they had no right to vote in the district of columbia. then the voting rights act came along and people in alabama, georgia, south carolina, north carolina, virginia, louisiana gained the right to vote for members of the senate. the members of the district of columbia, black and beyond black residents were left out and left behind. mayor bowser identified the structural impact of this is that d.c. for many federal programs and initiatives is treated like a territory, which denies the residents of the district of columbia, including its black residents, equal treatment and therefore equal representation not only in voting but across the board. and that's a structural inequity that's associated with this fundamental denial of the right to vote. one only believes as i do that the residents of the district of columbia have inpatient since 1965. have been patient as they sought to achieve and accomplish their full rights as american citizens and i doubt if anyone else outside of the district of columbia would stand for being disenfranchised in

the district of columbia is unique. there is a clause for the express purpose of the seat of the new government. it's been that way for 50 years. it is a strong presumption by now against this bill's radical change, the framers certainly didn't intend anything like this. second, maryland conceded the land for the express purpose of its becoming the seat of the federal government. it didn't do so for the purpose of creating a new state on its border nor is it likely that it would have done so for that purpose contrary to the bill's proponents article 4 alone requires maryland's consent. third, as a practical matter, this bill strips congress of its authority over the present district. congress will then have authority over this tiny enclave around the national mall and that raises numerous practical problems as james madison explained, the federal government must not be dependent on any one of the states nor should any state be either dependent or excessively influential on the federal government. this bill fails on each

no voice by the residents of the district of columbia. this is an injustice, and all of the legalistic arguments do not address the fundamental basic issue, and that is the right to vote. so i think i speak for the broad civil rights community and for the voting rights community in saying that this is a long, long battle whose time has come. it's time to enact this bill. >> thank you. our country was founded on the principle of no taxation without representation. a key part of the ref -- that inspire the revolutionary war. the reality for d.c. residents unlike any other citizens of this country, they pay federal taxes without having full representation in congress. residents of the district of columbia pay more than $6.9 billion annually in federal income taxes. that is more than residents in over 20 states and it means d.c. residents pay more per return in federal income tax of any other state. mayor bowser, under the status quo, in your mind, is it fair that d.c. residents are paying billions of dollars in taxes every year to the federa

i certainly want to recognize the daughters of the american revolution from the district of columbia who were instrumental on this stephanie green who is with us today. stephanie had first written an article for our national magazine that that explored his life and she became intrigued to find out where he had been buried when she arrived here. she was quite concerned about the condition of the grave and thus began this incredible effort to buy our local daughters of the american revolution so capably led by their state regent cindy hayes to result in what we see today. and what most excites me is our partnership together in terms of continuing this tradition of honoring this man. you are all far more expert than i in the details of the life of james hoban. we all likely know some of the foundational items of his life as you know from probably researching and we first arrived in philadelphia from ireland. he later traveled to south carolina where it is presumed that george washington first admired his works and ultimately seventh home into philadelphia the next year 1792 the same yea

coleman's work at columbia and beyond dr. coleman is a professor of psychology education at teachers college and the earth as soon both housed columbia university. he directs the world famous morton deutsch international center for cooperation and conflict resolution. is the founding director of the institute for psychological science and practice? and his co-executive director of columbia university's advanced consortium on cooperation conflict and complex. dr. coleman is a renowned expert on conflict resolution and sustainable. peace. is current research focuses on conflict intelligence and systemic wisdom as meta competency competencies for navigating conflict constructively across all levels from families to companies to communities to nations. dr. peter coleman is also a certified mediator insult to various groups and organizations and most recently served in an informal advisory capacity on fighting toxic polarization in america to the biden harris transitions. it's my great pleasure to introduce you to my friend and lo

