joe donovan is a disinformation scholar is she is accusing her bosses at the harvard kennedy school of forcing her out and forgetting pressure from facebook. disclosure sent to harvard last week and made public today dominance at the university began restricting her work after a half-billion dollar donation from a group founded by mark zuckerberg and his wife. cnn business writer is covering the story. what can you tell us about what donovan is claiming that happened and whether her claim has merit? >> donovan is claiming that harvard kennedy school shut down her research and forced her out as you said in order to protect its relationship with mark zuckerberg. she said those restrictions begin after that $500 million investment from zuckerberg philanthropy arm which was made to support a new artificial intelligence research center at harvard. she also claims pressure from the school started after she became involved in an effort to archive the so-called facebook papers this trope of internal facebook documents that were leaked by whistleblower in late 2021. donovan research project was

and this is detailing the close relationship of the harvard leaders at harvard's kennedy school, andcutives at the company, and this is raising questions of the academic freedoms in this information space as we go into the 2024 election season. she is well known about her research, and she has been critical of many platforms, and harvard is strongly denying the allegation, and in a statement, the harvard kennedy school spokesman said that the allegations of unfair treatment is false, and the narrative is full of inaccuracies and baseless insinuations that kennedy school allowed zuckerberg to dictate what was happening. they said that the project was shutdown, because she is not a faculty member, and they have no control over this type of research. and i also reached out to meta and they declined to comment. >> okay. we will see where this goes. >>> and now, fresh sounds of alarm of what a second trump presidency may look like, and a fresh warning that if he is elected again, he wouldner leave office. (car engine revs) (engine accelerating) (texting clicks) (tires squeal) (glass shatt

you should, he is see a practitioner fellow at so the harvard kennedy school, i'm from co home, which went by of mad hell. out of that is practice director of the middle east, north africa region at global council. welcome to your charlie. let's start with you. a world wide recession had been widely predicted by economists in 2023. and as we were hearing a few minutes ago, the u. s. economy grew it's fastest pace and nearly 2 years. what happened or? well, i mean, as, as, as a time of the economy as perhaps i was paying too much attention to the history we hadn't seen rate hikes like this for decades most since the ninety's. and that was just, uh, the assumption was that has to break things. i'm gonna, we saw a silicon valley bank grow up in march and people began to think that that was exactly what was happening. but i think we address to make it 2 or 3 things. firstly, be the button fiscal package buttons, fiscal bruce to the economy, helped. secondly, americans were on such a fixed rate. mortgage is we say they were, you won't get to go, there's more because of the lowest ever rate

i am not saying biden is not in trouble, reuters, ipsose biden is up four, harvard kennedy poll of youngt he won in 2020. >> will: on kay cox case, the state law says you can have abortion if threat to life of mother or you have bodily harm. the mother, she nor her doctor made that case, they did not make the case, that is facts on the case that is controversial when you read the headlines, seven states, bad for biden. >> shannon: it is tough, when i heard the story of vice president out there, she is saying he needs to be more empathetic and tougher on bibi. my thought is who leaked this, where did it come from and why? you have to ask the questions. are they trying to protect the biden-harris ticket. he can be seen as standing with the israelis and she is saying we are advocating on the other part. when you have things leaked clearly, you have to wonder why in washington always. >> greg: they said they were defining donald trump record, they weren'ts, they are defining fantasy. this is what is going to happen if you have a trump second term. hitler, next mexico, he will shoot visitors

baseless insinuations, particularly the allegation harvard kennedy school allowed facebook to dictate its approach to research. the facebook leaked document project ended up going ahead and the university's work on online disinformation continues. but donovan says harvard has damaged its credibility. >> i mean, it's gutting. here i am at harvard, believing that they would protect the sanctity of the truth and that they were understanding that this work was going to ruffle some feathers. but what i didn't imagine was that i would need protection from harvard itself. >> and donie o'sullivan joins us now. what is the status of the doctor's research. >> reporter: so, dr. donovan now is working at boston university. but a big part of her problem is a lot of the research she did at harvard is locked in at harvard, and a lot of that data. as you heard, in that piece, meta, which has a very substantial communications department, had no comment on this story today, which was quite unusual for a company that likes to defend itself. the chan-zuckerberg initiative, which gave half a billion dolla

