secretary burwell: at american university there are 13,000 students total. that breaks down to 8000 undergrads and 5000 grad students. there a coordinated effort among washington universities on moving ahead? secretary burwell: there is an organization called consortium and includes some universities likede d.c., in maryland, montgomery college, or virginia, like george mason, and we work together and are working together to make sure we are working with local governments also. because one of the things about a university is, we are very interrelated in terms of what is happening in our region. american university, other than the government we are the fifth largest employer in the district. perspective,oyer we are a part of what is happening. when you had all the universities, imagine how large that is. -- from aperspective health perspective, we are -- and haveand hv density and that is important. the other thing is, when we we allur students back, like the fact we have students from all over the united states and the world. so that will be important as we t

secretary burwell: at american university there are 13,000 students total. at breaks down to 8000 undergrads and 5000 grad students. there a coordinated effort among washington universities on moving ahead? secretary burwell: there is an organization called consortium and includes some universities likede d.c., in maryland, montgomery college, or virginia, like george mason, and we work together and are working together to make sure we are working with local governments also. because one of the things about a university is, we are very interrelated in terms of what is happening in our region. american university, other than the government we are the fifth largest employer in the district. perspective,oyer we are a part of what is happening. when you had all the universities, imagine how large that is. -- from aperspective health perspective, we are -- and haveand hv density and that is important. the other thing is, when we we allur students back, like the fact we have students from all over the united states and the world. so that will be important as we thi

let's ask dr margo sasco who heads a masters program in journalism a digital storytelling at american university in washington and as most guest you see on most cable news talk shows are these days she is joining us remotely margo welcome back thanks for having me how and you bet it's good to see you and if there's a slight delay it's because we're operating in remote mode here but 1st things 1st professor i want you to grade both parties the president and the press in those daily white house briefings that are on again off again and generally during this crisis. well i think you know i guess it depends on which political party you're coming from the grade that you would give and it's hard for me to be an objective ject of observer of this presidential administration when for years now they have continuously tried to deal of and marginalize news reporters for doing their constitutionally protected job and so i would say that in any environment when you're up against you know someone who's continuously trying to batter you i give the press corps in a way. and i have to say there was a little part

i'm glad to hear that american university has a great school and dr margo sus guy i do look forward to seeing you again in washington thanks for your time tonight ok thanks so much allan appreciate it. coming up as we emerge from home confinement will social distancing continue and what are the new rules for the new normal we will talk with elisa ghosh a from beverly hills manners dot com next this is the big picture on our to america . time after time called parisian to repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important to accelerate the transition to sustainable transport sustainability spain implemented a more equitable and sustainable well. they claim that production is completely hamas does need to. look. into congress on the models and not it does not the person companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away this is 2nd elvis that's the point and even as i made much. emphasis on moves in unison we didn't dream and einstein seemed to be based on that on disconnect with who is going. we've all been feeling a little claustro

i'm glad to hear that american university has a great school and dr margo suskind i do look forward to seeing you again in washington thanks for your time tonight ok thanks so much allan appreciate it. coming up as we emerge from home confinement will social distancing continue and what are the new rules for the new normal we will talk with elisa ghosh a from beverly hills manners dot com next this is the big picture on our to america . he says to add to. the good in each other than the men. but on the better side of the day the book lists the soul that this isn't just. a movie should learning t.m. must go if you'll still be stuck with your muscles from the course of your knee which uses to. use a sloth could. go chill the fuck should. we think he minds be. soldier piece off the boot she's wearing. future which so so looks like to move the opposable opinion more than with like it on the show stuck in the summer watching the police force sort of us hold. you can't be both with the yeah you like. we've all been feeling a little claustrophobic lately and the very 1st place i'm headed when

