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
3 percentage points. Hillary barely in the lead. This as wikileaks out with 20th Clinton Campaign email drop. New evidence of clinton paytoplay. We have a 13 page memo detailing bill clinton incorporated. Welcome to risk reward im Elizabeth Macdonald in for deirdre bolton. The Clinton Foundations fundraisers pressed donors to steer business to former president bill clinton. The november 2011 memo from longtime clinton ally doug band outlining how his extensive Fundraising Efforts at tenial holdings translated into large speak fees for bill clinton. Doug band has a history with the clintons when he started tenial holdings bill clinton was listed as an adviser. In 2009, deckland kelly, he is a publicist, introduced bob mccann to mr. Clinton at a charitable event. Mr. Band writes mr. Clinton earned 1. 5 million from those speeches. By the first year of founding, doug bands Company Raised 8 million for the Clinton Foundation, and arranged for bill clinton to deliver more than 3 million wor
Democracy. When we can look our brothers and sisters in the eyes, black, latino, young, women, so sameday registration, getting out there and thinking about what were passing legislatively , racial inequality. We must be on the forefront. Really being there on the ground. The black lives Matter Movement is a movement afoot, a Climate Change movement afoot. They can register. They are registering people to vote, but we have to commit to them that we are going to deliver for them, not just take that vote. Thank you very much. Thank you. [laughter] [applause] Robert Weissman has led Public Citizen since 2009. As well as anate expert on a wide variety of issues. The floor is yours. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today. Thank you to the committee for your leadership, and thank you for your stamina. Solve itsll not greatest problems if we dont rescue our democracy, severe inequality, catastrophic climate get there ifll not we dont deal with the democratic def
Will determine whether the democrats will wrest control in the senate. We have so much at stake. But what we found is that our politics need to evolve. That our political system how campaigns are run, who are the prime voters, what are the issues, how do we talk about and talk to our voters, how do we strategize to win as a Progressive Movement, all of those things are directly influenced by how dramatically our demographics have changed. And the fact that, elect orally andtorally speaking we saw that in the book brown is the new white by Steve Phillips that we actually have the numbers to win. We have the electoral majority, comprised of those who reelected president obama in 2012. And those who continue to move to the United States into a country that is majority people of color. That is the reality in seven states and will be the reality, in just a couple of decades, across the country. This new american majority, this multiracial, Progressive Electoral majority, will need new strat
The full hour. We will have donald the j. Trump, thats right, the trump. We will have him for the full hour. So is it ben carson or in fact marco rubios season in the sun . Rubio support spike in a New Hampshire where a new Monmouth University poll shows about nine points since september and now he is at 13 . Iowa, onee call in person who is not impressed is, surprise, surprise, the ever mentioned mr. Trump the aforementioned mr. Trump. Dont think he is going to make it and i was watching the press is morning and one of the shows and marco rubio is nowhere in the polls. I dont think, personally, i call him a lightweight. At 1. I called him a lightweight. Insulting, o be i called him a lightweight. I do mean to be insulting, but it is true. John how real is marco rubios rise . Marco rubio can survive the betting that is coming, and he has the establishment, people who are not wedded to bush, and he has a great campaign. He is great with people and he is, right now, on everybodys list of