i'm happy to welcome christine whitman. she has a consulting firm that specializes in environmental issues. governor whitman served under president george w. bush as administrator of the epa from january of 2001 until 2003, june of that year. she is the 50th governor of the state of new jersey, serving as its first woman governor from 1994 until 2001. as governor, she earned praise from both republicans and democrats for commitment to preserve a record amount of new jersey land as permanent green space. she's also recognized by the national resource defense council as having instituted the most comprehensive beach monitoring system in the nation. as epa administrator she brought about water protection policies. governor whitman also championed regulations requiring nonroad deefl engines to reduce sulfur emissions by 90% and a host of other environmentally crucial innovation. william riley was the administrator of the environmental protection agency under president george h. w. bush. he served as founder of the wildlife fund

i'm happy to welcome christine whitman. she has a consulting firm that specializes in environmental issues. christina served under president george w. bush as manager of the epa from 2002 to 2003. she served as the first woman governor from 1994 to 2001. as governor christina whitman earned praise for being able to receive a record amount of new jersey land as permanent green space. she is also recognized by having the most comprehensive beach monitoring system in the nation. as epa administrator she brought about water protection policies. governor whitman also championed non-diesel action along with crucial innovation. william riley was the administrator of the environmental protection agency under president george w. bush. he served as the founder and adviser to several business efforts. in 20 14, he was hired by president obama to watch the water supply in mexico. james strock was acting director at the office of personal management. christopher demuth was chairman of the white house staff force on environmental policy,

whitman: -- gov. whitman: they recognize that. they are building more green energy and to -- into their portfolio than many countries. we are not going to have an ability to interact with any impact on what the international community decides, even if we rejoin paris, if we do not take steps in this country. we have to take steps that show we are serious about this issue. right now, people do not trust us. we get them to do things we want them to do and had influence on the paris accord and then we walked away from it. right now, we are not seen as a reliable partner. the whole world has to be a part of this. mother nature can care less about geopolitical values. it becomes important that we have a role to play with china. they are major polluters, but they are taking steps, not as fast as we would like, but we are not in a position to have an influence on that. >> administrator riley, are you optimistic about developments in china and there are key activity? -- and their arc in activity. madethough the president an important deci

john kasich and christine todd whitman. thanks to both. let me start with you, governor whitman. the president spending his time still focused on the election saying he won. not anything else, of course, of these incredibly momentous things happening. he's going to leave. what is his poigain at this poi governor? >> his mentality will not allow him to lose. if he doesn't win, it was stolen. he can never admit a fault to himself. what he is doing right now is just appalling, ignoring his role as president of the united states for, as you said quoting before, protect and defend. it's -- it's -- it's just mind boggling what's happening. he wants to keep that base ginned up. whether he has the discipline or desire to run in 2024, right now he doesn't know. he'll keep feeding them. he is undermining our constitution. he is undermining people's faith in what was an extraordinarily well done election given all the problems that we have and now we have enormous issues facing us and he's just burying his head in the sand. it's extraordinary. >> governor kasich, it is extraordinary. what's

governor whitman, clean water, i know you're a critic of the outgoing administration, administrator wheeler is my friend, so is administrator pruett. but they were both very, very committed to clean water, as i know you were. does the world get it yet? is the world on top of the risk to the water supply and the necessity of keeping it as clean as we've brought it to the point of being in the united states now and continue to work on? >> i think the world recognizes the importance of clean water because they've seen the impacts of what happens when you don't have clean water. i just think most of them think it's beyond their ability if we're talking about the average person to have any impact on it. they also -- many people don't understand what comes out of the sky is not necessarily clean. that in fact there's a great deal that happens to it, particularly in this country, but unless you have a well the way we do, you have to clean it. anybody who drives a car or puts anything outside and goes out after a rainstorm and looks at it knows it's dirty and that's because of the pm 2.5 that's in