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kendi, founding director of the antiracist research & policy center at american university. as the official u.s. death tolol from covid-19 is set to top 100,000 this week, rates of child hunger soar across the programtates, despite a helping children who've been cut off from school meals during the pandemic has reached only a small fraction of the 30 million students it was intended to help. "the new york times" reports only 15% of eligible children have received benefits under the pandemic-ebt program, even though a fifth of u.s. mothers in a recent survey reported their children were not getting enough to eat. meanwhile, the census bureau reports more than a third of all u.s. adults now show signs of clinical anxiety or depression. that figure is about double the rate found in a survey in 2014. here in new york, governor andrew c cuomo rang the opening bell tuesday as the new york stock exchange partially reopened its floor to trading for the first time in over two months under new social distancing rules. "the guardian" reports governor cuomo signed legislation last month

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diplomat to libya and a professor of political science at the american university and joins us live now from washington d.c. williams and yet another shelling attack by have to us forces on tripoli how significant is this given the damage caused by the turkish and italian embassies. well it's a violation of international law because it's attacking diplomatic areas it's a violation of international humanitarian law because they're deliberately hitting civilian areas and this is the 1st attack in a downtown civilian area this year 2020 it's a reflection of the fact that i have to who we've been we need a drone war begin to lose it with recent changes technological changes by the turks who are supporting the western government and that means they're using more imprecise grad rockets in the downtown area and also some of their ground lodgers were just destroyed at a nearby airbase by the western government and so it's it's have to are sort of making a statement that he can still hit the downtown area but it's it's part it's partially because he's losing the front line battles and you talked

this is an american university in more than name. it is american, in its democratic spirit and in its educational philosophy. it seeks to train its students to think, relate, to eight value through and to live by principle. this is certainly true of its medical school. founded in 1867, before they had made the revolutionary discovery. >> the medical school that opened with 14 students now trains scores from all over the middle east. the teaching staff, some of whom are trained in the united states, is drawn chiefly from lebanon but includes several american physicians. heading the international faculty is an american, the dean of the medical school. american doctors teach pharmacology, anesthesiology, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery, and ophthalmology, all helping to train a student body that will spread the benefits of their medical education throughout this entire region of the world. training goes on too in lebanon's villages each summer, villages which often lack a suitable water supply. here the students do field work in prev

it was called "sdidesigning thew american university." glad to have you on. >> thank you. >> i've got a kid in college and one of the things he points out while some of the instruction and he goes to a good college, some of the instruction is good but a lot of the peer to peer learning. the feeling of being in a class with other students, a lot of that richness is being lost. is there way to capture that online? >> there's not way to capture all of it but way to capture a lot of it. we have done hundreds of millions of minutes of zoom based learning where students have not only been with faculty and each other. they have been in work groups, study groups. they have been musically creative with each other. the key is understanding that there are multiple ways to socially connect and to enhance the aspects of learning. we found this is a new option. it may not be better in every way. it may be better in some ways but it's a tremendous tool that we found. s >> one of the things i worry about with this digital learning, this shift that is ine

of course we know the economic impact on american universities.ey can't draw students from around the world, notably from china. i think there's even a more important cultural and human and spiritual and moral connection and effect both on the people who come to different countries. if someone goes from india to the uk or china to the u.s., or the u.s. to germany, that person's life is changed, in my experience, forever, the experience of being some place outside your homeland, meeting other people is different. and it's also the case for institutions. people who are still in kansas, going through wichita state. if there are foreigners there, outsider, not americans, it gives them a different perspective. so a buffering effect for all the tensions of the last generation or so between the u.s. and china in particular has been the fact that so many americans and chinese have known each other as people, as families, as tourists, as fellow students, generally they liked each other, or at least recognized their shared humanity. so i think there are --

of course we know the economic impact on american universities.an't draw students from around the world, notably from china. i think there's even a more important cultural and human and spiritual and moral connection and effect on the people who come to different countries, if someone goes from india to the uk or china to the u.s. or the u.s. to germany, that person's life has changed for example, experience of being someplace outside your homeland meeting other people is different. it's also the case for institutions, people who are still in kansas going to wichita state, if there are foreigners there, it's -- outsiders, not americans, it gives them a different perspective. so a buffering effect for all the tensions of the last generation or so between the u.s. and china particular has been the fact that so many americans and chinese have known each other as people, as families, as tourists, as fellow students, generally they liked each other, or at least recognized their shared humanity. so i think there are -- there are cultural effects and pol

