but it is eaten up with darwinism and social darwinism too.hat turner says is that if you look back through american history from the very beginning, from the puritan days, if you look back throughout american history, and you sort of look at a map ere people live, there has always been a frontier line between what people thought of as civilization and what people of the f as the wilds world. there has always been a line of demarcation between civilization, boston, philly, pittsburgh, whatever, and the frontier. and people knew it. people knew where it was. it was always there, ok? and the thing about it was it represented something formative in the american character. , the esence of a frontier presence of the frontier determined american characters throughout time because the frontier did sort of two things. the frontier was where you could go to start over again. if everything went wrong, if everything just fell apart, you could go to the frontier and remake yourself. there are a bunch of stories sort of wrapped up with like andrew jackson

the book "hacking darwin," george's book hacking biology. i think if we think more saw downstream continues into how might we be hacking our future prevention diagnostics and response to both future pandemics and responding to those that might emerge? you seen examples where you could sequence the new coronavirus, help is like novae and three hours made a dna, turning it into a dna vaccine. maybe if we could imagine what could be possible in the next few outlets if we hack pandemic response. george first. >> yeah, so it is remarkable how fast we can reignite dna. keep in mind that the real bottleneck is no longer reading and writing the dna. it is the testing to make sure that we don't jump ahead of safety and efficacy test. but i think we've got that lined up. but we cannot read and write in the order of a month and the safety testing take summer between 12 months and ten years. just to go back briefly to the government. i agree government is not just government. the reason the costs on all these things have come down 10 million fold is lar

like bull riding and other things is a regular commentator on cnn and major media and hacking darwin is the fifth book and since he came bart back in part last year the reviews have been stellar and pr says "writing with great clarity and a sense of urgency that we should all take to heart. jamie metzl has clarifying granular and moral complexities and for seeing the big picture. cnn says if you can only read one book on the future of our species, then read all of the books. if you don't want to read it at least buy it. we have a deal right now that you will not get out another time. it's a little bit like telemarketing. sourcebooks is making hacking darwin e-book available today only $4.95, one third of the regular price. before asking jamie metzl to speak i want to tell you about the flow of the event and introduce you. after he speaks for about ten minutes our guest will do the same. george is one of the world's greatest scientist. it is a safe backdrop and the harvard medical school and at the massachusetts institute of technology. the us department of energy technology center an

witht is eaten up darwinism and social darwinism, too.hat turner says is if you look back through american history from the very beginning, from the puritan age, if you look back throughout american history and you sort of look at a map where people live, there has always been a frontier line between what people thought of as civilization and what people thought of as the wilds of the world. there has always been a line of demarcation between civilization, boston, philly, pittsburgh, whatever, and the frontier. and people knew it. people knew where it was. it was always there. and the thing about it was it represented something formative in the american character, ok? , theresence of a frontier presence of the frontier determined american character throughout time because the frontier did sort of two things. the frontier was where you could go to start over again. if everything went wrong, if everything just fell apart, right, you could go to the frontier and remake yourself. and there is a bunch of stories sort of wrapped up -- andrew ja

but they don't believe in darwin you know they're not a problem you know they they still believe humans are running around on dinosaurs at some point yeah yeah that brings me to a really i really wanted to show you marc lyndall is the c.e.o. of my pillow and he and trump invited him to talk at a taskforce press conference and this is what he had to say a friend of mine mike lindela my pillow boy do you sell those pillows it's unbelievable what you do mike come on up come on up fill this place come on up. you have to say what you're doing because it's been really incredible that. my pillars of the u.s. for 3 integrated company which has been forced to adjust to the changing business environment as a result of the pandemic i wrote something off the conference committee. god gave us grace the november 2016 to change the course we were on god had been taken out of our schools and lives a nation to turn his back on god and i encourage you to do so this time at home to give to home to give back in the word read our bibles and spend time with our families our present. gave us so much hope we'r

