freshmen members who have backgrounds in conservative activism, including michele fischbach, diana harshbarger, and stephanie bice. watch interviews with new members of congress. tonight at 8:00 even on c-span. online at c-span.org or listen on the c-span radio app. studenn journal, we are joined by arthur brooks, professor at -- author of the book "love your enemies. -- "love your enemies." thank you for being with us this morning.

freshmen members who have backgrounds in conservative activism, including michele fischbach, diana harshbarger, and stephanie bice. watch interviews with new members of congress. tonight at 8:00 even on c-span. online at c-span.org or listen on the c-span radio app. studenn journal, we are joined by arthur brooks, professor at -- author of the book "love your enemies. -- "love your enemies." thank you for being with us this morning. guest: thank you. host: we are hope to be joined by steven dinkin from the national conflict resolution center. can you hear at this morning? guest: yes. host: we solved our technological divide. let us talk about the political divide. we will start with arthur brooks in terms of political polarization. if you look at our current state of polarization, how far back do you trace this and what are some of the social factors that have driven us to the point where we are now? guest: everybody knows it is bad and the truth is that most people dislike it. any 3% of americans say they hate how divided we have become as a country. that does not mean that they are doing wha

feature freshmen members have backgrounds in conservative activism including michele fischbach, diana harshbarger and stephanie vice. watch interviews at the members of congress tonight at eight eastern on c-span, online@c-span.org or listen on the c-span radio app. next, look at the disinformation campaign tactics such as silencing journalists and political opposition. and how to best respond to those tactics. the mccain institute hosted the discussion. >> again my name is paul, welcome. we are very happy to be helping this event today counting authoritarian to the use of disinformation in 2021. we are very pleased to have everyone here. i am going to, before i introduce the panelists, i am going to turn it over to my boss and executive director of the mccain institute. mark agree and will give some opening remarks in them will turn over to our panelists today. mark, over to you. >> thanks paul, hello everyone. thanks to everyone for joining today's event. as paul said, i am mark green i am the executive director of the mccain institute and a great fan of inter- news and the vital work all aroun

freshmen members who have backgrounds in conservative activism including michelle fishbach, diana harshbargerd stephanie weiss. watch interviews with new members of congress tonight at 8:00 eastern, online or listen on the c-span radio app. sunday on question-and-answer, author and history professor talks about his book the sword in the shield. the revolutionary lives of malcolm x and martin luther king jr. >> he starts talking about using nonviolence as early as 1965, after the los angeles rebellion to paralyze cities to leverage nonviolent civil disobedience to transform american democracy. malcolm x calls for the same thing at the march on washington. he wanted the display of civil disobedience that would be muscular enough to end the racial status quo in the united states. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern. >> "washington journal" continues. host: david reynolds is distinguished professor at the city university of new york graduate center. he is the author of the new biography on abraham lincoln. abraham lincoln gets a lot of books written about him. he pointed out in your book that some 16

i'm diana harshbarger and i represent the first district of tennessee. as a health care provider for the past 30 years i really appreciate being put on this committee because you know i understand the national t secury threats and our pharmaceutical products. we used to make those products and they come outside of united states of america and in a lot of cases -- as a matter fact and it took a pandemic in a lot of people's lives to notice the problem that we have at this. what we need to do is get the domestic supply chain into this country so we won't have to worry about that. we have an overreliance to the foreign adversarial countries for that supply chain and it might district of east tennessee we have a couple of different things as far as national security infrastructure. i have nuclear fuel services and the national library -- laboratory and an army munitions planted my district. i wanted just to comment on something that mr. jenkins said and he made the statement that the defenders of the capitol were outnumbered and we need to investigate this a

i am diana harshbarger, and i represent the first district of tennessee, is east tennessee. as a health care provider and pharmacist, i really appreciate being put on this committee, because, you know, i understand the national security threat of having 90% of our pharmaceutical products and chemicals we use to make those products, come outside of the united states of america. in a lot of cases from adversarial nations. it took the covid pandemic to open a lot of people's eyes to the problem we have with this. what we need to do is get the supply chains into this country so we won't have to worry about that. because we have an overreliance to those foreign adversarial countries for that supply chain. in my district of east tennessee, have a couple of different things as far as national security threats to infrastructure. i have nuclear fuel services. i also have army ammunition plant in my country. i want to comment on something mr. jenkins said. he made the statement that the defenders of the capital were outnumbered and we need to investigate this. i would hope that we wou