you for joining us today and be for is yours. >> take you for hosting episode two of series number two of the two johns talk residential power. we were thought -- that we were done with this three years ago, but they pulled us back in. we are here to talk again about the various issues arising with presidential power involving trump, biden, the executive branch, supreme court and any questions you might have. we will reserve last 15 to 21 is for questions from you. please use the q&a function and emily will select mighty questions. john, i

diana shelled is professor of political science and senior fellow at the american enterprise institute. she publishes on american history. she is the author of several books, including -- and her new book is his greatest speeches, how lincoln moved the nation. welcome noah feldman and diana schaub. michael burlingame let us begin with you. tell our friends why you argue in your new book that lincoln was the black man's president. you have several speeches of frederick douglass that you begin with, including in 1865, the eulogy on lincoln. he said no class of people has a better reason implementing the death of lincoln then have the colored people. what is the significance of that speech? why do you hold that lincoln was the black man's president? >> thank you very much for your kind introduction. thank you very much for inviting me. i feel a little out of place because the central theme of my book is, let's not focus on lincoln's speeches, writings and the like, let's focus on lincoln's interactions with black people both in lincoln and washington. the title of the book comes from a eu

physician and assistant professor of medicine at johns hopkins university and a fellow at the american enterprise institute. john goodman is present at the goodman institute. dr. goodman is a prominent health care economist and is widely known throughout the united states is as the father of health savings accounts. douglas holtz-eakin is president of the american action form and a former director of the congressional budget office. now with the debt limit facing the country you can expect to see douglas holtz-eakin on your national television shows giving the debt limit and all the other problems that are connected with it. with that ladiesd and gentlemei would like our guests to come up and join us. we will have a discussion about medicare. brian i'm going to start us off. right now as you know millions of senior citizens are voting with their feet and in polling in private medicare advantage plans which a defined benefit program, medicare advantage as opposed to traditional medicare which is a defined benefit program. you deal with this in chapter 6 ofr the book published by hopks press.ity what are the

but out of that, the counter swing i will tell you about, it was for the american enterprise institute. heritage foundation. koch brothers industries. stacy brothers. you know? any federalist society, they all are coming to save money, they don't like the federal government regulating them. it is an anti-federal regulation movement that emerged out of the environmental movement. it starts petering out in 73. now, i had two instead of kennedy began my book in 1945. i didn't want to, when i have people complained to me, they see how that my book is. -- i would have done that -- but because the real history began in the days after world war ii -- we talk about it as a victory over japan, the war has ended, we celebrated, and i would have been in the streets celebrating it. i have never criticize truman for his decision to drop the atomic bomb personally. but i never also criticized a lot of people i read to my book that said whoa, what does this mean to the planet? the great doctor -- won a nobel prize, and the man has just written his do. if this nuclear genie starts going around the wor

what's interesting, the american enterprise institute surveyed moderate voters and found their unfavorableoe biden was 52%. and of former president trump is 76%. so he's got a little bit of edge there but while a lot of these voters identify with the democratic party, they also identify with a lot of republican policies as well. >> especially on the economy when it comes to big social issues like parental rights, for example. but when it comes to these elections nationally, when it comes to swing states especially, these elections are very, very close. they are going to be close in 2024, they were close in 2022, they were close in 2020. each party and each nominee is going to need every single voter they can get and cannot take any of them for granted. so again, while you are seeing democrats pushing with the bail-out policies for student loans, you have republicans focusing on the economy, we'll see who wins and shakes out when it comes to november of 2024. >> sandra: we will indeed. great to have you here today. back to the illegal crossings, they continue at the southern border and fed

joining us now is an economist at the american enterprise institute. good to have you with us.your verdict on this trip is it was pretty weak tea indeed. >> yeah. it's not clear why these trips are occurring. obviously, secretary yellen went, secretary blinken went. we have to have a dialogue with china. you can have a dialogue with china over a zoom call or phone call. so there's that problem. i think the important part of the trip is actually after she comes home. she has a very big decision with regard to semiconductor export controls. both the rules and the licenses, that's going to impact u.s./china economic relations and also possibly strategic relations much more than her trip will. >> so tease this out for me, this decision of the export controls, which have been much talked about and much trumpeted, and the actually senses could be -- there's a way, isn't there, to stay yes, we're going to have these export controls in place, but allow the licenses to proceed, which would sort of obviate the controls, right? >> that's what we have been doing. we put these interim contr

