any of your colleagues, would you be concerned? this is sort of a warning to you at the university of any university in hong kong, but this is what's happening. and this is going to be the new reality. well, i'm sure that some of my colleague put together one with family in china now, you know, on, on who maybe the tenure. so you have more leverage. they will be worried to teach that subject. they will, they won't, you know, they will, will refrain from doing, doing so. as far as i'm concerned, i will never stop because that's, i think it's part of the chinese history. so we have to teach it as a piece of very important piece of the recent history of people who republic of china. it doesn't come with any surprise about the removal of the statue, but it does come after the china patriots only legislative election took place. i believe on sunday with a record low turn out. what does this tell us about the way people feel about the direction that hong kong is going in? well, i think it's another nail in the coffin of hong kong democracies. after what happened yet erection, which took place 2 days ago, which was very much an democrat b

university there was a refusal to agree to any nonmonetary reform. i worked with eight months to create a process that would do a policy assessment of the university to look for gaps in weak spots in the universityny kind of collaborative working with survivors and every reform they asked for. that door has been closed. with us ag and us opc, we have the ability to create a template for what this looks like and i am excited about that opportunity to really give a paradigms shift for how institutions should respond in crisis, and as far as the fbi goes, we are waiting to hear them they have reopened the investigation, but we need to see if there is any kind of accountability for those fbi agents not only lied to the department ofjustice, who lied to larry nassar survivors and the amount of paedophiles, there has been no accountability for the fbi. that is a step that still has to come. that is a step that still has to come-— that is a step that still has to come. ., , , , , to come. hopefully this will be closure for _ to come. hopefully this will be closure for hundreds _ to come. hopefully this will be closure for hundreds of- to come. hopefully this will be j closure for hundreds of victims th

an honest cultural and structural policy assessment of the university to look for gaps in weak spots, and the university board just flat—out rejected anyborative working with survivors and any kind of the nonmonetary reform we asked for. that door has been closed. with usag and usopc and these nonmonetary provisions, again, we have the ability to create a template for what this should look like, and i'm excited about that opportunity to really give a paradigm shift for how institutions should respond in crisis, and as far as the fbi goes, we're really still waiting to hear — the department ofjustice announced that they have reopened the investigation, that's some new information that came in, but we're waiting still to see if there's going to be any kind of accountability for those fbi agents who not only lied to the department ofjustice, who lied to nassar survivors and who allowed a paedophile to continue abusing little girls for 15 months after they did exactly what he was doing, as of yet, there has been no accountability for the fbi. that's a step that still has to come. rachael denhollander, one of larry nassar�*s survivors. more

university have hired him? >> guest: he could have worked at any college or university. university wisconsin and any economics department in the country. before he ever began writing that controversy and so forth there's a number ofdemic publications. what they ran into trouble with is the faculty lounge. the college administrators and so forth. this was the 1960s you had a women's rights movement, antiwar movement, all these things were coming together and time was of a different generation. he intended to teach the way he wass taught. the professors and administrators were much more indulgent so i think it reached ahead for him. to lead teaching altogether he wanted to be a teacher. >> he is probably a great teacher when you talked about his childhood, did he have a father figure? >> the great and that raised him was something of a father figure but when he talked about that experience he was essentially raised by four adults and talks about that in his child development and says i was lucky enough to be raised by four adults and that had more of an impact than anything else that happened to me in my life. >> i wonder if that is a relatively it ignored the field people talk about the influences in childhood and

university have hired him? >> he could ever do any college that he wanted to. and the university of wisconsin. and then to get tenure and to work and was quite talented. and then talking about racial controversies then to surpass most people in the field. then with the faculty around and those who want to interfere with the teaching style that this was the 19 sixties and then to have women's rights movement and all these things were coming together through this sort of thing in time was of a different generation intended to teach that way. and that is very difficult to do. and then to be much more indulgent so he just would not bend. so then at cornell in the late sixties and was on faculty at the time and he stuck it out through the seventies and to be put in the think tank world already but then decided to leave teaching altogether. but not even research he wanted to be a teacher. >> by the way i was thinking talking about childhood. >> it's interesting. yes the great aunt that raised him had two daughters. but when tom talks about bad experience that essentially was an only child and he talks about how important it was with child development and we know the firstborn child to say i was lucky enough to be raised and that had more impact on how i turned out. >> i'm just thinking that relatively ignored field talk about the influences and i wonder if the fact that kids today spend more time with kids rather than adults then perhaps in recorded history does not have the immature impact on thought and personality? i am just freely associating based on what you said. >> it might. i am not too familiar with that literature that we do have these gaps that we are still dealing with that begins even before the children enter school. with the studies that have been done with children on welfare and working-class parents. not only in the number of words but negative words and that can be quite different with that socioeconomic background that in times case at this time the black family was in much better shape than it is today. intact families were the norm in the black community in the 1920s and thirties black marriage rates were higher a lot of what we see today from the 19 sixties. >> try and set out on a college campus today. [laughter] it has >> through his twenties even after studying economics under milton friedman he was still a marxist and then was working in the government. and what saw was government was not always a benevolent force or a benevolent force. so when it comes to lower income minorities with the study of minimum wage in terms of the effects on employment. >> you studied under milton friedman did he haven't big impact on him? >> yes. in several ways. milton friedman one of the bigger impacts he had was on public intellectualism. and what i mean by that after he won the prize and left the university of chicago he said about writing popular books that were to general interest readers. he did a lot of speaking to groups on campuses and elsewhere and he felt the role of the scholar was not something to talk to your peers but to display your discipline to those who were not in the discipline so he has written book after book and claim english plane spoken pros for everyday people. it's one of the reasons people were disappointed a few years back. even after tom left he was still teaching through that column and he was the best professor people had so i think that public intellectualism to a certain extent that friedman was a mentor. >> he studied under a persuasive left-wing economist you thank you would've turned out differently? >> no. probably not. he was very much his own man george stigler was another economist that he studied under in chicago he studied under jerry becker working on his masters. but no. he is his own man. even after studying under friedman someone has to figure

