College Civil War Institute summer Conference Live this weekend on American History tv on cspan3. Wehner,at thus is peter thats with us is peter wehner, with us is peter wehner, out with a new book. Ae cover of your book is picture of a freed flag. Frayed flag. Fraying of think the politics in our country started . Guest i argue in the book that a lot of these trends that are troublesome in politics, the polarization, anger, acrimony, deathmatch mindset predates donald trump. I do fault him for having accelerated all of the worst friends. Most of the worst trends in american politics all of the worst trends. Most of the worst trends in american politics have occurred in the last 30 years, and i do not recall a time with this much antipathy when the temperature has been as high as it has been. Host you wrote in the book that day one, you were opposed to donald trump as president is a veteran republican. When did you come to the conclusion that politics are dead, and what do you mean by
Guess a barbs or attacks against trump so far have been fired and i think that you have to tread a very careful line at this point the primary where you have to be seen to be able to defend yourself against donald trump when he does go after you while also recognizing that attacking trump is never going to be the thing that helps you to win the election at least in my view so lets jump to that what its whats the thing thats going to win the election one here thoughts. Well you know the general election its tough to tell because were still very far away and the primary factor in my mind is going to be the state of the economy i think if the economy continues to trend positively or at least if were not in a negative trend i think the president is going to be very difficult to beat that having been said for the primary election i do think there are a couple things i mean to johns point i do think that the democratic primary electorate is looking for ideas i think thats why you see so many
, we will look at 2018 politics and the senate hearing. The president s authority and calling with the desk calling for the use of Nuclear Weapons. Al franken, and some calling for his rigid resignation. Call in on 202 7488000, that is the line for democrats. 202 7488001 four republicans. Ndependents, 202 7488002 we also have a line for minnesota residents, 202 7488003. Good sunday morning, thank you for being with us. We want to begin with the very latest involving senator al franken, and this is a story from usa today. When it comes to al franken and the assault allegations, congress appears united. Congress may be gridlocked when it comes to policy battles but the condemnation of lawmakers of senator al franken harassing a tv host and sportscaster was incredibly swift. So was the minnesota democrats apology. By the end of the day the accuser already accepting his apology. A National Conversation about Sexual Harassment is ricocheting from hollywood where movie producer Harvey Weinst
And museum in west blank, iowa. Chaz fagen created the portraits for cspan in 1999 and recently added president trumps. The traveling exhibit created in conjunction with the White House Historical association was brought to the Hoover Library by cspan in partnership with media com. Curator marcus shows us the additional objects the museum borrowed to accompany each of the 44 portraits. Today were at the Hebert Hoover president ial library in west branch, iowa. We are in the museum portion of the building. And this is our temporary exhibit, which is cspans american president s life portraits. The idea for this came about from us thinking about bringing in the temporary exhibit from cspan. Then adding something personal from each man, at least at this point, each man to show Something Different about them not we think about them that this is about the president s. We want to show them as human beings as well. Some of these guys were very interesting. To borrow the objects, it was an exte
And museum in west blank, iowa. Chaz fagen created the portraits for cspan in 1999 and recently added president trumps. The traveling exhibit created in conjunction with the White House Historical association was brought to the Hoover Library by cspan in partnership with media com. Curator marcus shows us the additional objects the museum borrowed to accompany each of the 44 portraits. Today were at the Hebert Hoover president ial library in west branch, iowa. We are in the museum portion of the building. And this is our temporary exhibit, which is cspans american president s life portraits. The idea for this came about from us thinking about bringing in the temporary exhibit from cspan. Then adding something personal from each man, at least at this point, each man to show Something Different about them not we think about them that this is about the president s. We want to show them as human beings as well. Some of these guys were very interesting. To borrow the objects, it was an exte