where you exposed to this canon at yale? a little bit. i don't want to yale too much. it's very, very mean thing to this one's alma mater. i think it was don kagan who was one of the great certainly not left wing philosophers. he was the great, great ancient greek historian who died only recently. and he had been the dean of yale college, i believe it was professor kagan, who said something to the effect of years ago, a student could graduate yale with an education, didn't have to have an education to graduate yale, but it was possible. and today, i'm not sure it's even possible because so much of that university and really all of the universities has been taken over by grievance studies, the the pseudo academic departments that come out of critical theory. i'm thinking of women's sexual and gender studies, black studies is this studies that studies american studies, which ironically is the only studies where the teachers teach you to hate the thing that you are studying. that's not not true of black studies, not true of women's studies. there was a great exchange with

glenn youngkin, yale. ron desantis, harvard, yale. that is the elite.ke back the world or the country from the woke elite, who do they mean? >> let's talk about one thing first off. the culture war is happening because the right doesn't want to talk about policy. they don't want to talk about the economy. they don't want to talk about the real things that americans need because they have no policies to address those things. so they talk about the culture war and get people excited about trans women going into bathrooms and black people taking your jobs, and immigrants breaking into your house, rather than having to talk about actual economic real serious political issues. the thing with the harvard club story that you brought up is it's actually, i believe that they would see the world that way because that is how they have constructed the world of alternate facts that they live in. that people like charles koch are paying certain scientists to come up with phony studies that they are creating media figures like sean hannity, who go on television and sa

some are forcibly given to russian families, or their fate is unknown, according to data from the yalete of camps or re-education institutions in russia and in the temporarily occupied territories, 43 the majority are located on the shores of the black and azov seas, 11 in siberia or in the far east, in these regions soviet concentration camps were located a century ago , definitely those cases of torture, the transfer of children and keeping children without contact with their parents , the creation of cities, deprivation of liberty, filtration camps are the main violations for involvement in the deportation of children from ukraine , the uaz international criminal court issued a warrant for the arrest of the president of the russian federation, vladimir putin, and the representative of russia, maria of lviv, a russian ombudswoman and herself adopted a kidnapped boy from mariupol, according to the yale institute of lviv, bilova directly contributed to the illegal adoption of 350 orphans from donbas kateryna danylovych , the only news in the public sphere, how to make criminals answer

we had a little debate in there, whether amherst is better than yale or yale is better than amherst. anyway, i won't get into that. [laughter] it is my honor and i mean this sincerely, my honor to nominate julie su to be our next secretary of labor. [applause] and on behalf -- and i ask the united states senate to move this nomination quickly so we can continue to progress this economy that works for everyone. julie, thank you for your willingness to serve, thank you for all you have done, thank you for all you're about to do. god love you, as my mother would say. [cheers and applause] ms. su: thank you. [cheers and applause] ms. su: thank you, mr. president, for your words and trust. 60 years ago my mom came to the united states on a cargo ship because she couldn't afford a passenger ticket. recently she got a call from the president of the united states telling her that her daughter would be nominated to be u.s. labor secretary. [cheers and applause] so i believe in the transformative power of america. and i know the transformative power of a good job. i know because it was the kin

we had a debate whether amherst is better than yale or yale is better than amherst. but anyway, i won't get into that. it's my honor and, i mean, it sincerely, my honor to nominate julie su to be the next secretary of labor. [applause]e] [cheering] and i asked the united states senate to move this nomination quickly so weom can continue to progress to build thisca economy that works for everyone. thank you for your willingness to serve, for all you've done and for what you're about to do. god love you, as my mother would say. [applause] [cheering] thank you, mr. president, for your words and trust. sixty years ago my mom came to the united states on a cargo ship because she couldn't afford a passenger ticket. recently she got a call from the president of the united states telling her that her daughter was going to be nominated to be u.s. labor secretary. [applause] so i believe in the transformative power of america and i know the transformative power of a good job. i know because it was the kind of job that my mom got that had predictable hours, paid sick leave, hea

you received a similar reaction at yale.t is upon haing at the law schools when it comes to the first amendment that is a law you study in law school? >> well, you are exactly right. we're seeing a trend in america's elite schools, they refuse to adopt a culture of free speech and student mobs can ship down invited speakers and to essentially stop groups and events sponsored by their fellow conservative students. as this video shows, they are enabled and the mob the stanford, similar experience happened to me at yale law school. >> todd: everybody sees this and knows the kids at these schools are out of their mind. when the administrator piles on and continues to encourage the intimidation and censorship, that is a new ball of wax. i ask myself, how can any conservative feel embolden to speak about anything, whether stanford, yale, or other universities? >> this diversity, equity and inclusion ideology is roton to the core, it thrives on raw power, which is what we saw in stanford and we need to reject it. we have to have fr

