now from what a hypocrite who is associate professor at the sha school of policy and government george mason university what do you for a warm welcome to the program let's start off with i want rudy giuliani just said what do you make of the i don't want to make generally also the trunk campaigns allegations of widespread votes of food. it's very interesting that even though the media in the united states would seem like a consensus that there is a winner institutions are not working because they are contesting it it's just a very surprising that what is happening in the united states. it's what happens in countries that are underdeveloped for example mexico when a president has not been. one candidate does not acknowledge triumph or another can i thought the united states had very strong institutions which shows very strong limitations and weakness of us at all levels this is a very divided country where the decision of the majority is not taken into account this is very worrisome for the americans who regarding the failure of these institutions at the moment do you think that this is somet

to manage to do so today what we're now joined by bill schneider a public policy professor at george mason university he's live via skype from washington d.c. thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so before we get into the details of this election and i guess your prediction just explain to us it seems like such an awfully complicated system this electoral college system explain to an international audience what the upsides of this are. well you have to carry a state in order to get electoral votes so it means the states matter and it also gives an advantage sure publicans because many of the states are smaller and they have they're mostly republican the americans don't like specially democrats don't like the electoral college system it's given the election to the republican in 2000 george w. bush and again in 2016 donald trump they think the electoral college system is unfair to them because a person like say george bush could win florida by 500 votes it's a state with about 20000000 people they could win florida by the attorneys margin in the get all the electoral votes the

to take back control, he's interviewed by david longman and attend former appellate judge and george masonwprofessor douglas ginsburg and his book voices of our republic examines the constitution through the eyes of judges, legal scholars and historians. watch tv on c-span2 this weekend and be sure to watch in-depth live sunday, september 6 at noon eastern with our guest author and chair of african-american studies at princeton university betty law junior. >> with joe biden as president-elect, look to c-span for live coverage of the election process c-span: your unfiltered view of politics . >> good evening everyone. welcome to the bookstore in scottsdalearizona . i'm barbara chatham and my cohost is the pulitzer prize winning and distinguished foreign correspondent and columnist for the washington post, and i'm happy to say my friend jimoagland >> good to see you. >> i'm just delighted you could join us. our author this evening is mark salter and the book is, we

e's interviewed by blooerg news reporter david is cough and former appellate judge and the george mason university law professor douglas ginsburg in his book voices of our republic examines the constitution through the eyes of judges, legal scholars and historians . what book tv on c-span2 this weekend and be sure to watch in-depth live, sunday, december 5 at noon eastern with our guest author and chair of african-american studies at princeton university. >>. >> so nice to meet you. >>. >> i'd like to start this interview by talking about you . i was talking a little more about you but i like the audience to start off honestly in your introduction. you got a note from a professor i believe saying you'd never be apolitical scientist, can you talk about that ? >> i put that in the book is i wanted to major in college and it was really torn between going into science and going into the humanities and social science and i finally decided on social science because i found those questions much more interesting and engaging and urgent for me. and in my political science course we read all thes

at 10:00, george mason university law professor doug -- douglas ginsburg in his book, examining the constitution through the eyes of judges, legal scholars, and historians. watch book tv on c-span two this weekend and be sure to watch in-depth live sunday, december 6 at noon eastern with our guest eddie brought junior. the ronald reagan presidential foundation and institute host their annual education summit. this portion featured a discussion on the role of philanthropy on education. it is to five minutes. -- 25 minutes. >> welcome, everyone. we are so glad to have you here today. thank you for joining us. we have a real treat today, two leaders of philanthropy talking about their involvement in this unprecedented time. al gholston and carol, welcome. i'm really pleased to have a chance to chat with you. before we begin, i just wanted say i'm sorry for the loss of bill gates, senior. i know you and everyone at the foundation is feeling the loss. he was a tremendous man and many of us got a chance to know him in various ways, but probably not as well as you. >> he was a remarkable human being an

at 10:00, former appellate judge and george mason university law professor ginsberg examines the constitution through the eyes of judges, legal scholars, and historians. c-span2 this" on weekend and be sure to watch "in with ouris weekend guest, the professor of african-american studies at princeton university. joe bidennt-elect encouraged everyone to take necessary precautions to prevent the spread of covid-19 in a thanksgiving address from wilmington, delaware. his remarks are about 20 minutes. pres. elect biden: my fellow americans, thanksgiving is a special time in america. a time to reflect on what the year has brought and think about what lies ahead. you know, our first national day of thanksgiving, authorized by the co

