georgetown was kind of the factory town, back then. so you did have meals i would produce grain in weeks and everything. you would have timber that would come from there. any type of furniture, textile goods, clothing, all that would be coming from georgetown. it would be shipped up north, to the various ports in between there. so this was a two-way kind of traffic back then. and there was only one toll path that we had, that was used for our meals. so the question, i'm sure you're all thinking of it, is how our two boats if they're going in opposite direction,'s going to pass each other? we're gonna pretend that there is a boat that is coming downstream at us. they are loaded up with goal, that means there are about 120 tons, they were about eight tons maybe. so that means the ride of way, because it is a whole lot harder to star and stop there, both than it would be our boat. so i would go ahead and tell our driver that we need to stop our boat. howard taylor back there would yell a canal saying, in the canal saying we is here is the

you would have goods coming from georgetown, though, as well. georgetown was kind of the factory town back then, so you did have mills that would produce grains and wheats and everything. you would have timber that would come from there, any type of furniture, textile goods, clothing, all of that would be coming from georgetown and would be shipped up north to the various ports in between there. so this was a two-way kind of traffic back then and there was only one towpath that we had that was used for our mules. so the question, i'm sure you guys are all thinking of it, is how are two boats, if they're going in opposite directions, going to pass each other? we're going to all pretend that there is a boat that's coming downstream right now at us. they are loaded up with coal and, so if they're loaded up with coal, that means they're about 120 tons and we're about 8 tons maybe. so that means that they have the right-of-way because it's a whole lot harder to start and stop their boat than it would be our boat. and so that would go ahead and tell o

georgetown. >> what went through your head? >> i was in shock because i remember leaving the office and telling the receptionist my mother just died. i have to go home. and moot said the police are here. please, come down. >> fran immediately called her son, ethan, and asked him to come over as well. >> i was probably there within five or six minutes of getting the call from my mother. >> what happened when you got there? >> i am trying to sort of make sense of it all because i want to know what's going on. there are people processing the room where she is. so, at that point, i know she's in the bathroom. and it sounds like, she had fallen. >> but, ethan wondered, was his grandmother's death really an accident? or was it tied to a dark, family secret? according to her daughter, connie, viola lived a dramatic life, right up until the end. >> tell me about your mom. >> my mother was a very accomplished woman. and she always told us, for women, it's nice to be beautiful but that's not enough. you mu

and so this is a family in georgetown. the mom is doing her laundry, and she didn't want her kids running around the port of bridge down, so she went and tied them up. yeah so in the winter we were actually closed for four months. it would usually start in early november. i will close down and wouldn't open up until maybe april. that's what we would do. when we dig closed down, it was there were a lot of times we did our maintenance here on the canal, because back then it had to be kept at about six feet deep, because you have this boat the draft was about four. sought to make sure you had enough room between the bottom of the ball in the bottom of the canal. they're creeks that run into this canal, they bring in sediment, that ends up causing sand dunes. that makes us hard to maintain the six. feet so in the winter months when we closed out, there were no boats running, we would go ahead and drain certain sections of the canal, so we would be able to use a good old shovel, and take out the dirt that was in there so we cou

after the war, he moved back to georgetown, south carolina, with his family in 1867 -- and in chairman of the county's republican party. just a few years late he -- in 1870 was elected

i do enjoy doing them. >> you still teach at georgetown? >> i do.ust getting ready now for the semester and i'll have to do it virtually but i enjoy teaching and foreign-policy is not just to do what you want. the national security and david, i don't know if you remember this but during the carter administration, invading afghanistan, the question was, what were we going to do? had this meeting in everybody was suggesting something like cut off their fishing rights and i thought, what kind of a crazy thing, we don't know what we are going to use? i started thinking about what the national security looks like and how the decision-making process works in order to decide what would be used. the other part i left about our government is the concept of executive legislative. try to speak about things i know and i do enjoy teaching. >> you also say in your book you have time as a former secretary of state to develop a close relationship with your grandchildren and three daughters, all of whom are adults now so what has that been like to spend more time wi

