New york times and Washington Post talk about the publics right to know versus the right to protect information for National Security. This was part of the conference that the george w. Bush president ial center looking at the people, the presidency, and the press. It is about an hour and 10 minutes. Our next panel is the right to know versus the responsibility to protect. How to tell the difference. Is the downie jr. Professor of journalism at Arizona State university. Walter Cronkite School of journalism and mass medication. He was the executive editor of the Washington Post post until 2008. He was executive editor and has won pullet surprise us. Michael hayden is the principal Global Advisory firm. He served as the director of enteral intelligence from 2006 until 2009, where he was responsible for overseeing all information concerning the plans , intentions, and capabilities from americas adversaries, producing timely analysis for decision makers, and conducting covert operations be
Night came out of the democratic primary in michigan. Thats right, people, Bernie Sanders figured out that since hillary started stealing his platform, he would start stealing her poll numbers. Bernie sanders with a big upset victory over Hillary Clinton in michigan. The biggest upset in primary history. The polls showed clinton leading sanders by 20 points in michigan, and she lost. That is as big a polling failure as we have seen. Trevor yeah, thats right. People still dont know why the poll numbers were so off. You know, was it the fact that the polls didnt account for young voters turning out or was it because of the independent voters, or was it because of that snapchat face swat that confused the [bleep] out of people. That totally threw them off. laughter you know, im not normally attracted to either of them but now bernie, hey. So Bernie Sanders victory in michigan caught everyone off guard. And i mean everyone. Bernie sanders was not expecting a win in michigan at all. He was
Failure as we have seen. Trevor yeah, thats right. People still dont know why the poll numbers were so off. You know, was it the fact that the polls didnt account for young voters turning out or was it because of the independent voters, or was it because of that snapchat face swat that confused the [bleep] out of people. That totally threw them off. laughter you know, im not normally attracted to either of them but now bernie, hey. So Bernie Sanders victory in michigan caught everyone off guard. And i mean everyone. Bernie sanders was not expecting a win in michigan at all. He was in miami last night. He gave a speech earlier a early and went to his hotel really to retire and watch the results come in. He had to come back out and make a statement. Trevor that is so like bern ye went off to retire. I can imagine bernies people waking him up to hell tell him he had won. Senator sanders, what waws, waws waws billionaires what . What . But you know, even more than for bernie, the michigan
The important part of what that is. No, no, i mean like no one is like when were those kid. Sond, 1996 . Oh, well, never mind then. You see, as bad as flints problem is, the one thing on their side was timing. Because if are you going to have a massive lead poisoning problem, it turns out you might as well do it just before politicians show up to win your votes in an important president ial primary. Because thats when you have leverage. You know, its like when a kids birthday falls just before shes due to testify in her parents custody battle. Dad is like now just remember to tell the truth up there, sweetie. And again, what color pony would you like . So much focus has been on the flint crisis that its gone beyond just the world of politics. Beyonce has set up the bay good fund to provide fresh water and filters to the people of flint. Cher and Water Company icelandic glacial announced they are partnering to send more than 100,000 bottles. Mark wahlberg and diddy have donated a millio
Len downey will be here with some lessons from the year 2000. Nikole hannahjones, david zuraw zurawik, many more coming up. First, there are new signs of democratic backsliding all around us. Is america slouching toward autocracy . If so, what prodemocracy steps should be taken . And by who . And whats the role of the press during times like this . I have answers coming, i promise. First, look at the evidence with me. Every day it is something new. Political scientists are issuing starker and starker warnings about erosions of democratic norms in the United States. Warnings about things like this, President Trump stoking fears about voter fraud. Saying the election will be rigged unless he wins. There are so many disturbing stories in the news, many of them that tie back to the governments failures in ways that point toward authoritarianism. Look, americas failure to control the coronavirus pandemic is related to all of this. The country is nearing 200,000 plus deaths and yet the false