Susan alan kraut, you have spent your professional career as an historian studying u. S. Immigration. Many americans look to the statue of libertys famous poem by emma lazarus that says give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free as the embodiment of the way we think about this country and immigration. As you look at history, does it track with the reality of how we have treated immigrants . Dr. Kraut the history of immigration in the u. S. Doesnt track at all with emma lazaruss wonderful quotation. In fact, it has been a lovehate relationship. In the 19th century, there was a popular immigrant saying, america beckons but americans repel. That is more accurate as to how our relationship with immigration has been in the United States. In fact, one of the great ironies is that emma lazarus wrote the poem in 1883, and one year before, in 1882, the u. S. Passed the chinese exclusion law, excluding chinese laborers from coming to the United States. We would p
We had the last time speeded we believe this portion ofat washington journal. You can watch this and all of our programs online at cspan. Org. Now with former special president ial envoy for the Global Coalition to defeat isis brett mcgurk is expected to talk about some of the ramifications of President Trumps decisions withdraw u. S. Troops from sears you. This is hosted by the foundation for defense of democracies. Live coverage on cspan2. This event is hosted by fdds center on military and political power which seeks to understand of the military and diplomatic strategies, policies and capabilities necessary to defeat threats to the United States and its allies while advancing american influence. Many of our audience members no fdd is a nonpartisan policy institute. We take no for an government funding or corporate funding, and we never will. Were glad to be joined by a distinguished audience of diplomats, represented from congress, the department of state, the pentagon, active mili
We talk to the campaign hierarchy. Hierarchy. We have a conference call. It is good because we all get information in real time. We get background information. We go deeper. They get information from sources in the white house. It helps me and others be able to have the facts straight because things happen quickly. Theres a lot of distortion and political haze right now. Sometimes the president says things and it is not as clear as it could be. We need to go out there and explain exactly what he meant to say in cases of tweets or cases of he said she said or pointing figure fingers. Host a lot of fingers being pointed at Mick Mulvaney, the acting chief of staff at the white house over the past week. We were just talking to callers and our last halfhour about their thoughts on how he is doing. How do you think he is doing . Rob it is almost an impossible job for anyone because you really have to run the entire ship. Everything flows through the chief of staffs office. He has had the pol
Hello. Mr. Bob woodward, congressman chavez, Michael Horowitz, good afternoon to you all. My name is Camille Nelson and i have the great privilege of serving as the dean of American University Washington College of law. It is pi great pleasure to welcome you to this beautiful campus for such an important conversation on government oversight and accountability in conjunction with the launch of our new student publication, oversight project. Org. This project is yet another example of the stellar work of our student leaders in creating a go to source about the work of federal oversight, accountability and ethics wash dogs. We do not be more proud of our students, their effort and enthusiasm here at Washington College of law. And our law Cool Community is a especially gracteful that the launch of this project is made possible and elevated with the cadre of leading experts who will share their insights on oversight and accountability with us today. So my warm welcome to all of you, again,
Communication. Very, very happy on behalf of Hudson Institute to welcome senator chris murphy from connecticut to join us in a series of dial ocean that we have been having here at hudson with a range of policy makers and important contributors to the American Foreign policy debate from both parties from many different points of view. This is partly out of hudsons commitment to ser yous intellectual engagement over serious questions and reflects my own view as an analyst of American Foreign policy that if you look at the history of American Foreign policy, often our policy works best when you have many voices with different points of view and out of that are contentious series of exchanges emerges ideas, compromises, directions that no American School of thought would have come up on its own. That is the way our constitution worked. Hamilton thought there were terrible compromises and franklin wasnt pleased with it. The constitution was maybe a bit better than it would have been if the