professor wijesekera, what do you do at george mason university? prof.ijesekera: i do research mostly related to cybersecurity and its consequences on the transportation systems. i have a large group of students who work on radio breakers,atic connected breakers, some on uav's, meaning unmanned areas. -- ariel vehicles. everything that is related to industrial automation. >> what is that word you are using? wakers? prof. wijesekera: yes, like in buses and trains and so on. wakers. >> do you teach any classes as well? prof. wijesekera: yes, i usually teach cybersecurity classes. this fall, i am going to teach a class on connected and automatic vehicles. we have a pretty good selection of graduate students and faculty that lift us update by day. so we are encouraged to do whatever we can to reach out and cybersecurity vulnerabilities and look at the new areas that are emerging and participate to the best extent we can. peter: you also have worked at the national institute of standards and technology. what is that, and what are you doing? prof. wijesekera:

he holds the chair and economic and george mason university. he's a bloomberg opinion columnist and has written regularly for "the new york times" and contributes to a wide number of newspapers and periodicals. his previous books include the class and great stagnation. in his new book big business, he examines the tension between the lack of trust in big business snd big businesses in the american economy. he argues that corporations despite americans ambivalence towards them are inessential and balanced, productive and oppressive society by spurring innovation, rewarding talent and hard work and created the bounty on which americans have come to depend. the deputy editor of harvard business review writes tyler cowen mounts a defense of big business finance and the tech industry. both of their critics and defenders will benefit from b ts book. cowen will be joined in conversation tonight by edward, u.s. national editor from financial times and author of the retreat of western liberalism. please join me in welcoming either cowen and edward. [app

, george mason had written all men are created equally free and independent. and, have certain inherent rights which they cannot by any compact divide or the best posterity of which enjoyment of life, liberty, and the means of acquiring pursuing and pertaining 14, and it says we hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent. from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and an amiable in which to the preservation of life liberty and pursuit of happiness. that's all i'm going to say for the moment about jefferson's famous opening paragraph. i will return to them later on. for more about the political philosophies that inform those few famous sentences in the first few famous paragraphs, i recommend these wonderfully sophisticated books. i want to keep going because instead i want us to think about his declarations long middle section, the least quotable bit. the paragraph that everyone skips over between the famous opening and the rousing conclusion. i'm talking about his list of grievances. they are hugely

david: appreciate you being here, jamil jaffer, of george mason university in washington. lifetime center of the intersection between wall street and government. now he has written a book to tell the story. solomon.e peter that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: you are watching "balance of power." i'm david westin. solomon spent a career at lehman brothers before creating his own independent investment bank. along the way, he served as deputy mayor to ed koch. he has written about his experiences and what they taught him in his new book "wasting time constructively." we welcome him today for today's conversation in chief. a fascinating book, it tells a history that i knew bits and pieces of, but not this comprehensively. one of the things you talk about is the 2008 financial crisis, what we learn from it, and whether it could happen again. you say we should not be too sanguine that we fixed it. are partnancial cycles of the system, but there is a problem in the growth of globalization and the diversification of securities, a complication of securities. in my book -- i s

here is jefferson apparently borrowing from george mason. george mason had written, all men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent natural rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or do vest -- or divest their prosperity among which are the enjoyment of , life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. and jefferson's version in his first draft reads, "we hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable, that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. that is all i'm going to say for the moment about jefferson's famous opening paragraph, i will return to then later on. more about the political philosophies that informed those few famous sentences in the two first paragraphs of the declaration, i would recommend wonderful books by carl becker and gary wills if you want to learn

the parked art bus began to roll, slammed into a truck and then into this building near george mason drive and columb pike. no one on the busia or building was hurte and onc stabilized arlington transill will move the bus. >> here's a live look at 's very sunny out there and it's been a very muggy day outside as well. sue, what is on tap tonight. >>eah, hi there, sarah, shawn, what's on p tonight. pass on thunderstorms. that would be nice. >>dhat's a goo thing we need that. >> ogosh we ever spotty chances for thunderstorms tonight. mostly we have seep them down si the south where frontal boundary is ding tonight and that will be the focus for any of thighs spotty eveng storms that we see. we're watching radar closely. we'll each keep awe head of anything you see. out towards beaches we see aactivity and down rough interstate6 corridor. you can see pretty widely separated and they' recome past little storms. not expecting problems. we sue aa few up north and west and they're strugglin to hold together comeing across i 8 1 corridor and mean while andy was a warm day somewhat humid less

