oklahoma state university, he was an honors student, president of the student business council graduated in 1970 with a bachelors degree in accounting. after the family business was sold, he attended medical school at the university of oklahoma, received his medical degree with honors in 1983, interned at saint anthony's hospita hospitan 1986 he found a muskogee family is in practice which is still in operation today. the victory over melanoma is a a young man inspired him toma bece a physician. he stated he wanted to give back because he had been gettin get . the battle when he was a young man wasn't his last battle with cancer. as a physician, the dedication to his patients whose inexhaustible. over his career, he delivered 4,000 babies and would often see 30 patients a day. after his election in 1994, he would fly from washington, d.c. and home so they could continue to see patients on the weekend. a schedule that he maintained the entire six years he spent in the house. he was a doctor all the time. it wasn't uncommon for him to be in a conversation with someone who in the middle of

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oklahoma in the u.s. it's joshua landis director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma and the editor of the syria comment gentlemen thank you for joining us for inside story bottom of the quote to start us off from robert ford who is a former u.s. ambassador to syria who once said of rami makhlouf frankly if he wasn't part of the family he'd probably be dead. but in bondi he's an extraordinary interesting figure isn't he running amok with so much power and then things just turned so quickly look around me where the people who say that he is the most fish person in syria blah blah blah rami is just running assad family money so he's just syrian employee with a so far this would have been this way so way and medical media report mentioned that he on 6 percent oxygen economy basically what they reality is that bashar owns 60 percent and romney just running that show for. the other the former prime minister say to listen to that when the government of syria try to fix the contract between syria and if you don't govern that so their government get more revenue but. they're certainl

joshua landis is director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma he says syria is more than willing to accommodate russian interests. russia wants more land made available to it just a few days ago it appointed a special envoy for putin named to sebastian are there mr f m off as a special envoy so clearly president putin is trying to is trying to get better returns for all the money and effort spent in syria there has been no back and forth especially with the all of the caught under tough we've seen with the cousin of the president who has had his industry stripped from him the russians have been putting pressure on the syrians to to deliver economic goods and to begin to invest in the economy and to try to make some reforms and this is a way to i think gain leverage in syria for greater things the more things the russians want because the russians have tremendous leverage if assad wants in that province back that wants the north where the kurds live in americans are positioned back about a 3rd of syria is still occupied by rebel forces he needs the russi

it's great to joshua landis is director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma and joins us on skype from norman in oklahoma to lend its welcome to the program so what's happening here the russians wanting payback for its support of syria i did it russia wants more land made available to it it just a few days ago it appointed a special envoy for putin named to sebastian are there mr f. him off as a special envoy so clearly president putin is trying to is trying to get better returns for all of the money and effort spent in syria and why is it important to russia to have these facilities in syria but i think that there has been no back and forth especially with the all the calm under talks we've seen with ram up loot the cousin of the president who has had his industry stripped from him the russians have been putting pressure on the syrians to to deliver economic goods and to begin to invest in the economy and to try to make some reforms and this is a way to i think gain leverage in syria for greater things the more things the russians want and from assad's point

. >>> at a recent program at the american enterprise institute washington, d.c., university of oklahoma history professor rhode islandford mcclay offered a look at american history that he hopes will rival textbooks used by students today. here he shares his thoughts on the history of slavery in the founding of america. >> hence, it would be profoundly wrong to contend -- as some do -- that the united states was founded on slavery. no. it was founded on other principles entirely, on principles of liberty and self-rule that had been discovered and defined and refined and enshrined through the tempering efforts of several turbulent centuries of european and british and american history. these foundational principles would win out in the end, though not without much struggle and strive thering and e -- striving and eventual blood shed. the united states enjoyed a miraculous birth but was not the product of an untroubled delivery. few things are. i wrote these -- excuse me. wrote these words before the publication of "the new york times" 1619 project which i suspect you all are somewhat fam

clark spoke to joshua landis who is the director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma he says their russian government has been trying to make some reforms. just a few days ago it appointed a special envoy for putin named to sebastian are there mr f. him off as a special envoy so clearly president putin is trying to is trying to get better returns for all the money and effort spent in syria and why is it important to russia to have these facilities in syria. well i think that there has been no back and forth especially with the all the calm under talks we've seen with randy mccloy is a cousin of the president who has had his industry stripped from him the russians have been putting pressure on the syrians to to deliver economic goods and to begin to invest in the economy and to try to make some reforms so malia's government says a very young aide workers have been kidnapped and killed by an armed group that happened outside the capital mogadishu the minister of humanitarian affairs has condemned what she described as the brutal execution and says the attacks against hu

after the family business was sold that he worked at, he attended medical school at the university of oklahoma, received his medical degree with honors in 1983. interned at saint anthony's hospital in oklahoma city and in 1986 he founded the muskogee family medical practice which is still in operation today. hissing victory over -- his victory over melanoma as a young man inspired him to become a physician. he stated he wanted to give back because he had been given to. unfortunately that battle with melanoma when he was a young man was not his last battle with cancer. as a physician, his dedication to his patients was inexhaustible. over his career he delivered 4,000 babies and would often see 30 patients a day in his office. after his election to the house of representatives in 1994, he would fly from washington d.c., every week he'd fly home so that he could continue to see his patients on weekends, a schedule he maintained for the entire six years he spent in the house. he was a doctor all the time. he it was not uncommon for him o be in a conversation with someone who right in the middle o

practitioner and for the center of study of indian lawof and policy chickasaw nation in native american law in sam k in the presidential professor at oklahoma university school of law, robert sharon filed a brief on behalf of the oklahoma district attorney's office in support of the respondent, he is an associate at baker hostetler, he's represented parties before the supreme court in the u.s. courts appeals in the delighted to welcome both, thank you for joining us lindsay robertsonro robert sharon. >> thank you so much. >> so glad you're here. >> let's begin with you since you filed a brief on petitioner's chief justice roberts right after the gate asked her question, he said the state argues that this indian community is not an independent reservation but independent indian community, tell us about that, rather technical sunday distinction and why so much of the case hangs on. >> it's unclear that it does but it certainly became the state's principal argument the school around that it did not appear in the argument in the murphy case which left some of us scratching our heads and they seem to have shifted midst under midstream and making a differen

