go and directs the platform accountability project at the harvard kennedy school as computer scientist has served as a technology and economic policy advisor in the of barmah white house and the public policy advisor at facebook welcome to g.w. let's start with the basics trick talk a threat to u.s. national security. it's a difficult question but i think that it can very well can be and. the implication is very clear that you have you have an application here in this case owned in part by by china by a chinese entity which essentially collects a lot of information on users on a mass of users and many of those users are american. tens of millions dozens of millions of users are american and when you have one application that is collecting all that information on so many people are voting population you can you can certainly have an impact on our national security considerations because there's a thing. that's absolutely true you know i mean this is a social media company and many people asked this question you know this is this is kids dancing and singing along to their to their favori

goetia directs the platform accountability project at the harvard kennedy school and computer scientist he served as a technology and economic policy advisor in the obama white house and the public policy advisor at facebook a welcome to g.w. let's start with the basics trick talk a threat to u.s. national security. it's a difficult question but i think that it can be very well can be and. the implication is very clear that you have you have an application here in this case owned in part by by china by a chinese entity which essentially collects a lot of information on users on a mass of users and many of those users are american. tens of millions dozens of millions of users are american and when you have one application that is collecting all that information on so many people within our voting population you can you can certainly have an impact on on our national security considerations because there's a thing. that. you know i mean this is a social media company and many people asked this question you know this is this is kids dancing and singing along to their to their favorite song

jason furman is with us, a professor at the harvard kennedy school.chair of president obama's council of economic advisors. how much do you think a night like tonight moves the dial, if at all, or is it more entertainment value? jason: historically, it has moved the dial. a type of person that has not made up their mind yet, cannot decide if they like donald trump or joe biden is an interesting type of person. who knows what changes their mind, when they change it. it could be tonight. tonight, isome point am certain the president's record on the economy will come up. he has a way of spending it to make himself look good, the stock market and so on. what will joe biden say to that, what is his economic platform? is a: first of all, there negative case against trump, the mismanagement of covid. vonnie: what i mean by the question -- that is all i've been hearing. a few details like pell grants, but mainly it is going on the offensive against trump's economic performance. at some point, there has to be a biden plan. say, it iss about to more important t

. >> today, the harvard kennedy school institute of politics hosts a virtual discussion with politicalorters on the campaign 2020 presidential campaign. live coverage begins at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> the contenders, about the men who ran for the presidency and lost, but changed political history. tonight, minnesota senator and vice president hubert humphrey. the contenders, this week at 8:00 p.m. eastern, on c-span. biden spoke in wilmington, delaware wednesday on reopening schools amid the coronavirus pandemic. he called the issue of students being able to go back to school safely a national emergency, and called on president trump to provide emergency funding.

we welcome jason furman, professor of the practice of economic policy at harvard's kennedy school. he served as the chairman of president obama's council of economic advisors. on the economic projections, what we expect? in some ways things to be seen -- things seem to be getting better. on the other hand, we are still worried about the coronavirus. : things are better today than where i expected they would be three months ago. inxpect that to be reflected the forecast we see for fomc members. we particularly want to look for what types of output gaps they are implicitly seeing for next year, what types of unemployment rates, and almost all of them will be consistent with interest rates staying. david: we are not expecting interest rates to go up. could we have guidance on things like tying interest rates to the level of inflation or tying in some external factor? jason: the federal reserve just set a long run goal. sometimes long-run goals are not that necessary for the next year. they would have done the same thing over the next year with or without the revised goals. the real is

megan greene joins us from the harvard kennedy school.to go to the great thrust i see right now, which is the inflation dynamic and when a central bank acts. inflation is rising. do you get out in front and act, do you get in front along the path of rising inflation, or do you wait for the end? which is the for doing right now? megan: it is the third of the three. that is embedded in the fed new monetary policy strategy. the debate is whether we get inflation or not, and that only matters because if we get yourtion than the idea central bank has to hike into it , and the fed has said no we do not. they have undershot for so long they will have to allow inflation to overshoot 2% were average out at 2%. i think not you just see the white of inflation eyes or to see the back end. in the not want to know face of inflation or what to do in deflation. stanford, think about the conservative x philadelphia fed, the rochester school, the -- what is your definition of overshoot? you have a definition of overshoot? megan: i think the fed would toler

