she also serves as a political science professor at boston university. questions, calls and regionally if you are in the eastern or central time zones, (202) 748-8000. mountain or pacific time zones, (202) 748-8001. and that special one for post-9/11 veterans, keeping that open, (202) 748-8002. kathy has been waiting in boulder, colorado. good morning. caller: high. host: go ahead, you are on. caller: high. all, i finally got through. gosh, that was such an intelligent conversation that you just had. i don't even know where to begin. i was watching television and you are talking about things that have nothing to do with what the television is telling me. host: caffe, we appreciate you watching. we'll go to alex in new york city. the line for those in the eastern or central time zone. caller: good morning. first of all, i have a question. trump, when held was on the campaign trail, would always keep saying that we spend more than $6 trillion on war. and yet, he is starting and waging war. i mean, he is supporting yemen war when the saudis kill innocent pe

when doctor thurman was at boston university, king was there finishing his doctorate. >> i hewent thurmato watce ries. they kw >> at that point when he was there talking to doctor thurman francisco to be pastor of the fellowship church. >> isn't that something. my question is what if he had come to sanford let's go in that of going? that is when she learned that he had just decided to go to montgomery. what if he had come. would there have been a civil rights movement without kings leadership>> that is a very interesting question. >> on the surface, mrs. king, san francisco looked like a better place to be. caretta was an opera singer and he may have taught in that. he was offered positions. >> i want to come back to, people were trying to read thurman. i want to recommend some of the books to get the whole of him. with talk about his role. >> yes let's not forget that. please come back for our last segment as we learn more about howard thurman. >>> we have been with reverend doctor dorsey blake. he has shared with us how thurman influence. tell bout the book series. >> the most critical b

she also serves as a political science professor at boston university.stions, calls and regionally if you are in the eastern or central time zones, (202) 748-8000. mountain or pacific time zones, (202) 748-8001. and that special one for post-9/11 veterans, keeping that open, (202) 748-8002. kathy has been waiting in boulder, colorado. good morning. caller: high. host: go ahead, you are on. caller: high. all, i finally got through. gosh, that was such an intelligent conversation that you just had. i don't even know where to begin. i was watching television and you are talking about things that have nothing to do with what the television is telling me. host: caffe, we appreciate you watching. we'll go to alex in new york city. the line for those in the eastern or central time zone. caller: good morning. first of all, i have a question. trump, when held was on the campaign trail, would always keep saying that we spend more than $6 trillion on war. and yet, he is starting and waging war. i mean, he is supporting yemen war when the saudis kill innocent people

then boston university professor nina crawford talks about the cost of the war on terror since september 11, two thousand one. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 p.m. the midterm election of 2018 changed the balance of power in congress with democrats taking control of the house and republicans holding majority in the senate. members now prepare for the new senate in january. , new leaders. watch the process unfold on c-span. >> this week on newsmakers. we also have in studio with us tonya snyder. and kelly. tonya, go ahead with the first question. >> i wanted to start by asking about the infrastructure brand that you talked about. you plan to start off the session, trying to get in infrastructure plan, not unlike the one that donald trump could not get through progress. i want to ask you about the politics. why you think that republican said be willing to go along with a big infrastructure spending bill. >> -- rep. defazio: the president will not be able to claim credit that they control the senate, white house, and house. there's was based on privatization, polli

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codirector of the cost of war project at broad and university of political science progress or at boston university. professor crawford, your group has pegged the current total at $5.9 trillion. before we get into how you came up with that number, remind us what overseas operations are included in the war on terror? guest: the united states has obviously got troops in afghanistan, iraq. and there are

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going back to graduate school, she was a boston university. driving up and said hey, we go to start school, would you think, should we stick around? no, go. this is a day when there's no cell phones. and so, we are on the road. we get out there. they've been looking for a good weekend up there and there is the press corps at our house or apartment. and then we find out, i mean, literally find out next then had resigned or was going to resign and that was going to change everything. we had to jump on a plane the next day to come to washington for the swearing-in of my father. >> that was a big summer for the ford family. wedding, dad becomes president. so, mrs. august 9, 1974 and your mother sat in her memoir that this was the saddest day of her life. why do you think that is? >> i remember her saying that. i think for two reasons, at one level she was very sad if many of us were to see a sitting president, richard nixon, have to resign from office. this was a dark day for our nation for many reasons. that had never happened before. .. moreimen