it was really interesting that he was passing the torch to ginsburg and as we picked up for walt whitman and i view witty as a writer even though i am a music lover. >> i love the made that connection. >> because they were tuned into the way the institution was shape for sexuality. and to the degree that what he has any relationship with clearness it is at the a p-letter on - - at the peak of sexuality. >> and he had no homes about having friendships with your men and that was not necessarily a common thing or an open thing. >> people agree not to talk about things i don't know if people ever know but next to marjorie that was the most powerful relationship of his life. >> okay. >> that got my heart going. >> if you are watching and have a question you can put it in the comment section and we will get to those and we will start with a question from susie q. [laughter] she says i would love to hear guests talk about the experience and the archives at the guthrie center and the favorite thing that you found in their. >>. >> you had a wonderful experience in the archives those that have not

yes my name is rigi whitman the attorney here in oklahoma city . in my mind is model murray i am my lawyer in oklahoma. carol hunter hired my law firm whitman verged to represent the state of oklahoma and try to recoup all of the costs that the state has incurred because of the opioid epidemic we need this person is a. case. and. i think we're going to be able to prove that 80 percent of all the crime in the state of oklahoma is directly caused by this opioid epidemic and our prisons are overfilled because of that loss of productivity of taxpaying citizens costs the state money but i'm anxious to get this 1st this 1st battle started. what they did to this country. is from. their estimates bring the cost of the epidemic to $7000000000.00 in oklahoma. this is story cool hearing will take place in a few days. today reggie which will explain his motivations to a group of students that this struggle is a personal one. partner a gene has been involved in the opioid addiction the opioid crossus ever since the death of his son brian and i had a nice that a

that is former new jersey governor christine todd whitman.ow we will turn from the dead states to europe where the eu is announcing major new regulations proposing it for the tech industry. we turned to maria tadeo who is with the executive vice president of the european commission. right, david. two pieces of legislation just announced in the european union that could have big repercussions for american tech. on that note i am happy to say we are joined by the european commissioner. today you have announced measures. we could see potentially breakup companies, we also see companies need to take responsibility. the digital market is the same as brick-and-mortar. do worry about your reaction from companies like facebook and amazon? >> what we worry about his competition and a fair marketplace. we have been consulted extensively, we have been talking with everyone, we had experts, member states, organizations. this is our worry. of course we are balancing things. this is an unfortunate proposal. maria: you said this was not targeting anyone in

yes i actually think that biden can unite and especially if he does something like a net whitman which was you know our public good i think they're verse x. and including even republicans and meaning all kinds of diversity on that panel i think you'd hear us from. our own. mind in the. i think you need illiterate people towards the middle. but i think that you know american politics is just it's very divisive divided to see that there were next 4 years markedly brianna. he could by advocating for a new new deal to lift america out of the economic health crisis and right now but he won't because he was elected on the basis of being a corporate a corporate candidate. early on today. come in the house the 1st princeton and that was talking about the 1st 100 days of the new administration one of the issues is getting a stimulus package for people who are suffering from coronavirus on the 1st 100 days this so much that the next administration say they want to do is come in the how is 1st of all and i can love to hear your thoughts about that guest let's hear from the v.p. moratoriums on a v

david reynolds is a distinguished professor at cuny's graduate center, walt whitman's america, a cultural biography, winner of ben croft prize. and renaissance, john brown abolitionist and mightier than the sword, uncle tom's cabin and the battle for america. he is a regular book reviewer or the new york review of books, the new york times book review and the wall street journal. david will be in conversation with james oaks, one of the leading historians of 19th century america. james' pioneering works include the ruling race, 1982. slavery and freedom and then interpretation of the old south. the radical and the republican, frederi frederick douglas, abraham lincoln and the triumph slavery politics and the latest book, freedom national, the destruction of slavery in the united states, 1861-1865. today we'll have a conversation for 40, 45 minutes and take questions for 10 or 15 minutes. please click on the question box below in your-- to type in your question. and jim will be sure to get to as many of you as he can. we will try to end this program after about one hour. at 7:00 eastern ti