goetia directs the platform accountability project at the harvard kennedy school as a computer scientist he served as a technology and economic policy advisor in the of barmah white house and a public policy advisor at facebook welcome to t w let's start with the basics trick talk a threat to u.s. national security. it's a difficult question but i think that it can be very well can be and. the implication is very clear that you have you have an application here in this case owned in part by by china. by a chinese entity which essentially collects a lot of information on users on a mass of users and many of those users are american and tens of millions dozens of millions of users are american and when you have one application that is collecting all that information on so many people are voting population. you can certainly have an impact on our national security considerations because there's a thing. that . actually you know i mean this is a social media company and many people asked this question you know this is this is kids dancing and singing along to their to their favorite songs an

kennedy school of government at harvard university. miles is a senior practice fellow in american democracy at harvard kennedy school center for democratic governance and innovations. as a longtime organizer, policy advocate an elected official. prior to his appointments to the center, he was most recently president of the independent grassroots organization, because . ... ... >>. >> and now i'm honored to turn things over to our speakers the digital podium is yours. >> thank you. also thank you to the harvard bookstore for making this possible tonight. thanks to all of you who are joining us tonight will be a very good discussion especially to alex writing this remarkable book i have been a friend and fan of the professors book for years we both been involved in the democracy reform the right to vote has been the anchor if i can use that term in the field of the understanding of the nation's troubled and fried history of the right to vote. why do we still have the electoral college? as the anchor explanation with the possibilities of c

connecticut is department go she called director of digital platforms and democracy projects at the harvard kennedy school thank you all for joining us let's start with you may just explain says why is the u.s. proposing a ban on take talk we shot what exactly is the national security rationale for this ban. thank you it's obviously it's fairly. it has to do with china having the ability to collect personal data from users of the airport which you know or includes millions of americans. they're claiming that is a national security threat but if it is a national security affairs threat then that sure that the us is justified in such a ban if this app can go through your contacts find out how you type in real time access all this information surely the government is right to take some action not really in for a couple of reasons one there are many apps that can collect that same sort of data now many of them are u.s. based many of them are not that that sort of data gets collected now and that's not good thing that that gets collected but we really need this comprehensive privacy laws in the united states t

. ♪ >> today, the harvard kennedy school's institute of politics hosts a virginal -- a virtual discussionn the campaign 2020 campaign. live coverage begins at 6:00 p.m. on c-span. ♪ >> our campaign 2020 coverage continues with candidates campaigning and debating. c-span, your unfiltered view of politics. today, president trump holds a campaign rally in latrobe, pennsylvania. watch live at 7:00 p.m. on c-span. three live with the c-span radio app. >> the contenders, about the men who ran for the presidency and lost but changed political history. tonight, minnesota senator and vice president hubert humphrey. the contenders, this week at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. afl-cio president richard trumka spoke to reporters about the economy, the labor movement and the presidential campaign. this event was hosted by the christian science monitor. >> all right. hello, everybody. i am the washington bureau chief of the christian science monitor. our guest is richard trumka, president of the afl-cio, which is the nation's largest federation of labor unions. this is his 12th appearance at the

getting to megan green, senior fellow joining us from the harvard kennedy school nice to have you on board. we'll talk about the momentum from the job lost series showing that the market is struggling to get jobs back in the economy >> it is worth keeping in mind that jobless claims have been higher the last six months than they ever were during the last crisis it was hard to oversee we've brought a lot of people back to work that would suggest that the fiscal performers would lose their jobs small companies got loans to keep people on way roll and that expired in august. we wait for the new package. there doesn't seem to be much there and i think the labor market would deteriorate from there. >> now there are big questions whether there will be any stimulus what do you think would likely play out in the economy that will play off in the stimulus soon at some point, if the data gets strong enough, at that point, it will get too late. the hope is that congress will get it together before then. on a day-to-day basis, the rumor will totally change. what i haven't understood is that the