what is going on at georgetown? victor: this is a real problem. we have to figure out how to rectify this. i'm going to say right here and now we'll give dennis the job at georgetown, how about that? we'll just do it. let's just do it. >> emergency faculty meeting after. this welcome back, victor. last but certainly not least, dr. sue mi terry, former n.s.c., former columbia university and currently advisor here at csis, and sue i think you overlapped , with dennis at the obama n.s.c. and welcome back to the show. sue thanks. : fun jon hamm fact, i didn't know that >> let's get into it as they say. i'm going to turn to mr. mcdonough, our special guest, as we always do. mr. mcdonough you served as key , advisor to the obama campaign, the obama transition, in addition to other government positions you held. and right now there's lots of , machinations here in washington. all of us have been fielding questions from friends in all corners of the world about what's happening. can you just share your expertise and your analysis from the place you used t

let's speak to the founding chair of health law at georgetown university.looking at record numbers of infections across the country. deaths are soaring. our people intentionally disregarding advice by traveling or is this pandemic fatigue? >> it is a combination of a lot of things. i do not think there is will from those -- willfulness but it is clear from people all around the world that the you -- that the united states is bitterly divided. the simplest things like public health warnings about masks or mass gatherings, all of these things are highly political. literally just today, the u.s. supreme court reversed itself and decided that new york state could not put a restriction on gatherings because it violated freedom of religion. and then there is fatigue. this is a really serious problem. the vaccine cannot come quickly enough for the united states. we are going to see tens upon tens of thousands of people dying in what are really preventable deaths. >> i remember when people ignore travel advice and went to the motorbike rally in august, that became

will talk about the affordable care act case being heard by the supreme court with katie keith of georgetown university. a discussion of the biden presidential transition with karen holt, virginia tech's political science professor and white house advisory member. watch the washington journal 7:00 eastern. join with your phone calls, texts, and tweets. host: we are joined by scott long with the hill newspaper, covering congress for quite some time. you have a lame-duck session coming in here shortly in the u.s. but before we get to the next congress, tell us what the next few weeks or month looks like on the u.s. house side in particular. guest: the house of representatives will come back to washington after this historic election to hold their leadership elections. it looks like democrats are moving forward with their leadership elections next week. that favors nancy pelosi. the quicker the election, the less time there is for their to build any momentum in opposition against her. nowe is some chatter right from moderates who are just crumpled about the number of seats that have been lost b

i'm going to say right here and now we'll give dennis the job at georgetown, how about that. we'll just do it. let's just do it. >> emergency faculty meeting after. this welcome back, victor. last but certainly not least, n.s.c., erry, former currently advidsor here at csis, i think you overlapped with dennis at the obama n.s.c. >> thanks. fun jon hamm fact, i didn't know that >> let's get into it as they say. i'll turn to mr. mcdonough. you served as key advisor to the obama campaign, the obama transition, in addition to other government positions you held. right now there's lots of machinations here in washington. all of us have been fielding questions from friends in all corners of the world about what's happening. can you just share your expertise and your analysis from the place you used to occupy in tells of foreign policy, government experience, communications and i mentioned, i should have mentioned too a longtime health staffer as well. walk us through what's happening in washington. >> thanks so much. it's good to be with you guys. i hasten to add that most of those

and let's go to victo as you mentioned, the professor at georgetown, former bush nsc, runs the chaircsis. welcome back, victor, how did notre dame get to mcdonough, seems like the recruiting is off. >> we have to figure out how to rectify this. i'm going to say here and now, we'll give denis a george at georgetown. >> emergency faculty meeting after this. very many back, victor. >> and welcome doctor, former cia, former-- and csis and you overlap with denis. >> and -- i did not know that. >> i think we've got a whole other episode on john hamm. let's get into it and i'm going to turn to mr. mcdonough, our very first guest as we always do. youerved as a key advisor to the obama campaign and transition, in addition to the other government positions you held and right now, there's lots of machitions in washington. we're answering questions around the world about what's happening. can you share your expertise and analysis from the perch that yoused to occy in terms of foreign policy, government experience, communications and i mentioned, i suld have mentioned, too, a long time sate and h

