I just want to thank the American Political Science Association and cspan for providing a broader environment for what is clearly a very important and relevant topic in 2019. That being this roundtable on the topic of the Trump White House and the White House Press core. My name is dave cohen. Im an actual professor of Political Science at the university of akron. I went back in time. Im an assistant director of the applied politics and a board member of the Akron Press Club and have been for over a decade and a member of the white house transition project which for those of you who dont know what the project is, its a nonpartisan effort by scholars to provide information on president ial transactions and white house operations to those transitioning into the white house. Its very important organization. And it happened to be one of the founders of that organization is martha kumar who i am happy to introduce right now. Shes an emeritus professor at Towson University and director and c
Talking about oil, weve been watching oil along with wild moves in stock market all week and last several months michigan congresswoman House Community member is here. Talking about china trade dont ms a moment of it. So weve got a rally this morning underway triple digits move after we saw that huge wild week last week. Three down weeks in a row looking to break the longest losing streak since may if weve got china trade, tensions President Trump commented on negotiations yesterday. Heres what the president said. Monetary manipulation and pouring money into the krnghts because they dont want to lose jobs but losing as you know because you reported it but they lost over 2 million jobs in a short period of time and they want to make a deal see what happens but they want to make a deal. If i wanted to mawk a bad deal and settle on china market would go up but not the right thing to do. Im not ready to make a deal yet. China would like to im not ready. President says that apple ceo tim co
Now, it is hot and dry. Though it is getting a bit late in the season, folks near salinas on the evidence of a scary but muchneeded preplanned controlled burn to read a high fire prone area of grass, brush and debris that could promote the destructive runway wildfires. We are looking at doing statewide, increasing when possible, the areas that we do burns. I believe this last year, we have done approximately 15 to 20,000 acres of burns. The bulk of those are occurring on private lands. Reporter experts say much more is needed. We are trying to come up to about 250,000 or 200,000 acres in california over the next 5 years. Arendt as canyon road was closed most of the day as it will be each day this week to clear as much brush as possible from under big trees. The lowlying stuff is what can allow fire to reach the crowns of big keys trees, finally, the state has provided major funding. 200 million per year are available for Forest Restoration and prescribed fire. Those kinds of numbers ne
Allie rasmus is with us once again. Have either of you had your car broken into . No, knock on wood. I have had it. It is a very empty feeling. A good friend of mine has had his vehicle broken into several times. Now he doesnt even drive into San Francisco and it happened again sunday night and this he is now a baseball analyst for espn. He was in town sunday to call the giantsphillies game. After the game he goes to dinner. Welcome to San Francisco, mr. Rodriguez, the police say someone smashed his suv window, stole bags, a camera, a laptop, a ton of jewelry a spokesperson says the thieves got away with half a million dollars, initially greatly exaggerated, but he still had thousands of dollars taken. You see evidence of it all over the place, even if it hasnt happened to you. You go to parking lots. But on social media, he was taking a little bit of a hit. Well, he shouldnt have left that. Why did you leave snit. He is visit leave it . He is visiting San Francisco. He has to work. I
Welcome to another episode of white house history. Rich diverse history about the white house and the people who live and work there. Mike is a retired apple from the navy Civil Engineer court was served in a variety of climates around the world and 29 year military career including commander. Including as commander of camp david. After retirement thousand ten, Michael Jordan private industry is a chief executive officer of the Building Information Technology company headquartered in his hometown of pittsburgh, pennsylvania. In october in 2017 he published his first book inside camp david, private world of the president ial retreat. Retreat. Mike travels often speaking about the book has been covered by the wall street journal, the today show cspan and many other print Radio Television outlets. After our conversation, mike will be taking questions from our live audience. Please be your questions for mike and the chat we will get to as many as possible welcome to white house history liv