The last election and threatening, planning to spend 400 million in the next election in the midterms, that is a huge footprint and theres a lot more going on behind it. The second piece of that is bringing home the longterm effort of the Republican Party to put business friendly judges in the courts so that the courts are increasingly hostile to regular folks, and increasingly interested in protecting corporations. Watch afterwards sunday night at 9 00 eastern on cspan2s booktv. A panel examines the spread of populism in certain regions of the world including the us, europe and latin america including van smith and the origins of populism and contributing factors in the 2016 president ial election. This is about 90 minutes. We will start. Is everyone prepared . I want to thank everyone for coming, this kicks off our afternoon session. I will explain what we did in the morning and afternoon session which is a public discussion, debate about populism, entitled the rise of populism, a gl
The last election and threatening, planning to spend 400 million in the next election in the midterms, that is a huge footprint and theres a lot more going on behind it. The second piece of that is bringing home the longterm effort of the Republican Party to put business friendly judges in the courts so that the courts are increasingly hostile to regular folks, and increasingly interested in protecting corporations. Watch afterwards sunday night at 9 00 eastern on cspan2s booktv. A panel examines the spread of populism in certain regions of the world including the us, europe and latin america including van smith and the origins of populism and contributing factors in the 2016 president ial election. This is about 90 minutes. We will start. Is everyone prepared . I want to thank everyone for coming, this kicks off our afternoon session. I will explain what we did in the morning and afternoon session which is a public discussion, debate about populism, entitled the rise of populism, a gl
I will be the moderator. It is tough. I like to talk a lot, but i will hold back. We have a distinguished panel which i will introduce in a bit. Very quickly, we just came from and all morning session with experts in the private sector, academica, and the public sector, talking about the issues of populism in global politics. The objective there was to do some, basically, conceptual gardening or we didnt or weeding. What is populism . What are we seeing in the world . Is what we are seeing similar or different . And what are the applications for policy, business, and outcomes were generally . This afternoon, we are going to look at the same things, but with a reduced crew. Before we do that, what i want to do, what were going to do in two parts ben smith will be introduced in a second and give a quick keynote. And then he will sit down as one of the panelists and will go in, and i will throw up a couple of softballs that everyone is prepared for initially. We will have a back and forth
End quote. That after diplomats met in munich to restart peace talks. Sending a hopeful note, Staffan De Mistura said, quote, sustained delivery of assistance is expected to begin this week to besieged areas where civilians are in desperate need of assistance, end quote. In the meantime the fighting continues and some of the most desperate areas out there are rebel controlled pockets, that are under government seeng. Siege. With russian help and air support, tightened a noose around rebel controlled parts of aleppo. The army is close to cutting off the last rebel supply line into syrias largest city. Confusingly, the army is also guesting help from syrias kurdish militias which just seized the military base from the russians, which according to secretary of state john kerry will not be part of this cessation of hostilities. Confusing or not the momentum in syrias war has now swung decisively in Bashar Alassads favor. And the syrian president has Vladimir Putin to thank for it. In septe
This is america tonight. Im ali velshi. Stoorgt tonight, thon target r of two evils, assad or i. S. I. L . The united states, rid russia and others involved in syrias war have agreed to implement a, quote, cessation of hostilities, end quote. That after diplomats met in munich to restart peace talks. Sending a hopeful note, Staffan De Mistura said, quote, sustained delivery of assistance is expected to begin this week to besieged areas where civilians are in desperate need of assistance, end quote. In the meantime the fighting continues and some of the most desperate areas out there are rebel controlled pockets, that are under government seeng. Siege. With russian help and air support, tightened a noose around rebel controlled parts of aleppo. The army is close to cutting off the last rebel supply line into syrias largest city. Confusingly, the army is also guesting help from syrias kurdish militias which just seized the military base from the russians, which according to secretary of