>> she was a graduate of the university first in the spring of oklahoma and then tulsa i'm sorry where i was born but shortly after i was born she took charge of me and took me to school with her everyday about me in the back of the room with a pencil and paper and told me to be quiet. i was quiet. and she felt i would just be scratching on the paper but she was teaching the children she had the alphabet on the board i that that was more interesting than anything i could do so when she was going around one day to see with the children were doing she came back to see what i was doing i had alphabets and letters and simple sentences and she was astounded to learn i had taken and everything she was teaching. i'm not certain when i learned to read and write but it was about ten and from that point on i was a student. >>host: how weird is it to be african-american in 1950 with two parents that were college graduates? >> i think it was fairly rare. and to confound from the reconstruction. and with plessy against ferguson and. and that brought an end to whatever. with the fights. for african

for the center of the study of american indian law, chickasaw nation and native american law, and sam k. -- family foundation presidential professor at the oklahoma university school of law. filed a brief in support of the respondent. he is an associate professor. he has revisited parties in many proceedings, before the u.s. supreme court and u.s. courts of appeals. i am delighted to welcome both of them. thank you so much for joining us, robert sharon and lindsay. >> thank you. >> i am so glad you are here. lindsay, we will begin with you. you filed a brief on behalf of the petitioner's. chief justice roberts asked a question out of the gate, saying the state argues that this indian community is not an independent reservation, but a dependent indian community. tell us about that rather technical sounding distinction and why so much of the case hangs on it. >> it is unclear that it does, but it certainly became the state's principal argument this go around. it did not appear in the argument in the murphy case, which left some of us scratching our heads. they seem to have shifted course midstream. and are making this different argument. titlenguage comes fro

>> she was a graduate of the university and she taught in elementary school, first in spring, oklahoma and tulsa, rentersville where i was born and shortly after i was born within three years she took charge of me and took me to school every day, and she told me to be quiet and i was quiet and she felt i would be scratching on the paper and she was teaching the children, she had the alphabet on the board, that was more interesting than anything i could do, when she was going through to see what children were doing she came back to see what i was doing, alphabets and letters and simple sentences and she was astounded to learn - i am not certain, it was at that time i learned to read and write and from that point on. >> how rare was it to be african-american in 1950 and have two parents who were college graduates? >> i don't know. it was fairly rare. african-american colleges and universities that were founded during the reconstruction period throughout southern states, in the last part of the nineteenth century, still supported schools after plessy versus ferguson, the law that brought

he coached many different schools, most notably university of arkansas at his alma mater oklahoma stateorial hall of fame alongside nba legend kobe bryant in august. his family says he died of natural causes at home in oklahoma yesterday. coach was 84 years old. eric: nascar holding its second weekend of racing today, the coca-cola 600. companies longest race of the year being held at charlotte motor speedway. catch it 6:00 p.m. tonight eastern time on the fox broadcasting network. more think we can, coverage includes tribute to the troops was an address from secretary defense mark esper. nascar president steve phelps on the special election trip between fans and military. >> likely to have served in the military and nascar than any other sport. there's a natural connection between nascar and the military. eric: we are joined by nascar host adam alexander. fans are pumped but this race special tribute on. tell us the names of the fallen engraved in the windshields of each car? >> yes. 600 miles of remembrance. each driver tonight will carry the name of a fallen hero across the windshiel

california state university announced this week that most fall term classes will be online, having an impact on close to half a million students, while a growing number of campuses across ohio, oklahoma person classes for the fall semester. at the university of oarizona, the college will use a reopening guide centered around testing, tracing and treating. joining me to discuss that frame work is the university of arizona president, dr. robert robbins. sir, thank you for being with us. can you walk me through how you are going to manage to bring students back and test, trace and treat and conduct classes? >> yes. thank you for inviting me on to your program this afternoon. so we made a decision to bring our students, faculty and staff back to campus. but we're doing it very cautiously. we're essentially setting up an incident command center to go through methodically and meticulously to put this system of frequent testing, contact tracing and treating our infected students, faculty and staff in a very aggressive way. so i think that the message would be, although we cannot make this risk free, we're going to try to derisk and mitigate as many of the risks to protect our faculty, staff

just like calls family the whole country is in a state of awareness wanting to change things and contain the epidemic. at the oklahoma university and then seen an aggressive alliance was formed researcher andrew culottes me lawyer richie with you and dr jason b. then they've all gathered to establish a common fight plan against every single laboratory. case. dr beaman has created the 1st college education program with the country on pain killers addiction. and also what provide education to all of the 1st drivers from dentists doctors and that marriage right then and there. we think that that will do more to the result you were describing than any of our other initiatives i think the. me response has been that the doctors that are graduating now and going out into practice are not person and we've seen over 20 percent decline. in oklahoma over the last 2 years and my medical students will never be involved in this over. behavior there are definitely some doctors have knowingly contributed to this problem they saw an opportunity to make money and they went for it but that's that's a very small minority vocal harmonies department