attorney in the district of columbia since 2003. today, you are appearing in capacity as a member of the board for the directors of the national association for assistance u.s. attorneys. you have obviously have distinguish yourself within that organization because you have been vice president of policy for its executive committee from 2018 to 2020. your legal experience is significant. and previously, you are toilet earning organized an organized crime, at the u.s. department of justice from 1996 to 2003. if you will allow me sir, you and i have something in common. we are both stand in the shadow of siblings that are better than us. your sister is debbie wasserman schultz, someone who people on both side of the aisle have a lot of affection for. thank you very much. would you please give us your testimony. >> thank you chairman german, ranking member grassley, senator booker, members of the committee to appear before you. it's better to testify for national policy for assistant u.s. attorneys. i'm here today solely in my individua

i direct some programs at columbia. professional studies its urgencies in the advance consortium with cooperation. the peter coleman's new book and research resulted in a book called the way out : how to overcome toxic polarization. this is an example about his research in this book are in partnerships with columbia university that support cutting edge research and education. peter exemplifies the university's scholar model his head decades research on conflict, and toxic polarization. in addition to offering hundreds of articles in writing or editing the best books including 5%, finding solutions for in seemingly impossible. dynamic foundations to discuss and relations, the psychological components of sustainable peace, as well as three additions resolution theory and practice prepuce peter also brings his research to the community at the university. before he shares an exit from his book, the way out, went to share a little bit more about his work. doctor cullum is a professor of psychology and the center for cooperat

now, about our speaker, sarah seo is a professor at columbia law school. she's a legal historian of criminal law and procedure in 20th-century united states. her recent book, entitled "policing the open road: how cars transformed american freedom," examines the history of the automobile in order to explain the evolution of the fourth amendment and to explore the dilemma of police discretion in a society committed to the rule of law. the book was named one of 2019's 10 best history books by the "smithsonian magazine." it also received a number of prizes, including the order of the dove book award, the prize from the american historical association, and the ralph waldo emerson award from the phi beta kappa society. in addition to publishing and -- in academic journals, professor seo has written for the atlantic, boston review, lapham's quarterly, the new york review of books, and the washington post. after earning her jd at columbia in 2007, professor seo clerked for judge denny chen, then judge for the circuit court of the southern district of new york and

he will go on to charleston to columbia, south carolina and to richmond and what he chronicles is nothing less than the dismantling of the southern way of life. i want you to come in and take a close. look at these photographs for two reasons. first of all, they're drop dead gorgeous and the depth of field the ability for him to focus is so intense you feel like you could reach in and pull out individual rocks his ability to set a camera is really nothing short of extraordinary. but i also want you to think about it in terms of his northern audience the people back home who would have seen these photographs. there is a little bit of barnard in there going. it's easy for you to go. life back to life as usual after the war new york doesn't look like this philadelphia doesn't look like this not even baltimore and washington come take a look at charleston, charleston, south carolina. i'm going to date myself. it looks like bosnia. i mean, it looks like this is a place where it's been bombed back to the stone age to use a more modern metaphor if you look at the pictures of atlanta all torn up

i was sent to the university of missouri in columbia. mazzuca, a wonderful campus. then, one of the campus interviews, a radio interview, i was asked about a pending case that i was very familiar with. the case was known as whitmore versus vincent. others in the audience will know this case. the case involved a group of christian students at the university of missouri at kansas city. they had a christian group that wanted to meet on campus. the campus said no. you are a religious group. the response was you allow political groups, interest groups, the chess club to meet here on campus. your discriminating against us. i'm sorry, the establishment clause requires us to build the jeffersonian wall of separation high and impregnable. we love you but go somewhere else for your club. it was a breakthrough case, the supreme court was interested in the state of meditation. how powerful is the idea of equality, equal protection, when the speech is religious speech in question? and, it did not take the justices that long to say yeah, this is what is going on. informal speech,

