levi went to tennessee state, vanderbilt, and then johns hopkins. stayed on faculty but challenged johns hopkins that it clearly needed to be more diverse. so he wrote all the african-american medical applicants in the country and encouraged them to apply to johns hopkins and he provided a platform for people like me to have an interest in going there. david: after you graduated, what did you do? >> i made the transition to realize i wanted to be a surgeon. i looked around the country. david: ultimately went back to alabama. >> that was a hard decision. i offered to stay on faculty at hopkins. i had been there in baltimore for 16 years. i briefly accepted a job to stay but then changed my mind to go to alabama, in part because i felt i wanted to go back home and a new environment. david: is a great surgeon, sometimes you might say i don't need to go into a ministry parts of hospitals, i just want to be a doctor and do surgery. what prompted you to want to get out of just doing surgery to be an administrator and hospital leader? >> i think it was wat

they called back to johns hopkins to see if i actually trained. i said, do what you need to do to be comfortable with this situation. david: what does it take to be a great surgeon? dr. vickers: this may sound trite -- perseverance, resilience. in practical terms, being able to take a blow and not having it become a deformity. and grit. ♪ david: so when you joined memorial sloan-kettering, what you wanted to do is expand the coverage and make sure more people were able to get their services. what progress have you made so far in that? dr. vickers: i wanted memorial sloan-kettering to be a cancer center of the world, both culturally, ethnically and geographically. and there have been some great efforts that occurred, some of them before i got here. one of them was to get our state to really drive managed medicaid, managed care in new york, to actually negotiate with memorial sloan-kettering so patients with medicaid broadly could access us. we have had that law enacted and patients now broadly are able to come to us. our medicaid service of patient

about seven years ago i joined johns hopkins. i hidden my mph residence either. a professor of practice there and directing the center. each year i take between four to six weeks to respond in emergency and keep up my skills, my practice and hopefully make a difference. i think that make me better professor and teacher. i just spent the last four weeks working with various human agencies in supporting the gaza crisis based in oman, jordan, and cairo. i returned about five days ago. host: before we talk about the situation, give us an idea of what the health care situation was in gaz before the israeli-ground invasio -- and israeli ground invasion. guest: very similar to what we see in many middle-income countries. they receive -- often the health care is free of charge. they have access to primary health care, hospitalizations. they have good public health services. luckily, there vaccination rates in gaza was very high, which is important for this crisis. there are still a lot of problems. the lifestyle issues. many high rates of noncommunicable diseases like di

so laura bloomfield from johns hopkins university. thank you. i think that i think nations has begun. i'm investigation into its agency for palestinian refugees. none of those under the organizations facing intense scrutiny since a israel la q summer had staff of being involved in the october 7th. how most attacks, several countries, including a survey, jeremy, and the us have halted financial contributions. the agency says it will have to suspend operations in casa, unless that funding is restored. a cell phone ross, a condo, so one of gods as last lifelines the many here. these blue and white bags of flour, a little bit stand between them and install of ation. but with more and more of the agencies don't, is cutting off that funding. people here in the southern city of rafa. yeah. the west. that's what i looked with. oh, me in this doping, moonrise 8 distribution is a catastrophe in the gaza strip. you know, like is it was a handout on main supports and if they still, there will be assignments like the one of the no colors going to be much as

so a lot of bloomfield from johns hopkins university. thank you and we'll stay in the middle east for our next door. a syrian state media reporting that's and these right of us try come at damascus sub has killed several people including rainy and advise us. so i think the ministry, so the state news agency says the sol targeted several areas just south of the capital. and that's a number of civilians were killed. israel hasn't commented on the attack. ranking members of events revolutionary god were killed and another lives, des riley, striking damascus only of this month. so your opinion says it will wait for the results of the united nations investigation before deciding whether to suspend contributions to the un agency for palestinian refugees. data organization, known as underwater, is facing intense scrutiny since israel a key to some of its staff of involvement in the october 7th. how must tara attacks several countries including easily germany. i'm us have already suspended funding fund ross, a condo. so one of gauze is last life

