Coming up this weekend. Tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern John Hopkins University professors jennifer and discuss their book, what washington its wrong looks how unelected government officials regard the american public. The correlation between the policies which is much stronger. We think there probably should be a stronger correlation between what the progress he is doing and what the public thinks the progress he should be doing. With like to find ways to make that relationship stronger. For many years, i have been annoyed at the various surveys undertaken that seem to be designed to show that ordinary americans dont know anything about government. Sunday night at 10 00 p. M. Eastern april ryan the white house correspondents examines race and Police Shootings in america from the perspective of africanamerican mothers in her latest book, at moms knee. Mother send race in black and white. This book focuses on women because we are the first influencer. For the first teacher. If you look at
She coauthored the smartest guys in the room about the fall of enron, but more important than that, she actually foretold it a few years earlier when she started asking questions, is enron overvalued x is it transparent. Actually, when she says there may be another issue brewing, we probably ought to sit up and listen. To my left, ben strauss, hes written in depth on College Athletics, but hes really dived into the very rich and multidimensional Human Interest stories behind College Athletes and athletes around the world. Actually, hes got my sons dream job. Frankly, my dream job. So its really great to have you here, and thank you pote for coming both for coming to this years Annapolis Book festival. American dream, american greed, you know, its a very provocative title. And i think today were in for a real treat. Were going to try to have a very lively 30minute discussion, and im going to try to leave room for about 10, 15 minutes of audience questions before we break, and we have a
The white house and why do you write about it . I have been covering the white house for 18 years. I write about it because it is very important. The leader of the free world, it is especially now with the first black president beyond the fact that he uses you want a picture of him writing some bill or signing actual issues affecting america. What makes up his thought process, sending boots on the ground in syria to fight isis, in his mind what he thinks about womens issues or what he feels is rate. Everyone needs to know what the president is thinking, i have to be privileged to be one of the few people in this country who get a chance to get an up close view of the presidency and the president of the United States and people need to her about it. Host what is the black and the white . Guest the black and white is cyclical, something that continues to happen since the enslavement of africans in the country, there is a problem with race in this country and it is yet to be fixed. We saw
Dnc. That seems like corruption. I dont know how else he would describe that. No, its not. Heres what actually happened, and im sure it happened on the republican side as well, which is that when someone has secured their partys nomination, essentially they start acting as one with the Party Committee. So it seems as though the Clinton Campaign decided to make this agreement early which said, hey, guys, when i actually secure the nomination, you know that we are going to have to go over some things like that. That, to me, does not seem out of the ordinary. Tucker thats not actually what it said. Look, if youre making the point that both parties tried to rigged the system in favor of the candidate they want, youre absolutely right, and the republicans tried to do that and they failed, and that is how they got trumped. No, its true. Both parties tried to rig it, but my question is, dont voters have a say in this . It doesnt belong to the party who is paid by it but by the voters that vot