the most sober and buttoned down academics used that very language at the time, herbert wechsler the columbia law professor and his famous article toward neutral principles of constitutional law uses the same language about naked power with respect to brown versus board of education. focusing on that language alone sort of, you know, allows people to misunderstand what was at the core of the argument. they used overwhelmingly sort of traditional methods of constitutional interpretation. they spoke about originalism, they spoke about constitutional text, they spoke about precedent, they spoke about constitutional structure, they spoke about prudential considerations and they also spoke about tradition. these are today what constitutional law professors refer to as the modalities of constitutional interpretation with a tip of the hat to professor phillip bobbitt. these are the basic forms of constitutional interpretation and all of them appear in the southern manifesto. when i teach the modalities of constitutional interpretation i use the southern manifesto to ask the students to identify the

which agents brought prostitutes to hotel rooms while making arrangements for president obama to visit columbia. we talked with her about her in-depth look in her new book subtitled "the rise and fall of the secret service." carol leonnig, listen on c-span.org/podcast or wherever you get your podcast. ♪ ♪ >> weekends on c-span two are an intellectual feast. every saturday you will find events and people that explore our nation's past on american history tv. on sundays, book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. it's television for serious readers. learn, discover, explore. weekends on c-span two. >> follow american history tv on facebook, fwirt and youtube. to learn about what happened this day in history watch videos and learn more about the people and events that have shaped the american story. find us at c-span history.

columbia law school professor sarah seo talks about her award-winning book "policing the open road: how cars transformed american freedom." in this presentation, the professor focuses on a chapter in the book dealing with how fourth amendment rights regarding search and seizure

writes she started her coverage on the scandal -- making arrangements for president obama to visit columbia. we talked to her about the in-depth look in her new book, zero fall. >> listen at c-span.org/podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. >> weekends on c-span two an intellectual feast. every saturday, you find events on people that explore our nation's past on american history tv. sundays, book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. it is television for serious readers. learn, discover, explore, weekends on c-span2. >> follow american history tv on twitter, facebook and youtube schedule updates,

to washington as a member of congress, he backs a bill to abolish the slave trade in the district of columbia. this is before the compromise of 1850. but the bill goes nowhere and lincoln doesn't press on it. so he's opposed to slavery, he's anti slavery. he's just not where we might call an activist on the subject. that is until 1854. the reason he's not an activist on the subject is because 1850 before 1854, he is convinced that slavery is a dying system which is on its on own way out. lincoln believes first of all that the founders constructed the united states constitution to be an anti slavery document. not that the constitution abolished slavery but that the constitution created a system and represented the intentions of founders who believed they had put slavery on the road to extinction. i would have to what happened gradually, it would happen painlessly, but it would happen. it would be inevitable. on the second thing is is that lincoln believes that by confining slavery to the southern states, slavery will turn it to be a system which uses up its own oxygen. that's the kind of agric

he served as a district judge for the columbia circuit and counselor chief of staff to u.s. attorney general william french smith and his law clerk to both chief justice warren burger and the fifth circuit judge. as most of you know, he was appointed to serve as independent counsel for five investigations including white water from 1994 many of you know ken through his writing. his author first among equals, the supreme court in american life, bear country, the baylor story, contempt memoir of the clinton investigation was a near times bestseller in 2018. and religious liberty in crisis, which was released this past tuesday and which we celebrate this evening. ken and his wife alice, who was here this evening, great to have you here alice. now reside along the peaceful banks in waco, texas. we're going to hear from two devoted joints of faith and freedom strengthen our resolve. to defend americans first freedom. please join me in welcoming doctor tom pharr and doctor ken starr. >> thank you david. see this is all i again here this is on. i can't play what an honor it is to t

from columbia law school. tom burt is corporate vice president for customer security and trust at microsoft corporation. among his department's many responsibilities is responding to law enforcement requests for access to data and managing moxt's government clearance and national security compliance. mr. burt joined microsoft in 1995. he's held several leadership roles in the corporate, external and legal affairs departments. he received an a.b. from stanford university and a j.d. from the university of washington school of law. jonathan turley is the professor of public interest law at the george washington university law school. after a previous position teaching at tulane law school, he joined the gw law faculty in 1990. in 1998, he became the youngest in the school's history. in addition to serving as counsel in a number of significant cases, he's written numerous articles for a variety of law journals and national publications. he earned a b.a. from the university of sxhik a j.d. from northwestern univers