associate professor of science at john hopkins. we are mapping violent hostility, and looking at democracy. >> think is so much for having me. this is the focus of the research. we are facing global democracy. we are looking at the work. >> we have increased quality. this is looking at all of the voices. we are looking at the partisanship. we are looking at the political violence in the u.s. we have entire levels of political violence and intense threats. >> is the washington post. violent, political threats. this was part of the american democracy. what do you think is behind that surge? what is causing that? >> this is the increase over the last many years. in general, we have larger numbers of threat levels to elected officials. they were trying to stay in office. we are stopping them from doing their job throughout the day. they have also intended to intimidate people from wanting to do their job. the threat can be an effective way to silence who might otherwise stand up to it. >> tell me the nature of political threats and vio

now it has reached the john hopkins hospital.tter sent out by the facility chief diversity off officer. she revealed that the diversity word of the month is, privilege. and she says in the united states privilege is granted to the people who have membership of one or more of the social identity groups. which groups? why people, if a buddy group, heterosexuals, s cisgender, middle-age people, english-speaking people, she emphasizes that privilege is a characteristically invisible to people who have it and people and dominant groups. they have earned the privilege is that they enjoy, and that everyone can have access to these privileges if the work ton them. now, they are backtracking apologizing saying that there was a definition shove the word privilege which after reflecting i regret. it was simplistic and poorly worded and had the opposite effect of the exclusionary and hurtful for people within our community. i retract my statement and i am sorry. so what are your thoughts? >> i hit every single one of those points, this makes

johns hopkins coming under fire.s chief diversity er officer. in the us privileges granted to people have membership in one or more of the social identity groups as she listed the groups including peopledd who are whit able-bodied heterosexuals cyst gendered meals, christians, w middle-aged and speak english. as you can imagine outrage in suited as she's calls it overly simplisticve and poorly worded there's a group why this groupa do no harm exist they try to keep politics out of the exam room. you can call them up and say this is happening in my yo hospital they will file a lawsuit for you. why would that still be necessary? you can imagine how much time she spent e writing this email. >> afterou listing all of those they claim by definition such privileges invisible to you so if you believe your achievements came through hard wrong.d talent it's you can't see it but i can as a depression overlord so if you are privileges invisible to you so is your defense against accusations of having it what does that sound like

edward joseph with the johns hopkins school of advanced international studies. so much for breaking this down for us. ♪ john: state flags have become part of the national reckoning of cultural seitivity and the historical treatment of native americans by white settlers. ali rogin is back to tell us how minnesota is poised to get a new flag in may, redesigned to get rid of what one critic called "a cluttered genocidal mess." ali: atop minnesota's flag, which has flown over the state for six decades, the phrase "l'etoile du nord" - the north star. but critics say this flag needs a new direction. >> it just was kind of a cluttered mess and you couldn't really tell what was going on on it. ali: in 2021, state representative mike frieberg introduced the bill to replace the flag, which depicts a native american man riding away on a horse, as a settler plows the land. >> the problems with the imagery on the seal are etty incontrovertibly racially motivated merit cash motivated. >> for me as a dakota wia, or dakota woman, i felt the old flag was offensive. ali: shelley

johns hopkins hospital coming under fire for good reason. the group's chief diversity officer, and it says this. "in the u.s., privileges granted to people have membership in one or more of the social identity groups." she then listed the group that includes people who are white, able-bodied, heterosexual, cisgender male, christians, middle or owning class, middle-aged, and speak english. as you can imagine, how trajan sued and now she's apologizing calling it overly simplistic and poorly worded. greg, there's a reason why this group do no harm exists. they're trying to keep politics out of the exam room. where nobody wants it. you can call them up and say this is happening in the hospital, the file a lawsuit for you. why would it even still be necessary? you can imagine how much time she spent writing this email. >> greg: the worst part about it is, after listing all those guilty of privilege, they claim that, by definition, such privilege is invisible to you. if you believe your achievements came through hard work and talent, it is wrong.

so a lot of bloomfield from johns hopkins university. thank you. of united nations has begun investigations into its agency for palestinian refugees known as underwater organizations facing intense scrutiny. since these are hell accused, some of his staff of being involved in the october 7th. i'm a tenant attacks several countries including it leads you, i'm the rest of halted financial contributions. the agency says it will have to suspend the operations in gaza unless the funding is restored. the telephone was a condo, so one of gulls as last lifelines so many here. these blue and white bags of flour, a roll that stand between them and install evasion. but with more and more of the agencies don't, is cutting off that funding. people here in the southern city of rafa, the other west. that's what i looked with. oh, me in the stopping moonrise. 8 distribution is a catastrophe in the gaza strip. of like is it was a handout uh main supports and if they sold me on that will be a famine like the one the know that color is going to be much as i'm a part

