Tv, back story host brian tran brian balogh and Nathan Connolly give a behindthe scenes look at their weekly podcast. They were joined by a former staff member and a regular guest. This is part of a twoday Purdue University Conference Call remaking american political history. Welcome to the 10 45 panel called Something Like behind the scenes, back story maybe. Just so you know, youre not in the wrong place. I am brian balogh. I have been a cohost for back story for over 10 years now. I am going to introduce the panel and then we are each going to say a few words about our quite different roles. Nathan and i have the same role. He is trying to steal the 20th century for me and is doing a pretty good job of it. Will have relatively different roles in back story. We are going to talk about that a little bit. And then we wanted to open it up to your questions. This is not what it looks like behind the scenes at back story. In fact, we are rarely in the same place at the same time. I had to
Maybe. Just so you know youre not on the wrong flight. Im brian balogh and ive been a cohost for backstory for over ten years now. Im going to introduce the panel and then were each going to say a few words about our quite different roles well, nathan and i have the same role. Hes trying to steal the 20th century from me and doing a pretty good job of it, but we all have relatively different roles and backstory. We are going to talk about that a little bit. And then we are going to open it up to your questions. Just for starters, this is not what it looks like behind the scenes at backstory. In fact, were rarely in the same place at the same time. I had to Google Nathan to see what he looked like, for instance, even though i talk to him every week. So introducing myself, im a professor at the university of virginia, i cohost backstory and i direct the National Fellowship program at the jefferson scholars foundation. My cohost nathan connolly, of course, is known to most of you as an ou
Briany Justice Centers kelsey discuss efforts to legally challenge labor unions. And we will take your calls, and you can join can join the conven facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is friday, june 14, 2019. Welcome to washington journal. It is flag day, President Trumps birthday and he considered continues to regardingiticism information on political information coming from a foreign country, information on a political opponent. We will play you the president s comments in a moment. How concerned are you more broadly on the issue of foreign meddling in campaign 2020 . If you are concerned, the line to call is 2027488000. If you are not all that concerned, the line is 2027488001. Already a number of tweets on the issue. We will read some of those in a moment. That is cspanwj. We welcome your posts on facebook as well. Front page this morning of the analysis ofes, and the story with the headline three words revive fervor over trumprussia ties. With s
I want to welcome you to another in our wonderful series politics and eggs which goes back many years to 1997, some people are surprised to know that if you ever saw the show, the west wing, if you are student at saint anselm you say ive never seen that. But politics and eggs in the west wing at one point, when president bartlett is signing the x in the oval office, very funny. Hopefully we will have that happen again. A couple of quick things you will see around the room our sponsors, many of you are here, without our sponsors we could not produce the series. It is because of them that we can do this. We can do it often. And it is in my estimation the most Popular Series in america as far as politics goes. We have more political activity in this building and on this campus than any other campus in the u. S. And a lot of it is because of these great Core Partners that we have a couple of other things, about the state and some college, the Senate President here, is here. Remember she is
Tech companies to meet with members of congress, talk about some of the Public Policy issues they face. That is this week on the communicators. What is the point of bringing all this technology to capitol hill . As you know, we produce the Worlds Largest innovation event. In las vegas every january but not everyone on capitol hill can come to las vegas so we want to get less than one person here and feature the innovative things and even start up companies that could Show Congress the Great Innovation that we have in this country. What is the advantage of showing it . Some people can learn by reading or watching. Like a livehing experience when you talk to people who work for a company, explaining their technology and frankly anyone who comes here or any other industry event as a politician, they are learning something. Changing world where technology is moving so quickly and so many policies are affected whether it is self driving cars a robotics or drones or all this Amazing Software