universities market themselves to students. if you got any university in america they present themselves as you are going to get a world-class education and open up all sorts of possibilities so they are promising high and mighty things that everything that comes through their system, when you look at the results of system's they range of degrees that are not worth the money you are paying for and seniors are leaving with a massive amount of debt and little in the way of job prospects and their often promises that are made and you see it youtuber see them as traders looking for more money and more time out of students on campusus as opposed to giving an educational product to them. >> is there a change in your view in higher education in america a? >> it goes back to the middle ot the last century as higher ed really expanded pd find traces of theyo going back hundreds of years not even a millennium. we tell the story adam smith compared the inefficiencies at oxford universityat in england o theo spanish system and pointed out the administrator seem to be operating in such a way that they have a continuous cash flow and they didn't have to deliver anything to the students and students cheated and they came to class late and they didn't really care so a lot of the same patterns we see 250 years later still taking place in the university system. >> in 2021 is a four year college degree necessary for good job any more? >> i would say that depends on the field. if you like a college degree is like a generic and map the lifetime career earnings is well worth getting a college degree. the other day that there's theater drama poetry and literature were you end up asking the questions on what you are spending over the course of a four-year period in excess of 100 or $200,000 to go to college there may not be the type of career path that a person will be looking for because the job market isn't there for those types of degrees. >> in your book "cracks in the ivory tower" talk about general education classes quiteon a bit. >> general editor these classes that everybody takes. that's your injured anglers enter the composition math biology all of these things that you are supposed to take to be a well-rounded student to get a well-rounded education. unfortunately over many decades a lot of these classes aren't delivering much i

universities and market themselves through students. if you go to any university they have literature they present themselves as you are going to get a world-class education and open up all sorts of possibilities. their promising high and mighty things but every student that comes to their system is going to get. but when you actually look at the results was coming out of the universityystem it's a range of degrees. some are not worth the money you are paying for. students are leaving with the massive amounts of debt very little in the way of job prospects. there's often a promises made that are simply not delivered on it. you university administrators operating in such a way to try to get more time out of students as opposed to actually delivering an educational product to them. >> this is been a revolving change in your view in higher education in america? >> i think it's something that at least goes back to the middle of the last century. the post-world war ii era as higher ed really expanded. you can find trayce going back hundreds of years. one of the anecdotes we tell and our story adam smith are for the wealth of nations in 1776 compared to inefficiencies at oxford university in england to the scottish system. one of the things he pointed out is the professors were lazy, the administrators were operating in such a way they thought there was a continuous cash f

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university markets themselves through students because if you go to any university in america they present themselves as you're going to get a world-class education and open all sorts of possibilities so their promising high and mighty things every student that comes through their system is going to get. but when you actually look at the results of what's coming out of theuniversity system , it's a range of degrees that some of them are not worth the money that you're paying yo for. some of them leaving with massive amounts of debt with little in theway of job prospects . there's often promises that are made are not delivered on and whether you start seeing the e university administrators office operating in such a way to get more money or more time out of students on campus as opposed toactually delivering an educational product . >> is this an evolving change in your view in higher education in america? >> i think it's something that at least goes back to he the middle of the last century. so the post-world war ii era in higher ed really expanded although you can find traces of it going back hundreds of years if not even a millennium. one of the anecdotes we tell them the story is adam smith, author of work of nations in 1776 compared the inefficiencies at oxford university in england to the scottish system and one of the things he pointed out is for ethe administrators seem to be operating in such a way that as if they had had a continuous cash flow and they didn't have to deliver anything to thestudents , students cheated, they came to class late and didn't care they say a lot of those same vendors that we see 250 years later are still taking place a

of congress, new york university and the university of warwick. he was formally public humanities scholar at the 911, memorial museum and is currently a public-policy scholar. any spy cast, the mere it into a museum's podcast and thank you for being here tonight and i am really looking forward to our discussion. and it dr. andrew hammond, would you mind starting us off by just telling us a little bit about the international spy museum, before we begin. >> absolutely, i think it would probably be better if you wouldn't mind, 19. [inaudible]. predict. >> i will just say that we open up in 2002, and it was our founder milton who served in the national security agency in the 1950s, it was his vision that really brought about the international spy museum back in 2002 and we existed it in the core of dc and he don't know dc, it is not too far from the national mall braided on mother's day and move to the other side with an amazing 140,000 square-foot building, a force and that is where we had the opportunity to tell the how and why, and the procedures that we will talk about tonight and also, the why the nation spy and said that is the heart of the cold war story in

