the new york times, sports illustrated, he is a 2-time finalist for the livingston award and his work has been cited or recognized by the new yorker, the atlantic, the new york times, wall street journal and slate. is a graduate of the university and the uc berkeley graduate school of journalism. he lives in nashville. jordan is here to discuss his new book "the road from raqqa: a story of brotherhood, borders, and belonging". with jordan is one of the brothers from this story, colin cotterill are -- riyad alksasem why will let jordan introduce. >> i'm thrilled to be here as a nationally and, tennessee and, one that i love to attend every year. it has been a dream to be part of it so even under these circumstances in these strange times it is a real honor to be part of it and i could not be more thrilled to be here with riyad alksasem, the chef and owner at cafÉ raqqa at hendersonville tennessee. is a restaurant that has been received more accolades than i can count. they were voted sumner county's favorite restaurant and the best of nashville issue many many years, and he is one of the most fascinating men i have ever known. someone i met and wanted to to write a book about, him and

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beyond a finalist for "the los angeles times" book prize in the new york book prize for excellence in journalism pages written for "the news york times" "the wall street journal" and many others. heard ted talk three reasons why we still haven't gotten to malaria has been viewed by more than 1 million people around the world. her most recent book is the next great migration tier of life on the move could she lives in baltimore. welcome to you all. >> thank you. >> to get us started i have some questions to ask you all. i am hoping for a very lively conversation around this topic. i want to invite anyone who would like to read something of their writing to help get us grounded, please do so. mark i think you mentioned you have something to share. >> i don't want to start by reading to you. it's a very big lug. i can read a short passage. >> that's fine and let me say to you and the others if you have something you'd like to read like a paragraph to get us started please do and we can die then from there or we can die then -- >> i should say i wrote "the pandemic century" in 2017 and i finished it in 2018 but it didn't come out until april of 2019. as s

so far this is reporting that steve bannon is getting a pardon, from "the new york times," "wall street journal and people who rioted at the capitol asking the president for a pardon. and jenna ryan, the realtor who went on local television and asked the president directly for a pardon because she felt she was there because the president wanted her to be. josh dawsey, white house reporter for the "washington post," any chance that the president will be giving pardons to anybody that was involved in the insurrection? >> we do not believe so. we believe those are discussions that happened over the weekend, some of the folks involved wanted pardons and there was discussions from republican lawmakers involved, but we are told that is unlikely to happen. and no one involved in the insurrection will be pardoned by the president. >> but there were discussions about it? >> briefly in the white house. for the last three or four days at the white house, it's been almost constant discussions about pardons, according to our reporting. republican congressmen, pat -- nonstop talk about pardons and capitol wa

new york times" best-selling author. her work has appeared in "vanity fair" "new york times" "the wall street journal" "wall street journal" magazine the los angeles review of looks pairs the daily vogue "the news york times" style magazine and many many more. she will be joining conversation by adam gopnik has been writing for "the new yorker" since 19 -- he has written hundreds of essays from personal memoirs reviews and profiles a much fiction humor. as the conversation unfolds i want to remind you that we will be taking questions. if you have any questions for speakers you can submit them via the q&a box at the bottom of your screen and the subject of tonight's discussion is lesley blume's veaux "fallout." if you'd like to learn more about the book or purchase a copy you can do so in the chat. without further ado please welcome lesley blume and adam gopnik. thank you both for being here. looking forward to this conversation in thank you all for being here. >> thank you for hosting and adam thank you for doing this. >> delighted to do it lesley. first of all congratulations on extraordinary book. i will open up the har

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case and that is the fact that major american media outlets the washington post the new york times the wall street journal c.n.n. etc have not rallied to his support and you know my plot from the very beginning was if julian assigned is extradited and he's convicted of espionage in the united states that opens the door through literally any american journalist working on national security to be charged with espionage solely for doing his or her job and so if julian is finally being recognized as as a journalist providing a public service exposing evidence of waste fraud abuse or illegality then that's good for all of us the full it's a former cia analyst on whistleblower joel mccurry john thanks so much for your time on thoughts. or we also discuss the implications of the announcement with a number of a songes other prominent supporters now its side the court must. i wasn't sure what to expect but i'm so happy that it's. been discharged for whatever reason it's fantastic i mean there's so many people who've been campaigning for an awful long time against this injustice when he's gone through 1011 years of

