at georgetown university we are committed to providing free speech and expression. that fosters the exchange of ideas and opinions. especially those beliefs with which you might disagree. how much learning would occur if we only heard ideas that confirmed the pre-existing notion. a few of you here tonight might disagree a little bit with our invited guest senator rubio. a few of you might disagree quite a bit with our moderator. we fully expect everyone in attendance will respect the rights of both our guest and our moderator to a full airing exchange and challenging of their ideas. and that no one would engage in any disruptive action. at the end of their discussion there will be a student question and answer session in which you might ask interesting smart pointed and coherent questions is that we can learn from one another when we hear each other's ideas. with that in mind, please be sure to phrase your statements of ideas tonight in the form of a iquestion. in the interest of time we ask that each person be concise and ask only one question. tonight is particula

geopolitics provides home for many georgetown students.t three years ago now i've started knocking on doors for marco rubio, helping what hope would be his successful run for the presidency. well, sorry, marco. nevertheless, i persisted, evidence of senator rubio in the senate. first as a u.s. senate page when i was in high school and then this past summer as an intern in his d.c. office. i've always been proud to work for marco rubio. senator rubio his parents came to america from cuba in the 1950s. his father a bartender as anor inmate they provide an amazing example to their children about the importance of hard work and family and develop the belief that all things are possible in america. marco rubio was first elected to the united states senate in 2010 and reelected for a second term in 2016. i have seen and serve as a chip in for oppressed people worldwide, work a bit of struggle american families and still make sure that florida's beaches, point grows in space industry are protected. moderating to nice conversation will be mo ellei

geopolitics provides home for many georgetown students.s ago now i've started knocking on doors for marco rubio, helping what hope would be his successful run for the presidency. well, sorry, marco. nevertheless, i persisted, evidence of senator rubio in the senate. first as a u.s. senate page when i was in high school and then this past summer as an intern in his d.c. office. i've always been proud to work for marco rubio. senator rubio his parents came to america from cuba in the 1950s. his father a bartender as anor inmate they provide an amazing example to their children about the importance of hard work and family and develop the belief that all things are possible in america. marco rubio was first elected to the united states senate in 2010 and reelected for a second term in 2016. i have seen and serve as a chip in for oppressed people worldwide, work a bit of struggle american families and still make sure that florida's beaches, point grows in space industry are protected. moderating to nice conversation will be mo elleithee, execut

i cannot be proud of our georgetown student who will invite our guest.he happens to be a constituent of senator rubio, and she happens to be a former intern on senator rubio, and she happens to be my daughter. ladies and gentlemen, elli sweet. [applause] elli: welcome, everyone. my name is elli sweet, and i am a freshman at the school of business year at georgetown university. since arriving on campus, i've already seen the large reach of gu politics. whether that means campaign boot camps, site visits to the rnc, dnc, or c-span, speakers like senator rubio visiting our campus, or the fellows and residents holding discussion groups, gu politics provides a home for many georgetown students. almost three years ago now, i started knocking on doors for marco rubio, helping what i hoped would be his successful run for the presidency. well, sorry, america. nevertheless, i persisted in my efforts to help senator rubio in the senate, first as a u.s. senate page when i was in high school, and then, this past summer, as an intern in his d.c. office. i have always

i cannot be proud of our georgetown student who will invite our guest.appens to be a constituent of senator rubio, and she happens to be my daughter. ladies and gentlemen, elli sweet. [applause] elli: welcome, everyone. my name is elli sweet, and i am a freshman at the school of business year at georgetown university. since arriving on campus, i've already seen the large reach of gu politics. whether that means campaign boot camps, site visits to the rnc, dnc, or c-span, speakers like senator rubio visiting our campus, or the fellows and residents holding discussion groups, gu politics provides a home for many georgetown students. almost three years ago now, i started knocking on doors for marco rubio, helping what i hoped would be his successful run for the presidency. well, sorry, america. nevertheless, i persisted in my efforts to help senator rubio in the senate, first as a u.s. senate page when i was in high school, and then, this past summer, as an intern in his d.c. office. i have always been proud to work for marco rubio. senator rubio's parents