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there's a political analyst and professor at the schott school of policy and government to george mason university so it's not washington d.c. good to have you had seen the program again mrs schneider denial of politicians to any country often right and so to initiate condemnation but to deny access to a country based on your own president's recommendations to another head of state certainly crosses quite a few lines. yes it does it breaks a lot of norms including the norm the norm against using foreign influence to advance your political interests here in the united states which is exactly what president trump is doing he's enlisting the assistance of prime minister netanyahu from israel to speak out and try to punish his domestic political enemies that's just has not been done in american politics in the past of course the president as we've seen is a lawrence himself sometimes but to receive so much criticism over this even from his own party and allies is quite unprecedented in terms of american history yes it certainly is i believe the president was expecting hoping perhaps to spli

campuses throughout the nation and new university of pittsburgh and purdue university are joining george mason and northern arizona university and having access to robo deliveries the company hopes to provide delivery services on 100 campuses in the next 2 years students can use the company's out to order goods busy at all hours and can pay with their meal cards the delivery fee will be between $1.00 and $2.00 and delivery times are roughly 30 minutes. that's it for this time you can catch boom bust on direct t.v. channel 321 dish network channel 2 any or streaming 247 on pluto t.v. to free t.v. temp channel to 79 or as always put us up at youtube dot com slash boom bust our to see you next time. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for indication let it be an arms race in. spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. why a paradise with some ground turned into a round the experimentation field but agricultural chemicals we know that these chemicals

"theis week on communicators," we want to introduce you to george mason university professor duminda wijesekera.

research fellow at george mason university.loomberg's david westin sit-down for theod of bls is. she talked everything from investment strategy to increasing politics and local banks. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> puerto rico bracing for a hit from hurricane dorian. threatening, but not the heavy winds from two years ago. joining us with an update is brian sullivan. where is the storm right now and when do we acted to make landfall? >> it threats the needle before -- between puerto rico and st. thomas. the threat of puerto rico is diminishing. >> what are the concerns right now in terms of how severe it could be if it does, in fact hit florida? is ae official or cast category three which would make it a major hurricane. this will be one of the strongest storms to hit for quite some time. >> it is a key area of concern. what are the defenses like in this sort of area and how well-adjusted are they? >> florida gets hit by a lot of hurricanes and they do hurricane preparation well. rapidorm undergoes intensification. the other thing we

religious gathering let's talk again to our best buy's larger visiting research on islamic studies at george mason university he joins us from atlanta in the states there were some calls over the past few weeks to boycott saudi arabia primarily because of what's going on in yemen looking at the pictures they are compelling as ever from the hard they are stunning i guess as well so many people in that area right now going through the harsh no one's listened to those boycott calls. good morning make no mistake a large swath of the global muslim community is deeply deeply troubled with the role that saudi arabia is playing in yemen and in some parts of the region and is just and most muslims are deeply dismayed with what's happening in places like kashmir and what the syrian refugee crisis and a lot of people do blame salary saudi arabia for its role in causing these problems however there is a long tradition within the muslim community globally to bracket political issues when it comes to the performance of the hodge one has to remember today's day the sacred day of young a lot of that is the day in

campuses throughout the nation and you university of pittsburgh and purdue university are joining george mason and northern arizona university and having access to robo deliveries the company hopes to provide delivery services on $100.00 campuses in the next 2 years students can use the companies out to order goods at all hours and can pay with their meal cards the delivery fee will be between $1.00 and $2.00 and delivery times are roughly 30 minutes. that's it for this time you can catch boom bust on direct t.v. channel 321 dish network channel 284 streaming 247 on pluto t.v. the free t.v. tent channel 279 or as always hit us up at youtube dot com slash boom bust r.t. see you next. in this community there are people who believe that it's ok to sell for x. food on my table it's really hard there are no jobs and you see that i've got kids and asked to eat and as a parent. i can come up with lots of arguments there's a lot of conflict in the game between the close of the conflict i would say. and most of them has made. us want to know each other. each other is good because the state of californi

