tuesday morning, a law school professor at george mason university on his new book, progressive conservativism. then, renewing american democracies director discusses his new book, race and rocketing. watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern tuesday morning on c-span or c-span now, our free mobile app. join our conversation with your phone calls, text messages and tweets. >> the january 6 committee returns for its seventh hearing, watch as they examine the role extremist groups played in the attack on the u.s. capitol and their relationship with the trump white house. watch live tuesday on c-span3, c-span now or online at the span.org. you can also visit our website at c-span.org/january6. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. >> next, a discussion on security and integrity for the 2022 midterm elections. lawyers and journalists talk about establishing a legal resource project to help eliminate election disinformation and ensure security for election officials. the two-part event hosted by the center for election innovation and research is just under two hours.

miles: at about the same time, climate central and george mason university developed a service calledrs. it provides tv meteorologists a weekly package featuring the latest vetted climate science along with broadcast-ready graphics. jeff berardelli is one of about 1100 tv forecasters now using climate matters content. jeff berardelli: we have a choice to how much warmer we get. and that depends on how inflated we let greenhouse gases get. bernadette placky: i do think that climate matters had a role in changing where the tv meteorology community was bringing them along, helping them understand the connections between weather and climate change and helping them inform their communities. the needle has been moved in the tv meteorology community. it absolutely has. miles: in fact, the latest george mason poll conducted in 2017 shows 95% of weathercasters now agree the climate emergency is happening. the science makes it untenable to conclude anything else. amy freeze is a meteorologist at fox weather. amy freeze: i mean, just kind of this mind-blowing explosion of information is out ther

it is a pleasure to talk to her, with her economics from the george mason university.ed to have you with us today. the huge frustration i hear of people looking at the collapse of that coin of 65% is where is gary gensler and the sec. give us an update that you feel on the urgency of the sec to intrude in the free market known as bitcoin. hester: tom, it is great to be here. i think we can't determine whether to participate or not from a regulatory perspective based on price, but i will say that all of the activity in the markets of late has focused regulatory minds in washington, so maybe we will get some regulatory clarity finally around crypto. tom: you and i studied kenneth rogoff of harvard university. he said regulators any number of years ago get out front. we spoke recently to professor rogoff, and he was thunderstruck at how slow global regulation is. why is there a tentativeness to address a currency down 65%? hester: i think one of the reasons there has been tentativeness is just it is difficult to figure out how it fits into our existing regulatory framewor

george mason does. he knocked him creek a lighter spear meters, a red toyota. and a month later, in march 1945, the allies entered secret negotiations with germany, with the surrender of the german troops in northern italy, java, or had the smithy colon truly under architect, thank to name and it's what are bob kelly, the vest. mr. for lets damn it now for end of the screen here. up for preston can he was as of italian. i shall either the pin middle of it or not long id it over and that i sent him it in front of our phone. politician busy spoked is a for art. well more, allison positioning is from the gun, mr. breton, in a letter to president roosevelt style in directly accused the allies of making a separate deal with germany. already, terminally ill, roosevelt rhodes. you've been misinformed? starting replied. our informants are modest and honest people yeah. and yeah, my go policies could shoot my men to persuade them, but you know, in the middle of your book resumes a book. ah, on april 12th 1945, roosevelt died and harry truman became the new you as presid

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joining us our derek spires of cornell university and rosemary of george mason university. artisan from the george washington university cochair of the seminar. my cochair holly kristin osterman is not with us this afternoon but i am delighted to report othat today's session is cosponsored by the ongoing institute with us this afternoon to introduce our enspeaker at the institutes executive director catherine kelly about whom i will say more in a moment. the washington history seminar is a venture of the history public policy program at american historical association's national history center and for over the past decade the seminar has been meeting weekly in three covid times and sent the pandemic here in the virtual realm. this is the final seminar of the season so we will return january 23 with a full lineup that will take us to the end of may. our announcements of the spring winter schedule will be available early in the new year. behind us are two people who make the seminar possible, rachel wheatley of the national history center and as always like to thank our instit

