sometimes the narratives are vague. what i could understand, it was the legion, his comrades in arms. [indiscernible] i don't number now. i can definitely look and see. that was about the extent of it, maybe a paragraph or two in each. yes. >> i am curious to learn more about dillon. he was irish? rachel: he was. it was a little difficult to find out more information about the family in general. but his family did emigrate from dublin, ireland. there were four brothers and they all fought in the same regiment in the legion. from what i was reading. unfortunately, that is about the extent of what i know on him. i am sure there would be more. it would be interesting to read more about this irish migration to france because they were not the only ones. >> did he emigrate just for the opportunity to enlist? rachel: it was his parents. i know his father was a prominent either businessman or banker in dublin and they emigrated. >> it was the colony of england at the time and a lot of irish people did not like being controlled

she draws inspiration from two narratives. the american revolution institute of the society of the cincinnati hosted this event and it is about 25 minutes. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] we are fortunate to be filmed by c-span today so please turn off all electronic devices. if you have a question at the end, wait until someone with a microphone comes to you. i'm a research services librarian here at the society of the cincinnati and i am so pleased to be able to speak to you today about these three magnificent items we have on the table here today all involving the french experience during the american war. war wouldtionary never have seen such a swift conclusion were it not for the arrival at newport, rhode island of the french army in 1780. the collaboration of french and american leadership on land and at sea after the arrival of rochambeau's forces led to the surrender of cornwallis at yorktown. a landmarkear was year in augmenting the society's collections documenting the french experience in th

i have one narrative, but it is going to take such effort. it is a narrative of confidence. if we believe in these values, if we believe after so many years of wars on the continent, if we believe we overcame this and created something very special, why don't we sell it? why do we lack self-confidence? ursula: because nobody would buy it. judy: i know that sounds very fast i'll or naive. it is not stuck in the institutions in brussels or making decisions behind closed doors. it is about town hall meetings. it is about explaining who we are. why do we have these values? peter: what role could germany play in this? judy: chancellor merkel has tried to do some town hall meetings. germany has an enormous role in this. by actually creating clusters of small and big countries together. helmut kohl, former chancellor, was terrific at this. he would bring up his friend in paris, the hague, and say, if you do this, i'll do this for you. it is compromised. these trade-offs have to be rediscovered. peter: one minute for alan. germany's role in moving europe forward. alan: engage more w

this became a narrative that replaced the older narrative.is this is this as much as anything else that brought about the end of the liberal era. i see a connection from the response of kennedy assassination and development of this narrative. until the 1960's, liberals try to maintain a wall of separation between themselves and the far left. the far left existed. there was a communist or socialist left that saw america as headquarters of world capitalism and therefore a nation not to be admired. then there were the cultural radicals who saw oppression not in capitalism but in the institution of civilization itself. the school, the family, the church. the purpose of politics was to liberate the individual from these institutions. try toitical liberals keep a distance from these groups. what happen in the 1960's, the wall between liberalism began to dissolve, and the critiques of the socialist and cultural radical seat into the mainstream of liberal thought. ed to generate a narrative that lives with us today. thank you. [applause] david: good

it is that thinking that is rooted in this very narrative.harlie: none of that was set in the campaign. none of the democratic primaries or general election come of it to prioritize -- bryan: no but you saw it in a way that he reacted in every thing that there was a racial component two. i'm not suggesting that doesn't mean you can't do things, because you can't should. but it does mean we have to deal with this problem in a much broader way. there was this hypersensitivity to any act or gesture that was responsive to the problems of racial violence. we talked about the outrage of trayvon martin. i think that speaks to the immaturity of our country's capacity to talk honestly about race. you say racial justice they start looking for the exit. what are we afraid of? i think if we actually understood the history more clearly and understood there is liberation on the other side of this issue we can actually get to a place where we all feel liberation. we are all burdened by this history. we keep making mistakes, white people say things and creat

