As 2016 is a president ial election year, the Program Committee assembled a roundtable of scholars willing to talk about president ial leadership, what about its failures gather rather than its successes. This seems particularly timely as the trump juggernaut rolls forward. Just yesterday the clinton and Sanders Campaign engaged in a verbal sparring match about who is the most unqualified to be president. So things are getting interesting. The panel we have here today, all of these scholars, have written about president s who were bad in their own special way. Although it didnt occur to me it did occur to me on the train coming up that bad to whom might be an important qualifier. What did it mean to be a bad president . What counts as bad . How do we define a bad president . And specifically, who might have been the worst president ever. Our panelists are david greenberg, associate professor. Are you cool professor now full professor now . Sorry, a little inside baseball. Associate pro
Insinuation that he is putting forward in these attacks. While on the republican side, says ted cruz and the republican establishment arent playing fair. This is a rigged system, folks. The Republican National committee, they should be themselves for allowing this kind of crap to happen yelling ands been screaming. A lot of whining. The House Speaker of says this time he really means it. Let me be clear. Not want, nor will i accept, the nomination for our party. Our coverage of the president ial come naiting nominating march continues with ed okeefe, political reporter for the washington post, jonathan martin, National Political correspondent for the new york times, Michael Scherer, bureau for time magazine, and alexis simendinger, White House Correspondent for real clear politics. Awardwinning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens, live from our Nations Capital, this is Washington Week with gwen ifill. This is Washington Week with ifill. Corporate funding for Washingt
Insinuation that he is putting forward in these attacks. While on the republican side, says ted cruz and the republican establishment arent playing fair. This is a rigged system, folks. The Republican National committee, they should be themselves for allowing this kind of crap to happen yelling ands been screaming. A lot of whining. The House Speaker of says this time he really means it. Let me be clear. Not want, nor will i accept, the nomination for our party. Our coverage of the president ial come naiting nominating march continues with ed okeefe, political reporter for the washington post, jonathan martin, National Political correspondent for the new york times, Michael Scherer, bureau for time magazine, and alexis simendinger, White House Correspondent for real clear politics. Awardwinning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens, live from our Nations Capital, this is Washington Week with gwen ifill. This is Washington Week with ifill. Corporate funding for Washingt
Eastern, here on cspan2. Thursday a talk on security challenges in the middle east. Former president of the American University in cairo Lisa Anderson delivered remarks at the center for strategic and international studies. That is live at 10 a. M. Eastern here on cspan2. In both iraq and afghanistan, i helped both countries with their constitutions being sort of facilitator of agreement on key issues among afghans. The influence is considerable and has the government anxious to meet with you. Sunday night on q a. Former u. S. Ambassador to afghanistan, iraq and the United Nations discusses this journey. We saw the extremist and how we corrected it toward the end of the period i was there by the surge and reaching out to the sunnis and building up iraqi forces and establishing a government to bring about security and violence was down. But unfortunately we left and the vacuum was filled by rival regional powers. A discussion on the book, the smartest places on earth, looks at innovatio
And europe revitalized their economy when manufacturing jobs moved overseas. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Morning, everyone. Hoping you are well. I am delighted to be here. This is being web cast and we will be taking questions later and they can cstart coming in now. It is my privilege to kick off the very a suspicious. This new book, the smartest places on earth, is just out and if i say so you should all rush to pick out a copy and i think we have come out beyond the back. On the way out, please do that. Also, it finds two experienced economic observers focusing not on the standards of the usual spin cycle but some of us think at brookings there are elements of national wellbeing. I find this a welcome corrective to the disembodied economic debates we specialize on here in washington. Yet none of this gets at the most auspicious aspect, the fact that antoine and fred have actual good news to deliver, imagine that. Good news. I think it is absolutely true, thoughtful, subtle brand