harvard kennedy poll of some people same margin with gen-z and millennials. >> i want to say on the kates you can have abortion if there's a threat to life of the mother or bodily harm. she nor doctors made that case to the supreme court. they outsourceed to medical board, didn't make the case. that's the facts on the remarkable case and those 7 states and poll. bad news for biden. >> when i first herds the story of the vice-president she's not saying he needs to be more sympathetic to palestinians but they need to be tougher on bibby. you have to ask those questions. he can be seen as i'm going to stand with the israelis. she can be the other part. i don't know if it's about protecting the ticket but when you have things that are leaked so clearly you got to wonder why. in washington only. >> they said the top of this thing they were defining donald trump's record. they're defining a fanltsi. this is what is going to happen if you have a trump second term. he's going to be a fuehp re, rewrite the constitution, create mass interpret camps, sends people to gitmo assassinate generals have

a harvard kennedy school denies the claim, saying the doctors claims of unfair treatment and donor interferencety also said it is a long-standing policy that research projects are led by faculty members which donovan was not. the faculty member leading the project left harvard, they were unable to find a replacement and the program was and it. the school also said she was not fired. with us for more joan donovan herself, currently a professor at boston university as one of the world's experts for leading internet disinformation. she wrote the book meme wars, -- joan i welcome you back, i wish it was on better news. what do you think about harvard's response, what do you want people to know? >> well, you lead with their disclaimer, but they have made no specific assertions about anything that is untrue and if you do dig into the whistleblower website you can read the full disclosure. most of the things that they are upset about our their own emails to me. i was hired as a staff member, i was a professor, adjunct faculty member at the school. and so, what had happened while i was there, i was rec

want to bring in director of polling at the harvard kennedy school institute of politics to talk more about this. some really fascinating stuff there that i wanted to get into, john, if we can. a lot of flip-flopping going on there. you have biden gaining with older voters. trump gaining with younger voters. some registered. some likely voters as well. you did your own polling between i believe it was october 22nd and november 6th. some of your findings were similar. that was three weeks or so into the israel hamas war. then you found joe biden at 41%. donald trump at 30%. what i thought was fascinating though was that 15% of those you polled said they would not vote if the match-up was between joe biden and donald trump. talk us through that. >> that's right. i think like the bad news around that is yes, relative to where we were four years ago, there was less enthusiasm about voting in general. that's not a good thing. the good news is in less than a year, ten plus months or so, we know what we need to do to turn that around in terms of like talking about civics and three things to

a fantasy land, but reuters ipsos had a poll of the seven biggestd swing states is up for the harvard kennedyoll of young people. same margin advantage with gen gen-zz and voters that he had t he won in 2020. there is good news we chooseer not to talk. >> we got to move quickly. but i just want to say on the kate cox case, because, st20, you news by headlines, people don't understand the facts. the state law in there said, you can have abortion if there's a threat to the life of the mother or you have bodily harm foy r the she nor hh doctor made that case. >> that supreme court, they outsourceshe no to a medicl board. >> they simply didn't make the case. somake that's the facts on the case. >> it is remarkably controversial when you only read b contry the headlines now seven states, those seven states in polling, that'as news for biden. >> it is tough. and listen, when i first heard the story of the victougn i e president out there, she's not only saying that he needs to be more empathetic publiclys ,thetc more for the palestinians, but that he needs to be tougher on bibi, which i thought was

congressional hearing on anti-semitism, but many are defending her, including my next guest, harvard professor randall kennedyning me in just a moment. (♪♪) (♪♪) (♪♪) get exclusive offers on select new volvo models. contact your volvo retailer to learn more. >>> the fate of harvard's president, claudine gay, is hanging in the balance with the decision on her future potentially coming as soon as tomorrow and why? all because of testimony to coming last week that led to the resignation of university of pennsylvania president liz magill. to remind everyone, testimony was widely criticized for failing to effectively denounce calls for the genocide of jewish people as relates to university policies against bullying and harassment. let's listen. >> i am asking specifically calling for the genocide of jews, does that constitute bullying or harassment? >> it is a context dependent decision. it can be depending on the context. >> if targeted individuals not making public statements. >> following all of that, more than 70 members of congress called on gay to resign. the next day she apologized and today parts of the ha

