Our discussion, let me introduce the men to my left. Jim banner to edited the book president ial misconduct which is the kickoff for our discussion tonight is a visiting scholar in history at George Washington university. Having spent most of his career teaching at princeton, he is the founding director of the history news service. His most recent book is being a historian being a historian and he hasory edited and written numerous books including the one we are featuring tonight. He also was one of the creators of the National History center. Editorinchief of the quarterly review. Let me tell you how i know jackson. So, i was a graduate student at yale and people would always say there is this great historian, hes going to be so great, you are a few years older. He was one of the historians who proceeded to define a field which is basically how to think about culture in a way that spoke to many different parts of our political life. That might not be how the describes himself, but tha
Also on the programme. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says trumps actions amount to bribery, escalating the stakes in the impeachment battle. Politics can be a ruff job. Luckily for staffers on capitol hill yesterday, some Furry Friends were on hand to help. Hello and welcome im Christian Fraser in london and Michelle Fleury is in new york. Health care is a major talking point in any election. And especially so here in the uk. The nhs is our most cherished institution. Funded by public money, free at the point of use but today it is a service under enormous pressure. New figures out today will make grim reading for government. In october one in six patients in england waited longer than the four hour target. In england waited longer nearly 4. 5 million are waiting for a routine operation. In the uk healthcare is a devolved issue scotland, wales and Northern Ireland are also missing their targets. All the parties are proposing in this campaign to increase the nhs budget. Were joined now by
Movement that was inaugurated with Jesse Jacksons 1988 run for the democratic president ial nomination. That year we saw the rise of the rainbow coalition. A multiracial workingclass movement and rebellion against the social and economical conservatism the defined the reagan era. That would continue into the 90s. As a 2020 primary speeds up. Rim shows us how our political past has influenced the battles of the president. Naomi klein called weve got people quote an essential read and shawn, calls graham a total communist. [laughter] thank you. He is in fact the Intercept Washington Bureau chief and the former head of the Washington Bureau for the Washington Post where he led a surprise waiting team. Please give a warm welcome to ryan graham. Thank you all for coming out. If anybody here hamza question. You can have a q a at the end. If you have questions along the way, that you think are really on. Feel free to go ahead and raise your hand and it is on. , ill answer it and if not i will
Welcome to class, everybody. Today we will talk about history of government surveillance. The focal question we want to think about today is can intelligence agencies operate in a Democratic Society and be successful protecting the government and the citizens while also upholding the seams and Citizens Rights we mark in other words, our liberty and security compatible . No doubt there is a need for intelligence communities to operate from foreign and domestic sources. They have been real throughout u. S. History. For over a century in addition to taking action against real threats bureaus and agencies within the u. S. Government have surveilled those who have expressed what the institute describes as a Strong Political views that run encounters that are surveilling political paradigm this challenges the notion often expressed by those whose appraiser in the state of some sort that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear and i will want to come back to that later on in our
Good morning. Thank you for getting up, everybody. And coming to hear me. I really appreciate it. Im just making sure my sounds good. Im here on a new book i wrote called Spring Revolution and the origins of that began really when i was a boy because mother and father were teachers and we had some one perk of being a teacher is gets some extra summer time and we used our extra time as a family. We went all over the United States visiting our National Parks and seashores. You know, i got to go to yellowstone and the olympics in the everglades. Wed have a pontiac and Station Wagon and a trail or i grew up in northwest ohio, the midwest, and we would then just go see the country and had asthma as a boy. And and it was horrible. And wherever went, i was so reinforced by picking up brochures like we used to do in those days and on it i would sit at the place would saved by Theodore Roosevelt who also had asthma as a boy and was would suffer mightily. So identified with tr and i realized tha