he's interviewed by georgetown university law professor lawrence and watch booktv this weekend on c-span2. >> host: reed hastings and erin meyer are the co-authors of this new book "no rules rules". mr. hastings is also the ceo of netflix and mr. hastings what is netflix and what do you do? >> guest: that's netflix is the world's leading entertainment service and we reproduce and distribute amazing television series and movies and we've been around 20 years and have about 200 million families around the world who are our members. >> host: is there a connection to the 1998 company where you had 900 movie titles in 30 employees? >> guest: there is a little connection to that. we started 22 years ago and we deliver dvds in the united states competing with blockbuster and that was a full decade really that we were competing with video stores just in the u.s. and that is 2007 when we started streaming. roughly the same time youtube did. >> host: erin meyer how did you get involved in this book project? >> i study cultural differences and in workplace and i'm a school professor of first came ac

will talk about the affordable care act case being heard by the supreme court with katie keith of georgetown university. also a discussion of the biden presidential transition with karen holt, virginia tech andtical science repressor, white house advisory board member. watch "washington journal" at 7:00 a.m. eastern. and be sure to join the conversation. >> the supreme court hears oral arguments on the affordable care act and consolidates texas versus california and california versus texas. care law was challenged by texas after a 2017 republican tax law eliminated the penalty for not having health care insurance. >> former fbi deputy director testifies on the crossfire hurricane investigation, which looks at russian interference in the 2016 election. watch live coverage on c-span3. stream or listen on the c-span radio app. >> monday, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell met with the newly elected kate -- elected republican senators.

he is interviewed by a georgetown university law professor. watch book tv this weekend on c-span2. announcer: earlier today, senate republican leaders held a news conference with reporters on the presidential election. we begin with majority leader mitch mcconnell. this is about 10 minutes. sen. mcconnell: good afternoon, everyone. we just had our leadership elections for the leadership team for the next two years. going, even to get though there is some suspense about whether we will be in a majority or not, which will be answered in georgia on january 5. we have one member of our team that is brand-new, senator rick scott from florida. i will call on my members for a couple words and we will take a couple questions and see you again after lunch. jump in. >> thank you, leader. congratulations to you and all members of our leadership team. this is a terrific leadership team and wonderful, very diverse conference. we have some great new members. we are excited to get to work to take on the challenges that face the american people. i think the election made it very clear that people

coming up, we enter the world of hard boiled detective, but war as author, georgetown professor chris chambers joins us to discuss his new book, scavenger. you do not want to miss this. trust me. stay to watch. join me every thursday on the alex simon show. and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics, sports business, i'm show business. i'll see you then it's been decades since the full of spain's fascist regime, but old wounds still haven't tailed into the garden this week. and that's because so many people miss a poem said in the us, it's a 6 minute of that. and i think ultimately thousands of newborn babies were torn from their mothers and given away and fullest adoption. to this day, mothers still search for grown children for their parents. from the maltese falcon to double indemnity from raymond chandler, dashiell, hammett, bogart, and easy rawlins, the history of noir. both in film and literature here in the united states of america is both rich and deep. the reason behind this lies mainly in the fact that not only does the new genre of storytelling give its readers

coming up, we enter the world of hard boiled detective, but war as author georgetown professor chris chambers, georges, to discuss his new book, scavenger if you do not want to trust me, stay to watch join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics, sport, i'm sure. i'll see you then. now in the post-mortem, how did you major political parties changed in this election cycle? joe biden maintaining weekend, and biden democratic coalition. is there such a thing as trump is? did he change the g.o.p. or did the g.o.p. change? then what by wagon that he will go back and look away. or you will pull you out of the mouth and say what about and i didn't if it was, but the good is it, that's the house on a few days that are done or done that you'd be among the it's a good thing in the number of them have that them and the money on his i'm not bad with them, but oh, november date. if i say i give them their identity like that about on a number that i have. and it is about from the maltese falcon to double indemnity from raymond chandler, dash

