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Wilson, The Light Withdrawn, takes a critical look at the 28th President of the United States and his attitudes toward racial equality and women's suffrage. | |
| The battle, which had been going on for decades and decades for women getting the vote, had reached a tipping point because that's when he shows up on the scene. | ||
| And really, if you think of it like volleyball or basketball, you know, the ball was right there to be slammed. | ||
| And that's all he would have had to do as a leader of the country at that time because society had changed so much. | ||
| This is the 20th century. | ||
| We've got women in the workplace. | ||
| We've got technology that makes it possible for home industry to be offloaded to Sears Roebuck and Piggly Wiggly grocery stores and so on. | ||
| The country was ready for this, and it got delayed for almost the entirety of Wilson's two terms. | ||
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Christopher Cox with his book, Woodrow Wilson, Sunday night at 8 p.m. Eastern on C-SPAN's Q ⁇ A. You can listen to Q ⁇ A and all of our podcasts on the C-SPAN Now app or wherever you get your podcasts. | |
| We wanted to give C-SPAN viewers a sneak peek at a new series that C-SPAN is launching this fall. | ||
| It's called Ceasefire. | ||
| Take a look. | ||
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In a nation divided, a rare moment of unity. | |
| This fall, C-SPAN presents Ceasefire, where the shouting stops and the conversation begins. | ||
| In a town where partisan fighting prevails. | ||
| One table, two leaders, one goal, to find common ground. | ||
| This fall, Ceasefire, on the network that doesn't take sides, only on C-SPAN. | ||
| And joining us at our desk now to talk a little bit more about Ceasefire is C-SPAN CEO Sam Feist. | ||
| Morning, Sam. | ||
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Morning, John. | |
| Ceasefire, where did the idea come from and why now? | ||
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So many years ago, I produced a program that is no longer on the air at CNN called Crossfire. | |
| You may remember. | ||
| Crossfire, it was a raucous debate show where Republicans and Democrats would come on, they would debate. | ||
| They certainly didn't agree. | ||
| They almost never found common ground. | ||
| But it was a program on that network at the right time. | ||
| Here we are in 2025. | ||
| Our country is as polarized as ever. | ||
| There seems to be very little agreement. | ||
| And most significantly to me at least, there's very little talking. | ||
| Republicans and Democrats, at least publicly, you never see them on television having a productive conversation. | ||
| You know, where can we find compromise? | ||
| Where can we find common ground? | ||
| Where can we work together? | ||
| And that's what this program is intended to do, is to bring a Republican and a Democrat on every week who, at least for that program, will try to have a productive conversation, reach across the aisle, listen a little bit, see what they might agree on. | ||
| How do you make that happen? | ||
| And if the goal, as that promo said, is to find common ground, where do you start? | ||
| What are a couple topics that you could start on? | ||
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Well, first of all, I think you start by having Republicans and Democrats listening. | |
| The reality is that conversations like that happen all the time. | ||
| You may find a Democrat and a Republican who are veterans, who are friendly, they have a shared experience, and they begin by talking about their experience as a veteran. | ||
| Yesterday on C-SPAN, the Republican chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, who could not be more conservative, talked about how he found common ground with liberal Democrat Maxine Waters because they're both from St. Louis and they both love the Cardinals. | ||
| If that's a starting point of a conversation, fantastic. | ||
| So whether it's on vets or we've seen Senators Blackburn and Blumenthal work together on protecting teens on social media. | ||
| I mean, there are areas where you can begin to talk. | ||
| But for me, the idea of having a conversation between people who are politically divided on areas where they can find agreement, I think that's good for the country. | ||
| It's what C-SPAN's all about. | ||
| And I think it can help. | ||
| You've named some pairings. | ||
| Do you have an ideal pairing in mind for this program? | ||
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I don't have an ideal pairing, although I will tell you that I've, you know, since I've been at C-SPAN for about nine months now, I've had a chance to visit with quite a number of members of Congress, Republicans, Democrats, senators, House members. | |
| And in every conversation, anticipating that we might do a program like this, I asked them, who is your best friend from the other party? | ||
| Who do you talk to the most? | ||
| Every one of them had an answer. | ||
| And then I said, if we did a program where you and that member came on and sort of took off the jerseys for a few minutes and had a conversation, would that work for you? | ||
| And almost all of them said, yes. | ||
| Now, proof will be in the pudding. | ||
| We'll see what happens. | ||
| But at least there's some indication that there are willing participants. | ||
| Washington Journal viewers will want to know because they love the call-in aspect of this program. | ||
| Is this a call-in show? | ||
| Will they be able to join the conversation with these two members? | ||
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So we're still developing the show. | |
| Not sure about calls. | ||
| We'll probably figure out a way for audience to interact. | ||
| We haven't decided yet whether it's going to be live at the same time every week. | ||
| We need to work around the schedules of members of Congress. | ||
| But we definitely want our viewers to participate. | ||
| So as we work on the show over the next few months, I'll get back to you. | ||
| Final 60 seconds. | ||
| The headline on Ceasefire that is in the New York Times today asks a question. | ||
| Can C-SPAN pull off crossfire but with civility? | ||
| How would you answer that question? | ||
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I think we can. | |
| That was part of the reason I spent so much time visiting with members of Congress ahead of this. | ||
| I wanted to test drive the concept and make sure that it wasn't a fool's errand in 2025 to bring a Republican and a Democrat at the same table. | ||
| And at least the early, early sense I got from the members themselves is, no, we need this. | ||
| We need this right now in America and I'm in. | ||
| Sam Feist, you're always welcome at this table. | ||
| Thanks for stopping by. | ||
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Thank you, John. | |
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