joining me to discussion, carol swain. here is a course description. ts the form of dispossession that black americans face and offers a critical examination of the prison industrial complex, urban poverty and white supremacy in the u.s. dr. swain, does this offering by your former employer shock you in any way? >> no. critical race theory was around -- it's been around for decades but what we do know is that it did not stay on the university campuses, that it has permeated every sector of our society and we know the harmful effect of taking that dangerous ideology that divides americans into the k-12 classroom and so i think that we now see that there needs to be a reckoning with universities, especially those that are turning out the future leaders of tomorrow, the ivy league schools, where the graduates dominate our society. todd: to push back on that concept for a moment, we've seen in recent weeks, recent months a pushback on the elite institutions, on your ivy leagues, from an employer perspective, saying i don't know if i love the employees that

join the conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments, and tweets for carol swain, on book tv. ♪ we are back with a discussion on voting rights legislation. ken cuccinelli, who is the national chair of the election transparency initiative. welcome to you both. thank you for being here. i want to begin with what the house did earlier this week. it passed the john lewis voting rights advancement act of 2021. here is what the registration says. it is captioners -- it establishes new criteria for preclearance before changes to putting practices may take effect, and outlines factors courts must consider when hearing challenges to voting practices such as the history of official voting discrimination. lisa cylar barrett, let me go to you first. what is the impact of this legislation? descendant has not passed it, but what do you think it would do? guest: first, thank you so much for having me this morning, for having this discussion. we are at a critical point in our country, so thank you. this is really important legislation. the voting rights act was designed to enforce voting rig

join the come first asian -- the conversation for carol swain live at noon eastern on in-depth on book tv. >> president biden held a virtual briefing today to discuss the federal government response to hurricane hideout, including where fema administrator as well as governors and local mayors of louisiana and mississippi affected by the hurricane. pres. biden: good afternoon. we are waiting for a couple people, we are going to get started. thank you for joining me. the fema director is on. i am here with my senior advisor . and senator from louisiana. what i'm going to do is make a brief statement and tell you what we are going to do for them, and hear from you. i know you're busy as the devil. you have a lot to manage in your states, the fact is, we both want to hear from you. we know hurricane ida has the potential to cause massive damage. is what we saw. we already know, at least one confirmed death, and that number is likely to grow. we've got a million people in louisiana without power. for time, ida caused the mississippi river to change direction. some folks are still dealing wi

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chair of the 1776 commission, carol swain on in-depth. how critical race theory is burning down the house. join the conversation. your phone calls, facebook comments, texts, and tweets. live at noon eastern on c-span. ♪ >> house speaker nancy pelosi held a briefing with reporters this morning on the legislative agenda from capitol hill, this is about 25 minutes. >> good morning, everyone. i want to salute my caucus for the values for excepting the budget, the build back better initiative. the team effort for us to win the vote. i want to salute the distinguished majority leader. kathleen clark, all of the members of the leadership who work so hard on this. it was not just about that vote. it was about how we proceed and make it law within the next couple of months, six weeks, whatever. really the vision of the president, he had said i want to do what i can in a bipartisan way on infrastructure but it is not the totality of my vision. my vision is to build back better, not only with physical infrastructure but personal infrastructure. i am

. >> september 5, carol swain is our guest on in-depth. her recent book is "black eye for america." join the conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments, text and tweets for carol swain on september 5 at noon eastern on in-depth on book tv. ♪ host: good morning and welcome to washington journal. the united states has lost some members in afghanistan and killed a member of isis-k that killed the dozen americans and more than 100 afghan citizens. this comes as the white house imposed deadlines of leaving the country this week. but with an active terrorist threat now and afghanistan some in washington are calling a president joe biden to leave boots on the ground to protect american lives and our afghanistan allies. our question for you this morning, should we extend our exit deadline in afghanistan? we open up regular lines. that means republicans, we want to hear from you at (202)-748-8001. democrats, your line is (202)-748-8000. independents, we want to hear from you at (202)-748-8002. we open a special line for afghanistan veterans. if you were part of the conflict in afg