coming up, we enter the world of hard boiled detective, but war as author georgetown professor chris chambers, georges, to discuss his new book, scavenger and you do not want to miss this. trust me, stay tuned to watch for it. brett, look forward to talking to people. i robot must obey the orders given by human beings except when conflict with the 1st law show. your identification for should be very careful. the point is played with artificial intelligence will summon, the demon must protect its own existence. during the vietnam war, us forces there was a secret war. and for years the american people did not know. we mounted loud mouth heavily bombed country per capita. millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this small agricultural country. even today, kids in laos full victims of bombs dropped decades ago. is the us making amends for the tragedy and help to the people need in that little land on greater trenchard's to say, simpson, exacerbating and alarming everyone mindlessly. actually what that means was we end up picking solutions that cost a lot, but actually do v

as author, georgetown professor chris chambers georgia's to discuss his new book scavenger. you do not want to miss this trust me. state to watch the world is driven by dream shaped by the day or thinks we dare to ask it's been decades since the fall of spain's fascist regime, but old wounds still haven't tailed into the heart of this one. and that's because so many from you know, me go feed a market economy. suppose you, me, on the bus at the system. you know, to that i wish that i think ultimately of newborn babies were torn from their mothers and given away and forced adoption. and only to this day, mothers still search for grown children while looking in hope for their parents. from the maltese falcon to double indemnity from raymond chandler, dashiell hammett, humphrey bogart, and easy rawlins, the history of noir. both in film and literature here in the united states of america is both rich and deep. the reason behind this lies mainly in the fact that not only does the new genre of storytelling give its readers and viewers a gripping vibrant mystery and adventure story

capturing this year, author georgetown, professor and friend of the show chris chambers released into the world of noir fiction. his new book scavenger,, which takes takes place on the stone and marble time streets of washington, d.c., and features a biting takedown of the nation's capital, through the eyes of its homeless survivor and sleuth dickie cornish professor chamber joins us now to discuss his new book. thank you, chris. always a pleasure. thank you. so chris, i got to stop right out the gate. what was the inspiration for this new book? that you, you know what, what got you to sit down and say, i ought, i need to write this story about washington d.c. and this, and this homeless man living in it. and the adventure that he embarks on to me. and i had my spiritual creative writing about rendition about that he went back the curtain on the real needs for a long time. and now he's going to show runner movie producer on the wire. and i want to do something is not modest, but also, you know, walking the streets to me, throwing us a neighborhood like the word ashore on every corner.

professor lawrence gostin there from georgetown university. great, take your thoughts here on out there. thanks for being with us. professor. thanks for having me. take care. now hundreds of people have been given life sentences for attempting to topple turkey's government 4 years ago, a defining moment and the present russia type out on its one of the biggest cases related to the failed coup, during which more than 250 people were killed. some crossfire live reports from istanbul. it's a case that's taken 4 years to conclude, this court and uncorrupt acquitted 70 people before that sentence, 310, military officers and civilians to life in prison. they were all facing charges stemming from a failed military coup in 2016. a total of $475.00 defendants were tried for running the failed coup from akron to airbase northwest sobel. turkish capital. prosecutors say that's where f. 16 fighter jets to go off and flew low over on korea, sending out sonic booms before attacking parliament and other government buildings . to denmark, remember, wash misse

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next by are joined katie keith with georgetown university, the center on health insurance reform. she is also an adjunct professor of law at the law school at georgetown. thank you for joining us. katie: thank you for having me. host: here to talk about the latest supreme court and the most significant supreme court on the affordable care act. give us the shorthand version of legally, how we arrived at this point. katie: to understand this case, we have to go back in time a little bit to 2012 and then 2017. if folks remember back to 2012, that was the first time the supreme court upheld the affordable care act. chief justice john roberts held that the individual mandate could not be sustained under the commerce clause, but it could be sustained as a tax. it walks, talks, cracked like attacks. -- quacks like a tax. fast-forward to 2017, republicans controlled both chambers of congress. timespent much of their trying to repeal as much of the affordable care act as possible. it led to multiple high-profile failed attempts and the very dramatic john mccain thumbs down in the middle of