is a visiting researcher on islamic studies at george mason university he says hodge takes place when muslims all over the world are deeply troubled because that conflicts flaring from yemen to kashmir make no mistake a large swath of the global muslim community is deeply deeply troubled with the role that saudi arabia is playing in yemen and in some parts of the region it is just and most muslims are deeply dismayed with what's happening in places like kashmir and with the syrian refugee crisis and a lot of people do blame saturday saudi arabia for its role in causing these problems however there is a long tradition within the muslim community globally to bracket political issues when it comes to the performance of the hodge one has to remember today's day of the sacred day of your meal out of that is the day in which muslims return to their original and final states in this world and in the hereafter you know seeking for forgiveness from god speaking directly to god from the mountain signals a kind of a recollection of adam's pristine moment and and a kind of practice for the day of

george mason had written all men are created equally free and independent and have certain inherent natural rights of which they cannot by any compact deprive or divest with the means of acquiring or investing property and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety and jefferson's version in his first draft reads we hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable among which the preservation of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. now, that's all i'm going to say for the moment about jefferson's famous opening paragraph. i will return to them a little later on. and for more on those philosophies that inform the first two paragraphs of the declaration, i recommend these wonderfully learned and sophisticated books if you want to learn more. i want to keep going because instead i want us to think about his declaration's long middle section, the least quotable bit. the paragraphs that everyone skips over between the famous opening and the rousing conclusion. i'm talking

we can and as we do that we'll talk to the guy he's a visiting research on islamic studies at george mason university he joins us from atlanta in the u.s. . to get the sense that this hard is different to proceeding previous hardships in as much as there are so many political tensions around this region right now well i know that for many people and i should say thank you very much for having me this morning it's an honor to speak on the subject on the morning of the day of our. i understand that it may seem that way but the truth of the matter is that pilgrims from around the world despite the tensions that are happening in the region around the world have always been able to sort of bracket out and make this face and this time a very sacred time a very special place and and reason all of the worries and governments themselves find in mecca and in the hodge and in the religious rituals a time for for resolution time for reconciliation and at least a time to take it something like a time out if you will from from the other regions so even though there are escalations there are tensions the

both the left and the right let's speak to bill schneider who's a professor of public policy at george mason university he's speaking to us from los angeles thanks for speaking to us again on the al-jazeera news hour you heard what the president had to say earlier on what did you make of his statement did he go far enough in condemning the mass shootings in outlining a way forward. on the 1st answer is yes he did go far enough in condemning the shootings but i don't think he went as far as most americans warning in saying that he would do something about them in particular something about the availability of guns and military style assault weapons which are used in these shootings you know in ohio there was a vigil and the public in dayton ohio where one of the massacres occurred started spontaneously changing at the governor of ohio do something do something do something and what they were talking about was gun control which is a very difficult subject in washington and one the president has always avoided yeah that's the thing we often hear very high in the motion officer all the shootings

al-jazeera washington well earlier we spoke with bill schneider political analyst and a professor at george mason he believes israel's decision might have backfired on mr trump. i believe the president was expecting hoping perhaps to split democrats on the on the issue of israel and over the support of these 2 democratic representatives who tried to make their trip to israel he thought the democrats would split because they are controversial figures in the democratic party but instead what he has done is unite the democratic party against him against president trump and enlisted a few republicans as well most republicans are keeping silent about this some like senator marco rubio of florida have openly criticized the president that is not the reaction he expected to get ok let's go back to one of our top stories so far here on the al-jazeera news very specifically the ongoing crisis in and around the disputed territory of kashmir right slap bang in the middle between india and pakistan let's talk again to osama bin should be if he's in a suffer about in pakistani administered kashmir for us prote