university, where chen wei- ming's tiananmen massacre frieze was in position until this morning. chen said he would sue the universities if any of the artworks came to damage. francois: south korean say they are divided over the pardon of ailing former president park geun-hye on humanitarian grounds. she resigned or was forced out in disgrace, and sentenced to 20 years behind bars. currently in hospital. the former conservative icon thanking her successor, moon jae-in, who has an election ahead in march. reporter: former president park geun-hye gets to walk away, free from a 20 year jail term for various correction offenses. the justice minister announced friday that the decision was made due to e former executive's health, and to bring about national unity. >> we have included former president park geun-hye to overcome the unfortunate history , unity to overcome the covid-19 national crisis. we had a chance to take a new step toward the future. reporter: park, who was a conservative, became the first woman elected president in south korea in 2012. she was widely celebrated. but her fall from grace came in 2017, when she was found guilty of abusing power and accepting millions of dollars in bribes from the country's largest conglomerates, including samsung. in january 2020, she became eligible for a pardon. at the time, her successor and current president, moon jae-in, said it was not appropriate to discuss her amnesty. his decision to grant her freedom now marks a change in his position, just weeks before he is set to leave office, and three weeks before the next election. francois: forget omicron -- santa is on his way. he is in northern finland, on the ark circle. -- arctic circle, embarking to deliver presents to children big and small. tourism officials breathing a sigh of relief. they say tourists are returning in numbers approaching pre-pandemic levels after an 82% drop in visits last christmas. from all of us in the newsroom here at france 24, good tidings to you. there is more news on the way. ♪ >> because a new page of history gets written every day. because breaking news cannot wait. information everywhere. in situations on every subject. understanding the world. imagining the world. france 24 -- a different take on the news. >> liberte, egalite, actualite. ♪ >> ♪ roxanne you don't have to put on the red light those days are over ♪ >> he has been making hits since the 1970's as the police, and later as a solo artist. now, as he reaches his 70th birthday, musician, singer-songwriter, racist, actor, and -- bassist, actor, and activist is celebrating with his hits. >> ♪ if this love cannot see the reason then at best you can be sure is this love you must surrender if it's love that' true ♪ >> hello, sting. let's talk about what france means to you. sting: i have been coming here since the 1970's. it is only 20 miles across the sea, but there is something about france which is so different to english culture. to me, it is exotic, and i like french food. i like french history, french music, movies. >> your album was written during the pandemic. how did covid-19 affect it? sting: i would say not much, because it just moved me out of my cycle, you know? i was in the middle of a tour. the pandemic cut my tour in half. when i was forced to go home, i said, ok, i will just move the cycle of my work. i will now work in the studio. that is what kept me sane. i did not sit at home eating cookies and watching netflix. i worked every day. >> the song "the bridge" made me think about the refugee crisis, climate change. what does it mean for you? sting: i think the bridge is an interesting metaphor for what all of us are going through, including me. i think we are all in a state of transition. one of the characters i write about in songs is between things, between life and death, between worlds, between love and not in love, between health and sickness. i only realized this after i finished writing it. so the theme of the bridge, looking for some route to the future, where you would feel safe or happy, is something we are all searching for. it is not a real bridge. it is a bridge in the mind. i am looking for it, or my characters are looking for it. so here we are. ♪ this is the sound of rushing water running through my brain this is the sound calling out your name this is the sound of atmospheres ♪ >> there are a lot of references to water in this album, including a shipyard. how does that influence the album? sting: water is an important cybill for me. i was born to the river tyn, a big symbolic influence on me. water symbolizes the unconscious. it also symbolizes the firmament. for me, these are two areas i'm very intrigued by. this is my muse. this is what makes me wonder. >> we live in a world of crisis. a pandemic, climate change. do you feel we have reached the end of an era? sting: 'not a historian looking from above. we are right in the middle of it. we are in crisis. that, i know. don't know whether it is the end or the beginning. yet we have to impose a strategy to get to the future. we need to be optimistic. but ao, we need to be realistic. so there is a balance between the two things. i don't have the answer. for me, the bridge is music. that is my way of connecting. we all need to connect with each other. >> the trial of the november attacks taking place now. you were the first artist to perform. what convinced you to do that. sting: first of all, it was a great honor to be asked. i had some history with the bataclan. i played there. it was a difficult job, because i had to celebrate the opening of this famous theater, and also to honor the dead. achievg that balance is not sy. i hope i did i'm glad i did the concert. it was a very emotional evening. i was honored. >> britain is no longer part of the e.u. how has it affected you? sting: exit? brexit is a disaster. i voted against it, as did half of the people of britain. i'm angry with the government, because they have sold us something that does not work. there is not one good reason why we did this. it is called self-harm. >> some things don't change. you still talk about love on this album. you just turned 70. you have been married a long time. you still have a passionate feeling? sting: i think love is a very interesting subject. it is really what writers write about. i have experienced the whole spectrum of emotions related to love, from the highest joy to the lowest misery, and everything in between. these are areas i can write about some understanding and some authenticity. but i don't want to write a song that says i love you and you love me, because it is a closed loop. it is banal. whereas i love you but you love someone else, that's painful but interesting. >> you also mention disease in the album. sting: i'm being ironic. if it is love, i talk about symptoms of disease. i'm writing about it during a pandemic. i'm trying to be lighthearted. the song is funny and ironic, and it begins with me whistling, which i think makes people smile. we still need to smile, even though we are in crisis. ♪ and i got this diagnosis this opinion, and i quote i write you a prescription this is what my doctor wrote if it's love it has no season ♪ >> for quite some time, you have played all around the world. what keeps you going? sting: what keeps me going? curiosity. curiosity about music. curiosity about life generally. i ask the question, why are we here in mark is this? -- why are we here? what is this reality? i will never find the answer, but i am intrigued. >> eric apton, shaggy, french singers -- how did it happen? sting: over the years, i sang with many other singers in all different genres and ages. we thought it would be interesting to put them all together and see what happens, because it is very exciting. but the bridge is me. so i think people found that intriguing, that i would sing with two very opposite singers. but i am the connection. >> [singing in french] sting: ♪ sometimes the moon is not so high above me beyond my glances >> it paris in october, it was the first time a concert was held there. how did that feel? sting: i'm aware of the symbolic meaning of the papillion. it is the ethos of the republic. below me in the crypt was voltaire, diderot, victor hugo. i went to visit them and say hello. for me, it was a great honor to be the first englishman to perform there. ♪ if it's love, it has no season if it's love, there is no cure if it's love, you don't see reason and of this you can be sure ♪ there is an atmosphere in the room that is very mystical. it used to be a church, but it still has that eminence. >> you are also an actor. you are in "camelot." >> [speaking french] >> you were in david lynch's "dune." the remake has just come out. what are your memories of making the movie? 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of the universe and whether there are any other planets able to sustain life. joining me now is dr. hakeem oluseyi astrophysicist professor at george mason universityiety of black physicists. i'm so excited to have you here. i bet when you woke up this morning you envisioned we'd be having this conversation. anytime something happens in space we got to talk about it. >> that's right. >> i am so confused. how does this telescope see into time? how will this explain to us what happened so long ago? i mean, we're talking about the infancy of earth. >> i know, right? it sounds crazy but it is real. it's 100% real. the thing about it is a lot of this fancy stuff we talk about in physics that has to do with the cosmos is happening in your life on a smaller scale but you just don't notice it. if you're sitting across the room talking to someone, the light takes time to leave them and pass to your eye. you're seeing them as they were some fraction of a second. so the farther you go the longer it takes. the light from the sun is eight and a half minutes. you start talking about the nearest stars you're talk bth a few years. james webb is designed to look ba