on the topic of hacking darwin and as jamie said. i think you need to have that in a broad term. it doesn't have to be dna or rna. we are engineering life. it's very far from our ancestors. it is engineered. with all of those inks. they could be enhanced. it doesn't mean that they're bad. most of them are allowing us to have the health that we had right now. that is kind of distracting. i think it takes six decades to program. what were seen right now is something that goes a much faster. and much of that also goes much faster. as anything that is engineering of our life. they are worldwide. they are divided broadly into things that are more diagnostic and social hacking. let's start with the therapies and the vaccines. .. .. >> other viruses that can be adapted, many of these have already been approved either for clinical trials for for use, first of all, thanks to all medical volunteers and medical workers who are putting through front line, they are getting injected either intentionally or through their patience, so i will take a moment to thank them. the vaccines aren't teste

in his book "hacking darwin" the author looks at the future of genetic engineering and he discusses if that can be used in the fight against covid-19. >> we have never been able to develop a diagnostic test this quickly. weh the kind of sequencing, can watch this viral genome mutate as it spreads around the world. >> watch book tv on c-span this weekend on c-span2. >> 25 years ago, a massive truck bomb exploded outside the alfred t mara federal building in oklahoma city tilling 168 people including 19 children. live sunday at 9:00 a.m. eastern, american history tv looks back with kerry watkins, the executive director of the oklahoma city national memorial and museum, talking about the attack and how it is remembered today. and the 25th anniversary commemoration and sunday at 11 a compilation of events surrounding the oklahoma city bombing. the bombing in oklahoma city was an attack on innocent children and defenseless citizens. cowardice andof it was evil. >> at 4:00 p.m. eastern on reel america, the 1996 training program managing terrorist events, the oklahoma city experience. witheco

>> yes, darwin paid close attention to aggression in the animals home.ced when two dogs face each other aggressively, the head will be tilted forward. the shoulders will be rigid. the back will be straight. the tail will be pointed rigidly behind it. now, what happens when a dog tries to to be friendly? well it arranges its body in an exact opposite configuration to an aggressive posture. the back will be arched. the head will be down. the dog will be looking up. and the tail will be moving side by side, namely, the dog wags its tail. the reason being, that it's the opposite gesture to an aggressive one. noted that in humans, too, friendly gestures tend to be muscle for muscle, joint for point aggressiveness of two gestures. imagine two guys squaring off in a fight in a hockey game. now imagine every limb in your body does the exact opposite. instead of your hands clenched in fists your arms are open. your palms are upright. instead of keeping a wary distance you approach ear other, you expose vulnerable parts of your body, your neck, your lips, so on. n

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in his book, hacking darwin, atlantic council senior fellow jimmy metsel looks at the future of genetic engineering and discuss if that technology can be used in the fight against covid-19. >> we have never been able to develop diagnostic tests and with the rapid sequencing, the kind of sequencing that george innovated, we're able to see -- to watch this viral genome mutate as it spreads around the world which is critically important. >> watch booktv this weekend on c-span2. >> next, on c-span's booktv, knelt flex director of inclusion and former u.n. official, michelle king, offers he thoughts on the barriers to women succeeding in the workplace. she is interviewed by author and former "usa today" ed nor chief, joann lipman. all "after words" programs are also available as podcasts.

through this month and so one of the ways that she's going to combat it is to set up your car as if darwin every we want to call it every night with different brands and families and i think it's a way to kind of feel a little bit of community during its and over is that really were. and i am going to say as a as as a somebody who shares an office with many wonderful muslims to observe ramadan obviously socially distant now of course one things i found every ramadan people do is that they're sharing pictures of food that is salivating over that they can't eat quite yet but later so in that tradition i'm going to show robina's if a big if caught up with my family i'm drooling right now about 40 family members digitally the food in my house was very real as you can see in chile that it looks gorgeous and so. let me talk about something that actually is quite challenging and i fear that i want to bring in. he is a medical student he's in pakistan and in pakistan the most will be staying open and shot try to explain to us why that is what it is about pakistan culture where family so fiercely a

i'm sam is a than in darwin the look at the headlines here in al-jazeera now the european economy has suffered its biggest hit on record shrinking by 3.8 percent so far this year it's the euro zone steepest drop since records began in 1905 and another indicator of the widespread economic devastation dominic cain has the details from berlin you have a very clear sense building that at the european level in a macro sense but then also in the micro sense here in germany the joblessness the economic indicators are looking very poor right now and the figures relate to the 1st quarter of the year and of course the pandemic only really took hold in march so what about it begs the question what about what's happening right now what about what's going to happen in may and in june and if the rest of the year the u.k. prime minister barak's johnson is leading his 1st weekly cabinet meeting since falling ill with coronavirus the government is under pressure after new figures pushed the number of deaths to more than 26000 or there's some positive signs in spain which has recorded its lowest daily

