the vanderbilts have willie k vanderbilt, he inherited $60 million and start spending it . to get mrs. astor she needs to get mrs. astor's acceptance of the vanderbilts to get a foothold in new york society and she does it by throwing this party that caroline astor'sdaughter is so desperate to go to because it's the party of the century . and suddenly as the party approaches caroline realizes she's not received an invitation to this party and alva makes it publicly known that of course caroline astor must understand she's never presented herself to me. she's never acknowledged me as a human being and therefore how can i inviteher to my house if she's never even called on me ? mrs. astor knowing that the winds of change are coming to the social world and she wants to stay ahead of the wins and has to please her daughter wants to dance the quadrille in this party, she with great agony gets in the carriage, goes down to the, gives them a card and that is mrs. astor calling on alva vanderbilt and then they get to be invited to the party and new york is never the same. >> it was

it wasn't any of the vanderbilts. so she grew up really with no connection to the vanderbilts other than having that name. i was lucky because i didn't have that name, and i was very happy that i didn't have that name growing up. but i think my mom really early on decided she do anything to do with what should think of the vanderbilts. she at 17, at 16 she hotfoot set off to hollywood to visit her mother and her mother let you do anything and stay, and my mom starts dating errol flynn and a bunch of married movie stars, howard hughes, hot howard hughes at the time wanted to measure and she ends up just out of poor decision making, mirroring like a thug who worked for howard hughes. at the age of 17, you know, stays married until 21 and then gets divorced, and three weeks later meets the 63 of man leopold stokowski, this great director, conductor and marries him within two or three weeks. >> wow. that's interesting though even given how much time she spent with gertrude whitney. >> that's what's a sad about so much of

vanderbilt? where is that? i made the transition and accepted the contract, i physically moved to nashville in 2000 and i had to put vanderbilt on the map so now people don't ask, vanderbilt? where is that? >> the tennessean, he wrote in 2017, i will not miss when you retire from vanderbilt, i will not miss what american universities have allowed themselves to become. >> i think. >> what does that mean x. >> it has to do with -- after early retirement, as a university professor, i could have talking to larson my 80s or 90s as long as i can make it across campus to my classroom, i would be allowed to teach but i left because what i saw happening at the universities, i thought it was very destructive with the political correctness, trigger warnings, the insanity i felt taking place, i felt it was like inmates running a prison because the administrators, whatever decisions dramatic, they caved so quickly and when i started teaching and when i was a student, they should know part of my background is being a high sc

when i told people i was going too vanderbilt they just plant, where? vanderbilt, where is that? i made the transition andd knivs to did the contractor moved to nashville and i have put to vanderbilt on the map so now people don't ask vanderbilt, where is that? >> guest: in the tennessee and you wrote in 2017 when you retired from vanderbilt i would not miss what american universities have allowed themselves toe become. >> yes, i did. >> host: what does that mean? >> guest: it has to do with i took earlyy retirement. at the university i was a full professor and i could have taught until i wasug in my 80s or 90s of long as i could have made it to my classroom i would be allowed to teach but i left because what isi saw happening t the universities was very distracted with political correctness, the man -- the insanity that i felt was taking place. i felt like inmates were running the prison because they administrators whatever the students demanded they caved so quickly. when i started teaching and when i was a student myself and as you know part of my background was going to commu

i physically moved to nashville and i have put vanderbilt on the map, and now people ask vanderbilt, where is that? >> i will not miss when you retire from vanderbilt and what american universities have allowed themselves to become. >> yes, i did. >> what does that mean? >> well, it had to do -- i took early retirement. as a university professor with a full professor, i could have taught until 80's or 90's as long as i could make it across campus to my classroom i would be allowed to teach but i left because what i saw happening at the universities i thought it was very destructive with the political correctness, the demand for safe spaces and the trigger warning and insanity that i felt was taking place. i felt it was like the inmates were running the prisons because the adults, the administrators, whatever the students demanded they caved so quickly and when i started teaching and when i was a student myself and as you know part of my background is being a high school dropout and going to a community college and earning college and university degree. so i have been a student as an

