fordham institute is a national education think tank. we work in the great state of ohio where we are in education reform advocacy group in columbus. we also oversee about a dozen charter schools. most of them urban, one rural, in the appalachian region of ohio. so we get to see how some of these debates play out nationally and at the state and local level. we are excited to be hosting this event today and we appreciate all the help that they've done promoting the event. we have a great turnout. we expect as many of 800 of you to tune in and we are super excited. i want to thank you, many of you suggested questions for today's comments and debate. over 200 came in. i've tried my best to incorporate those into the questions we have and we will be short to get to them. we will also take a look at the q&a. that should be an interesting interface so that you can add more questions as we go. needless to say, this topic, about how to teach u.s. history is getting a lot of attention, what with the backlash to critical race theory and on the hee

fordham institute is a think tak tank. we also do work in the great state of ohio where we're an education reform advocacy group in columbus and we also authorize or oversee about a dozen charter schools. all high poverty schools, most of them urban. one rural. in the appalachian region of ohio. we get to see how some of these debates play out nationally and at the state and local levels. we are really excited to be hosting this event today with i-civics and appreciate all of their help and work they have done promoting the event. we have a great turnout. we're expecting over 500, maybe as many as 800 of you tuning in this morning, and we're super excited. i want to thank you, many of you at our request, suggested questions for today's debate and comments. over 200 of those came in. and again, really good stuff. i have tried my best as the moderator to incorporate those into some of the questions we have, and we'll be sure to get to them. we'll also be able to take a look at the q&a that should be there in your zoom interf

and started doing so when you were at college in fordham. >> uh-oh. >> stephen: there you go.upposed to act mean and be serious. >> stephen: do you have anything-- do you have any advice for this-- what 20-year-old, 21-year-old, something like that? do you have any advice for this kid right here? because he seems pretty confident already. >> thank you. ignorance is bliss. i didn't-- that was the first leading role i ever played. and i didn't know what i was supposed to do. i'd go out and peek and look at the audience and, you know, count, see if my mom was out there or something. >> stephen: how often was your mom out there? >> every time, every night. >> stephen: that's what moms do. that's what moms do. that's nice. >> that's what moms do. ( applause ) >> stephen: now, you're in the new film adaptation of-- well, we'll call it the scottish play. >> right "macbeth." >> stephen: exactly, you can say it. directed by joel coen, costarring frances mcdormand, extraordinary. first of all, there is, for people who don't know, there is a tradition, a superstition, not to say the name

he made the comments as part of the annual fordham on the china -africa cooperation as the summit inenegal closes. china emphasize how crucial the partnership is. china is africa's largest trading partner with $190 billion in trade. let's take a closer look at china's long-term investment plans in africa. chinese foreign direct investment in the continent was almost $3 billion in 2020, totaling $50 billion. almost one third of that investment has gone into the construction. that has made china africa's biggest trading partner and given china premier access to much-needed raw materials to fuel its economy, as the largest importer of copper and cobalt from africa. this investment has also come with a heavy debt burden. it comes with an average 4.2% interest rate, higher than other international options. ♪ anchor: let's bring in our guest joining me from nairobi. the director of horn international institute for strategic studies. in london, antony goldman, the head of pro-media consulting, which advises companies on business and political risk in africa. from beijing, we have andy, a re

fordham institute is a national education think tank. we work in the great state of ohio where we are in education reform advocacy group in columbus. we also oversee about a dozen charter schools.

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joining us, tina fordham.icking up on your line, the geopolitical trifecta of russia ukraine, taiwan, given the perceived weakness of the west. tina: from where putin is sitting at in beijing, they look at the west and the pandemic, very high death toll, vaccine skepticism, internal tension and polarization, and have concluded the pre-pandemic narrative of a west in decline has been accelerated. this is something that global investors have failed to appreciate, that there was this existing narrative that the west was in a slow decline in the pandemic, as a crisis accelerating trends, has sped that up. the point i want to make is that possibly changes their political calculus when it comes to making mischief in geopolitics. kailey: when we talk about the west, or we primarily talking about the united states? tina: we used to have this term "the international community" in the old days, nobody talks about that very much anymore. the g7, advanced democracies. the notion these countries, even as recently as the gl

