narrative? am not a foreign exchange specialist i any stretch of the imagination. yes, it is political rhetoric. two gentlemen running the two countries involved who are very keen on strong rhetoric when they exchange opinions. it has to be's dead that realism usually comes back. you have a large manufacturing base in china. yes, certainly, there has been incidents. and there has been some manipulation or encouragement by the chinese authority to give a message on the economy which would favor their political discourse. whether that will be a lasting situation, whether that discussion continues to be -- considering that we are in an election year in the u.s. makes it more open for debate. in termss too violent of language, that could have an effect on the u.s. economy and that may not be a situation that the u.s. administration wishes to encourage. i think there is a lot of politics as opposed to economic rational discussion. sometimes they come together. manus: let us extrapolate. i know you ar

narrative that it was the same time if data that's true. and they're weak in this war it was he is nor it was he has the will power it was he hasn't made it to well i'm sitting here we go the beer there is the debate there i would say they deserve a union on the war in spite of stalin ok but if he were just demonstrating to our viewers that there is a debate here i see jeff flock being in the in his little corner their heads every very good operate of everything afraid not look at it equal i don't know i think i just. used to change michael stipe last yes thought he was a brutal dictator but he was also good to see the most equal posted something. like well. known site or well the west the west western democracy well hitler that observe a 100 times a day but right there then i can talk to you statements in that book ok well i mean it good that will keep were just printed on it is a he made a very important part the whitish contest is historical revisionism she is swedish not by producing a cunt political or large to china just a way to cont

is that it does not allow them mention of characters and their it's narrative. because at the same time if date her. it's true. and they're weak in this war it was he was a nerd it was his the will power it was he hasn't made it to well it's the year we go the beer there is the debate there i would say they deserve a union on the war in spite of stalin ok but if he were just demonstrating to our viewers that there is a debate here i see jeff flock being in the in his little corner their heads every very good aberrate of everything afraid not look at it equal i don't know i don't know i just. used to change michael stipe last year which ah yes ali was a brutal dictator but it was also good to see you must equal posted something. like well if you stand in sight for well the west the west western democracy well hitler that suburban hug is the statement right there you're not a productive statements in that book ok well i mean in the well kate were just printed on it is that you made a very important part the whitish contest is historical revisionism she is swish it

difficulty and discussing all this i mean you know there are the different narratives about the the war ended 3 as a result of that war i mean i've always taken the position is that most of the soldiers that died didn't die for communism they died for mother russia they died to protect their families their tradition their language their sublists ation the eye of the ideological spine you can put it's been there if you can put it there but i don't think that's the majority of the pit opinion of the people that are there my opinion go ahead well i think there are people tonight for who write your reasons you know defend them russia and defend in the soviet union not only russians but i think the main reason what so why well you know the people realize that you know hitler wins but i'm not going to survive and. what happened later was that. well crude shocking to power hugh ford style in years and by stunning it means i mean the problem of the character of star is the fall in basically our crew shot removed style and from all their narrative about the war in the same way as starring remove

expected oh no not only history will be starker or vicious narrative narrows originally to discredit connell is just such a congressman naziism totalitarians the lowest common kind of state nowadays across its political function is to discredit russia that is good just ready to see an end to create a contrast between the west need marks in russian authoritarianism through a so that you know guilt by association of russia with the soviet union would be a turn to totalitarian pasta so that's what's going on kind of question is. how to this continent fish but it's any right use in poland says. let's actually be part of the contest yes about the slums and well i mean i mean you've known me for a very very long time and that's always been my gripe is that it's very difficult to talk about anything related to russia because it's always about context and if you don't have basic facts then you don't have any context ok and that's the. difficulty in discussing all this i mean you know there are different narratives about the war ended 3 as a result of that war i mean i've always taken the pos