griffith as we now know is considered to be the father of narrative cinema. the giant who developed a lot of the narrative techniques, of course, that we take completely for granted today. when we are watching a film, but it had to start somewhere, and by and large, we think it started with griffith. i say we think it started with griffith. there is a reason why we know some much about griffith is because biograph, the company he worked for, was really good about registering their films. but when you think about the hundreds of thousands of films that were not registered for copyright, and all that's lost, there were other filmmakers out there who may have been doing similarly interesting things, but we have so much griffith material available to us, we can study him. you can follow griffith's career literally on a weekly basis through the paper print collection. so, for example, this is a griffith film registered for copyright 1909. this film is called "the lonely villa." this is one of his best example s of crosscutting against action. so, you have sisters

we have been pushing against that narrative.hat narrative has shifted somewhat by allowing women to present themselves in these ways. we need to do the same thing in regards to race. we haven't done it, because i think we congratulate ourselves too quickly. we ended racial terror when we did. we said we ended racial segregation what we did, and we are now seeing manifestations of that same thinking in the era of mass incarceration. i think we have to repair all the damage that this legacy has done. i'm not focused on money. that is not the kind of reparation that will ultimately get us to a better place. there are generations that are white that were taught quickly -- directly or indirectly that they're better than other people because they are white. i want to help the community free itself from that life. -- -- from that lie. but you can't be ignorant about it. the recreational work i would like to see, i would like us to mark the spaces where the slave trade was made evident. we ought to be marking every lynching that took pl

all been affected by the way this narrative has evolved. i think it is time for us to move forward by continuing to see these manifestations come up lease officer shooting unarmed black kids in the street, declining opportunities -- and the stations, a police officer manifestationsse , a police officer shooting an unarmed black kids in the streets, declining opportunities. their suffering from, by the time they are five years of age. -- they are suffering from trauma by the time they are five years of age. largely because they are black and poor. ♪ lingering -- lingering pervasive impact -- you are suggesting we need a dialogue. if you were in charge of the dialogue, where would you take it and how would you engage it? bryan: i would begin by getting everyone in this country to be more attentive to how this narrative of racial difference has been created. is -- feel this way, why why it is we are so indifferent to the plight of people who we have massacred. the indigenous population in this country. we haven't understood the way in which ma

the narrative that i have. we are pressing down at every moment. we need to get beyond this pleasure trauma. black women were having orgasms and and i m-mike now you've gone a little too far with your dichotomy because yes, they may have been but that wasn't the pleasure crew. we can talk about how we are damaged. there's stuff to talk about. you know. >> i think that in your book - in my correct that the first language was dutch, and i think when people bring that up they hear that southern accent - the point i'm making is that they hear it in this voice and that has nothing to do with it. >> people are carrying on about sojourner truth without even knowing anything about her. >> also i would love if you could talk about the moment of the photograph - >> she didn't say am i or our entire or any of that. so they don't even take steps one to find out about her. i wrote a scholarly book and we all say say look she didn't what she didn't say that. she said things that they've got that working class women need thei

or political narrative or social narrative or a mistake that they blif hosni mubarak has done. he allowed a marginal freedom from media outlets, and did not appoint social media outlets like facebook and twitter. the reaction is to find a way to control the narrative and control dissent, so that something like january 2011 does not happen again. >> during hosni mubarak, we couldn't criticise the government, touch him or his family. we could criticize the government. right now, we can't criticise the government, or the minister of electricity for not, you know, providing the service. we have reached the point. we can't even. journalists can't bring the stuff up. we can't speck about thinks any more. not even the daily struggles of an average egyptian >>> on the download this week, our viewers on egypt's anti-terror law and the state of journalism there. >> the regime worked hard to creating an atmosphere in which you celebrate uncritically the policies of his regime or you are deemed an enemy of the state and lumped in with criminals and terrorists. the anti-terrorism law gives