and law professor, a keel read omar, speaking at the yale institute's national symposium. >> our fe are you ready? >> welcome to the start of our festivities of constitution day, or day before constitution today. i was always feeling good about this because as i mentioned earlier, now i can take about something else, and so this is the assignment lecture, and constitutional thought, and i never had to leave this man. give this lecture a few years ago, reminisce on pittsburgh in 2000, and said that he was immediately drawn to the intellect, a love of liberty. he also created a story that he had never read the law by frederick bossy, out and refused to have lunch with him again until he read the law. which is maybe something that i take, and so i want to -- i probably read it when i was 12, because it is a very normal 12 year old. this lecture has an esteemed lineage from judge ginsburg to judge davis intel, just hardamon as i mentioned. the professional -- nyu school of law. and with her as a version, we will top things off, this year's volume of the supreme court review. today, we h

s. government fund, the entity, it's yale university, they openly say and if you look at this report, they are open to say that they have not come about the any interview with anyone. so reliance entirely on what they call open source as well. open sources mean the ukrainian media so, and then the arrest warrant was just simply a piece of paper. there's no indictment accompanying it. you know, any, any list of actual victims or any list of the claims made by the victim. so it comes across as precisely the sort of thing that the i c c does, which is they rush in with ref, lawrence, or indictments without having done even the minimum of forensic investigation. i just remember they did this, the, i see did this during the bombing of libya in 2011. where again, you know, as public support was beginning to fade. lo and behold, the i, c. c comes out within the diamonds of living and lead a mo, mark it up. it's always you have to go for the leader, which shows i haven't really studied any actual war crime. so they are already going for the leader. and. and then they made all sorts of absolut

you went to yale law school. it is true, and it's interesting because people for a long time put a lot of weight into these u s news certainly didn't i mean i was a kid at the university of tennessee at martin? i was talking to professor gerald dog who's still there? about what my future should be, and we pulled that magazine out and there was a number one was yale. he said. well, let's go for that one, and i wound up going there. but here's the problem with it. the there's a perverse logic here, which is how do you know a school is great. it's how many kids do you reject your if you have an acceptance rate that's very low. if you reject a bunch of kids your great school now if you accept them and make them better if you reject them, that's sick. and then when they leave, not how much of a difference do they make? how much money do they make? so you have this sort of kind of perverse thing that's rewarding schools for turning kids away and not bringing them in, and it's rewarding people for going out to make mone

well, it was timothy snyder , professor of history at yale university .sly talked to him about ukraine and russia about the past, about the future, and obviously about victory, see you this week in the judicial control program, sky-high fortunes and trips with his ex-wife, for the merits of which pavlo gorbasenko was re-elected as the head of the state court of the kyiv region, drew attention to a possible fictitious divorce and whether gorbasenko maintains ties with relatives in to the occupied crimea, i bought you for your questions . keep it up, congratulations. you are watching judicial control. i am tetyana shustrova. in ukraine, the judicial reform is currently in progress , and the competition for the higher qualification is approaching. the commission of judges of the supreme body of the judicial system, which is responsible for the formation of the judicial corps and ensuring the proper level, in particular through qualification evaluation, the composition of the qualification commission is completely updated in accordance with international stan

interview, my colleague yuriy fizar spoke with an outstanding american historian, writer, professor of yale university, specialist in the history of eastern europe and, in particular, the history of ukraine, poland , russia, timati snyderm, the author of many famous books, and his thoughts about today about today about the war about the prospects of ukraine and russia it is worth listening so listen so let's watch the interview of yuriy fizar with timiti snyder greetings my name is yuriy fizar and today's guest is from around the world a famous historian, a professor at yale university, a professor of history, a person who helps ukraine a lot and tells the truth about what is happening in our country, tells the world about the pro-russian war , to let the world know , timothy snyder, congratulations. has been going on for a year can we at least try to draw some intermediate conclusions about it and i'm not talking about the situation on the battlefields i'm talking about the perception of the country in western europe in the west well and maybe in russia, if we start from the west, the way