in the work of out of smith and the enlightenment in the us and what's also brought us in that age darwin in the his work and terms of evolution. and natural selection and this was echoed by schumpeter i believe with his idea of creative destruction that there is a churn in nature and in economics where it's all as hues toward perfection and excellence and survival and that is when you snap that connection and by rewarding the freaks and rewarding the colonial masters america now has become the colonial empire of hedge funds that have colonized america and this goes completely against anything anyone could interpret from the constitution and they they derive their power from the federal reserve bank which is the successor to the bank of england and the bank of england the card of ben franklin was the number one reason america staged the american revolution to get away from the bank of england because that was the sponsor of colonialism now we have the fed which is the sponsor of the new american colony alyssum of hedge fund citadel one of the biggest had funds they then they're not embarr

atlantic and rolling stone asserteathird of these were fore national geographic story called was darwin wrong. now he has the title contributing writer which requires them to write three articles per year. he describes them as evolutionary biology and conservation but i hope that people have as much appreciation for his physical strength and stamina as you have for his writing talents. in his research he tracks indiana jones finals through jungles and rainforests that most of us would never want to set foot in. tonight you're going to learn a new word zoonosis. at least i learned that new word. zoonoses are infectious diseases that originate in animals and spread to humans. for those of you that read i can't believe that it was about 20 years ago, 18 to be exact, you had an early exposure to this frightening scenario that he has elaborated on a great deal in his new book. publishers weekly gave it a starred review and decide, and this is a quote, this is a frighteningly important for anyone interested in learning about the prospects of the bolts next major pandemic so here is david to t

. >> at 10:00 pm in his book hacking darwin, senior fellow janie metal looks at the future of genetic engineering and discusses how technology can be used in the fight against covid-19. >> we've never been able to develop diagnostic tests this quickly and now with the rapid sequencing, the kind of sequencing george innovated we are able to see, watch this viral genome mutate as it spreads around the world which is quickly important. >> watch booktv this weekend on c-span2. >> here are some of the current best-selling nonfiction books according to washington dc's politics and prose bookstore.

sunday those showers continue across northern sections of western australia on just in and around darwin as well it does carry away on sunday away from southern areas of australia but at the same time we are left with a fairly county conditions but as a side up how much in perth well above the average but it dips down by sunday and monday back down to the average what we should be seeing this time of year and then in asia a very mixed picture we've got more cloud streaming its way across much of honshu the rate is very heavy saturday across southern areas of china but not a bad day to start the weekend across much of japan. counting the cost from a health emergency to economic disaster could the world be heading for another financial crisis and as workers lose their jobs at a faster pace in the great depression what can the governments do to help and who is falling through the cracks. counting the cost on al-jazeera. unprompted and uninterrupted discussions. from our london broadcast center. hello again top stories on al-jazeera global death toll of the corona virus pandemic has now pass

and mines in darwin's ease some restrictions on movement and trade after imposed a nationwide lockdown 2 weeks ago. how low it has been particularly hot in a dusty sandy when it came out of the empty quarter in the u.a.e. and qatar and this part of saudi arabia as well the temperatures have been as high as 14 in dubai they may well be on sunday but this is a southerly breeze is a northerly opposing it and i think we'll eventually find things cooling down in fact the cloud it's visible in the satellite picture is the cold front which is showing showers in iran might show an occasional thunderstorm elsewhere but there's not really very much impetus for that to happen of course temperatures to the north of that particularly in the levant are much lower but the sun is out now and it isn't improving situation in what's been the case the last couple of days and it carries on improving on monday whereas the chances under storms around qatar bahrain this eastern part of saudi is quite significant from monday down to 26 degrees that looks quite a wet day for the surface and the showers i should

in the third of these awards, magazine wars, was for a national geographic called was darwin wrong. national geographic map, he has a title contributing writer at the capital letters, which gives him and requires him to write you say three articles a year? three articles a rear for national geographic. he describes his field of biology and evolutionary biology, theoretical ecology and conservations. but after this evening, hope you will have as much appreciation for his physical strength and stamina you have for his writing talents. in this field, research, he tracks indiana jones style through jungles and rain forests. and that most of us would never want to step foot in. tonight you will learn a new word. stenosis. at least i learned that new word. did gnosis, their infectious diseases that originate in animals and spread to humans. for those of you have read the hot zone, that was i can't believe it about 20 years ago, 18 to be exact, you had a very early to this frightening scenario. and david has elaborated on a great deal in his new book, "spillover". publishers weekly gave "s

