Karen hult, a science professor at virginia tech. Shes also a member of the white house transition project Advisory Board. Thanks for being with us on washington journal. Karen good to be here. Host the white house transition project, tell us about it. This is a nonpartisan, nonprofit entity. It is staffed by Political Science professors and others around the united states. 1990s for thehe white house interview program. They were trying to develop some institutional memory by talking to people that had various white house death and over time. Staff positions over time. They can find out what happens to staff positions for both parties. Directedolved and is by martha i am a member of the Advisory Board along with other colleagues as well as people like norm ornstein and other people from the larger washington community. Providetry to do is nonpartisan backing for what kinds of things have worked and not worked so well in and around the white house when a new president is getting ready t
Is 2027488000. Republicans use 2027488001. Independents and others, its 2027488002. Send us a text if youd like, 2027488003. Include your name and where you are texting from. On twitter its cspanwj. And we welcome your comments on our facebook page, facebook. Com cspan. Well show you some of the comments of the majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell, and the minority leader shuck schumer. Washington times this morning their lead story is on the attorney generals efforts. Barr improves inquiry into voter fraud. Authorized the Justice Department to probe what he said are substantial allegations of voter fraud as President Trumps legal team detailed new evidence of purported election violations in two battleground states. Mr. Barr issued the memo days after presumptive president elect joseph biden was declared the winner of the 2020 president ial election by several media outlets. The president has launched legal challenges to the results in states where the voting margins are razor thin by giv
This had been factored in in recent days weve seen the police getting more aggressive and using more violent tactics towards women officer period where as you must remember there had been. The like to touch to was seen a protest as weve seen protests where women would stand in front of men who are protesting or journalists who are said to be arrested and preventing their arrest by standing between damn the police that is now definitely over but interesting enough those prove those arrests came right at the beginning enough that 5 minutes of shock and confusion people that were going out demonstrations did manage to get regrouped and for the next 2 hours protesting walking through most of the city Center Getting their message and getting a whole lot of support from people on the streets clapping them keeping their homes i think example miraculously over who was abducted here in minsk last week and who really successfully resisted the attempt by authorities to throw her out of her own co
Authorities report more jacks from the blaze and. The gold mine for the best known is no mans land particularly. As the Venice Film Festival draws to a close and the movie industry is feeling a endemic reboot for global cinema. And play richard cena welcome to the show and the gallery scene capital minsk dozens of women have been arrested at a protest against authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko many of the women were forced into unmarked vans or beaten by masked Security Officials ellerys has been swept in by daily antigovernment protests since last months disputed president ial election its an unprecedented challenge to lucas shango whos been in power for 26 years. A fresh show of determination and defiance thousands of women braved heavy security and an official warning to raise their voices against the government once more. Theyre demanding that president look at shank step down and that jailed opposition fakers be freed. After more than a month of protests this rally is ju
To think about what i think its core dialectic was. The tension between democracy and efficiency. These were both ideals that people from a Broad Spectrum of political backgrounds in the progressive era believed were important. And they believed they were not incompatible, but you can see some ways in which they were fundamentally at some tension. So again, throughout class today be thinking about democracy versus efficiency. So the central question for historians of the early 20th century what is progressivism . A famous article that came out in 1982 was entitled in search of progressism, which i think aptly summed up the way that the historians were rummaging around, knowing that the progressive era existed but quibbling about what counted as progressive his. Who counted, when it started. Some people limit only to the Political Party that it was named for. Others define it much more broadly. So for me in this class this is how im going to define progressivism. In the broadest sense,