coming up, renee from the georgetown mccourt school of public policy joins us on the future of contentoderation. next. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪♪ only servicenow connects every corner of your business, putting ai to work for people. pfft ... every corner? every corner, nick. ow! so kate in hr ... hey kate. can focus on people, not process. patty in it is using ai agents to deal with the small stuff, so she can work on the big stuff. and ai helps jim solve customer problems before they're problems. oh, so we all work better, together! my work here is done. excuse me, which way back? caroline: as we all wait for a decision from the supreme court on tiktok, let's look to the future of social media under the incoming administration and an alternative to content moderation as we know it. middleware is built into tech platforms and it gives users rather than platforms the power to moderate their own social media experiences. one of the people looking into it, renÉe diresta, co-authoring a report on this very topic from georgetown. what is so interesting is where the -- where the examples are be

i'm professor and endowed chair in tech ethics and society at georgetown and also the director of the center for digital ethics. i also want to say that we're joined today by many in the georgetown community, but i want to give a special welcome to the students in my global cyber policy class who have formulated some special questions for you. so going to have a dialog now, i think you need no introduction that i'm going to give you one anyway. marissa shaka is international policy director at stanford university's cyber policy center and also an international policy fellow at stanford's institute for human centered artificial intelligence. she was a member of the european parliament from the netherlands for a decade from 2009 to 2019, which is when we first met. and she writes a monthly column for the financial times on tech and governance. and you also wrote in foreign affairs this week i saw. so i'll ask you about that. and she's known around the world as arguably the leading political thinker on tech policy issues. so you also i also want to introduce you as someone in silicon val

he has taught at georgetown university since 1999. dr. langer has published eight books and over 60 scholarly articles. he was director the center for latin american studies at georgetown. from 2009 to 2013. dr. langer awarded multiple awards, including four fulbright research and lecturing awards to social science research council to national endowment for humanities research fellowships, as well as the auden. the order then universidad central venezuela. he was elected honorary member of the academia bolivia three story in 2016, and he is presently working publishing the selected writings of frances bernadette o'connor, an aristocrat who fought during the south american independence wars, remained in bolivia for the rest of his life. dr. langer. is saying thank very much. murray it's. a pleasure to be here. thank to the peruvian embassy to the cougars center, to the hispanic reading room for letting me be part of this. anne marie as well, who is really organizer of all of this and really deeply appreciative. frances for that. o'connor d

executive director of the tech center at georgetown university rate ms. oberman previously served u.s. digital service and finally is the nonresident senior fellow for congressional modernization with the foundation for american innovation. previously served senior technology advisor at gsa top technology rolls in the house of representatives. if you all could please rise and raise your right hands please. >> you solemnly swear under penalty of perjury that the testimony about two provides a truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? thank you let the record reflect all the witnesses have answered in the affirmative. ms. harris you are not recognized for five minutes to deliver opening statement on behalf of gal. thank you. mr. chairman, ranking member mccormick and members of the subcommittee p thank you for inviting us to testify today on va it modernization challenges. i also want to take a moment to thank your outstanding committee staff and best wishes as well. as requested briefly summarize artwork of the departments effort to acquire and man

get back to those values, that mark has talked about -- mark gave a big speech six years ago at georgetownpression, about these values. unfortunately there has been a lot of political and societal pressure here and around the world that have pushed away from those values. we got a real opportunity to re-set. get back to them and provide a space for free expression. >> ainsley: how were they putting pressure? were they calling when they didn't like a post? what did they say? take it down? >> yeah. so mark talked about this in a letter he sent to the house judiciary committee a few months ago that sort of outlined the way in which we got a lot of pressure around covid, in particular, to take down more content. even things like humor and satire about the pandemic and about vaccines. so, you know, we did experience that kind of pressure. the decisions we made ultimately were our own. but there is a real opportunity here, with president trump coming into office, with his commitment to free expression for us to get back to those values. and really provide space for people to have the kind of dis