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she is a professor and department chair of political science at boston university.fessor crawford, thank you for joining us. tell us what you have found at this point. >> we found after 17 years, these wars are at a stalemate and we have plans to keep going. we're going to spend probably another $100 billion over the next five years. that is in addition to the nearly six dollars trillion we've already spent and obligated. juan: in terms of the american people largely see these wars as winding down. obviously, more and more u.s. troops are pulled out. but yet, the death toll, especially in places like afghanistan, seems to be on the increase. >> that's right. in afghanistan, the number of suicide attacks by militants or the family between the militants -- the fighting between the militants and the forces of u.s. and the afghan military and police is increasing in some areas. in fact, the u.s. military sees this war as basically at a stalemate. and that is in part why the united states has moved toward negotiations with the taliban and. amy: can you talk about what y

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ann mckee up at boston university who did the cte neuropathological study also says that the statisticsrcentile. >> tucker: what percentage of those see their lives affected negatively by those injuries? >> well, i have players that range in age from 31 all the way up until 70. they are all affected by it they all come in and have the same symptoms, the same complaints and the same problems it's just where they're on the spectrum. how bad it has gotten. >> tucker: is there any way to stop the progression of this impairment? >> well, there are some studies going on. jupiter medical center down here in palm beach county has hyperbaric chamber program with joe nemeth that seems to be promising that it might work. >> tucker: it's a sad story. thank you very much for sharing with us. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> tammy: important stuff what's really going on there when we are all distracted by something else, right? our inside the issues continues just ahead with a look how major retailers are going beyond the law and implementing their own o versios of gun control. if that'st. coming up

in afghanistan iraq and syria that speak to crawford she's a professor of political science a boston university is also the author of that report she's joining us live from washington d.c. thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera so that figure of five point nine trillion dollars is actually quite outstanding but you say that this number defers substantially from the pentagon's estimates why is there a difference. ok well first let me explain that the figure of five point nine trillion includes all war and war related expenses the pentagon's overseas contingency operations spending is only about one point nine trillion through fiscal year twenty nineteen the rest of the money that we're talking about is war related spending in the pentagon that's not specifically authorized for these wars and it also includes department of homeland security spending veterans affairs spending that's related to the post nine eleven war veterans interest on the debt that is actually more than the spending annually on these wars and so on so it includes things that are related to the wars so what the pentagon gives

unsustainable and the report author needs a cough and is a professor of political science at boston university she says america is effectively paying for wars on a credit card the united states has not actually paid for these wars by taxi me american public or selling war bonds the the wars are on a credit card and what that means is we pay interest any really on war spending but we'll pay interest long after the wars are over unless we start taxing the american people to pay for the wars and in the second factor of increased expense is that there right now about three million post nine eleven war veterans and those veterans are not so healthy now and they're only going to be less healthy as they age causing increased expense the peak of spending for those veterans will be decades from now for from now. now one of the most expensive and kills the watch tries in u.s. history is happening in new york for mexican drug king king thing hockey englishman known as el chapo he's accused of trafficking firearms and money laundering charges that could see him locked up for the rest of his life and his b

stuart: boston university by the way. >> thank you. stuart: degree in international economics.he got it from. socialists are not interested in economic growth. they're not. they think that the cake all stays the same size. you just got to reslice it so workers, people on low incomes, get more of the cake. that is the way they see it. i'm astonished at this. she just is newly-elected. she will now hold these views in congress. does she intend to go to new york city and say, forget it, we don't want amazon, go away? can you believe that? >> she is horrified amazon, multibillion-dollar company, one of the biggest in the world will get a tax break. she doesn't understand, when you have a lot of power, makes you attractive to other cities to bring you there. if amazon chooses long island city. they say, you know what? i'm part of that tornado of economic activity. sometimes you have to, sometimes you have to invest and attract in order to grow. and to me. she is such an embarassment to the 70,000 people that voted for her, and to everyone in queens, that i think it is about time she