of global engagement at the american university of beirut and nonresident senior fellow at harvard kennedy school he says many questions remain unanswered. it's assumed that the body was dismembered by the team that came from saudi arabia with a bone saw and other equipment to get rid of the body so that it can never be found that's an assumption that hasn't been proven that's one reason people want a more. credible public trial based on international standards of criminal law. and the issue of who actually ordered it that's still a big question the cia and agnes come out on the other say that well there's a direct link to the crown prince's office and maybe to the crown prince m had been some and that's an accusation is is not proven guilty but it's a serious accusation when it comes from people like the un special investigator who carried out a very thorough investigation and the cia you have to think that there may be some evidence that makes not credible so there's a lot of questions that need to be answered and the issue of course is not just why was one person killed like this there are oth

. >> today, the harvard kennedy school institute of politics hosts a virtual discussion with political reporters on the campaign 2020 presidential campaign. live coverage begins at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> the contenders, about the men who ran for the presidency and lost, but changed political history. tonight, minnesota senator and vice president hubert humphrey. the contenders, this week at 8:00 p.m. eastern, on c-span. biden spoke in wilmington, delaware wednesday on reopening schools amid the coronavirus pandemic. he called the issue of students being able to go back to school safely a national emergency, and called on president trump to provide emergency funding. mr. biden: good afternoon, folks. welcome to the queen theater. i'm here today to talk about a crisis. a crisis being felt across the united states of america. and jill and i have just been briefed, as you know, in this room by our public health and education experts about what it is going to take to be able to reopen schools safely and effectively. back-to-school has always been a special time. it is in your famil

kennedy school of government at harvard university. miles rappaport is senior fellow in american democracy at harvard kennedy school's ash center for democratic governance and innovation and is a longtime organizer, policy advocate and elected official. prior to his appointment to the hash center he was most recently resident of the independent grassroots organization common cause. for 13 years, he had the public policy center fema and served as connecticut's secretary of state. tonight they will be discussing alex's new book why do we still have the electoral college in which he explains the persistence of this arcane institution chases the american president . examines the history of the electoral college, the failed attempts to reform or abolish it and why efforts for reform i received so little attention from ponderous for the last 40 years. lawrence lessig praises this as a brilliantcontribution to a critical debate , just in time to help guide effective reform now i'm honored to turn things over to our speakers. the digital podium

. >> thursday, the harvard kennedy school's institute of politics hosted a virtual discussion with political reporters on the 202 presidential campaign0. live coverage begins at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. host: jim tankersly covers tax issues for the new york times and is the author of a new book titled "the riches of this land: the untold true story of america's middle-class." guest: thank you for having me. host: how do you define the middle class? guest: there are so many ways you can define the middle class and some new ways people have over time. sete it as an aspirational of economic security items that americans want to have to make their lives feel safe and secure , and to pass a better life onto their children. i defined middle-class as someone who is able to buy their own home, their own car, send their kids to school come a safer retirement --, save for retirement. stablel people feel more through tough economic times. -- if you can build enough wealth up to buy those things, i think in america we would call you middle-class. are strivingle who for that security are aspirational

. >> the co-director of the digital platforms and democracy project at the harvard kennedy school speakingith me earlier. >>> residents along the u.s. gulf coast have already been battled by hurricanes laura and now tropical storm beta. tyler morgan joins us, for more on that and the fire threats out west, let's start with the storms, texas, louisiana, should they be prepping for floods? >> they definitely should. i mean, this is an area that would flood with just your typical afternoon thunderstorm during the summertime. so you take a slow-moving tropical storm, michael, and yes, that absolutely spells the recipe for some flooding across southeast texas and louisiana too. beta is moving to the north at a snail's pace, 2 miles per hour packing winds of 60 miles per hour. that slow movement means if you live in this tropical storm warning. that's basically the entire coast of texas going into the louisiana coast, including lake charles, who you were just impacted by hurricane laura. you need to take this seriously. i know the cone, the track says it's going to push up the coastline as just