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new york times," sports illustrated, a two-time finalist for the livingston squared his work had been cited or reask incompleted by the no,er, the atlantic, the "new york times," the "wall street journald slate. a graduate of lee university and the uc berkeley graduate school of journalisms and currently lives in nashville. jordan is here today to discuss his new book "the road from raqqa" a story of brotherhood, borders and belongingful withjordan is one of the brothers from the story, ryead who i'll let jordan introduce. >> i'm thrilled to bed here. this event is one i love to attend every year and it's been a dream to be part of it, and so even under these circumstances and these strange times it's a real honor to be a part of this, and i could not be more thrilled to be here with riyad hi is chef and owner at cafe raqqa in hendersonville, tennessee. it is a restaurant that has been received more accolades than i could possibly count, voted sumner county's favorite restaurants in the nashville scene, for many years, and one of to the most fascinating people i've know. someone who i met and wanted to write a book about. about him and his family, and i'll talk but this story and we'l

time before the senate trial, new information is coming out. just this weekend from "the wall street journal" and "the new york times" appearing to show how trump tried to use the justice department to overturn the election results. do we know if those reports would factor into the impeachment? what are we hearing about that? >> i have asked that question to people who should know up here on capitol hill. so far no response, but we do know a couple of things. we know that the impeachment article did mention issues that were sort of outside of what specifically happened on january 6th including brad raffensperger, the secretary state of georgia who kind of got shook down in a telephone call by the president. the big question, of course, is whether any information ability some of these other things that happened and were reported will at least end up in the pre-trial brief. still waiting on word on that. >> thanks so much for that. and president biden spoke to senators from all parties today trying to build support for his $1.9 trillion covid relief plan. senator angus king was on that call, and he joins me next. let's get checked for a full rang

you have to not only arrest people, but you need public coverage on cnn and "the new york times" and "wall street journalf you do this, if you put your feet up on the table with a cigar and brag, you go to federal prison you'll also lose your job. you need the broad messaging beyond the president and those who support him to disappear. that's why the debate about who goes on about how much hate on twitter is important. whether isis or domestic extremism, the characteristics that you see about how to combat this are the same. almost identical in my world. >> julia, i want to ask you about the visible and physical changes in terms of combatting this and protecting, being proactive and protecting the government in washington, dc with the capitol. how much longer to keep all the fencing barriers up around the capitol. what would you advise? >> so it has to be based on the threat and risk. so maybe it's a little bit higher now. some will depend, exactly what phil was saying. how long trump remains deplatformed, because he cannot incite the kind of violence. but we have a tendency to solve security by walls an

fact that wall way is worker owned also goes against the us and western media propaganda that weiwei is a dastardly chinese government brought whenever the new york times or the wall street journal or what have you pooped out an article about wall way they throw in terms like complicated the company and k. did corporate structure so they know that complicated it's certainly not more complicated than us 6 corporate structure that looks like mc escher painting so they can avoid paying taxes in america yeah yeah on paper were owned entirely by a guy in ireland who cleans toilets at an elementary school but we've never actually told him that he owns a company and the money doesn't go to him it gets routed through a paper mill in caracas then on to an acid em's tax dungeon in paris and then to a holding company in the cayman islands it's 'd really quite simple our media also love to point out that the founder of wall way only has one percent stake is former chinese military and western media they say that fact in this tone mr zheng for a former church. and then blood in stakes and leeches pour out of their mouth as they say. meanwhile whenever someone in the us corporate world is for

certification of the electoral college vote but reporting over the weekend in the "new york times" and "wall street journal" is shining a light on what will be investigated. jeffrey clark head of the civil division at the time department of justice was back-channeling with president trump. having a meeting at the white house talking about ways the justice definite could intervene in the final hours of the last gasp of the president's race. the second inspector general's report, investigation that's going on into the election. n now, this matters now, because, of course, impeachment trial is just getting under way in the next two weeks or so. anything the department of justice inspector general will has the freedom to weigh in and look into bizarre meetings that almost led to a saturday night massacre at the department of justice when all of these top officials in the department were threatening to resign if jeffrey rosen, the acting attorney general, would have been dismissed by the president. >> and you mentioned the house will deliver the single article of impeachment to the senate. what pressure at this

roulette from hiroshima to the cuban missile crisis" has received rave reviews in the new york times and wall street journal, new yorker magazine and curtis review which selected as one of the best nonfiction books of 2020. it is alsothe topic of this evening to talk . join me in welcoming eric schlosser and martin sherwin. >> thank you that i want to start out by saying how much i honor and privilege it isto have this conversation . not only because professor sherman is one of the great historians of postwar america of the nuclear age, but also because he was my advisor my junior year in college and he got me enormously interested in the period and it had a huge impact on my own work so i'm really glad to be here. it's also i think important to be talking about nuclear weapons in the seattle area because perhaps the world's largest storage facility for active nuclear weapons is about half hour west of the city of seattle. some of those nuclear weapons could use some new safety modifications so it's easy to be out of sight out of mind but there half hour away from seattle think we need to be thinking about