wegman is an affiliate scholar at the harvard kennedy school and the terror financing prohibition authority, experience and expertise in financial regulations, digital assets, money laundering, terrorism financing. thank you for making the trip to testify here. dr. weber, you can begin. >> chairman brown, ranking member brett, existing list members of the committee, thank you for the honor and opportunity to testify before you today. the bipartisanship i see on this issue is a welcome breath of fresh air. i think we need to recognize that the attack on october 7th was one of the worst acts of international terrorism by any measure, including if only by measuring the number of american victims that were targeted. as we think about how hamas is financed, we need to understand a few things. there will be a tendency to try and figure out right now how this attack was financed, there will be time for that, but i think we need to take a step back. this attack was financed over decades. hamas has been able to raise funds from multiple means over a long period of time, that is the underlying issue

started a business, sold it, served as an army officer in the middle east and -- enrolled in harvard's kennedye that so impacted his life? he did make speeches from time to time above victims rights. >> the czech 14 years for us to get these guys who had started taking with them, one of them had to sought off of him when they caught him. >> life was different now. he and julia had two children, subtle down in california. that, broxton cited that maybe he could do some acting on writing. >> i was teaching a writing workshop and brooks came into the class had he pitched three ideas. one a sitcom, a second. one, a drama. he proceeds to tell me about his life. >> paul brown is a hollywood writer and director. >> i couldn't believe i was hearing. austin rivers shelters and vengeance becomes a story about forgiveness. i thought that was a very unique and important story. >> he, said that is the one you need to write. well, i don't think i can write it. it is too personal. it's too painful. he convinced me that i should try it. i wrote a few seems. parts were very difficult. extraordinarily difficult

ambassador burns is currently on public service leave from harvard university's kennedy school of governmentk you found the future of diplomacy project served as a goodman professor of practice pet i will -- of practice. i will introduce my wonderful colleagues moderating the discussion. ryan hoss is the director of the john l thorton china center at the chair in taiwan studies at brookings. he is a senior fellow in the center for east asian policy studies. from 2013 to 2017, he served as senior director for china, taiwan and mongolia at the national security council staff during the obama administration. patricia kim is a fellow at brookings and holds a joint appointment. patty is an expert on chinese foreign policy and u.s. china relations. she co-leads are wonderful project here at brookings alongside ryan. the global china project focuses on advancing recommendations on how the united states can respond to china's actions that implicate key u.s. interests around the world. before our discussion gets underway, i would like to thank the ford foundation which has made this event possible an

molgd for data-driven government efficiency and effectiveness and won baltimore awards from the harvard kennedy school in 20004. as former senator mikulski said, quote, quo the hardworking men and women of the social security administration need a strong confirmed operational leader and the american people need a social security administrator that works for them. martin o'malley would provide the leadership and the management skills to do that. he has a knack for organization, understanding new technologies, and how to use technologies to be data driven. governor o'malley is not a big-government guy. he's a smart-government guy. he believes you use modern management tools to organize a workforce around a mission, measurable objectives, and bl stay within budget. end quote from some more mu cull is i ask. for the -- mikulski. for the employees of the social security administration nationwide including 12,000 in naerld at the wood lawn headquarters in baltimore, i am confident martin o'malley will honor the services of the american people and support for a strong union workforce. as the governor

it was a harvard professor and he advised kennedy and johnson and ministrations. and the 1968, when richard dickson was running against hubert humphrey, he played both sides. i hate told humphrey he was going to give him access to all of nelson rockefeller's files on nixon, is that i always hated nixon. but with nicks and they play the other side, garcia, there was the go. she actually is going on in paris to end the vietnam war. and 1968. it was already been a horrible difficult, but it got the last, it's another almost 7 years actually. uh, and he got information from the insiders who were negotiating in paris and he said it to nixon and nixon was able to use it to sabotage. they undermine the negotiations. they told that you government, that he would be much more supportive, much friendlier, that they shouldn't negotiate with that the north vietnam reason given to those terms. the final terms that the united states negotiated 5 years later and 1973 were very, very similar to what we could have gotten in 1968. but they would have bins, tens of thousands of ameri

