what we often describe it as. host: is there any issue you think could unite i am vice president and director of the center for constitutional studies. i am the publisher of the cato supreme court review, you can buy at cato.org or don t load for free. download for free. this allows us to produce the symposium and journal. the fact that we can have an in person event, i m glad there are people in the audience right here in addition to the forum online. this marks a return to normal his covid-19 becomes an endemic part of our lives. we may be dealing with lingering mask mandates and other restrictions of dubious constant alley. at least vaccines allow most of us to live our lives as in the before times. the supreme court is returning to an in person argument format, not open to anyone beyond staff, counsel, the media. we review the supreme court term past and preview the next one. this year will be given by the vice dean of the nyu school of law. we will have our traditi
survey is america s civics knowledge increases during a stress filled year. explain. guest: if you do not understand we have three branches of government, it is difficult for you to understand what is happening in the news on a day-to-day basis. one question we ask is, can you name three branches of government? this year, the number of people who could went up. we are surmising the jump was in part because all three branches were in the news this last year. the bad news is they were in the news because this was a stress test year of our system of government. you have the branches contesting with each other, you had an election, the end product of an impeachment process that did not yield a conviction. all of that we have an increase in the foundational knowledge about the constitution. the good news is more people can name the branches. i wish we had gotten there through civics education and not a difficult year. host: more people could name the freedoms guaranteed in the f
kathleen hall jamieson, the renowned scholar from the university of pennsylvania, one of the country s foremost experts on media and politics and the founder of fact-check.org. schaefer, an experienced republican strategist and media consultant who has worked in many presidential campaigns including the campaign of mitt romney in 2012. in our third segment we will take questions from the audience. you can submit questions in the chat function or via twitter. at #politics 2020 or via events at brookings.edu. let s have a look at the very first presidential debate between kennedy and neck than. nixon. here is a picture of them that shows really the problem. the very first televised presidential debate was between these two men in 1960. the idea did not come from the candidates or plug or parties, came from the networks. kennedy quickly accepted. nixon against the advice of many also accepted. it is now widely thought that 1960 debate was a disaster for nixon, who had been sic
-span radio app. federal reserve chair jerome powell appear on capitol hill for the second time this week to testify on the economic impact of the coronavirus. this hearing is just over two hours. welcome everybody. ,oday our select subcommittee some members will appear in person and others may appear remotely. > welcome everybody. today our select subcommittee, some members will appear in person and others may appear et d , all individuals attending this hearing in person must wear a mask or face covered. ing.over members who do not wear a face covering will not be recognized to speak. let me make a few reminders about hearings. for those members appearing in able to seewill be members appearing remotely on the monitors in front of you. on one, you will see all the members appearing remotely at as gradehat is known view mode grid view mode. on the other monitor you will see each person speaking during the hearing when they are speaking, including members who are appear
institution. we are here to talk about, do debates matter? we are one they away from the first presidential debate in one of the most intense, consequential elections in our lifetime. as we get ready to watch tomorrow night we thought it would be good to do three things. first we will look back at some of the history of debate, presidential debate history. then we will turn to two experts on debate. kathleen hall jamieson, the renowned scholar from the university of pennsylvania, one of the country s foremost experts on media and politics and the founder of fact-check.org. schaefer, an experienced republican strategist and media consultant who has worked in many presidential campaigns including the campaign of mitt romney in 2012. in our third segment we will take questions from the audience. you can submit questions in the chat function or via twitter. at #politics 2020 or via events at brookings.edu. let s have a look at the very first presidential debate between kennedy an