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controlshe's interviewed by bloomberg news reporter david mclachlan and ken, former appellate judge and george mason university law professor douglas ginsburg and his book voices of our public examines the constitution through the eyes of judges, legal scholars and historians. watch book tv on c-span2 this weekend and be sure to watch in that line sunday, december 5 at noon eastern. when our guest author and a chair african-american studies at princeton university. >>. >>. >>. >> brought to you by your television provider . >> welcome to today's virtual program, from the commonwealth club of california. i'm the club's vice president of media and your moderator for today.we'd like to thank our members, donors and supporters were making this and all of our programs possible. we're of course grateful and we welcome others joining us during these uncertain times. today i'm pleased to be joined by brian christian, programmer and author of the new book the alignment problem, machine learning. which was released last week. he discusses theoretical contributions documented in his best-selling book the most

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we are now joined by bill snyder, a professor at george mason university. thank you for joining us.efore we get into the details of this election and your prediction, this seems like such a complicated system. explain to the international audience the upsides of the system. >> you have to carry estate in order to get electoral votes. that means the state matter. it gives an advantage to republicans because many of the states are smaller and mostly republican. americans especially democrats don't like the electoral college system. it has given the election to the republican twice recently. they think the system is unfair to them because a person like george w. bush could win florida by 500 votes. they could win florida by the tiniest margin and they get all the electoral votes. there are proposals to change it, but you would have to do that by changing the constitution and that's a difficult process. >> we know that he managed to get past 270 last time. this is a particular election. it is been controversial and we have seen this enormous number of postal votes people who voted befor

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the side of a public policy professor at george mason university always great to get your insights here on out of there bill thanks for being with us well there are yet no final results from wisconsin very close race there as well absentee ballots are expected to be counted by wednesday morning and there is a deadline a little bit later on today we will be bringing you all of that right here on al-jazeera. well the media and a social media have the sec to become was urns during donald trump's presidency he's effectively weaponized the term fake news and he's been attacking outlets that he perceives as enemies well let's now hear from richard gere's but he is the host of our show the listening post. donald trump's inauguration set the tone from that day when he flat out lied about the size of the crowd it was clear that the u.s. news media did not know what to make of the president's on again off again relationship with the truth series of well we have to label it untruths we now have a case where he's made another charge and he has not got evidence why are we surprised that such a racis

and john are very close band-aid here on out to their side of that public policy professor at george mason university. always great to have you out there. thanks, bill. my pleasure. oh, all of this is happening as record numbers of people are in the hospital in the u.s. with the current virus as the number of new cases that continues to soar. almost 62000 people are currently hospitalized with carbon 19 and a 1000000 people have been infected in the united states just in the last 10 days. there is plenty more ahead on this news out, including more on the military operation in northern ethiopia, that's forced thousands to flee to neighboring sudan, and the needs in the south african community. what he's been investigating in his best style scandal that's made thousands of people and often nearly a year is delayed because of the krajina virus qualifying is back underway for the african cup of nations. protest is gathered in armenia's capital to voice their anger about a deal to end fighting with azerbaijan and nagorno-karabakh. they opposed to that agreement which sees land 100 over to a ver

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george washington owned abram, adam, alice, and anthony. and the list goes on. towards mason owned samson -- george manson -- george mason owned samson, bridget. trust pinckney -- charles pinckney owned john, helena, peter, hester, and many others. these are just a few names that we can remember today. knew theshington subject of slavery was unavoidable by the time of the constitution's ratification. by that time, the institution was already thoroughly mixed into the foundation of our new nation. from 1770 -- 1787 and 1788, what happened to the constitution after the civil war? the constitution was radically changed after the civil war. there are three amendments that were ratified. we call them the civil war amendments or the reconstruction amendment. the 13th amendment, which abolished slavery, the 14th amendment, which is the one we probably know the best, it attached a bunch of civil rights to all people, but particularly for formerly enslaved people. you find the guarantee of equal protection under the law and the guarantee of life, liberty, and property, and without due