and jamil is a law professor at george mason university and former associate counsel to president george w. bush. welcome to both of you. carol, what are you going to be watching for tonight especially when it comes to the witnesses? >> the witnesses we know will testify are two people who were really rooting for donald trump's presidency and served it from the start. they followed him to the white house because they hed to accomplish some of the conservative agenda items that he had been pushing and promising to his supporters. that includes a deputy advisor. and an aide named sarah matthews. both of them will testify that despite their desire to see donald trump succeed and serve his administration, the way he enabled an attack and did not call off his supporters when the vice president's life and other lawmakers lives were in danger was the final straw for them. it was a breach that they could not endure. and both of them resigned within hours of those events. that is not new. we have known that about both of them. but what's important about their testimony is once again the committee

us this afternoon as discussions our derek spiers of cornell university and rosemary zagari of george mason university. i'm eric arneson from the george washington university co-chair of the washington history seminar my co-chair and colleague christian austerman at the wilson center is not with us this afternoon, but i am delighted to report that today's session is co-sponsored of the omahundra institute and with us this afternoon to introduce our speaker is the institute's interim executive director catherine kelly about whom i will say more in a moment. the washington history seminar is a collaborative venture of the woodrow wilson center's history and public policy program and the american historical associations national history center. and for over the past decade. the seminar has been meeting weekly and pre-covid times in person at the wilson center and since the pandemic here in the virtual realm this is the final seminar of the season, but we will return on january 23rd with a full lineup that will take us to the end of may. our announcement of the spring winter schedule will be av

the answers are by and large climate change >> at about the same time, climate central and george masony developed a service called diamond matters. it provides meteorologists with a weekly passage. along with broadcast ready graphics. >> we have a choice to how much warmer we get. that depends on how inflated we get with greenhouse gases. >> i think climate matters had a role in changing where the community was. the needle has been moved. it absolutely has. >> a poll shows 95% of weather casters now agree that a climate emergency is happening. she is a meteorologist at fox weather. >> it was a mind blowing explosion of information out there. >> climate denial persists. >> the science is not settled. we can all agree that the climate is warming. but we are not sure why. >> she says her bosses have not asked her to pull her climate punches. >> a new federal report showing the impact of a foot of sea level rise. i do not feel any pressure to do anything other than give people the forecast. and have great conversations about what is happening with the climate. >> he says his viewers are ve

but tonight calling that into question is a history professor at george mason university and she joins're here because as you know he wrote the idea in his opinion. this is a case from 1792 that you point to that might show how wrong that is. tell me about it. >> okay, well a, a while back i wrote a book that resolved around scandal involving the termination of a pregnancy in an unwed woman in a very prominent virginia family. at the time i was really unclear about whether it was a purposeful abortion or it was a miscarriage. i was more interested in the scandal. but i was approached by an ob/gyn, dr. sarah pojy who had read my back and with her medical knowledge she absolutely convinced me that what happened was a purposeful abortion. and in the current context of 2022 the interesting part about that story is really that there were all of these very prominent virginia men, founding fathers, involved in this case. >> like thomas jefferson. >> thomas jefferson, john marshall, patrick henry. and not one of them thought that this abortion was a matter to be adjudicated in the courts, to b

and jamil jaffer, a law professor at george mason university and former associate counsel to presidente w. bush. hello to both of you, thank you for being with us tonight and during our special coverage today. jamil, i want to come to you first because so much of this evidence today was around former president trump, his role, what he heard, what he did and what he didn't do. he remains at the center of everything we are hearing. jamil: that's exactly right. what is clear is the president understood what was likely to happen. he was clearly talking to folks outside the white house in the lead up to the events that happened on january 6, including up sensibly even he or people around him telling organizers there would be a call to march on the capitol. that was something they tweeted about internally. we now know the president appeared to have originally been in a moment that happened spontaneously turned out to be a planned moment. the people around the president knew it was going to happen and they were interesting points in today's testimony. judy: there was so much to look at. mary,