evacuated themselves, taking away everyone they could and including children , as well as a study by yale also took children from boarding schools and special hospitals in the kharkiv region almost immediately after the occupation and transferred parents of many children who lived in the occupied territories voluntarily sent children to summer camps in russia for their adoption. by conducting research, the repair team worked a lot with satellite images to establish specific places where they were resettled. but where are ukrainian children being held now ? the geography is very wide . we had the idea that all of them would be localized around the border, but it turned out to be true . in some cases, the team managed to identify the places where the so-called re-education of children mainly from the donetsk and luhansk regions, many of these institutions have been in use since 2014, but last summer raymond and his team recorded the most activity, and he is nothing in one of the cities of the republic. children are taught to own firearms and operate military equipment . there is another mil

and my colleague yuriy fizar talked with an outstanding american historian , writer, professor of yalersity specialist in the history of eastern europe and in particular the history of ukraine, poland, russia timut snyderm is the author of many famous books and his thoughts about today about the present about the war about the prospects of ukraine and russia should listen so listen so let's watch the interview of yuriy fizra with timiti snyder welcome my name is yuriy fizar and today's guest is a world-renowned historian, professor of yale university , professor of history, a person who helps ukraine a lot and tells the truth about what is happening in our country, the pro-russian war tells the world for the world to know timothy snyder congratulations thank you for the opportunity to speak with you and ask a few questions it's a pleasure to be with you mr. snyder the war continues

just because you went to yale doesn't mean you're smart.lot of dummies who went to yell. the guy has no business experience. name one thing that was accomplished with the money. >> harold: i have no clue. i'm not defending it. >> jesse: no one can say where the money went so you know it means? it's a bribe. >> harold: do you think president trump's involvement with liv golf is appropriate? >> jesse: to think the saudis are bribing him? >> harold: the argument we are making, that would mean the president will be compromised by liv. >> judge jeanine: eight weeks for what? >> jesse: donald trump is a legitimate businessman worth billions of dollars. hunter is a crackhead with no experience. >> judge jeanine: haley has a lot of experience. haley the hook. >> brian: do i have the power to blow a commercial and just continue this conversation? do i have the power? the answer is no. coming up straight ahead, taking to the cockpit to reassure americans. after a string of scary airplane mishaps, exclamation point. lomita feed is 101 years old. when

mentioned before i'm finishing up my last semester at yale law school. >> couldn't find a good schoolgo to. >> we focus so much more on our differences and kind of focus on hyper individualism that we have lost any type of commonality or any type of common purpose that brings us together, and that's probably why you see so many of the news reports out of yale just some of the division and the tribalism that's taking place. i don't want that for my united states military. i don't want it for my alma mater at west point, the officer corps or the marine corps or the air force, navy. we need a military that focuses on the common purpose that brings people together, not hyper focused on what's different about us and that's the primary difference ever those who are ready for a strong military, not one that bows down to the progressive agenda. >> john: west point and yale, classic overachiever. >> sandra: debt ceiling standoff between president biden and kevin mccarthy is growing. kevin mccarthy wants biden to go back to the negotiating table. the president says show me your budget first. wi

doesn' i didn't say, you know, you're dummies. >> they went to yale.he guy has no businessusines experience. >> e one thing thatng that was accomplished with the money: . >> i'm no, i'm not. i h i'm no no one can say where the moneyuw went. right. you know what that means? it's's a bribe. a can i ask you this? do you think that president trump's involvement with lobby golf, is that appropriate? >> do you think that what the saudis are bribing the president and president trump is after goes back to beg? in office?ol will you argued: the with the argument we're making thate would mean the president could be compromised by thcompromie w >> but once i get it's>> jes a legitimate businessman who iss worth billions of dollars, h oe hunter is a crab with soirées, but with a family.o hale he's got a lot of experience on the hook that let's pull the plug. do i have the power to blow a commercial and just continuent this conversation because ofhi the power? >> if the answer.ave no, ifthpo youwer? want, on fox and friends. >> all right. ahe coming up straight ahe

prior to her current appointment, doctor delphin-rittmon was an adjunct professor at yale university, serving for 20 years as a director of cultural competence and research consultation with the yale -- doctor delphin-rittmon also served in a two-year white house appointment, working as a senior adviser to samsha. while at samsha, she worked on a range of policy initiatives addressing workplace development, health care reform -- through her 20 year career in behavioral health, doctor delphin-rittmon has extensive experience in the design, evaluation, and administration of mental health, substance use, and prevention services and systems. in addition, she has received several awards for advancing policies in these areas. most recently, she served -- she received the 2019 state award from the national association of state, drug, and alcohol directors and the 2016 mental health award for excellence from the united nations committee on mental health. please join me in a warm welcome to doctor delphin-rittmon. [applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you so much for that warm welcome.