white house in a quiet dinner than go out and shake hands and talk to a bunch of rich folk from georgetown so he got a bad shake from the media in general. and you mentioned james fallows, who is a very young man in his twenties for two years. the first two years of the administration, he was the chief speechwriter. but his real ambition was to break into magazine journalism. and after two years, he left and his very first piece as a staff writer for the atlantic was long, long exposure. as such, entitled the passionless presidency, and it was sort of psychology, call investigation of jimmy carter and rather thin, in my opinion. but it did as you say, it did real damage to the carter presidency. he had a moment in 1979 when he was facing long gas lines and a lot of criticism over many issues. and it's sort of that piece gave a green light to the rest of the press that it was it was okay to dump on the carter that there was something wrong, fallows suggested. and you know, jody powell and hamilton jordan and carter himself regarded this article as a stab in the back, a betrayal from one tim

and georgetown, i went to georgetown, i drank under age. what a surprise. and those things were normal. but if i had social media component it would not have been -- i probably would not of stuck around i would of changed schools. during the 1984 conference, liz carpenter said, it was not part of the video footage. but, she said that i think strong first ladies make news, people salute them, even if we don't agree with them. how did you see this at play in your own mother's story? do you think it has changed or evolved? >> i think if coming it has gotten better. yes, betty ford was hailed for her breast cancer and what she did and we have talked about that, and, she has continued, she continued her legacy. yes, with talking about substance use disorder and all of that and creating the betty ford center and now the hazelton betty foundation but she continued to do things to stay and use her platform. she was an interesting person. she did books, she did three books. so that continued to put her in the lime light in that sort of thing. she continued to do art

you note he declined more than one dinner invitation from the georgetown set. peter talks about how he didn't want to have dinner in the home of the publisher of the washington post, katharine graham. who knows what he'd think about that now? um, but that that really defined him. that sort of, i don't know, his disdain. the word that you would use for the set of pomp and circumstance of washington. >> he just didn't enjoy washington cocktail parties. you know, he he was when i was interviewing him, he was in his 90s. he was still working. he was still relentless. and he was focused on the future, on his work. and so when he arrived in washington, he disdained the sort of social butterflies of the georgetown set. and yeah, he got numerous invitations from katharine graham, the publisher of the washington post. and he turned them down. now, he admitted later to me that this was probably a mistake, that you have to he realized you have to room and and cultivate the, the washington establishment. but he really had a disdain for that whole scene. he he would much pr

i'm a master's of science and foreign service candidate, georgetown. my question kind of goes back to what you were talking about earlier with the separation that the general american public has with some of the policies of the federal government. where i come from, a in new york city, we are a predominately immigrant society. a lot of people there don't watch the news simply because they're not necessarily geared for if english as a second language. and i'm wondering how can we as first generation or second generation americans make information about federal policies more digestible for our communities at a larger but also at a local and state level. yeah, i mean, it's interesting there used to be a lot more interfaces for this. like i, i worked on hillary clinton's senate campaign in new york and there was a very rich media. what would back then would call it ethnic media, where she did interviews with the biggest spanish language newspaper and that. but i think like there is a big in the chinese language newspaper and we don't we shouldn't discount

. >> and georgetown. >> went to georgetown. i drank under aged, no surprise.hose things were normal, but if i would have had the social media component it would not have been -- i probably wouldn't have stuck around. i would have changed schools. >> so during the 1984 conference liz carpenter did say, and it's not part of this video footage. so if you want the video footage of this, i know an archivist that can help hook you up, but she said that i think strong first ladies make news. people salute them even if we don't agree with them. how did you see this in play in your own mother's story? do you think it has changed or evolved? >> i think if anything, it's gotten better. yes. betty ford was hailed for her breast cancer and what she did and we've already talked about that, but she continued her legacy, yes, with talking about substance abuse disorder and all of that and creating the betty ford center and now the hazleton betty ford foundation, but she continued to do things to stay and use her platform. she was an interesting person. she did books. she did