and jamil jaffer, a law professor at george mason university, and former associate counsel to president george w. bush. hello to both of you. thank you for being with us, and during our special coverage today. again, so much of this evidence we have just been hearing from our own correspondents today was around former president trump, his role, what he heard, what he did, what he did not do. he remains at the center of everything we are hearing. >> that is exactly right. what is clear is the president understood what was like lita happen. he was -- was likely to happen. he was speaking to folks outside the white house in the lead up to the events on january 6, including ostensibly either he or people around him were telling organizers there would be a call, they were not supposed to talk about it, by a call to march on the capitol. that was something they tweeted about internally we now know. what appeared to have originally been a sort of moment that would have happened spontaneously turned out to be planned. people around the president knew that was going to happen. there were other i

infectious disease epidemiologist and from the pandemic prevention institute and sassia, a professor at george masonne that just went over coronavirus and went back and forth, test, this is going to speak to me. so i'm glad to have you here to walk through this with me. jessica, let's start with you. let's start with sassia. first less than six feet apart for 15 minutes equals a close contact. is that still the case? >> really what this is about is contact tracing and identifying those that are at highest risk for high risk exposure. so we know that people in close proximity for a long duration of time will have a higher risk of acquiring covid. so for the sake of contract tracing we identify people that should quarantine because they had a high risk exposure. but it seems very finite and absolute and there is no invisible wall at six feet and 15 minutes where the disease was suddenly totally goes away. so we need to explain this as a risk. that being the highest risk, but if you're still in the same room as another person for 14 minutes, and 7 feet, it could still be risky. >> right. so jessica, no

coming up tuesday morning, frank buckley law school professor at george mason university on his new bookrogressive conservatism. how republicans will become america's natural governing party. then renewing american democracy ellis discusses his new book race and reckoning from founding fathers to today's disruptors. watch "washington journal" live at seven eastern tuesday morning on c-span or c-span now our free mobile app. join the conversation with our phone calls, facebook contacts, text messages and tweets. >> to generate six committee returns for its seventh hearing. watch as they examine the role extremist groups play in the attack on the u.s. capitol and their relationship with the trump white house. watch the hearing live tuesday at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span three, c-span now or online at c-span.org. /generate six select previous hearings and other videos related to that day. c-span your unfiltered view of government. >> c-span covered training events for activists and potential candidates. next we hear from democrats at the arena summit in austin, texas. wendy davis has the wo

kevin matthews is an assistant professor of history at george mason university before earning a phd in history at the london school of economics and political science. he earned a master's degree from the patterson school of diplomacy and international commerce at the university of kentucky. and another masters from the american university in international relations and journalism respectively his 2004 book fatal influence explored the impact of ireland on british politics in the 1920s. he currently is at work on a book about winston churchill and ireland kevin brings a unique perspective to his studies earlier in his career. he was an editorial writer for several newspapers in the united states and italy and a us correspondent for vatican radio where he reported on british and irish news from london for them. he continues to appear on television and radio to discuss issues ranging from british politics to protest following the death of george floyd to future competition between united states and you're the eu and china and now without further delay, please welcome me help me join. wel

us this afternoon as discussions our derek spiers of cornell university and rosemary zagari of george mason university. i'm eric arneson from t g

our constitution was written here by madison and jefferson and george mason and george washington. i don't think there are any other state second quite vye with a cast of founders you sent into battle. i guess new york had hamilton and timothy pickering. massachusetts had the ad ams's and ben franklin he ran away from the puritans in massachusetts. nothing really comes close in terms of what madison and jefferson gave us. especially madison with the first amendment and the idea of separating church and state, the great radical breakthrough of the american constitution. for centuries human beings had lived with theocracy and holy crusades and inquisitions and witchcraft trials and all that. it was a virginians who insisted that everybody be allowed to worship exactly as he or she pleased. the question of faith. between up person and god -- the question of faith was between a person and god. it has to do with reason and facts and data and not superstition and conspiracy theories and, you know, someone. -- so on. leah will be dead of gratitude to the virginians -- we owe a debt of gra