his commentary have appeared in leading outlets including the new york times, the wall street journal, the washington post national affairs and the national interest. for 10 years, he has also served as commentator for national public radio's all things considered. with that, welcome to our panel. i will turn it right over to our renowned civil war historian, who will explore the parallels between our current political culture debates and those on the eve of the civil war. alan, the floor is yours. >> thank you, angela. there is no civil calamity greater than the two words we have interview today. not played, not depression, not even wore it self, and no one listening to us will take those two words into their mouths is anything except a sense of horror and revulsion. americans have endured one civil war, and although by the standards of civil conflicts in the world's history, ours was comparatively brief, only four years, compared to the 20 years of the taipeng rebellion in china in the 1850's and 60's, and the english civil wars of 1642-6043. yet it's causes our heart stopping -- it

in public life has appeared in the nations leading media outlet included in the "new york times", the wall street journalashington post" and national affairs and the national interest. for ten years he's also served as a commentator for the national public radio, all things considered. so with that, welcome our distinguished panel and i am going to now turn it right over to our renowned civil war historian doctor alan guelzo who'll describe the parallel between our current political debate and those on the eve of the civil war. alan guelzo the floor sure. >> thank you angela. there is no civil calamity greater than the two words we have in view today. not playing, not depression, not even war itself. and it is my earnest hope that no one listening to us will take those two words into their mouths with anything except a sense of horror and repulsion. americans have endured one civil war. and though by the standards of civil conflicts in the world history, ours was comparatively brief, only four years compared to the 20 years of the rebellion in china and the 1850s and 60s. in the english civil wars of 164

. >> reporter: new reports in “the new york times” and “the wall street journal” describing the president'says in office and his desperate attempts to cling to the white house may bolster democrats' arguments. house impeachment manager eric swalwell addressing the "times” story that alleges trump schemed to remove his acting attorney general and replace him with a department of justice lawyer who would help in his fight to overturn the election. a source familiar confirming the reporting to abc news. and according to “the wall street journal,” the former president also allegedly tried to push the justice department to go directly to the supreme court to challenge joe biden's victory. the justice department has not commented on that report and trump hasn't addressed these specific allegations against him. the former president has largely been out of sight since his last day in office, now using this two-week delay to prepare his defense. it will be the first time a former president will go through an impeachment trial and he is the first president to be impeached twice. 17 republicans are ne

there are also at the same time that all this is happening, new revelations in the "new york times" and the "wall street journalg to go to undo this election. and he almost replaced his acting attorney general with a loyalist and he pressed the justice department to ask the supreme court outright to overturn the entire election. if there's more like this that is going to come out between now and the trial, will that change the dynamic for republicans? >> it certainly could, depending on how damning those revelations are and also depending on how house impeachment managers decide to take that information when they present their case to the senators who are, again, the jurors in the impeachment trial. we haven't heard too much yet from the house impeachment managers, from house speaker nancy pelosi on what their trial strategy will be. so will they call witnesses? will they expand the scope into just beyond january 6th and look at all of the different actions that the president -- or the former president had taken before that day to sew this distrust in the election results. we don't quite have a sense of that ye

this follows reporting in the "new york times" and the wall street journal that the ex president attempteded to use the department of justice in an effort that included possibly replacing then acting attorney general jeffrey rosen as part of a way to somehow challenge the georgia results. according to "the times" jeffrey clark defaulted to the false claims of election fraud and nearly convinced him to remove rosen. clark declined to comment. here to talk about it the form ehrmann in charge of the cyber securi security. when you first read this reporting between the former president and this department of justice official to overturn the results of the election, i'm wondering what you thought. did you imagine you would see a day when something like this might occur in a white house and a department of justice? >> well, thanks for having me. good to see you again. i don't have any information independent of that reporting that would suggest it's true or false. in reading it, though, it was fairly shocking and if it's true as reported, i actually think the most surprising aspect is not that it