. >> host: walt whitman?>> guest: there's one moment after reading his editorial as blatantly racist. i had to figure out how to come back to it and that is one of my favorite books. >> host: yolanda in denver. >> caller: this is about obama's latest book. i was disappointed in the light of the destruction of our 10% to 20% of black americans and sisters, this chaos and terrorism, this happened after the destruction of the libyan government by obama and he seemed to express pride in what he did to destroy the libyan government. >> host: we are out of time. what specifically is your question? >> caller: i was just wondering if you had any opinion about obama continuing to be proud. >> host: i will finish with a quote from democracy in black. in 2008 and again in 2012 obama sold black america the snake oil of hope and change, joined bill clinton, jimmy carter and overconfidence men who presented themselves as people who would challenge the racial order of things. >> guest: we are running short on time so i will

and let go back to phones and -- >> guest: whitman. >> host: what walt whitman. >> yes. >> host: why.is editorials, i saw him blatant racist, hip carrot and i had to -- him credit and i had to figure -- hypocrite and i had to figure out how to come back to him it and i did. >> host: yolanda in denver. >> caller: dr. applaud, this about obama's latest book and i was disappointed that in the light of the destruction of the -- of our 10 to 20% of black america's ancestors that this chaos and terrorism and this happened after the disruption of the libyan government by obama and he seemed to express pride in what he did to destroy the libyan government -- >> host: we're out of time. what specifically is your question? >> caller: ... the snake oil of hope and change. we joined bill clinton and billy carter. see mac i know we are running short on time. i will fall back on my southern roots. when i think about it now. we had been there and done that.t eddie is the author of six books. his most recent just published this year is beginning again. and the urgent lessons for our own. we ask appre

>> richard whitman, in london. professor, thank you very much. appreciate it. >>> all right.ls across the u.s. are being pushed to the brink. even with vaccinations underway, one key model is project things could get worse by spring. we'll have more on that, coming up next. ♪ [yawn] you. look. stunning. want the truth to why i wake up feeling... [growls softly] ...so darn awesome? [makes playful sound] i take care of my skin. not this skin. that skin. and when you've got incontinence, you sure need to. tena intimates pads lock liquid in, and are now 100% breathable to care for your intimate skin. are you still here? kind to skin. protects like tena. damom, look!get sare you okay?? head home this holiday with the one you love. visit your local mercedes-benz dealer today for exceptional lease and financing offers at the mercedes-benz winter event. xfiniwith the new hbo max app on xfinity. watch the greatest collection of shows, movies and new max originals. enjoy hbo favorites you know and love like game of thrones and the undoing... with exclusive max originals like the flight

whitman. yeah. >> why? there's e moment, yout know, afr reading editorials, blatant cists, hypocrite and i had to figure out how to come back to him and i did and democratic justice is one of my favorite books. >> yolanda in denver, hi, yolanda. >> hello, dr. galude, this is about obama's latest book and i was disappointed that in the light of the destruction of 10 to 20% of black america's ancestors that this chaos and terrorism and this happened after the destruction of the libyan government by obama and he seemed to express pride in what he did to destroy the libyan government -- >> yolanda, we are out of time, what specifically is your question? >> i was just wonring if you -- if you had any kind of opinion abt obama continuing to be proud of what he did? thank you, yolanda, i will finish with a quote, professor, this is from democracy in black. obama sold black america a he build bilclinton and jimmy whoer, other conferenceen presented themselves as people who would cllenge the racial order of things.

jim strzok, i left you for last because you served both the federal and state level like governor whitman. you stood up to the california epa, you had just come in from the federal epa. who has the heavy lifting here in 50 years? is it the states or the federal regulatory scheme that makes science advance and protect the environment? >> i think it's both, hugh. i think the federal world has detained dramatically in a time where the states need to clearly take a much larger leadership role, and that includes cities. that has not been taken fully into account. likewise, it will have to be more international. the epa will have to rise to the challenge of that area. i think there's a lot of lessons from what president nixon did in 1970. at this point, 50 years on, less about what he did then how he did it. there, i think there are a lot of lessons we could continue to benefit from. >> you just brought up the international scene. i want to go around the horn again. secretary pompeo came to the library in the summer of 2020 to announce a revision of american foreign policy vis-À-vis the people'