moving forward ok thank you so much for analysis clyde wilcox separate fessor of government and georgetown university. well the news in the u.s. is seen another record jump in new coronavirus infections 2 days after the presidential election more than 120000 cases were confirmed on thursday exceeding the record set the day before that's according to a tally by johns hopkins university an average of 850 people die from the virus every day up from 700 a month ago a new nationwide lockdown has come into effect in england as it struggles to curb a 2nd wave of corona virus infections prime minister bross johnson says it will be lifted automatically in the next 4 weeks on wednesday night large crowds were seen gathered in london with their eventual social distancing scotland wales and northern ireland have their own restrictions in place the prime minister of greece has ordered a nationwide lockdown due to take effect from saturday carry across mr tarkus spoke at a news conference with the government's infectious diseases expert he said the latest measures will be in place of the course of 3 wee

the war as author georgetown professor chris chambers joins us to discuss his new book, scavenger. you do not want to miss this. trust me. stay tuned. and watch during the vietnam war, u.s. forces there in the house. it was a secret war. and for years, the american people did not know how much it is the case. they can rebound country, per capita human history. millions of unexploded bombs still in danger. lives in this small agricultural country, jordyn wieber. even today, kids in laos full victims of bombs dropped decades ago, is the u.s. making amends for that tragedy and what help to the people need in that little land on the maltese falcon through double indemnity from raymond chandler. dashiell hammett on 3 ball garden, easy rawlins, the history of noir, both in film and literature here in the united states of america is both rich and deep. the reason behind this lies mainly in the fact that not only does the new genre of storytelling give its readers and viewers a gripping vibrant mystery and adventure story. but it also allows its authors and creators, much like their anti-h

, texas which is very different from georgetown. but when i was running the writing center i realize the rhetoric run refugees was changing. it felt like a change within a day. we went from 35 years of bipartisan support and years, decades before that. all the said the word refugee came synonymous with terrorist. i felt like i was someone who is uniquely situated having had relationships with these two women in understanding the history of a rhetoric and how conversation takes place in american public's mind that i was may be the only person who could see this unique work. so for me the intersection of this book comes in part because of my relationships it also my very academic background in a way i steered these things. you can take this and this and put it together in these ways. >> think that really comes through in the book. we'll talk about this later. the way you organize the book. this could be the and a radical train wreck. right? >> guest: there are several drafts. see what the train wreck was avoided. let's begin. you begi

at 8:00, katie keith of georgetown university on the affordable care act case being heard by the supreme court. at 8:45, karen hult, virginia tech political science professor and white house transition project advisory board member discusses the biden presidential transition. host: from capitol hill to the justice department, top republican officials, including attorney general william barr, are lining up behind president trump's efforts to challenge the election win of president-elect joe biden. good morning. welcome to "washington journal" for this tuesday, november 10, 2020. the attorney general authorizing late yesterday federal investigation into any court substantial claims of voting issues. meanwhile, the majority leader, mitch mcconnell, opening the senate, lame duck session, supporting the president'sers. we'd like to hear your thoughts on that. here are the lines to use if you are a democrat the line

he's interviewed by georgetown university law professor lawrence dawson. watch booktv, this weekend on c-span2. every year booktv asks members of congress about the books they are reading. >> joining us now on booktv is representative tom cole, republican from oklahoma. we asked you this question before. you always had a large reading list. what is on your current reading list? >> i just finished the splendid and the vial by erik larson, wonderful account of churchill and his family in the worst year of the war after he becomes prime minister may 10th of 1940, literally the day of the german invasion of france and then basically what it was like to stand alone against nazi germany until june of 41, russians are in the war and by december of 41 the united states is in the war. it is a wonderful read about a guy that i consider the greatest person of the twentieth century and the supreme ordeal of a long and brilliant career. i have also been reading, i picked up a great historian by the name of jean edward smith, great biographer. i read his biography grand