. >> today, the harvard kennedy school hosted a virtual discussion political reporters on the campaign 2020 presidential campaign. live coverage begins at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. trump held asident campaign rally in pennsylvania. c-span, c-span.org or listen with the free c-span radio app. >> tuesday, president trump decimated wilmington, north carolina as the first u.s. world war ii heritage city. the announcement came during remarks to commemorate the 75th and diverse array of the war's end in front of the battleship north carolina. this is 15 minutes. -- ♪ president trump:: thank you very much. and that was some greeting we had in north carolina. i'll tell you, i don't know if you saw the crowd outside, it's pretty amazing. but we had it in texas and ohio, south carolina and florida it's just incredible what's happening please sit down. please. and i'm honored to be in

now a professor at the harvard kennedy school. it's great to have you, ambassador.always thought this story was so nuts, right? it's sort of hanging out there. you can't sell this property. in comes a russian oligarch, who not just buys it, takes it off your hands for asking, for no reason pays you $50 million above what you're trying to get for it, right? i guess the first question to ask is is the idea that something like that doesn't happen in putin's russia without some type of putin go-ahead, is that a reasonable assumption? >> well, i think the assumption here is that whether it was putin directly or his support for oligarchs who can launder their money through real estate. you know, when you are in a country that is very corrupt, almost a kind of kleptocracy where the leader really wants personal gain, status and power at the expense of the governed. sort of sounds a little familiar to some of what seems to be going on with donald trump. then, indeed, what you try to do is get your money out of the country because you really can't use it in all the ways you w

today, the harvard kennedy school of politics hosts a virtual discussion with reporters on the campaign 2020 campaign. live coverage begins at 6 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> our campaign 2020 coverage continues with candidates campaigning and debating. c-span, your unfiltered view of politics. >> today, president trump holds campaign rally in latrobe pennsylvania. listen with the free c-span radio app. >> the contenders, about the men who ran for the presidency and lost but changed political history. tonight hubert humphrey. the contenders this week at 8 p.m. eastern. and here on washington journal we are joined by our colleague with the announcement will host the second presidential debate. note, a lot of people have congratulated you. congratulations, way to go. we are looking forward to seeing you. mention just going to the first interview i did at c-span was with susan page so i did come full-circle. >> you are hosting a town space in miami what does that look like covid-19? >> we are going to go through this and learn the process but in talking to the commission, firs

harvard. we wish you all the very best and hope you'll be engaged in politics, attending forums and working fellows and the range of programs that we have. we welcome you to campus to kennedy school as well. we look forward to your activities with tpolitics. we're fortunate to have four national reporters who know harvard well, who know the institute of politics well, two graduates of the college, a bey phillips from cnn and alex burns from the new york times. and two resident fellows, margaret of axios and a chief correspondent from "the washington post" to continues as our senior fellow. so we're very fortunate with the expert moderation, to have the three journal irses discuss election 2020. it's been an eventful few weeks with the democratic and republican conventions and the presidential debate, vice-president debate in key states and a chance to gain their inside perspective and their insights into this critical election. as i said, this really starts off our election 2020, this will be a big part of our framework for this semester. next week two important forums one with andrew yang the former presidential candidate offering his perspective on the race and some of the poli

. >> today, the harvard kennedy school's institute of politics host a discussion with political reportersn the 2020 presidential campaign. live coverage begins at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. ♪ contenders," about the man who ran for the presidency and lost, but changed political history. tonight, minnesota senator and vice president of the united states hubert humphrey's. this week atrs" 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. former federal reserve chairs ben bernanke and janet yellen took part in a discussion on monetary policy and the federal response to the pandemic. the event is hosted by the brookings institution and was held by videoconference. welcome everyone to this event. my name is stephanie aaronson. i am the vice president and director of the economic studies program here at brookings. thank you for joining us for today's event organized by our -- center on fiscal and monetary policy on how the fed will respond to the covid-19 recession in an era

