Campaignb smith on 2020 and the role of military voters and young americans. Plus your emails, tweets, and phone calls. Washington journal starts now. First Lady Melania Trump closed out day two of the Republican National convention with a speech from the white house last night where she called on voters to support her husband for a second term claiming he will fight for them. Yourll continue with comments and reactions to the Republican National convention with a look ahead at tonights lineup. Here is how we are dividing the line. If you support the president dial in at 202 7488000. If you are supporting joe biden 202 7488001. If you have a thirdparty candidate or are undecided dialing that dial in at 202 7488002. You can also text us with your first name, city, and state at 202 7488003. Join the conversation on facebook and twitter. While we wait for your calls, here is a little bit from the first lady. As you have heard this evening, i dont want to use this precious time attacking t
The Republican National convention, politico talked with mark meadows, discussing the confluence of the Trump Administration and the campaign as well as negotiations to that covid economic responsible. Lets get started. Lets give a warm welcome to white house chief of staff, mark meadows. Think you for joining us. Thank you for joining us. It is great to be with you this morning. It is 69 days until election day. Ing isesidents poll lagging in every swing state that we see. Give us a sense, if the president wins on november 3, it will be because he did what over the next 69 days . I think it is not just what he does over the next 69 days. Let me just be clear. I am going to talk in my personal capacity as we talk about some of these things so that we dont get everybody tweeting at me that i am hatch act. He from a political standpoint, if i put on my political hat, here is what i see. Its not just what he does the next 69 days, but building on the years prior to that, but taking the ne
With white house chief of staff mark meadows and National Executive director kevin mclaughlin. This is 50 minutes. All right. Lets give a warm welcome to white house chief of staff mark meadows. Thank you for joining us. It is great to be with you both. Mr. Meadows, 69 days until election day. Although you are not counting, we are. The president s polling is lagging in pretty much every swing state that we see. We talked about this yesterday. Real clear politics average has the president down seven or so points. Onthe president wins november 3, it will be because he did what over the next 69 days . I think it is not just what he does over the next 69 days. Im going to talk in my personal capacity as we talk about some of these things so that we dont get everybody tweeting that im violating the hatch act with the two of you. From a political standpoint, if i put on my political hat, heres what i see. It is not just what hes going to do in the next 69 days, but what hes building on from
Book the accidental president , now we have him here virtually to talk about his new book about the 1948 elections going 78 years to another Election Year and you will be amazed how similar it sounds in some ways and in others what is different is politicians were all younger than they are today. That is one big difference. Take it away and tell us about the overview of the book. I want to say a couple things. Thank you for having me lose the Commonwealth Club is a wonderful place to be. I know books, i fell in love with reading when i was 6 years old because books can transport you to another time or place and that has been a blessing. I started this book in 2017 talking about the accidental president and i planned this book to come out in the 2020 cycle. This was a book about the election and it will be relevant and give me an opportunity to talk about things that matter. Secondly, elements in our life conspired in such a way, everything i was writing about was no longer taking place
Up next on American History tv, historians discuss the effect of media and technology on politics. Topics include Silicon Valley, Artificial Intelligence and Cable Television. From purdue university, this is about 90 minutes from purdue university. So good morning and welcome to the Media Technology and state panel. This is part of a larger two day session called remaking american political history where were all talking about history and how its going to be taught and talked about and consumed over the years. This conference is sponsored by the department of history here at purdue university. It is organized by katie brunell. Thank you. And also by nicki hemmer and leah igor. Were thankful to all of them to get into this and discuss this whole issue of how history is going to be taught in the future. Were new in the brian lamb school of communication here and our goal is to help professors from across the country use the cspan archives which is now over 250,000 hours of american polit