and so they expanded these big universities so you have but it's not like an american university the conditions are awful. terrible overcrowding both in the classrooms everywhere else so so so the you know the university military is open to offload some of the crowding from the from the latin quarter as you said sold this campus was to paris in the middle of a slow but what happens is unlike people who are in the latin quarter of. where they had many opportunities to go to bookstores they can go to millions of cafes where you sit you're out they have take the suburban trade to get there so what happens is the people who are like on the left of a certain left all gather together and they spend all their time together so the 1st issue that comes up in 1967 was in ontario but also in a couple of the universities was the right to visit each other's dorms male female male female so so this is like the beginning of like real activism then there's a number of small incidents that follow there is a fuse in january of $68.00 the minister of youth and sport is really a minister of youth and spo

launched by the group lebanon of tomorrow, in cooperation with the mobile clinic of the lebanese-american university freely tested a symptomatically in different just -- a symptom --ally -- a asymptomatic patients. [speaking foreign language] continuee the need to testing, these programs exist. [speaking foreign language] >> health crisis has created social solidarity among citizens, and offering crucial support to the medical profession in controlling the disease. governmentael's new will be sworn in later this thursday. it took three elections in the space of the space of year to get here. went hisnetanyahu political rival agreed to form a unity government to tackle the coronavirus crisis. in thee taking turns role of prime minister with netanyahu going first. our correspondent is in jerusalem and on the potential pitfalls of this alliance. it is a question n whether itit will work. negotiation,ononths of and i think it's actually the corona government, because it would not have happened without that extra push of the health and economic crisis. pentagon's -- one man has divided and destroyeye his

this is harvard's president last march. >> harvard is an american university as that is a chinese university. our institutions have a responsibility to contribute positively to our own societies and to the national good. as well as to the world at large. but as universities, when you fulfill this charge precisely by embodying and defending academic values that transcend the values of any one country. >> laura: i love the soundtrack, by the way, underneath that. transcend the values of any nation. as we see in the current pandemic, boundaries do in fact matter, and the cpc's values are prioritized harvard has planted the students and researchers across america. most recently the university of texas, ucla, and the university of kansas. and again, you, the u.s. taxpayers, are funding this. for more than a decade i've been warning about the damage this is been doing to america, and senator tom cotton, he is rightly outraged. >> it's understandable to me that we have trained so many of the chinese communist party's brightest minds to go back to china to compete for our jobs, to take our business,

over that adds even more stress and intensity to that process back home in gorham maine after american university in washington closed its doors may have terri says she feels like she's in limbo i've been trying to take everything one day at a time to preserve my mental health for both of them and for millions of graduates in the u.s. and around the world job prospects are slim i've done some searching i mean doesn't have a lot of economic opportunities other than the tourist industry so that's entirely shot at the moment are you going to hire the kid who's like fresh out of school are you going to hire someone who's been on a desk or flight 5 years. and i don't know i just it makes me feel old it's it's tough young adults leaving college today could face a prolonged period of unemployment for many members of the class of 2020 economic fallout could linger for years decades or even longer research shows that even if and when the economy picks up again the graduates of today may struggle but we know from must be sessions that they are good evidence that it will all. begin to go so you see where in

washington some top ranking house republicans want an investigation into china's funds flowing into american universitiesthe group alleges china is attempting to steal ideas in a letter to the secretary of education they say quote we cannot allow a dangerous communist regime to buy access to our institutions of higher education the department of education is now considering launching that investigation. the chairman of n.b.c. news andrew lack is set to step down at the end of this month amid what the network is calling a decision to restructure their leadership but after decades in the mainstream media lab is no stranger to scandal and it's kind of become the hallmark of his career. blevins is joining us now to discuss this crazy turn of events so rachel what do we know so far about why he's stepping down. has been with and missy off and on for nearly 3 decades so the network is branding this is just a way to restructure their leadership as they go into focusing on news in the digital age however the timing of this is incredibly notable because just last week and this n.b.c. host chris hayes became the 1