narratives do matter, and fox is pushing that narrative.l night last night while they were doing their coverage whipping around the country. it's important, narratives matter. >> erin, how do you think live television coverage influences both peaceful protests and also riots? is there of course this risk that as we point cameras at burning buildings it encourages more destruction? >> i think that is part of the risk. i certainly can understand that cameras are drawn to things like fires and destruction of property. those are very dramatic images. again, showing those images without centering the peaceful protestors, reminding people that that is the majority of the reason that protests are happening, that any incidents of rioting or even looting are a distraction, i think that what we've learned from the pandemic within a pandemic that's happening in this country right now is we learned in coverage of the coronavirus returning to the central questions at all times is the way to really cover a pandemic. that's what's happened with the corona

but if you could give me a sense of the popular narrative, the enduring narrative or idea of rosa parks as you likely learned when you were in elementary school, or typically celebrated through black history month. anybody? student: i think what i learned about her in elementary school was definitely she refused to give up her seat. she was an ordinary woman coming from work, and it was a manifestation of the common attitudes of the time. she was an ordinary woman and a martyr, honestly. that is how it was portrayed. prof. greer: she became a martyr in that sense. anyone else? student: i guess the way i learned about it is that she was the catalyst for this movement, as if she was the only woman or person who had been arrested for not giving up their seat. as if it was a single incident that happened, and it was her. prof. greer: yeah. as much as the montgomery bus boycott is seen as the beginning of the civil rights woman, she is seen as the beginning of the bus boycott. that's where the title mother of the civil rights movement comes from. on our best day, how many of us could hope fo

and really i feel so strongly in the power of narrative.nd so when you tell the small intimate stories speaking is something larger. >> all of the winners tonight are teachers as well as writers. you are a writer in residence after many master classes of the methodologies you have developed over all these years. this immersion project is bound that as you can describe i am sure there's only so much you can control when you decide to immerse in a particular timeframe. how did you shaped this character as reporting. >> so and then to wade into the water and what i've got myself into so i knew that i needed some boundaries of this warm arbitrary summer and those like to find a way and there were other stories that happened earlier to place them in the summer talking about the aftermath of certain events. so i thought what was going to be a summer i just spent close to a year talking to people looking for stories. wasn't entirely sure what i was looking for but i knew i would know when i heard it. so i had this large cast of characters and how

that narrative now unfolding two months later. and the relative silence on what it means to be a black man in america jogging today. so you're going to see not so much dancing on the last point, a lot more emphasis on the former, again around the -- under the umbrella, what have you got to lose, you didn't do well under obama, you didn't do well before, i come along, the world is a lot better, unemployment is down, but then the rest of this narrative, that narrative back to your first question becomes problematic. because right now black unemployment has shot up to 16%. >> that's right. >> how do you reconcile that narrative. >> we didn't get a lot of the stimulus package given the numbers we're pushing now, make sure that small businesses go and get what money is left and apply for that. i'm out of time, christina greer, i owe you one and michael steele, thank you both for being with me. >>> coming up, as the nation continues to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, a select committee in the house of representatives is now worki

is he trying to get ahead of the narrative and set the narrative again in the media as democrats havet ahead of the john durham's criminal probe of origins of the trump russia probe? is that what is going on? >> it certainly appears that way according to a transcript of this phone call from friday. again, this is not a politically convenient narrative for the obama administration and in any way, and if he personally didn't have anything to do with it, again, why would he be out there trying to spin the narrative? i think, you know, ultimately i would want to ask president obama, what if an incoming administration had done this to you, and had basically set up your national security advisor in some sort of an attempt to get him to lie when really this was quite an innocent and normal phone call for him to be speaking to the russian ambassador? i don't think any democrat would stand for that. i don't think the media would stand for that. but i think president obama having these phone calls with 3,000 surrogates does have an impact. you see that the way the media is covering all of this

it is assigned to the popular narrative of the boycott itself, in the larger narrative, to be somewhat problematic. i want to dig into the myth, the story of the montgomery bus boycott. in doing that, i think an effective way of doing that is looking at a central figure in the myth, rosa parks. callt to look at what i the mythic rosa parks. i want to make a real distinction between rosa parks as a person, as a woman, and rosa parks as an icon. we will be talking about both. those are two separate things. i want to ask you if you can give me, some of you may have more information about rosa parks. have a lot more information available to us now. but if you could give me a sense of the popular narrative, the enduring narrative or idea of rosa parks as you likely learned when you were in elementary school, or typically celebrated through black history month. anybody? think what i learned about her in elementary school was definitely she refused to give up her seat. she was an ordinary woman coming it was a, and manifestation of the common attitudes of the time. she was an ordinary woman a