if we act wisely at this cultural and cognitive crossroads and what charles darwin hoped for the future to forge a more those reading brain circuits capable of the most beautiful. so dear andom good reader. [applause] thank you. thank you very much. i really appreciate this. >> now we have time for ten minutes of questions. >> so one of the things i like to talk about is that extraordinary capacity of how socrates in many ways asked questions that we can ask today because of all that could happen and wherever you are she is to say this and what we wrote to gather entails of literacy. were talking about the differences and advantages and i will quote socrates more by saying one of the things he said was that inside that oral culture while he was opposed is because he felt our views would have this illusion of knowledge before they had ever begun to delve into it and the dialogue was one of the ways. he said they can't talk back. there is extraordinary and wonderful capacities because and thinking of going to the audio. i won't do that today but it's not that at any point i'm talking abou

if we act wisely at this cultural and cognitive cross roads, i believe not unlike what charles darwin hoped for our species future that we will energy ever more brain circuits capable of endless forms most beautiful. so dear and good reader, come home. [applause] >> god speed. thank you. thank you very much. [applause] >> i really appreciate it. thank you, debra. so now we have a time for about 10 minutes and if you wouldn't mind standing up and speaking up so that our c-span colleagues can -- any questions? i'm sure you have them. yes. >> why do you think is the difference between the listening brain and the reading brain? >> and part of that question is what about audio books and audiotapes or -- >> or oral history. >> and oral history and it's a beautiful history and, you know, one of the things -- i should stay over here. one of the things i like to talk about is the extraordinary capacities of oral culture and how socrates ask questions that we can ask today because all that can happen in culture. stephanie, wherever you are, she used to say in a chapter that we wrote together in

in his book hacking darwin, jamie looks at the fruche of genetic edge other nearing and discusses if that technology can be used in the fight against covid-19? to e have never been able develop diagnostic tests quickly. now with the rapid sequencing hat george this had. this virus hing genome spread around the world, which is important. >> watch it own c-span 2. >> 25 years ago a massive truck bomb exploded outside the federal building in oklahoma city, killing 168 people, including 19 children. live sunday at 9:00 a.m. eastern, american history tv looks bracket with keri watkins, executive director of the oklahoma city national memorial and museum, talking about the attack and how it is remember today. then at 10:00 a.m. eastern, thele oklahoma city 0 bombing 25th anniversaries commem rakes. sunday at 11:00 a.m., a compilation of events surrounding the oklahoma city bombing. >> the bombing in oklahoma city was an attack on innocent children and defenseless citizens. , and an act of cowardice it was evil. >> and at 4:00 p.m. eastern on real america, of the 1996 training program manag

i believe not in life that charles darwin hopes for our species future, that we will forge ever more elaborated reading brain circuits capable of endless forms most beautiful. so dear and good reader come home. godspeed. [applause] thank you very much. i really appreciate it. thank you, debra. now we have time for about ten minutes of questions. if you wouldn't mind standing up and speaking loudly so that our c-span colleagues -- marine? >> any questions. i'm sure you have them. >> why do you think is the difference between the listening brain and the reading brain? >> part of the question is what about audiobooks and audiotapes? >> or oral history. >> and it is a beautiful history. one of the things i like to talk about is the extraordinary capacity of oral culture and how socrates asked questions that we can ask today because of all that can happen. stephanie walker, wherever you are, she used to say this in the chapter we wrote together in tales of literacy, we are not talking about one being superior to the other, we are talking about the differences and advantages, not quote soc

