Healthy kelsey snow, she covers congress for the washington post. Also the editor in chief of fox. The bill has had more than one day to soak in on the hill, how is it going . Can mitch question is mcconnell get the 50 votes . They need a majority of 51 votes to pass this. They can callin Vice President mike pence for backup. They have 52 republicans in the senate and they can only lose two. Right now we are looking at for conservatives who have said that they do not support the bill and its current form. They left open a lot of room to get themselves a few yeses. The real question is what will happen with moderate. There are a lot of questions at this point. They dont have 58, but there is a lot of confidence that they will be able to get there. Kospi,s also mark collins, Mitch Mcconnell has to do this dance with everyone. What areion is peoples policy bottom lines. We have to look at the republican divide on health care. You have the moderates who have been saying they need to do mor
I shouldve gone on a little longer perhaps. Would you mind if i came in again . Its about to say how special this night is, but you wont beat me to it, which is great. Welcome. My name is steve rothstein, executive director of the john f. Kennedy Library Foundation and on behalf of other colleagues in the foundation and jamie roth and all the colleagues in the library, we are pleased you can be here. All of our forums are great, but tonight is a treat because the speaker here is also the beginning of the john f. Kennedy centennial weekend and we plan this month ago when we had data entry literally thought who would be the best pair are both speaker and moderator we could get for this historic time. This is what weve gotten, so we are thrilled they are both here. [applause] before he introduced them, a few brief announcements. First i want to thank our underwriters and sponsors is the lead sponsor, bank of america. The Lowell Institute including andrea wohl who is here tonight commend m
Microphones to your right and we hope the audience will be able to hear. As always make sure to silence your cell phones and turn off your camera flashes at this point in time come and with that please welcome dahleen glanton, columnist with the chicago tribune. [applause] good morning. Thank you all for coming. I am so excited to be here today with ibram x. Kendi whose book stamped from the beginning the definitive history of racist ideas in america is probably one of the most timely books that are out there right now. And we certainly can learn a lot from what ibram has to talk about today. So ibram is the recipient of the National Book award. They praised him in preventin pd that word as a masterful voyage the history of u. S. Rhetoric. So ibram is a professor of history at the university of florida, also a finalist for the book critics circle award. And i just learned today that while in undergraduate school, ibram was interested in being a journalist, working for a newspaper. We c
This is all a big part of it. The problem with kennedy will be it is cut off so soon. We very rarely take a president as seriously as the others who has only served one term and heres a president who didnt even serve one term. You look at what footprints, what a mark he left on our sense of who we are. Host one of the interesting parts to me about the books on johnson by robert caro, it is interesting you really have to look at the kennedy presidency, because johnson, who might not have been inclined to be so ideologically attuned with his predecessor really took the predecessors agenda to heart and it became his guest yes indeed. Host in many respects johnson did things he couldnt have done. Host guest hard to find two men more difference. When you say you interviewed 11 president s. 7 or 6 or Something Like that. I have gotten to know the research they have done, what strikes me as different from one another, really different, jimmy carter, George Hw Bush and bill clinton, some of th
Bruce klinger discussing north koreas missile test and nuclear threat. Be sure to watch washington journal live at 7 00 eastern this morning. Join the discussion. Now i look at freedom of speech on College Campuses with a group of professors and offers. This from a two Day Conference called finding meaning in america. Good afternoon and welcome back to our conference on a worthy life finding meaning in america. We have a very distinguished group of panelists to adjust the question. I want to begin with a personal testimony of my own and an expression of gratitude. We will be discussing pathologies, undeniable pathologies, that exist in american Higher Education these days. Compromising of Academic Freedom violations of Core Principles of freedom of speech, the lack of viewpoint diversity, the phenomenon of trying to win debates by labeling other people as bigots or haters or what have you. Those pathologies are undeniable. They exist. They are very widespread. Many people in the academ