he and district of columbia district attorney carl racine and hosting the state attorneys generals to stop asian hate. before turning to the panelists, i wanted to briefly set the stage by underscoring what you know. as a patriot and violence now directed at the asian american community is a resurfacing of anti-asian hate which has been present. asian americans have had a long history of being unformidable and diseased or dangerous since they first arrived and we can go back to 1989 case of che chang that boards could prevent crowding upon us. in 1965, there was no combatting inclusion of us, and living wage, and mobs attacked japanese, and east indian farm workers and filipino immigrants and drove them out of the communities they worked. at many as statutes prohibiting the marriage of black and asian person and asian and white person. and also anti-misogyny statues 1967 the supreme court declared these laws unconstitutional. asian american children were sent to segregated schools in 1927 brought suit after his 9-year-old american-born daughter was denied entry into a white school in

he married my mother in columbia, south carolina. they were part of the great migration. they came north. they raised three children, all three children college graduates, gainfully employed. my folks were churchgoing folks. i think that they're both people of blessed memory but if you admit them i bet you would like them. >> guest: i would love them try and look at the same time, let me say this about my father. my father never forgave the united states of america for what he viewed as it's betrayal of black people. and for them i think the sort of place where this crystallize, he was a soldier, a soldier during world war ii and he saw the united states of america black people in uniform. he never got over that. i'm not saying that he was right. i'm not saying he was wrong. i'm simply saying that's what he thought. there's elements of which you say in which you two would be high-fiving, but there's also elements in what he believed very much in sync with the 1619 project and the you are criticizing. black americans very pluralistic. what do we do? >> guest: let's just be

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from -- an age 80 from columbia law school. we welcome all of our distinguished witnesses and we thank them for participating today. i will begin by swearing in our witnesses. i asked that the witnesses please rise and raise a right hand. i ask that the remote witness turns on her audio. make sure i can see her face and the raised right and will administer the oath. do you swear under penalty of perjury that the testimony we are about to give is true and correct to the best of your knowledge, information, and believe so help you god? let the record show the witnesses have answered in the affirmative. thank you and please be seated. please note each of your written statements will be entered into the record in its entirety. i asked you summarize your testimony in five minutes. to help you stay within that time limit there is a timing light on your table. when the light switches from green to yellow you have one minute to conclude your testimony. when the light turns red it signals have expired your five minutes. for our witnesse

he and district of columbia attorney general carl really seen, recently host a landmark at the national convening of state attorney generals on the countering of -- hate. before turning to our panelists, i want to briefly set the stage but underscoring what i'm sure you already know. the hatred and violence now directed toward the asian american community is really a resurfacing of anti asian hate that has always been present. asian americans have had a long history of being viewed and targeted as perpetual foreigners, as an estimable, disease, dangerous since they first arrived in this country. you can go all the way back to the infamous 1889 case of pinning, and it was the supreme court explained that it was beyond question that congress could prevent foreign encroachment by the vast court of chinese crowding upon us. in 1905, the japanese current exclusive league argued we cannot assimilate with them with an injury to us. we cannot compete with people having a low standard of civilization living in wage. mobs attacked chinese, japanese, east indian, and korean farm workers, filipino

columbia. we talked to her about the in-depth look in her new book, zero fall. >> listen at c-span.org/podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. >> weekends on c-span two an intellectual feast. every saturday, you find events on people that explore our nation's past on american history tv. sundays, book tv brings you the latest in nonfiction books and authors. it is television for serious readers. learn, discover, explore, weekends on c-span2. >> follow american history tv on twitter, facebook and youtube schedule updates, to learn about what happened on this day in history. watch videos and learn about the people and events that have shaped the american story. find us at c-span history. >> this is a special program as we talked to an eyewitness to history. our guest speaker will take questions later on in the program. we want to make sure you help us along with keeping him busy with your questions, comments and thoughts. we will use the youtube chat. if you want to get practice now, put your

