in march of this year the center for american progress the policy research and advocacy organization for the democratic party establishment released a report that outlined the ways in which creating a fair process to combat sexual harassment is essential to women's progress noting that when any part of the process for. soaring sexual harassment claims is flawed it undermines the credibility of and trust in the process overall and according to documents obtained by buzz feed news the center for american progress needs to take its own advice on the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace allegedly junior staffer quit due to sexual harassment and then retaliation for reporting it creating a hostile work environment that many confirmed to buzz feed was simply part of the culture of their management was accused of failing to promptly take action on numerous complaints not making a process available to staff or complaints and for failing to take reasonable steps to prevent incidences of sexual harassment in the workplace and the words of one of the accusers quote i surely expected bette

in march of this year the center for american progress the policy research and advocacy organization for the democratic party establishment released a report that outlined the ways in which creating a fair process to combat sexual harassment is essential to women's progress noting that when any part of the process for kids. during sexual harassment claims is flawed it undermines the credibility of and trust in the process overall and according to documents obtained by buzz feed news the center for american progress needs to take its own advice on the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace allegedly junior staffer quit due to sexual harassment and then retaliation for reporting it creating a hostile work environment that many confirmed to buzz feed was simply part of the culture their management was accused of failing to promptly take action on numerous complaints not making a process available to staff or complaints and for failing to take reasonable steps to prevent incidences of sexual harassment in the workplace and the words of one of the accusers quote i surely expected bett

in march of this year the center for american progress the policy research and advocacy organization for the democratic party establishment released a report that outlined the ways in which creating a fair process to combat sexual harassment is essential to women's progress noting that when any part of the process for. suffering sexual harassment claims is flawed it undermines the credibility of and trust in the process overall and according to documents obtained by buzz feed news the center for american progress needs to take its own advice on the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace allegedly junior staffer quit due to sexual harassment and then retaliation for reporting it creating a hostile work environment that many confirmed to buzz feed was simply part of the culture there management was accused of failing to promptly take action on numerous complaints not making a process available to staff or complaints and for failing to take reasonable steps to prevent incidences of sexual harassment in the workplace and the words of one of the accusers quote i surely expected better

definitely hangs out with good people good composer while he was at the center for american progress. he is accused of sending lewd and inappropriate text messages numerous female colleagues a story that was confirmed by at least five other employees and one a female staffer finally complained about this behavior she found that not only was she the one that was moved away from the team but that other team members and people in the in the within the organization were told not to talk to her and i was a work environment so while yet is three days paid vacation for being a lewd and lascivious scumbag in the word allegedly sure. yeah sure. so yeah so that's my thing as one staffer said this is the thing when this happens because it shows that all these things that you're doing and you're trying to be this progressive woman imagine this is the time when everybody thought hillary was going to win these women walked and think this is our we're finally going to have the real year of the woman and what ends up happening is one staffer had said quote you take garbage money to work at something

and he worked his life at the center for american progress, this local state and federal policymakers and lawmakers to make sure that discriminatory exclusions which forbid transgender people from accessinghealthcare that we need to transition, make sure those exclusions were rightfully banned . to make sure that lgbtq people were informed of their options under the affordable care. one of the most bittersweet moment for me was about a year after andy passed, there was that, we talked about the remarks that attorney general lynch gave in north carolina. there was that week i call the best trans week ever where we saw a bunch of significant action from the federal government. we saw the issue of guidance, we saw protections under the affordable care act expanded and one of the most bittersweet moments of looking through the regulation that they issued under the affordable care act attacking transgender people and covers from dissemination and seeing andy throw out and knowing that he continued to live through that work that he had championed throughout his life and the lives he was con

weekend is the associate director for gun violence prevention at the center for american progress that is a washington d.c. based think tank a mexico city grace fernandes is a regional coordinator for food them an advocacy group working to raise awareness about missing people in mexico she says the mexican military is behind the disappearance of her brother in the u.s. state of pennsylvania and a loose a no is a journalist he's normally based in mexico and in abu dhabi omar garcia ponce is an assistant professor of political science at the university of california davis we also invited representatives from the u.s. bureau of alcohol tobacco firearms and explosives also known as a.t.f. and we asked them to join in our conversation today they turned down our request but it's good to see you guess here welcome to the stream and i just real of a whole load of stats and figures of thousands of people murder investigations but what is it really like when we talking about gun violence in mexico what is the reality tell us a story take us into what people are having to cope with on a daily bas

we will hear reports by a number of think tanks, the bipartisan policy center, center for american progress, brookings and americanprri, enterprise institute partnered on