american contagions, epidemics in the law from smallpox to covid-19 he is interviewed by joy entrance georgetown law professor, watch book tv this weekend on c-span2. ♪ >> welcome to the history center virtual author talk featuring isabel wilkerson with john meacham to discuss her new book the origins of our discontent. and vice president of programs and community engagement i am honored to be hosting this important conversation. you can purchase additional copies at the link and the chat at the right of your screen and the link provided on the website. as isabel and john are talking please submit your questions there is a q&a feature at the bottom of the screen and we have six or seven of them or until time allows, the pulse o pulitze in new york bestseller, her debut work when the national book critics award for nonfiction and was named ten best nonfiction's of 2010 as well as in your time nonfiction of all time. she has taught at princeton and boston university and more than 200 other colleges and universities across the united states europe and asia, half the origins of her discontent receiv

georgetown university international affairs professor charles looks back at american foreign policy andtionism. then it is a seventh annual prize given by the literary publication turkish reviews. 9:00 p.m. eastern on our program afterwards, deborah stone argues that numbers are objective and followed by adam higginbotham on the 1986 nuclear disaster in ukraine. coming up at 11:00 p.m., talking about nonviolence and its power to affect political and social change. consult your program guide for more information or visit booktv.org. now look at american isolationism. >> the school of foreign service and government department at georgetown university and senior fellow of the council on foreign relation. 2014-2017, serving in the obama administration as special assistance on the national security council. he also served during the clinton administration. a visiting scholar including harvard, columbia and the international institute for

and then, you know, then we get from georgetowning in the 1860s running the house restaurant right up to the chief of staff for oscar de priest being refused service in the house. oscar de priest later in his career he also takes on -- he champions these issues that need championing and aren't necessarily specifically related to his constituency. he is a national figure and another object we have in the house collection that relates to that is a program from a speech he's giving in dayton, ohio, very far from chicago. it doesn't even say what he's going to talk about, he is just sort of speaking and it happens at the local junior high school, there is a band and there's all kind of terrific hoohah around the whole thing. he is being presented as a statesman who is important to the african-american community nationally including in dayton. so towards the end of his career and probably i'm imagining earlier in his congressional career also is part of that whole notion of surrogate representation. >> the fact that you're representing people beyond the borders of your district or your sta

we know that he was in georgetown, because he says that, and her last name is chu. spelled with a u or an e, and we'll figure it out. i started to enter that information into, as luck would have it, ancestry.com. you can find many of the really extraordinary documents. so i was able to find frisbee. i said wait, there he is, i found frisby freeland chew. not only does it -- obituaries are interesting. they're very dark and dpresdsing pieces of fragmentings if you want to call them that, but they give rich descriptions of these people's lives of the deseated person's life, and you can see migrations, you can see all of the things apparent in his obituary. it says he was married to mrs. chew. he refers to the county where he is at the time. he placed his lost friend's advertisements. we have that, that is one corroborati corroboration. then he talks about his children, about the fact that he was on his way to the government at washington. that he had been appointed to a governmental position that would not only corroborate what he is talking about, or placing him and

he's interviewed by georgetown university law professor lawrence dawson. watch book tv this weekend on c-span2. >> discussion of michelle's new book last admission to tokyo which i encourage you all to read. believe it or not, it's a page turner whose lessons speak for family today. our guests are the author a leading human rights leader in national security scholar and litigated and want many high-profile cases including several of the landmark quintana mode cases and several others.

joe: joining us with more insight, in washington, the distinguished fellow at georgetown law instituteechnology law and policy. before that, she was a counselor fcc.he there is a lot of perception that the obama administration was very tight with silicon valley. as the you see relationship between facebook alphabet and so on, and the bided administration -- the biden administration? >> the obama administration was very tight with google in particular. but those were not what they are today which is extremely big, extremely powerful, and able to use that power in a way that is anticompetitive, in a way that sometimes promotes hate speech and violent speech. these companies collect so much data from us that not only is our privacy be in compromise. you will not see the same relationship that the obama administration has with tech. i think the folks who will be working with joe biden will be much more skeptical and much more willing to act in a more regulatory power and use antitrust law, advocating restraint and antitrust law but also using antitrust law. her authority, her cloud, going

