constitution he drew on his own as some of british america he also drew on his virginia colleague, george mason's declaration of rights, which the virginia legislature had passed in june and which jefferson had a car of and george george mason's declaration of rights had a phrase in it. that's all most familiar, but not in its total holiday, because mason's draft emphasized the life, liberty and the pursuit of property and that is an interesting change that that that is and it is of great interest of course that jefferson and his colleagues changed pursuit of property to pursuit of happiness. jefferson and, his confederate congress colleagues were on the whole not all of them wealthy landowners and slave owners, gun owners, rich people on whole. and so why the change from. property to happiness? why speculation? not a must, but a may as that the emphasis that they wanted, the emphasis to transcend and the limitations of class and social and wealth so on. they wanted it to be a document that didn't express self, a self-serving a but still given, assumed, but not not explicitly self-serving. owners

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also has a george mason university connection. he is a member of the board of governors for george mason university and formerly served as a distinguished fellow at the university's law school. thank you for joining us today, ken. finally we have samuel goldman, executive director of the loeb institute for religious freedom and democracy, and director of the political and values program. his first book "god's country: christian zionism in america" was published in 2018. his second book "after nationalism" was published in early 2021. in addition to doing academic research, he also comments in the public. these are our panelists, and we will get started. david, what is the problem? i said this has been going on for decades. what is the problem we are trying to solve on campus, and what manifestations has that problem taken? david: the underlying issue, david l bernstein and myself believe in broad free speech. we think liberalism is good for society and also good for the jews, that societies that adopt liberal values are societies

. >> securities attorney wallace do and george mason university law professor j.w. verret talked about the outlook for the securities and exchange commission's tentative agenda under the second trump administration. other topics included cryptocurrency any threats you could face from possible legislative proposals from the incoming congress. this conversation was hosted by the federalist society in washington, d.c., and runs one hour. >> i'm really excited to be here with my friend wallace to dewitt. this became sort of a laurel and hardy routine we are going to do, but we will talk about what the future holds for the sec. >> >> happy thanksgiving to you, friend. in his spare time he is a professor of corporate law, securities law, and forensic accounting at the george mason university scalia law school. he is a board member of foundation unblock chain and untraceable shielding tech. is a former member of the sec's advisory committee, of which he is a vocal and prominent member. he is a member currently of the fasbe advisory committee and he served as a witness most

tom: ok, hind kabawat, george mason university professor.hank you indeed and good luck with your trip on monday to aleppo. coming up, is europe on track to meet its climate goals? we will take a closer look at the halfway mark through a crucial decade. that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ tom: welcome back. we are almost halfway through a crucial decade for europe's energy transition with the 2030 climate goals approaching. is the region on track to meet its targets? here to give us an update is an analyst in bloomberg's europe energy transition team. our things on course for europe? >> the ambition to be net zero for europe is there. members are saying the right things about targets for 2030 energy. in terms of reaching the zero, europe would need to have solar and wind capacity. that is more than double the capacity that will have been online by the end of this year. so our base case shows that we have only reached around 85% of the way to the target. so there is a gap. that means it will be harder for the european countries to reach their e

and so george mason, the bill of rights was enshrined in our nation's founding documents. the main articles, the constitu otion enumerate with the government can do. the bill of rights is the opposite. no rights. what the government cannot do is the bill of rights that earned america the reputation as the land of liberty. the problem is the bill of rights is only a document. it doesn't have any magical powers to force government officials to respect it. and i'm sorry to say that again and again throughout our history, our leaders have failed to respect it. and again. again and again have cited some pretext. this is a spend and volunteer and violate our constitution rights. there's always a reason why. right now the rights are an inconvenience that we can't afford. it was the red scare in the 1920s. it was john mccarthy in 1950s. it was civil rights protests and the vietnam or protesters in 1960. it was the war on drugs in the 1970s. it was the war on terror. after 2001 and most recently, it was the covid pandemic, maybe a brain worm. that part of my memory of. i don't reca