university have hired him? >> he could ever do any college that he wanted to. and the university of there's a number of academic publications which surpassed most people in the field. it was the faculty lounge, the college administrators in their teaching style and part of the problem was this was the 1960s and higher education was changing. you had a gay-rights movement, antiwar movement, all these things are coming together they use these platforms for this sort of thing and tom was a different generation. intended to teach the way he was taught and that was hard, it became very difficult. the professors were much more than anything tom experienced and he would not budge. i think it reached ahead for him in the late 60s, he was there for the protests on faculty at the time and i think that might have been the break for him. he stuck it out, he had 1 foot in are ready but he eventually by the end of the 70s decided to leave altogether but his first job had been classroom teaching. he wanted to be a teacher. >> a great teacher. by the way, i was thinking when you talked about his childhood, did he have a father figure? >> he had -- yes. one b of his great aunt had two daughters, one was married. that man was something of a father figure. when tom talks about the experience, it's not that he had a father figure. it's that he was essentially an only child raised by four adults. he talked about how important that was in his child development and you know through studies how the first born child does or an only child, he was raised by four. he said that's all we had, it had more impact when anything else in my life on me. >> i'm just thinking, i wonder if that's a relatively ignored field, people talk about the influences in childhood and i wonder if the fact that kids today spend more time with kids rather than adults, perhaps in recorded history, i wonder if that is having a maturing impact on personality. i am just associating here based on what you said. >> it might. i'm not too familiar with that literature but we do know a lot of these backs gaps, academic achievement gaps we are still dealing with and trying to close to begin even before children enter school. we know words in our studies done and you break that down by income level, working-class parents, huge disparities not only in the number of words but negative words versus positive words child here's can be different depending on social economic background of the family. in tom's case, and at this time, the black family was in better shape than it is today. those families were the norm back then. in the 1920s and 30s and 40s, black marriage rates were higher than white marriage rates in this country so a lot of what we see today is a legacy of the 1960s. jim crow or slavery. >> trying to say that on the college campus today. [laughter] it has the detriment -- >> harlem was not this violent gunfire, people don't understand that.. it's not what it became later so it was a very different place back then. >> is it fair to say, feel free to say it's not fair to say but i think most americans today, black-and-white have a picture of black life prior to the 60s as under servitude humiliation, non- achievement, such a distorted picture. obviously it was the evil of jim crow, we all understand that but jesse owens was an american hero in 1932 or 36, i don't remember which olympics, hitler's great chagrin, it was a black one who beat all of his runners. don't know that though, do they? >> they don't. thomas spent quite a bit of writing about this. of black history often overlooked. what was going on between the end of slavery, reconstruction through the jim crow era and before the modern-day civil rights movement in the progress being made, it was remarkable progress. he saw gaps close, income gaps closing. poverty rates for example in america fell by 40 percentage points 1940 to 1960. that before the civil rights act, before the voting rights act. middle-class profession, social workers, teachers, doctors, lawyers, accountants but a number of them quadrupled 1930 -- 1970. that's before affirmative action and you are right, it does not discuss to the extent it should be and i think it's because it interferes with the narrative that what we see, the outcomes we see is a legacy of slavery and jim crow. if you announce to them blacks were progressing at a much faster rate than generations closer to slavery and jim crow than they are today, it interferes with that narrative the left often push and the democrats often push. >> so again, please tell me if this is wrong in your opinion but one of the, if not the central model of the conservative is please leave me alone. that's basically what we wanted, to be left alone would like to make our own life, our own mistakes, fall on our faces, pick ourselves up. is it fair to say that all that had an effect had blacks been left alone with no jim crow, that's not being left alone. we help you immensely, what that have been better? >> i don't even think it's a theoretical question. it can be answered empirically by looking at trends among blacks during a period of time when government, excuse my french, didn't give a damn what was happening to black people. to the extent the government was involved, it was in oppression and if you look at the progress in terms of income and professions, educational attainment, if you look at these trendlines, you see tremendous progress in the first half of the 20th century and when the expansions of the 1960 and great society and so forth, well-intentioned but if you track the progress going on among blacks, at that time all of these things either slow, stall or start to reverse course. a quick statistic, violent crime among blacks today moves, it was declining in the first half of the 20th century. in 1940, it fell by 18%. in 1950, it fell by 21% all the while remaining relatively flat among whites and this was particularly remarkable because it was the time a lot of blacks were moving from rural settings to urban settings where you typically find more violence. yet violent crime rate among blacks, homicides and so forth were falling dramatically. all reverse course beginning in the 60s and it goes on into the 70s and gets worse well into the 90s so i don't think it's something that is theoretical, it can be shown. what thomas said about this, and this gets to what you are saying about leave us alone, with the federal rights did that was most valuable, to get the government off the back of black people particularly in the south with respect to the jim crow. that was the great achievement of the civil rights movement and busting jim crow. to the extent the government has tried to pull a positive role, the rise of the welfare state with homes in the black community so yes, leave us alone strategy, i think it was the better strategy and at the time, but frederick douglass in washington, that was their attitude. >> so with regard to know community, is it probably as true as it is in regard to black americans, ronald reagan's famous statement the government is not the solution, it is the problem. >> yes, i think so. tom started as a marxist, thinking the government did have a positive role to play in the 20s, he remained after studying economics under friedman of the universityid it changed his mind was working in the government and the department of labor. what he saw was the government was not always a benevolent force and it can be quite harmful to glibly when it comes to low income minority groups and in this case it came after minimum wage laws and what they were doing in terms of the effects of unemployment. >> you mentioned studying under milton friedman, did milton friedman have a big impact on him? >> yes in several ways. friedman -- i think one of the bigger impacts he had on him was public intellectualism what he's best known for today and what i mean by that is after friedman left teaching in the 70s after he won his nobel prize and left the university of chicago, he said, he started writing popular books, people who were not economists or intellectuals, he did a lot of speaking to such groups, college campuses and elsewhere, he felt it's not simply to talk to your peers in the academy but explain your discipline to people who are not in the disc

university and in washington dc that he transferred to harvard or eventually got his undergraduate degree and from there also at columbia but a master in economics in any university of chicago in business and received his phd and 30 dropped out both the 60s and in the 70s, amherst,he brandeis, ucla and cornell. and then in 1980, he joined hoover at stanford university and that is where he is been ever sense. >> if there were no hoover institute and institutions what a mainstream institution would've hired him. >> he could've worked anywhere he wanted to, he turned it down offers, university of wisconsin and he could have government ten years in economics. he was very talented scholar. and before he ever began writing the racial controversy and so forth in just the academic publications and so forth, and more people in the field. the faculty lounge, the college administrators and teaching styles, and he fell for it but i think the part of the problem was this was the 1960s, and higher education was changing it. yet a women's right movement and a gay rights movement and american war movement and all these things were coming together pretty and summary being used as platforms for the sort of thing and they came from a different generation and i think that he teach the way that he would taughthe and that was hard starting the 1960s, the became very ver

of these archives for u.s. business history, and for many years, they were at the university, but firestone never allowed any historian access to that collection, even though they were at a public university. and i was similarly denied access on multiple occasions. so part of the challenge in writing this book was how to tell a story that had been hidden from view for many years. and part of the answer came in 2012, through a chance meeting with then a graduate student at the university of wisconsin. he's with us today. i want to thank emmanuel. without him, this writing of this book wouldn't have been possible. [applause] so i showed some of this expedition footage to emmanuel, and he became quite enamored about it. he grew up on the liberian new guinea border not far from where this expedition passed. so we began together retracing the expedition in liberia to try and understand the meaning and impact of firestone and american science and medicine on people's lives and livelihoods in liberia. it would lead to the making of a film "the land beneath our feet, on history land rights in liberia, which emmanuel is a protagonist. i will show you the trailer from that film. ♪ ♪ [inaudible]. [i

of students protesting in beijing's tiananmen square has been removed from a university campus in hong kong. china has always forbidden any public recognition of the killings of pro—democracy demonstrators in bejing in 1989 — and the universityemorates the tiananmen square massacre, speaking volumes with bodies piled to represent the pro—democracy protesters killed by the chinese authorities in 1989. it had been at the forefront of annual vigils, but it too has been silenced. i don't think people expected this thing would happen in the university — so—called with the most freedom of expression or freedom of speech. they try to become the first one to remove every history or parts of history inside the campus. under cover of darkness, construction workers dismantled the eight metre statue. the university of hong kong ordered its removal in october, saying the decision was based on external legal advice and risk assessment in the best interests of the university. i would ask, if they don't give me the sculpture, i will sue them. because they have destroyed an artist's work in hong kong, they have kept it for 25 years and now destroyed. of course, they must give it to me, even in pieces. i want to take it back to denmark and pu