well, we commissioned the harvard kennedy school to look at this just for massachusetts.he just do fair cost analysis and their study showed that cost ownership cost the state of massachusetts $64 billion, every year they spend $64 billion a year to subsidize the transportation system. that translates to $14,000 per household in massachusetts whether or not you own a car. all the noncar owners, people who do take transit in the city are paying $14,000 a year to the subsidize everybody else that the drives on our highways across the street, cost the state. so my understanding is that we are finally going to start looking at this at a national level for the first time in a century, section 11530 of iija require federal highway administration to undertake and complete a cost allocation study, the first time that such a study has been done since -- since, well, since turn of the century. it's supposed to be completed within four years, a full year before congress reauthorizes the service transportation programs. mr. bhott, can you provide me with an update of the highway allo

want to get into a great deal of detail on this, it was a team of former officers of mine at harvard, at the kennedy school when i was i was a fellow there at the belfer center for six years, nonresident. and they wanted to help distill and we did. so there's a website belfer center that org if you search for and strategic leadership with a lot more not only about these tasks but actually ideas on how perform them the sort of tactics techniques procedures but the big takeaway is you have got to get the big ideas right because? if you don't do that, i don't care how. great a communicator you are. how marvelous. splendid an example. it doesn't matter because you're building on a shaky intellectual foundation. we recount a number of cases in which the big ideas were serious flawed and then a number of others. the big ideas were actually quite powerful. let me just end by giving an example. one that was was seriously flawed. the french in indochina very frustrated they bring the communists battle. they were very elusive guerrilla fighters insurgents and so forth. so they decided you know what we'll do?

example, maia sandu, the future president of moldova in 2010 received a diploma from the kennedy school of government, harvardesting in that she also has romanian citizenship, she took the oath to two states, one as an ordinary citizen, the other as a member of the cabinet of ministers of moldova, but the prime minister of the country flies under different flags and there is nothing wrong with he doesn’t see this, such is his devotion to the people and the state. solomia zurabishvili, the president of georgia graduated from columbia university, and she gave up dual citizenship not so long ago, possessing a passport and... a country is strictly prohibited in many states, why should an official or politician be given the opportunity to do whatever he is told from the outside, realizing that in at any moment his trace will go cold, everyone must be responsible to the people, well, this is in an ideal world, in the current real one, for example, the president of ukraine has citizenship great britain, as well as his relatives, and almost everyone received the honor of studying in america. from the national defense

you know, next week we're going to see a really large sample from the harvard kennedy school.uld be another one of these polls that just shows, you know, some of the real concerns that the biden team has in terms of reconnecting with those younger voters who are a big part of the coalition. not only in 2020, but 2022. >> but that connection that the youth voters don't have with someone so much older than them, does that make them vote for trump? i think that's the issue, it's not that young voters are going to rush off and vote for a guy who killed 50 years of rights, and now these people are going to grow up with rights and health care that they used to have that they don't have now, so is the worry that they will stay home? >> some of the hand wringing when you talk to democrats and even people in biden's orbit is not necessarily so much that they will vote for trump, especially when they think there is that head to head contrast and trump is back in the news but it's that either they will simply not vote is number one. and if you talk to democrats doing presentations, the b

fight in wardenach, who caught the gestapo in american counterintelligence, harvard professor, adviser in the democratic kennedyty adviser and the most powerful secretary of state in the nixon and ford administrations. "winner of the nobel peace prize for the paris agreements of 1973 , the failed war in syria, which in the same year prevented the escalation of the yom kippur war into a clash between the ussr and the usa. one of the architects of détente and the strategic arms limitation system, which, before his eyes, died for a long time , played a prominent role in the rapprochement between the united states and communist china, which became one of the basic prerequisites for us victory in the cold. until his last days, one of the most respected influencers in the world from chile and argentina to cambodia, laos and pakistan. kissinger is about politics, about the essence of politics, such as it is, they say, kissinger was an enemy of russia, the soviet union, an enemy, a friend, such concepts did not exist in the world of kissinger, there were american interests, an understanding of the unattainability and m