she was really big about living in the moment. >> at vanderbilt mortgage, they were collectors. calling people to make sure they kept up with their house payments. what was it about brittani that you formed this instant connection with? >> she was very good at the job. actually used her as a tool to teach me at first, she help me out a lot. that's when we started talking more and more about things other than work. >> what do you think she liked about you? >> i think she liked that i listened. that actually cared about what she had to say. the it was strictly platonic, strictly friends. and then it just developed, probably, eight months later. >> it developed a lot more. they became lovers, and that's when things got complicated. norman was single, but britney, it turns out, was married. her husband was a man name terry eldridge, a truck driver who drove his truck at night. what did she tell you about the marriage? >> she was happy, but she wanted children and he did not. were >> there any other issues or was that the only one? >> they didn't spend a lot of time together because

next to the mansions being built by 80 steward of the vanderbilt's, you have the reality of the 5 points. the slums at the very, very difficult lives live by most new yorkers. that is to say, working class and poor new york is forced to create a whole series of institutions to deal with the realities of tens of thousands of immigrants coming into the city. continually. there was a sense, i think that these people need it to be separated out. that it people will not comfortable seeing the insane seeing the pauper, seeing an elderly alcoholics on the streets of new york. and many of these institutions, prisons, a lunatic asylum's hospitals, all were erected, created outside manhattan, on these islands in the east river. there was well fair island. there were the quarantine islands and of course, ellis island. and these were all various processing stations. hard island was the terminal island in 1890 s. early 19 hundreds. every spring of the police department would have to fish out scores and scores of bodies that floated to surface and the harbor and the rivers. what do you do with these b

of this-- and its limits-- i'm joined by stacie dusetzina, associate professor of health policy at vanderbilt university school of medicine. professor, welcome to the "newshour". thank you for making the time. that key provision in this proposal, the ability to negotiate for prescription drug prices, we know some democrats wand medicare to have the power to do that with many more drugs, up to 250 drugs, that was significantly scaled back in this bill. tell me about that and the impact you through that will have. >> so it is a major scaleback from the original proposal, but i think it is still a very important change. so, to date, medicare hasn't been able to negotiate for any drug prices. so the ability to negotiate for drug prices, even though it only starts with ten drugs and drugs that have been on the market for a long time for about nine to 13 years, it is a major step forward, and i think it will result in savings overall, but it is very different than the original plan. >> reporter: obviously, as you mentioned, this doesn't apply to new drugs. i guess from the farm tool company's per s

amna: professor stacie dusetzina, associate professor of health policy at vanderbilt university, thank you so much for joining us. stacie: thank you. ♪ judy: as we reported, the biden administration is ramping up plans for vaccine manufacturing for the coming year. but developing nations have been struggling with delays and shortages for months. moderna reportedly will supply 56 million more doses to the global vaccine initiative known as covax, but far more is still needed. william brangham is back with that story. william: while the u.s. and the european union have gotten doses to roughly 70% of their populations, the rest of the world lags far behind across the african continent just over 6% have been vaccinated. in developing nations, it is even lower, just around 4% of people have received your first shot. >> joining me now is someone whose job is dedicated to righting that imbalance. dr. arthur seth berkley is the ceo of the gavi. vaccine alliance, one of the key partners in covax. dr. berkley, great to have you back on the "newshour." broadly speaking, help us understand why t

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, did the basic research funding in academic institutions like the university of north carolina and vanderbilt and the university of alabama at birmingham to do the research that led to the company doing an extraordinary job developing these antiviral therapeutics. most recently, we here of the element of a protease inhibitor. that is the inhibitor from pfizer. as you know, just a few days ago, the results of a placebo-controlled trial of around 3000 people was done in a very impressive -- a very impressive 89% production -- reduction was seen in the treatment arm compared to the placebo arm with 10 deaths in the placebo and no deaths in the treatment. this is the only administered antiviral similar to -- given within days of the recognition of symptoms, has this important clinical effect. again, the u.s. government did play a role in the development. early consultations with pfizer referring to research providing screening methodology, in vitro testing and the nih led therapeutic intervention team generated the clinical trial protocol. all of this is good news in that we now have one that alr