go to any universities up there in massachusetts, the millions and billions and billions of dollars coming from chinese government into these universitiesst to further scientific research. i know they like to say science is the reason for everything from lockdowns to why they need to take bribes from the chinese, those are not just hear is some money. can we make the world a better place. that is not the way the chinese operate in our tech plays or any space we deal with them. we need to acknowledge that. i am glad we're starting to root some of this out but the problem is much deeper. charles: talking about ricardo and comparative advantage, they did not look at communist nation, you suring out power, stealing our technology and selling us cheap stuff. been too long. dig the grand father clock. hope zoo see you in the new year, my friend. >> merry christmas. charles: later in the hour, one of my favorite market watchers going against the crowd, that the fed is not the biggest risk to the market. obviously we need to know what is. armed with the vaccine and stimulus americans entered 2021 with a special vigorous optimism, an american ki

any. they have the longest sentences. you are speaking about one of my students. i teach through rutgers university. these are exceptional men. i have also taught exceptional women in the university. they are serious scholars, serious intellectuals. one of them is lawrence bell. lawrencehe bell, his father died when he was two, his mother died when he was nine. he was living as an orphan in an abandoned building in camden new jersey. the poorestic city in america. year after year, usually per capita has the highest homicide rate in america. there is a wait and a murder. the camden city police attacked this dragged into the police station. nobody is watching out for him. there is no guardian, no legal representation. coerced into signing a confession. he does not know what it is and it. he attempts to protest. you are right. the judge in his sentence, remember, he is on trial. cause him irredeemable. that does not mean you get out at 70. the first time around. he like so many of my students just decided to be the best person he could become. notha what you do with what life gives you. he rose to get into this program i taught of course after this. the revolution, the haitian slave

universities have been doing this and university emissions been doing this for a very long time. now this idea of trying to find a way to get the most diverse and they can mean diverse by any kind of a definition, the most diverse entering freshman class that they can. but it comes down to intangibles how they feel that they can fit in. most of these universities will tell you that they can probably populate their freshman classes with everybody who has a 1600 on there is an a 4.0 or greater grade point average. we're all student body presidents are quarterbacks of their football teams or whomever. but they look at these other issues, these, these things, it, what it does do is it means that it comes down to the essays, the other experiences that a student has. but if you are a student who is a hard worker and is focused on your work and probably would do very well, one of these i be of the university settings. if you don't have that other intangible in there, you're going to be left in the cold and that would be a real shame. well, there's only 24 hours in a day, and i can tell you to fill those lots of things. mainly there are studies in high school, so it's hard to actually create that diverse diversity on their resume. but you know, hardware is actually assuring that emissions based on test scores will actually resume in 2027 and they've a

around to all the universities, university of chicago, northeast, and they ended up with horace trumbauer. he designed the library in harvard, he designed a place in new york. i haven't found any evidence that they consideredth guy the time. what i've read other places, at the time duke started, rick was doing a lot, so he wasn't really involved. i think he must have been involved somewhat, but you don't really find his name mentioned much in relation to duke. in the same way, horace trumbauer, even though his name is found all over the place and he signs everything, it became clear in the 20th century that really julian able did most of the drawings. he was the first african-american graduate of the architect school at penn, so he was really responsible for all the buildings, even though i'm confident horace trumbauer should not be completely left out of the conversation. so what about duke? if rick is out of the picture, the job of designing duke fell to purcell gallagher, one of my favorite names. gallagher was very culturally oriented. he designed a lot of parks, he designed a lot of estates. he worked at swarthmore. during the time he worked at duke, he was also supportin

of universities in kansas, state university, to carry out 127 of the faa safety system human factor analysis, specifically, witchita state conducting for error and industries design information, do you have any information on that work? >> it's extremely valuable and adds perspective and valuable research on our efforts in human factors and some of the issues we talked about this morning. >> what's the faa oversight in that regard and what's the timeframe on the results of those, that university research work? >> i'm not sure of the precise time frame, but, you know, again, this is ongoing work and very important to our existing manufacturer's work. >> finally, i am hearing concerns, administrator, about significant delays in the faa's ability to issue regulation, guidance and policy. i know there are a lot of new demands on the agency, innovation and automation and even the demands included in the aircraft certification and safety accountability act, but it's really important for the faa to do its work in a timely, although appropriate and adequate manner, with near perfection. what's the faa, what are you doing, what can you do to reduce the backlog in that work? >> certainly there are mul

any of that an overreaction? do you see the signs of us being too visceral in how we're responding to the latest turn with regard to omicron? >> well, my university is one of those universitiese home. my final, which starts on monday is online. we were expecting to do it in person. i think there is a sense that the positivity rate's going way up. we had more than a doubling last week of positive students, and so i think that's motivating people. this is highly, highly transmissible. i mean, if you just look at the curves, the line goes straight up. it really is very transmissible and people have to take that seriously, and i unfortunately think some people are. we're seeing a big uptick in people getting vaccinated, for example, an uptick in cancellations of parties and things, and those are probably good reactions to slow the spread and to maybe stop the spread here. >> am i incorrect in saying to mayor de blasio a moment ago, obviously as someone who lacks any medical expertise or degree, that what he's doing in new york is only as strong as what's going on in the rest of the country? because ultimately, this virus knows no boundaries. >> yes and no. the virus does move. p

universities in the u.s. and a bunch of small companies -- at universities in the u.s. and a bunch of small company's, but it is possible to use research that could create cross-reactive antibodies that work against any variants that hit us in the future or other types of coronavirus, so it is very early, but the problem with all these variants is you are constantly scrambling to keep up. what proponents of this universalirus vaccine want to do is create a super vaccine that will be longer-lasting and work against more possible coronavirus strains so that you could stop pilot, and when the next pandemic hour variant comes, we already have something on hand that is likely to work against it. david: that goes into -- i just had my seasonal influenza shot i think a couple of days ago, and arguably, if we are talking about the same thing, for example, would we need one shot and that is it, or would we need one shot of the same kind every year? just to clarify, of course. >> yeah, the idea being you get one series of shots, kind of like measles or something, and that protects against also it's of coronavirus is for a long period of time. the exact idea is to avoid what happens with flu shots. when flu shots were first invented in the early 1940's, people thought they were going to be great, and it was just a minor matter accounting for the different strains and having it all worked out and it would be great

