And the white house. My name is Katherine Kramer brownell. I am an associate professor of history at Purdue University ity. I am a historian of modern american politics and. I have written extensively about the relation ship between the presidency and Popular Culture. Include my new book, which i will shamelessly plug because of this ongoing, which is called 24 7 cable television. The fragmenting of america from watergate to fox news. The book explores the political strategy behind the president ial embrace of programs like mtv news. And so im just thrilled to be moderating this conversation, which looks at the other side of the equation, how television has portrayed the american presidency and the impact that this has had on Civic Knowledge and engagement. To dig into these questions, i am thrilled to introduce my panelist who are incredibly distant distinguished in their careers their full bios are in program. So i will just give a brief to my left. We have gautham rao, who is an ass
Welcome to the second session very Exciting Panel Discussion about television, entertainment and the white house. My name is Katherine Kramer brownell. I am an associate professor of history at Purdue University ity. I am a historian of modern american politics and. I have written extensively about the relation ship between the presidency and Popular Culture. Include my new book, which i will shamelessly plug because of this ongoing, which is called 24 7 cable television. The fragmenting of america from watergate to fox news. The book explores the political strategy behind the president ial embrace of programs like mtv news. And so im just thrilled to be moderating this conversation, which looks at the other side of the equation, how television has portrayed the american presidency and the impact that this has had on Civic Knowledge and engagement. To dig into these questions, i am thrilled to introduce my panelist who are incredibly distant distinguished in their careers their full bi
They will be hearing from their constituents, because this hits home. Coming up i will talk to congresswoman Brenda Lawrence about all of this. President trump continuing his offensive against mailin voting today and also, keeping up his attacks against his democratic rivals ahead of his republican convention. One thing the president is not tweeting about, the arrest of his onetime top political advisor. Steve bannon vowing to fight back against charges that he defraughted those who donated to a quote charity aiming to help build the president s all. More on that story ahead. I we begin on capitol hill where fanse pelosiy earlier this afternoon held a press conference overonion going deliberations on post Office Funding and halting changes by the postmaster through the ends of the year. Leeanne, which have we learned from the House Speaker today . We know this issue of the post service fund asking the post service . Rent ral has become deeply political and steeped in Election Year poli
Tabulated or counted. And if its not counted, vote. But follow that ballot because these people theyll be lost. Theyll be gone. The numbers are incredible. This comes on the backdrop of a week of dueling Campaign Messages in a number of very important swing states. Former vp joe biden spending his time in kenosha, wisconsin, yesterday, speaking to Community Members and the family of jacob blake. The man who was shot by Police Nearly two weeks ago. While President Trump spent his trip to the city with Business Owners and Law Enforcement officials. And over in pennsylvania, while the president touted the booming stock market, joe biden focussed on the millions of americans who are struggling amid this pandemic. Our team of reporters has the latest on the trail. Josh letterman is in raleigh, North Carolina, ali vitali in wilmington, delaware, and Kelly Odonnell at the white house. First ballots being sent out this morning from North Carolina. What are you hearing from Election Officials t
Enforcement officer, failure to obey and fleeing a Law Enforcement officer after pretending to be a part of, quote, president ial cabinet. The nation is not far removed from january 6th insurrection. In fact new video from the new yorker is giving us a new view of the chaos that unfolded. We might as well set up a government. Hey, lets take a seat, people lets take a seat eat we allowed this to happen lock us down and then they go after us. Disturbing every time. You can see why security is tight across america tonight. A high alert through wednesday due to threats to state capitols. Least 14 states have activated National Guard troops including michigan where a hand willful of armed protesters gathered at the state capitol. There has been an enormous security presence here in lansing. You can see behind me, the Lansing Police department and the Michigan Police have been here as well. That combined with a pretty bad weather day seems to have contributed to a pretty quiet afternoon here