michelle goldberg, and daniel whitman, covering the white house. thanks for joining us today. we have a lot to get into. david, i want to start with you on this. you know, when i was on the show yesterday, i was talking about tonight. benefits are going to expire. run out, any moment now. i spoke to karen, i have been speaking to for the last two months or so. she was living on unemployment benefits, barely able to keep her lights on, special needs child at home. can't keep up about to lose her housing. at this point, the president is refusing to sign this thing. do you think there is anything positive that could come of this if they could actually get the $2000 direct payment passed? >> in traditional analysis, sure. talking about donald trump? no. this is an affirmation about how reckless and to the beginning to now. what i mean by that historically, if a president was saying, we want to get 2000 checks to the american people. the hill hasn't done enough. this is like the last credibility test for donald trump. nobody is taking him seriously. he is not being out on the golf

let's go back to phones. >> guest: whitman. after reading his editorials, i saw him as blatant racist, hypocrite but then i had to figure out how i could come back to him. and i did. and Ãbwas one of my favorite books. >> host: yolanda in denver. >> caller: doctor glaude, this is about obama's latest book and i was disappointed that in the light of the destruction of our attempts to 20% of black america's ancestors that this chaos and terrorism and this happened after the destruction of the nubian government by obama and he seemed to express pride in what he did to destroy the libyan government. >> host: we are out of time, what specifically is your question? >> caller: i was wondering if you had any kind of opinion about obama continuing to be proud of what he did à >> host: i will finish with a quote, this is from democracy in black "in 2008 and again 2012, obama sold black america, the snake oil of hope and change, he joined bill clinton and jimmy carter, other confidence men who presented themselves as people who would chal

union about $200000000.00 is the french government has said it has purchased all the misses a week whitman things like 7 inches and special freezers stores to store the vaccines and much like other european nations france has also said that in the 1st phase it will start vaccinating elderly people and staff in the countries 10000 most in homes this is a particularly one problem group but a major concern here in the country is also you know a very high level of vaccine skepticism among the population and one recent poll said just about 41 percent of french people say they plan to get inoculated so that really complicates the picture but french president in london micro has twisted the vaccine will not be made compulsory and that he hopes to win over people with transparency and conviction well we can get the view from spain now the philip choice is standing by in seville young philip what is the situation there has a spanish government rolled out its power laid out its plan rather for what it's going to do with vaccination. yes the plan has just been made public and spent yet there will be

republicans on his transition team and now is gloating the idea of a republican for commerce secretary meg whitman at the current c.e.o. is among these names so the concern here is fine if the expectation is that joe biden is a moderate to conservative democrat is that a quite moderate conservative democrats that's fine but he's going to be making overtures to the people who he perceives to have helped him win the people who really helped him when where the 30 or 40 percent of democrats the democratic base who are progressive the disproportion and where democratic voters who are black disproportionately vote for democrats every 2 to 4 years and probably a lot of these progressive groups that did door knocking when the biden campaign decided not to door of op because a look at him right and instead what you had was the elevation of these never trying for public events for most most typified by the lincoln project which was a group run by the top republicans and raised or $70000000.00 for these anti trump ads with the idea that it was going to convince a significant number of moderate republicans an

ray has a descendent of emily dickinson walt whitman. i sing the body electric. clearly he was influenced by those american writers who wanted to set language loose and to use poetry and prose not to make it flowery but instead to surprise and disarm the reader so that these great new works would be open before them. >> that's great, we can almost see you all three together like that. carl once pointed out some of the finer points in race poetry. i don't know if you remember this ray had a form, we had not yet seen the stars, they have not yet seen the stars. also our planet don't look at the stars the way we do carl pointed out something once the birds do. ray actually wrote. >> some say the birds they see and he went on with the poem that way. wonderful. >> i think also that there is a general awakening to how much more attuned to the world, the stars in each other. beyond many who share this planet really are that day, i think there's a lot of creatures are actually even admiring the stars. i think there are nonhuman primates who think they can be inspired by

there wasn't a notion that whitman -- that women didn't have a voice to be heard. was sent to a famous quaker school known as the nine partners school. she did two things, finished her education and also met her future husband, james mott. the picture i am showing you here, this is the two images that were on the wall of her classroom at nine partners school. i want you to think about what it would be like if you were in a mostly darren classroom with these images -- mostly barren classroom with these images. right is ag on the rendering -- the painting on the left is what -- the painting on the left is a rendering of what a slave ship looked like, to demonstrate the inhumanity of transporting slaves from africa to the new world, that the transportation, the trade itself, was inhumane. the other picture in the classroom is a picture of william penn, the preeminent quaker in the united states, who was in the period in which pennsylvania was a colony, worked with native americans in the colony. this painting is of a famous treaty signing between william penn and the