at georgetown are committed to free speech.ers exchange of ideas and unions, especially those with which you might disagree. how much learning would occur if we only preconceived notions. a few might disagree with senator rubio or our moderator, yet we expect everyone will respect the rights of our guests in moderator to exchanging and challenging of ideas. at the end there will be student question and answer during which you may ask questions. we can learn from one another. please be sure to phrase your statement in the form of a question. we ask each person ask only one question. tonight's special for me, our moderator will be speaking with my former boss, both of whom i respect a great deal. could not be prouder of our student who happens to be a constituent of senator rubio and in turn and my daughter. ladies and gentlemen, le sweet. >> welcome. i'm a freshman here at georgetown university. i have seen a large range of politics. speakers like rubio visiting our campus, almost three years ago i started knocking on doors for

washington and didn't go to katharine graham's house for invited dinners and cocktail parties in georgetown. i think that's a little overstated. i'm not too impressed with that. >> terry, it's doug here. if you could, that story. you ended up -- president carter. >> we've known each other for 62 years. it was really the last 43 i could say i became really close friend. it started when he hired me as an attorney for a particular matter which involved a gossip columnist who had moved from the washington star to "the washington post." the first column reported a rumor that the partners had bugged blair house while ronald reagan was there to prepr his transition to president. and an overheard between nancy reagan and ted graebner, the decorator. when he heard this, it was published october 5, 1981, which is significant because that was the day sadat was killed and i was on the telephone with president carter being hired as a lawyer when he got the message that sadat were shot. they didn't know he was dead yet. he went to attend to that and called me back later. he wanted me to bring a libel sui

they wrote a note to us by georgetown list what exactly happened in boucher is rest. you're really responsible for mass occurring. these people will you can be banned from social media. you'll be accused of all kinds of horrible things. these questions are never raised. we're just basically fed lies and, and told to accept them. and that's been the model that we've seen over and over and over again. and it's never been more powerful than it is now. the boiler, some remodeling feet suddenly less probably more in the homeless usage screw. when comfortable, we just didn't. i didn't know. it sits on us. what is the for supposed to do if we're still on the ocean where y'all are still well that you think your sewage, the right they're going to deduct months you submitted in your the the telling me is that a quick call mama to answer those videos. the as the year ends, the incoming trump administration continues to believe it can end the conflict in ukraine. trump and his people are beginning to understand. and in this conflict is more difficult in starting a war. the proble

they cannot scroll down to us by georgetown list. what exactly happened in bullshit is rush, you're really responsible for mass occurring. these people will, you can be banned from social media. you'll be accused of all kinds of horrible things. these questions are never raised. we're just basically fed lies and, and told to accept them. and that's been the model that we've seen over and over and over again, and it's never been more powerful than it is now. the when i say this is, i mean the math, the world bang for the federal reserve, the dollar itself, the swift payment system. all this has become a set of food, a geo political instruments that the west uses routinely and aggressively to intimidate a restrict you know, dominate to other countries. the force in near wes, lots of stuff is a way out of the key at the board. she must not submit a sports and she goes and it was it was you the story boy say nay. or studio? i see for sure option that this be so for ship or store or critics. lastly, and you want to do it was a school in y

daniel shaw, chair of georgetown�*s english department — "my students have trouble staying focused "even of 8— to 18—year—olds enjoy reading in their spare time doesn't suggest that the novel is going to have a very bright future. no. those are worrying statistics, obviously. but then i reflect that during the pandemic, there was an enormous boom in novel reading and novel sales. my publishers had the best year they'd ever had. and i persist in thinking that in a world of very short attention spans and the consumption of everything in tiny snippets, that the novel will retain a sort of counterbalancing allure. i take the point that education itself is different now, and that i understand that a—level students often don't read whole books — they read bits of them, or they watch the video or the film or something, and that there is a huge change in how literature is absorbed, but i'm not giving up on it myself. the other threat may be artificial intelligence. can you imagine that one day a generative ai software programme could write a better novel than you can? it'll be such a relief, yes