universities closing two days before break and what they reopen. i'm concerned because i don't see any evidence that closing schools and the university decreases the spread of violence. as for the into the community window put people in a central location all of that back to two years when it was an effective i'm expecting more about instead of what i would like to see which is the president talk about tools. look at the stock price, the booster itself gives you 37 times more neutralizing antibodies against omicron and 100 micrograms of old dose of the booster gives you 83 times more in pfizer has been shown to be useful. if they would talk about the effectiveness of the booster or money from the federal government to create more boosters that are targeted. imagine what gsk would give the government would buy 100 million doses of the monoclonal antibody that works against this work the fda would get off it's tough and approve the new pfizer pill that decreases hospitalizations by 90%. it would definitely work against invariant. that is tools and tools create optimism rather than fear. stuart: i see new research which shows this year's flu shot is a bad match and does not work. then we keep you green the breaker cases of covid and people have been vaccinated and got the booster as well. the whole thing seems to be undermining confidence in vaccines. >> that the fairpoint i want to parse that out, the flu shot quite frankly is not a great shot but we've been talking about it for ten years later decreases hospitalizations and visits to urgent care significantly. even if it's a bad match like this year not a great shot. but the new shots for covid are tremendous shots. we were talking about 95% effectiveness. if you are fully boosted against covid and omicron and you get a mild case with a sniffle or fatigue for a day or two which is what were seen in people who are boosted, that is not the same thing is ending up extremely sick for a week or two are in the hospital, god for bed these shots work they decrease severe illness. a study out of the uk shows a fully boosted by either shot your chances of a serious illness goes down 90% against omicron, get boosted. stuart: get that out there, doctor thank you very much for joining us, the entrance you again really soon. the white house is playing cleanup after the vice president's comments on omicron is before we did not see delta coming, most scientists did not upon his advice and direction we relied did not see delta coming. we did not see omicron coming that is the nature of what this awful virus have been which is mutations invariant very poor choice and true choice of words she does anticipate the variant. there seems to be a shock in the administration who celebrated independence from covid july 4 that we are still dealing with this. we know what she met but your job is to expect the variant and that expected not to say you didn't see it coming. stuart: one more important thing, israel may ban travel to the united states. lauren: they voted to ban from traveling here, no fly list includes germany, italy, canada and other nations and we do have new rules announced in germany, after christmas starting on the 28th you cannot gather private groups of more than ten regardless of vaccination status. stuart: the netherlands went to full lockdown today. travel is completely interrupted throughout europe and coming to the united states. it's then disrupted throughout the world. stuart: that has the market worried everything slowed down look at the airlines, were gonna check the market in the moment the opening bell is next. were looking at a lot of red ink. ♪ today, business is a balancing act. you want your data to be protected and secured. and your customers want seamless and easy. with ibm, you can do both. your company can monitor threats across your clouds, address all those regulations, and still create all new experiences. trustworthy ai powered security. that's why so many businesses work with ibm. stuart: as selloff at the opening bell reading across the board and keith fitz joins me right now. something tells me you are not buying the step, are you. >> you are correct in your assumption i am in no hurry to do anything today. this is headline central, psychology central, like watching ping-pong except all the action on one end of the table. stuart: now we have the omicron variant spreading rapidly. not strong symptoms, nonetheless it spreading, if you got it you don't go to work and if we come in contact with somebody those people don't go to work. that is one of the reasons for the selloff, what is the other one, build back better, dad, goldman sachs says it cuts economic growth, what is the story. >> i agree with both of those it introduces uncertainty to the markets, traders don't like that and they don't understand leverage, the fed is in left field. between all of those things people are simply stepping back and say way you know minute we had to reassess this. i really wish we would see santa claus this year but it might be the grinch who steals the rally. stuart: do you think this is the end of the bull market? >> it's too early to make that call, the selloff is very technical in nature, the business case for many of the companies visors, bitterness, apples, microsoft is getting stronger, if you look at anything today i'm going to be looking at walmart is proven to be a savior in the midst of all of this for millions of families and may well be again. stuart: you're not jumping into by very vigorously are you questioning. >> this is not what are the days where you want to make grass decisions. this is the day you want to be careful very measured and delivered. the path forward is always going to be looking into the future, it's not looking where we've been, the return to normal is off the table. it's the world will look like is what you want to think about. stuart: it build back better is dead, if it is and it's on life support. that means there will not be tax increases on capital gains and personal income. i thought that would've been a plus for the market. >> it is interesting i have to disagree on that one little bit. i think the beltway are going to find a way to push the taxes through regardless of not the cash for the build back better plan i would not be so quick to dismiss the tax component. i think they will find another way to grab at it. stuart: what do you think the fed's response is going to be to the rapidly spreading omicron in the slowing economy. >> i think the feds response should be we messed up here's why it's not going to happen, here's what were going to do to fix it, this is terrible and morgan have accommodated things, who knows what the going to say. i tell you what i would want to hear them say. stuart: tell me again what do you want them to say. >> one, why did this happen, why is inflation out of control, what they're doing about it in the mirror, what models, what was broken, how are they going to fix this going forward, we need accommodation that importantly we need a fed that understands real money. i want to see those explanations. i don't just want to hear that were thinking about inflation and raising rates, people confuse having a plan with actually doing something. i want to see the fed do something. stuart: are you working from home? >> sam. stuart: you been doing that for a couple of years? >> yes we have. >> it's been great we reboot the entire office above the garage apple started above the garage. stuart: good luck, merry christmas, if i don't see you before christmas day we will see you again real soon. >> the opening bell will ring in about 30 seconds. as you can see from the left-hand side of the screen i regret to say this monday morning the market is going down. i hire a lot of caution from the analyst that we speak to, summer suggested that the bull market is over. it is certainly in trouble. omicron is spreading rapidly. things are slowing down and when joe manchin said no one the back better that really set the political world into a turmoil that's the backdrop to today's sella. here it com three, two, one the market is open and a 30 down, quite significant as expected as the first couple of seconds of business the dow down 435, 29 of the dow 30 all of them every single one of the dow 30 stocks again in the nasdaq the dow is stopping with the loss of one in one third% 460 puts the s&p 500 on the downside, better than wanted a quarter% down. the nasdaq composite, what an half% down. big tech is down across-the-board, it is a significant loss microsoft is back to 320, apple 168. google 2792 amazon 2325. nevada $329, all down 1% or better. show me tesla. we know elon musk sold $14 billion worth of stock, selling three in the last three weeks. i believe he did that to settle a tax bill. what was the tax bill. susan: most of the $11 billion will go to pay taxes this year which elon musk says is the largest individual tax payment in history. here's the build back better implication. he could've waited until next year to pay the tax bill but there were concerns over the build back better that he might pay higher capital gains were billionaire surcharge so we know that's unlikely with joe manchin saying no. there was implications for the huge stock cell from elon musk. we had guggenheim is 924, nevada upside in increasingly crowded rivian and lots of other names jumping in volkswagen and gm. stuart: i would imagine with the spreading omicron that travel stocks are down under pressure today. can we go through them. stuart: the netherlands imposing a hard lockdown in the middle january. this is christmas lockdown, the uk nonessential travel, hurting the airlines, cruise lines and hotel operators yet to feel for these companies, isn't this supposed to be the holiday and see normalize travel once again. it is tough for these travel operators. stuart: i feel very bad for those people that wanted to see relatives over christmas. now i have to cancel because they can't come back. especially with the elderly at home. >> i'm sorry to hear that. the stay-at-home companies they're doing well back to 200. stuart: zoom says the hybrid worked while she boost growth that's why there was an outperformance. almost 4% in the free market, the peloton, netflix there is more outperformance and gift binds and some of the lockdown trades compared to the rest of the broader market. stuart: the vaccine makers all i presume are a big especially my moderna. >> novavax, my moderna third booster shot and antibody levels, 37 fold in a double dose of the booster, i don't know if were there yet but a double dose is more effective against omicron that comes off either of the third shot the resource protection in novavax is another vaccine getting a boost today said to get emergency approval pretty quickly. stuart: i want to go back to at&t, we were talking about this last week $24 a share, it has 7% dividend, $24 a share, who likes it. >> you're getting an outperformance call from berkeley, at&t saying it's worth $34 and that's the upside of 20% not bad in this jittery environment. they say it's time to buy the struggling stock the reason we have a catalyst that's been out with this discovery hasn't been fully priced into the stock and you have helicon for the broadband side. stuart: if it has a 7% dividend yield that is attractive. it's guaranteed this environment quite right, 7% looks pretty good to me. i agree with you. seasonally this is supposed to be the strongest quarter of the year for stock markets. that doesn't seem to be my moderna. stuart: five days to christmas in the market down 500 on the dow industrials. have a look at bitcoin, it is down $45000 a coin, is this about omicron. >> absolutely, it's interesting, bitcoin is supposed to be decentralized trade something away from government policy and if the hedge but now it's macro trends which tells me and tells a lot of investors that bitcoin has gone mainstream a lot of the institutions and individuals own bitcoin crypto currency so you get one and after i dollars in value this year end crypto in the study really tells us who is holding bitcoin. the study from mit shows there are 10000 accounts that hold 5 million bitcoin, $332 billion that's 114 million around the world that means they hold 27% bitcoin, isn't that scary if they decide to sell, they could create an outside reaction encrypted currency and bitcoin. you really have to be trusting the system they want to hold long-term. stuart: that is fascinating and very small percentage. >> extraordinary leverage, i did not know that. >> and compare that to the u.s. economy 1% of the wealth is held and controlled by a third of the wealth. stuart: thank you very much indeed, let's take a look at the dow winners on your screen. 