his take on michael flynn's pardon, director of the national security law and policy program at george masonniversity, jamil jeffers, good morning. you heard the criticism from democrats but donald trump sees michael flynn is a victim of an anti-trump fbi. does he deserve this pardon? >> michael flynn was convicted, he pled guilty to lying to the fbi, there is little in question whether he told the fbi the truth. was he trapped into doing that through an investigation that had problems and does the president have the power to give this pardon? the president has absolute power to give a pardon. hearing about abuse of power, it is an absolute power of the president, he has the power to do this is a question of whether he should. >> your opinion on what they team at farland had to say, former deputy national security adviser who said this was never about general flynn. >> it wasn't about general flynn. it was always about getting donald trump. 0 officials in the obama administration, the west wing and the justice department and the fbi and the intelligence community, they knew michael flynn did

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the discussion of social security reform with george mason universities senior strategist.atch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern monday morning. and be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages and tweets. british prime minister boris johnson answered questions from members of the house of commons virtually because he is self isolating out a home after coming in contact with someone who tested positive for covid-19. he mainly talked about the uk's current lockdown, and addressed concerns with the countries contact tracing measures. >> we go to questions for the prime minister. questions for the prime minister to answer the engagement question and then call the supplementary. >> thank you, mister speaker.

patrick henry is one of those guys that doesn't think that this is a great idea, and the other one, george mason, is kind of looking at that idea of the bill of rights, you know, he kind of wants to see that so he's not crazy about parts of it and a lot of guys from the big states like massachusetts or virginia don't like the senate. there's all kinds issues, but most of the men will put aside their doubts as franklin hoped and sign their names september 17th, 1787. at that point franklin looks at the chair where washington sits and says look behind washington's head. there's a carving of a half sun on the back of the chair. all summer i've been trying to decide whether that half sun is rising or setting and i could not make up-mile-per-hour mind until now. now at length i have the happiness to know that that is a rising and not a setting sun. he felt good. he'd been working for this since the 1750s, this kind of unity of the american states, and he finally sees it happening. one of the great stories that comes afterwards is he's supposedly asked what kind of a government they have created here

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interviewed by news reporr, david and 10:00, george mason university law professor in h book, voicesf our republic examining the constitution to the eyes of judges. legal scholars and historians. watch book tv on c-span2 this weekend. be sure to watch in-depth live sunday december 6 noon eastern with our guest, author and chair of african-american studies at princeton university. eddie junior. >> hello, everyone. welcome. i'm the owner of this store in maryland. i am so excited and honored to host an event for reclaiming her time, the power of maxine wate waters. maxine is letting us spiritually today. a fabulous book. we are excited to focus on something positive as we get closer to an election and as we get crazier and crazier walked inside our homes. this will uplift minority voic voices, higher forces in our community and those who may see this and we are honored you are joining us tonight. reclaiming her time, maxine

and former appellate judge and george mason university law professor george ginsberg examines the constitution through the eyes of judges, legal scholars, and historians. watch book tv on c-span2 this weekend, and be sure to watch "in-depth" sunday at noon eddien, with our guest brought junior -- eddie glaude jr. >> up next, open but the new york times" -- up next, "the new senatores" talks with elizabeth warren on the upcoming administration. >> i have so many questions. i think the thing we are all trying to make sense of right now is the

interviewed by bloomberg news reporter david mclaughlin and it 10:00 p.m former fella but judge at george masonuniversity law professor douglas ginsburg in his book, voices of our republic examines the constitution through the eyes of justice, legal scholars and historians. watchful tv on c-span2 this weekend and be sure to watch in-depth live sunday december 6 at noon eastern with our guest, author and chair of african-american studies at princeton university. >> here's a look at publishing industry news. the 71st annual national book awards were held virtually last week and this year's nonfiction prize went to the late journalist less pain and his daughter imposable researcher tamera payne for their biography of malcom x, the dead rising and for fictions charles you for his novel interior chinatown, national book foundation which sponsors the awards presented a lifetime achievement offer to walter mosley paired britain's biggest literary prize was also awarded last week and this year's booker prizes given to scottish writer douglas stewart for his debut novel, and in other news simon schuster