being here today in that the marquee arrived to assist in the revolution in my home community of georgetown on june 13, 1777 and we greeted the general and what an impact he had on our country. we all know france is the first american ally dating to march 21, 1778, and when the french monarchy recognized the independence of the united states and then on diplomat relations august 6th, 1778. south carolina really cherishes its french history and we are grateful even today that we have the only functioning french church in america founded in 1844 in charleston. additionally,s leading patriot of the american revolution was hugonot, a beloved here on capitol hill two blocks away where it's known as marion park, and it was named after the general and it's just again a daily reminder of our shared heritage and appreciation. along with that several years ago i had the opportunity to raise money for a statue to be located in the park of general marion. and while i was doing it i was telling people this would be the first monument ambassador to a french hugonot in washington. and no, george had frenc

rooted in the values of our home at georgetown university, we are a network catalyst. our hub and advocate for policy making the modern age and training ground. technology modernization is central tour work. federal technology projects often fall short. plagued by ricard approaches to prioritize process over outcomes. these failures diminish public trust, waste taxpayer money, frustrate agency workers and prevent people from accessing services. when agency attempt to modernize -- one time, purchases that work upon acquisition. but software must evolve to keep up with the policies, secure demands and customer needs. technology modernization is a continual process not a one time effort. too often, modernization projects are built in silos and outsourced to vend others who require a high cost contract. they are then overseen by agency project managers who not be experts themselves making it more challenging when projects go off track. the good news is that some agency can shifted from this management model to what we call product model with full ownership of product devel

the marquis de lafayette actually arrived and to assist in the revolution in my home community of georgetown charleston, south carolina, on june 13, 1777. and we greeted the general and what an impact he had on our country. we all know france is the first american ally dating to march 21, 1778, and when the french monarch recognized the independence of the united states and then on diplomat relations august six, 1778. so carolina really cherishes this french history, and we are grateful even today that we have the only functioning french huguenot church in america. founded in 1844, in charleston. additionally, a leading patriot of the american revolution was huguenot general francis marion, the celebrated swamp fox. a beloved park is right here on capitol hill, just two blocks away where it's known as marion park. and it was named after the general. and it's just, again, a daily reminder of our shared heritage and appreciation, along with that, several years ago, i had the opportunity to raise money for a statue to be located in the park of general washing of general marion. and while i was

georgetown, delaware, picked up the most on the east coast so far.ack out in kansas, almost two feet of snow fell. the remarkable part of this is we go all the way from salina all the way to the beach. the beach. it snowed on the beach. it snowed a lot in places. some spots picked up 6 to 10 inches of snow across parts of delaware, into maryland and virginia. and now that cold air is coming back down behind it. and there are places across the midwest, including chicago, that will not get above freezing for an entire week. morning lows, afternoon highs, morning lows will not warm up above the 32- degree mark. if your pipes are beginning to freeze, mother nation is not going to help to unfreeze them. keep that in mind this is going to be not a record- breaking cold but dangerous cold for pets, people, pipes and certainly take care of the elderly. here's the next storm. i know you don't want to hear about it. wednesday into thursday. ice storm possible into parts of atlanta by friday morning. that should be fun getting to work here, and even a little mo

georgetown, delaware, you're the winner on the east coast but numbers are coming in and they'll continueo come in throughout the evening. one foot of snow for you. foot and a half for chatman, and the ice, we talked about that, half an inch of ice on tree limbs, power lines. over 300,000 even right now still without power. here's the next area of snow. this is the tail, this is the head of the low pressure center. this is kind of a dry slot that came through earlier, cut our snow off for d.c. and philadelphia a little earlier. still, the powdery snow behind it, that light, fluffy snow that's going to blow around. at least you'll be able to get that off of your driveway. be careful with the stuff that has melted below. the first batch of snow will have melted, refreeze overnight tonight and then we'll have snow on top of icy spots that you just can't see. look at this stretch, though. all the way from really, i mean, southern new jersey all the way to western kansas with 6 inches to a foot of snow. still have those winter weather advisories in effect for right now. as soon as this goes by

to my immediate rate joshua hooter he is a senior fellow with georgetown university government affairs in scituate where he teaches courses on american government, congress advance process, separation of powers in the federal budget process or prior to joining the government affairs institute in 2013 he worked on the hill as an american political science associational congressional fellow priest writing a book on the history of congressional procedure and politics since 1879. small topic. first small book i'm sure. i look we look forward too it. into his right is my colleague kevin. kevin is a senior fellow setting congress as well as the administrative state, sec secondelection reform in the pol service. prior to joining aei kevin worked at the art street institute by its present policy, vice president of research into senior fellow director of the governance so it's a privilege to work for for a time. he is the author of an editor of several books including congress overwhelmed the decline congressional capacity. and for manypa years he worked t the congressional research service. he

