we are again having problems with the connection to emory university.e would like to go to this other clip of howard dean who is running for chair of the democratic national committee, a position he has held previously. he spoke with canada's ctv about donald trump and his picks for senior officials. >> is a complicated guy. he appoints original person that is much more conservative than i -- his senior advisers are a nazi. >> you're talking about the chairman of the republican national party. now chief of staff. steve, who ran something called breitbart news -- >> is a far right anti-semitic publication. on to ourl him a next segment. we turn now to a sweeping new report that reveals ties to slavery and the displacement of the native americans at one of the country's top colleges.we tw report that reveals ties to slavery and the displacement of the native americans at one of the country's top colleges. the findings about 250-year-old rutgers university were published in a new book, "scarlet and black, volume 1: slavery and dispossession in rutgers hist

carol anderson is professor of african american studies at emory university. her new book is called "white , rage: the unspoken truth of our racial divide." when we come back from break, we go to iceland to speak with a poet and activist birgitta jonsdottir, cofounder of the pirate party that made major gains in iceland. that is the anarchist party of iceland. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in iceland, the pirate party made big gains in sunday's national elections, raising the prospect it will form a coalition government with other left-wing parties. the pirates won 10 seats in iceland's 63-member parliament, up from three in the last election. pirate party leader birgitta jonsdottir hailed the result. >> talked about what to expect, you know, maybe get somewhere if we couldo 15 and get 15, we would have tripled our last election. so we are just thrilled. amy: the pirate party hopes to pass the world's first crowd-sourced constitution. its core platform calls for direct de

we're back with andre gillespie, political science officer at emory university, joining us to talked about african-american voter turnout. in me show you the headline the financial times. president obama, rallying cry to black voters as polls show trump making gains. getting out there saying they need to get out to vote. the headline below the one i read said there are fears to low turnout. can you speak to that? guest: the fear is not that donald trump is making gains among african american voters, though he says he is. the concern is that african-americans are not going to be the buffer against increased enthusiasm amongst trump voters who think he has a shot of winning at this point. democrats need to get as many votes as possible out. given the fact that african-americans typically vote at a rate of 90% or higher democratic presidential candidates, they need as many african-americans to get out and vote, presumably because they will vote democratic. host: would you agree with this headlines -- blacks can't muster fervor for hillary clinton. is it that they are not enthusiastic ab

today" and andra gillespie of emory university. it's great to have all of you with us.t heard from domenico montanaro about what he thinks the map looks like. what do you think it looks like now? >> i don't disagree with that at all. i think every election i come in with the grand hopes that we look at the map and when the polls close and say we're going to be able to project out how this map will come together over the course of the night, but as you all discussed, sometimes the states are too close to call, sometimes a state comes in earlier than expected, so what i'm looking for are the anomalies. what's a state we didn't expect to go one way is going that way. what will that tell us if georgia goes to hillary clinton? that tells us she will have a really big night. if a state like michigan ends up going to donald trump, it says maybe the rust belt strategy paid off. that is more likely that the -- you know, that's what i'm going to be looking for. but really the three states i'm going to be paying attention, to that everybody in america will be paying attention, to

they will talk with andre gillespie at emory university.e will be right back. >> most of us, when we think of winston churchill, the older man sending younger man of war. no one knew better, and few new as well the realities of war. the devastation. he said to his mother after his second war, the raw comes through. he knew the disaster that war was. >> sunday night on q&a, candace mullarkey talks about the early military career of winston churchill in her book "hero of the empire." >> he said give me a regiment, i want to go and fight. he ends up going with a regiment on the day the torilla fell to the british. and hes over the prison frees the men who had been his fellow prisoners. he puts into prison his former jailers. boar flags as the is torn down and the union jack is put up in its place. >> sunday on q&a. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. >> washington journal continues. host: we are ba

. >> the best student in the first class i ever taught at emory state university. after she graduated i had my -- >> prior to coming to hillsdale. >> in houston, texas, sugarlands, bert worked for a foundation in houston, we lived in the houston area for four years and before that, bert was at the center for public policy in michigan and before that he taught for 18 years at marine state. >> what is your connection to washington dc? young american foundation? >> the events group sponsor, especially the young america foundation, a lot of events they do for college students, for high school students and college students to teach the principles of the united states. >> why are you conservatives? >> i am a conservative because i believe the principles conservatives or free-market thinkers use work best for people. we study the economy, centuries of us history. the principles that free markets follow work. if you study the administration of franklin roosevelt he came up with ideas but they don't work. the policies of president roosevelt prolonged to the great depression

we're back with andre gillespie, political science officer at emory university, joining us to talked about african-american voter turnout. in me show you the headline the financial times. president obama, rallying cry to black voters as polls show trump making gains. getting out there saying they need to get out to vote. the headline below the one i read said there are fears to low turnout. can you speak to that? guest: the fear is not that donald trump is making gains among african american voters, though he says he is. the concern is that african-americans are not going to be the buffer against increased enthusiasm amongst trump voters who think he has a shot of winning at this point. democrats need to get as many

emory university is considering a sanctuary campus. over as attorney general. guys, good to see you. jess he, let me start with you it's against the law to be a sanctuary city. even though the department of justice inspector general said you can lose federal funds if you are a city that doesn't comply with that law. should college campuses also lose federal ais answer if they become sanctuary campuses? >> we don't know what this means yet. and if they do this, they are in danger of being in violation of federal law. the problem with that is number one, federal statute requires that you cannot harbor illegal immigrants and states and municipalities must comply with immigration requests. we don't know what they are planning on doing yet. if we have a situation where campuses refuse to let agents on campus without warrants. if they ininstruct their university police to not comply with federal law, we have a problem and we don't know what the result might be. gregg: it's a felony under federal law to be a sanctuary city. any person knowing

let's take a look at emory university's, one of the authors of one of the studies. she was on this program thursday morning talking about the study of african american turnout in this election cycle. guest: looking at the turn a of millennial voters, especially those age 18 to 29, they were far more likely that to say they definitely planned on voting. they 29, they were far more expressed much more uncertainty saying they may vote or they probably not. the democrats, if they want to win, need to target that demographic. one of the differences we saw is at their differences in how younger and older voters perceive their vote for clinton if they decided to support her. older voters use their vote as a positive vote for hillary clinton. younger voters were voting against donald trump. what we would ask is whether going against donald trump is a strong enough motivation? the substantive issues that have come up, part of the reason why hillary clinton is doing relatively poorly among young african-american voters in terms of enthusiasm is that she had admissions and the