then ceo meg whitman said the new company would focus on data and cloud computing. since then it's reported declining revenue in all but one quarter. the company reports it's already building a state-of-the-art campus for its 2,600 workers that are already there. no word on how many people this move affects locally. >>> a warning tonight from state fish and wildlife. stay away from the fish in a handful of south bay creeks and reservoirs. the agency says it's found high levels of mercury in fish found in these bodies of water. you can see them highlighted in blue there on our map. among them almaden reservoir. mercury is a metal released into the environment from mining and burning coal. it accumulates in fish and when eaten can cause damage in the brain and nervous system. >>> okay, let's get a check of our forecast. rob mayeda is here again. so nice to see you. another cold morning but beautiful afternoon. >> yeah, cold morning with a little bit of fog. we saw a lot of that lingering around san jose and the north bay with those very chilly temperatures. it was a b

she had nothing to do with or had nothing in common with walt whitman. so why does the establishment find some tokens like myself acceptable while black critics are still in thenegro leagues ? because the few black literature in the context of a black tradition which mainstream critics haveyet to acknowledge . also, their criticism is blessed because the negro leagues were always capable of striking out the majors. doctor eleanor trailer. >>. >> and i'm not sure if eleanor was able to join us this afternoon. here she iswonderful, thank you so much . >> was fabulous. thank you. mister chairman. board of directors, founding juniors of the beforecolumbus foundation . my heart sings to be seen this most award. i believe in miracles. because two, now 30 have been found in my life. but first is to have been born to a parentage who has modeled gloriously the agonizing and splendid struggle of a great focus of life. the second is to have been born into the generation that founded this award. the third is to receive this. this completely stunning, outrageously ge

whitman. having one republican. she raised money for him. very good likely appointment. prominent in several industries. mary nickels. forward looking and involved in environmental issues. she could be in the epa. karen bass. diversifying that cabinet. member of the house. considered a a vp candidate could be a housing and urban development. and of course eric gars set l.a. mayor. he could be considered as department of transportation secretary. any one or all might get a spot. biden has a lot to think about. gender and race and ethnicity. you name it. these folks would be high on anybody's list. >> all the california picks a product of his association with kamala harris. and her influence. or because we have so many big time democrats here? and what does newsom do to back fill all the potential takes that might happen from the administration. >> quickly to your first question. there's a variety of relationships here the vice president had. some of the folks go back to when he was in congress. some go back to when he was in obama administration. some worked near the obam

no one needs to inspire whitman. i think he managed to pull that off himself. but there is a lot of saturation in that americans view humboldt as a magnet, first in paris and then when he moves to berlin, we flocked to go see him. and he welcomes us with open arms. you usually have to have an apartment to see humboldt. american, a visiting he will usually make an exception and in you and. and this is what you get invited into. this is humboldt's library. his he is surrounded by travel diaries and art and books and stuffed critters and his scientific equipment, and there is a globe. what you see is north america and the countries in south america that really put humboldt on the map. i don't think that is an accident that the globe is positioned that way. this was a souvenir that was brought back by former president millard fillmore, who mayday a call 1856 -- who made in 1856. they went to go see him. this was the souvenir that you would bring back. this is the memory that you have from this. this picture of humboldt in his study was inscribed to alexander bach,

they further speculate that it might be a meg whitman type. what do you make of the slate you've seen thus far? >> two things. one i think it's a biden-esque slate. it's pretty crazy how much i've seen from the left really. you never saw this in the republican administrations where you don't have enough people from this interest group or from that interest group. and that seems to be all the coverage around biden. he'd picked a central left cabinet, a very competent cabinet. and out of today's picks i just want to call out pete buttigieg. once again joe biden is making a first. this is going to be the first gay cabinet official confirmed by the senate. and this is massive news. i know in a lot of urban pockets on the coast you know being gay is pretty common these days, and this doesn't seem like this big of a deal but for a lot of kids in a lot of parts of this country pete was a huge role model and pete is the only person they could look to who modeled what it was like to have a gay family life and to be able to go out and leave a place like