joining us our derek spires of cornell university and rosemary of george mason university. artisan from the george

was not sure about this constitution thing, one of the key elements, you had patrick henry and george mason saying, this militia that we need in order to keep the enslaved in check, james madison has put control of that thing under the federal government, under congress. so we cannot rely upon the feds to defend us when the enslaved rise up. the federal government has folks from life pennsylvania and massachusetts. they are not going to be coming down to defend us. so we need to have the protection or we will be left defenseless. they basically threatened to scuttle ratification. when that did not work, they threatened to hold a new constitutional convention. madison was scared out of his bujeebers. the articles of confederation had not worked. they worked through this new constitution that gave the federal government enhanced powers, but there was this fear that the federal government was too powerful, and this is why we have in the first congress the bill of rights. when you think about that bill of rights, freedom of religion, the right to not be illegally searched and seized, the right

she's also an affiliated professor at george washington university and george mason law school. she received her bachelor's degrees from michigan state university both as a masters degree and a law degree from the university of michigan. catherine foster president and ceo with the american united for life and the counsel for the alliance for freedom. and the jgetoro university law center. jim was a plaintiff in the marriage equality case and quality of civil rights issues. the careers include being a high school german teacher, relationship manager, software education consultant and real estate agent. an undergraduate degree from the university of cincinnati and attended at the bowling green university. we welcome or distinguished witnesses and we thank them for participating today. i will begin by swearing in the witnesses. please rise and raise your right hand. i ask that our remote witnesses please turn on your audio and make sure i can see your face and raise your right hand while i administer the oath. do you swear or affirm under penalty of perjury that the testimony you a

he is a professor at george mason university. he is the author of a quantum life.beset discussion that we just talked about. i saw how fast that was. my travels seem so big. my life is tiny, my travels are tiny. nothing matters, what is life? these are the questions. explain to us how we are looking back at billions of years, billions of galaxies. >> we don't ever need, in our daily human experience, to understand the universe as a whole. our minds just are not set up to do it. >> i can't even wrap my mind around it. >> i started thinking about a good analogy for the universe of galaxies that we live in. you know what it is? it is air. if you look at the average separation between galaxies based on their size and the average separation between air molecules, it is about the same. if you want to have a volume of air that is equivalent to the number of galaxies in the universe, it is one cubic millimeter. you can think that you are small, but in some scale as you are really big. >> i suppose. >> as humans, there is this huge coincidence in the universe. if we go to t

get the read from the net choice vice president, general counsel, professor of internet law at george mason university, scalia school of internet law. someone who knows internet law a smart at this pants. twitter can claim we had a deal. this is just cover for him to say he wants out of the deal. i guess that will be the legal argument. obviously it is more layered than that. where do you think this is going? >> i feel like i'm watching an episode of "succession" where the way this is playing out. everyone that bought a house there is fundamental difference between contract and closing. that is where we're at now. elon musk is realizing after he kicked the tires maybe he doesn't want to buy the house. every time you buy a house you put down a earnest money. that is what we're talking with the one billion dollar breakup fee right now. this will go to court. a lot of talk that documents and informations on the actions of twitter will become public. i won't see that is playing out in court. more often than not, that is seen by the judges and attorneys, not by the general public. but at the end

joining me now, net choice vice president, george mason, internet law professor, carl zabo.e, do you think, and what would be the impact if it did pass? >> i mean, let's hope for all americans this thing does not move forward. what it would mean is increased inflation, he decreased choice and making life harder. imagine going into costco and not being able to buy kirkland brand cereal and only being able to buy name brand stuff. that's what this lidge legislato for the online environment. going to amazon and not being able to see the alternative for name brand products and going into other services and not being able to innovate. if this law was in effect in 1993 we wouldn't have the iphone today. if you combine a phone with a music system with a camera, that's going to hurt polaroid, that's going to hurt sony, that's going to hurt other competitors. that seems to be all that this legislation cares about. not consumers but competitors. and that's what we're looking at right now. and one thing that we just came across recently, dr. art laffer came out with a paper saying this