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looking ahead to 2022 with tina for them the head of global policy strategy at a longhurst -- with tina fordhamf goebel policy strategy at -- of global policy strategy at avonhurst. as far as the diary is concerned in washington, d.c., the time, 3:30 eastern time is when a call will take place between the president of russia and the president of the united states. joining us as greg valliere, chief u.s. policy strategist at agf investments. your outlook for geopolitics, and the united states and the communist party. greg: i do think this is a big wild for next year. i think for the time being, vladimir putin has to worry about a guerrilla war if he invades the eastern ukraine. i think the ukrainian army can't beat him, obviously, but you could have in the hills a guerrilla movement. does vladimir putin really want to have that happen to him and his job approval rating back in moscow? i think it will give him pause. the other big story obviously is china. postal olympics, i think china will sound even more belligerent on taiwan. i think that u.s.-china relations will stay very rocky. jonathan: t

fordham institute we just released a major review of u.s. history. you can check that out. and for some good news, five states did a great job, both red and blue state predict the 20 states in those days, they didn't or they whoever got together decided it would be easier to write, not to get into this and therefore not getting the guidance. and mark daniel and her team have gone further and into all of the details. it would look more like a national curriculum afraid are they damned if they do are damned if they don't, what take what you do on this. mark: i agree in danielle for wise to put this and the more tentative motive, the inquiry approach printed there's probably necessary way of avoiding it accusation of prescriptive sense. i would say that the question the best questions for me are those with concrete answers. they're just how did the declaration make the case for self-government. that's a great question. i think only drift into questions and get more speculative and controversial subjects such as this one elementary school, what constitutes a family, and were go

joining us now, the associate professor of political science at fordham university, and eugene danielswhite house correspondent for politico and an msnbc political analyst. we haven't even started and i'm already -- okay, so, look. what's up with republicans and their phones? they seem unclear how they work. we had rudolph giuliani butt dialing to reporters, being put on speaker phone, christina, what's up with them? >> you know, jonathan, it would be laughable -- if oz didn't have a possibility of becoming a senator, and shifting the power of the senate to the republican party. i mean, he's wholly just completely not capable of this job. and we see more and more each election cycle, wealthy people who wake up one morning, brush their teeth and say i should be a senator, a governor. because they have money and they can do it. they don't understand policy and fundamentally they don't understand politics. it will be interesting to see if he really does run to the right and become this maga sweetheart. in the past, he said that he's pro-choice. when sean hannity asked him about it. he cou

fordham university here, cornell, as well as prisonton in new jersey. they're all saying they want to see the students vaccinated with that booster shot before they come back online. we talked to some students here at nyu about all of in. take a listen to what they had to say. >> are you surprised that finals are now online instead of in person? >> i am surprised at how quickly they decided to make the change just because obviously with the new variant it is very concerning. >> it's better to be safe than sorry. we don't want to not be able to come back next semester, like we want the opportunity. >> reporter: for the most part students are taking it in stride. one student said she was very anxious about this and looking forward to going home because it has been a stressful season wondering if the numbers are going to be up. now that they're going up, she'd rather be home. you mentioned the metropolitan opera house. they're requiring booster shots for employees as well as those fans coming to the opera house, and broadway is in conversation with union m

now, this is something that not only nyu is doing but other colleges here in new york, fordham university is doing it, ithaca college, not ithaca, cornell university and ithaca is doing it as well as princeton in new jersey and cornell earlier this week essentially shut down its campus because of what they called an alert level red this week, an outbreak of something like 469 active student cases of positive covid tests that came through and it sent an alarm through the campus and they essentially shut it down. booster shots required there like here. we talked to some students about the fact they have to have their booster shot before coming back to campus. here's what one student told us. >> for the most part, it's been in person, so we just got the announcement yesterday that everything was going to be online. it's pretty surprising. i was not expecting it honestly. especially since finals are literally next week. it's for the best i think. at the end of the day, nobody wants to get covid. >> reporter: and so with the noise behind me, it's almost like that alarm bell sounding here on ca