geissler has mentioned working with rich columbia who had a similar situation in 2017. the canadian services are working toward the similar process. i will defer. mr. perlmutter: mr. geisler, could you explain your experience? mr. geissler: as we have said, there are a number of monitoring systems that are looking at fuels and other predictive data to give us that heads up. the measurements that representative lucas talk about has fueled data in real-time. that is a part of it. we were able to look at the moisture content and fuel typing at all of the sites across the entire state at any given moment. it allows the fire manager to anticipate. in this past year, we had winds which took us from a slow fire season to our historic fire season in a couple of days. a lot of that came to we knew -- when the wind was ongoing to have that ongoing realization of changes would have been another system. there are various systems in place that allow this prediction to go but they do not have the coverage to give a national or regional picture. they are highly isolated at this point.

he and district of columbia attorney general carl racine recentlybi hosted a landmark national convening of state attorney generals on the countering of anti-asian hate. turning to our panelists, i want to just briefly set the stage. by underscoring what i'm sure you already know. hatred and violence now directed against the asian-american community isre really a resurfacing ofy anti-asian hate that has always been present. asian-americans have had a h lo history of being viewed and targeted as perpetual foreigners, as unassim luable, diseased and dangerous since they first arrived in this country. we can goce all the way back to the a infamous 1889 case in whi the supreme court explained it was beyond question that congress could prevent foreign encroachment by the vast hordes of chinese crowding in upon us. in 1905, the japanese and korean exclusion league argued we cannot assimilate with them without injury to us. we cannot compete with people having such a low standard of civilization living and wage. mobs attacked chinese, japanese, east a indian, and korean farm workers. filipino f

i heard about thurgood marshall all my life because my father in columbia, south carolina, want to see justice marshall argue a case. rice versus elmore. he was one of the last of the white primary cases. and throughout my childhood, i heard my father talk about the importance of that case for him. now, my dad did know what the legal issue, the big legal issue, state action issue but he didn't pay any attention to that. the thing that my father talked about over and over and over again was that the judges in the courtroom called thurgood marshall mister marshall. and the reason why that was so significant was that because of jim crow etiquette, black men were not referred to as mr.. if you are black physician, you might be called doctor so-and-so. you are black minister, you might be called reverend so-and-so. but typically, black man did not get the honorific, mr.. and it was a sign of how distinguished thurgood marshall wise. that the judges and the other lawyers called him mr. marshall. i heard about that all the time growing up. and so with that backdrop, of course, it was a tremen

eventually every state, commonwealth, territory and the district of columbia received a disaster declaration. that triggers fema. during the pandemic, fema and the private sector coordinated the delivery of 600 million rest raters, 2.5 billion surge k58 masks, 1.1 billion gowns and 56 billion gloves to state and local departments. well done. additionally, fema has distributed more than $80 billion in covid relief. they have helped to support 2,100 community vaccination centers and assisted in the delivery of 371 million vaccines. i applaud the work of fema and all the work they have done over the past several years and during the pandemic. these are certainly unprecedented times. despite the many successes of fema during 2020, i think this fema is facing multiple challenges today and will in the years to come. with the many undertakings, including now a mission at the border, with us must ensure we have an adequately staffed, well-trained and forward-thinking fema that is not only prepared for hurricanes, but for whatever challenges lie ahead. so think about it for a moment, if you will. it'