washington some top ranking house republicans want an investigation into china's funds flowing into american universities the group alleges china is attempting to steal ideas and a letter to the secretary of education they say quote we cannot allow a dangerous communist regime to buy access to our institutions of higher education now the department of education is considering launching an investigation. and a follow up now to the story we brought you on monday venezuela has arrested 2 u.s. citizens in connection to what they call a failed see a raid aimed at ousting nicolas maduro and assassinating government officials in a televised speech one juror held up a pair of u.s. passports and read the names of 2 americans now in custody moppet has the story with the world's attention focused on the pandemic attempts to find a cure seems like the perfect time to law. then israel has just experienced events that sound like they come from a hollywood movie the military there says they've ordered an armed invasion. they try to carry out an invasion by seen a group of terrorists in their series from colombia in ord

over that adds even more stress and intensity to that process back home in gorham maine after american university in washington closed its doors may have terri says she feels like she's in limbo i've been trying to take everything one day at a time to preserve my mental health for both of them and for millions of graduates in the u.s. and around the world job prospects are slim i've done some searching i mean doesn't have a lot of economic opportunities other than the tourist industry so that's entirely shot at the moment are you going to hire the kid who's like fresh out of school are you going to hire someone who's been on a desk or a flight 5 years. and i don't know i just it makes me feel old it's it's tough young adults leaving college today could face a prolonged period of unemployment for many members of the class of 2020 the economic fallout could linger for years decades or even longer research shows that even if and when the economy picks up again the graduates of today may struggle i mean will us be sessions is that they are going to and i would say that it well to begin to go so you s

next is american university professor and bioethicist. they appear to the texas book festival in october of 2019. >> i have historically try to avoid the term racism and racist because people in this country interpreted very differently. studies show that white you will one way and blacks viewed another way. but, i had reversed up in this book because i came to understand that the term is actually key to understanding what is transpiring keep. and fortunately, language is trotting a schism pretty we often read newspapers and medical reports and elsewhere, about social economic factors. and the poverty factors. and lack of education. all of these things, make people more vulnerable we are told to environmental toxicity. in his race. poverty is certainly a risk factor. but race is a much stronger race and factor. studies have shown that african-americans with incomes of $50000 a year, are more exposed to toxins than whites. a clear indication that were talking about not economics, were talking about race predict and we have to be frank and

nationals suspected of having ties to the military or about snooping on research being done in american universities and a found favorite of the trump administration of course sanctions will be imposed on those chinese and hong kong officials that washington believes all foes of freedom . the united states will also take this is serious steps to sanction p.r.c. and hong kong officials directly or indirectly involved in eroding hong kong's entente army and so and just if you take a look smothering absolutely smothering hong kong's freedom. our actions will be strong our actions will be meaningful. now this all comes up to china greenland a clench of the actual piece of legislation for hong kong and state the national security law and that will ban treason terrorism any behavior that threatens national security beijing's move triggered mass protests this week and culminated in the arrest of around $300.00 people and states like the ones being lambasted as undermining hong kong's autonomy but while washington claims that it supports and cats about the end to china protests in hong kong these very new m

nationals suspected of having ties to the military and all up snooping on research being done in american universities and of course a fan favorite of the trumpet ministration sanctions will be imposed on those chinese and hong kong officials that washington believes are enemies of freedom. the united states will also take this is serious steps to sanction p.r.c. and hong kong officials directly or indirectly involved in a road in the hong kong zone tanami and so just if you take a look smothering absolutely smothering hong kong's freedom our actions will be strong our actions will be meaningful. this all comes up to china agreed that a controversial piece of legislation that states the national security law and that's going to climb trees and terrorism ready anything to threaten national security beijing's new track triggered mass protests this week and culminated in the arrest of around 300 people and stateside the law has been lambasted. as.

