. >> david hamilton, a former chemist from scotland. >> it's unhealthy.ot being kind, we feel separate, disconnected. unhappy. and some things. >> and, some of it. >> he made a career, lecturing, writing how kindness isn't something we do. or something we feel. it is something our bodies, actually need. >> being kind because it makes you feel warm and connected. changes the internal, biochemistry of your body. >> there is a physical effect. >> physical effect. >> the opposite of strels. >> really. there is a hormone that its troe -- that is produced every time we do something kind. it is the can iness hormone. >> one thing it does. it softens the walls of the arteries. almost. funny. like, like a, as you become softer towards people, so you softer on the inside actually. softens the walls of the arteries. when that happens. the heart doesn't have to push as hard to get the blood through. blood pressure drops. >> you can get that healthy effect by doing nothing more than offering a smile. so doesn't have to be some, some, some grand gesture. right? >> it's

everson and hamilton are alive in this hall. they didn't look like me and david. but they're in here. this is the room where it happened, the room where it happened. but like for realsies, and i'm in their debt. ron chernow is here tonight. give it up for ron. [ applause ] "hamilton's" story reached out to me across the centuries and wouldn't let me go, on vacation, walking my dog, in the shower, there was the ghost of eliza hamilton, get back to your piano, tell our story. sometimes you hear a tune from hamilton and it gets stuck in your head. imagine what i felt like, in my head first. took seven years to get them out of my head, thanks to tommy kale and our incredible creative team, the world's reaction and the renewed engagement with the founding ere rar as a result has changed august of our lives, my life in particular. before hamilton had the chance to change my life, humanities and arts programs did. i benefitted from music, acting, literature -- i owe a lot to louis and louise miranda. stand up. you will not meet two bigger musical theater dorks in your li

our speakers today are david frisk, resident fellow at the alexander hamilton institute, adam carrington, assistant professor of politics at hillsdale college, and michael uhlmann, a senior fellow at the claremont institute. we will have 20 minutes for each speaker to deliver his remarks. then we will open up to questions and general discussion. and one note, if you do have a question, please bring it to the microphone in the center so you can be on camera. i think we are being recorded by c-span this morning. and without any further ado, david first. david: thanks to all of you for coming out this early morning. i will be defending the electoral college. and equally important, when we are talking about a major change, discussing the dangers of any -- really a common to almost any plans for alternatives. there always has to be an alternative. it seems to me that there are certain advantages to the electoral college, which have been stated by its defenders over the years, which have more staying power than others, and less dependent on the course of history or where we are right now. one

i had directed with that after "hamilton" and i had to go if that was it. me, renee and chris and davidne, we are not kids. we are not 19 years old or 18 years old. we have been out there and we knew how lucky we were again to touch it once. and now we are going from here and trying to see what we can do from there. again, if "hamilton" never happened to me again, it happened once. >> how did you process that with the decision that you make after like "hamilton"? >> i remember you know, we are here to talk about the album and this disney concert hall concert that we have. i so clearly remember a few years ago right before i turn 30 when the phone was not ringing at all. and, meeting a mentor of mind, brown. [ laughter ] >> you got another shout out on the show. >> marin brown. >> yeah. meeting with steward kay robertson and saying to those brothers that i am ready to do something else and i want to get my check on thursday and i want to know what the check is going to say. i am sick of the ups and downs. steward gave me the advise that changed my life. you can quit, that's fine if you w

david: a lot easier to criticize roy moore is franken is out of office. >>> tax cut that is good for your wallet but what about your local business? business owner brian hamiltons both plans are good for small business. that's coming up. >>> plus the wildfires are worsening in california as thousands are forced to evacuate their homes. we have a live update from the scene right after the break. ♪ >> up and blew over, caught the palm trees on fire. when the palm trees caught on fire it started -- >> it is something that i never wanted to see. it is a terrible feeling. david: state of emergency in los angeles. intense winds fueling drug fires in southern california, forcing the evacuation of nearly 200,000 people. president trump tweeting out quote, our thoughts and prayers are with everyone in the path of california's wildfires. i encourage everyone to heed the advice and orders of local and state officials. thank you to all first-responders for your incredible work. fox business's hillary vaughn has been doing incredible work herself. she is on the scene with the very latest. hillary, how does it look? reporter: there are five total fires tearing through south