gathering as one of the 5 pillars of islam a bus bus ago is a visiting research on islamic studies at george mason university he says the conch takes place when muslims all over the world have to be troubled because of conflicts flaring from yemen to kashmir. make no mistake a large swath of the global muslim community is deeply deeply troubled with the role that saudi arabia is playing in yemen and in some parts of the region and is just and most muslims are deeply dismayed with with what's happening in places like kashmir and with the syrian refugee crisis and a lot of people do blame salary and saudi arabia for its role in causing these problems however there is a long tradition within muslim community globally to bracket political issues when it comes to the performance of the hodge one has to remember today's day the sacred day of your meal out of that is the day in which muslims return to their original and final states in this world and in the hereafter you know seeking for forgiveness from god speaking directly to god from the mountain signals a kind of a recollection of adam's pristine mo

as one of the 5 pillars of islam abbas sponsor cars a visiting researcher on islamic studies at george mason university he joins us from atlanta we appreciate your time so much in an ideal world one's faith one's religion is not a politicized thing but it is it is often politicized by countries and sometimes by individuals it we can't muslims with a broad brush but having said that at this time of year how would you say muslims are approaching considering everything that's going on between saudi arabia iran and various other countries. well i'm glad you bring it out for me the hog's pilgrimage really signifies a time of global muslim unity that represents the unity of humanity and pilgrims really are deeply impacted and have in the framework the human suffering that is actually taking place as a result of all of this political fallout as you know it's never the leaders of the of these political feuds that actually suffer but it's the average civilians it's the widows it's the children it's the orphans and so people walk into the house with this framework they actually they actually you know

george mason. [laughter] >> virginia state law that prohibits from commenting on people -- [laughter] >> let me forget real issue is what he thinks about democracy because he's not being put on democracy, it's going to be independent then you better make sure that the people running are very qualified and competent. i suspect he's a very good economist. >> thank you very much. >> you mentioned trade, ongoing trade war between united states and china, you see huge massive enterprises coming on china, huawei, for example, supported by very well reasonable driven technology espionage and other anticompetitive measures come to america with very genuine security concern, would you still say free trade approach which would not be doing much or even doing nothing would be appropriate in beating this kind of challenge especially when our nation security experts and agencies tell us we should be doing something. >> i think it is a national security issue. i agree with president trump that we should not be u

our guest this morning is andrew light, professor at george mason university and a senior fellow at the world resources institute. taking your questions on for minds for republicans, democrats, and independents as usual. is thes calling, what world resources institute? nonprofit nonpartisan institute just down the street here in washington, d.c. and we work on all environmental issues, climate change, energy, water resources. we are really data-driven. our approach is to really look at a problem and understand it, the inputs and outputs in terms of climate impact and in terms of contributions to other environmental problems, coming up with innovative solutions and scaling them up with about eight other offices around the world. we are really working with other them tos to help achieve environmental sustainability of some sort. taking your questions, kathleen is up first. caller: thanks to c-span for always bringing such important topics to the american public in bringing experts like mr. light on. i wanted to just mention that carter, he put solar panels on the white house for a while.

schneider is a political analyst and professor of policy government and international affairs at george mason university joins us live now from washington. rather feels like a big exercise in damage limitation doesn't it there isn't going to be a final statement because it is widely divergent views in policies on trade and also on geopolitics if a major falling out or public disagreement can be avoided would that be a positive result for this meeting. any kind of conflict that can be avoided would be positive because donald trump will be there he seeks out conflict he is a divider he's the he's the divider in american politics he's a divider in international politics and on the world stage he will pick a fight with anyone particularly anyone who disagrees with him on some of these very hot issues like trade like immigration like climate change and he's known to differ with the other countries on all those issues but one leader of it he is perhaps more friendly with the british prime minister boris johnson and he is in an interesting position going into this summit because he asked to keep eur