. >> a computer science student has made history, graduating from george mason university at just 15ate from the university with a 4.0 gpa, as well. he started at george mason at 13 years old after getting his associates degree in computer science from a community college. here's what he had to say about the whole experience. >> no one knew when i was younger. i always just tried to put in -- i can't go to any parties or anything, because my dad would have to drive me there. >> he will be returning to campus to finish a masters degree this spring. after that, no shock, he says he plans to pursue a ph.d. >> he's so you can. what were you doing at 15? >> we weren't doing all that. >> very impressive. congratulations to you. if you like him are feeling lucky, it could be a good day to buy a lottery ticket. the mega millions is up to $825 million ahead of tonight's drawing. it's been more than 100 days since someone won the jackpot. >> if there is a winner tonight, they'll take home the seventh largest prize in the history of that game. >>> the food and drug administration is out with ne

she's a professor and director of the mason autonomy and robotics center at george mason university, and was one of the first female u.s. navy fighter pilots. great to see you should i call you captain? >> i should be calling you captain. right uh, i mean, fighter pilot and ruler would be better, but okay, grand ruler, fighter pilot. >> missy. okay. very good. we've settled that now. okay, so we've seen all of these videos. most of them, you know, they're dark. they're difficult to tell in some cases. what we're actually seeing. what do you examine when you see these videos that have been posted and people are curious about them? is it easy to tell manned aircraft versus drone? >> well, first of all, if you're seeing lights, you know, it tells you that you're working with either a sophisticated person who wants to be seen or maybe some unsophisticated users that are messing around. but if you're seeing lights, it means that it's very likely not a foreign threat. they would be dark, meaning you would not be able to see them. >> okay. correct. okay. >> so all right, so then in some of

we spoke to our professor at george mason university who says the man was immunocompromised and believes this is a separate strain of the disease compared to the one that's been infecting cattle and other humans. >> the strain that's circulating right now that has infected cows that we're most concerned about. that one has typically presented with very minor symptoms, conjunctivitus. what we are worried about is when they will affect more people and cause more severe illness. >>> testing for bird flu in humans is the same process of other types of influenza, nose or throat swabs. symptoms are very similar. headaches, pink eye, coughing, fever, and it is worth emphasizing health officials believe the risk to the public remains very low. >>> cast set a goal of ending the sale of new gas powered cars by 2035. today, the biden administration made a move aimed at turbo charging those efforts. one of president biden's last action on climate change before leaving the white house. the administration finalized a key waiver, allowing california to set its own pollution controls, but the move will

george mason university. welcome to you all. thanks for your time. and i'll start with you. what will this transition period look like? brothers and sisters in syria. this is a very, very special day. this is the day we get 3 dealt with 62. so i just want to share my happiness, my emotion. this is a great the transitions today was sort of but 18, but tomorrow we're going to start the hard for her daughter to have the syria inclusive, syria, as hugo without 6th period is in syria was the diversity, syria, democratic syria. so i can see my yeah, the, the young generation is the street celebrating, but we know that we have a lot so for lighting his and with going to be for teams to get. there's 2 bins. our city, hey, it's now that the capital, the mass coast is obviously for all in. are you any clear on the opposition groups intention going forward or will it be weeks or months where the reality of the nature of the intentions of these groups will be clear then? and i think if you look at the statements shared by those groups, they are sort of on an agreement that they want the

i'm from george mason university. i guess i headed question -- >> mike's not on. >> oh, there you go. i'm from george mason university. i have a question for everybody, i guess. i'm with an organization that helps refugee students get connected and succeed on campus. i guess the question is, we talk about compassion and stuff like that -- i guess the question is how do we get connected with people especially in congress? how do we get connected to people and show them what is going on? how do we effectively do that? because i've heard from you guys, it is easy to get really hung up on whether it be smugglers and stuff like that or pinpointing exact things going on but not looking at the broader picture. how do we connect with them and just help them help us, i guess? john: ok, thank you. we want to get one more or two. yeah. >> is it on? my name is marlene, i'm from norway. we talk a lot about investment and root causes of food insecurity, local projects. you mentioned empowering indigenous leaders, and carrie mention

i am from george mason university. >> his mic is not on. >> there you go. i am from george mason university. i just had a question for everybody, i guess. i am within an organization that helps refugee students get connected to help them succeed on campus. i guess the question is, we talk about compassion and stuff like that, and how do we -- i guess the question is, how do we get connected with people, especially in congress? how do we connect to people and actually show them what is going on and how we effectively do that? because i feel like, i mean, i have heard from you guys. it is easy to get hung up on smugglers and stuff like that. pinpointing exact things going on, but not looking at the broader picture. out of me as we connect with them and just, you know, help them help us, i guess. >> thank you. we want to get one or two more. y >> [ indiscernible is] hi. my name is marlene. i am from norway. we talked a lot about investment and root causes of food insecurity with local projects. scott, you mentioned empowering indigenous leaders and kerry menti

