All month, we are featuring our studentcam winners in cspans video documentary competition for middle and high school students. This year, students told us the most urgent issue for the president and congress. Our second prize High School Winner is from silver spring, maryland. Abigail is a student at montgomery high school. Her documentary on islamaphobia is entitled the crisis and the fear. The syrian refugee crisis has been in the news for a really long time. And my cousins are refugees from iraq. And i have heard their stories. I know that if they had their wish, they would be at home. Not in this country is a refugee. With the new president ial administrations recent actions, it is causing a lot of hate causing islamophobia. I knew i had to do something but idid not know what to do so thought this would be a good subject. [speaking foreign language] it is imperative that in 2017, congress and the new president work on bringing more Syrian Refugees into the United States. Most peop
From a man who said he was present just prejudiced and asked what he could do to change his views. Host heather, what is demos . Heather demos is a Public Policy organization dedicated to the idea that each of us should have an equal say in our democracy. What weve been thinking about is the root of our name. Demos is the root word of the people, which is the root word of democracy, and right now it feels like figuring out who belongs in our nations demos. Host i woke up on december 10, 2016, picked up the New York Times, and saw the headline, im prejudiced, he said. Then we kept talking. I want to show you the video and then ask you to explain the whole thing. Good morning. I was hoping your guest could help me change my mind about some things. I am a white male, and i am prejudiced. The reason it is is something not that i was taught but something i learned. When i open up the papers, i get discouraged with what young black males are doing to each other and the crime rates. I underst
All month, we are featuring our studentcam winners in cspans video documentary competition for middle and high school students. This year, students told us the most urgent issue for the president and congress. Our second prize High School Winner is from silver spring, maryland. Abigail is a student at montgomery high school. Her documentary on islamaphobia is entitled the crisis and the fear. The syrian refugee crisis has been in the news for a really long time. And my cousins are refugees from iraq. And i have heard their stories. I know that if they had their wish, they would be at home. Not in this country is a refugee. With the new president ial administrations recent actions, it is causing a lot of hate causing islamophobia. I knew i had to do something but idid not know what to do so thought this would be a good subject. [speaking foreign language] it is imperative that in 2017, congress and the new president work on bringing more Syrian Refugees into the United States. Most peop
Before her panel. We will take your calls as well. Maureen dowd, how do you view your job . Guest well, peter, thats a big question. I dont like to talk about this because it sounds a little corny. I view my job as a watchdog and times readers often dont understand that im not an ideological columnists, not coming from the left or right. I was a political reporter for 20 years and so i come more from a political reporting point of view. On just going to try to tell them its like toto pulling the curtain in the wizard of oz. Im going to try to give our readers anything i can find out that they need to know about, you know, what is true and what is false and whats these people will have lifeanddeath power over us are really like and where they are lying and where they are, you know rising to the occasion of. Host maureen dowd most recent book is called the year of voting dangerously. , us president s have you covered you know . Guest well, i covered the very tail end of reagan when he wa
Before her panel. We will take your calls as well. Maureen dowd, how do you view your job . Guest well, peter, thats a big question. I dont like to talk about this because it sounds a little corny. I view my job as a watchdog and times readers often dont understand that im not an ideological columnists, not coming from the left or right. I was a political reporter for 20 years and so i come more from a political reporting point of view. On just going to try to tell them its like toto pulling the curtain in the wizard of oz. Im going to try to give our readers anything i can find out that they need to know about, you know, what is true and what is false and whats these people will have lifeanddeath power over us are really like and where they are lying and where they are, you know rising to the occasion of. Host maureen dowd most recent book is called the year of voting dangerously. , us president s have you covered you know . Guest well, i covered the very tail end of reagan when he wa