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jonathan: that is in the message from the vanderbilt university center medical professor. kailey leinz in fort lisa abramowicz. the equity market up, big on treasuries. the unwind of the unwind that a muted one. crude lowered by more than 10% friday. this morning up by five. tom: brent crude down from 84. we have peter hotel is joining us later. we are paroled -- thrilled to bring your joshua sharfstein he has been a measured voice for bloomberg surveillance. jon and i feel we should lead with science. we have felt frenzy the last 24 hours. how do we constructively generate a measured alert even our fears? andrew: we have been talking about the potential of more variants. they could form in places that are under vaccinated. this variant has a number of concerning mutations that resemble some of the other variants that we had. none totally escaped the vaccine. we have to go through the process of studying this variant while we continue to take precautions to prevent spread. this may well not be as dangerous as other variants, but it may have the capacity to infect people wh

agency did the basic research funding in academic institutions like the university of north carolina and vanderbilt and the university of alabama to do the research that led to the companies doing an extraordinary job in developing these antiviral therapeutics. now most recently we hear of the development of a -- inhibitor. and that is the inhibitor from pfizer company. again as you know, just a few days ago, the results of a priest -- placebo-controlled trial was done in a very impressive 89% reduction in hospitalizations or deaths was seen in the treatment arm compared to the placebo arm with 10 deaths in the placebo arm and none in the treatment arm. this is an orally administered antiviral, similar to remdesivir. which given within days of the symptoms as an clinical effect. the u.s. government did play a role in the development. for example, early consultations with pfizer referring to researchers providing screening methodology, in vitro testing, and the nih led accelerating covid-19 therapeutic intervention or active pain generator the clinical trial. so all of this is good news and that we

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a phd in history from vanderbilt university, as well as history degrees from baylor university and george peabody college. doctor carole bucy was appointed davidson county, and karl dean. the author tennessee through time, the early years in tennessee through time the later years, these are the social study textbooks currently used out of fifth grade classrooms in numerous schools across tennessee and is also the author of history carved in stone, city, cemetery, the ywca of national. exercising the franchise exercising the body politic believe that women voters and public policy, 1945 to 1964 and several scholarly articles. she served as member of the board of directors of the presbyterian historical society philadelphia. and the tennessee historical society. as longtime advocate for local and state history she regularly conducts educator workshops on the incorporation of tennessee history into existing us history courses and is a frequent speaker across the state on a variety of historical subjects. history is boring, clearly they haven't heard carole bucy speak. she brings her subjects

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. >> on our monthly author interview program, former political science and law professor at vanderbilt university and vice chair president trump 1776 commission joined us to talk about critical race theory, the 1619 project, immigration and more. here's a portion portion of their conversation. >> critical race theory, first of all, it is a theory that is permeating every institution in america. the people that are pushing that theory, they argue, as you know, that, pretty much, that america at least, i will not talk about the world, there are other critical theories, but that they have, you know, racism in their dna. that they are born with a property inheritance baked in their skin color and that they have to consciously become antiracist by renouncing racism and there are lots of things about it, but people are supposed to confess their sins just like a religion. they are supposed to constantly repeat, you know, their sins. but there is no redemption. in the christian religion, there is redemption. you confess your sins one time. it argues that racism is permanent. majorities of perm

the arts commission, the ingram content group, the tennessee arts commission, vanderbilt university, we are grateful for your continued support. thank you for everything that you do to help us continue to make this a great festival every year. if you'd like to purchase books that you see featured at the festival, we encourage you to do that through the book link in the facebook live or youtube section. support the festival and help to keep it free. so, we have a special guest today. our author is the former to turn mayor of knoxville and former governor of knoxville tennessee. tennessee became the fastest improving state in the country in k-12 education in the first state to provide free community college or technical school for all of its citizens. in addition to adding 475,000 net new jobs. serving on the board of directors for teach for america. the wilson center and young life. his wife of 40 years have three children and 10 grandchildren the he is here today to discuss his new book faithful presence. a public face. welcome to the southern festival of books. >> hi. thank you for