72 merck and walmart, how about the s&p 500 do we have any winners there, i'm sure we do my moderna is on the list and so is pfizer and kroger. more on that later. clorox is on the. the nasdaq winner looking at zoom the top of the list check the big board down 500 points, 1.4%, back to 34800 the ten year treasury yield 1.39% as we speak. gold what is happening to that, under $1800 per ounce, bitcoin 456. the price of oil, we got that mixed up, $67 per barrel of oil, not gas, 389, the average gasper regular gasoline not until now at 331. not much movement. down 10 cents for the month, california, still going strong, $4.67 a gallon for regular and golden state. here's what's coming up the last latest excuse for inflation, rising prices are the result of greed. watch this. >> it's not inevitable economic force of nature, it is greed. >> the president the secretary of agriculture has both spoken to what we seen as an meek conglomerate. stuart: the greed of big meek conglomerate. steve forbes is going to take that on. he's on the show later. he was running the white house. one interviewer tried to ask the 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>> merry christmas going to be with you, this is the best thing, what an early christmas is for america. kudos to joe manchin for killing a bill that is destructive to the economy. higher tax rates, massive increases in debt, assault on american energy, i spent a half an hour going through of horrific things in this bill the big question now as you were talking about is whether this bill comes back next year. i think it is hard for joe manchin to even support a skinnier version of this bill after the way he ripped into this bill yesterday. the best thing that could happen for the american economy and the higher taxes and debt and spending to go away. one other quick point if i may, if bernie sanders wants to bring this bill to the senate floor as he is talking about, do it, let's have a vote in the senate. we know joe manchin is about how about john kester and montana have awarded in virginia, how about the two senators from new hampshire. a number of moderate democrats in the senate or people who call them cells moderate who are very nervous about this bill. it is not just joe manchin i would love to have a headcount inquiring minds want to know where do all the democrats stand on this bill. stuart: put the build back better joe manchin on one side and look at omicron. it is spreading how much does the slow the economy. >> it is so uncertain. the one lesson hopefully that we have learned from the first round of covid in 2020 in early 2021 when we shut down the economy and businesses in schools and parks and churches, it had almost no impact whatsoever on the spread of the virus, lockdowns were a failure. i shudder to think that we could see another round of lockdowns. already i was looking on the internet this morning i was happening with schools. you now have some school districts around the country saying they're not going to reopen in january. this is very frightening. the overreaction that we saw in 2020 and 21 we don't want to replay that. i'm afraid there's a real risk of that although i'm going to make a prediction. biden is supposed to make a speech this week. stuart: tomorrow. >> i think he's going to be good on this i think he will say we don't need to do lockdowns again. i think he will say that we need to be smart about this and if he does i will applaud him. yes we have to be smart and people should get the booster get vaccinated but let us not shut down our businesses and our stores and kill our small business effort. stuart: thank you for being with us, merry christmas to you. >> see you next week. stuart: "saturday night live" tried to make it work without an audience and without music performances and without most of its cast. we will show you how it turned out. sports league changed the game plans as covid infection climb, what is the nfl doing to prepare for monday night football, grady trimble at the chicago bears with a report on that after this. ♪ as i observe investors balance risk and reward, i see one element securing portfolios, time after time. gold. your strategic advantage. a must in your medicine cabinet! less sick days! cold coming on? 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because he wants to be fdr. why did he say spending trillions costs zero dollars? that is practically untrue. why, why, why. joe manchin allowed america to dodge a socialist bullet. now what? the democrats will have to regroup but it will be extremely difficult. how do you get socialists to abandon their socialist dreams? you don't because they won't. so the democrats will close out the year a bitter, angry and divided party. ps, if they're too nasty to joe manchin, he could just switch parties. then a republican majority in the senate could kick bernie sanders out as chair of the senate budget committee. we live in hope. the second hour of "varney" is just getting started. ♪. pete hegseth with me this morning. i was dying for this. i've been on the air for an hour waiting for pete hegseth to appear. you know i think you should give the democrat as lesson in politics. why on earth did they try to transform society without a majority in congress? why did they, just completely confused on inflation but my real question, pete, sorry taking up so much time here. >> no, it is all good. stuart: with a divided and bitter party at each other's throats how can they come through with anything, any part of build back better next year? >> they can't, they won't. god bless joe manchin and the courage that he showed. they say he doesn't have courage. you know the courage it took for him to stand up to this onslaught? because he actually represents people, the people of west virginia. the businesses and industries of west virginia that are under full assault because of leftists in washington. and you talk about the current state of the party, why would they try to do this with a divided congress. this is the party of bernie sanders and comrade cortez. yes joe biden was the nominee but it was because they rigged it against bernie twice. he is the soul of that base. and it may be joe biden in the white house but it is barack obama's advisors. it is hillary clinton people. it is hard left folks that are actually driving the agenda and the priorities. so they went for everything they thought they could possibly get. they went green new deal, renamed as build back better and they didn't count on a roadblock joe manchin. they will keep trying by the way. they will keep shaming him. there is no evidence that worked at all. in fact probably backfired. stuart: i will run a few sound bites from the progressives slamming manchin. my point here is that if they're so nasty to him, i mean he could switch parties. it is not entirely out of the question. roll that tape please. >> i mean, we all knew that senator manchin couldn't be trusted. you know the excuses that he just made, i think are complete [bleep] >> he has never negotiated in good faith and he is obstructing the president's agenda. >> if he doesn't have the courage to do the right thing for the working families of west virginia and america, let him vote no in front of the whole world. stuart: you remember jumping jim jeffords back in early part of this century. he was a republican. the republicans were nasty to him. he jumped ship to the democrats and democrats therefore got the senate. am i too far out of bounds here that the same thing could happen with joe manchin. >> i don't think you are. with friends like these, who needs republicans. why not just join the republicans to have some real friends, a party that could tolerate that kind of perspective that believes in federalism. what the democrats are captured by national narrative and national activists. joe biden is reminding them that he represents real people. his job is not to vote lockstep with with the dnc. people who voted for trump overwhelmingly also voted for joe biden. he knows how utterlily unpopular it is. i would love to see a change. it is not easy. you have got staff. you have got campaign people. you have got the state party. all the reasons not to do it but everything else over there says do it joe, come on. stuart: lastly, pete, i was watching you on day 3 of turning point usa's a marry amerifest. america's schools are in the state of extreme. what say you. >> we were coming all of a a covering all the them. as conservatives, patriots, we abandoned that. there is over 100 year plot by progressives to take over the american classroom and they have done it. we're teaching kids not to live our country and not love our system. until we take it back, talking universalhe tax dollars to go wherever they want. the monopoly of the government run system is poisoning the minds of our kids. conservatives have been behind the curve on this. i will do the tease, i haven't mentioned it a lot. a five-part series on "fox nation," miseducation of america, 100 year progressive plot to take over the classroom. it is more insidious than i thought when we started the project. it is not just about critical race theory in some schools. it is the whole pipeline how kids are being taught. that is how you get here. stuart: put it on this show too. thanks, pete. >> thanks, stuart. stuart: while we're talking about political messes, listen to this, vice president harris got heated during an interview, tell me more, lauren. lauren: she did a comedy central interview with charlemagne the god. her aide stepped in the site president couldn't hear the question. speculating she didn't like the question. here here is the question how harris answered. >> who is the president of t