senator from ohio, distinguished visiting fellow at the american in price institute --american enterprise institute. his career spans three decades including three presidential administrations and two terms in the united states senate and six terms in the united states house of representatives. thank you, senator portman, for being with us. [applause] to senator portman's right is cecilia rouse, who previously served as chair of the council of economic advisers between 2021 and 2023. before that she was dean of the princeton school of public and international affairs. the drumroll is that we are so proud she has recently been named president of the brookings institution, a role she will assume in 2024, i think. [applause] and to cecilia's right is adena friedman. she is chair and ceo of nasdaq. adena brings more than 20 years of industry leadership and expertise and is credited with contributions to shape nasdaq's strategic transfer mission to a leading company with operations on six continents. thank you so much, adena, for being here. [applause] and all the way over we are joined by gre

election in 1970 six, scalia went back to teaching at chicago law, but also teaching at the american enterprise institutehe was very visible, writing, speaking panels, and that would provide a lot of material for people doing research on a possible information process. was he building his case during that time. ? ? >> in the existing biographical literature, there is what i call the careerist narrative. the idea that in his earliest pronouncements, writings and opinions, he was engaged in some kind of relate this campaign to advertise to powerful people, whether cheney and rumsfeld or president reagan that he was reliable and could be relied upon to deliver the right opinions. >> -- i interviewed people all across his career and they used a barnyard epithet for that analysis, and deleting scalia's rise was not the product of careerist coming over bending his opinions or tearing his opinions to suit a presumed powerful individual. scalia believed what he believed and it was rooted in his catholicism and his law school training, and his belief in the separation of powers and the role of a limited judiciary

here to break it down is a scholar at the american enterprise institute and great person to have on theh. the margin of non-white working class voters in with theall elections for president obama was 67%. biden 48%. you think this is actually having an even stop for the democrats. >> at least on current evidence it is. the poll is the "new york times" poll found non-white working class voters giving biden only a 16-point margin over trump which is quite small relative to those previous margins you mentioned. if that holds through the election it would create big problems for the democrats. i expect it will improve somewhat over what we see in that poll. it has to improve a lot to get back to the level biden had just in 2020. there has been all kinds of indicators over time of softening of non-white, non-college support for the democrats and for biden. this is just another sign that that's a real thing, a real trend and something for democrats to be very concerned about. >> bret: i want to read from your op-ed "new york post" in which you say out of touch progressives are driving non-whi

the american enterprise institute heritage foundation, koch brothers industries, safety brothers, you know, it, all federalist society, they all are coming to save money, they do not like the federal government regulating them. it is an anti-federal regulation movement that emerges after they environmental movement starts petering out in 1973, now, i had to instead with canaday began my book in 1945, i did not want to but i had people complain to me. they see how bad my book is, i know i could be done in 60, and got away with, it i would've been disingenuous i would've been doing that to do a market share of books, but the real history began in the days after world war ii. once hiroshima gets dropped, we talk about it as a victory over japan, and the wars and it. and we celebrated, and i would've been on the street celebrating, it and never criticize truman for his decision to drop the atomic bomb personally. but, i never also criticized a lot of people i read in my book that said, whoa, what does this mean to the planet? the great doctor albert won a nobel prize and the man had just

political science at loyola university, maryland and a non-resident senior fellow at the american enterprise institute where she focuses on american political thought and history. she is the author of several books including what so proudly we hail the american soul and story speech and song and her new book is his greatest speeches how lincoln moved the nation welcome michael burlingame noah feldman and diana schaub. michael berlin. let us begin with you. tell our friends why you argue in your new book that lincoln was the black man's president and you have you have several speeches of frederick douglass that you begin with including in 1865 eulogy on lincoln where he said no people at class of people in the country have a better. reason for lamenting the death of lincoln then have the colored people. what is the significance of that? speech? and why do you believe that lincoln was the black man's president? well, thank you very much for your kind introduction and thank you for inviting me. i feel a little out of place because my book is focused the central theme i'm book is let's not focus on lincol

i'm a scholar here at the american enterprise institute, and it is my great honor and pleasure to welcome all of you to aei for this special forum to mark the 60th anniversary of the march on washington. the march took place on august 28th of 1963, so we're a little early marking the anniversary and we decide it to be a little early so that we could bring together people who will otherwise be scattered across a variety of events and celebrations this month. and as a result, we really do have an extraordinary lineup of sessions today looking at the march and its legacy and the broader civil rights movement from a variety of angles, thinking about what it has to say to us now in ways that are both timeless and timely. we're going to hear from scholars, from journalists, from policy thinkers, from religious leaders. some of them are colleagues here at aei, including our president, robert doar, who has a lifelong connection to the civil rights movement and conceived of this event. and some are guests who have come to mark the occasion by thinking with us about the effort to live out the true