salafist narratives. those are not allied groups but the challenge they pose to the social order of our societies of a different kind than the violent is in my opinion equally serious. >> fernando, thank you very much. for not only a sobering figure of statistics you left with a very important point. while we have a number of statis tis i cans -- statistics, while numbers don't tell the full story they give scale and scope contextually how we describe the problem to describing solution is one i think all of our countries are still grappling with. i think you heard from all three speakers here it is not as simple as finding a single profile. i would argue that the single common denominator, to paraphrase bill clinton, ideology, stupid. we have to look at underpinnings of the adversary's narrative. where i may be a little more hawkish, i feel we almost have to go to negative political campaigning, expose the hypocrisy of their narrative than necessarily -- i think we need to some of the solution, lorenzo, i

and we've been pushing against that narrative, and that narrative has shifted somewhat by allowing women to kind of present them is ofs in these new ways. we've got to do the same thing with regard to race and we haven't done it. and we haven't done it because i think we congratulate ourselves too quickly. we said we ended slavery when we didn't. we said we ended racial ter railroad when we did, we ended racial seg hegation when we didn't am and because of that we are seeing man fess-- man fess case-- manifestations of this same things. >> rose: where does that put you on reparations. >> i think we have to repair all the damage that this legacy has done. i'm not focused on money because that's not the kind of reparation that is going to ultimately get us to a better place but i think we have a generation of people in this country who are white, who were taught either directly or indirectly that they're better than other people because they're white. and i think that's a kind of abuse. and i want to help that community free itself from that lie. but you can't just be igner ant about it. y

there is a narrative.here is a way that people can the tell the whole history of black people in the diaspora. the department i'm in now, we do african and caribbean and -- there's a whole way you can tell our history where we are constantly having things done to us and you would never know ever, that we ever did anything for us. that we ever fought back and won. like -- right? and there's no consequences for anyone. so as nell said, but the knowledge is out there. it's not secret. >> there's another, since the charlton atrocity -- charleston atrocity, and here i will brag about another one of my former ph.d. students chad wilson who started a bibliography of essential reading. it is there. it's there. >> i also want to add the essential reading with kids or with adults, sometimes people can feel like we've mentioned being exhausted before. there are ways to enjoy it organically and, you know, just naturally through different avenues. if you have a kid that's interested in sports, maybe a sports biography

gwen: let me ask the next panelist, and ask if there is a black narrative and a white narrative and sot? he started by saying that after katrina, everybody thought everything would be fine and beautiful and it is not. is every thing find a beautiful? -- fine and beautiful? they failed children in the beginning. they were not prepared for children. we went to a hotel much like this one downtown. we areilitator said, building a plane for flying it. you are talking about children's live. if they are building a plane, we are probably going to crash. i saw children fed frozen lunches, frozen milk. they could not drink the milk, they cannot eat the food. if i did that as a parent i would be charged with child neglect and child endangerment. if you do that to 400 children under the age of 12 in the state of louisiana, my question is, is it any less child abuse? children's needs are still not being met. for me, we are at a crossroads to figure this out and give children what is best for them to serve all of the citizens of new orleans. it is a racial issue, but it is a humanity issue. where is

whether we talk about creating a positive narrative of what we stand for more than narrative that i don'tk it's an either/or proposition . both work well together and undermine a positive than negative way. i think we all touched upon the argument of the known violent extremism which would be to move music and in the u.k. we have seen a major shift from 10 years ago been seen as almost part of the solution to the brotherhood groups and so on these days they're saying that larger parts of the problem. that's a major shift we should prevent. >> awesome, peter. if i can ask our panel to be as brief as they can simply because i want to make sure we have time for the audience to ask questions as well. >> here is the bucket list. i thought that needed are outlined in the u.n. security council resolution 178 which i had the privilege to work on. those are mostly punitive measures which are necessary. it's also about information exchange. what i want to perhaps expand on a little bit is the cd aspect is a couple things. of course you need to have a lot of projects and smaller things that need to

whether creating a positive narrative what we stand for or to undermine the narrative i don't thinkt is either/or proposition but both messages together in the positive and negative way. but to touch upon the argument with no violence and extremism and in the u.k. there is the major shift as the most part of the solution with the of muslim brotherhood groups these days are seen as a larger part of the problem. that is largely adopted. >> and if i can ask the panel to be as brief as they cannot want to make sure we have time for the audience to ask questions as well. >> i think a lot of the measures that i needed are outlined in the security council resolution 2178 that i had the privilege to work on. those are mostly punitive measures it is also bad information exchange. perhaps what i want to expand on a little bit is there is a couple of things. we need to have projects and smaller things with three integration programs and exit programs that are often underfunded and reintegration programs. in every european country and every country, there should be a hot line that parents can c