university has, there could be a fly card with the university. this would be in the amount that would carry through not just an academic turn based on your needs. that would take care of any food issues they might have. that would totally illuminate the need for food pantries. i like the whole idea of empowering the students of that mechanism you're talking about. >> it gives students choice. anybody else? >> yes. i think what we have been talking about around raising awareness at the universitydministrators and winners here in the southeast, having to raise awareness of the fellow college students, raising awareness of congressional leaders and other administration but also raising awareness of the private foundations and in the private companies. this is a workplace issue. this is a workforce developing issue. you have to translate some of the research into that language to encourage their participation in the conversation. i will say that similar to what rachel has experienced, we received financial support from private foundations that have partnered with plenty of private companies to support the work we are doing. the ones that are already aware, they are engaged and interested. i think we just have to commit to continuing that conversation. i will be the first to step up today and say i already have written down as my next task to reach out. for all of this to start the conversation, we can talk about grassroots, the next steps. >> i appreciate it. i don't want to get

university has, there could be a fly card with the university. this would be in the amount that would carry through not just an academic turn based on your needs. that would take care of any food issues they might have. that would totally illuminate the need for food pantries. i like the whole idea of empowering the students of that mechanism you're talking about. >> it gives students choice. anybody else? >> yes. i think what we have been talking about around raising awareness at the university administrators and winners here in the southeast, having to raise awareness of the fellow college students, raising awareness of congressional leaders and other administration but also raising awareness of the private foundations and in the private companies. this is a workplace issue. this is a workforce developing issue. you have to translate some of the research into that language to encourage their participation in the conversation. i will say that similar to what rachel has experienced, we received financial support from private foundations that have partnered with plenty of private companies to support the work we are doing. the ones that are already aware, they are engaged and interested. i think we just have to commit to continuing that conversation. i will be the first to step up today and say i already have written down as my next task to reach out. for all of this to start the conversation, we can talk about grassroots, the next steps. >> i appreciate it. i don't want to ge

university has, there could be a fly card with the university. this would be in the amount that would carry through not just an academic turn based on your needs. that would take care of any food issues they might have. that would totally illuminate the need for food pantries. i like the whole idea of empowering the students of that mechanism you're talking about. >> it gives students choice. anybody else? >> yes. i think what we have been talking about around raising awareness at the university administrators and winners here in the southeast, having to raise awareness of the fellow college students, raising awareness of congressional leaders and other administration but also raising awareness of the private foundations and in the private companies. this is a workplace issue. this is a workforce developing issue. you have to translate some of the research into that language to encourage their participation in the conversation. i will say that similar to what rachel has experienced, we received financial support from private foundations that have partnered with plenty of private companies to support the work we are doing. the ones that are already aware, they are engaged and interested. i think we just have to commit to continuing that conversation. i will be the first to step up today and say i already have written down as my next task to reach out. for all of this to start the conversation, we can talk about grassroots, the next steps. >> i appreciate it. i don't want to ge

universities. but this is not a problem that can be solved by any bill in the senate. thankfully, that tide is starting to turn. one of the first colleges to make a move was the university of chicago, in 2015. the universitypresident sent a statement on free expression to the incoming freshmen. he showed in that letter how both sides of the aisle are hurt when campuses clamp down on open debate. he called out what are considered trigger warnings and safe spaces while praising academic freedom. now other colleges in our country are slowly starting to follow suit. so far, 75 schools have released similar statements, but of course 75 schools is only a fraction of all the colleges in the united states. to continue this progress we need individual americans to make their voices heard. ultimately, being a democracy means that we're able to listen to each other and do it civilly. we ought to be able to respectfully talk about where we disagree, not sweep those disagreements under the rug. and in the process, silence those who do have the guts to speak out. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: madam president. the presiding officer: the ?ears from missour