here with more is imhat winegar, senior fellow in poverty studies at the american enterprise instituteng to you. >> good morning. >> at the height of the federal pandemic when trying to get money out as quick as possible. money was good but they ultimately made it too easy to steal. >> that's right. and this is what is represented in the department of justice's case. what viewers really need to understand is that's a relative drop in the bucket compared to the total losses experienced across the (interpreter translated.) of these programs during the pandemic >> 3,000 defendants charged with pandemic related fraud crimes. i understand that of those people, is that how many people took part or is the number much bigger than that? >> the number has is undoubtedly much bigger than that just this week the government released a splat report on maybe the most abused unemployment benefit program. that found that 36% of payments under that program were lost or misspent. so you are talking in a program that supported 15 million people, for example, at one time, that's something like 5 million pe

discuss co-founder and editor-in-chief of the dispatch and a fellow at the conservative american enterprise instituteks so much for joining us. this is interesting the judge, judge chutkan saying if he makes inflammatory statements that could taint the jury pool, and that might cause her to proceed to trial more quickly. i mean knowing trump i hope she's ready to start monday based on what he might say. but in all seriousness, iowa caucuses, january 15th, she's pushing for january 2nd. is that fair and feasible? >> it seems it's obvious there's simply no good options here. good options are in the rearview mirror. obviously the trump team wants to wait until after the election in part because the hope is if trump wins, he just erases the whole thing, so that's a bad outcome. that's a moral hazard, and doing it while he's running for president is not good really for anybody. and so you just sort of have to pick your battles where you can. i think you raise the most salient point, which is and the therefore what question. let's say trump does say something crazy -- i know that's a real stretch, take a m

and assistant professor of medicine at john hopkins university, and a fellow at the american enterprise institute. john goodman is president of the goodman institute. -- he's a prominent health care economist, and widely known throughout the united states as the father of health savings account. doug holtz-eakin is president of american action forum, and former director of public budget office. now with the debt limit facing the country, you can expect to see him on your national television shows, dealing with the debt limit, and all the other problems that are connected with it. without ladies and gentlemen, i would like i guess to come up and join us. and we will have a discussion about medicare. brian, i'm going to start us off with question for you. right now, as you know, millions of senior citizens are voting with their feet. and enrolling in private medicare it vantage points. which is a defined benefit program of medicare advantage. as opposed to traditional medicare, which is a defined benefit program. you deal with this in chapter six of the book that has been published by hopkins unive

smith is a distinguished fellow at the hudson institute, but many know him from the american enterprise institute, which he led as president from 1986 to 2008. mr. smith's career in washington began as a staff assistant to president richard nixon, working for daniel p moynihan during the reagan administration. mr. thomas was executive director of the presidential task force on regulatory relief. his he is a trustee of the calvin coolidge presidential fund. please join me in welcoming mr. dismukes and our panelists to the stage. he ideas and ideals. that guided coolidge. the president. the products not only of his no nonsense vermont upbringing studies at amherst and training in the law. they were also a result of his on the job experience as mayor of northampton. president of the massachusetts senate. and massachusetts lieutenant governor. and governor. during coolidge's coming of age as a practicing politician. american politics, including his own republican party, were seized by a new impulse that called itself progressivism. the progressive movement championed many great causes and achieved so

professor of political science at loyola university and nonresident senior fellow at the american enterprise institute on political thought and history. she's the author of several books, including what so proudly we hailed, the speech and song, and her new book is his greatest speeches, how lincoln moved the nation. welcome, michael burlingame, and diana schaub. and michael, tell our friends were you argued in the new book why lincoln was the black man's president and you have several speeches of frederick douglas that you begin with, including a eulogy on lincoln where he said people in the country have a better reason for lamenting the death. what's the significance of that speech and why do you feel that lincoln was the black man's president? >> thank you very much for your kind introduction and inviting me, i feel a little out of place my book, the central theme of my book is let's not focus on lincoln's speeches and the like, but lincoln's interactions in washington. and it comes from the eulogy that was delivered 1865 in the premier site to give a major speech. it was covered widely in the new

moderating this panel with robert doar, who you know, who is the chief executive of, the american enterprise institute, fred log of all, who's a historian at harvard university, who's written an acclaimed book about john f kennedy and kathleen kennedy townsend, who is a politician in her own right, whose father robert f kennedy was the attorney general when the march on washington occurred. i want to start by switching rating this discussion in a in a bit, a personal way, because we have some personal connections among us. and i want to start in the summer of 1963, before the march and in june in particular, in june of 1963, kathleen, 11 years old, her uncle was the president. her father was the attorney general. she was growing up in mclean, virginia, the wonderful house called hickory hill. i was growing up in chevy chase, maryland, a neighborhood called somerset. my father was a journalist, was covering the kennedy administration and the justice department. i was six years old that summer. i. and robert was growing up across the street and a few houses down from us in somerset with his brother burk