after the war, he moved back to georgetown, south carolina, with his family in 1867 -- and in chairman of the county's republican party. just a few years late he -- in 1870 was elected and became the first black american in congress. tirelessly, ked fought for civil rights, education, and economic all.tunity for now, next month we are going to 150 years for joseph rainey's election. party and anhave a anniversary celebration and i ope you will all attend the ceremony. now, back in may, nbc news said that president trump would need miracle to deliver a vaccine by the end of the year. did democrats echo this same pessimistic view, they even whether the americans should trust the safe and effective vaccine. pfizer announced a late fective rate in the stage trial. and showed it was effective in well.adults as earlier this week, moderna, also nnounced their vaccine had a 94.5% effective rate. this is the most important news in probably a generation. and it's because of american innovation and this dministration's plan to effectively distribute the vaccine to the american people. says 20 mil

he's interviewed by georgetown university law professor and director of the institute for national or global health law, lawrence gofton. "after words" is a weekly author program, all programs also available as podcasts. .. great question. i wanted to write a book that would be a first draft of the history of the long epidemics for the year of covid and beyond but that would speak to an interested reader, not just a specialist in the field. there are lots of specialists in the field and i thought my value-added might be to translate from specialists in the field to reader who are fascinate by the blizzard of legal issues that weren't really on most people's anda until now. >> we never thought about pt epidemics but think about them now, particularly what we can learn from them andhat do we know when it's going to be over. i want to begin, john, if i can, really at the end of your book, and then i'll pivot book at the end of our interview to ask you more but this question. you write, america has two histories, one ugly,he other far more appealing. in the months and years ahead, america

he was in georgetown. i went to ancestry.com. they have been in trouble lately but it is an extraordinary resource where you can find archival documents the national archives has available on-site here. i was able to find -- i said wait, there he is. i found frisby chew, angelica's husband, here in the newspaper. of the two areas are interesting. they are macabre and depressing pieces of archival fragments, but they often give these rich descriptions of these people's lives, of the deceased. and you can see migrations, all kinds of things. that is what's apparent in frisby's obituary. it tells us that frisby freeland chew was married to misses chu. and he was in yes a county, mississippi, which is where james skinner is at the time he places his lost friends advertisement so we have that one collaboration. then it talks about the children and that he was on his way to the government at washington. so it tells he had been appointed to a governmental position, which would again explain and corroborate what james skinner was talking

georgetown, michael hayden none of them were interviewed . you want to get a sense of what those directors were thinking, you can find it in my chapter on it. >> in addition to being illegal and immoral, based on their part. a number of people have asked about our relationship with other powers. and i think especially right now, and our relationship with those directors and another question is have you talked to these directors about activities that are with non-allied powers. and how does the cia see its position in the world vis-c-vis what it takes over time to deal with foreign powers and then the question of what about coordination of intelligence, services etc. . >> it's a tough question, it's a very hard question to answer particularly with, because we have a cia director currently who flies under the radar and gives no interviews. is really very much, she was trained as a covert operative and she doesn't talk a lot about what they're doing. i wish that she and mike had given me interviews for the book because i believe that the cia is

he's interviewed by georgetown university law professor. watch book tv, this weekend it on "c-span2". you are watching book tv on "c-span2". every weekend with the latest nonfiction books and authors. "c-span2", created by america's cable television company is a public service and brought to you today by your television provider. host: welcome back to our centennial speaker series. thank you for joining us for today's events. featuring doctors. this is your first time joining us, my i have the honor of serving as the dean of the school of business. 2020 marks a very special year for this school. it's our 100th anniversary were celebrating 100 years purpose driven business education. since our inception, we believed in the power of partnership to inform and lead change. so very much would like to thank the cavalli center for global security analysis and her wonderful partners, the museum of american finance and cfa society of new york . is cosponsoring today's conversation. one of the goals of this centennial series is to shine the light on

