Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the princeton Public Library, it is my honor on behalf of the executive director, assistant director erika beth and the rest of the staff to welcome you to this eachs program. Before i introduce our speaker, things in order, first and foremost thanks to Incredible Team for teaching out to library and hosting talk. We knew we wanted to be a part. As im sure everyone in this room is well aware, michelle attended pris tone University Just up the street from 1981 to 1985 so seemed fitting to have photographs in Public Library and take part in book tour that looks at her life in the white house. Thanks also to the arts council of princeton for hanging photographs in reading room for us. The exhibit will be on view through december 3rd and, of course, things also in order. We invite everyone to visit the reading room which is across the hallway so you can see the photos up close and personal once we are finished with the formal part of the evening. My g
Little did we realize that our analysts would be addressing president elect trump. We are fortunate that we have five historians who have a sense of public purpose and would like to discuss and reflect on some of the major Public Policy imperatives and context that the new administration that will be faced with. As laid out in the program, we will follow the alphabetical order. First is a scholar of the middle east who has written about u. S. Arab relations. Among other topics. The next is of the Harvard University Kennedy School whose work covers the intersection of race and Public Policy. His Research Deals with the construction and policing of criminality in the United States. Our third speaker is my colleague, margaret omara. I always want to say it like maureen ohara, and she always corrects me. She is currently focusing on the relationship between hightech and american politics. She has recently published a tuesdays foral elections. The next is author of the much acclaimed book e
Little did we realize that our panelists would be addressing president elect trump. We are fortunate that we have five historians that who have a sense of public purpose. They would like to reflect on some of the Public Policy imperatives and context that the new administration that will be faced with. As laid out in the program, we are going to follow the order alphabetical order. First up is nathan citino. Of rice university. A scholar of the middle east. Saudi written about u. S. And u. S. Arab relations. Khalil gibran muhammad, of Harvard Universitys Kennedy School whose work explores the , intersection between race, ethnicity, and Public Policy will be next. His research polices criminality in the United States. Our third speaker is my colleague margaret omara. I always want to say like maureen ohara, and she corrects me. She is currently focusing on the relationship between hightech and american politics. She has recently published a book on pivotal tuesdays, four elections that
Response to the beheading and address the execution only minute ago. People across this country would have been sickened by the fact that it could have been a british citizen. A british citizen who could have carried out this unspeakable act. It is the very opposite of everything our country stands for. It falls to the government and to each and every one of us to drain this poison from our society and to take on this warped ideology that is radicalizing some of our young people. We also heard from president obama in the wake of the haines execution and for more on that and the u. S. Response, we go to Kristen Welker live at the white house. Steve, first, too, president obama releasing this statement overnight strongly condemning this third beheading and saying we will work with the United Kingdom and from around the world to bring the perpetrator from this outrageous act to justice and destroy this threat to the people of our countries, the region and the world. Steve, the question be
Unprecedented. It will be an unprecedented constitutional crisis if the senate hands the house of representatives a new partisan vote of no confidence. That the founders intentionally withheld, destroying the independence of the presidency. It will be unprecedented if we agree that any future house that dislikes any future president can rush through an unfair inquiry, skip the legal system and paralyze the senate with a trial. The house could do that at will understand this president. It will be unprecedented if the senate says secondhand and thirdhand testimony from unelected Civil Servants is enough to overturn the peoples vote. It will be an unprecedented constitutional crisis if the senate agrees to set the bar this low forever. It is clear what this moment requires. It requires the senate to fulfill our founding purpose. The framers built the state to provide stability, to take the long view, of our republic, to safeguard institutions from the momentary hysteria that sometimes con