but if you just give me a sense of the popular narrative, the enduring narrative or idea of rosa parks, whose you likely learned when you were in elementary school, or typically celebrated through black history month. the anybody want to go up there? >> i think what line what i learned about her in elementary school was definitely, she refused to give a perceived. and she was just an ordinary woman coming from work and it was just a manifestation of the common attitudes of the time. and the common, she's just an ordinary woman and a martyr come honestly. that is how it was portrayed. >> she definitely became a martyr in that sense, anyone else? >> i guess the way i learned about it was that she was the catalyst for this movement, as if she was the only woman or person that had been arrested for not giving up their seat. as if it was a single incident that happened, and it was. her >> yet. >> as much as the montgomery bus boycott to see is the beginning of the civil rights movement, she is seen as the beginning of the bus boycott. that's where that title mother of the civil rights movem

the way we annually celebrate these wonderful awards in the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generation certainly a great influence on the generation of writers that i grew up around and probably the folks being honored tonight. what we are going to do tonight is try to concentrate on the substance rather than the ceremonies since zoom is not a place to exchange awards and the like. we will have a series of conversations with our four winners and then when we are done we will take your questions in chat and try to wrap up in an hour using zoom best practice of not leaving you in front of your computer screen for too long a time, especially this time of day. for those of you new to the awards, we have a short video about j anthony with his prizes. >> people talk about book writing they almost always talk about the process of writing, sitting at the keyboard writing it down is in many respects not the most important because most important part is the report. >> an incredibly diligent order in a really old-fashioned devotion to fact. >> told standard work was deta

the narrative is about reopening. what drives the market, from australia, to tokyo, where the state of emergency is said to be lifted. asian stocks up by .6%. there is stress in sino-u.s. relations. some callers are saying -- cory is saying it is all about managing the depreciation on the yuan. will we pass 720? markets like to test levels. citigroup and jp morgan cautious on asia fx. onigroup are not bullish asian fx but are bearish on the south korean won. again, those of you who are hoping that the u.s. should give mind isanging china's wishful thinking. the hedge funds, by the way, have moved to net long versus net short for the first time since march on the dollar. you are looking at crude storming away. the reopening narrative, the demand for energy. could have 75% this month. were in negative territory over a month ago. must talk about the fed. the boston said president expects companies to begin receiving money through the central bank's main street lending program within two weeks. we emergency scheme is desi

to his tribe his family denies the official narrative that of the regime was a terrorist who was killed after opening fire at security forces. and in videos uploaded on the internet he complained that he was being asked to leave his ancestral land a rare public defiance to a royal decree. that if. i am from out of here i but where mohammed bin solomon wants to build his new neon projects so many villages have started the phases of displacing people in this area these are sort of houses evaded start forcing people to leave their houses of course the people here are all rejecting this and refusing displacement i'm still not sure whether muslims are welcome to be here or not the tribe in northwest in the blue province is in the part of a mega project called neil mm a 500000000000 dollar city to be built from scratch on the picture rescue at sea and of the regime said he was standing in its way. this is when he was killed for refusing to comply in a shootout with security forces. the saudi crown prince is ambitious vision 2030 and the construction in the new york project it snags since its

at the symptom and i really feel so strongly in the power of narrative. i think the biggest of the small story utility small intimate stories that speaks to something larger and more universal. that is what i was hoping to get at in this book. really begin to ask questions when you haven't been asked. see what all of our winners tonight are teachers as well as writers, you are a writer and resident and i'm sure given many master classes about the methodologies that you have developed over all of these years. this immersion project is bound by summer, as you i'm sure can describe, there's only so much you can control when you decide to immerse in a particular timeframe. how did you shape this as character as reporting? and how did runaway fairview? >> guest: ran away for me and paralyze me at moments. first of all every time i start a project think it's going to be much more efficient than reporting and you know reporting is so messy. so inevitably you start to wade into the water and you realize i don't know would've got myself into part a new enough i ne