harvard professor, adviser to the democratic kennedy administration, national security adviser and mostry of state, nixon and ford administrations, nobel peace prize winner for the 1973 paris agreements, a failed attempt to achieve peace in vietnam, the creator of the famous shuttle diplomacy between israel and egypt and syria, which in the same year prevented the yom kippur war from escalating into a clash between the ussr and the usa. one of the architects of the détente system of strategic arms limitation, which before his eyes... died, played an outstanding role in the rapprochement of the united states with communist china, which became one of the basic prerequisites for the us victory in the cold war, until the last days, one of the most authoritative influential in the political world consultants. left-wing liberals call kissinger a warmonger and slander him for supporting bloody dictators, from chile and argentina to cambodia, laos, and pakistan. - this is about politics, about the essence of politics , such as it is, they say kisinger was an enemy of russia, the soviet union, a

kennedy university at harvard university, interesting because she also has romanian citizenship, shetates, one as an ordinary citizen. to another, as a member of the cabinet of ministers of moldova, and the prime minister of the country flies under different flags, and sees nothing wrong with it, such is his devotion to the people and the state. salamia zurabishvili, the president of georgia, graduated from columbia university, and gave up dual citizenship not so long ago, having a passport of another country in in many states it is strictly prohibited , why should an official or politician be given the opportunity to create... everything that he is told from the outside, understanding that at any moment his trace will go cold, everyone must be responsible to the people, well, this is in an ideal world, in the current real one, for example , the president of ukraine has the citizenship of great britain, as well as his relatives, and almost all people’s deputies from all parliamentary factions of ukraine who were first elected to the rada, to the party over the year, were honored to u

harvard. we will have reaction with louisiana senator john kennedy tonight. but first another brazen live from your president. take a look. >> reporter: there is polling by the associated press that shows almost 70% of americans including 40% democrats believe that you acted either illegally are unethically in regards to your families business interest. can you explain to the americans that this impeachment inquiry had you interacted in so many of your sons and brothers business associates? >> i will not comment. i did not. that's a bunch of lies. >> reporter: you did not interact with business associates? >> i did not. they are lies. >> really? no interaction with hunter's business partners? joe biden is lying right to your face. according to records just released from the house ways and means committee, biden e-mailed with one of hunter's main business partners and associates, the so-called moneyman, eric sherman, a whopping 327 times including 54 e-mails just between joe and eric. joe was vice president at the time. most of those e-mails occurred when joe

campbell was an associate professor of public policy at the harvard john f. kennedy school of government and served at the u.s. navy reserve. once again, we thank you for your willingness to serve in your entire statement will be made part of the record, we ask you try to summarize a record in five minutes so we can have a dialogue with the members of the committee. >> that is great, thank you very much, chairman. i appreciate your comments and took careful note, i would submit my full statement for the record today, i do want to begin with a few thank you's if i might, during this process, some of this was new to me. i got a chance to spend quite a bit of time with the committees both the majority and minority committee, i want to thank damien murphy, not only were these important over me, i learned a lot, i found it incredibly valuable to hear perspectives. i do want to promise not only will i commit to work closely with you but i will work closely with the committee i know their role, and i appreciate the time they have taken with me over the course of the last co

harvard president to come view the footage from hamas. i want to know about the others, if you can't watch that footage, sorry. >> kennedy: you get kicked outard for misgendering someone, you get kicked out of the school and expelled if falsely accused of sexual assault with no due process. but you call for genocide and somehow the president of the united states acts as a human shield on your behalf? i hope wealthy donors look at this and withhold gifts. >> harris: and parents. >> kennedy: this is what was created. >> sean: they are called microaggression. are we going to joe biden? >> in the roosevelt room delivering remark urging congress to pass his supplemental. you heard kennedy talk about it earlier it includes funding to support ukraine, one issue on his plate. >> president biden: congress needs to pass supplemental funding for ukraine before they break for the holiday. simple as that. frankly, it is stunning we have gotten to this point in the first place. congress is willing to give putin the greatest gift he can hope for and abandon our global leadership, not just ukraine, beyond that. we have seen the brutality putin inflicted on

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