global engagement at the american university of beirut and the nonresidents a senior fellow at harvard kennedy school he's joining us from cambridge over in massachusetts thanks very much for your time and i mean who is so this closes the case privately and publicly that's according to a statement by the public prosecutor but certainly the friends and family of jamal and perhaps even the international community wouldn't agree. that's right i think there's a lot of concern and the international community which has been very clearly expressed by the u.n. special. investigator for extra judicial killings agnes. and other bodies the cia said last year that they think that there's a direct link to the office of the crown prince and so to arabia for this killing that it was meditated already organized so there are serious concerns people in the u.s. senate people all over europe all over the world have asked questions to get the real answers and the lead asone judicial system in its current form like many all across the region in the 3rd world doesn't really give enough protection to the accused or informa

. >> i think what has happened is ome years ago i was at harvard kennedy school and my section was like with students was entitled how can we restore coment which is one of my favorite words. comety. y, coment -- back in washington. and i think really what has happened in the last tep years or so the american people for a number of reasons have lost a great deal of confidence in many institutions, whether banks, whether -- i'm a catholic, the catholic church. go on and on before there was a lot of comety. and then i think the biggest thing as far as i know k-12 has not focused on civics and the history of this country and what led us to be what we are today in k-12. talk to kids they don't know the history of -- and they don't know what their responsibilities are as citizens. so there's a lot of thing that is have come to a head. now, what you're seeing in the streets and in politicians of today it's tough and i don't expect if it's just the two men that we're now taub ugh about former vice president biden and president trump on the stage. remember if there's nothing to say there won't

political reporters on campaign strategies of the presidential election this is hosted by the harvard kennedy school. >> we warmly welcome you to kick off our forums coverage of election 2020. this evening we have four outstanding national political reporters joining us. we look forward to your questions. in a special way, we welcome the college class of 2024 as you begin your journey here at harvard. we wish you the best. we hope you will be attending forums, working with our fellows and the range of programs we have. we welcome you to campus. we look forward to your engagement with the institute of politics. tonight we are fortunate to have four national reporters who know the institute of politics well. two graduates of the college. .wo former resident fellows the chief correspondent of the washington post, who continues as our senior fellow. we are expert to have the three journalists discussed election 2020. it has been an eventful few weeks after the republican and democratic conventions. as we look to the future of the debates, the key states, so a real chance for us to gain their inside pers

the institute of politics at harvard's kennedy school hosted this event. >> this evening, we have fourutstanding national political reporters who are joining us. we're delighted to have you here and we look forward to your questions. in a special way we recommend the college class of 2024 as you begin your journey here at harvard. we wish you all the very best and hope you'll be engaged in politics, attending forums and working fellows and the range of programs that we have. we welcome you to campus to kennedy school as well. we look forward t

. >> thursday, the harvard kennedy school's institute of politics hosted a virtual discussion with politicalorters on the 202 presidential campaign0. live coverage begins at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. host: jim tankersly covers tax issues for the new york times and is the author of a new book titl

what i think has happened is -- some years ago, i was at harvard at the kennedy school, with my students was entitled "how can we restore comity?" with a t. frank: i think what's happened in the last 10 years or so is the american people, for a number of reasons have lost a great deal of confidence in many institutions, whether it is banks, the catholic church. you go on and on where people for there was a lot of comity. --s is a pet peeve of mine as far as i know, k-12 has not focused on civics and the history of this country and what todays to where we are in k-12. kids do not know the history, or civics, their responsibility as citizens. there are a lot of things that have come to a head. what we are seeing in the streets and with the politicians of today, it is tough. i don't expect -- it is just the two men we are now talking about, vice president biden and president trump on the stage. remember, there is nothing to say there won't be somebody else. talked about the qualifications. there are other qualifications. constitutional requirements, you have to be 35 years of age. number tw

frank: what i think has happened, some years ago i was at harvard, at the kennedy school, and my section with my students was entitled, how can comity?re that is one of my famous words, with a t, not comedy. i think really what has happened in the last 10 years or so, the american people, for a number of reasons, have lost a great deal of confidence in many institutions, whether it is banks, the catholic church, and with things for people before there was a lot of comity. as far as i know, k-12 has not focused on civics in the history of the country and what let us to be where we are today in the k-12. you talk to these kids, they do not know the history. and they do not know civics, what their responsibilities are as citizen spirits so there are a lot of things that come -- a lot of things that have come to a head. onare seeing what is going with politicians today, and it is tough. what i do not expect -- if it is just the two men we are talking about, former vice president biden and president trump on the stage -- remember, there is nothing to say that there will not be somebody else.