we are joined now by the senior associate dean at yale school of management.bout paul ryan's position and what the board of fox news? >> that clip was very telling that we just saw. with bulwark and charlie sykes asking where is the line that you would draw, to paul ryan, somebody who should have some courage and backbone. and he would not answer that question, that he would go along with anyone, saying i quietly voiced my opinion. that's not what a director is supposed to do. that's a failure of management oversight. he is complicit through his complacency. >> what should somebody on the board? do because he's essentially saying, look, i'm not talking about this publicly on cable news. but i'm probably on the board to the people who matter and i'm voicing my opinion. >> at the extreme there's a noisy withdrawal where he could lead and quit the board. that would say a lot if he, an envious, another board member who similarly complained -- they should've walked off the board -- that would have been very loud -- i mean, you file -- >> we should point out, they a

i will tell you there is a long history of making fun of yale university. a long time, we did it together and i try to make fun of yale on a regular basis so we are continuing that trend. as you guys all know, jd wrote a "new york times" number one best seller "hillbilly elegy," which is a fantastic book. it is actually -- it is probably the best explanation -- >> you can find them on amazon. you can put them together. >> i was not hawking. >> let's extend the clock a little bit. we are running low on time. >> way jd did so powerfully -- i am going to go on. he described the pathologies that have been just hammering working men and women in this country. not even working men and women, people who are not working and whether the opioid crisis and addiction, the destruction of manufacturing jobs, the loss of father's at home raising kids, it is a powerful explanation of the damage that has been done. it is a really clarion call. i've got to tell you, this is no longer the party of the country clubs. some of our colleagues in the republican conference are real

and teachers who are not yale teachers are coming to the yale department going, what are you doing? i'm seeing the change in our students in all my classroom. are you doing how can i learn from you so it can happen and it happens when a superintendent is deeply supportive of innovation. it happens when a whole is there supporting teachers on the ground every day and it's really powerful when it does. so i'll leave you with that hopeful story. sure. all the way in the back of. so this is more of a maybe a comment. i'm not really sure. but what talking your book reminds me of book that came out recently by a gentleman who is a he's an immigrant. his name is boyah farah. he wrote a book called how america made a black man. he's actually he came here as a refugee to massachusetts to learn how to live over here, find everything very strange, succeed. and then he went back to somalia and he goes back and forth and he even taught over here at bunker hill. so your book of is a good, shall we say, a good foil to his. i just wanted to mention, but i don't if you're aware of him or his books,

that's the question this yale professor asked the students to consider.f how can i find more joy in my life? more meaning in my life, more purpose in my life? >> there is a new book helping people find answers. it is called "life worth living." maria is joining us live this morning. >> hi, all of you. you give me so much joy and meaning. good morning. well, this book's message is a really special one. in the chaos of all of our lives, the question is how do we actually find a life worth living? the author is a yale professor who also teaches a highly popular class on this topic. now he's sharing his lessons to help us all focus on what matters most. you are watching one of the most popular classes at one of the country's best colleges, yale university. >> our humanity -- >> but here, this professor teaches students something they rarely learn in school, how to live a meaningful life. when one starts to ask one's self these questions, what matters most? we can get really confused. >> the goal is not to have to constantly think about what kind of life is wo

shery: jamie horsley, yale law school senior fellow.will have more analysis on the npc throughout the day. in the next hour, we will hear from moody's analytics on why they are optimistic on the outlook for the world's second-largest economy. later, we will be joined by ubs and e spring investments for more insight on china's growth prospects. let's discuss how economists are reacting to the gdp target. annabelle joins us for morning calls on hong kong. what are we hearing so far? goldman sachs put out a report saying that the target of 5% annabelle: . or 5.5% that had been bandied about by some economists. but what goldman sachs says in practice is that it implies that anything above the 5% level for gdp growth will be acceptable to beijing. given the low base rate, this is not exactly an overly challenging target ahead for china. goldman sachs is sticking with its gdp target this year of 5.5% on the back of that post-covid rebound we continue to see. one area they were looking at in particular was the property sector, given we are see

