in 2015, i was in a celebratory mood and i got my first permanent faculty position of george hopkins and my partner had gotten a permanent position as a researcher scientist and we were feeling quite ecstatic and we had a one and a half year-old daughter who was gorgeous and amazing and in celebration of all of these things i did a geta really dumb thing and bought a new motorcycle. i had read in for a long time but i dislike now i can afford a really nice motorcycle and on memorial day weekend i took the shiny new bike out on a ride and made it about three blocks before going through a stop sign and crushing my left foot between the bumper of the van and motorcycle itself. i'm not going to describe the details of my injury in case you are not up for that tonight. i'm not describe i could descrin detail. i will give you enough of a sense of why what happened next happened and so basically the first three bones, the first that connects to the ankle shattered and blew a hole in the inside of my foot and as you are heard in the introduction that the end a limb salvage the situation and

he has taught at the university of virginia and programs at johns hopkins university, george mason university and the american university and is the author of the narrative on the adventure of clarence king and matthew brady portraits of the nation but today we are here to celebrate this book published by simon and schuster we are honored to have him speak today on an american life. welcome. [applause] i have so many microphones going on here and now this one is on. thank you for the lovely introduction and everything that you do for the museum. thank you for having me here at the museum and everything you and the people that work with you to to hope and researching and writing this book. i also want to thank adrian, the curator here and throughout the years working on the book who offered me encouragement, lots of good information and helped me a lot with the photographs in the book later on. i am pleased to be able to tell you the great barnum scholar at this time or any time, arthur saxon, is here in the front row. [applause] arthur could have been forgiven not being fully welcoming of som

archives on keywords and the real thing going on of equal protection was that hopkins was abusing public office for private gain george washington was sending him to chesapeake bay that he would take us navy somewhere else. he took them to the bahamas. [laughter] because it was lucrative for him personally. so the first law that congress passed there is an issue that public officials are supposed to serve their country and not themselves. if you get confused about that you will not go anyplace so congress wound up passing the law but also got the two rhode islanders out of jail they pay the legal fees and pass laws that said all the records have to made available to the public which is why we tell the story today. >> it is fascinating that it come so early in our history. but despite the long history in the close weaving into our own fabric, whistleblowers today are considered tattle tales at worst they are fakers. why are we so conflicted about this? >> there is a number of layers to that question and it's important to realize that america is extinct of its only a concept that makes sense in a democracy if you think

international study of school of advanced international studies at john hopkins, speaking second, he is a professor at law, george washington university he joined the faculty in 1986 after 11 years in private law practice including a partner and he is the author of more than 40 articles and book chapters in the fields of banking law and american constitutional history and the coeditor of a book, the financial crisis of 2008. in 2005 the american college of consumer financial services lawyers awarded him a prize for the best law review article, i could go on and on but i will not. you can read about online. he has testified before u.s. congress many times and he was a consultant to the financial inquiry commission that looked into the financial crisis, he has a ba from yell university and his law th degree from harvd law school. both of our experts, thank you for coming and the mic is yours. >> thank you for coming. this is an important issue because of the very important book in a very good book and a fun book, it is an interesting book to read which is unusual and you say i want to read a book about somebody who

and the role of the west in that dynamic here at johns hopkins date will be hearing from a deputy assistant secretary of state come from the george w. bush administration during the discussion, again watching live coverage here on c-span. also live on c-span2. also live today joe biden will be campaigning in rochester new hampshire. that live coverage scheduled to get underway shortly and you can also watch that at c-span.org or over on c-span or use the free c-span radio app. [inaudible conversations]

and the role of the west in that dynamic here at johns hopkins date will be hearing from a deputy assistant secretary of state come from the george w. bush administration during the discussion, again watching live coverage here on c-span. also live on c-span2. also live today joe biden will be campaigning in rochester new hampshire. that live coverage scheduled to get underway shortly and you can also watch that at c-span.org or over on c-span or use the free c-span radio app. [inaudible conversations] >> i like to welcome everybody to russia and eurasia seminar. we do it every two weeks. as you know, and today we, given the speaker we have and the topic he's going to deal with, we had the pleasure of welcoming c-span here, which is broadcasting this event, as far as i can tell, live on c-span two. i'm charles gati. i organized the similars. i say very little because i want the speaker to have as much time as possible. just to give you a little background, he comes from massachusetts. he went, studied soviet studies at harvard. before that got his ba also in soviet studies and political science from tufts university, at harvard h

george w. bush administration. he talks about the russia-ukraine conflict and the impeachment inquiry of president trump, russia sanctions and u.s. military aid to ukraine. from the johns hopkins school of international study, this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> i'd like to welcome everybody to the russia-you're asia seminar. we do it every two weeks, as you know, and given the speaker that we have and the topic is going to deal with. we have the pleasure of welcoming c-span here which is broadcasting this event as far as i can tell live on c-span2. i'm charles gotti. i organize these seminars and i say very little because i want the speaker to have as much time as possible. just to give you a little background. he hails from massachusetts and the soviet studies at harvard, before that, he got his va also in soviet studies and political science from tufts university. at harvard he studied with the legendary adam olamb and in tufts with solitary and old friend of mine, indeed. >> he left washington after, ana professor at -- in florida, at -- at florida international university, and that's a move that is shrouded in mystery, because few people do that, but perhaps he will tell u

george w. bush administration. he talks about the russia-ukraine conflict and the impeachment inquiry of president trump, russia sanctions and u.s. military aid to ukraine. from the johns hopkins school of international study, this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> i'd like to welcome everybody to the russia-you're asia seminar. we do it every two

hopkins school of advanced international studies. you can also see that at 12:45 p.m. on c-span2. if you want more information, we invite you to go to our website at c-span.org. georges next in fort worth, texas. hello. you are on. caller: yes, i would like to make a comment. inm 78 years old, and i live fort worth, texas. i have been working on a project to create jobs in america. guess what? the united states should talk about nobody in this country, about nobody having problems being racist, this is the most racist country in the world. wiped out the indians, you done made the black men slaves -- host: what about with the nba? caller: the nba had one owner down there, and it is mark cuban right here in texas. when you take the nba itself, it ain't no angel. may give all of the money in america to the basketball -- the chinese have a right to run their own government -- hong kong, hong kong belongs to china. if you go back to ho chi minh and the days of ho chi minh and vietnam, all of that territory belongs to china. host: so you did -- did you support the initial treat from the houston rockets manager? caller: no, he was wrong, because, you know what? you should