we will hear reports by a number of think tanks, the bipartisan policy center, center for american progress, brookings and americanprri, enterprise institute partnered on this project. john: good morning. welcome to the bipartisan policy center. i am john fortier. i work for the democracy project here. we're happy to see all of you and all you viewing from afar here at a very important fourth anniversary of project that's been going on called the states of change. the states of change is a coalition of a number of think tanks working on election demographic work, and it includes -- we're happy, as bpc, to be part of this with the center for american progress, the brookings institution, now the public research, public religion research institute, as well as some other think tanks that event evolved along the way like aei and others on our advisory board. this is a project that covers the political spectrum and has involved a lot of talent about town. i'm here to welcome you to introduce you and to set up the day. we have two panels for you. the first is going to be the release of a report we

you're my again i'm an associate director for the gun violence prevention team at the center for american progress and your. body if you're watching us on you tube your comments or questions we'll try to get them into the show today. technology and we'll look at the. weapons decide to pull the trigger. using artificial intelligence or ai weapons of war being programmed to be small to independent but should machines be given the ability to decide when and who to kill representatives meeting this week in geneva to consider a preemptive ban on all thomas weapons technology that may someday power what activists call killer robots the world's high tech militaries including the us russia and israel are all eagerly pursuing ai applications but is there a line developers shouldn't cross when creating weapons designed to think for themselves or with us to talk about this in london l.k. schwartz she's a member of the international committee for robot arms control or i cry she lectures at the university of leicester and is the author of a soon to be released book death machines the ethics of violent technolo

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lawrence korb is a senior fellow at the center for american progress on the former assistant u.s. secretary of defense he says that next month's peace talks in a stand are unlikely to make any progress the opposition people and on and off sana and basically you got to have them as part of the solution and obviously the syrian democratic for shows that we're back to you have to be part of it and then of course turkey disagrees with russia and iran turkey also disagrees with the united states about the role of the kurds so all of these things have got to be worked out before you could have an end to the two of the fighting meanwhile at least eighteen people have reportedly been killed in syria's largest palestinian refugee camp over the past twenty four hours. the syrian government is trying to retake several neighborhoods in southern damascus including the refugee camp from i still find says activists believe about half of the camp has been destroyed just over a week into the offensive zone all the reports now on the west wing situation the young camp. heidi was born a refugee thir

come back for the fifth annual for think tanks involved in the bipartisan policy center, center for american progress. robert and the pri, we all thank you and we hope we will see you next year. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> is a follow to the recent hearings of facebook ceo mark zuckerberg, "the communicators" looks at the privacy issues raised by the spread of personal data by facebook with president and ceo at the center for democracy and technology in lee goodman, turning from her chair the federal election commission. >> look at all the politicians who asked mark zuckerberg questions for 10 hours. every one of them has been using data mined from american citizens to communicate with their constituents to build mailing lists, to target voters and a lot of this is for good and solid tory reasons. >> the meta-issue for me is how data is becoming used from a secured and processed by the companies with which we engage in the online world in a very comprehensive and pervasive way. >> tonig

assistant secretary of defense who's now a senior fellow at the center for american progress i got his reaction earlier to thursday's u.n. security council meeting russians are claiming sense you know the british are you are not one hundred percent sure that it the russian did it even though it's a russian nerve agent that gave them the idea to say well it was all cooked up by the americans and the british and then at the united nations when the british said well let's let the u.n. investigate this was no we want to you know be be part of it so basically it really doesn't get us and any place and it continues the russian narrative the putin narrative that they're you know coming up with all this stuff to plot against us as long as you don't have the international community or an unbiased organization definitively saying you know where it came from and what it was the russians can claim because of the mistake that you know the british foreign minister johnson made that say this thing was all cooked up. a judge in brazil has issued an arrest warrant for the former president luis in the s

center for american progress. we have a graphic. color of change. people for the american way action network. connected with media matters. all those organizations. tell us which are the worse enemies of free thought and expression. >> media matters at the forefront of the schedule chers who are organized and disciplined and funded by george but a number of left wedge foundations. i think it is important to note that so many of these out fits are tack exempt. that they enjoy so much large as a result irs laws. and that under democratic administrations the definitions of 501 crashing low and 4 have been stretched so these partisan political organizations have cast themselves as somehow emgzal or social welfare groups. you have media matters that have gone after every conservative effective voice in the public square and we use pretext. the people do this for full time living. and as a result it is undeniebl, laura, you have fought in this arena in talk radio, on broadcast and yes on social media where it has been important for inspect conservative voi