boston. welcome. and last but not least, professor marty black from northeastern university is the director of the public history program and professor of the practice of history at northeastern. previously, he worked for the national park service and boston and lowell for 24 years as an historian and cultural resource in 2013, he conceived and coordinated and historical pageant in boston called roots of liberty, the haitian revolution and the american civil war. has served as the president of the national council of public history and also in the executive board of the organization of american historians. his resume credits include the old south meeting house number of alamogordo museum of traveling exhibit on the history of the gulags. or editor the author or coeditor of five books including hope and glory, which is a book that grew out of a conference you organize on the 100th anniversary of the robert gould shaw memorial use of 54th monument which has tremendous andys on the shaw memorial its place in boston's public memory. i'm delighted to welcome all of you to boston and pacific university. thank

thank you. >> i have a question, you talked about the number of colleges in boston and university, and i didn't -- i have two parts, i didn't understand. are they allowed to do their own investigations and are they ever referred to you or they're just handled in the university disciplinary system? >> as i stated some of the universities have their own sexual assault investigators and they conduct their own investigations. we are currently in the process with the largest school who has that and is developing an mou with them. we have currently in the northeast and that is actually in effect, but the other schools are working between our legal and their legal in terms of how to share information. particularly, in terms of if they have the investigation and if it's on their property, they handle the investigation. if they do not have the trained investigators, primarily the smallest group, we're the lead investigators on that, but the mou is helpful in terms of exchanging information and particularly for public safety matters and if there are assailants that everyone should be well aware

sung—yoon lee is a scholar of korean and east asian studies at tufts university in boston.s. i don't think they are very significant. even for north korea, one would be hard—pressed to argue this is a major provocation. both the us and south korea have already cancelled large—scale combined military exercises, one that was scheduled for december as well. so i think south korea is trying to paint itself to the us, principally, as not an excessively appeasement—prone party. the us has right now some misgivings about south korea's intention to resume the very generous kind of schemes, the unilateral aid that we have seen in the past when south korea was pouring into north korea's state coffers almost ever year for many years in the past. let's talk about the state of affairs, if we can, at the moment. they are complicated, but we heard from mike pompeo earlier saying he was optimistic about negotiation of the talk resuming again. in your assessment, we're are we now after those historic moment with donald trump and kimjong—un in singapore injune, what the state of the affair i

in new york karen greenberg director of the center on national security at fordham university school of law and in boston blank call a full mccoy real fist the cia welcome to you old charles the move by the senate how do you see it is a rebuke of trump's handling of this just case or a result of the international outcry against the war in yemen well i think. the response from the u.s. senate was very much of a request for more information the original intent of the hearing was to discuss the situation in yemen the united states participation in support of saudi arabia but quickly the focus of the hearing turned into talking about because shogi and again it's no surprise that we had our top diplomat and our military official with mike pompei o and jim mattis both presenting on behalf of the administration and the government. so in this situation excuse me i do believe that the you know the u.s. senate wants more information about what's happening in the middle east with our strategic partner an ally saudi arabia karen do you see it as charles has been basically saying just bush by the senate to. a request

as my friend curtis wilke, the veteran "boston globe" reporter who now teaches at the university of mississippississippi of white republicans crossing over to vote for a democratic candidate much less a black democrat. so it's -- it's going to be a very close-run thing, i think. most people believe that senator hyde-smith will pull it out, however, if she doesn't, it will be a real humiliation for truchbl. >> yeah. >> there's not a more trumpian state in the universe, and that's why he's going to tupalo tomorrow and that's why he's going to biloxi. it's a dramatic end to what's been a really fascinating year for elections. >> to say the least. in fact, mississippi has not elected a democrat to the senate since 1982. i'm looking at the numbers from november 5th and .9% is the differential between hyde-smith and mike espy. the other two combined run up to almost 18%. so give me a prediction, howell. how do you see this playing out? you said she's expected to squeak it out. do you think that's going to happen on tuesday? >> no, i have to say i don't think it happens, but i want to hedge that by sa

states and fears returning he's a senior fellow at georgetown university center for muslim christian understanding . for joining me from boston the saudi authorities had your father in prison last year and charged with over thirty five different crimes including corrupting the land connection to a terrorist organization and offending patriotism what's your response to the saudi authorities and to those charges well it's the same operation are going on is going on actually for dissidents brode for those who disagree at home for journalists economists public figures in general so my response is that the charge is actually represent how the state would crack down on any different view and on any person who disagrees and sadly prosecuted in september of this year called for your father's execution to do you think they're serious about that that they would really execute a cleric as prominent as your father salma out well do you think those who went to the saudi consulate were so. to take the liar for the prominent journalist and veteran. i mean it's the same mentality it's a pattern it didn't it did not start with my father did n