wisely at the cultural and cognitive the cognitive crossroads, i believe nothing like what charles darwin hoped for our species future, we will forge evermore elaborated, orembrace, capable of endless forms most beautiful. dear and good reader, come home read godspeed. [applause]. thank you. thank you very much. [applause]. i really appreciate you. thank you. so now we have a time about ten minutes of questions and if you would not mind standing up, speaking loudly. so thatr our cspan colleagues cn hear you. any questions. i am sure you have some. reporter: ngwhat you think is the differee between the listening brain and the readingg t brain. maryanne: what about audiobooks and audiotapes in history. it is a beautiful history. one of the things that i like to talk about is extraordinary capacity of oral culture now socrates in many ways, ask questions and week and asked today because with all that can happen in an oral culture. where you're from stephanie she is to state this in chapter there we rode together and tells of literacy. what i'm talking about one being curious to the other wer

the search box at the top of the page to search for jamie methyl or the title of his book hacking darwin. >> good evening depending on where you are watching us and this and welcome to the policy series. with the area 45 broadcast. for more than a century they had been collecting knowledge and generating ideas that support freedom and condition. they are profoundly impacted. we are excited to be able to connect virtually for you. these policy briefings are an opportunity for you to hear directly from some of our nation's top scholars on the pressing issues facing the world during this difficult time. as we confront the challenge. conversations like this have never been more important. as a reminder we will be taking audience questions and we encourage you to submit years. cap in your question and we will try to get to it towards the end of the broadcast. it is focused the classics in military history. he has written or edited 24 books. with the bradley prize. price. you are a better man than i. i would have it hanging around my neck 247. how are you today? >> very good thank you for havi

the illinois play view of darwin among the earth was of the founders and the reason it exploded under the new man the world noir. but the 3 for about the whole bush of what other people for the heart of the people bias on the lead. man i'm a techie and i love finny at that i love you my heart but get to be will be a blank also thermal and then do you also live in the human little morsel to live. i'm at kabul to be killed only can you have beaten me mad at 3 lead. for heavy n.f. with a bad name. no. we're here to mend the little me. i've got aboard without a thing the social can what i was to do on the other than be a humble but one of the. clit and any. other. varia. i had to do was to do will you name 100 the name from of layla doesn't make addition the sort of the bahamas to do with subtlety and name of the davis that. we're going to house on a whole lot. about how a father and son had to be small in the us had to be in a somewhat illusion of lives based on bullion name or the. well the one of the thoughts to do promise that they're going to get the ball hama for us to do was set up

scientific worldview the same people who promote lgbt gender rights it goes in one package to say gaze and darwin somehow they are connected he said that. so this movement is a global holy war with an unmistakable democratic vision that american and right wing host have mentioned we are the future and there is nothing , absolutely nothing the secular world can do about that. the world conference of families were in 25 years ago where the activist gathered in russia looking at my fellow conference goers it is clear to me the russian government wanted to manipulate the politics of the west with its own population it could hardly have found a more useful collection of people. so to close, now that i've given you the bad news they want to give you the good news the rise of christian nationalism of all of us care about the future of democracy in america to overcome this reactionary when it isn't just something americans could do it is what we are many today with a threat including so many of you in this virtual room and right wing ideologues have thought and with that freedom of conscience to target t

had this old mollusk become a series by darwin would've been confirmed he wrote. and the echoing halls of congress, the republicans and remaining southerners side stepped each other with our eyes and averted to angry or too ashamed to speak. so this is what it felt like on the cost of the war. and really think about the civil war, most people wrote about what is happening on the battlefield. when remarkably little that would happen politically. most of that is about abraham lincoln. it's easy to understand why somebody would want to write about abraham lincoln. he's been written about more than any other person that is not hard to understand but it was much more happening in washington and there's more ihappening politically, and mot of what was important that was happening was happening on capital hill. politics led to the war, war effort, it drove the war to revolutionary conclusion and it was a revolution. and give us lasting meaning. i think it is an epic, as gripping as anything that took place between the opposing armies. also a human story about man very fe

which makes the prohe test test like members of the flat earth society, competing to win the darwin awardsrse that the president has been egging them on with calls to liberate states against the guidance of governors and his own health experts. as harry truman once send, the only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. what is unforgivable is for our leaders to remain ignorant of history and therefore doomed to repeat it. when they succeed it can feel like we have been overreacting and we are making progress against covid-19, bending the curve, but it is not over, not by a long shot. our lives will get back to something resembling normal at different speeds and different regions, we can never entirely eliminate risk, but we need to be smart and science driven about our decisions. here's what's clear. premature declarations of victory only guarantee defeat and that's your reality check. >> it is always great to get some reality with john avlon. we have some new developments and "new day" continues right now. >>> georgia governor brian kemp's plan to relax social distancing eff