. >> i call jw omni present, in his spare time he is a professor at george mason. a board member supporting blockchain and bitcoin. he is a member of the investor advisory committee. look at his pins tweaked. he is a member of the advisory committee and witness in cases against the sec and private litigation. he is a well-known speaker, 10 years and relevant for the next four years. welcome. >> welcome, my friend. wallace says we have to talk about other things. so let's start just about in rum chairman ship. three or four months, and around chairman, assistant to the regional manager. so interesting. tell me about the reach? >> exciting time, securities is no different. after the unexpected victory of donald trump i had an article published in which i peppered it with quotes from the commissioner. i was hired to serve as counselor. my first day in office was january 20, i will be -- i was the second to last employee, so i really got in the door. >> you joined and they said that's it. >> that's right. we took over and the last transition was more hectic, more activ

me now to discuss this is beside that founding director of the middle east studies program at george mason university. hello, right. former arabic language books, person for the us state department will stuff or echo turkish journalist, author, and senior fellow at the cato institute, and so must go alexi clement cost consulting in middle east expert at the russian international affairs council. thank you all for joining me. the best time i'm going to start with you, we've seen incredible image is coming out of syria. we think the same things like the toppled statute of half of them. i said, we've seen thousands of the detainees released from prisons. what does this moment mean for the syrian people? as you know, we cannot underestimate how this moment is literally momentous in so many ways, the as the end of an arrow, of literally brutal dictatorship. there's no missing of words. and those who would like to see other aspects and they mentioned size of this could well do that, but not in a way that actually diminishes the impression that serious have faced with the past of 54 years in some

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george mason university. welcome to you all. thanks for your time. and i'll start with you. what will this transition period look like? brothers and sisters in syria. this is a very, very special day. this is the day we get 3 dealt with 62. so i just want to share my happiness, my emotion. this is a great the transitions today was sort of but 18, but tomorrow we're going to start the hard for her daughter to have the syria inclusive, syria, as hugo without 6th period is in syria was the diversity, syria, democratic syria. so i can see my yeah, the, the young generation is the street celebrating, but we know that we have lots so for lighting hits and with going to be for teams to get. there's 2 bins. our city, hey, it's now that the capital, the mass coast is obviously for all in. are you any clear on the opposition groups intention going forward or will it be weeks or months where the reality of the nature and the intentions of these groups will be clear? then i think if you look at the statements shared by those groups, they are sort of on an agreement that they want the jo

ahead and go to jameel jaffer, the director of the national security law and policy program at george mason university. also former chief counsel and senior advisor for the senate foreign relations committee. jameel, thank you for joining us. as you watch these scenes of people just chanting and just very excited about a possible future without the assad regime, what is what are your thoughts? what is the first thing that comes to mind? >> well, you know, obviously it's an important day for syria. >> this has been a long standing fight against the oppression of the bashar al-assad regime. at the same time, you know, this organization has hayat tahrir al-sham, you know, was born out of jabhat al-nusra, the al qaeda organization that formed in the lead up to the syrian civil war during the early part of the syrian civil war in 2013. so there are questions about the relationship of this rebel group to its former allies in al qaeda as well as isis. and so i think some of the big concerns we have in this, in this fight are who are these folks? how are they? how are they going to, you know, act i

once again, he's the director of national security law and policy program at george mason university.eel, we've been talking about this all night. you know, people are really celebrating right now in the streets, and they are looking forward to, you know, freedom potentially, and freedom without being under the boot of the assad regime. but what should they be thinking right now? is this possible? can they all come together? will they have a free election? what are your thoughts on this? >> well, look, marianne, these are exactly the right questions to be asking. you know, obviously the syrian people are thrilled to be free of a brutal dictator, bashar assad, who took over from his father, hafez al assad. he used chemical weapons against his own people using sarin gas, chlorine gas against his own civilians. and so good riddance to bashar assad. at the same time, you've got a, you know, a amalgam of rebel groups, including former al qaeda fighters, including former isis fighters, as well as people in the u.s. has supported in the past the free syrian army, the kurds in the north. so t

george mason wrote it pamphlet during the constitutional convention and opposed the new government it so convincing the others of the constitution were feeling that it was too much of a hazard and it was at the point of not being ratified. that's what james madison came to the rescue by drafting the bill of rights in the first constitution. madison felt the bill of rights were unnecessary because it was obvious to him that the government could exert powers that the constitution had not assigned to it. if everybody in this home knows they don't like to limit themselves. instead [applause] they are constantly moving to exert an appropriate new powers. the patriots in 1791 remember the british tyranny and they knew that every power of the government takes, it will never voluntarily relinquish. and every power government takes it will ultimately abuse the ultimate extentan possible and that's why the delegates of the constitutional convention by the constitution is only enumerated government powers. thanks to george mason and the bill of rights was a shrine in her nation's founding docume