question tonight to a story we brought you yesterday about alleged sexual harassment at the center for american progress people had accused multiple individuals of sexual harassment. currently, only one has been accused. buzzfeed did the interview of 19 people for their story, but not all of them claimed abuse. the piece says there were several instances of sexual harassment. no exact number given, so we want to be clear about that. really more about this and of course will bring you those updates. a document at google reveals the company try to suppress concepts like individual achievements and objectivity. that story is amazing and it's up next. bigger and bigger, it took a whole lot more. that's why i switched to the spark cash card from capital one. with it, i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy. everything. and that 2% cash back adds up to thousands of dollars each year... so i can keep growing my business in big leaps! what's in your wallet? i accept i don't i even accept i i used thave a higher risk of stroke due to afib, a type of irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve probl

sarah is the washington director of human rights watch previously on the hill and the center for american progress and jake spent most of the last administration and government with policy planning and was head of policy under the clinton campaign down at the carnegie endowment. so i will get right into the spend 25 minutes talking amongst ourselves then q&a. so to start with jake is qualified for the international order but you offer one caveat that there is a trade war could be a nuclear war for problems with alien how scared are you about the of the world? [laughter] are you more scared now the way you? >> it is the caveat to end all, yachts everything is okay except that possibility of nuclear -- nuclear war or the all-out trade war that crashes the global economy but other than that. it is the case for optimism in one sentence but it is more against fatalism i'm trying to argue that to say america's day is done now moving on to some other kind of order is not righ right. united states has very much to offer like mobilizing role in international cooperation to drive more stability and progress

the bipartisan policy center, the center for american progress, the brookings institution, and the american enterprise institute recently released a report on the topic. >>> good evening. welcome to the bipartisan policy center, i'm john fortier, i direct the democracy project here. we are happy to see all of you and all of you viewing from afar here at a very important fourth anniversary of a project going on called the states of change. the states of change is a coalition of a number of think tanks working on election demographic work and includes, we are happy to be part of this, but with the center for american progress, the brookings institution, now the public research, public religion research institute as well as some other think-tanks that have been involved along the way like aei and others on our advisory board. so really this is a project that covers the political spectrum and really has involved a lot of talents around town. i'm here to welcome you, to introduce you and set up the day. we have two panels for you. the first panel is going to be the release of a report we put out

she is currently president of the center for american progress action fund. she will be in conversation with nicolle wallace, nbc political analyst and msnbc deadline white house. ms. wallace contributed to special report and events for nbc and msnbc during the 2016 presidential election and the democratic national election. president donald trump's address to joint session of congress another major national stories. previously, she was white house communications director to george w. bush. and tonight, "dear madam president," and empowering to the first modern president and all women working to succeed in any field. through each chapter, she creates a forward thinking framework of inspirational and practical advice for all women everywhere who are determined to seize control of their lives, their work places and their country. hillary rodham clinton right, my book explained what happened and where we need to go from here. jennifer palmieri picks up the ball and runs with it in this book. it's about being a one-man, working for a one-man and telling stories of

george soros has funded left-wing groups, as you pointed out, the center for american progress. i think we have a graphic. the color of change. people for the american way, media matters, action network. connected with media matters. there we help all those organizations. telus, michelle, which are the worst offenders and enemies of free thought and free expression? >> media matters has been at the forefront of the speech squelch her's who are highly organized, incredibly disciplined and obviously deeply funded not only by george soros but a number of left-wing foundations. i think it's really important to note that so many of these outfits are tax-exempt. that they enjoy so much largess as a result of irs loss. and that under democratic administrations, the definition of 5o1c3s and fours have been stretched so that these blatantly partisan political organizations have cast themselves the somehow educatiol or social welfare groups. you have media matters that have gone after every prominent conservative perspective voice in the public square, they will use any pretext. these peop

when i find so striking is that neera tanden, who runs a center for american progress, an outspoken feministhard partisan, kind of ignored, from this account, these claims of sexual harassment. i was surprised by that. i thought she would beit exquisitely sensitive to sexual harassment claims. >> this really started to bubble over in 2016. of course that was an election year. i enjoyed your segment previously that just came up in the sense that this intersection malady. when i was on the left, of course, my first book actually, "the new thought police," which came out in 2001, which is how racism, sexism, and homophobia live on thee left. they are swathed in this sauce. their argument always is, if we face this or if it comes public or if we act on it, it will harm the larger picture, it will harm our goals, ourl narrative, all the good work that we do in the world. we saw this in hollywood with weinstein, if you say no or if you push back, he will do damage to too many people. most liberals are brought up with this kind of mentality, so they are silenced. i think it becomes a habit after a