as to china, we have to go back to this narrative they are trying to build.that system should have responded to those people who were trying to sound a warning alarm early like that young doctor. instead they threatened them, they arrested them and that is what caused the thing to spread. if we allow them to turn that into a narrative, we are giving out masks in the world it will have an effect but there is some backlash to this diplomacy by sending out supplies and it is coming from people who are reminding them they might not have needed those masks if it hadn't started there. this isn't the first time we had this problem with stars as well, we had it with avian bird flu. this is going to have to be a time when there is a reckoning for china as well and for the united states. we should respond -- and have responded much more quickly but now that we are responding we are seeing some of the strength of our decentralized federal system. >> a lot of questions about china and the world health organization in taiwan, john asks specifically do we have some leverag

of resilience rather than narratives of suffering and victimhood and in our own lifetime the narrative emerged. it wasn't the case even in 1990s that if you prove you are a victim that you won the game of life. that happened very recently so it can change back and i would not be surprised, the crisis that came up to this crisis to which this man would be the prelude wouldn't do something to bring about the death of that movement. >> just letting our audience know we are going to turn to your question so taken in a little widget on the right-hand side. i will cover something before we return to the questions and that is china. over the weekend, mike pompeo said there is enormous evidence, the secretary and donald trump accused china of misleading the world about the virus. the uk defense secretary, demanding china respond to these allegations how do you think about china from this point out, the uk participate in holding china accountable if allegations turn out to be true. >> i would expect so. until this crisis came along it was over huawei contract over huawei providing parts of the

it's just been really this satisfying narrative perspective of somebody creating a narrative and being able to use most of these things in the interview with sources. but also average archival material and print material to rely on. i could go on but i want to welcome terry into the conversation. are you with us terry. >> can you hear me. steve: i can. you have a phone, that's a solution. it looks ingenious. >> yes it is. i apologize. the historian technology, it's really not my strong suit. although i've been speaking on some for the past couple of weeks. thank you for having me. steve: we got dozens of folks students and others listening and i was grateful for the opportunity to read about the life of william. i must contest to my shame that i really didn't know very much about. i just knew about the times he lived in. the centrality of his role in the kind of trajectory that he had on the spectrum of thought and action and response and jim crow was absolutely fascinating and distinctive. it partly because he boston also because of the ideologies that he wrestled wrote with an expres

, but a rigorous and consistent interrogation into political narratives. instead of a jack of the box perhaps we could let religion enjoy an extended performance not as a standalone performer on the historical stage but alongside other aspects of the american experiment in democracy. >> i am going to start framing myself as a heathen historian. briefly i think there is an assumption that historians who work on religion are religious. that is definitely not necessarily the case. one of the challenges that i think historians fand politics face when they seek to challenge religion, it is challenging to see how a faith or worldview leads to a specific policy. . ,. . how do you prove that it was faith and not an appraisal of power or national security that was the driving force in shaping a particular decision? it may not always be possible to do that but it adds a lot when we consider the ways religion has influenced policies. perhaps not the only factor, but an important factor. one might not always want to go in the direction when you get a lot of pushback.

control of the narrative is power.e shouldn't be surprised that when this outbreak happens in wuhan they silenced the young physicians and medical students who were trying to sound the alarm. can you imagine those people being silent in the united states? or in any country in germany or brazil? no. somebody would've picked up the story in the press it would've been known there was a problem but the chinese did what authoritarians do. they silenced those who were trying to sound the alarm and they wanted to have time to develop a narrative that would be blessed by the communist party of china which means it probably had to go all the way to beijing before you could say anything. it was in the nation of the system but was a real problem. this can be a reckoning in china with its own population. which was angered by the lack of information and shortly the national unity should be raising with the à >> let me push you on that because we all all the questions Ãblet me combine a couple of them. gina asked, how should china b

