Prof. Harbour ok, we are ready to begin. We have two classes left this semester, today and then after thanksgiving. I want to welcome cspan and remind you, in terms of what we have been doing this semester, that, thus far, we have proceeded in a topical way of different aspects of the american presidency. In the first half of each class. In the second half of each class we have had individual case studies. This will be different because we are simply focusing on case studies. Today, we are going to talk about bill clinton and george w. Bush and time we will talk about barack obama and donald. There will be so little to talk about when it comes to donald trump, i worry about the silence. W. H bill clinton and george on the docket today, there were a few things that warranted some talking at the start. Some older folks like us to acclimate our psyches to realize that, to you all, bill clinton genuinely is a figure of history. None of you have an active recollection, or even a childhood r
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This Chinese Government as begin with Gordon Chang Asia x. Wait contributor for the daily beast hes in new york what do you make of chinas claims you think theyve stabilized that gordon. There we dont really know larry because there is now extraordinary information control and the infections to 6 deaths statistics that are coming out of beijing actually support chinese rulers see jim pings policy of getting Chinese Workers back to their job sites so its sort of suspicious now i think that maybe and on where this started maybe theyve stabilized but we also know that there are clusters in beijing and some other cities and so cute very well have in these other locations a new Virus Outbreak but you know as i said because of what beijing has been doing especially putting journalists in jail and all the rest of it we absolutely do not have very much of an idea still can we is says how being is handling this. Well we know that for 6 weeks from december 8th when the 1st corona virus patient w
Of suspicious now i think that maybe and on where this started maybe theyve stabilized but we also know that there are clusters in beijing and some other cities and so cute very well have in these other locations a new Virus Outbreak but you know as i said because of what beijing has been doing especially putting journalists in jail and all the rest of it we absolutely do not have very much of an idea so can we as says housing thing is handling this. Well we know that for 6 weeks from december 8th when the 1st coronavirus patient was diagnosed to january 20th when he made his 1st public a knowledge moment we know that the communist party hid information about the virus that allowed it to spread around china and indeed to escape china and around the world so that is damning of his his policies the real problem is hes now gone back to the secrecy and because of that its very difficult for us to assess whats going on but i dont trust those numbers and we really wont know for quite some ti