The history of American Foreign relations and the modern history of east asia. He received his phd from Cornell University in 2012 and is currently an assistant professor in the department of history at the National University of singapore. History at the National University of singapore. Where he teaches courses on the modern history of japan, student movements in asia, decolonization and the cold war. In addition to his new book, cold war crucible, dr. Masuda has published a number of articles which is be found in journals such as diplomatic history, the journal official contemporary history, the journal of cold war studies and east asian relations. We have two other speakers who will provide comment on professor masudas presentation and his new book. But i will introduce them directly prior to their speaking. I strongly encourage all of our speakers to stick to the designated time limit so we have enough time for q a. But with that, i will turn the floor over to you. Okay. Thank you
Television companies and more including buckeye broadband. Buckeye broadband along with these Television Companies reports cspan2 as a public service. Tonight i am really thrilled to welcome dave zirin the author of the new book the kaepernick effect taking a knee, changing the world and his book conversation partner akhalil greene, a jen z historian in essence with a halfmillion social media followers. They have much to share and im here to introduce them but i want to say a word about the book. So many of us remember the quiet and at the same time exclusive action colin i kaepernick took five years ago. Weve witnessed the Mass Movement thats taken shape since then and thought about the courage that standing up as an athlete takes and the states at play. This book reflects on all of isthat, its about the politics of sport and impact of sports on politics and its about the players across generations and levels who aspire by using this platform of their field or Court Despite to fight P
Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com but i want to begin with americas latest ebola patient, dallas nurse nina pham who treated thomas eric duncan, the first to die of ebola in this country. Dr. Sanjay gupta is here with me now to help us go through this. Sanjay, what do we know about nurse nina phams condition right now . Were not getting a lot of details from the hospital, and thats not that surprising. Obviously, theres patient confidentiality. We hear she is stable. We also hear, don, as we talked about earlier, that she got a blood transfusion, and that was a blood transfusion from dr. Kent brantly. The american who survived ebola. The thought being there that his blood could have the antibodies or ebolafighting cells in his blood that could help her. It seems to have helped people in the past and thats sort of where she stands now, don. Seriously, though, lets talk about breaching protocol because we heard from Thomas Frieden that he believed there was some breach of protocol. He so
achieve? and what it cannot? joining us now are craig whit lock, investigative reporter for the washington post. his excellent new book is called the afghanistan papers: a secret history of the war. jeremy surrey is a professor of history and public affairs at the university of texas at austin. good to have both of you with us. craig, if i might start with you, there is a ton in this book worth digging into, comes from a lot of public documents, including one the washington post sued to make public for years and finally did. there s one quote in the book where you quote todd green tree a foreign service officer who highlighted an example of our ignorance of the country. you write in part, quote, one of the unfortunate errors this is quoting him one of the unfortunate errors was in our eagerness to get revenge. when one side wins, the other side puts down their arms and reconciles with the side that