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"the new york times" reporting, also "the wall street journal" reporting, this plan to replace the acting attorney general to undo the result, it's like the evidence of misdeeds continue to stack up. what do you maim of the impeachment dynamic among republicans? could some of this information swing some votes? >> well, certainly, but it's going to be, as ryan said, no matter how much information there is, it's going to be hard to get to 17 votes to convict him. so the question will be, what is the statement that is made? i think even more important than whether they convict him is, what do we learn through the trial? it's pretty clear that both in terms of the entire campaign since the election to try to subvert the result, and also the more immediate and kind of visceral attack on the capitol that was the culmination of that, there is a lot still to come out. there's a lot to learn about what donald trump did, about what members of his administration did, and also what other republicans in congress may have done in terms of in some ways colluding with the attackers. joe biden's instinct,

he's blaming the media, he blames "the new york times," he blames "the wall street journal," he blamesg home workers. his administration in july of 2020 put out a report saying my executive order was not a significant factor, and that report blamed nursing home workers for the spread of covid. so this is even more dysfunctional and more problematic than people realize, governor. >> well, how to do you get better at anything in this world? you admit you're doing something wrong. and blaming everybody else isn't going to cut it. you know that and i know it too. you know, in west virginia one thing we do is we update -- we've had problems at nursing homes just like everybody else, or assisted living. and we have a lot, a lot, a lot of deaths at nursing homes and assisted living. but we update every week if we have a patient that leaves the nursing home and goes to a hospital, we count it and update it every week and make it completely transparent. but, you know, just blaming people, different people, that's not good. that's not going to work. elizabeth: and, you know, janice dean pointed

have them join us and of course we are joined by the author fallout with new york times best-selling author and the wall street journal magazine and l.a. review of books and many more and will be joining conversation and has been writing for the new yorker since 1986 and has written hundreds of personal memoirs through profiles and with that criticism and as the criticism unfolds on to remind you we will be taking questions can submit them to the q&a box and the subject of tonight's discussion is fallout we have teams if you'd like to learn more you can do so via the link in the chat room so without further ado please welcome wesley and adam can you hear me. >> loud and clear. >> thank you looking forward to the conversation. >> thank you for hosting a thank you for doing this. >> first of all congratulations on this extraordinary book. the hiroshima cover up which when we pronounce it? i make some up but it should be hiroshima. the editor of the new yorker said i have learned a new way i have to pronounce it and that is an extraordinary book and with that catastrophic event but even more importantly how it turns into

do you think that these lead reports from the "new york times," "washington post," the "wall street journal," do you think that that could convince more people to convict trump. >> lindsay, i think that how mitch mcconnell goes is how republicans in the senate go. if moichl votes to convict, i think he will pull probably the numbers necessary along with him. i would never underestimate him. if he doesn't i think it is a completely lost cause, unfortunately. no matter how horrible the information is that comes out these republicans are still judging by their political futures and right now the base is pretty much stayed with donald. you saw some side in his approval rating from the 40s to the 30s but really not that significantly among the republican base that the party is so dependent on for to survive a primary. that's why i simply think that without someone like mitch mcconnell whipping votes and giving a permission structure for republicans to come out and vote to convict you are not going see it. >> heidi, trump offered his complete and total endorsement for arizona state chair woman ke

to introduce bret stephens, a pulitzer prize-winning columnist at the "new york times" after 11 years at the "wall street journal." he is a senior contributor to nbc news. we had him speak from our podium in 20 and earlier this year. and earlier this year. i think the over 5000 of you who registered for tonight agree. the moderator, a professor of law at university of california irvine. he won the columbia university school of journalism award for courage, curiosity, and intelligence. i wish all of you who are celebrating a merry christmas and to all our viewers a happy, healthy, and safe new year. henry: thank you very much for that kind introduction. i want to say good evening it thank you to the audience for joining us. the top of tonight's program is, topic of tonight's program is, can we heal after trump? without challenging the premise, i think we first have to acknowledge that there is a big question as to when the weather wheter there will be an after trump or at the very least when there will be an after trumpism. normally after president elections, the postmortems are granular, such as, why didn't bide

reform it like hell and hold them accountable as publishers just like you hold the "new york times", "the wall street journalocal newspapers. you better do it. you will look back and it will be too late. facebook is turned into a monster. and the old rules when it comes to antitrust does not apply to facebook, does not apply to other tech companies. this reminds me so much of what was happening in the lead up to the 2008 crash where people just kept looking, wait, are these credit defaults in i don't get it. they must be smart. no! no! the big banks didn't know what they were doing other than trying to make as much money as possible. and when the crash came, it was working class americans whose lives were ruined. you let the banks on wall street self-regulate. and it damn near killed our economy. and you've been letting facebook self-regulate for almost two decades now. it's time to stop. this should be an issue republicans and democrats both agree on. i say get rid of 230. you say we need 230. okay. we'll reform it in such a way that it can't be used to spread disinformation and lies about people. i've got