they say get it right or some are in education is really going to be the future shouldn't an american university likely today is a future president a later. one of the message that those individuals are hearing and seeing what kind of relationships are they don't. between the most important bilateral relationship in the world today when you think about it every major world issue. it's going to intersect at the corner of beijing and washington d.c. so how our respective leaders whether it's our current leaders or future deal with these issues are going to impact china the people of the united states and for that matter all of humanity that's why the stakes are so bloody hot. let me give you the last 20 seconds here because unfortunately you know the way the u.s. is constructed is every 4 years but tom's absolutely right it's the horizon's bunch of 20 seconds go ahead jim my daughter just came back from china every 5th grader in china spends one hour per day on coding i live in singapore we don't even do coding in singapore much less an iowa one owl per day for 10 year olds i think that is the bes

well already curry is a senior public policy fellow an adjunct professor of journalism at the american university of beirut and he explains now why assad's government has turned to. the most credible analysis that i've heard from syrians who know the system and have studied syria for years is that acid is passing through a very delicate moment where he's essentially won the war 'd against the people who try to overthrow him he's trying to do reconstruction and rebuilding he's got some upping up to do with it live in other places but he's also got russia and iran looking over his shoulders and there is hopefully they hope they'll be a lot of reconstruction contracts that will also be used to develop more patronage and loyalty he's lost huge amounts of money because of the regional economic situation because of the war and the pandemics impact the lebanon's collapse economically is a big hit so he's got serious serious economic stresses at a moment when he needs a lot of money to start the reconstruction process and reassert his central authority over the entire country and his independence from fo

veterans administration by american universities by various researchers also in international organizations in countries including say in vietnam or israel where that syrians who have taken part in killing that guilt that moral injury has come home and it it subsumes it can it takes over their lives these ghosts as you will take over their lives and ultimately the stress is so great that the only way to get out of that distress the only relief from it seems to be through suicide and this is not something that is new this is something that has occurred for as long as there is recorded history of warfare there has been whether there is recorded instances and certainly you're not going to have statistics going back to the roman say but certainly have anecdotal 'd evidence and recorded history as well that is for a back of the romans suicide among veterans was very common i want to talk because there are different types of war all of which i covered i covered the civil wars and central america cover the 1st gulf war which was largely mechanized or. there in the desert between saudi arabia and k

next is american university professor and harriet washington.they appear at the texas books festival in october 2019. >> i have historically tried to avoid the term racism and raci racist, that is because people in this country interpreted very differently, studies show that many white people view it in one white and blacks define it differently, i had to reverse that my latest book because i came to understand that the term was a key to understand what is inspiring and important language has been used to shroud the reality of racism and when it comes to an toxic city, we read in newspapers and reports elsewhere about factors in the property factors and lack of education and they make people more vulnerable and it is not true, it is race, poverty is a risk factor. but race is a much stronger risk factor and the best thing i can think of that studies have shown that african-americans with income with $50000 a year helping middle-class are more exposed to toxins then only $10000 a year. a clear indication of talking about race. we have to be frank

in a word, the american university is in the grips of a mass hysteria. students actually believe that they are victims of oppression at risk of their lives from racism and sexism. the degree of caterwailing is hard to overstate. at brown students occupy the office and having to go to class when they were so focused at staying alive at brown. at yale, a mob of minority students surrounded a highly respected socialologist and cursed and screamed at him for three hours because his wife sent an e-mail suggesting that students could choose their own halloween costumes, free from the mintrations. and among the shouts of shut the f up, i'm censoring that, that we're directed at the mild mannered left wing professor was the cry of, we're dying, from one of the ranters, referring to the allegedly endangered status of yale's minority students. but my favorite moment in this parade of narcissism came from princeton. in 2015 princeton's black students chanted, we're sick and tired of being sick and tired. now, this phrase was first used by fannie lou hammer, a civil