this evening, when we will cover a discussion at the harvard kennedy school. follow that with president trump in pennsylvania with a campaign rally there in latrobe. that is at 7:00 p.m. eastern. both of those events will be live on c-span and on the c-span radio app. joe biden will be in kenosha, wisconsin today. we do not have specific coverage plans on that, but we will keep you posted with anything available from him visiting kenosha. this is pam on our donald trump support line. go ahead. caller: i did support donald trump. i think he has done more in the last four years than the democrats did in eight. i like that he has a tough stance. my father was in the u.s. air "ice, and i grew up with pledge allegiance to the flag" when i was in school, and i still believe in that. i think people should be more patriotic like we used to be. it seems like the younger generation now just was not taught -- they took the bible and prayer out of the schools, and they have tried to take god out of everything. and i think what has happened -- that has happened to a lot of

jason furman in the 1:00 hour at the kennedy school, teaching economics at harvard. futures flat.he terminal is boring. the dollar is weaker. this is bloomberg. ♪ ritika: this is "bloomberg surveillance." i'm ritika gupta. whether tosidering buy into a ride-hailing joint venture between bmv daimler. bloomberg's learned there have been early-stage talks. the challenging market could make it ethical to agree on a price. lvmh countersued tiffany weeks after pulling out of its purchase of the jeweler. the luxury goods maker said the decision was driven by the french government's request to delay the deal making. a trial is set in delaware to determine whether lvmh must go through with the deal. francine: thank you. there is not much going on in the markets. a couple market participants are focusing on the potential stimulus that could be coming from the u.s. it could be underwhelming in terms of the amounts. at the same time, they are looking at the number of increases in cases around the world. also looking at overall european stocks. they are pretty range bound, but they are droppin

harvard law school. a deputy editor of the school of law. a clerk on the sixth circuit for judge cornelia kennedy. after all of that, she went to one of washington's most prestigious law firms. after nine years of diligent litigation and work, she earned her way into being a partner. but during all this time, dedicated her time to pro bono work, to advocating for those seeking justice. she could have had a much more lucrative career than the last four years here in the senate. and her trajectory was not a typical one for a chief counsel on a judiciary committee. she was willing to make the sacrifice, and i was grateful for the chance to serve with her. her dedication to upholding and defending democratic principles is unwavering, and every day she has put the interests of the american people and delawareans first. no one has worked harder in her four years on my team than her. her commitment to our shared values has helped guide me and my team through some of the most difficult and challenging moments of these years. she has capably led my entire legal team and helped us and a navigate through som

harvard law school. a deputy editor of the school of law. a clerk on the sixth circuit for judge cornelia kennedy.after all of that, she went to one of washington's most prestigious law firms. after nine years of diligent litigation and work, she earned her way into being a partner. but during all this time, dedicated her time to pro bono work, to advocating for those seeking justice. she could have had a much more lucrative career than the last four years here in the senate. and her trajectory was not a typical one for a chief counsel on a judiciary committee. she was willing to make the sacrifice, and i was grateful for the chance to serve with her. her dedication to upholding and defending democratic principles is unwavering, and every day she has put the interests of the american people and delawareans first. no one has worked harder in her four years on my team than her. her commitment to our shared values has helped guide me and my team through some of the most difficult and challenging moments of these years. she has capably led my entire legal team and helped us and a navigate through some

the institute of politics at harvard's kennedy school hosted this event. we have four outstanding political reporters joining us.