Captioning performed by vitac as a service to the washington community. Details on how to donate and details on future programming are on the back of the flier that was available outside. Let me also thank a couple of individuals who behind the scenes kind of put this event together, jeff reeger, assistant director of the National History center. Over there. Pete all the way in the back on my team and our two interns, kyle nichols and su yan kim who you will be meeting during the q a, they will be running the mics for which we ask you to please wait and then once you are called on, please at the same time state your name and affiliation. Let me welcome Professor William roger lewis from texas who is joining us here today and remind all of you finally to turn off your mobile devices or silence them so you dont interrupt the intense discussion that we will be asking here this afternoon. With that i will turn it over to eric to introduce our featured speaker today. Thank you, christian. W
Wenqing ngoei said that the United States was successful in the regional strategy. This is about 90 minutes. All right. Everyone, i would like to call us all to order. Good afternoon. And welcome to this afternoons session of the washington history seminar historical perspectives on international and national affairs. Im eric arnesen of George Washington university and im the cochair of this seminar along with Christian Ostermann who represents the Wilson Center. As you may see, we have cspan taping here today so we would like to welcome those of you who are watching on your computers or on your Television Screens and suggest that you visit the website to learn more about the Seminar Series and upcoming speakers here at the Wilson Center. The washington history seminar is a collaborative effort of two organizations. The Woodrow Wilson international for scholars and history and Public Policy program and the american Historical Associations National history center. We are in the ninth ye
Democracy the United States and japan. The Wilson Center and National History center cohosted this discussion. Its about 90 minutes. All right. I think well get started. Its 4 00 on a monday afternoon, which means its time for the washington history seminar. Welcome, everyone, to the Wilson Center. Welcome to this installment of the washington history seminar. Im christian oserman. I have the privilege of cochairing the seminar with professor eric arnesen from George Washington university. Im dlielighted to see so many you here on this beautiful afternoon. We will have cspan taping the event today, so for those welcome to all of those who are viewing us at home. And i suggest you visit our website to learn more about the seminar and upcoming speakers. Both the National History center and the Wilson Center websites have information on this series. The washington history seminar, of course, is, as those of you who are regulars know, a collaborative effort of two organizations, the Wilson
Order. Good afternoon and welcome to this afternoons session of the washington history seminar. Historical perspective on international and national affairs. My name is eric, of George Washington university, and i am the cochair of the seminar, along with christian f. Ostermann who represents the wilson center. As you may see, we have cspan taping here today, so we would like to welcome those of you who are watching on your computers or on your television screens, and suggest that you visit our website to learn more about the Seminar Series and upcoming speakers here at the wilson center. The washington history seminar, is a collaborative effort of two organizations. The Woodrow Wilson International Center for scholars, and the American Historical Association National History center. We are now in our ninth year of programming, approaching our big decadelong celebration that will come next year. We meet weekly, mostly on monday afternoons, during the academic year. The seminar at wants
election interference trials, one of them encompassing the insurrection on january 6 and one pending classified documents trial for retaining and hiding records, government records, some of them containing top secret nuclear intelligence haven t driven away donald trump s voters, what will last week s felony conviction for falsifying documents and to conceal them and to conceal that information from voters in 2016 really do? in other words, what more do voters really need to know about donald trump? or to put a finer point on it, how many more voters need to know more about donald trump? believe it or not, there are quite a few. the new york times went back and interviewed nearly 2,000 people, some of them who said a conviction would make them rethink voting for donald trump. we re going to tell you the results of their survey in just a moment, but first here is what some of those voters said, quote, we all know if donald trump gets reelected he s going to try to be a dicta