[laughter] theodore roosevelt, who i wrote about in his love of charles darwin, our great science president. he just has a real cast on the imagination, lincoln, because the civil war in the end is the crucible time in our country's history. but really, washington can be tied with lincoln. those are the big two. edna: to what extent, though, does his assassination factor into his popularity? because he was assassinated, he did not have that opportunity during the second term to make mistakes. what would have happened had he lived? would we think of him in the ame way? brian: as you know, barack obama finished 12 out of the 44. he is the first president since eisenhower, i believe, to get 50% of the vote twice. two terms. what is your assessment of why he was able to do that when everybody else from eisenhower up to barack obama had trouble getting over 50% of the popular vote in each election? edna: i think as a nation, we like to think of ourselves as very inclusive. i think with obama's first election, we showed that a black person could win. in the second election, we attempted to show i

out and take a chance at all, but i have some atheist friends that kind of look about it -- it's darwin's deal, you know, if they're stupid enough -- i'm not that cold. i think there is a middle ground there somewhere. host: appreciate your call. we have half an hour left of your calls. should religious gatherings be exempt from stay-at-home orders? (202) 748-8000 the line for eastern and central time zones. (202) 748-8001, mountain and pacific. if you are a religious leader, particularly if you have made other plans for your congregation or denomination, (202) 748-8002. this is the "washington post," the online version of their front-page story. after u.s. surpasses italy for most confirmed coronavirus deaths, trump vows to bring our country back. it writes that the u.s. passed italy for the most confirmed coronavirus debts. -- in a saturday night interview with fox news, trump shed little light on how he will decide when to reopen the country, saying the decision will be based on "a lot of facts and a lot of instinct." "post,"e, writes the pope francis presiding over an empty st. peter'

in his book hacking darwin, senior fellow jamie looks at the future of genetic engineering and discusses that the technology can be used in the fight against covid-19. >> we've been never been able to develop dynastic since quickly, now with the rapid sequencing, the sequencing that is innovated, we are able to see and watch the spiral mutates as it spreads around the world which is critically important. >> watch booktv this weekend on c-span2. you're watching a special edition of book tv area now during the week while members of congress are in their districts due to the coronavirus outbreak. on monday we focus on history, first musician tim mcgraw and john meacham discuss history through songs. in the motion the clay on his book of land of hope, history of america. later americans looked at prejudice for immigrants out american history. enjoy book to be now and over the weekend on c-span2. >> katie mcfarland it's such a pleasure to speak to you about your book revolution trump, washington we the people. i'm going to get right into the book of revelation. you say in the book, america ha

he certainly would have been on the agnostic side and his religion if anythingwas darwinism .uch he was very much opposed to the scientism of much of what neurology was practiced when he was starting there when it had turned completely to charts and double-blind experiments and so forth. when it was all about the disease people had rather than the people who had the disease. he was trying to do a neurology of identity which a you think about as almost a contradiction in terms. how can you do a science of the individual that's what he was into and he was into the infinite expanse inside of everyindividual patient he met . which was knocked what standard neurology was into. i should mention on his last birthday when peopleknew he was dying , was a party for him and the head of neurology at columbia university got up and said that nowadays, this is three years ago, four years ago, nowadays the car only a neurology department and medical school, of those who apply for residency in neurology after they gettheir , fully 70 percent mention oliver sacks, that the transformation he mad

in his book "hacking darwin," atlantic council senior fellow jamie metzl looks at the future of genetic engineering and discusses if that technology had been used in the fight against covid-19. >> we've never been able to develop diagnostic tests this quickly, and now with the rapid sequencing, the kind of sequencing that george innovated, we're able to see, to watch this viral genome mutate as it spreads around the world which is creately important. >> watch booktv this weekend on c-span2. >> recently, historian megan kate nelson discussed the impact of the american civil war on the midwest. here's a portion of her talk. >> so between 1861 and 1868, the union and the confederacy and native people struggled to control this region. the union and the confederacy wanted the west for its gold and its pacific ports. also saw the west as part of this really important vision for their future so that the north was with envisioning this empire of free labor, free of slavery from southeast to coast -- from coast to coast, and the west was pivotal, and the confederacy saw their future as an empire