one year ago the same thing happened at another elite college, yale law school.he woke brigade shouted down bipartisan panel on civil liberties and no free speech at yale. the meeting was abandoned and the panelists had to be escorted out by police. surely it's time for pushback and universities to stand strong on free speech and take action against those who shut it down. i'll close with this, if these students retreat from debate and shut down free speech, they're not equipped for college. they shouldn't be there, especially at elite law schools that are supposed to supply the top quality brains for the legal system. impaired loudness just getting started. i'm just getting started and third hour of varney starts right now. stuart: brian brenberg with me now. why aren't more universities standed up for free speech? >> administrators are afraid of those students and they -- in fact, you didn't show this in the video. you've got to watch this part of the video. that associate dean gets applause from the students when she's done. that's what she wants. she wants th

he is executive director of yale university's humanitarian research lab. on this project for a long time. your report was responsible for shining a light on so much of what has been going on in ukraine. what does this moment mean for you? >> john, on one hand, i am still in shock by the announcement of the indictments by the icc. it is a critical first step, only a first step towards justice for the people of ukraine. on the other hand, i am thinking about the parents, tonight, of the children who have yet to come home, and some may not come home. on one hand, i feel hope because of today's indictment. on the other hand, i feel the urgency of trying to get these kids back. >> you mentioned you are sort of in shock. did you have any idea this was coming? >> all i knew was what i read in the new york times a few days ago. and, at that point, we thought it could happen. this morning, i was walking my dogs, and my phone went dessert. and, suddenly, it had happened. since that point, it has really been an effort to get our heads around the fact that what we hav

he played in the little league world series. >> wee. >> played college baseball at yale >> right. >> the form here is just shaky i mean, yeah, first of all, take the jacket off also, you have to go all the way back you form the t you learn it in little league. over the shoulder. he's, like, short arming it there. also, maybe use two hands on the catch. >> right through like that this is not hard. >> i mean, kilmeade is not exactly whipping it in there either, we have to say but it's a softball interview. literally a softball interview brian kilmeade, as best i know, didn't play division i college baseball ron desantis did apparently, he's gotten rusty. his form is -- >> no excuses. >> -- lacking. tough to see. >> do we have barack obama bowling, by any chance i miss those days. get us that, too the wee, it's been a while all right. >>> anyway, katty kay, i'm sorry you had to go through all of that and hear all of that. >> i'm just enjoying you and jonathan having fantasies about being pro baseball players again. >> all the way back. >> clearly doesn't change ever, right? >> no. >> yo

just this past weekend antifa an if i yale -- affiliated rioters attacked a building that's captured on video. molotov congress tames, -- cocktails, fireworks, they all set off at police officers and caused much damage at a construction site. there were over 30 people arrested. here's the issue. only two of them were actually from georgia. the rest of them were from other places in the country and several of them from other countries. like france and canada. one of them happened to be an attorney for the southern poverty law center. that's disgraceful. this all comes on the heels of antifa terrorizing americans for years now. never forget in the summer of 2020 antifa caused over $2 billion in damage, setting fires to cities, businesses and attacking police officers and killing people. yet over 95% of those arrested had their charges dropped. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> i seek unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection

um, uh, and, you know, you see this with josh josh hawley of stanford, ron desantis of yale. uh, we've seen this over and, over again, sort of a conversion into the crazy, um, so, you know, i've i've talked to some of my, uh, uh conservatives, you know, uh, my peers, you know, who have not made change. i say i assume that they're it, that it's just an act that they're doing to, uh, because this is what they need to do. this is to stay elected. but i think it's more complicated than that. if you are, uh, you'll find that, uh, know again, it's, you know. it's a social scientist study this. but if you are saying outlandish things, you are, you need to, you know, to calm the cognitive. you need to do something and essentially you start to believe that or you, you seek out data points that reinforce your views. so i, i, you know, my impression is answer is it begins out of sort of political necessity, uh, but becomes, and eventually, you know, it, as you point out, what's, what's the difference whether you believe it or not, because the result the same. but i do suspect after peri