if you let them stoke the narrative to all they have done with sending out the ppes you won't. the security council, i call the meeting, they will try to veto anything that comes out of it but i would follow the meeting and say we are going to share, the united states will share the information in this is where you bring europeans along, and how we think this started and i would try that campaign first because i don't really think the economy will be trying to recover, they will think we want to shock the system more with more sanctions and more trade wars so i would try certainly to try that method first, let's call it calling names and sending a message that what they did was unacceptable. >> host: a question about deterrence and how our adversaries use the circumstance. jessica says i am a government student in boston. i wonder what you think russia is learning about how the us handles this kind of crisis. >> guest: very good question. early on the russians were saying we have done this so much better because initially their numbers were relatively low. the numbers have star

i want to talk about narrative because obviously, that is your latest book, the narratives that rule this marketplace. clearly, we have a huge divergence between the stock market in the real economy. the stock market continues to grind higher today. what narrative is it that his ruling this marketplace right now? robert: there's always multiple narratives. i think the story right now is coming.g about a cure narrative that people remember recent sharp drops in , in the wintert of 2018 and the end of 2018, and they both had v-shaped recoveries. there's a lot of talk about the so-called v-shaped recovery. the fear of missing out, a term that goldman sachs recently brought up, i didn't catch those v's. and it is donald trump. everything is related to him in our current national talk. guys at goldman used to always say yolo, and now it's fomo. great to talk to you again. i want to ask you about a trend i am hearing about from my friends in bronxville, which is purely anecdotal, but what i am from news that renters york city are flooding out to orderburbs of new york in to get away from t

you go into the police department and they have a narrative. clearly he fits the description of the 5 - 1 guy whose fits the stolen car. during the stay at home, i've been watching a lot of innocent files, there's a lot of stuff going on, now you know what we go through every time you get pulled over. they don't say how are you doing, how are you driving, got a drugs in the car, see what i'm saying, narrative. it sucks, it stings, sorry you had to go through that general flynn but welcome to the dance. or pretty much every other weekend of my college career. greg: dave, it's actually an interesting point because there's a lot of liberals who would be screaming about this behavior if it was a young minority. but they're not in this case. dave: i'm sure you see the movie edr christy, were entering a phase in america where there is simply nobody left to trust. were about a week and a half away from being told that we are supposed to water the crops with gatorade. if we don't have anyone to trust to get a lot worse. that's what most of this book sp

he focussed on why that old narrative persisted. cole, you've gestured to this, kelly, too, how rosa park was a sweet story. i'm wondering how through time you think this sort of narrative of political of violence got papered over and how was it papered over in especially big >> thanks for the great panel. felix at the end gestured towards the talk last night. i was thinking about your panel like the talk last night overturns an older narrative of a nonviolent american past. he focussed on why that old narrative persisted. cole, you've gestured to this, kelly, too, how rosa park was a sweet story. i'm wondering how through time you think this sort of narrative of political of violence got papered over and how was it papered over in especially big synthetic histories? why is it papered over? who is doing the papering over to get this narrative that is in most american's heads about the history driven not by violence, but by something else? >> i think part of it -- perhaps a small party, perhaps i'm overestimating the influence the ac

pivoting slightly to a big narrative in the markets this morning.re three, negative rates in the u.s., china stands ready to do more, but don't -- so does is backbe and the topix into bowl territory. to what extent does asia -- you talked about china via the equity route. talk about japan and the prospect of more helicopter money coming to their from abe in the japanese economy. how does not bear out in your thinking? area wee: japan is an haven't tended to have a huge amount of exposure to because it really is about -- and we are not allocating by even country or sector. it really is about the characteristics. -- fact they is stepping in abe is stepping in is in keeping with what we are seeing across the world. somewhat unusually, we are all in the same predicament. we all need to stimulate in some shape or form and we try not to obviously the regional split of companies revenues is important, but it is more about what are the growth drivers? what is the underlying financial health of a business, and how robust is the sector in which they operate?