you see here george mason murray.he trance -- the translation were is -- the translation is, -- >> people who have been oppressed by imperialism and fascism have a right to get into those institutions that will change the class nature of those instant duchenne's and eventually lead to the shutting down of those institutions until we destroy capitalism. >> we didn't put them up to nothing. here they are. i ask you to welcome them. >> heretofore, women had been thought of as merely being content in a prone position. things ain't want they used to be. sisters and brothers, people speaking on this stand have not been chosen because of their revolutionary rhetoric. they were chosen because of their correct practice. [indiscernible] >> huey newton says we must make our concentration upon the enemy. this is correct. >> struggling and participating in our political education classes, we are taking more of a leadership role and have sisters that can shoot as well as browder's. shoot as well as brothers. they are not sitting at

he's currently a an assistant law professor at george mason university.hat is your reaction to the president's behavior? >> it's not unexpected. the guy's always had problems on his best day. i think the hope for the future is democrats nominate someone who is moderate who can work with republicans. and we can get together in the post-trump era. i think the irony of the damage he's done is that the divisions he's created in trade and immigration, actually open up a possibility for an event window for bipartisan reform if we can get rid of this guy. >> are you talking to white house officials? are they concerned? >> i am, current folks in the white house in my policy area financial services. the level of concern isn't higher than before. i think for the most part, they tend to try to ignore him and go about their business, go about their jobs. i certainly don't think any of them are proud of him. >> so it's not necessarily registering for them any more this erratic behavior but for you it is? >> but it's growing worse and worse. i can't explain it. frankly

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. >> yang: steven pearlstein of the "washington post" and george mason university, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> yang: for many months now, palestinians in gaza have regularly protested their conditions along the border fence with israel. rnose protests have often violent, resulting in deaths and permanent injuries. militant palestinians ha a lobbed rocke gunfire at israel, especially targeting the soldie at the border. t some international observers say the response of late has taken a sturbing turn. special correspondent jane ferguson was there last year when the conflict firs ratcheted up, and turned recently for another look. >> reporter: in gaza, soccer is a crucial f life. for many, it's an escape from the hardships here. with few prospects for a job, it's a way for young men to pass the time, and a way to still feel human even after devastating injuries. playing with one leg is not easy, but then, nothing about life is in gaza. >> ( translated ): beforthe injury, i loved playing soccer. but after my injury, it became difficult. this team, i can return to it, and i love the s

see it in my students at george mason university but they -- it conjures up sort of moral distaste, and again that goes to routhlessness and the inequality and the unfairness they see. they're not socialists. if you ask them, they're don't really know what socialism is but they're not for the government controlling everything, and owning everything. they're certainly not for that. so, my students dish ask them how many of you want to work for the government? and i think we would bowling be very unhappy to know i never get anyone to put their hand up. then i say would you like to work for a big business? how many and no nobody puts the hand up. i say who wants to work at goldman sachs, maybe one person would put their hand up. i ask what do you want to do. >> what but private equity? >> i didn't. i'm not sure they know. but i would recommend they do, but where they want to work, work at ngos, nongovernmentat organizations, they want to work at startups which they thinksen part of capitalism. >> startups become unicorns. >> not they want to get rich. they think that those kinds of compani

she holds a phd in american history from george mason university. her first book, titled rescue board, the untold stories of america's efforts to save the jews of europe, was published by doubleday in april 2018. and just one the 2018 jewish book award. jvc herbert e award, congratulations. we heard from doctor erbelding two years ago regarding emma st. louis and we are very glad to have her again today. the floor is yours. >> i want to start by thinking the commissioners for inviting me today and also coming to the museum this morning to see the americans and all past exhibit. which for anyone listening who did not come, is available online for people who can't make it to washington. the exhibit is part of a major new initiative to share any research on the united states during the holocaust into the floor, along with our visitors, what americans knew and what they did during the nazi-era. i worked on these questions and my role is to present information on the factors that played and american ounces to the refugee crisis in the nineteen 30s and 19