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joining us now is timoth snyder, professor of history a yale university.sia, europe, america. professor snyder, thank yo very much for joining us tonight. this incident, i hope, does no sound like the kind of thing that could create an significant increase i tensions i would assume that the stat department today, there wa some stressing of possibly b both sides, that this wa something that should not have happened >> that's my readout as well lawrence this is the kind of thing whic is not really uncommon, it's not uncommon for there to be the sort of thing. you said this was the firs example of this. it's the first example of this that's been reported on. i would put this in th category of deconfliction, thi is the kind of thing tha people generally do want t avoid, and the russian ambassador's statements abou this has been much les provocative than the russian ambassador statements abou other subjects i mean, i'm not an expert on this, but what the militar folks seem to be saying, thi is really an example of ba flying on the russian side >> in terms of th

i'm joined by the senior associate dean for leadership studies at yale school of management.cialty. what do you make about paul ryan's position and what the board of fox news? >> well that, clip was very telling. they were asking where the line you would draw to paul ryan? somebody who should have courage and backbone. he wouldn't abc that question. that he would go along with anything. he said "well, i quietly voice my opinion." that is not what a director is supposed to do. that is failure of management oversight. he is complicit through his complacency. >> what should somebody on the board >> what should somebody on the board do? he's essential lirr saying i'm in the talking about this publicly on fox news. >> at the extreme, there's a noisy withdrawal where he could lead, quit the board, that would say a lot of he and another board member who similarly complained, they should have walked off the board. that would have been very -- >> we should point out, they are paid to be on this board, i assume quite handsomely in stock and what ever other ways. >> conservatively a hal

we know, from a yale university study, that russia has actually set up camps where these children arereeducated with pro—russia patriotic "and military—related education." we know that your child commissioner, the official in moscow who is the fellow inductee of president putin has already said she herself, adopted eight ukrainian child and she said this, "we are helping "the children of our country. "we don't leave them in war zones." of course, the problem there is it's not your country. it is the sovereign territory of ukraine. you know, stephen, you are still living in a world of myths and we can't leave children on a battlefield. of course we can't leave it at the war. we can't leave it in danger. and of course, we are going to do everything to give them a new life, peaceable life in russia. but if these relatives or these parents want to see them, want to speak to them, they can do it. but we didn't get any requests. so you are giving me right now, a guarantee — and you speak of course as a russian mp and somebody close to mr putin in his own political party — you are telling me

. >> reporter: yale university analyzed 20 years of disability compensation records from the v.a. and found denial rates for black veterans were disproportionately higher than white vets. that data is being cited in a new lawsuit filed against the v.a., accusing the agency of using racial discrimination to deny countless applications from black veterans. they say they are unable to comment on ongoing litigation, but it has left veterans without benefits. they say they actively working to right these wrongs. historian richard rothstein has written extensively about discrimination. his book "color of law" details how the federal government's own policies including at the v.a., show segregation. the gi bill offered veterans scholarships and mortgages that meant less interest rates and less money down. but in the still-segregated south, those benefits were often unusable for black soldiers. >> when the millions of returning war veterans came home, the african-americans did not have the same opportunities that the whites had. >> reporter: so when you look at the history of the gi bill,

university and the larger connective tissue that yale created. so i really watched what happens as this incredible organization gets kind of cut away from these children across these. i keep mentioning how segregated they are, but it's so important to the history of where this poverty came and the responsibility that connecticut had to this intensely concentrated poverty. so why shouldn't and made me very sensitive to talk spaces, very sensitive to local poverty and just the way that these federal these decisions that have a ripple our our larger government. and i think, you know, there's a larger academic story. i've always worked on very weak governments. i've always on rural places with, incredibly thin of basic services, whether it's access to water or access to sewage disposal or police or whatever. and and during the great recession, we this giant wave of bankruptcies and insolvencies that turned that raise a profile of weak urban governments. so something about the combination of all of those things sort of brought me to this larger and so

joining us now timothy snyder, professor of history at yale university. also the author of on tyranny, 20 lessons from the 20th century. the author of the road to an freedom has also returned from a trip to ukraine. it's great to talk to you again, good for -- >> glad to be here. >> to intertwining problems, as we have just outlined. there is receding democracy on the global stage, and then there is receding democracy in america. right now, joe biden is trying to walk that road. he's trying to bolster democracy around the world, and he's trying to fight autocracy here in america. what's your evaluation of how this is going? >> first of all, whether or not biden is right about who's winning and losing, he's definitely right to be tried. i think it's a very good thing that he has a democracy summit. it's a great thing that we're trying to value democracy, and it's going to be because people say that it's the better system, and then trying to show that it's a better system rather than just struggling our shoulders and saying to let the strongest win. it's im