john weaver only has 2 children. [laughter] as long,t he has had probably a longer career in republican politics. he is now best known as the chief strategist for john kasich, the republican governor of ohio. but for many years he was associated and is still associated with john mccain, being a chief strategist for mccain when he ran for president in 2000 and again in 2008 he worked with him. he has also been involved with campaigns for campaign-finance reform and for how you treat prisoners under the geneva convention. he has worked on comprehensive immigration reform. interestingly, after the 9/11 attacks in new york city, john oversaw the new york city communications efforts, working with rudy giuliani back then. these are 2 republicans who could not disagree more at this on an issue that -- set a stagest for the future of the republican party, which is what to do and what to think about and how to regard now-president donald trump. off with whatt has happened in the last couple of days, the last few weeks. it has

joining him was conservative donald shall have been used political consultant john weaver with john kasich and john mccain's presidential campaign. the panelists took questions from brown university student. [inaudible conversations] >> welcome to brown. welcome to our conversation. i've been watching politics a long time. i don't think i've ever seen an election like this one. the college democrats and the college republicans both internally split. college republicans couldn't agree which candidate to support. sharp e-mails were exchanged and now both democrats and republicans trying to figure out what direction for the party. where do we go? to help us sort this out i'm delighted to welcome back our graduate -- i won't say what class did a reset casa brown university, david corn. david is the washington bureau chief for mother jones and if you read it, he's written in it here that's probably all that needs to be said. i'll plug your book. inside hubris, the story of spin, scandal and selling of the iraq war. familiar face among the watson institute in brown university. he will help us so

john weaver only has two children. [laughter] >> but he has had a longer career in republican politics. he's now best known as the chief strategists for john kasich, the republican governor of ohio. but for many years he was associated and is still associated with john mccain, being the chief strategists for mccain when he ran for president in 2000 and again in 2008 he worked for them. he also has been involved for campaigns for campaign-finance reform and how you treat prisoners under the geneva convention and worked on comprehensive immigration reform. interestingly after the 9/11 attacks in new york city john oversaw the new new york city's communication efforts working with rudy giuliani back then. these are two republican that is could not disagree more at this moment in time an issue that is maybe far most -- set a stage for the future of the republican party which is what to do, how to think about how to regard now-president donald trump. so i want to start off with what's happened in the last couple of days, th

. >> he was joined by conservative columnist mercedes schapp and john weaver. they took questions from students at brown university. this is about 90 minutes.

. >> weaver to tell you elton john forced to cancel his april and may shows in las vegas after picking up a bacteria infection. according to a statement from ceasar's palace, the singer pick up the rare bug during his south american tour. he wounds up in the icu for couple every days but reportedly now resting at home in the uk. and expected to make a full recovery. live performance also expected to resume in june. and he's set to return to vegas in the fall. >>> across the pond, chris, entered attendant european premiere of the guardians of the galaxy volume two in london last night, expectations high for the superhero sequel, the original movie was a surprise, smash, earning more than three quarters of a million dollars worlds wide. volume two hit theatres may fifth. >> plan to see it. >> not necessarily. >> i might just wait for it to come out on netflix. >> hopefully this weekend in plans to see a movie because i want to get out. >> yes, i'm so with you. yes, you know, we've got so many great events going on around the city. >> right? >> i think we will actually go check out the dr

john dickerson, good morning. >> good morning, jan. well, weaverbout this morning in the wake of the us military attack in syria. and we're going to talk to secretary of state, rex tillerson, not just about the attack, what led to it, but also, what is next before the us in syria and also, what the state of the us relationship with russia the close ally of the syrian president, rex tillerson, the secretary every state, is headed to moscow, next week. we also talk about china, chinese president meeting with the president this week, and obviously growing tensions in north korea. we will talk about that, also, some of the issues anyway with john mccain who would like to see president trump take more action in syria. his argument is there is more going on there than simply the syrian president's use of chemical weapons. we will also have foreign policy rounds table to put all of this in some kind of perspective with experts from foreign -- from previous administrations. and then as always, jan, we'll have our political panel to talk through the news ab

joining him was conservative donald shall have been used political consultant john weaver with john kasich and john mccain's presidential campaign. the panelists took questions from brown university student. [inaudible conversations] >> welcome to brown. welcome to our conversation.

conservative columnist for cities schlapp, who is a donald trump supporter, and political consultant john weaver, who advised john kasich and john mccain's presidential campaigns. "mother jones" magazine washington bureau chief david corn moderated.