corey is a senior fellow and professor at the american university of beirut he was a friend of jim joins us via skype now from boston thanks very much for being with us so i want to ask you first of all what are the implications. cia reports which is come to the conclusion that they believe mohammed bin some man was behind the killing and president. position at the moment that he's not entirely convinced about that. well president trumps position like on most foreign policy issues is all over the place it goes up and down his factually a pretty ignorant about most of these issues and morally he seems to be pretty untethered he doesn't have strong moral convictions is seems to be motivated more by making america grit as he says and promoting the business dealings of his family and cronies. and selling of american equipment the really significant mentions of the cia leak are actually quite extraordinary in my view because you now have a question a way or at least confiscation between the cia and the president in making foreign policy you have internal differences serious differences within the republican party and you

he is an accountant an immigrant from boston is joined by his daughter son now she's studying public health policy at the university of minnesota she was born in the u.s. and we have seven and she joins us from portland oregon president of the republican muslim coalition she immigrated to the united states from pakistan hello everybody it is good to have you reunited again so it's been a year it's been a lot of yeah lots of things to talk about i just went through your various twitter accounts i found the it's donald j. trump this was from november the sixth to men to success tonight thank you to all seventy you going to own to posting that one to reach one. well we won the senate and we've strengthened a republican hold on coming confirmation hearings and a lot of hopefully we have another supreme court nominee and i think it will go through much smoother now that we have control of the senate so are you feeling that you're doing so much winning right now as a republican. not so much we were disappointed to see us lose a few races in the house and obviously democrats stepped up their game but i think it gives us m

boston by skype glenn carr former career cia officer and the former deputy national intelligence officer of the trans national threats and scott lucas a professor of american studies at the university of birmingham in thank you for joining us gentlemen let me start with glen so how does the cia typically investigate and reach a conclusion like this without getting you to you know obviously speculate on what the cia actually has. right well i don't need to speculate at all on how the process functions inside there from the lowest level up to the very top from my career a to what we call as a tasking it will be a request for information will come or we may develop it ourselves who ordered the killing of his show for example and then it's sent out to all of the conceivable. parts of the intelligence community not just cia to human sources which is where i spent my career working on or to tactical sources be they from satellites or telephone taps or interviews open source media and so on each report is then sent back and each report is evaluated multiple times by the person who collects it i think that this is reliable and here is why and by the people who receive it who say i don't th

states and fears returning he's a senior fellow at georgetown university's center for muslim christian understanding. for joining me from boston the saudi authorities had your father in prison last year and charged with over thirty five different crimes including corrupting the land connection to a terrorist organization and offending them what's your response to the saudi authorities and to those charges well it's the same operation going on is going on actually for dissidents abroad for those who disagree at home for journalists economists public figures in general so my response is that the charge is actually represent how the state would crack down on any different view and on any person who disagrees and sadly prosecutors in september of this year called for your father's execution to do you think they're serious about that that they would really execute a cleric as prominent as your father salma out well do you think those who went to the saudi consulate were serious to take the life of the prominent journalist and veteran saudi. it's i mean it's the same mentality it's a pattern it didn't it did not start with my father

states and fears returning he's a senior fellow at georgetown university center for muslim christian understanding . for joining me from boston the saudi authorities had your father in prison last year and charged with over thirty five different crimes including corrupting the land connection to a terrorist organization and offending patriotism what's your response to the saudi authorities and to those charges well it's the same operation are going on is going on actually for dissidents brode for those who disagree at home for journalists economists public figures in general so my response is that the charge is actually represent how the state would crack down on any different view and on any person who disagrees and saudi prosecutors in september of this year called fuel for the execution to do you think they're serious about that that they would really execute a cleric as prominent as your father salma out well do you think those who went to the saudi consulate were so. to take the liar for the prominent journalist and veteran. it's i mean it's the same mentality it's a pattern it didn't it did not start with my father did