university of chicago, george mason's number two. university of tennessee. the prof.nger: carnegie mellon, look at that. brian: and there is a whole scale of how they judge, and i have no idea of what that is. and let's look at the ones rated on the very bottom. prof. stanger: northwestern? uc berkeley? brian: i know that yale and harvard are right there at the bottom. prof. stanger: really? but they're making such efforts to uphold freedom of expression. i would want to dissect those rankings. they could be right. anything that will capture a particular moment in time, so when you ask the question, you have to look at the methodology to understand what you want to take away from it, and i have not done that. brian: they judged it on the basis of how open the campus is and all of that. some campuses have more activity than others. prof. stanger: yeah. brian: the university of chicago's is number one, and people often cite them as having the strongest statement. i got a john ellison, dean of students, who wrote to the class of 2020. you know the person in chicago that

will tell us about a forgot founding father george mason the founding father who gave us the bill of rights. on tuesday december 10 sidney blumenthal will talk about his biography of abraham lincoln all powers of earth the political life of abraham lincoln in 1856 to 1863. to find out more about these programs and our exhibits please visit our web site at www.archives.gov/account and you will find. material in the theater lobby about coming events as well as sign up sheet so you can receive an electronic version of her monthly calendar. philip mudd joined the central intelligence agency in 1985 on a panel specializing on asia and in the middle east. after the september 11 attack he was a cia member of the small diplomatic team that helped piece together a new government for afghanistan. after returning to the cia he became deputy director of the counterterrorist center and served there until 2005. he was the first deputy director of the federal pair of investigations national security branch and later became the fbi's senior intelligence adviser. philip mudd has received numerous awa

pearlstein, pulitzer prize- winning columnist for the ngton post," professor o public affairs at george mason university, and author of the book, "can american capitalism survive?" steve, thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure. yang: a year ago you wrote in your column that the decisions to declare maximizing value for shareholders as thele urpose of a corporation is the source of much of what has gone wrong with american capitalism. how big a deal is this shift? >> well, it's a big deal ot so much because what the roundtable saysas any legal force on any of its members. it's important because itgn s a shift in attitude in lready occurring. it's a sort of confirming something that's happening that's, i think, the pendulum swinging back inigthe direction after having swung too far in favor of shareholders. so it's important for this sort of signaling value and for the signaling to other kinds of businesses and other businesshi thatis now a new norm, and signaling to the other stakeholders to ben to, i thinert some of their influence and their leverage. >> yang: now, after you wrote that column,

hendren al-jazeera washington we spoke to bill schneider our political analyst and a professor at george mason university he believes israel's decision might have bank 5 president trump i believe the president was expecting hoping perhaps to split democrats on the on the issue of israel and over the support of these 2 democratic representatives who tried to make their trip to israel he thought the democrats would split because they are controversial figures in the democratic party but instead what he has done is unite the democratic party against him against president trump and enlisted a few republicans as well most republicans are keeping silent about this some like senator marco rubio of florida have openly criticized the president that is not the reaction he expected to get congresswoman rashida to lie who has palestinian heritage just said she will continue to fight for entry into palestine and permission to see her aging grandmother. and that's unfortunate because. you know we see israel is a democracy as a democratic country very obvious that they're trying to limit. what i'm able to ge

religious gathering this talk again to a bus boss ago he's a visiting research on islamic studies at george mason university joins us now from atlanta in the states welcome back to al-jazeera i mean again i guess not wishing to politicize what the hajis revealed but you've got 90000 iranians there who've been allowed access to the hard she couldn't exactly say relations between saudi arabia and tehran are as good as they've ever been in the past but i guess it's a plus because they lowered the barriers literally. yes i mean it's glad to be back thank you very much for having me back but i have to say that. the hajj pilgrimage has always been one where tensions for the pilgrims are eased and people as average citizens as average pilgrims are there to perform their rights before god on the one on the holiest and most sacred days of the year and we would hope that political leaders would would learn from the pilgrims themselves of course many people have heavy heavy hearts for what's happening in yemen especially what's happening in kashmir right now and people will go into the house with this in th

