Good evening. Welcome. Happy new year. Im matthew spalding. Welcome to the allen b. Kirby campus. Our event is cosponsor idbid real clear politics. And i recognize david, in the back, there he is. The pressurer and John Mcintyre who is with us here as well. Our discussion deals with a collection of essays med on the 35th anniversary of the new cite tieran ming. The title of the book is vox poply, the perils of populism. It means the voice of the people. The old adage, the voice of the people is the voice of god, which was often times used in history to attack monarchs and attack people who said such nonsense. The idea of populism is also not new to america. One thinks of will William Jennings bryan, roosevelts, Andrew Jackson, Ronald Reagan more recently. Not surprising in a regime of popular consent based on human equality. Theres always been a tension between popular government and constitutional government. That sense of the potential of populist demagogues. Hence, promises and peri
Vivid the United States in 2014 in person although it appears that by 2016 when the bulk of this activity took place during the election, they were controlling this remotely from heir office in st. Petersburg. It seemed like an effort to cause strife to use social media. But sometimes to organize protest one at the white house, others, in new york city, one outside trump tower. To raise questions about things going on during the campaign and mostly challenge Hillary Clinton the democratic president ial nominee and as you said earlier, o seem to assist donald trump. But there were other signs and they were careful to put these into the zimet that the effort was really aimed at really wreaking havoc on the u. S. Political and causing conflict among americans. And perhaps a primary goal may not have been to simply elect donald trump but to achieve some of these other object i was. One reason that makes it a little complicated apparently after the election in 2016, these individuals allege
Come to the news grid charged with conspiracy against the us Donald Trumps former Campaign Manager for metaphors just turn himself over to the f. B. I. He and his Business Partner on the first people to be indicted in relation to alleged russian meddling in last years president ial Election Campaign we are live in washington d. C. To find out what this means for the president himself. Accused of rebellion sedition and misuse of funds spains top prosecutor rolls out the charges against the natives of the Catalan Independence road if they are found guilty they could face up to thirty years in prison because one of barcelona talks us through the impact of these very serious charges also making the goods zira is here to stay as a man as reiterated his unequivocal support for the station that some of the countrys neighbors want to shut down and that means rain probably one to attend the upcoming g. C. C. Summit they say they wont go on this cattle meets the demands of the blockading nations
Panel this morning consisting of two distinguished journalists who have been in kenya following the campaign and the election in kenya. I will introduce them in just a minute. My name is mark, i am a Senior Advisor for africa here at csis. Some years ago i was ambassador in my nairobi and i had the opportunity to spend several years there prior to this years election. I want to start off with a few remarks and then turn to our gas. As all of you know, this week, some 1 15 million kenyans went to the polls to elect members of parliament, to elect 49 counties in this was a remarkable event, if only because of the thousands of Campaign Appearances by different candidates because of the passionate participation being such a large part of the electorate and also because of the technological sophistication of this process including the speedy electronic tallying of votes on election day. As you all know, incumbent president one the presidency by a margin of victory that was larger than predi
She claims she was sitting next to donald trump on an airplane and then this happened. His hands were all over me. He started encroaching on my space. He was like an octopus. Its like had six arms. When he started putting his hand on my skirt, that was it. Bill the Trump Campaigns response. This article is completely false, coordinated character assassination against mr. Trump on a topic like this is dangerous. Martha its not the only allegation this morning that has come out against mr. Trump. Everything we finding out now is alleged to have happened more than a decade ago. There is a People Magazine reporter who says trump was inappropriate with her in florida. A photographers assistant says trump groped her in 2003. And reception evident who says trump kissed her at trump power. I dont think i said a word during the late 60s, 70s, and 80s. The culture had instilled in us somehow it was our fault the attention we received from men, that we were responsible for their behavior. You did