did you know that attitude was in georgetown? >> i knew it, i did not feel all that at home with the so- called democratic party elite. >> carter related to the american voter in a way while his established opponents did not. they offered policy changes, he offered more basic change. >> when i'm president, i will never tell a lie. >> i promised to tell the truth, people believed me and i think they were ready for something different. >> he fashioned a campaign that is really a moral campaign at a time the country is still recovering from the most immoral president in history. >> neither the conventional nor conventional republican or democrat at that time. >> naval officer in the nuclear sub, technical training and bring it to washington and make government work better. >> carter's outsider status would eventually come back to haunt him. in the 1976 campaign, that political innocence with his appeal. >> i told him, he wouldn't do it. >> drawn to his colorful family. especially his young daughter and his wife rosalynn. >> asked me

>> i started in the mailroom at the washington post when i was in college at georgetown university.rted covering the internet there. i went on to work at the new york times and the wall street journal and i went on to do many things including a famous cat conference. i've been watching what has been happening there for some time. i was quite heartened when the grams sold it to jeff bezos. he got it for a low amount of money. he was doing a very good job. just recently has business interests are not aligned with the post. everything he has done in the last year has been pretty questionable. not because necessarily it is maligned. bringing in maligned forces takes it to another level. i think his business interests are not in mine with the post. there is always some excuse. he didn't see it or read it but it doesn't matter. he is involving himself in a way that isn't working. geoff: on that point, strong journalistic ethics prioritized independence and jeff bezos is not a droid list but a businessman -- is not a journalist but a businessman. >> there is only one shareholder here and i

he's also a professor of government at georgetown university.o begin with that point you make about here is the theoretically i guess you'd call him leader of the republican party, donald trump, who has absolutely no interest in building the republican party. >> yes. i think the immediate issue for the republican party at the very least is it just puts them in a bad political position. there will i'm sure very quickly come a time when the immediate interests of donald trump are going to conflict with what is best politically for the republican party. in those situations you want a president who cares about the health of his party. but if you don't have one trump is very clearly willing to sacrifice the health of the republican party and its immediate political interests to whatever he wants to do. and i think we'll see that pretty soon. >> e.j., talk about what a difference this is from the past, with former both republican presidents and democratic presidents and the way they approached party building. >> i think you've had presidents who've do

i delivered my first prepared remarks as a commission in november 2017 at georgetown university. i vividly remember walking through campus on the crisp autumn evening in washington feeling a bit nervous about my first speech which focus on the ports of cftc markets, the lingering and backs global financial crisis, and the critical role derivatives markets plate and the global economy. in many respects not much has changed. in other respects so much has changed. with globally traded commodities, investment and all manner of transaction executed, cleared and price off cftc regulated entities in u.s. dollars, cftc derivative markets are critical to our nation's net economy and long-term national security. this position cannot be taken for granted. for those of us entrusted to support and safeguard this privilege beyond our tendency for decades to come, we must act with an eye toward anyone or anything that may undermine this supremacy. geopolitical stress is increasingly need to be vigilant. macroeconomic waters remain choppy as inflation lingers as a threat. perhaps even more so is

and paul butler, former federal prosecutor who is now a professor at the georgetown university law center. so, barbara, i want to start with you. what do you make of what you've been hearing so far? >> well, jose, a huge part of this strategy by the republican senators clearly, is to put the department of justice and fbi on trial. >> we have heard the words weaponized, politicized again and again and again. >> and pam bondi is agreeing with those things. >> the suggestion that because the justice department charged donald trump with interfering in the january 6th in the election in 2020 and with retaining false documents, that somehow that was all cooked up, baseless, weaponized, politicized. >> i think it is a disgusting display of disinformation. >> and even if they alone don't believe what they're saying, members of the public are watching this, and i worry how many will be believing what they are hearing today. >> there certainly is a perception among many in the united states that the justice department has been politicized. paul, what are your thoughts on what bondi has been going t