he's been a member of the columbia university possible down in george mason, universities in addition to temple. and clark for supreme court justice and yes, you can feel free to ask him about retirement plans later. he's the author of in search of definitions, in cyberspace in 2009. perspective on internet law and policy. he has something to say about everything. cyber law, problems in the information era of the age. the article in the review with law enforcement law in cyberspace. it was recently identified as the second most intellectual property law in the article. of all time. david. >> i'm sorry, my parents are here today. to hear that wonderful introduction. my mother would have believed and my father passed. excellent book. a general nostalgia for the old days and old battles, i wasn't directly involved in the medication debate, but debates over to 30,000 involved with those who were involved. jeff's book is a reminder of what a strange and bizarre case this is. legal evolution of how the law shapes society and business and commerce. they are the 26 works that created the inte

as one of the 5 pillars of islam abbas sponsor cars a visiting researcher on islamic studies at george mason university who joins us from atlanta we appreciate your time so much in an ideal world one's faith one's religion is not a politicized thing but it is it is often politicized by countries and sometimes by individuals it we can't blame us.

commonwealth university medical center, meredith lair is an associate professor of history at george mason university, and gary solis is an adjunct professor of law at georgetown university. >> hello, everyone. good afternoon. i want to start by saying how pleased i am to be included in this -- today's proceedings. this is a very special subject for me. i'm honored to be amongst all the distinguished historians that are, you know, speaking and attending. was really an accidental historian. didn't set out to be one, didn't want to be one, but it came to pass. i am very pleased in 2015 the ar army surgeon general's office published my book, which is up here being illustrated which represents 35 years off and on of an attempt to put together, the pieces, all the pieces i could find alluding to the morale and mental health and i will say crisis that we ended up with in vietnam. i hope to illustrate that in the time that i have today, so shameless plug here, here's the book if anybody wants to look at it, and if not, if you're interested all the references to what i'm going to put up here are i

our guest this morning is andrew light, professor at george mason university and a senior fellow at the resources institute. taking your questions on for minds for republicans, democrats, and independents as usual. is thes calling, what world resources institute? nonprofit nonpartisan institute just down the street here in washington, d.c. and we work on all environmental issues, climate change, energy, water resources. we are really data-driven. our approach is to really look at a problem and understand it, the inputs and outputs in terms of climate impact and in terms of contributions to other environmental problems, coming up with innovative solutions and scaling them up with about eight other offices around the world. we are really working with other them tos to help achieve environmental sustainability of some sort. taking your questions, kathleen is up first. caller: thanks to c-span for always bringing such important topics to the american public in bringing experts like mr. light on. i wanted to just mention that carter, he put solar panels on the white house for a while. you gu

he holds masters in economics from george mason university and is fluent in japan. >> will thank you bruce, it's always been in such an order but sometimes i wonder if it note he knows better than to get into issues of south korea and japan issues. as on to say that i endorse and agree with what mark had to say in the way i would characterize it is is by our japanese and allies. i feel like i am a bit of a disadvantage today because i am supposed to describe the south korean view on a panel that is focused on is on the economy. and i am more in the political and security dimensions. of our us asia relations. i apologize if i can't stay completely in my lane. what i wanted to do is to the response and south korea's removal from japan's white list. i think that the structure of my presentation is going to be kind of like watching a video of someone peeling an onion backwards. what's at stake in south korea in relationships well south korea and japan are significant partners of each other. over 1000 people are like to be south korea bought 70 percent of chemicals almost 900,000 people.

heels masters and bachelors degrees in economics from george mason university and is fluent in japanese. i'll turn to you, , scott, to gt us started. >> thank thank you, bruce. it's always a pleasure and honor when bruce called me to contribute but sometimes i wonder if it's because he knows better than to stick his neck out on issues like south korea-japan relations. i also just want to say that i fully endorse and agree with what marc knapper had to say. the way i would characterize it is essentially a call to statesmanship by our japanese and south korean allies. i feel like i'm a bit of, at a bit of a disadvantage today because i'm supposed to describe the south korean view on a panel that focuses on the economy, when i'm really focused on the political and security dimensions of u.s.-asia relations. and so i apologize if i can't stay completely and my lincoln what i want to do is to describe south korea's response to prime minister abe announcement of export restrictions and south korea's potential removal from japan's white list and tie it to a broader context. so i think the stru