Over the past month senator harris has cosponsored the justice in policing act, coauthored the bipartisan harris amendment, helped introduce a resolution decrying attacks on the Affordable Care act and helped introduce the whistleblower protection act [indiscernible] coronavirus pandemic. Harris is the former District Attorney of San Francisco, the former attorney general of california, made a run for the democratic president ial nomination and is now talked about as a possible president ial runningmate to joe biden. Right now harris is front and center in the senate, in the Senate Debate on Police Reform and she joins me now. Enator harris, welcome back. Senator harris thank you for being with you, jonathan. Happy birthday. Jonathan thank you. Before we get to Police Reform, we have to get to intelligence and the russia story obtained bounties on the lives of american soldiers. You are a member of the Senate Intelligence committee. You attended a Briefing Regarding the allegations tha
Able to tell the should go to trial by media its a new series on netflix and it raises a lot of relevant issues for this show well speak with one of the featured Defense Attorneys and the media uses a stroll down a ramp and a drink of water to quote unquote prove that donald trump is ill while his opponents multiple missteps and misspeaks the good go unreported im Steve Malzberg lets see the press. Oh you know. Easily push. By. Lets face it folks at least in my opinion right now not only does the media have no use for donald trump they dont have much use for the police either and that was never more evident than tuesday night on the network newscasts when they covered the story of don. Trumps executive order on Police Reform watch but the president spent most of his remarks defending the Law Enforcement with pressure mounting to address Excessive Force by Police Departments President Trump took the unusual step of surrounding himself with Police Officers today and the president used hi
Bush administration and later jared cohen set the precedent due to the deaths of their predecessors. Enjoy book tv now and over the weekend on cspan2. Starting out on book tv World Affairs Institute Distinguished fellow joshua project discusses the views of socialism. Thanks to jeff and charles for the hospitality. And as alluded to, this is quite an august group including im afraid a number of people who know as much about the subject asi do. Im going to do my best to leave plenty of time for giveandtake around thetable. The book, socialism is in the airright now. The book is first of all a history and im going to quickly set the history and then spend some minutes on whats happening today and then we will have a backandforth or around the table. So the term socialism was coined in the 1820s and 30s by the followers of a small group of thinkers, british and french who were not out to overthrow governments but had ideas of a Better Society of sharing and also had the quite good idea th
Exceptionally broad and clear overview of the state of economic life. The actual conditions we face how those relate to those dark stories that we hear in our politics to the conditions americans havens experienced. Its fair to say that things are much better than politics and the critics of the market economy would suggest that we face risks but that mood are the most important it is a controversial thesis as a conservative i am resistant and being told everything is fine. But it is a very powerful argueof thesis. A thoroughly supported thesis in the book so to respond to the argument is one of the smartest social analyst and policy thinkers in washington. He is the chair and senior fellow of economic studies at the Brookings Institution director on the future of the middle class author of important how the american middle class is leaving everyone else in the dust and what to do about it. The format will be very simple we have an overview and then we will offer a response i will help
And his new book is an exceptionally clear and broad overview of the state of American Economic life. The actual conditions we face, that trends over recent decades, how those related to some of the dark stories that we hear in our politics about the conditions americans have experienced and also what our prospects are. I think its fair to say he finds think so much better than the mood of our politics and the critics of the market economy would sometime suggest but that we do face risks and that maybe that mood and those critics are among the most important of those risks. Its a controversial thesis. I do say as a im resistant to being told everything is fine. But it is a very powerfully argued thesis and as you will see and hear tonight, a very thoroughly supported thesis in the book. Richard reeves, one of the spar social analysts and policy thinkers in washington, richard is a whitehead chair and senior fellow atn economic status of te brookings institution. Hes director of the bro