, this negative narrative because it translates into money as a great fundraising tool.but then you've got others that have been trying to let the conversation. is that a yen and yang tension that the political process has to deal with as well? >> that reflects a lot of problems. thousands of people watching us right now are very frustrated with washington d.c. it is bitter, acrimonious, nothing is getting done. people say what you've got today was the political parties need to make it agree with each other. anymore republicans and conservative democrats that can overlap. that is strong against him will be talked about a minute ago. what you need is moral consensus about both sides more or less agree and we are fighting for opportunity who needed the most feared that is the moral consensus and then a competition of policy ideas in the job of the think tanks is to offer policy ideas that can actually help execute that idea to the consensus. that is what they're supposed to do. if you don't have a moral consensus and you don't discuss the moral consensus, then the policy d

you can connect taxation to policy to narrative and this is the thing i think unfortunately people inthe left have forgotten to do so one of the politically brilliant things about the social security act was a connected policy method of taxation from your paycheck to a benefit to a narrative. we take your payroll taxes and we pay back to you when you are older. this is the kind of society we are. part of the i think president obama tried to push higher marginal tax rates but i don't think that connects in the way a carbon tax and we'll use the revenues from a carbon tax to help you out as a car driver is someone who consumes gasoline. >> a quick point. bernie sanders has a bill that pays for college. >> i will declare my support for the ticket area i will also as an external commentator say back to this issue of making choices. sometimes what you need to do is again more hypoxic hating, more saying government spending instead of doing this we are now going to do that. in other words i talk about it before. you could have 1 million new apprentices were you give corporations a thousand

there are plenty who see a more complicated narrative. that's where katrina truth comes in.signed as the mirror of katrina 10 with a couple of tweaks. resistant new orleans. joining us is jeanna walmack. her organization along with the advancement project are behind the initiative. thank you for being here tonight. >> hi, melissa. >> talk to me about why you felt and the advancement project and others felt it was necessary to offer alternative truths to a lot of what we're hearing in recent days. >> yes. i think it can really be summed up when one of our parents said that listening to what's going on and what's happening in the city this week, is much like visiting some people who are celebrating like a wedding and for some it's a funeral. and so, i think that really sums up why the katrina truth.org website was so important to give a counter narrative to what was being said and making it feel that this situation was more like a wedding for a celebration, where many black americans were really focusing and seemingly like a funeral. >> sue one of the biggest claims that we've

gwen: let me ask the next panelist, and ask if there is a black narrative and a white narrative and soe started by saying that after katrina, everybody thought everything would be fine and beautiful and it is not. did everyone expect it to be fine and beautiful? i don't think everyone thought it would be fine and beautiful but i don't think everybody would think we were having the conversations we are having today for that i was a public school educator, one of the people fired with 24 years experience. i have a masters degree and special certification. me thatd not have told i would not get to drop so i could do all the things i want to do in my community. that was my goal for life. i did go back to work at the recovery school district and i don't care what is said, they failed children in the beginning. they were not prepared for children and the day i decided i had to quit was when we went to a hotel much like this downtown and in-service and the facilitator said "we are building the plane as we are flying it." you're talking about children's lives and if i am building a claim, we'r

