Wisconsin, pennsylvania, and arizona. Ncaa officials, university leaders, and armor student athletes testified to a senate panel about the benefits and challenges of allowing College Athletic programs and athletes to profit from the use of their name, image, or likeness. They also talked about the impact of the coronavirus on College Sports. I had to participate in the environment and public works committee. We have a quirky rule in the if in our committees you want to vote no by proxy, that counts. If you want to vote yes by proxy, that doesnt count, so i had to be there in person. We cannot get started. Are you ready . Thank you so much. This hearing will come to order. Convenes toommittee discuss the issue of compensating student athletes for the use of their name, image, and likeness and il nil. I welcome our panel of witnesses and thank them for. We will hear from the vice chancellor Intercollegiate Athletics from university of mississippi, my alma mater, where a letter in zero sp
Greetings and sally you take. Controversy has erupted here in washington d. C. After legendary watergate Journalist Bob Woodward released select audit you know recordings of interviews he conducted with u. S. President donald trump for his new book entitled rage the interviews feature the president back in february acknowledging and understanding the very real dangers of the covert 19 pandemic saying quote it goes through the air bob thats always tougher than the touch you just breathe the air and thats how its passed its also more deadly than your you know your even most strenuous flu. Yet just days later at a Campaign Speech in South Carolina trump called criticism of his handling of the virus a hoax and went on to downplay its dangers announcing to all there are 35000 people on average die each year from the flu did he would know that 35000. 00 thats a lot of people. Go 2100008 could be 27000. 00 they say usually a minimum of 27. 00 goes up 2100000 people a year die and so far we ha
Hate. [laughter] it is a little daunting. Trace the arc. Im going to do a historian thing and think generally. I guess i would say if yo they e looking at american politics from the beginning, we could even go past the civil war, we are talking about paradoxes and conflict and improv. The periods but i tend to focus on more at that part, its the improvisational nature of that fascinates me more than anything else. Its because the nation was founded in the world of monarc monarchy. What that means wasnt so clear at the moment. There is a lot of improv in those early decades about what the nation is, how it functions, the tone of the f government, hp a nationon is going to stand out among the nations of the world. What does it mean to be in a world of monarchies and was the nation going to get any degree of respect and equally and if not more significant as far as the inside of the nation is concerned, what kind of nation is tha it going to be and that s true on every level you could s a
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Road to civil war. Joanne freeman, youre going to hate this opening question. Trace the arc of our nations history. From 1783 to 1861, the political history of our nation. Wow, i will use the word hate. Back is a little daunting. Trace the art. Im to do the historian thing and speak generally. I guess it would save your looking an american in politics, from the beginning straight through, we could even go past the civil war, youre talking about paradoxes and conflict and prop. The period that i tend to focus on is the early part of the arc, and its the improvisational nature of the the really fascinates more than anything else. The nation was founded in a world of monarchy. The United States was a republic. What the means was was not clear at the moment and people knew the they were trying to do something the wasnt act. Were not going to be creating monetary and the president isnt going to be a king but beyond the there was open ground. Theres a lot of improv in those early decades abo