george mason, james madison, or aoc? and pelosi and schumer and biden, biden is a dimestore politician. he's been a politician for 47 years. the man has accomplished absolutely nothing, 39 years in the senate, eight years as vice president. are we going to reject our history? will be going to reject the agents that inform our history for joe biden who runs around and talks about unity and says he would do more on the virus when you know he would not? everything is at stake. i will close with a quote from one of the great living icons and he said on my show back in july what i see is if the election goes to biden that there is a good chance that the democrats will then control to branches of congress and the white house and considering the kinds of things they are proposing to my that could well be the point of no return for this country. we've come too far. we are too great of a nation, we have saved too many people. we have lost too many lives. think about your own ancestors. to surrender this country and one vote to a

there is nobody better, tim grose close is a professor of economics at george mason university, adammarquita center and has written a fantastic book and i even cited in my book, on freedom of the press called how liberal media bias distorts the american mind. and part here is what he says. what happens when our view of the world is filtered through the eyes, ears and minds of such a liberal group and he says as i demonstrate using social scientific method it prevents us from seeing the world as it actually is, instead we see only a distorted version of it. it is as if we seat the world through a glass, glass that magnifies the facts that liberals want us to see and shrinks the fact that conservatives want us to see. he writes later perhaps we worst of all, media bias feeds on itself and that is the bias makes us more liberal which makes us less able to detect the bias which allows the media to get away with more bias which makes us even more liberal and so on and all this means that the political views that we currently see americans are not their natural abuse. we see only an artifi

and how to take back control, she's interviewed by david laughlin and at ten appellate judge in george masonniversity law professor douglas ginsberg and his book voices of our republic in the eyes of judges, legal scholars and historians, watch book tv on c-span2 this weekend and be sure to watch in-depth live sunday december 6 at noon eastern with our guest, author and chair of african-american studies at princeton university, eddie junior. >> there is more book tv coming up next with david eagleman who explores the evolution of the brain and how neuroscience impacts the future of artificial intelligence and later lisa explains how the female brain is more susceptible to dementia and alzheimer's disease with her book the xx brain. >> good aftnoon everybody and welcome to politics and prose live at lunch where we bring you the politics and prose programming during your lunch time hour. i am beth and i meant about coordinator at pmp and we thank you for joining to celebrate the release of a live wire by doctor david.

interviewed by news reporr, david and 10:00, george mason university law professor in h book, voices of our republic examining the constitution to the eyes of judges. legal scholars and historians. watch book tv on c-span2 this weekend. be sure to watch in-depth live sunday december 6 noon eastern with our guest, author and chair of african-american studies at princeton university. eddie junior. >> hello, everyone. welcome. i'm the owner of this store in maryland. i am so excited and honored to host an event for reclaiming her time, the power of maxine wate waters. maxine is letting us spiritually today. a fabulous book. we are excited to focus on something positive as we get closer to an election and as we get crazier and crazier walked inside our homes. this will uplift minority voic voices, higher forces in our community and those who may see this and we are honored you are joining us tonight. reclaiming her time, maxine waters the legend that is it is inspiring because it is ridiculous injustice. also, our office, a full-time fullness washington post, the nation's capital, someti

george mason owned sampson, vance, brigitte. charles paint me of south carolina owned john, helena, peter, molly, haster and many others. these are just a few names that we can remember today. george washington knew that the subject of slavery was unavoidable by the time of the constitution's ratification. by that time, the institution was already thoroughly mixed into the foundation of our nation. so skipping ahead in time a little bit from 1770 -- 1787 and 1788, what's happened to the constitution after the civil war? >> the constitution was radically changed after the civil war. there is three amendments that are ratified in the wake of the civil war. we call them the civil war amendments, for the reconstruction amendments. it's the 13th amendment, which abolished slavery in 1865. there's the 14th amendment, which is the one we probably know the best. it was in 1868 and attached a bunch of civil rights to all people, but particularly for formerly enslaved people. so this is where you find the guarantee of equal protection unde