is low and school peace a senior fellow at the center for american progress on a former assistant u.s. secretary of defense and thanks very much for coming on to al-jazeera as a talk about this second lover of sense to be saying. making the comments that the u.s. is looking to divide syria based on what's exactly based on the missile strike or based on how he now perceives the u.s. wants to behave in syria well i think both certainly the missile strikes was worked with the british on the french the other thing is secretary madison testifying this week before the congress pointed out that the united states was going to stay in syria and basically they're there to make sure isis doesn't come back and also to protect the syrian democratic forces who are mainly kurds who fought forth with us and then of course after. the french president came to washington the french put troops in there and i think what the position of the united states with loud robbers afraid of that we're going to maintain a zone in. that in that part of syria to protect the kurds and also to allow refugees going away

joining us now is neera tanden the president of the center for american progress, and ron klain is still any one of those from the menu of today's rants by the president to his now calling himself his own best adviser, given that many of the advisers have left the building. >> the one i would really point so and i think we'll see more of it is his language around immigration and just sort of made up fantasy that he can call the military. but -- call on the military to enforce the border. but i do think this goes to a key issue that i think he recognizes that the fact that a republican congress did not pay for the wall means that one of his core promises to his base is never going to happen. and so he's going to talk about other plans. he is going to threaten mexico to pay for the wall. he is going to continually talk about other things. at the end of the day, i think it's really important that democrats remind trump better that this core promise he made could not even be delivered on when the republicans control the other side of pennsylvania avenue. it means it will never happen, and th

there is no left-wing equivalent of the institute that acts like this, brookings, the center for american progress, other left-leaning think tanks have dissents. others have legitimate academic discussions within the content of their philosophy. that is not what this is. these other think tanks do not ignore scientific fact because they are real think tax, but heartland is not a think tank in any true sense of the word. their work is focused not on analysis based on science, but trashing work based on science. the heartland institute sends a monthly newsletter about climate issues to every legislator in the country, state and federal. it's actually a pretty good-looking product. this is a copy of it. it's actually well done, well laid out, color, so it's not immediately obvious that it is not scientific. the people that quote on or rely on for data are almost from think tanks or front groups funded by the same people. this week they highlighted one of the policy analystses that said that oklahoma should not subsidize wind power. they claimed that wind energy is far less reliable and far more expen

ackerman, former white house counsel to president clinton jack quinn, neera tanden for the center for american progress and a lawyer with white house experience who is president of the american constitution society. dealers' choice, i could start anywhere. i'll go to jack as a white house lawy lawyer. did you ever see anything like this in your ten injury? what does it tell you? >> we didn't experience anything like this during my tenure. it tells me at a minimum that mr. cohen faces grave legal jeopardy. precisely what crimes they're tracking down here is unclear but i think one can safely assume that these are not things that would have been directly within the mandate to bob mueller and in terms of either russian influence on the election or obstruction of justice related to that. >> neera, listen to chris christie, a former federal prosecutor in his own right, who is believed to still be close to the president and people who are really close to him speak to him as we all do, through the television. here's chris christie, what's on his mind. >> does he understand what firing robert mueller would mea

american history tv on c-span 3. now to a conversation on changing demographics in the u.s. and what it means for electoral politics. the bipartisan policy center, center for american progress, brookings institution and american enterprise institute are releasing a report on the topic, this is just over two hours. >>> welcome to the bipartisan policy center, i'm john, your democracy project here. we are happy to see all of you and all of you viewing from afar here at a very important fourth anniversary of a project going on called the states of change. the states of change is a coalition of a number of think tanks working on election demographic work and includes, we are happy to be part of this, but with the senate for american progress, the brookings institution, now the public research, public religion research institute as well as some other think tanks like others on our advisory board. this is a project that covers the political spectrum and has involved a lot of talents around town. i'm here to welcome you, to introduce you and set up the day. the first panel is going to be the release of a report we put out each year and it really is a look at election demographics,

assistant secretary of defense who's now a senior fellow at the center for american progress he joins us now from washington good to speak with you again so we had some very undiplomatic language there from british n and russian diplomats at the u.n. but i mean while this makes for some great political theater perhaps does it is there really a point to it does it does it does it get this anyway well not really because the russians are claiming science you know the british are you are not one hundred percent sure that it the russian did it even though it's a russian nerve agent that gave them the idea to say well it was all cooked up by the americans and the british and then at the united nations when the british said well let's let the u.n. investigators would know we want to you know be be part of it so basically it really doesn't get us and any place and it continues the russian narrative the poor narrative that they're you know coming up with all this stuff to plot against us. and as far as the investigation itself. where does it move that forward a told in any way well it does i m

