10 year system, so we had a good time debating that entire set of questions. i m confident i won but i have to contest that it worked very well. the most recent book deals with the topic most of us don t know much about and that is the utterly shameful condition of america s indian reservations and the utterly shameful treatment that native americans receive from the federal government. naomi has very properly entitled the book the new trail of tears: how washington is destroying american indians and when she tells the story you will see why this is such a fitting title and why the story she has to tell is so important. [applause] thank you for coming out today. it appears been won the argument when he was still teaching here. i usually offer a warning before i give a talk about this subject, not the kind you may be used to but a warning you might want to get something stiffer to drink because it is a depressing topic and i don t have good news for you today. i will begin
some republicans are calling manning a traitor. he says his motive for today s flurry of pardons, white house officials are telling us president obama wants to be known as the president of second chances. just three days now until donald trump is sworn in as president. there s another intrusion into the process by russian president vladimir putin. putin denies that russia hacked the u.s. election. now he says that trump is a victim of people that putin called worse than prostitutes. reporter: barack obama had a chance here at the white house today to comment about trumps and putin s latest move. instead the outgoing president just walked away without saying a word about putin defending trump. the president-elect got support from moscow as he tried to build with just 40% of americans now polling positive about a donald trump presidency, enter vladimir putin again. led alleging a political struggle in the u.s. to undermine the president-elect, calling the leaker of unveri
naomi has written for many publications including the wall street journal, the chronicle of higher education, the new york post, the weekly standard and too many to list and she is also the author, i think, of six books with the seventh on its way. i actually went to graduate to school with no amy s naomi s father. i first met naomi when we debated what another for the new york times blocking head series. she wrote a book entitled, the faculty lounges, which was an attack on the tenure system, which i thought was utterly outrageous and i had written a book that defended that tenure system, so we had good fun debating that entire set of questions. i m confident i won, but i have to conference that naomi was doing very very well. her most recent book deals with the topic that most of us do not know much about and that is the utterly shameful condition of america s indian reservations and the utterly shameful treatments that native americans received from the federal governme
of drugs for severe illnesses and as a result of this work that i was doing on drug pricing in the united states looking at these issues, i eventually began to get more aware of the international discussions about the u.s. could do and what was happening in the countries in 1994, i was invited to argentina and brazil by people that have picked up my name as someone working on these issues and i really became aware for the first time the extent to which the united states and the state department and through the trade office and the whole apparatus of the foreign policy was putting pressure on the developing countries to extend and put in place monopolies on pharmaceutical drugs so wha a lf developing companies have excluded the pharmaceutical drugs from the patent system and you could buy drugs from argentina and others and at that point also from brazil and the u.s. was pushing all these countries to put those in place but also going way beyond that. and i remember when i was
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