At williams college. Dr. Nolan is the author of several books including what we are here to discuss this evening what they saw in America Alexis de tocqueville, max weber, g. K. Chesterton and sayyid qutb. I especially look forward to this discussion as dr. Nolans insights will help us wrap up a yearlong study at the Mcconnell Center on American Political Culture inspired by tocquevilles democracy in america. Dr. Nolan holds an undergraduate degree from the university of virginia. His teaching and Research Interests fall within the general areas of law and society, culture, technology and social change and historical comparative sociology. He is the recipient of several grants and awards including the National Endowments for the humanities fellowships and a full bright scholarship. We look forward to dr. Williams pardon, dr. Nolans engaging discussion this evening on dark strands and bright threads, what they saw in america. Dr. Nolan has agreed to take questions from the audience foll
Continues. Host Jessica Vaughan is back at her desk. She serves as policy studies director at the center for immigration studies. Not a single democratic candidate thinks the current immigration system is working. President trump has called it broken repeatedly. If it were up to you to fix the system, where would you start . Guest i think i would start nothing why do we have an immigration system to decide which immigrants we want to admit and build from there . We want people to be able to build their bring their spouses and other close immediate family members. We want our employers to have access to a global bullet talent, skilled individuals global pool of talent, skilled individuals. We want to continue to have a humanitarian admission program. How many people should we be offering resettlement to . We could probably do away with programs like the visa lottery and certain other ones that have outlived any useful purpose. Host what should be the goal . What do you think is the righ
Social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good wednesday morning to you. You can start calling now. We will begin by taking you back to mondays final press briefing with President Trump at the g7 summit of World Leaders. The final question the president took was on the issue of Climate Change. [video clip] there was a significant talk at the summit about Climate Change. I know in the past you offered skepticism. What do you think the world should be doing and do you harbor that skepticism . Has feel the United States tremendous wealth. Feet. Alth is under its i have made that wealth come alive. Exporting we are the Number One Energy producer in the world and soon it will be by far with a couple of pipelines that have not been able to get approved for many years. Could be the largest site in the world for oil and gas. Ronald reagan was not able to do it. They have been trying to do it since before ronald reagan. We are the Number One Energy pr
Social media. On twitter, cspanwj. On facebook, it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good saturday morning to you. You can start calling it now. Having this conversation after a historic week when it comes to opioid litigation. On monday. T happened the drugmaker Johnson Johnson was found to be was on support for contributing to oklahomas Opioid Crisis and ordered by a Court District judge to pay 572 million in fines. On tuesday, Purdue Pharma was reported to be in talks to pay between 10 billion and 12 billion to settle some 2000 opioidrelated lawsuits brought by states, cities, and counties. This was the scene in that oklahoma courtroom when the judge announced his decision in that Johnson Johnson case. [video clip] the Opioid Crisis is an eminent danger, and my judgment includes findings of fact and the law of the state mets its burden that the defendant, misleading inson, includingection one, the finding that those actions compromised the health and safety of thousands of oklahomans,
Live coverage here on cspan. Where we wake up and there isnt a big escalation happening in the region. We have seen more than a dozen incidents in the gulf targeting tankers and threatening the freedom of navigation. U. S. Iranian escalations just continues. Sanctions last month and iran increased its enrichments of uranium. Iraq we have seen two iransions targeting the militia. Morning, thet this droneonfirmed that one was shut down. This is the second incident in yemen since june. With me to discuss this is a very Diverse Group of experts, and all of them i would call friends. Will start from the far left senior fellow at the foundation for defense of democracy. A senior fellow at the center for american progress. She follows yemen very closely and is a nonresident fellow at the middle east institute. To my left is a senior fellow here at the Hudson Institute. Thank you for hosting. Thank you for our cspan audience following this, for those who are following us on twitter as well. Ho