assistant secretary of state for defense and a senior fellow at the center for american progress he's joining us live from washington d.c. d.c. thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera i know that you saw that tweet that was put out by a president trump is what's being done here is the public being prepared for some sort of military strike on syria before impartial international investigations can actually take place in the o.p.c. w. can actually go and establish the truth i think there will be a strike before the all the inspectors come up with their findings because when they get in there the question is how much access to they have had the russians have said no it was really you know the rebels that did this so this is spectrum is not going to really you know put the put the blame where it needs to be so what you're saying is an american strike on syria is imminent it's. i would say it's pretty americas remember as your correspondent pointed out trump cancels this trip to latin america on monday he said twenty eight to you know of twenty four to forty eight hours and today and basic

assistant secretary of defense and a senior fellow at the center for american progress lawrence korb welcome to the program how do you think this says a strike on the ties based fits in with everything that's going on right now well i think there are two things one given the fact that assad has used chemical weapons it's created an environment in which people could take actions against him or those supporting him including the arraigning and the other is that the israelis are very concerned with what the uranium the deal we now it has a law around their borders so they took advantage of this situation to launch an attack i had sort of a preemptive warning so russia and syria because it's a nine they suspected chemical attack that but nobody's ever going to admit it but the russians are saying the russian military says that medics did not find symptoms of chemical poisoning in patients in syria's duma. well again there's no doubt the russians are naive every time i mean they've been denying that going back to two thousand and thirteen but the fact of the matter is if you just take a l

american history tv on c-span 3. now to a conversation on changing demographics in the u.s. and what it means for electoral politics. the bipartisan policy center, center for american progress, brookings institution and american enterprise institute are releasing a report on the topic, this is just over two hours. >>> welcome to the bipartisan policy center, i'm john, your democracy project here. we are happy to see all of you and all of you viewing from afar here at a very important fourth anniversary of a project going on called the states of change. the states of change is a

from the three key authors of the report that have been released today to share from the center for american progress and rob griffin at the research institute they will make a presentation and answer questions with some interaction with the panel then it is time for you looking slightly further ahead we always wanted a reaction to this data from several different perspectives and a second panel will follow where we will join with two people looking at the report from the republican and democratic perspective so that is the day with a four to having you with us. >> thanks everybody for being here it is a rainy monday morning. just to kick this off you will do a short presentation where we go over the top line findings but two things to hold onto because we will throw a lot of numbers that you but the demographics are changing and some of these will define the electoral way of future american elections how the parties have to strategize and what incentives they have going forward. those are two big things to take away today so now i will turn it over to walk us through those demographic changes. >> i

there was an excellent report done by the center for american progress, 50 state survey on how statesssue. nobody got an a. >> yeah. >> but 11 or so got a b and a whole lot got cs. >> we just saw a big switcheroo. i got this interesting tweet by glen thrush where nikki haley announced there would be a third round of sanctions and now there's not. donald trump's posture seems to be so solis si to us that there is rumors that he's leaving the back door open. >> bad behavior by nation states, whether it's a dictatorship, communist regime or democracy, states will respond to deterrence. if you make that behavior cost prohibitive, they will stop. i'm concerned that our government has yet to do that, especially with some of the signals and messages that the president is sending. the russians need to be deterred in this type of behavior trying to influence our democracy. >> what could the federal government or trump administration be doing? >> you have to look at the russian threat in three different categories. there's the scanning, probing, attempts to hack into our election infrastructure

the center for american progress estimates that this amendment -- if this amendment were ratified this year, it would require cutting the government budget by nearly 1/4 in 2023. one more minute? ms. jayapal: i yield the gentleman another 30 seconds. mr. cicilline: thank you. it would slash social security by $308 billion, medicare by $239 billion, and medicaid by $114 billion in one year alone. mr. speaker, if republicans are truly concerned about rediesing the deficit, they -- reducing the deficit, they should start with repealing the tax bill that adds trillions of dollars to the deficit. congress cannot pass this legislation which is a direct threat to the health and safety of all americans and will decimate social safety net programs for veterans, retirees and children. i urge my colleagues to vote no and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia. . mr. goodlatte: mr. speaker, at this time i'm pleased to yield three minutes to the gentleman from nebraska, mr. smi