support rated the metro national park commission, ingram content group, the tennessee park commission, vanderbilt university, and we are grateful for your support and thank you for everything you do to help us make us a great festival are year ife you would like to purchase these books featured here in the vessel we encourage you to do that through the book link in the facebook live or youtube chat session pretty and this book support the festival and help to keep it free rated so we have special guest today, and are author is the former two-term mayor of knoxville and governor of tennessee, and during his tenure, as he became the fastest improving state in the country and k - 12 education the first state to provide a free community college or technical school for all its citizens in addition to adding for 35000 net new jobs pretty fmr. gov. bill haslam teaches on the board of directors the wilson center and he and his wife over 40 years have three children net and ten grandchildren predict a tear today to discuss his new book, "faithful presence", the promise of the peril of faith in the public

joining me is michael eric dyson, distinguished professor at vanderbilt university, author of "entertaining race." which looks super interesting. we'll get to the book but the numbers, what do you think they are a reflection of? do you think that the president's approval down truly? >> thank you for having me as always. no. i think this thing is a roller coaster, an up and down situation, and polls are a snapshot of the moment. but they don't necessarily indicate a long term trend. many people are disappointed. the irony is donald trump had such a horrendous presidency that in contrast to him of course joe biden would look better to many people but one of the difficulties and perhaps the disadvantage of not being an autocrat or a person that believes in fascist tendencies is you don't disregard the other side and trying to forge relationships hampered the agenda and the limit that is the fact of the senate has on him with numbers and being able to get past senators manchin and sinema. putting that all together it makes for a difficult row to hoe. >> i want to drill down because when it come

the metro natural arts commission, content group, the tennessee arts commission, vanderbilt university, we are grateful for your support. thank you for everything you do to help us make it a great festival every year. if you would like to purchase use e-books featured at the festival we encourage you to do that through the parnassus book link in the facebook, or youtube book section, support the festival and help to keep it free. we have a special guest today. our author is the former two term mayor of knoxville and two term governor of tennessee. during his tenure tennessee became the fastest improving state in the country and k-12 education and the first state to provide free community college, technical school for all its citizens in addition to adding 475,000 net new jobs. bill haslam serves on the board of directors for teach for america, the whistler center and young life. he and his wife kristi have three children and 10 grandchildren. they appear today to discuss his new book "faithful presence: the promise and the peril of faith in the public square". he is my former boss and

jelly, jon meacham, pulitzer prize winning author, and the rogers chair and american presidency at vanderbilt who occasionally advises the current president an major speeches. let me embarrass you by saying, congratulations on the honor you received from the national archives foundation, though the word is out around town, the only guy you could get to preside over the q&a was beschloss and i understand, can't even say it with a straight face speaking of guys we both love. but any way congratulations, i missed a big night in the nation's capital. so, jon, here's the question, what is the equivalent of this week in other presidencies that we have known and perhaps maybe not quite loved, where is this moment in biden's term in office or perhaps first term in office? >> right. brian, i want to say having michael and i on that stage was like the two old guys in the muppet balcony, so you would have fit right in, my friend. >> thank you very much. i didn't know where you were going and now i've been assured. thank you. >> let me offer a thought about how we talk about these things. you and i have

in history from vanderbilt university as well as history degrees from baylor university and george peabodyrg college. sorry. in 2011 dr. busey was appointed davidson county historian by then-mayor carl dean, a position she continues to hold. carol is the author of "tennessee through the time: the early years" and" tennessee through time the: the later years." these are the textbooks currently used in the fourth and fifth grad classrooms in numerous schools across tennessee. she's also the author of "history carved in stone," "women helping women: the ywca of nashville." the league of women voters and public policy 1945-1964 and several scholarly articles. she has served as a member of the board of directors of the presbyterian historical society in h philadelphia and is the vie president ofla the tennessee historical society. as a longtime advocate for local and state history, she regularly conducts educator workshops on incorporation of tennessee history into existing u.s. history courses and is the frequent speaker across the state on a variety of historical subjects. you know, if you've e

pulitzer prize-winning author, presidential historian and the rogers chair in the american presidency of vanderbilt who advises the current president on historic matters and major peach speeches, before we get started, let me embarrass you and say congratulations on the honor you received from the national archives file deletion, the word is out around town, the only guy you can get to preside over the q&a, and i understand, i can't even say it with a straight face, speaking of guys we both love. anyway, congratulations on mr. big night in the nation's capital. john, here's the question, what is the equivalent of other presidencies that we have known, and perhaps not quite loved, where is this moment in biden's office, or first term in office? >> right, brian, i just want to say having michael and i on that stage was like the two old guys in the muppets balcony. you would have fit right in, my friend. >> thank you very much. i didn't know where you were going. thank you. >> [laughs] . let me offer a thoughts about how we talk about these things, you and i have talked about this a little bit before.

