and walter russell mead. thank you very much. >>> sunday on q&a, the house of truth, a washington political salon and the foundations of american liberalism. we talked with author brad snider on his book. walter lipman, oliver wendall holmes junior, and herbert hoover, who met regularly in the early 1900 rs to debate politics and the future of the country. >> i think everybody, lipton, race was a selling issue for them. they cared about the rights of workers, and it took oliver wendell holmes jr. in a 1923 quasz moore v dempsey, which found for the first time the mob dominated criminal trials of southern blacks violated the due process. for the first time the supreme court struck down a state criminal conviction. that was a huge moment in putting fair criminal trials in a liberal agenda and linking the idea of fair criminal trials with race. >>> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. >>> sunday night on "after words," republican presidential candidate and ohio governor john kasich discusses his new book

that's the moment that we got wonderful panels, professor walter russell mead , who you'll hear more in a moment. elmira bayrasli, i hope i pronounce that correctly >> very well jim ketterer from brevard and tom nichols. you probably know most of them already. join me in welcoming our panel. [applause] >> thank you simon and thanks to all of you for being here and thanks to the organizers for putting this timely and important event together. so we're shifting to foreign policy, it strikes me that foreign policy not to be in most american presidential elections something that's front and center in the elections. in several of the elections we've seen before 2016, in the debate foreign policy issues would barely get a mention yet it's a selection that several key issues came to the four time and again. how we deal with china, trade deals, the question of russia that is still with us and more. and the foreign policy establishment in washington and beyond, the community of people who have devoted their careers to doing this, the same community that made inroads in the obama administratio