And those who have joined us online. But if continue the conversation on our social media channels, online at the smithsonians magazine hub, vi the schoola via the schools Global Health website. Again, thank you for coming and good evening. [applause] former Vice President joe biden and john kasich on how to deal with partisanship in the trump era. To some degree, the Politics Today is a manifestation of the politics that has been brewing for a long time. I mean, i remember the board hearings. I remember you are on the committee. You saw how rockets how they were and we let through an impeachment and we went through the republican revolution and we jim be driven out. And then we sell republicans win the house for the first time in 40 years and the democrats kind of said we will just fight you. You are right about that guy who yelled at the president. Letter andundraising raise money on it. The system has been breaking down because of base politics. This takes up the beau b Biden Instit
Policy in general. Economics and the global trade watch director. Good morning to both of you. I want to start with this headline out of bloomberg. Nafta talks are getting bogged down. I want to get you to respond to this. What are the hardline demands . Guest this is the irony. And the are deadlocked administration decides to withdraw, its not want to be because of unions were groups like mine that have thought no nafta is better than more of this nafta. There is a big corporate lobby trying to persuade them to not respond to u. S. Proposals. It goes to restructuring nafta to remove the incentives for outsourcing jobs. They want to get rid of special protections for investors to make it less risky and cheaper to offshore jobs to mexico. They went to get rid of the ban on by american. They want to raise the level of contact in a product. They want to avoid products from china sneaking inside. They want to do a review every five years to make sure the agreement is working. Thats what we
Admire and he is here this morning to talk about his new book and a new biography of mohammed ali. I understand this is his only third stop. For he speaks ive been asked to mention a few things. First, the book possible,a of course, is pretty but if you would like to contribute to the cause you can do that at the headquarters for the book possible outside ort online and also i reminded after his remarks he will be heading over to the signing tent which is next to the tent out on the main plaza so you can have him sign your bookrn over there. Jonathans regard is one of the top writers of narrative nonfiction which is my favorite style. Its a fantastic author and bestselling book including two that i have read on lou gehrig and Jackie Robinson. Jonathan is written for the New York Times, theac new yorker, esquire in the Washington Post today he is a contributing writer for the wall street journal. His biography of commonality is the most anticipated book of the fall is you have checked o
Heurich was 11 years old living in germany. In 1853, she was a white woman from new york, moved down here and built the first africanamerican Teaching School for free africanamericans in washington, d. C. This is before the civil war. It was also called the miner school for colored girls. Mytrilla came in 1851 and only had 100 in her pocket when she came. Most people thought she would be arrested or killed when she said what she wanted to do. And although there were abolitionists who sympathized with her cause it was like her own independent project. I first thought for a while when i first read about the story she might have been some kind of tool of the Abolition Movement, really, she came down here all on her own at the start. She first established the school by the force of her own will, something almost unimaginable, giving the cultural firsts that opposed her at the time. Remember, this is a woman who came by herself to a city she never visited before, a city where slavery was st
11, discussing the book president s. And it a conversation about childhood host good morning. It is the day before thanksgiving. President trump left the white house to celebrate the upcoming holiday with his family at his country club in florida. He took questions from reporters mostly focused on the latest revelations about Sexual Assault. The president defending roy moore, the Senate Candidate from alabama and saying he is happy women in the u. S. Are coming forward with accusations against lawmakers and others. That is where we begin on the washington journal. How do we stop Sexual Misconduct . We want to know your solutions. Men dial in at 2027488000, women at 2027488001. Join us on twitter cspanwj. We will get your calls in a minute. We learned yesterday the dean of the house, john conyers paid a settlement two years ago to an alleged accuser. Charlie rose fired by cbs and pbs after the Washington Post broke that story. Eight women accusing him of unwanted advances. We want to kn