whether we're talking about creating a positive narrative or what we stand for or undermining the narrativethat comes to mind. .. >> let me if i can ask our panel to be as brief as they can simply because i want to make sure we have time for the audience to ask questions as well. >> here's the bucket list. i think a lot of the measures that are needed outlined in u.n. security council resolution 2178 which actually had the privilege to work on with ambassador power and others. those are mostly punitive measures which are necessary. it's also bad information exchange. what i want to grab expand on all of it is to see the aspect. -- cve. you need to have a lot of projects and smaller things that need to be done, reintegrareintegra tion programs, exit programs which existing european countries which are often underfunded, intervention programs, reintegration programs. i think in every european country they should be a hotline that parents can call that is not answered by the police the 99% of parents do not want the kids to go to syria and i. but they are not calling the police because as much

when people get this narrative, this compare and contrast narrative, they will find i will will vote for. immigration policies he's brought up are not conservative the of her. it will cost hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars. will disrupt families. the idea you have another company pay for the infrastructure of your own country will not happen. the stopyou will have people remitting to other countries will not happen. all of this is to appeal to angst ratherr in than solutions. let's go talk about this two or three months from now. i hope you all are still around. you will find you have forgotten existed august 20. i have been hillary clinton by 12 and lord. when people start realizing we need to win, they will look a lot closer -- i have beaten hillary clinton by 12 in florida. >> trump was asked if he was getting under jeb bush's skin. has he done exactly that? you were at the media availability. the bushyou talk to people, they say this is a gift for us. we have a candidate accused of being lackluster. a will be able to prove he's conservative in contrast. the problem is

: right. >> countries again, they have narratives. we have a narrative which is the shining light on the hill. >> rose: but at the same tie you have somebody like done all trump who is running on the theme, whatever you think about his campaign, of make america great again. >> yes. and the second implication of sanctions has frack leigh been as americans we do have to worry about guiding the rise of china. >> rose: right. >> china is going to become a very important influentialal competitor. many different dimensions. we don't have to worry about the rise of russia. >> rose: but i mean-- what you do have to be concerned about, what you do have to be concerned about, and i'm suggesting this, as a question, rather than a statement, that russia may view its alternative as a closer relationship with china. that's not an easy thing to do. >> that's the second implication and i see that as an investor. i had a company called novatech, a company that has also been on the sanctions list. it is an enormously entrepreneurial company. it's one o

i decided i wanted to complicate the narrative. not just portray the japanese as victims of the atomic bomb, but put in a different context that there's a possibility for them to be victims and victimizers at the same time. i wanted to panels to show that. the first one here is called "crows." there were 300,000 citizens, 43,000 japanese soldiers, 45,000 korean slave laborers. they were badly treated by the japanese. they were discriminated against in japan and also discriminated against during the time of the atomic bombing. they got no medical treatment, no aid at all. many of them died in the streets. this one is called "crows." it shows crows plucking out the eyeballs of the dead korean victims here. it is very controversial inside japan, still. shinzo abe and his administration is doing everything they can to cover up the history of japanese atrocities toward the koreans. i want to show that part of it, too. i wanted to complicate it further. this was about the american pow's. there were 23 of them in the bombing. many of them

our black families have been left out of the narrative for decades, right?families whose children have been caught in a juvenile justice system have not had the power necessary to change the laws that see their children as children and actually see the families as humans and people that have been looking for assistance. rather what we are continually seeing is that our families have been are being erased and easily forgotten. what the katrina truth.org website intends to do is resist that narrative and say black lives matter and their voices actually need to be heard. >> gina, talk to me about this challenge. obviously you live in new orleans. you actually have seen the resilience of people. that language used over and over again, resilience. people have come back under tough circumstances. they have made lives in that city and it does feel like a decade out we want to celebrate the work that ordinary people have done. on the other hand, three presidents in town in three days, all sort of saying that everything is all good here. how do you balance that? >> w

i'll admit i assumed that the book's narrative would be disconnected. that there could be too many people saying too many things but the three sections hang together well and the chapters are divided in a logical way. this is a story that could have been too complex and tidy yet professor masuda to his credit delivers something unexpected, something very hard which is a beautifully written messy story that actually make sense. now, if i had to critique the book, the jargon is probably the lowest hanging fruit. the word reality is in quotation marks a lot. so much so that some of the passages give you flash backs to that famous scene in the movie "matrix" with the pills and the rabbit holes and all the rest and throughout the book i find myself wrestlingle with the question of whether or not i was reading a transnational social cultural history of reality making in the early cold war or was a reading a political history of the cold war's or gins told from a multinational grass roots perspective? now this is pedantic, i admit, and i imagine the choice you

