As a touchstone to understand the branches of our government. It is also a place for we encourage participatory democracy. In fact, we just started a nonpartisan effort called just a vote. Just vote. Most important, i encourage you on november 3 yto just vote. It is the most important thing we can do as citizens. Where we want to invigorate civil discourse and inspire the next generation of leaders. Programn think of no and no speaker who meets every one of the goals that my husband had for this place more than todays special guest, Justice Stephen breyer. Breyer is a man for our time and demand for all time. Here in boston, we are proud to claim him as one of our a graduate of stanford, oxford, and harvard law, he went on to workforce for Supreme Court Justice Arthur goldberg. He served for many years as a professor at Harvard Law School and taught at the Kennedy School of government. He was a lawyer in the antitrust division of the Justice Department and was an assistant special coun
Rich and exciting agenda this fall begin with todays discussion. Does for pulsing matter in the president ial year, or within the proximity whats going to happen in several hours to a debate . Should Foreign Policy matter . Will it matter . Are with this debate so unconventional, so we loaded with hot button issues from the Supreme Court to tax returns to pandemic that there will be little room for serious discussion either on Foreign Policy issues or domestication. That remains to be seen. Clearly back in the day Foreign Policy matters a lot more than it does now. The republican landslide in 1920 was a direct result of the uncertainties and challenges in the wake of the first world war. Fdr broke the twoterm president in 19401944, and gained legitimacy in response to impending war. In 1952 korea was the dominant issue. The stephenson i issue. Lbj was driven from the white house. As a consequence of it, although the humphreynixon election of vietnam did not play a singular role. And, o
Plus the health of the u. S. Economy, jobs rise. To fun of limit rate falls 7. 9 , participation also dropping. We begin with breaking news, we are continuing to get updates from President Trumps condition, a lot of information coming from washington as we mentioned, doctors say the president is feeling fatigued, but in good spirits. We also learned he was treated with the regeneron antibody cocktail that is not available to the public yet. Our david westin is with us now to give us the very latest, we have not seen a tweet from the president sets since he announced his diagnosis yet last night, we have not seen him in public. He was supposed to be on a call that was replaced with Vice President mike pence, what is the latest we know . David mark meadows said he talked to the president and was in good spirits, but then we got from therandum physician for the president who as you said this regeneron payment was action under compassionate use, it is not been approved for general use at a
At cspan. Org, or listen on the free cspan radio app. Next, Justice Stephen breyer talks about the role of the Supreme Court with msnbc chief Legal Correspondent ari melber in a discussion presented by the Kennedy Institute for the u. S. Senate. On behalf of the edward m Kennedy Institute for the United States tenant, i am a very pleased to welcome all of you to this very special addition of our getting to the point series. The Kennedy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan place envisioned and planned by my late husband senator edward kennedy. It is a place where visitors come now virtually as well as in person to experience democracy. Through handson learning about the United States senate. And then use that knowledge as a touchstone to understand the branches of our government. It is also a place where we encourage participatory democracy. In fact, we just started a nonpartisan effort called just about and i encourage you to go to our new website called important, but most i encourag
We begin with the breaking news u. S. President donald trump is to be moved to a Military Hospital after testing positive for covert 19 a white house official said he was being transferred to the Walter Reed Medical Center in maryland as a precautionary measure the marine one helicopter has landed outside the white house where the president has been so far since receiving his positive test result on friday the white house says he has been suffering mild symptoms and remains fatigued taking him off the campaign trail just a month before the u. S. President ial election the president and 1st lady tested positive shortly after one of his senior aides was found to have been infected. Washington correspondent stephanie has more for us stefan the president is being moved from the white house where there are already doctors on hand to a Military Hospital do we know why exactly hes being transferred at this stage. The white house is saying that this is a precautionary measure and of course i w