A Book Release Party for carl cannon of your chief for politics his book provides a history on the United States through 365 events for each day of the calendar year. [inaudible conversations] as soon as it went off [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this is for booktv. I dont know if this helps sell books or not. [inaudible conversations] thertheres a movie coming out t this. [inaudible conversations] it was after the Martin Luther king assassination. I thought there would be a signing. There will be. It [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this is great. But the empire. You cant possibly read everything. We know that is not true grandbaby alert. Hello, michaela. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] you cant use these in your morning columns anymore . Sometimes we need more of that in journalism [inaudible conversations] you are on cspan [inaudible conversations
Programs on the history of the communities across the country on cspan. Org citiestour. Economy professor discusses Alexander Hamiltons views on the National Debt and imagines how he would have addressed the current debt. The debt is now over 19 trillion. The Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society and the museum of American Finance cohosted this event. It is a little over an hour. Welcome, everyone. I am president of the museum of American Finance. Our partner is the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society and you turn to them for all things hamiltonian. We turn it to friends of the museum. Have wrought some amazing documents you should check out afterwards. We thank the cspan audience. 20 years ago, our board chair wrote me a note that started with the words a stroke of luck. A buffalontroduced to phd candidate. He was interested in early American Financial history. This was before the show. Very few people were interested in hamilton. We were doing a deeper dive into his mission. Thesis,
Hi everyone, thanks for coming. This session we will break into three parts. In each part we will tackle this question, can democracy survive the internet . We are going to talk about trolls and hackers, leakers, twitter, facebook, filter bubbles. Fundamentally this question is whether a democracy in which media and organization is moved online, whether we can survive or adjust to that new world. A will start with nate, professor of law at stanford law school. His scholarship focuses on Voting Rights, political parties, Campaign Finance, redistricting, and elections administration. He served as special master for expert to craft districting plans for many straight and senior director for the Election Administration and his current work examines changing technology on political communications, campaigns, and Election Administration. Broadly that is what he will be talking about here today. With that, lets welcome nathan. [applause] thank you so much. It is an honor to be here. And it is
Director of the center for National Interest. A bigleased to see such group in the middle of august and washington. The traffic led me to think the city was a little bit depopulated but the attendance clearly demonstrates otherwise. We appreciate all of you taking the time to come be with us. I think we will have very interesting conversation today onut the new u. S. Sanctions russia. We have a couple of highly experienced speakers who will give us some perspective on that and we are quite grateful to them for taking the time out of their day to be with us. To my right we have dan russell, the president and ceo of the u. S. Russia business council. Diplomatformer career who was Deputy Assistant secretary of state responsible for russia, ukraine, moldova, belarus, and other matters. During the previous administration, the Obama Administration, he was also the deputy chief at the u. S. Embassy embassyw and the u. S. In cause extent in addition to a number of other important posts. George
Watch the communicators tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan 2. Announcer this week on q a, author and Real Clear Politics Washington Bureau chief carl cannon. He discusses his book on this date from the pilgrims to today, discovering america one day at a time. Brian carl cannon, your new book on this date from the pilgrims to today, discovering america one day at a time. What is it . Carl it is a snapshot, it is a morsel. Like tapas. A morsel each day from january 1 through december 31, an essay on something that happened in American History on that date that tells you something you may not know and gives you an understanding of this country you did not have. Brian how do people find it . Exactly how do they find it . Carl how do people find my book . Brian no, how did you find the essay topics . Carl i do something that relates to whatever is going on that day. I have been doing it for 5. 5 years now. It is just a rambling thing. Brian for somebody who is not real good on the internet, t