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the leader of that faction these it was really george mason. he was upset from day one of the convention because he was hoping to go there and push for a system of government that was legislatively driven. meant andure portion he was throughout the convention appalled over and over again those ideals were compromised towards delegates who were concerned about more immediate power for specific constituencies or states. does that make sense? >> totally, thanks. curry: go read james madison's notes to figure out who those people were individually. really hard and ended up shaping the system to be more democratic than it might have otherwise been. he was very influential and pushed very hard. better it look a lot then it could have. dogged in his determination. other questions? >> i had a question if that's okay. i'm pretty familiar with the 3/5 compromise. i understand what it is. how did it come to 3/5? that is super specific. i know it is. i don't know why it is specifically 3/5. professor curry: i don't know if anybody knows specifically why it

the other one, george mason is looking at the idea of a bill of rights. he kind of wants to see that, so he is not crazy about parts of it. a lot of guys in the big states like the senate. there are all kinds of issues but most men put aside their doubts and sign their names. september 17, 1787. franklin looks at the chair where washington sits and looks behind washington's head, this carving of a half sun on the back of the chair and says all summer i've been trying to decide whether that is a half sun, is it supposed to be rising or setting and i could not make up my mind util now. now, at length, i have the happiness to know that is a rising and not a setting sun. and he felt good. he had been working on this since the 1750's, this unity of the american states and he finally sees it happening. one of the great stories that comes afterwards as he is supposedly asked what kind of government they have created in philadelphia and he says it's a republic, if you can keep it. his warning to the rest of us. think about the united states -- i like to finish wi

people we satisfied with the constitution in many respects -- the leader of that faction was really george mason, was upset from day one at the convention because he was hoping to go there and push for a system of government that was legislatively driven to have peter apportionment -- your pureintment -- apportionment and those ideas are compromised tours delegates who are concerned about more immediate power concerns for specific constituencies or states. does that make sense? student: totally. thanks. prof. curry: you'd have to read my james madison notes to know who people were individually. worked really hard in shaping the system to be more democratic than it might have otherwise been without him. he was very influential and pushed really hard and refused to sign it in the end. but he made it look a lot better than it could have. other questions? i have a question, if that's ok? a 3/5etty familiar with compromise and i understand what it is, but i was curious of how it came to 3/5? .t's super specific don't really is, i know why had to be 3/5. prof. curry: i am not sure if anyone knows why

he worked in the reagan administration and taught law at harvard, george mason the university of chicagombia and others. we a really excited to have you on today. we're really excited to talk a little bit about this project you have been working on. : : douglas: what i am doing is part of a broader reaction to that. this was education. i think that o'connor really started theall rolling dozen years ago when she resigned from the court targeted what is it, american, they created an educational materials from pbs. and they distribed theeries to 170,0 teachers of history and civics. so going to reach about a million students a year for long ashe issues remai pertinent. i'm sorry to say that i thi that a long time. so i'm hoping this will hasten the move and toestore civics to basic education system. in the lastear, for states have done just that. two legislatures and to governors that required it . messaging system florida, texas and illinois. i'm hopeful there will be any more come this year and the next. anthony: have been on board here for about ten years. my very 31 person that eight in

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caller: i'm a senior at george mason university. on that bipartisan question, i would really focus on voting rights. again, i return to this word, objective from the last program. if we are objective about voting rights in this country, we realize that we have blocked out tens of millions of people from voting like no other democracy in the world does. i think young people, all of us, but especially younger voters need to say "wait a minute, we need to get rid of the relics of jim crow. we need to go to universal voter registration so people are registered when they turn 18 and get a drivers license, when they use government in any way they are automatically registered." republican in the state so-called like alaska where everybody who dissipates in energy distribution, alaska's sovereign wealth fund is registered automatically in order to get that check. i think we need those incentives. ofyou said one wish in terms what should young people do, focus on democracy. it starts with voting rights and goes to money and politics. it goes

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and the other one, george mason's kind of looking at that idea of a bill of rights and he kind of wants to see that so he's not crazy about parts of it and a lot of the guys in the united states like massachusetts or virginia don't like that senate. so there are all kinds of issues and most of these men put aside their names and september 17, 1787, at that point franklin looks in a chair and look behind washington's head at this carving of the half sun in the back of the chair and all summer i've been trying to decide whether the half sun is supposed to be rising or setting and i can't make up my mind. he says now at length, i have the happiness to know that is a rising and not a setting sun. he felt good and he'd been working for this since the 1750s, this kind of unity of the american states and he finally sees it happening. one of the great stories that comes after ward is he is supposedly asked what kind of a government they've created here in philadelphia. he said it's a republic if you can keep it, his last warning to the rest of us, but think about the united states. one of the t

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