new reporting from the new york sometimes, wall street journal showing it was worse than we knew and that was true up until the final days. "the new york timesrney general, bring in a different lawyer in a decembersperate bid overturn the results in florida. after the ag made their cases in a bizarre white house meeting. two officials compared it to "the apprentice." the pressure of the supreme court to invalidate biden's victory. trump is continuing to make shuz indirectly because of all these leaks about what happened, about his desperate bid to stay in power. joining me now is the journalist who has been front and center for all of it. jim acosta, new the chief domestic correspondent here at cnn. you will see him anchoring on the weekends pretty soon. you were the pool reporter on the final day. what are the odds of that? >> yeah, exactly. well, you know, perhaps it was fitting i guess to be there at the very end. the way it looked like to me is what we saw was the undoing of the trump presidency, the undoing of the trump phenomenon in this country, what i describe as the trump deformity in american pollpolitics. what we saw the president

joseph, these new revelations, damning revelations from the "wall street journal" overnight, they also had the reports on "new york times" and the "washington post" about this, a president trying to persuade many to overturn his election loss. you get a sense at least from a republican strategist standpoint that this will help persuade more republicans in the senate to convict. >> no, i don't think it will convince more people to convict. i think the reality is that what we're talking about is not really a measure that should be addressed through the means of impeachment. i think impeachment is not the proper venue. president trump is now a private citizen. we have federal courts, we have state courts, we have civil courts, all of which have the authority to bring charges or to hear claims if president trump has indeed violated the law. so we continue to lean into the political tools necessary when in many ways there are other tools at our disposal that would be more adept at dealing with these cases and in the end it seems as if it may actually devour joe biden's presidency whole before he gets a chance to start doing

reports first reported by the "new york times" of the former president trying to fire the acting attorney general, jeffrey rosen, and then this news from the "wall street journal." senator schumer there, the democratic leader, is calling for the department of justice inspector general to launch an investigation. here's what the democratic leader said. >> what happened was just despicable. for the president to try to get an attorney general who will just totally lie about the results of the election. so i have asked for the inspector general to investigate what happened, and then we will follow up on that. the inspector general, i believe, he hasn't communicated to us, but i have good reason to believe he will go forward. >> reporter: of course, fred, as all this comes to light, what more is there that we don't know about that went on at the department of justice? that is a big question. and the other thing, of course, that a lot of people are talking about is whether or not these efforts by the former president now somehow become part of the impeachment trial. >> all right. we shall see. thank you so much, shimon prokupecz. appreciate that. >>> the u.s. senate

on foreign relations and with the chief diplomatic correspondent for the wall street journal and the editors of "the new york times". before i get started please note the counsel is independent nonprofit nonpartisan organization taking the positions views expressed today by participants are their own. we will have a 30 minute discussion and then taking audience questions sec ga.life le.life when you can submit a question there i would like to welcome the panelist president and founder of the year eurasia group each january the report of the top ten list for the coming year in the editor-in-chief of the economist and on newsstands and of course a former us ambassador to nato and then we get to restore order in the universe and then get to ask questions. welcome all, and thank you. i like to start we would like you to assess each other's top risk for 2021 and then add your own top projection. eurasia group 46 with an asterisk to say following the trump presidency many democrats believe russian agents one for him that opens of the era of the * presidency the occupant is seen as a legitimate by half of the country. it

towards their businesses at the same time consumers because of the tariffs has cost the american household, on average, according to the new york fed, "the wall street journalny other publications, $800 to $1,000 more per family per year at the same time our allies who are supplying these products to china and those european products are not imposing tariffs from china the goo goods from european countries are cheaper than american goods. that means our allies are reaping the benefits of this trade war, yet they have the same concerns. so, i think under a biden administration you'll see focus on these grievances of american companies and the government has had, worldwide concerns but we'll do it in concert n cooperation with our allies so that we're a united front so we're not suffering while our allies and the companies of our allies actually benefit. >> we were reminded this morning just how much trade balance is deteriorating. governor, appreciate your time today. former governor and ambassador to china >>> still ahead, elevation partners roger mcancanemy has m. >> youtube literally does not engage in the controversies. they're just as big a contributor.

new york times, impeach mr. trump again. the wall street journal, he could help his country and the presidency by calling off the house. and from washington post, cori bush, a first-term congresswoman from missouri, this is the america black people know. it's one of the paragraphs from her column. she said what transpired on wednesday was not america and they are wrong. this is the america that black people know. to declare this is not america is to deny the reality that they incited this coup by working to overturn the result of the presidential election. it is to deny the fact that one of my senator josh hawley went out of his way to salute the white supremacists before the attempted coup. it refers to valid votes of black, brown, and indigenous voters in the midst of a pandemic that disproportionately kills us. we overcame voter suppression to deliver a victory to joe biden and kamala harris. one other note from former secretary of state and first lady hillary rodham clinton. america: we need to do some soul-searching. back to your phone calls f