anderson cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary american dynasty, his mother's family, the vanderbilts. he is joined by katherine howe, and york times best-selling author of historical fiction and an academic who brings her team research skill and narrative flair to the story of an extraordinary s family. at now without further ado, i would like to welcome our guests to the virtual stage.

. >> on our monthly author interview program, "in depth," carol swain, former law professor at vanderbilt university, and vice chair of president trump's 1776 commission joined us to talk about critical race theory, the 1619 project, immigration and more. here's a portion of that conversation. >> where critical race theory is -- first of all, it is a theory that is permeating every institution this america. and the people that are pushing that theory, they argue as you know that, rich that america at least -- and i'm not going to talk about the world, there are other critical theories, critical theory as marxist roots, but that all whites are oppressors, that they have, you know, racism in their dna, that they're born with a property inheritance based on their skin color and that they have to consciously become anti-racist by renouncing racism. and there are lots of things about it, but it has -- people are supposed to confess their sins just like a religion, they are supposed to constantly repeat, you know, their sins. but there's no redemption like in the christian religion, there's red

you see him, a distinguished professor at vanderbilt university. you should know, viewers, his new book is "entertaining race," a michael eric dyson book. always a reason to talk to you. you heard the sound there. which is it, sir? >> the call to be awake is an offense to them. on the other hand, those with critical race theory deployed as a kind of cud joel to beat down on the heads of those who are enlightened. i think woke is a term of derision and pejorative term. bless james carville's heart, he says these people need to go to awoke detox. my friend, far more ancient is a history of white supremacy, social injustice, even in progressive circles or liberal circles for the indictment that captures all of us. it's not just a right-left thing, a black-white thing, it's a right-wrong thing. are there extremes on either side? to be certain. but the result should not be that we end up making a full equivalence between the so-called woke politics which are misnamed, and on the other hand, those who are anti black in the name of anti critical race theo

joining me now, the author of this book, and a professor at vanderbilt university, michael eric dyson. his new book is "entertaining race: performing blackness in america." it's quite a book. let me ask you this, professor dyson. before i get into your book, i want to ask you your thoughts about the murder of ahmaud arbery and the trial going on. at trial, 11 out of 12 jurors in the case are white. just dwleeks ago i was in georgia with both his mother and father. i'll be going to the trial this week and attending the trial with them. in 2021 an almost all-white jury, i mean, how much of a disservice is it to the prosecution that there's a lack of diversity in the racial makeup of their jury? how can this impact the outcome of the proceedings? >> it's a great question, reverend sharpton. this is jim crow with an asterisk. this is a nearly all-white jury to determine the outcome of all-white men killing a black man. need we say without a sense of hyperbole that emmitt till, all-white jury. when we think about what happened all those years ago, you would think in our own day and age whe

. >> martha: she wrote that not long ago in the vanderbilt law review, wanting to redefine the central bank as the ultimate platform for generating and modulating economic resources in a democratic economy. i want to ask you questions as we wait for this cbo score, senator and how you think it will go. what is your outlook for when the house will pass this and your opportunity to vote? >> my guess is that speaker pelosi is going to jam through this reckless tax and spending bill. somehow she will get the moderates in the house to justify their vote based on the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill just last week or so. but this is going to run into a real problem in the senate because of the senate rules, which limit some of the things that can be considered on the budget bill. for example, immigration cannot be. it will have a hard time getting past senator sinema and senator manchin. >> martha: thanks, senator cornyn. thanks very much. good to see you today. >> thank you. >> martha: breaking a short time ago, president biden speaking to reporters saying the united states may