Jerome powell. Congressman adam smith of washington state, the ranking democrat on the House Armed Services committee, a member of Congress Since 1996. Thank you for being with us. Thank you for having me on. Let me introduce the reporters who will be asking questions. We want to start our conversation with the developing that,ion with north korea there are reports from multiple National News sources the white house is set to make a long rumored move with secretary of state tillerson, replacing him with mr. Pompeo from the cia, and replacing mr. Pompeo with senator tom cotton. This is part of the National Security team. I am wondering if you have a reaction. Rep. Smith i dont know that it changes anything. My biggest concern and that is the state department. Whether it is secretary tillerson or secretary pompeo, the state department has not been engaged. Diplomacy has fallen off significantly. I think they have a third less people. There just does not seem to be a diplomatic focus. By
Political analyst. Why did you decide to write a book . Guest people around me didnt get it. Journalists who oftentake themselves very seriously, think theyre supersmart and understand the world were frequently underestimating donald trump. Being surprised by things he did and being incorrect in their predictions because of it. In the beginning when he started to run this round, i assumed it would be like previous rounds where he made a splash, got publicity and not been serious and i felt very foolish a lot later when i didnt do more research earlier, because once i started to dig into Donald Trumps life, his successes in business, entertainment, city politics, occasionally at National Political levels, hes laid out a plan of what he was going to do. He at the entire time had come across opponents whod never read his books, never read his plan where he laid it all out. They were surprised when every time he would do something and it seemed like according to the jeb bush playbook, it s
Professor west has written many books including race matters and brother west. Professor george books include making men moral and conscience and the enemies. Host Robert George, when did you first meet the man sitting next to you . Mustve been in the 1990s, a little while after brother cornel came to princeton, and we were together in faculty, seminars a think under the auspices of the center for human values that we didnt know each other very well. We would just say hello. We interacted a a bit in the seminars. We began teaching together in 2007 and is a whole story behind that. I dont know if you want me to go into that kind of detail but thats what our Teaching Partnership and friendship really began to how did that Teaching Partnership began . Guest there was a brother named andrew. [talking over each other] he set up a a magazine i think called green here to his teaching my course on public election. He was taking a course from you, Civil Liberties, and asked me who i would like
Able to wan walk online. This is booktv on cspan2. A native of Brooklyn New York and former head of the new York City Press office with decades of experience and public education, Public Health and ceo of several national and nonprofit organizations. Hes written quite a bit and has offered pieces for the ambassador magazine. Hes a labor journalist for the National Education association for decades. He has won numerous awards root and a digital poetry book. The list goes on and on and he has the various awards like the digital Book Publishers of america and truth idols if theres anythinthereis anythinge [inaudible] you deserve to be remembered because i never heard the poets in the same phrase. Its priceless, really priceless. This is there are a number of people who are my colleagues in a number of new friends, fellow writers that ive met and representatives of some 50 colleges and universities. Sharing the power is deja vu all over again because 20 years ago i was working on and artic