that was a real problem to the founding fathers particularly to george mason .ason wrote a pamphlet during the constitutional convention that opposed the new government and that pamphlet was so convincing that the other framers of the constitution felt that it was too much of a hazard and the constitution was in danger at that point of not being ratified and that's when james madison came to the rescue by drafting the bill of rights, the first 10 amendments of the united states constitution . originally madison felt the bill of rights were unnecessary because it was obvious to him that the government couldn't exert powers that the constitution had not assigned to it but as everybody in this hall knows governments don't like to limit themselves . instead they are ... [applause] instead they are constantly looking to exert and appropriate new powers . of the patriots in 1791 vividly remembered british tyranny and they knew every power a government takes it will never voluntarily relinquish. and every power government takes it will ultimately abuse to the ultimate

saturday morning, a professor at george mason's school of law discusses his book.ive and join the discussion on washington journal saturday morning beginning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span, c-span now, our free mobile video app, or online at c-span.org. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more, including midco. >> where are you going? or maybe a better question is how far do you want to go? and how fast do you want to get there? now we are getting somewhere. so let's go. let's go faster. let's go further. let's go beyond.

joining us now, project 221 chair and attorney, he's an attorney who taught constitutional law at george masone one and only horace cooper. we appreciate you so much for coming on. you have a brilliant legal mind. now federal judges, the media, legal pros, they agree with what we've been reporting that this is totally untightennal. the constitution d unconstitutional. the constitution does not say you can back date and do preemptive pardons for future offenses. it just says offenses. what do you think? >> well, you can't do future offenses, and whatever he attempts to do -- and you're with correct, the american people were lied to. let's not step away from that. whatever he attempts to do, if it is created or fashioned as a pardon, still will not achieve the results. i'm just going to use a hypothetical. let's say jack smith unlawfully colluded with fani willis. if you pardon him with some neutral, oblique, broad pardon and then the house of representatives subpoenas him in march to ask him about his role, if he lies, if he dissembles, if he attempts to hide this information, the pardon that h

he is interviewed by george mason university professor professor jp same. afterwords is a weekly interview program with top posts visiting fiction -- nonfiction authors about their work. prof. singh: i am here with james rickards. it is such a pleasure to be able to talk with you on your new book, "moneygpt-ai and t threat to the global economy." i am an academic so the kind of stuff i read is not as painstaking as years so -- and so nicely written. it is provocative and informative. i'm looking forward to the conversation. welcome. james: thank you, it is good to be with you. prof. singh: i will get started. the first half of your book i really sacked out because it reminded me of my books in microeconomics and monetary theory when we first learned about what a useful function that money serves. i'm going to read a short passage and have you explain it to the audience because i think it gets to the heart of what you are talking about. and then we can go through a few questions about what you are trying to say and then i will have a few other questions that

be hosted by my colleague who directs the center for the study of the administrative state at george mason. let me turn things over to john and our first panel. >> good afternoon, everyone. i am very glad to see the turnout. you all made it in the weather that you have all arranged to remind us of the founding at valley forge. i woke up this morning at the californian and it was 24 degrees. our thermometers do not go that low in california. thanks very much for being here. it is a great pleasure. i am very proud of the role aei has started to recognize the 250th anniversary of the american revolution. it is great to see the first volume. the inspiration for this comes from the series while goal line did about the anniversary of the constitution in 1987. when i first started, he produced 10 volumes. i think we hope to duplicate that because he did bring together a wonderful collection of scholars to write about the bicentennial and the constitution. we hope to do the same for the american revolution. i think so far we have and i suspect we will continue to do so with this conference and thi

christian mccaffrey and george mason this sunday when they take on the bears delano was back at practicend and that could make tackling with both hands a bit of a problem. the niners have lost 3 in a row. now they're 5, 7 on the season. and here's what kyle shanahan had to say. when asked about bosa returning at some point this season. >> i mean, i'm not god, but things got a chance to play this week. so i would think that would to getting a better chance each week. and don't think and what's happened. just one player would have changed anything in these last 3 weeks. >> the niners will be taking on the bears this sunday kickoff at one. 25. >> 6.46. on this thursday. getting closer to the weekend. now after what has been a very solid and consistent first week of december and today is continuing that out am right here. got that beautiful view of the sunrise. a few clouds passing this morning. >> and we do have a couple of sprinkles in the mountains of the north bay. that's all we're going to be seeing, though. today is yet another dry one is that high pressure ridge persists. keeping us n

