Host what is the thread that connects all these topics. Guest one of the great things as journalist you can do anything you want. Im not a scholar. I dont have a specialty. Having said that there is a connection. I fells i would say its america after world war ii. This country really coming into its own as this global power, this supreme power, really. That fascinated me, and what is it like to be a leader in this world thats your world, your time, your world. So that drew me initially to the wisemen which i did with Walter Isaacson, and then john paul jones, couple centuries before, but even he is a study in leadership, and i just im fascinated by the burdens of leadership, because its hard. Its harder than we think. And im fascinated by what its like to be a man usually men obvious live we Sandra Day Oconnor, but up to her, men. And human fallibility and weak in enormous pressures. How do they handle it . Well, some really well and some bravely and some not so well but its the pressu
I just want to thank the American Political Science Association and cspan for providing a broader environment for what is clearly a very important and relevant topic in 2019. That being this roundtable on the topic of the Trump White House and the White House Press core. My name is dave cohen. Im an actual professor of Political Science at the university of akron. I went back in time. Im an assistant director of the applied politics and a board member of the Akron Press Club and have been for over a decade and a member of the white house transition project which for those of you who dont know what the project is, its a nonpartisan effort by scholars to provide information on president ial transactions and white house operations to those transitioning into the white house. Its very important organization. And it happened to be one of the founders of that organization is martha kumar who i am happy to introduce right now. Shes an emeritus professor at Towson University and director and c
When you point out something inaccurate about it, it corrects itself. That the hallmark of journalism. To the extent journalists talk about that they are discrediting their own enterprise because they are suggesting they dont honor the norm, in the face of evidence they have been wrong about something. I like the ds and vacuum. I want people to think venereal disease. I dont want to catch or transmit it. Bible deception focuses on the virality of it, and factor on the ground and focuses on reception. We are not talking about news but deception. When something comes into our news feed we need to be critical about those things we are supposed to agree with so if someone is a supporter of a candidate of one party one is more likely to be uncritical about anything about that candidate, so instead of attacking we defend even if the attackers are journalists. We are also wanting about the opposing candidate to believe anything said about the person even if it is not legitimate. Even if it is
Its where well be signing books. We were lucky enough, to have the journalist and author and cohost of the podcast. And he will be doing a brief q a with our author before eric will do a reading and then well open it up for questions. So about our author he was the director and researcher at the National Intelligence of science and path algae for the u. S. Intelligence community. Before joining nfa he is executive Vice President of disney imaginary. A phd neuroscientist. In an inventor with over seven patents and pending patents. His book includes brain, safari and tonights book is all substation. If everyone could give a round of apostle commack. Hi. Again thank you for coming. Thank you for showing up, we want to think diane for organizing this event along with kim peart who is here in spirit if not a person into the bookstore in los angeles. Ericas had an unbelievable literally and metaphorically career and for we get into this true story of spy craft which is an amazing book which
Launch of the apollo 11 mission to the moon. Good morning. Thank you for joining us as we kick off a week of amazing celebrations of humanitys highest achievement, the apollo 11 moon landing. Were deeply honored to have Vice President pence with us this morning as we unveil Neil Armstrongs recently conserved apollo 11 space suit. Also with us is Jim Bridenstein who leads nasa. The organization whose achievements we celebrate. Im so happy that Rick Armstrong could join us to represent the family along with his family of the inspiring American Hero who took humanitys first steps on the moon. Thank you for being here, rick. During our year long celebration, we highlighted the team that made apollo possible. It took 400,000 americans doing every conceivable job to make it happen. That included the engineers, material experts, medical experts, and the amazing seamstresses who handmade the space suit. That we are unveiling this morning. It took another large team to conserve the suit so that