announcer: at 10:00 p.m., in his book "hacking darwin" atlantic council senior fellow looks at the future of genetic engineering and discusses if the technology can be used in the fight against covid-19. >> we have never been able to develop diagnostic tests this quickly. and now with the rapid sequencing, the kind of sequencing that george innovated, we are able to see, to watch this viral genome mutate as it spreads around the world, which is critically important. announcer: watch book tv this weekend on c-span two. announcer: monday night on the communicators, president and ceo of the national association of broadcasters gordon smith on how broadcasters are responding to the coronavirus outbreak. he is interviewed by jonathan make, communications daily executive editor. >> what are their precautions and different steps that your members are taking right now, whether it is internally, work from home as he mentioned at the association, or whether it is changes they are making in programming and such? >> what is really interesting is the broadcasters are also people that live in their loc

50,000 living plants and more than seven million plant species include something collected by charles darwinde to enjoy any of nature. so mark phillips reports from a back yard that's like no other. >> reporter: if you had to choose a place to self-isolate during this pandemic you could do worse than here. these are the royal botanical gardens at kew in west london, where they've been studying the health of the planet for about 250 years. never has their work seemed more vital than now. it's not a bad back yard that you've got here. >> it's exceptionally beautiful. but it's tragic to see these beautiful gardens, 330 acres here at kew, a world heritag site, to see them empty. >> reporter: normally there would be 10,000 or 12,000 people strolling about kew gardens on a glorious spring day like this. in the post-virus world, there's only us. richard deverell is the director of kew gardens and lives on the property. not a bad perk. do you see relationship between what's going on now and the covid-19 crisis that the world is experiencing and the kind of things that kew has been trying to do for c

and it shouldn't just be survival of the fittest, that should not be darwinism or discrimination becausesiness who is going inventory by inventory or paycheck by paycheck, we should be helping them. that was the whole point of the ppp and i felt that when you have nothing positive to say, small minds talk about other people come they don't talk about big issues. i felt it was incredibly disappointing that instead of hers showing bipartisanship as we've seen all across the country in so many ways, have you ever seen the countries people or businesses mobilize in such a positive way as we have in the last five weeks, sandra and ed, it's remarkable to see as a mother of four school-age children, it's been fantastic to point out in a completely nonpolitical fashion how many americans and how much american businesses in the volunteers have stood up, offering to help with the food bank, offering to have their parking lots we stand up field of medical hospitals or testing sites. then we have the speaker of the house who was always called so smart and powerful not say, i need to make sure the mo

out and take a chance at all, but i have some atheist friends that kind of look about it -- it's darwin'seal, you know, if they're stupid enough -- i'm not that cold. i think there is a middle ground there somewhere. host: appreciate your call. we have half an hour left of your calls. should religious gatherings be exempt from stay-at-home orders? (202) 748-8000 the line for eastern and central time zones. (202) 748-8001, mountain and pacific. if you are a religious leader, particularly if you have made other plans for your congregation or denomination, (202) 748-8002. this is the "washington post," the online version of their front-page story. after u.s. surpasses italy for most confirmed coronavirus deaths, trump vows to bring our country back. it writes that the u.s. passed italy for the most confirmed coronavirus debts. -- in a saturday night interview with fox news, trump shed little light on how he will decide when to reopen the country, saying the decision will be based on "a lot of facts and a lot of instinct." "post,"e, writes the pope francis presiding over an empty st. peter's

. >> at 10:00 p.m., in "hacking darwin" jamie mitchell looks at future engineering and if that technologye used against covid-19. >> we have been able -- never been able to develop diagnostic tests. now with the diagnostic sequences that george innovated, we will watch this viral genome mutates as it spreads around the world, which is important. >> watch book tv on c-span2. the presidents, just released from public affairs presents biographies of every president organized by their ranking in the presidential historian survey. visit our website, c-span.org/thepresidents. order your copy today. washington journal" continues. host: we are back with kevin kosar, research vice president at the art institute, and we will talk about the impact of the coronavirus on the united states postal service. good morning. first of all, tell us what the r street institute is, what do you do? guest: we are a think tank in washington, d.c., and we study a wide range of issues and tried to bring practical solutions to the table. telecom, tobacco farm thection, security, and postal service. host: we will talk