host: you are a professor at george mason university.he president's picks for the supreme court, are they in the mold of the late, former justice? guest:scalia? they are in many respects. whether that is a good or bad thing depends on your point of view. we named our school after justice scalia after a $30 million gift to the school. we were happy to take the money and t is an eminent judge. as to the politics of it all i would like to make a distinction between the supreme court and that which the government should be doing. i am adjusting myself to politicians and not the justices. host: are there any potential 2020 for candidates that fit the mold in terms of progressive conservativism guest: i think youngkin comes the closest. on abortion, which is going to be an issue for the governors at the state level. i think what the abortion decision helped do is bring moral serious to what is going on. moral seriousness means not an absolute ban. for years, the right has been saying we have far more liberal laws than they do in europe. if you

she is also an affiliated professor at george washington university and george mason law school. she received a bachelors degree from michigan state university. and both a masters degree and a law degree from the university of michigan. catherine glenn foster is president and ceo of americas united for life. previously, she spent seven years as a litigation council with the lives defending freedom. she then founded and managed a law practice and lead euthanasia prevention in usa, as executive director. miss foster and her b.a. from barry college, master's degree from the university of south florida, and the jay easy from georgetown university law center. jim obergefell wasn't named plaintiff in obergefell v. hodges. it's a public speaker and author for lgbtq+, equality, civil rights issues. previous colors include being at a high school german teacher, corporate training, relationship manager, software education consultant, real estate agents. an undergraduate degree from the university of cincinnati, attend a graduate school at bowling green university. we welcome our distinguis

beyer: so far this year i've completed two undergraduate mathematics courses at george mason university. calculus ii starts august 22. the evolution in teaching math has come so far since i graduated from college, i was very excited by this legislation. the thought that we tan take so much progress in teaching and in software to our next generation of students is very exciting. as i sit sometimes in despair watching my friends get out a calculator to figure out a 15% or 20% tip this would be wonderful legislation to move forward. i urge my colleagues to support h.r. 3588 and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. will the house spleuls and pass the bill h.r. 3588 as amended. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 being in the affirmative -- for what purpose does the gentleman from wisconsin seek recognition? >> madam chair, i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing. a suffic

george mason said, to disarm the people, that was the best and most effectule way to enslave them. patrick henry said, are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? if our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety or equal safety to us than our own hands? samuel adams said the constitution that will sever -- shall never be construed to authorize congress to prevent the people of the united states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. thomas payne -- paine -- arms discourage and keep the invader and plannederer in awe and preserve order in the world. mischief would ensue were the lew-abiding deprived of the use of them. patrick henry also said, let me -- where and when did freedom exist when the sword and the purse were given up from the people. we're doing that right here in this body. we're taking the sword and the purse away from the people. he said, unless a miracle in human affairs interposed no nation ever retained its liber

george. let's go back to our political editor, chris mason.l autumn. how likely is it that he will get his way?— that he will get his way? it's a live conversation _ that he will get his way? it's a live conversation about - that he will get his way? it's a live conversation about the i live conversation about the timeframe for the election of a conservative leader, how long that might take because, once that's completed, borisjohnson can leave and a separate discussion about whether it would be reasonable or sensible to have some sort of caretaker prime minister in the gap between now and a new conservative leader being elected. on the timetable of electing a new leader, downing street are quite keen on this idea of it running all summer long and a new leader being in place in time for the conservative conference at the beginning of october but, speaking to people in the party this afternoon, you get very different takes on how long the race might take. one cabinet minister suggested it could be done in about three weeks if the mp5 here at we