Tell us about your students. They come from very rural areas. We are very on the edge of sumter county, kind of shaped like the panhandle. We are completely away from the nearest city. K8. Ve about 400 kids grow,ds are determined to determined to low. Personalities, trying to make their communities a better place. Your focus is South Carolina state history. What prompted you to be a teacher fellow . Zach i came to cspans educator conference a few years ago. It was right after my first year of teaching, and it was hard for my students to realize of what happens in washington because so many of them have not ever left sumter county. Or you know theres a field trip year whereast school most of the kids it was the first time they had ever even been to a zoo. That conference kind of planted the seed of using cspans footage and clips in my classroom to show them whats happening in washington and why its so important. Over the last couple of years, ive made it a point to use those primary sou
We are joined as well by matt guaranteed you know a professor at st. Lawrence university. We frequently Work Together on forgot issues. It also runs an Excellent Program in nairobi to celebrate its 45th anniversary. Matt was there doing research and bringing some alumni along on the trip. They had a great Semester Program in africa. From Freedom House the Relief Program in africa. I also want to thank john for an outstanding article that he coauthored in the Current Issue of Foreign Affairs. On some of the new promising democratic movements and some of africas biggest countries which was largely the inspiration for this email. We modified it a little bit. South africa democratic republic of the congo where i was a peace corps volunteer hundred years ago when it was practically before building congo days and also that nigeria so between these kids six countries we have nearly half of africas rep ovulation represented. A fair amount of helpful notes as well. No one is going to say is goi
If i could have your attention please. We will get started. The president is on the west coast for a fundraising trip so i am filling in for him. I have a brief chat which is to introduce our distinguished introducer. Megan is a Washington Post columnist who writes about economics, finance and government policy. She has previously written as a correspondent for the economist, the atlantic, newsweek, daily beast. Articles have appeared in reason, the guardian, New York Post and the new york sun. She is everywhere. She started one of the First Business economic blogs asymmetric information and authors a 2014 book the upside of down while feeling well is the key to success. In her spare time she appears as a commentator on fox news, msnbc and npr. She is degree in literature from the Pennsylvania University and an mba from the university of chicago. Please join me in welcoming her. [applause] i admit when i was asked to stand in for him that i had a little trepidation because theres so mu
And you can be part of the conversation as donald trump accidentally tweets the wrong theresa may in row over anti Muslim Videos were asking what has been your worst social media slip up. Tell us your story just use the hashtag bbc the briefing. Starting with the detail on the us president. Donald trump has hit out at the british Prime Minister, after downing street said it was wrong for him to retweet anti Muslim Videos that were posted by a british far right group. The us president suggested that theresa may should focus on tackling terrorism rather than on him. Laura bicker reports from washington. They may have held hands once at this so called special relationship is now being tested by a series of president ial tweets. First, the account of a far right anti muslim group called britain first, donald trump re tweeted three in monetary videos to his 43 million followers. Inflammatory. The first showed a muslim migrant attacking a man on crutches. When challenged, the white house sai
Can agree a budget deal before midnight tonight. A so called shutdown could see government offices closed, thousands of staff sent home and military personnel unpaid. In the last few hours, the house of representatives has passed a short term bill to fund the government until february 16th. But getting it through the senate is proving much more difficult. So whats the disagreement about . Well, heres one major Sticking Point the fate of 800,000 so called dreamers, people who came to the us illegally as children and face the prospect of deportation. Democrats are using the budget talks as leverage to try and stop that. Then theres the childrens healthcare programme, which provides insurance for millions of low income kids. It cost 16. 9 billion last year and President Trump wants it reformed. So what if congress cant agree . Last time the government was forced into a partial shutdown was in 2013. 850,000 staff were sent home, museums and parks were closed and services from visa processi