i'll admit i assumed that the book's narrative would be disconnected. that there could be too many people saying too many things but the three sections hang together well and the chapters are divided in a logical way. this is a story that could have been too complex and tidy yet professor masuda to his credit delivers something unexpected, something very hard which is a beautifully written messy story that actually make sense. now, if i had to critique the book, the jargon is probably the lowest hanging fruit. the word reality is in quotation marks a lot. so much so that some of the passages give you flash backs to that famous scene in the movie "matrix" with the pills and the rabbit holes and all the rest and throughout the book i find myself wrestlingle with the question of whether or not i was reading a transnational social cultural history of reality making in the early cold war or was a reading a political history of the cold war's or gins told from a multinational grass roots perspective? now this is pedantic, i admit, and i imagine the choice you

in a story that you the story though you create a narrative you start talking about. i believe in pushing the envelope sometimes to my own detriment. i love this quote and i think that sets up to tie-in to adams, rosa park, newt gingrich, the tea party which are all revolutionary strengths and it starts with sam adams as you noted the original tea party organizer. it does not require the majority to prevail but rather the tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. that describes so much of that revolutionary spirit and you go and give going to talk about how the tea party doled with the republican party and that whole movement in that part of the century is you go into building the social movement and. so it's looking at the story of rosa parks and i kind of threw in the newt gingrich piece because i think that also could contract with america, that revolutionary idea that we will get the power back to the people, talk us through your thinking in this chapter in the book where you kind of get into this sense of social movement is of being created out

try to create a counter narrative. the u.s. is also publishing propaganda about this atrocity thing. it has not gone away. the u.s. is using it in their own x nation of why they are going to war. a number of plantlets -- talk about why they are establishing a blockade. there are counter responses by americans talking about the need for freedom of the seas. the international right to trade. see our're starting to talking about u-boats and german crimes sinking neutral shipping at that time. this gives you a sense of what is being said dealing with trade and in american politics. this is a really fascinating collection. these are being created by the united states. pamphlets are from different countries involved in the war. with the declaration of war, president wilson establishes a committee, the committee for public information. , the supportert of president wilson who was a newspaper man. he was a reformer. a strong backer of wilson. and he is appointed to this .osition the committee wraps up to really drive a message about wa

i decided i did not want to complicate the narrative. not just to betray them as victims, but to put it in a different context and show that it was possible for them to be ittims of the atomic bomb, also victimizers at the same time. i wanted to panels that would show that. the first when here's called crows. this one, you have to realize in hiroshima on that day there were 300,000 citizens. 43,000 japanese soldiers. and 45,000 korean slave laborers. the koreans were badly treated by the japanese for decades. and they were discriminated against in japan. they were also discriminated against after the atomic bombing. they got no aid at all. many of them just died in the streets. what this shows is the crows. it shows these crows coming down and plucking out the eyeballs of the dead korean victims. it is very controversial. right now, the prime minister and his administration were doing everything they could to cover up the history of these atrocities. they are covering up everything they did today victims in china. i wanted to show that p

>> guest: yes. >> host: the whole narrative of success is a way of sort of rewriting this? >> when i was really demoralized as a young legislator by some the comments that were made about me, i just internalize it and focus. i'm going to show them. i'm going to show them that i will do well and that i will continue to get raises by my bosses through voters to to a e in this system and be effective and make a difference. and every time one of them did this to me i just work that much harder. i kept my head down that much more. so maybe that's the fuel. >> host: very interesting. maybe it's just that conversion machine. obviously, a woman politician who has faced all of these is hillary clinton. another well known fact about you is your decision to endorse not hillary clinton but barack obama in 2008. you give an account of that in your book and actually you say that your daughter was a key catalyst for the. tell us the story first. >> guest: it was a hard decision. they were too amazing candidates, both historic and ongoing. it was a lack of choosing what my mom would call b

