And all i am trying to do here, paul, is identify a problem and a course and possible solutions for the American People and hope that bubbles up to the grassroots political process so that you all in government and think tanks can get the job done that you know needs to be done. There is no question that things can go bad. Thank you, everyone, for coming. I really appreciate this. If anybody wants any information about that, crouching tiger. Net. Thank you so much, peter. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] James Thurber explores the challenges of partisanship in government next on book tv. Welcome professor James Thurber from american university, coeditor of a new book called American Gridlock the sources, character, and impact of political polarization. Good morning. Morning. Good to see you. Why are we so polarized . There are variety of reasons. Sorting going on. It is a phenomenon where people mo to e th we have a phenomenon, if
Book American Gridlock the sources, character and impact of the politicalrican gridlock o. Why are we so polarized . Guest theres a variety of reasons. S. One is that we reas have a a sociological phenomenon going on where people move to where they agree with each other and they stay there. If you live in downtown baltimore, your africanamerican and around people that agree with you and if you are in Rural America you have people that agree with you also said the theory is that you move to areas where if you can there are people you agree with and if you dont, you keep your mouth shut or begin to be like the people around you. Redistricting is drawing the lines around postings and those things and its a partisan phenomenon except in the states where we have the commissions to do it so the redistricting for the state legislature as well as the house of representatives predates districts that are safe at any margin. They are only 21 seats in the house right now that are estimated to be c
Cherryh you remember her blossoms, that is not what she focused on. She wanted to build a band show near washington so that people could, and listen to find music. She has a young woman had attended the 25th Wedding Anniversary Party to the white house of rutherford and lucy hayes. She decided she would like to come back one day and spend more time. [laughter] , we talke tragedies about the string of tragedies of helen taft, who really wanted to be first lady. Today she would be president. About three months after taft became president , she suffered a stroke. With characteristic determination, she had to relearn speech. And she did. But it contributed to the general melancholy of the single taft term, over which hung this cloud called theodore roosevelt. Susan dempsey, although she had lobbied to support her husband for the presidency, she had a much better political mind. As far astrusted tr she could throw him. She kept telling her husband not to trust theodore. In the end, in 1912,
Good sunday morning to you. This is the headline this morning. Front page. Ted cruz, a double set of victories for him beginning in kansas where he won with 48 of the vote compared to 23 for donald trump. Senator marco rubio at 17 . Also in kansas the Democratic Caucuses held there with senator Bernie Sanders winning with nearly 70 compared to just over 30 for Hillary Clinton. Moving to kentucky the republican caucuses there onald trump winning. In louisiana, the republican primary donald trump winning. A democratic primary in louisiana as well. Hillary clinton overwhelmingly winning with more than 0 of the vote compared to 23 for senator Bernie Sanders. Maine holding its caucuses this weekend. Yesterday the republican caucuses a win for senator cruz at 46 donald trump at 33 and governor kasic coming in third. The main Democratic Caucuses will be head today. D in nebraska senator Bernie Sanders getting 56 . This morning from the kansas city star. Hecking your sweets. Tomorrow evening t
Now key players are arriving in vienna ahead of the international talks aimed at ending syrias deadly civil war. The official dialog opens on friday but several sideline meetings have already been held, the u. S. Secretary of state met his reigning counterpart, russia, turkey, france and saudi arabia are also there. Significantly no representative from syria or the Syrian Opposition are involved. Those who were there will need to navigate competing agendas tehran and moscow supporters of assad and want him involved in a transitional power structure but u. S. Wants him to step down, a view shared by saudi arabia and turkey, all this as violence in syria continues. At least 50 people have been killed by government shelling at a makeshift hospital in duma outside of damascus and the foreign minister said there were no preconditions though on his countrys participation in these discussions. Translator we have emphasized that the solution to syria must be based on the principle that it is a