philosopher and associate professor at georgetown university in new york eli clifton fellow at nation institute and contributing editor at low blog and in boston rami hooty senior fellow at harvard kennedy school welcome to the program so carl let me start with you now that jeff sessions has been fired not really a surprise but how much do you think that could impact robert muller's investigation well it depends what trump has planned he's already whitacre the replacement is somebody who's very anti the investigation whether they're going to follow through and try to fire sessions or not remains to be seen that's a strong possibility but we don't know what's in trump's mind rami let me ask you what about russia overall i mean do you think now that the democrats have taken control of the house of representatives and have much more power to investigate do you think that we're going to be seeing a lot more investigations as far as trump's possible ties to russia. for sure we're going to see vesta geishas we're going to see requests for classified or private material like bank accounts or tax returns and things of that nature which the the committ

minnesota we have aids he is an accountant an immigrant from boston is joined by his daughter son now she's studying public health policy at the university of minnesota she was born in the u.s. and we have seven and she joins us from portland oregon president of the republican muslim coalition she immigrated to the united states from pakistan hello everybody it is good to have you reunited again so it's been a year it's been a lot of yeah lots of things to talk about i didn't rummaging through your various twitter accounts i found the it's donald j. trump this was from november the sixth to men to success tonight thank you to all seventy you going to own to posting that one to retreating at one. well we won the senate and we've strengthened a republican hold on coming confirmation hearings and a lot of you have another supreme court nominee i think it will go through much smoother now that we have control of the senate so are you feeling that you're doing so much winning right now as a republican. not so much that we were disappointed to see us lose a few races in the house and obviously democrats stepped up their game but i think it giv

thinking of romney who is a journalism professor at the american university of beirut a friend of jamal khashoggi as well he's on skype from boston today hi rami so as i was saying to roslyn jordan little bit early yeah if we just look at the intelligence side of things first of all this shouldn't be an issue a president should believe his or her intelligence community and yet that may be the sticking point here right that don't trump doesn't want to take him at they would or take this particular would this really several issues and that's one of them the relationship between trump and his various security agencies has been quite rocky the second one is the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia as a long term strategic relationship and the third one is the personal relationship between trump and miss some of the larger question are and who have been so many and which other members of the family which presumably has some private business implications as many of trump's reversions do so there's three or four different dimensions to this but the idea the fact that the cia released this and leaked this information t

boston by skype glenn carr former career cia officer and the former deputy national intelligence officer of the trans national threats and scott lucas a professor of american studies at the university of birmingham in thank you for joining us gentlemen let me start with glen so how does the cia typically investigate and reach a conclusion like this without getting you to you know obviously speculate on what the cia actually has. right well i don't need to speculate at all on how the process functions inside there from the lowest level up to the very top from my career a to what we call as a tasking it will be a request for information will come or we may develop it ourselves who ordered the killing of his show for example and then it's sent out to all of the conceivable. parts of the intelligence community not just the cia to human sources which is where i spent my career working on or to tactical sources be they from satellites or telephone taps or interviews open source media and so on each report is then sent back and each report is evaluated multiple times by the person who collects it i think that this is reliable and here is why and by the people who receive it who say i don'

sin boston by skype glenn carr former career cia officer and the former deputy national intelligence officer of the transnational threats and scott lucas a professor of american studies at the university of birmingham in thank you for joining us gentlemen let me start with glen so how does the cia typically investigate and reach a conclusion like this without getting you to you know obviously speculate on what the cia actually has. right well i don't need to speculate at all on how the process functions inside there from the lowest level up to the very top from my career a to what we call as a tasking it will be a request for information will come or we may develop it ourselves who ordered the killing of his show for example and then it's sent out to all of the conceivable. parts of the intelligence community not just cia to human sources which is where i spent my career working on or to tactical sources be they from satellites or telephone taps or interviews open source media and so on each report is then sent back and each report is evaluated multiple times by the person who collects it i think that this is reliable and here is why and by the people who receive it who say i don't th

philosopher and associate professor at georgetown university in new york eli clifton fellow at nation institute and contributing editor at low blog and in boston rami hooty senior fellow at harvard kennedy school welcome to the program so carl let me start with you now that jeff sessions has been fired not really a surprise but how much do you think that could impact robert muller's investigation well it depends what trump has planned he's already whitacre the replacement is somebody who's very anti the investigation whether they're going to follow through and try to fire sessions or not remains to be seen that's a strong possibility but we don't know what's in trump's mind rami let me ask you what about russia overall i mean do you think now that the democrats have taken control of the house of representatives and have much more power to investigate do you think that we're going to be seeing a lot more investigations as far as trump's possible ties to russia. for sure we're going to see vesta geishas we're going to see requests for classified or private material like bank accounts or tax returns and things of that nature which the the committ