news on the biden economy i want to discuss i want to bring back in christina greer, professor at fordhamniversity. david jolly, former florida congressman, and tara palmeri, co-author of politico's r "playbook.” this is on a theme that i've been thinking a lot about, about the u.s. economy. booming u.s. economy ripples world-wide. u.s. economic output is set to expand by more than 7% annualized in the final three months of the year, up from about 2% in the previous t quarter, according to what is publicized by the federal bank of atlanta. this speaks to something i think has not been appreciated. the u.s. covid response as a public health matter has been middling to poor, somewhere in there depending on when you are looking.lo the economic response in many ways, i mean between the c.a.r.e.s. act, the second c.a.r.e.s. act, the american rescue plan, has been pretty good and particularly compared to other countries, chrissy.y the economy is actually doing quite well. people's perception of it is pretty bad, although when you ask them how they're doing personally an financially they say the

the same thing is happening at fordham university here in new york. cornell in ithica and at princeton university in new jersey. they are saying the same thing. they want to do what they can to try and get ahead of this. because they are concerned. they don't like the direction that these covid numbers are going in. >> rehema, do you have any word on whether anything changes on january 1st when eric adams becomes mayor of new york city? >> i don't but i bet he does. and maybe it is a way for him to try and make his mark on preventing the spread of this virus. what he will do beyond what mayor de blasio is doing is yet to be determined. the current mayor is pushing out as much as he can in terms of even offering people at home testing kits for free so they can continue to monitor what their vaccination status is and what their covid status is. and another way for people to be able to feel they are safe and that they can move around the city freely. and as i say, this whole question of mask mandates and booster mandates are becoming a reality in the cit

and christina greer, associate professor of political science at fordham university. with you, dr. kumar. can you talk about the real-world repercussions of the supreme court allowing this law to stand, this texas law? >> yeah, absolutely. it's been over 100 days that we've been living in texas under senate bill 8 and, you know, we've known that when you ban abortion it doesn't stop people from needing abortion. so we continue to see people who need to not be pregnant. unfortunately, the vast majority of people that we see we can't take care of them under senate bill 8 and we're having to tell them to go out of state to find child care, to find time off of work, to find the financial resources to travel while we're still under a global pandemic. and for many patients that i see that's simply not a reality. it's not a possibility. and so a lot of people are being forced to carry their pregnancies to term and it's simply unethical and inhumane to be the conduits of this law every single day. >> yeah. it's a forced birth law, not -- there's nothing humane or pro-life abo

you're all part of history i'm looking for two students from fordham you should be studying for finalsch this today. >> you got on your shirt -- >> this is bread sheeran based on a loaf of bread. >> that's fantastic. as it turns out, ed is performing tonight at madison square garden. >> is he >> part of -- tomorrow night, i should say part of jingle ball. iheart radio even though you may flunk some courses, you can go see ed sheeran. >> thank you >> thank, ed. >> i hope you enjoy the show. >> let's check your weather. looking ahead forward the weekend and for tomorrow, it's going to be pretty spectacular in the east. but we are going to be looking at a lot of wet weather. record highs in the central plains we're looking at heavy snow out west and then for tomorrow, we expect more of the same, a lot of sunshine in the east that snow will be making its way >>> good morning, i'm meteorologist kari hall. our temperatures chilly today and highs only reaching into the mid 50s and more days like this leading into the start of the weekend. frosty and freezy conditions in the inland valleys for

and also professor of history, walter isaacson, an associate professor of political science at fordhamns us. great to have you all on board. >> great to have you guys here with us. curt, this is -- we love doing this, obviously. you and i don't agree on everything but i love watching former republicans still love to watch when democrats fight and that's perfect, we have to get him back tomorrow, but just like the differences, obviously, where democrats are economically, that reagan quote reminded me of when i went to the house as this libertarian/conservative/ populist, one of the things that irritated me so much was that, yes, you are right, there were republicans and there were business people that tried since the early 1970s to get government off of their backs. but it is so funny that most of these people, the chamber, these pro business lobbying groups, they weren't such libertarians when, you know, people like me would try to vote down the sugar subsidy, or i remember just catching absolute hell when i tried to end loyalty relief, so big oil wouldn't get federal subsidies for doi