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to have a counter narrative. would to get on top of it like how quickly and how quickly that they recovered and also the rest of the world by sending ppe and health and aid they will try to shape the narrative to their initial responsibility to be got on top of it don't let it happen. the honest assessment of where it started and when the communist party new and that is the public part. and that you can't keep doing this. you are not just some little developing country and doesn't have an impact. your people work in other countries. a lot of chinese workers and italy at the time. but to get a handle on how this thing moves the fact that china is such a big player is a big part of the story. but also private conversations with the chinese. >> than the natural question that arises is that enough to have a more correct attitude? and then to have an impact on the rest of the world couple distinctions i would try the persuasion route first. so if you focus on how this started in china come if you let them shift that n

the narrative is nasty enough around the world. keep calm,y-on -- carry-on.erm, which the chinese usually do, we are talking about a stable renminbi. nejra: i remember a time when almost on a daily basis, we were talking about the yuan being a driver for a lot of the fx space. it does not seem to be right now. how are you taking your cues from china more broadly? david: it is very interesting, when you look at the brazils, south africas, mexicos, turkeys, there is no anchor and they are doing aggressively. you look at india, indonesia, malaysia you know india is not selling off in the right way because they have -- in the same anchorause they have an of stability, and that is the renminbi. anchor ofed is an stability and it is act in that way. the weaker kinds of asian currencies are much more stable than currencies around the rest of the world. just compare themselves to the dollar and they are getting completely crushed. --se other asian currencies doing fantastically well. 7%, korea downwn 6%. that is tiny compared to those others. nejra: david bloom, you

the media are using anthony fauci to pilfer that narrative to push that narrative forward and they started by saying there is an issue between anthony fauci and donald trump because they think that will help the narrative they are perpetuating. jillian: we are hearing the talk but not in all cases the walk, by that i mean how do we get to the point where we have more people coming together in this conversation to say scientifically here's the information we have, let's take this into consideration and look at the economy. we have millions of people out of jobs, businesses that may never be open, a lot of them, we have to find a way for businesses to reopen so people can work again and do it safely. when do we get to that point? people are frustrated waiting for that to happen. >> people are frustrated. this is why you see protests across the country. part of this frustration is the goalposts of changed when it comes to what our goals are. first it was don't overwhelm the hospitals, now it is we have to protect every life at all costs but the reality is, anthony fauci mentioned this, we don

i think the dominant narrative around cable is it has created this polarization, but i think that narrative does foreground the technology part. cable is doing this, rather than a variety of politicians who are using cable platforms for different strategies. newt gingrich really brilliantly saw an opportunity to take c-span and turn it into a way to blast his opponents, even though no one else is watching, and nationalize congressional politics. in new ways. i think that it is important to think about how there are choices in terms of how the medium is used, but also there's the ramification of relying, putting that faith in the market, right? if it is this going to be about competition and what becomes defined as news, then you have a very different style of news. i think that is one of the parts that is important to understand. the news that existed in the 1960's and 1970's advocated for this consensus. it is driven by white, middle-class and wealthy men and did not allow other voices to come into play. one thing i appreciate about what cable does in terms of providing tens and hundreds a

this isn't the narrative cesar chavez that you get. there's a lot of things about him that you don't get in the public schools of california. but nevertheless paying attention to his catholicism explains certain aspects of his organizing farm workers and also the ways in which why when he sets up whfs th-- when they set health care clinics they don't provide contraception. there are a lot of registers that are important. or, you know, california has finally done away with the build a mission project in fourth grade which is incredibly problematic for, you know -- for imperialistic reasons, but also for the simplistic understanding of what the role of the missions in california. but at the same time students would say to me, oh, like, you know, even just understanding the geography of california and the certain politics of california, it's important to understand the legacy of spanish coloni colonial missions. students i think are really thankful for this. so this is an opportunity that students really, in my experience, have, you know,

i have a problem with that i don't think there should be a singular narrative or any story certainly not the biggest story that we will see perhaps now in our lifetime and as i was saying earlier the special to convert news reporting into a test of nationalism that i think is very very dangerous for who bust storytelling nobody wants to add to and it will be overheard an administration everybody understands that his workers are risking their lives for journalistic ourselves or choosing to go out at this time are also risking our lives to be equal in the stories and i think seem movement for example across the states across borders with the new guys very important and off it it has got to fall because of the new set of rules as in getting to is the code is off the lockdown the other point i'd like to make is a while i still continue to believe that if there is willing attempts to tell the story it is to me nobody stopped me from telling the story and i'm more disappointed in the media than i am of the government official or the one point i would like to make is that there should be an