philosopher and associate professor at georgetown university in new york eli clifton fellow at nation institute and contributing editor at low blog and in boston rami hooty senior fellow at harvard kennedy school welcome to the program so carl let me start with you now that jeff sessions has been fired not really a surprise but how much do you think that could impact robert muller's investigation well it depends what trump has planned he's already whitacre the replacement is somebody who's very anti the investigation whether they're going to follow through and try to fire sessions or not remains to be seen that's a strong possibility but we don't know what's in trump's mind rami let me ask you what about russia overall i mean do you think now that the democrats have taken control of the house of representatives and have much more power to investigate do you think that we're going to be seeing a lot more investigations as far as trump's possible ties to russia. for sure we're going to see vesta geishas we're going to see requests for classified or private material like bank accounts or tax returns and things of that nature which the the committ

difference between the boston modernism that dominated our universitiies from the mid-1980s and the identity politics that's dominant today. and third, what we can do inside the universities is very limit but that doesn't mean there's nothing to do. there are initiatives to be taken outside of the universities. first a remark about norm. for the last since about the summer of 2015, we have been hearing that norms are under threat in the united states because of the utterances and actions of donald trump. i think the actions and the utterances of donald trump should be inspected carefully no doubt he has disrupted politics, governance, campaigning. but, trump overturning or undermining of norms it seems to me is as very little compared to what has been taken place in our universities for now going on about 80 years. it seems to me identity politics represented the latest the most recent of these assaults. what is identity politics? i had a few propositions to what john has already ably said. first this idea that what's most important about you is your group identity. usually the most relevant groups are race, class, and gender. individual rights come second. group rights -

. >> cbs boston station wbz looks at a study that suggests hot coffee may be healthier than cold brew. thomas jefferson university health benefitting antioxidant. they found hot and cold brews have similar levels of acidity. some scientists believed cold brew had less acid and would cause less heart burn and stomach problems. i don't drink coffee. is there a difference between the taste? >> i like my coffee hot. >> well, it depends. on a hot day a cold brew is lovely but hot coffee in the morning -- >> sounds like you all need to start drinking hot. >> i always drink hot. >>> britain's "guardian" reports the pacific island nation of palau will be the first in the world to ban sunscreen that's toxic to reefs. starting january, 2020, it will prohibit lotions containing any of 10 chemicals linked to coral bleaching. anyone importing or selling the banned sunscreen will be fined. it will be confiscated from tourists as well. in may, hawaii announced a ban on reef toxic sunscreens to take effect in 2021. >>> "time" says the minnesota timber wolfes are paying tribute to prince with purple uniforms. purple was his favor

sin boston by skype glenn carr former career cia officer and the former deputy national intelligence officer of the transnational threats and scott lucas a professor of american studies at the university of birmingham in thank you for joining us gentlemen let me start with glen so how does the cia typically investigate and reach a conclusion like this without getting you to you know obviously speculate on what the cia actually has. right well i don't need to speculate at all on how the process functions inside there from the lowest level up to the very top from my career a to what we call as a tasking it will be a request for information will come or we may develop it ourselves who ordered the killing of his show for example and then it's sent out to all of the conceivable. parts of the intelligence community not just the cia to human sources which is where i spent my career working on or to tactical sources be they from satellites or telephone taps or interviews open source media and so on each report is then sent back and each report is evaluated multiple times by the person who collects it i think that this is reliable and here is why and by the people who receive it who say i don'

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boston globe" reporter and editor. and the view from flyover country and the coverage of the 2016 election and jonathan the professor university of north carolina and to explain america's great divide. so before we get into our conversation i last to read a couple of poems from his book. . >> thank you to the boston festival and this was a very condescending phase in the region of the country. also in my book i write about american foreign policy so that resonates with the political as well so it is about how my brothers and i had the pittance. and even as we reach down trembling under the straw bale to be under the cover of darkness and making certain we would not see them again and until we saw them having gone that night she made a decision any mother might make with the intentions of the state to go and to go now taking everything that you love. [applause] . >> and at the end of the panel and as we often times think what it is there is violence in the country and so this grapples with that so it may seem sinister seeking some solace after the evening news coming back with a songbird in his mouth. and the mulberry branches