george mason, richard henry lee and patrick henry, as well as the continued health of thomas jefferson and john adams lafayette himself was toasted numerous times. we mentioned there were over 30 toasts that were given, so we will not be doing a transcription of every toast that was said that night. but lafayette was toasted for, fought and bled for liberty in america he proclaimed. liberty in france, making long and happy live. an example posterity and in return raised a toast to the city of alexandria, wishing her prosper, liberty and happiness more and more realized the fondest wishes of our venerated washington in the ho tt lafayette used as his residence. and alexandria belonged to a woman named elizlaws and the homis located just around the corner on 301 south st asaph st. as completed in 1819 and it s considered, and i believe still is considere to one of the finest herin the city the honor of hosting lafayette was an issue so serious that was taken up to ty cocil where the lawsons was selected due to its size and grandeur, and to give lafayette and his traveling party privacy,

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the pacific legal foundation is joined by professor eric claeys of antonin antonin scalia law at george mason university. if you'd like to learn more about today's moderator or speaker, their full bios be viewed on our website, booktv dot org. at the end of the program, we will turn to the audience for questions. if you have question, please enter into the q&a function the bottom of your zoom window and. we will do our best to answer as many as we. finally, i'll note that as always, all expressions of opinion today are those of our guest speakers, not the society with professor claes. thank you for joining us today and i'll hand things over to you. thank you for those introductions, edith, and thank you for asking me to moderate and thank you, jim, and congratulations for writing such an interesting book. why don't we start at least like to ask you to tell the audience what's the main was the main change you want to have the book convince people to follow? i think the main thing i would like people to understand is that we need less government, not more government, fewer government programs t

saturday morning, a foundation professor at george mason university discusses his book.atch live and join the discussion on "washington journal" saturday morning beginning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span, c-span now, or online at c-span.org. announcer: next a conversation about the future of nato and european security with general christopher cavoli, nato supreme allied commander. the future of trade throughout europe and aid to ukraine were among the discussion topics. this took place during the aspen securoty -- secuirty conference -- security conference. >> thank you for joining us, this is a absolutely stellar panel to discuss europe and european security. we have four europeans, but i hear general cavoli's, russian and italian are both pretty good, so you can be an honorary european for the purposes of this panel. this is a sort of really critical juncture in europe. we're watching as ukraine's position on the battlefield has been eroding. europe is preoccupied with a series of domestic elections in which many countries are looking to turn inwards or preoccupied with

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i'm a south korean navy retired captain and a student at george mason university. first of all, thank you. kei is hosting a wonderful event. this is the first time i have gotten a free copy of a book from joining a seminar. thank you. i truly appreciate all of you on the panel and your work for south korea and during your conversation i felt your sincere care about the korean nation and to koreans. thank you. i appreciate truly. my simple question, easier question than before, experiencing korea and koreans, what's the strong point and drawbacks of korea? thank you. >> that's the easy question? >> kathy, you have to answer. >> i will be really short. the strong point is, i think, korean passion. it's like if we are going to do it, we are going to overdo it. that is the weak point too but i admire it. >> go ahead. >> my name is terrence. i'm a nonresident fellow here at kei and thanks for this wonderful panel. my question is about u.s. reinsurance -- the u.s. reassurance the gray because i think there are fears about that, kind of a perennial fear. i wonder if the p

she's now a professor at george mason university and she was also one of the navy's first female fighter pilots. missy, good to have you here. this evening. i want to ask you because your life was upended after musk tweeted about you personally accusing you of harboring bias against him. bring me into that experience what happened after musk tweeted that well when people say their phone exploded, i didn't really know what that term meant until that happened so, you know, my phone explodes emails. >> people are calling me to tell me what's happening. you know i really didn't foresee this coming i had written a very actually boring academic paper that enraged the elon and his minions and, um but, you know, you just don't realize how fast somebody can go out of control uh, when there's an agenda of squashing any dissent whatsoever, it must have been unbelievably startling, but also daunting to figure out how you come from underneath the weight of that particular moment and all the attention you never wanted to get. >> i do wonder, in the times that we're in right now, when musk has engaged

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