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one of the pioneers of so called newest attics is through the next salmon from johns hopkins university school of medicine in the united states. her research focuses on how are impacts our brain. and she has a scientific explanation for all of the hype around numbers of art. i feel like immersive art so much because they make us feel good. it brings to the forefront all of the sensory systems that we have been wired for and often don't use in our daily lives. so it's ideal being at once in touch to smell, to feel, to see, to use the vibration of sound and music to really and live in the air bodies and our brains sensory experiences to deep synopsis, which connect different areas of the brain and storm and new new ronald structure to be small changes influence how we feel, think and behave for learning more and more that are well being our flourishing. our physical health and our role is highly influenced by the fact that we are wired for the parts and for a long time. i think we have set that aside and thought that the arts were nice to have a luxury, something that you do when you have

i was a student across the street at johns hopkins. brookings, to all of us who were students, was the place to go to get smarter on economics, on domestic and foreign economic policy. it has always been, and my good friend headed the institution for a decade, one of our finest and most objective and scholarly think tanks in washington so i'm glad to be here. glad to be with brian and patricia. we will have a conversation and i'm not going to bore you with a long speech, but they have asked me to give introductory comments. i wanted to do that to set the stage of where i think we are on u.s.-china relations. i have come back four days ago from beijing. it has been a very active period in our relationship with the chinese. i was with the president a month ago this week in california just north of the stanford campus for his meeting with president xi jinping. a few thoughts for me on where we stand. i look at this and think most people do, the u.s.-china relationship is the most consequential relationship the united states has now. parti

well, at hospitals, johns hopkins hospital coming under fire. good reason. there was a newsletter that got sent out by the group's chief diversity officer, and it says that this in the us privileges granted to people have membership in one or more of these social identity groups. she then listed a groupsideo that include people who are white, able bodiedloh alive heterosexual males, christians, middle or owning classs chief ,e aged and speaking english as you can g . stians, outrage ensued, and now she's apologizing, calling d speaverly simplistic and poorly worded. >> greg, there's a reason why no harm exist. and basically they try to keep politics out of the exam. nobody wants it. you can call them up and say, hey, this has in my hospital, they'll file a lawsuit for you and it's things think like,o why would it even still be necessary? but this is yeahul written. you can imagine how much time she spent writing this email. the worst part. about is after listing all of those guilty of privilege, they claim by definition, such privilege is invisible to you so

so booming, failed as a middle east on the list at st. johns hopkins school for advanced international studies. and she told me that y'all was rejection of the ballast indian state should not come as a surprise to anyone. well, it's fascinating. in fact, as the national security council spokesman said yesterday, this is not in fact anything new i'm 10 years ago when i was working on secretary terry's is really tough and integration team, promising us in yahoo is the leader of the as well. and he said the same thing to us, he said that israel must be in charge of all security west of the jordan river. and i remember, you know, sitting in our hotel room from jerusalem, kind of sinking into our chairs and the glue of that reality. because we understood that that would really be impossible. so for the past indians, that's when, when the talks really faltered me, now the us has no steady round top pressure on israel over its conduct of the war. and it keeps getting brushed off. how much influence does washington still have always, rarely policy? so i think what's more important is what they

you can count on the facts we will be looking into johns hopkins also in question and this woman as tong from with these ideas. i don't think this was an accident. i don't think it was poorly worded i think it was on purpose and it's what is happening with dti across the country. we are going to be looking at these offices. i think the public needs to know how it's money is being spent. hard-working taxpayers are supporting these institutions and they do not like how their money is being spent. >> fascinating. congressman virginia fox republican in north carolina thank you for. >> thank you john. >> will have much more news on the fox report just ahead. keep it here. hm? you! your business bank account with quickbooks money, now earns 5% apy. 5% apy? that's new! yup, that's how you business differently. every day, more dog people, and more vets are deciding it's time for a fresh approach to pet food. they're quitting the kibble. and kicking the cans. and feeding their dogs dog food that's actually well, food. developed with vets. made from real meat and veggies. portioned for your dog.