place on the eve of the battlefield roughly 1781, and david mccullough can correct me if i get anything wrong. and general washington was giving hamiltonngton had the forethought to know that the actions they were taking were going to reverberate through history for hundreds if not thousands of years. he gave sage advice to hamilton about how to use this power. and i have to say that there may be no greater moment for me than to get to perform this song in front of our vice president who embodies the ideals that george washington spoke about and i want to thank you for your service mr. joe biden. thank you, sir. [ applause ] >> this next song is called "history has its eyes on you". ♪ i was younger than you are now when i was given my first command ♪ ♪ i led my train into a massacre, i witnessed their deaths firsthand ♪ ♪ i made every mistake, i felt the shame rise in me ♪ ♪ and even now i lie awake, knowing history has eyes ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ hiss tori -- history has its eyes ♪ dream of glory, have no control who lives who dies who tells your story ♪ ♪ we can win ♪ i know that greatness lies in you ♪ ♪ but remember from here on in, history has e

hamilton, you know well, and that was a great experience. i had been a liberal arts undergrad, so being immersed in business analytic challenges was a terrific experience. davidd your father say, ok, now you have an obligation to come into the family business? abigail: he never said i had an obligation to come into the family business. and it is interesting because both of my parents always encouraged me and my siblings to do what we wanted to do. do the things that we were most passionate about with our lives. and my father in particular, his his family, his father's family, before his father had become a lawyer, they had a dry goods store. and a had run it in their family for a couple of generations. and his uncle had been pressured by his family to go work in the dry goods store. and he hated it. he did not enjoy the work. he did it because he was pressured by his family to follow this tradition and going go into the family business, and it made an impression on my father. he said i never want to pressure my kids because i would not ever want my kids to have this life that his uncle had. david: on your own you chose to go to the business. did your father s

and you know, david rabe, it's really an honor to do it and i'm thrilled for the challenge, although mildly terrified. >> seth: you're going to see "hamilton it? >> yeah, this weekend. i'm seeing it for the 27th time. >> seth: this weekend -- 27th time. that's -- [ light laughter ] 27 times. >> that's correct, seth. >> seth: and have you felt any dips in your 27 times or have you had the same reaction pretty much consistently through? >> well, i cry every time. you know? >> seth: okay, yeah. >> when i at first was in -- at the public. and i was just devastated by it. >> seth: how -- so for those who don't know -- because now obviously, it's on broadway in a giant theater. how small is the public? how many seats was it then? >> oh, probably, it's like under 500, for sure. >> seth: yeah. >> i mean, you know, it's maybe the size of this. what is this, 200 here? >> seth: yeah, this is about 200. >> yeah, so it's probably -- it's almost maybe this size. that's pretty much it. >> seth: wow, that's amazing. to see a show that now has this scope and scale and also sort of this worldwide phenomenon. to see it in such a small place must have been am

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david trainor. >>> elon musk is at it again he has his sights set on yet another type of transportation we'll tell you about that in "the takeaway" after this. >>> mrs., "hamiltonn't be the only play benefiting by ties to d.c the new tax bill signed by the president plans to boost the bottom line of all shows on the great white way next year. that story coming up (siren blaring) ♪ they say the neon lights are bright ♪ working as an emt in a small town usually means hospitals aren't very close by. when you have a really traumatic injury, we have a short amount of time to get our patient to the hospital with good results. we call that the golden hour. there's nothing worse than when we're responding to the hospital, and the hospital doesn't have the right specialist. evaluating patients remotely, by an expert, is where i think we have a potential to make a difference. robots can do a lot in medicine these days, but they can't think. they're still machines. for nuanced decision making, we still need humans. we would save a lot of lives if we could bring the doctor to the patient. verizon is racing to build the first and most powerful 5g network that will enable br