until we have colored soldiers commanding whitman one of the reportedly said we do not want white officers men.anding colored allegiance to al a government that discriminates, segregates and pleasant lynching burning at the stake. among the war veterans and war orks invited to speak, major loving singled out one woman by name. curtis.. was nanaoka me name was her first often shortened to nama. standard practice at the time she had adopted the initials of her husband austin bulk of her public and professional career. now, she was an exceptional woman who no doubt would have exception to being characterized or labeled as a military ersive by officials. while we cannot know what these critiquing ds were ation, and linking uttered by her m.i.d. viewed ers someone as political activism on behalf of average military hey wanted order made her worthy of surveillance. this was a sea change in how she formerly viewed by the army which treated her as the military mate arc since the days of the spanish war. person president orders from william mckinley she had toveled south to new orleans recruit bloc

done research and have done the translations of these things and i want to be sure to mention james whitman from yale , just did tremendous research into this area. so many people have done research into this area and it was wrenching to discover that these were aspects of interconnectedness between these two cultures and i should also emphasize that the subtitle of this book is the origins of our discontent . the origins of our discontent . this is to emphasize that these were the early years, very early years of the right and we know toward the end of the war later in their reign of terror, they did the unthinkable and in murdering 6 million jews far beyond anything that any person with any conscience could even begin to imagine so this is an emphasis on the origins of the hierarchies in each of these places, the origins of them. >> they are giving us the hook over here. we're at the apollo and they're trying to pull loss offstage but before we go , where not going to get to the questions, god bless them. you will be able to answer each of them individually and maybe you can reach out but

so she learned english, studied the lyrics of bob dylan and the poetry of walt whitman, and at age 24 wherever, whenever what made you believe you could make it in the united states? >> shakira: destiny? i had no doubt in my mind. i had visions of what was going to happen to me since a very early age. >> whitaker: it was a steady rise until 2018, when she ran afoul of spanish authorities over when she took up residence and how much tax she owes. she's paid about $16 million while she fights the assessment. it's a staggering sum that would have been unimaginable to a young shakira. when she was seven, her father's jewelry business went bankrupt. the family went from middle class to poor overnight. what impact did that have on you? >> shakira: oh, a tremendous impact. it was really important to me to vindicate my family's financial situation and social status. and to a point that it became-- an obsession to me. a healthy obsession, i-- i would say. you know, to succeed in life. to bring my dad and my mom out of that precarious situation. i think that i would not be the same person if my

and requested a ballot and put it in a drop box at the high school my kids went to named after walt whitman, the great poet of american democracy. it was a good system and a good way to make it easier for people to vote. underscore what was said about that an error elections are run by citizens on the ground. thousands and thousands of people all over the country, my sister is watching today and she is head of the board of canvassers in her county in rhode island. these poor folks worked really hard to make it easier to vote in a very difficult time. catherine harris was the secretary of state in florida. she was appointed by jeb bush who happened to be the brother of the presidential candidate and obviously there has been controversy to this day about how decisions were made. suffice it to say that all close decisions that came to catherine harris were made in favor of bush, not in favor of gore. there were a lot of arguments about some of those decisions and it should be said that nonetheless, under state law, in florida, there's a lot of leeway given to local officials to count votes. ha

i put it in a drop box at a high school my kids went to, named by walt whitman, the great poet of american democracy. it was a good system in a good way to make it easier for people to vote. i just want to underscore what the caller and bill said about that. yes, our elections are won by citizens on the ground. thousands and thousands of people all over the country, my sister is watching today, she's head of the board of canvassers in your town of rhode island. these are folks who wrote worked really hard to make it easier to vote in a very difficult time. katherine harris was the secretary of state in florida. she was appointed by jeb bush, who happened to be the brother of the presidential candidate, and obviously there has been controversy to this day about how decisions were made. could challenge a decision made. a recount is a very small democratic thing to do. it is a transparent process and as i said, to this day i wish we could have just recounted all those votes. the one area where i will agree with bill in 2000, gore should have started with a demand for statewide recount. there