the news in the mailroom, excuse me, that's where i started my career when i was at college at georgetownat was my first job, and i worked there for many years. i started covering the internet there, which is my big area. i went on to work at the wall street journal and the new york times, and did a whole bunch of different things, including a very famous tech conference. that was pretty good. and so i've been watching what's happening at the post for a long time, and i was quite heartened when the graham's family, which had owned it for so many years, sold it to jeff bezos. and in the initial years, he did a very good job. he got it for a very low amount of money, by the way, but he he -- he was doing a very good job. and it's just recently that's his business interests are not aligned with the post's, and everything he's done so far over the past, i don't know, year or so has been pretty questionable, i would say. not because necessarily it's malign. bringing in malign forces sort of takes it to a new level. i think he has business interests that are not aligned with the post, and some

first start by introducing michael panelists to my immediate rate joshua he is a senior fellow with georgetown university government affairs institute he teaches courses on american government advance legislative process and the federal budget process a prior o joining the government affairs institute in 2013 he worked on the hill as american political science congressional fellow he's currently writing a book since 1879 small topic for a small book i am sure. we look forward to it. to his right is my colleague kevin is also a senior fellow at the administrative state, election reform and united states postal service. prior to joining kevin worked at the institute vice president of policy vice president of research partnerships and senior fellow director of the governance project or i am also a privilege to work for a time. he is the author and editor congress overwhelmed the decline in congressionalon capacity and for many years he worked at the congressional research service. he is a longtime hill veteran. before us now is to think about what comes next? we had our discussions of all the thi

very much of an outsider, didn't like the whole georgetown dinner party thing.sed him some problems. by not being part of that washington establishment, he had great regard for the city of washington and trying to lift up that city. he made a point of sending his daughter to the thaddeus stevens school, a public school in washington when most others sent their children to private schools and he also at one point called up share who at that time was married to his good friend greg allman and he always had them call her mrs. allman. this was when she was at the peak of her fame in the 1970s and he called her up and said share, say something nice about the city of washington. he thought she could use her stature to help poor people in that city. i don't know how many will turn out. i don't think bill get 23,000 the way they did in atlanta, but i do think there is still a lot of good feeling about jimmy carter in the washington area and a lot of younger people, be thou art remember. they're inspired by his example. they know this was an epic american life. it'll be

joined now by renee diresta, associate research professor at the mccourt school of public policy at georgetowny. thank you for being with us. renee: thanks for having me. geoff: why did meta initially put this fact checking program into place and was it effective? renee: so, it was launched in december 2016 in response to widespread criticism of fake news that had gone viral quite a bit during the presidential campaign. and the platform faced a lot of backlash in response. the fact checking initiative was launched as part of facebook's efforts to restore its brand, trust. it partnered with the third-party fact checking organizations that were certified by the international back-checking network. it went to existing organizations that were quite reputable. it worked to incorporate adding context. it came up with a moderation framework. remove, reduce and reform. reduce is when it is reduced in distribution. and the fact checking piece was a big part of informed, which try to add more information to the stories that were going viral or articles people were seeing. geoff: meta says it is moving t

she was a hall of fame basketball player or volleyball player at georgetown. and you all be able to figure out who this is pretty quickly. but i started developing respect for her. you know, i didn't agree with her, but respect and so i came back with a renewed sense. we've got to get the reagan o'neil up now. it's like 30 republicans and 30 democrats and i mean, people want to join. so there is in the congress a desire to not always agree, but to stop, you know, communicating hatred for one another, which is what social media wants us to do because likes are a drug. and if i can be more bombastic, i'll get more likes and shares. and so we have to overcome that and that tendency that, like i said, has been there since the dawn of time and fight to be america again. and i think there are people who want to do that, and i certainly do without compromising what i believe in. an interesting anecdote in here, i believe it was was a debate on gun control where a democratic lawmaker called you and other republicans out and was really it was after a school shooting wa