but a couple of years later, one of the greatest columbia historians, wrote a revisionist history of black reconstruction, of reconstruction, and gave great praise to this work. he was -- the early schools said that reconstruction was -- [inaudible] it led to the tearing up of the south even though if you look at the records, there were very few examples of african-american men raping white women. and so duboise is going back to his scholarship. he -- but then something happens. 1937 this organization is founded, southern negro youth congress. ethel jackson, now 98. she's my godmother. and here's young people in the south. esther jackson from -- louie vernon born in guyana, dorothy, his wife, who just turned 100, and all of these northerners moved down south. two people are there, the two greatest americans living at this time, in my opinion, paul robeson -- we'll deal with him another time -- and, of course, w.e.b. dubois. and becomes very active in the south. and here again are some of the pictures of the founders. the southern negro youth conference is the predecessor to student n

office one time it was brent hubbard one of the economic advisors who later on became the dean of the columbia business school. do not run for what the issue was. but glenn was there, i was there so obviously a speech is being talked about. i remember there was a loose consensus forming around some idea. the president looks at doctor hubbard's is what you think of that? is it mr. president found under that at all. i have never forgotten that. i mentioned to glenn hubbard over the years was one of those moments you hoped would actually happen. the president asked their opinion and they tell them a set of holding back. that was kind of the tone i always felt even though i never felt in a position where i needed to say i disagree with something i just never happened. >> it's hard to overstate how hard that is for the first time i was in the oval office i forgot the complete thing i don't even walking out. you're just there it's like i'm in the room it's so bright when rated by hands? it is hard to get used to it. >> and the impeachment of andrew johnson were the articles of impeachment in both sp

. >> recently the health museum in houston hosted a virtual event with columbia university professor peter hotez on why he believes future pandemics can be prevented by expanding vaccine literacy. >> i started writing this book a year before covid-19 began. and, i think one of the points of the book was what is happening with covid-19 is not the extraordinary event that many claim it is, but rather a culminating event of a lot of unraveling that has been happening over the last few years. it kind of chronicles the collapse, i do not want to say total collapse, but partial unraveling of global health infrastructure and all of the things that we have put in place, which includes a lot of vaccine diplomacy. by that, i define that broadly as cooperation between nations around global health and vaccines, because vaccines are such powerful tools. the beginning of it actually goes with the beginning of vaccines. when edward jenner developed the first smallpox vaccine in the late 1700s, some say 1798, he was called upon to mediate prisoner exchanges between the british and the french during

he now runs a center for substance abuse at columbia university. he is a huge fan of just say no, in fact at one point. he had nancy reagan on his board. he said it was a simple message, but it was exactly what you wanted parents to be saying to their children. it's exactly what you wanted children to be saying to each other. aids came on the world stage during the reagan presidency. i had a great privilege of working for admiral james watkins who chaired the reagan aids commission later when he was secretary of energy, but that commission was fraught with controversy and mrs. reagan injected herself into that process. why and what were the results well before we even discuss aids we have to stipulate that the reagan administration's in action on aids. it's unwillingness to deal with it at all really until the second term. is a deep scar on its legacy and one that will never be erased. but i did find in my research for the book that as belated as it was nancy reagan became attuned to what was going on much sooner than her husband did in part. becau

. >> recently the health museum in houston hosted a virtual event with columbia diversity professor peter hotez on why he believes future pandemics can be prevented by expanding vaccine literacy. >> i started writing this book a year before covid-19 began. and, i think one of the points of the book was what is happening with covid-19 is not the extraordinary event that many claim it is, but rather a culminating event of a lot of unraveling that has been happening over the last few years. it kind of chronicles the collapse, i do not want to say total collapse, but partial unraveling of global health infrastructure and all of the things that we have put in place, which includes a lot of vaccine diplomacy. by that, i define that broadly adds cooperation between -- as cooperation between nations around global health and vaccines, because vaccines are such powerful tools. the beginning of it actually goes with the beginning of vaccines. when edward jenner developed the first smallpox vaccine in the late 1700s, some say 1798, he was called upon to mediate prisoner exchanges between the british