tonight, we feature freshmen members who have backgrounds in conservative activism, including michele fischbach, diana harshbarger, and stephanie bice. watch interviews with new members of congress. tonight at 8:00 even on c-span. online at c-span.org or listen on the c-span radio app. studenn journal, we are joined by arthur brooks, professor at -- author of the book "love your enemies. -- "love your enemies." thank you for being with us this morning.

tonight, we feature freshmen members who have backgrounds in conservative activism, including michele fischbach, diana harshbarger, and stephanie bice. watch interviews with new members of congress. tonight at 8:00 even on c-span. online at c-span.org or listen on the c-span radio app. studenn journal, we are joined by arthur brooks, professor at -- author of the book "love your enemies. -- "love your enemies." thank you for being with us this morning. guest: thank you. host: we are hope to be joined by steven dinkin from the national conflict resolution center. can you hear at this morning? guest: yes. host: we solved our technological divide. let us talk about the political divide. we will start with arthur brooks in terms of political polarization. if you look at our current state of polarization, how far back do you trace this and what are some of the social factors that have driven us to the point where we are now? guest: everybody knows it is bad and the truth is that most people dislike it. any 3% of americans say they hate how divided we have become as a country. that does not mean that

tonight we feature freshmen members have backgrounds in conservative activism including michele fischbach, diana harshbarger and stephanie vice. watch interviews at the members of congress tonight at eight eastern on c-span, online@c-span.org or listen on the c-span radio app. next, look at the disinformation campaign tactics such as silencing journalists and political opposition. and how to best respond to those tactics. the mccain institute hosted the discussion. >> again my name is paul, welcome. we are very happy to be helping this event today counting authoritarian to the use of disinformation in 2021. we are very pleased to have everyone here. i am going to, before i introduce the panelists, i am going to turn it over to my boss and executive director of the mccain institute. mark agree and will give some opening remarks in them will turn over to our panelists today. mark, over to you. >> thanks paul, hello everyone. thanks to everyone for joining today's event. as paul said, i am mark green i am the executive director of the mccain institute and a great fan of inter- news and the v