the last time john had seen edward was on october 12th, 1860, in georgetown. and in the district of columbia, right where we are today. not long after the feathers crossed paths that, john and his family were forced to leave edward behind, when their owner did with historians and individuals at the time referred to as pink refugee. his own a refugee them to mississippi, and compel them to leave the district, and leave edward behind. when you're after john placed his first lost friends advertisement, he still had not found edward. he placed another. as time offered more detail. so each of these advertisements meet one point clear. and a look at, you but you can see, here he spells her name different in both advertisements, nonetheless, he identifies angelica as the woman who owned him and his family, who orchestrated the separation of yet that process a refugee. and and that she was the reason that he and his family were still searching for edward. it was difficult for me to find angelica in large part because of the variations in spelling, in the ways in which

he's currently a professor at georgetown's school of law. and he's a legal analyst for msnbc.ch pofor joining me. i want to start with we keep saying how unprecedented this thing trump seems to do across all agencies. but i feel like we've almost gotten used to how unprecedented it is. so can you break it down on how really unprecedented it is and why we should be concerned with what he's doing right now at the department of justice? >> morale at the department of justice is at an all-time low. people are just hanging on until january 20th when president-elect biden takes over. it's not a democrat or a republican thing. it's about good government and the integrity of the department of justice. over the last year federal prosecutors in the roger stone and michael flynn quit their cases after barr intervened. after the election we had federal prosecutors in seattle, boston, san diego express public concerns about bill barr. and then just yesterday, maria, as you said, 16 federal prosecutors assigned to monitor elections said there's no evidence of fraud and they asked barr to re

is interviewed by georgetown university law professor. watch booktv this weekend on c-span2. >> every your booktv asks members of congress about the books they are reading. >> host: joining us once again on booktv is congressman gerry connolly, democrat from virginia. give us an update on your reading list, congressman. >> guest: as you know i read at least a focal week and since we

he graduated with a bachelors degree from the university of oklahoma and a has phd from georgetown. he served as assistant to a political scientist, political economist, and author and teaching assistant to former u.s. secretary of state madeleine albright, who was here for a private dinner earlier this year to drop a name or two. [laughter] gary joined the william jewell college faculty in 1992 and now serves as chair of the department of political science and director of the international relations major. the william jewell student body voted him professor of the year and amazing four times. gary is also a longtime supporter of the national world war i museum and memorial and for that we are appreciative. please give a warm welcome to dr. gary armstrong. [applause] dr. armstrong: good evening and thank you for coming tonight. there should be a lot of interesting questions. on the 100th anniversary of the senate's first rejection of the treaty of versailles. what a great moment to talk about america's place in the world. it was a time of growing polarization and radicalization. the

anchor: an associate research professor at georgetown medical center, she joined us live now from washington dc via skype. sony countries have gone back into another lockdown or are seeing a rising cases. there is a lot riding on this vaccine. but this vaccine may not be the silver bullet that everybody is hoping mib? hoping that it might be? >> out of the trials of the two verse vaccines to which we have seen data reported. pfizer and modernity, they are very promising, and it is encouraging. more than 90% protection on each. that is a good reason to have optimism. once they are approved and licensed, approved for use, have to packaged and moved to communities, so that they can be delivered to people. all of the support has to be put into place so that they are delivered under the right conditions, preserves and effective. with all of the equipment that is needed to administer safe with. syringes, needles, and the bottling of the vaccines in the first place. that requires a lot of planning and a lot of support. anchor: it will be easier for rich nations to be able to do that. they are certa

. >> reporter: he went on to yale and then to georgetown law. he is facing another uphill battle.nate seat from the 17 year incumbent. >> you cannot grow up the way i grew up, and be scared of a challenge to lindsey graham or anybody. everyone has told me, you cannot do this or that. and i kind of laughed and chuckled, because every time, i prove them wrong. >> reporter: harrison is one of severity democratic candidates with their sights set on flipping the senate. >> i'm jamie harrison and i approve this message. >> i approve this message. >> reporter: republicans hoping to keep his seat and hang on to the majority. >> there's about ten races in play. maine, iowa, colorado, arizona, the democrat is either favored or tied in eight of the races. >> some of the closest senate races reflecting the changing demographics and the cultural shift in america in the wake of the #me too movement and georgee floyd's death. if jamie harrison, it will be historic. the historically red state, growing more diverse over the years. 60% of democrats in south carolina are black. >> we are extremely i