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join us for carol swain september 5 on "in-depth" on book tv. >> pentagon press secretary john kirby and u.s. central command commander, general kenneth mckenzie, provided updates on the suicide bombing at an airport in kabul, afghanistan. this is half an hour. >> good afternoon, everybody. today, the briefing will belong to general mckenzie. general, can you hear me? gen. mckenzie: i can see and hear you fine. >> the general will have brief opening remarks and we will address the events in kabul in -- and the evacuation mission and where we are, where we are going. i will moderate the questions as we have done before. i will call on you before you ask your question. identify yourselves and your outlet so the general has an idea who he is talking to. we have 30 minutes and we have a hard stop at 3:30. general mckenzie come over to you, sir. gen. mckenzie: it is a hard day today. as you know, two suicide bombers and isis bombers designated at -- detonated at the airport and hotel which is adjacent. the attack at the gate was followed by isis gunmen who opened fire. we know 12 u.s. ser

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. >> live sunday, september 5, vice chair of president's 1776 commission, carol swain, is our guest on "in-depth." her other titles include "we, the people," and "debating immigration." join with you phone calls, facebook comments and tweets live sunday, september 5 at noon eastern on book tv. mark greenberg is with the migration policy institute. he is also the former hhs acting assistant secretary for the administration for children and families, certainly from 2013 2017. mr. greenberg what about these afghan refugees in re-steadily -- resettling the united states? first of all, what is the vetting process like? guest: first, let me just begin by saying a little more broadly, it is a devastating situation which has been very difficult. it is encouraging how many people have been able to get out over the last couple of weeks, but there are so many who are still there, and there is urgent need both for those who have gotten out and for those who have been -- as to the vetting process, and normal vetting process for the refugee program and for special immigrant visas, which we will talk

carol swain, congressman august pfluger and tommy laran all live.s it. ♪ todd: it is tuesday, august 10th. 10th. democrats on a spending spree as they look to push through a multi trillion dollar budget package. why republicans are calling it a socialist shopping list. jillian: florida governor ron de santis going head to head with school boards looking to impose mask mandates. what his office says it will do to those who defy his ban. todd: busting a move, breaking the rules, the internet crying foul as

doctor carol swain joins me to discuss. he is a quote from that letter.her than reject our founding values embrace family, faith, and entrepreneurship. the curriculum maintains a special focus on stories that celebrate black excellence. do you think schools will listen to black conservatives saying crt is wrong, 1776 is right or will they continue to listen to the white liberals who get fired up about crt and wanted in your school? >> the white liberals own crt. for black schools that are predominantly black, people who are honestly looking for solutions would be enthusiastic, and black and city schools across america need to teach america's true racial history so i believe the curriculum will be used in places where parents and teachers make the decision and not liberal school boards. neil: college releasing 1776 curriculum to give k-12 features tools to teach a more patriotic approach to american history. our curriculum was created by teachers and professors, not activists or journalists or bureaucrats. he comes from years of study america, its history

during the conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments, text, and tweets for carol swain, livetember 5 noon eastern on in-depth -- eastern in-depth on book tv. ♪ >> the population of china in 1949 when the communists took control was 540 million people. during these 72 years, the prc has had five principal leaders. deng xiaoping, you jintao, and since 2012 the current head of state is she shing ping. -- xi jinping. david shambaugh has written close to 30 books devoted to the subject of asia. we talked with the professor about his newest book titled china's leaders from mow to now. >> listen to book notes plus at c-span.org/podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. >> washington journal continues. host: we are joined by michael kugelman, the asia program deputy director at the asia center. he focus on afghanistan, asia, and pakistan for the organization. let's begin with the attack at the airport and what does it mean for the future of afghanistan? guest: i think it is a reminder that even though the taliban has acquired an end to its war, there is still a lot of violence and

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carol swain is exposing how cr. >> it is being weaponized to divide our nation.t it and she is going to discuss it coming up next. ♪ i ainsley: a new book is challenging critical race theory as creeps into creeps into classrooms nationwide. opposing the threat crt posing to our students and american values. the author of that book dr. carol swain and christopher shoor join us both. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> why did you say burning down the house? >> well, the house is america critical race theory has permeated every institution. it is destroying our nation. so it is burning down the house. and if you think about black lives matter and antifa, they literally burnt down parts of america. ainsley: dr. shoor, what led you to write this book. >> we both came to this project because there was an outpouring of concern from parents, from citizens legislators all across the country for surrounding the spread of these devices and really racist themes out of critical race theory and into our major social institutions. so we wanted to just explain language nonacad