and at johns hopkins university, researchers are trying to understand how psilocybin, the psychedelicn magic mushrooms, changes the brain when paired with psychotherapy. clinical trials showing the combination is effective in relieving depression symptoms for up to a year. we're finding early evidence that psychedelics may increase a person's capacity for cognitive flexibility. cognitive flexibility is is your ability to think differently about yourself or your place in the world. yet researchers caution, they're still much more to learn. i think there's an awful lot to be hopeful for here, but we're still very early in the process and we haven't gathered all the data that we need to know so that this is truly safe and helpful for people. you can do it. for nigel mccoury, it's been more than helpful. while not a day goes by that he doesn't think about iraq, i was able to really have compassion for who i was when i was in that experience, and forgive myself. it saved my life. really think it did. for matter of fact, i'm jessica gomez, ahead on matter of fact, why a decades old voting m

we are joined by lily mason, associate professorscience at johns hopkins. she is also the co-author of a book called radical american partisanship hostility, its causes and consequences for democracy. welcome to the program. guest: thank you for having me. hotell us about the institute and the focus of your research there. guest: is broadly to sistrengthen global democracy. the way we are trying to do that is through research, public facing work, explaining things to the public and to public officials and of course having increased quality of dialogue across differences and trying to more pluralistic democracy that includes all of the voices that are part of our society. i particularly study partisanship polarization in the u.s. and attitudes about political violence in the u.s. and american sort of accepther levels of political violence and threats. host: let's talk about that. here is awashington post that says violent political threats surge as 2020 four begins, haunting american democracy. what do guest: this is the surge in the new year. it didn't just

seen what is going on what we once thought was my alma mater university should harvard, mit, now johns hopkinssomething that if you did you would be thrown out on yourt se. but if there installed puppet leaders you can plagiarize. you can sort of support hamas and the mass murder and rape of young women and girls in the streets of israel for that is fine. policies when it's one of our puppets. so what's going on in america the democrats love to go around and say hey they are fascist. they are fascists i don't know i don't see any republicans out political opposition. the think they want to put my father and a thousand years he n you see that you saw that in the town hall last night a lot of energy a thousand years is a long time. for what a fake just so we understand the first un- armed insurrection in the history of the world. we are innovative i p you. the most heavily armed population in the world if it was a real insurrection isn't showing up that way? it's thehe feds or other people working in there were actually armed but the apparent insurrectionist were not. we are led to believe this

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we are joined by liliana mason from johns hopkins and the co-author of the book called " radical american partition ship." welcome to the program. guest: thank you so much for having me. host: let's start with the institute. tell us about what the focus of your research is. guest: the missionsns gore to strengthen global democracy by research group public facing work and explaining things to the public and providing advice to public officials and of course having increased quality of dialogue across differences and trying to encourage a democracy that includes all the parts of our society. i particularly study partisanship, polarization in the u.s. and now attitudes about political violence in the u.s. and americans'acceptance of higher levels of political violence and threats. host: let's talk about that. here is a headline from the washington post that says violent political threats surges 2024 begins hunting american democracy. what do you think is behind that surge? guest: this is the surge in the new year but this is -- it didn't just start right now. this is been something that's be

coming up thursday morning, an is professor of legal science at johns hopkins university discusses researche rise of fiber partisanship in the united states and the threat of political violence. tennessee republican congressman tim burgess talks about funding, the hunter biden contempt of congress resolution and impeachment proceedings against homeland security secretary mayorkas. also a member of the homeland security and foreign affairs committee and the impeachment proceedings against aid to ukrae and israel. join in the conversation live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span, our free mobile app c-span now, or online at c-span.org. announcer: thursday on c-span, at the house as a at 10:00 a.m. eastern for general speeches foowed by legislative business at nn. on c-spa 2 the senate returns to consider president biden's noneto head the bureau of labor statistics. the evening our campaign 2020 four coverage includes 40 governor ron desantis at mt and greet in iowa. on c-span 3, a hearing on fentanyl awareness and legislative solutions to stop lel smuggling of the opioid followed by another hearin