how do you create a counter narrative of an aspirational story. it's really aspirational circuiting the trajectory. one is specific and others are general. the general level the gop would be able to get his mind around how we think about immigration law center. once it thinks the current from the party and that is going to take a visionary leader that talks about the station as opposed to inciting anger. i think an aspiration means you have to have hope and that means you are trying to make a new friend. anger is all about fear and fear is firing up the base. it's very easy. so castigation is the way to go and that will feed through all different things so this is the next remedy that's necessary. the second thing is republicans come and by the way, democrats to back need to stop thinking about immigration as if it were one thing. it's not. and there is an incremental approach towards progress. and even the grand bargain on immigration doesn't want progress on immigration. it wants to poison the well on immigration c. you can pull the band-aid off

how do you create a counter narrative of an aspirational story? the gop, were talking about the gop, once articulated itself as the party of aspiration. given the trajectory we are currently on, how do you make that turn, that pivot in light of the narrative you just described that i think in the book, that speaks to this aspirational story that your wife had about america. >> there were a couple things. one is specific and one is general. at the general level the gop will be able to get its mind around how we think about immigration a lot better once it makes the turn from the party of anger to the party of aspiration. that will take a visionary leader who talks about aspiration as opposed to anger. anger is easier than aspiration. aspiration means you have to have hope and hope means are trying to make new friends. anger is all about fear and fear is about firing up your base. it's it's very easy and very lazy. aspiration is the late way to go. an aspirational candidate will feed to my leader and that will feed through all sorts of different thi

justin: most russians have a national narrative and a similar view. most countries have narratives.well. the shining light on the hill. charlie: but you have somebody like donald trump running on the theme of make america great again. justin: yes. and the second application of the sanctions has frequent in, as americans, we do have to worry about guiding the rise of china. china is going to be a very important influential competitor in many different dimensions. we don't have to worry about the rise of russia. charlie: what you do have to be concerned about -- i am suggesting this as a question rather than a statement -- that russia may view its alternative as a closer relationship with china. that is not an easy thing to do. justin: that is very clearly the second implication. i see this as an investor. i am an investor in a very entrepreneurial company. it is one of my only commodity holdings i have ever had. it has been a wonderful long-term investment and it has a lucrative, interesting project in what will be russia's first natural gas field. that is very difficult to finance n

when people get this narrative, this compare and contrast narrative, they will find i will be the guyhey will vote for. it's a long haul, man. the immigration policies he has brought up are not conservative, either. it is going to cost hundreds of billions of dollars. it will disrupt families. the idea you have another country pay for the infrastructure of your own country will not happen. the idea that you are going to stop having people remit back to other countries will not happen. all of this is to appeal to people's anger and angst rather than have solutions. let's go talk about this two or three months from now. i hope you all are still around. you will find you have forgotten what existed august 20. i am beating hillary clinton by 12 in florida and he is losing to her in florida. when people start realizing we need to win, they will look a lot closer. night trumpst was asked if he was getting under jeb bush posh skin -- jeb bush's skin will stop has he done exactly that? al: sure, john. the bush people say this is a have ar us, because we candidate that is accused of being lack

it was remained a part of the nar ti -- narrative. this national narrative americans with the sacred purpose. new chosen people in a new promise land was that there was something extraordinary exceptional about america's place in role. americans' role is carried with blessings and burdens. a shining city on a hill. the themes of bondage liberation in the campaigns of mid-1900 century. williams had this to say. it captures the point i want to make here. the increasing unfamiliarity with the bible make it harder and harder to americans to understand. unable to relate themselves to american life and culture as a whole. not only enriches one's understanding but provides insight to the identity of american people and civil law. let me just say in conclusion in an increasing fragmented society which citizen's lack common knowledge, a common culture vocabulary that will facilitate meaningful communication specially religion and politics. help citizens to join in conversations about how best to order public life and govern ourselves. given th