narrative that really shocks me. was emboldens the oil story?ven oil price volatility this year, it is almost inevitable we will see production cuts across the board and the u.s., obviously coming to the game has helped sentiment in that regard. in the medium to long-term, it oil, theo be positive cyclical story because of the demandd picture of both as well as supply that is uncertain and the long-term structural tenet -- trend about potentially moving to sustainable energy sources. while in the near-term we could see investors wanting to embrace this technical rebound and we saw that happening, last month was a record month into oil, etp flow. we see investors trying to find the bottom and get in this technically, but longer-term, it is harder. is hard to be outright positive on oil and you are an investor who wants exposure to high yield, perhaps because you are "shadowing the fed." i read that from someone this morning, how do you get exposure to high yield while limiting the risk to oil? yield, part of the u.s. has been 10% exposure to ener

these things fuel that deliverance narrative. i will say one more thing about this and that is white southern unionists of the die hard anti-slavery kind, of whom there were very few, were not terribly optimistic about changing g the hearts and minds of secessionists. i mean, what they had in mind more was that the loyal would be the -- t leadership class, those who had really proven their loyalty. african-american soldiers would be the leadership class in the south after the war and van lou was a little bit more realistic and less optimistic about changing rebel hearts and minds than some people who observed the south from a distance rather than living in the heart of t the confederacy. >> thank you very much. >> sure. >> thank you. are you familiar with and, if so would you comment, on the story about the abolitionist group that came to see lincoln in early 1861 and told him that he need to come out for emancipation so he would have god on the north's side and he supposedlyaid he'd like to have god but he had to have kentucky?

that narrative.hat is it what we need to fill in the gaps. i don't want to jump to conclusions like they did on the left going after trump. i would like to know what the truth is. the truth is important. we need to restore faith and confidence and we need to punish anybody that did something wrong. we get there by first learning the truth. elizabeth: what effect will this have on joe biden's campaign? >> i don't know. i think that is going to be for the american people to judge whether or not political, apparent politicalization of national security secrets is something that should be punished a the ballot box. we'll wait to see what mr. biden has to say. he has to defend it. he needs to be forthright. let's hear what he says. elizabeth: senator bill cassidy, thanks so much for joining us tonight, we really appreciate it. >> thank you, liz. elizabeth: coming up later in the show we have newly-declassified house intelligence documents that reveal hillary clinton campaign officials began the big push t

very well-written and well-researched, there's a narrative flow to it and it's very troubling, i have to say, but that's the purpose of the book, i think. i would like to announce, unfortunately, that our event in two days with ambassador dennis ross who is another expert in the middle east, is unable to come to college station. he had a family emergency and so his lecture wednesday evening will be postponed till later. kim ghattas is an emmy award winning journalist and writer covered the middle east for bbc and financial times. she reported from iraq, saudi arabia, syria, lebanon, and she covered the war between israel and hezbollah, earning an emmy for international news coverage. she's also a reporter on the state department and on american politics, regularly travelling with secretaries of state, including condoleezza rice, hillary clinton and john kerry, she has been published in the atlantic, "the washington post," foreign policy and is currently a non-resident scholar at the carnegie endowment for international peace in washington. her first book "the secretary" was a new york

push out this narrative of russia collusion.ush it out cripple the incoming president of the united states create this cloud over his head. so when he come into office he'll be viewed as a russian puppet and we now know, of course, as a result of the mueller investigation as well as the release of information the other week, out of the director of the national intelligence, none of them believed it. for a minute that there was any russian collusion but look what's taking place here. while i'm talking about this, on march 5th, 2017, the first one to go on national tv and lay all of this out we already know they have put spies in trump campaign we already know they've gone to fisa court in october. we already know that the dossier paid by the hillary clinton campaign, about we already know today we know that all of the thesear activities were taking place before this january 5 ath meeting i'll get to in a moment. go. mark: "new york times" again nsa gets more latitude to share intercepted communications in final days of the obama