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How the government shutdown is impacting the US economy

Former Deputy Secretary of Labor and Miller Center Practitioner Senior Fellow Chris Lu joins host Larry King to examine the partial government shutdown's impact on the U.S. economy.

Chris Lu

Day 32 of the 2019 government shutdown

Miller Center Practitioner Senior Fellow Chris Lu tells host Bill Press that Senator Kamala Harris is much more experienced than President Barack Obama was when he first ran for president. "The downside of throwing your hat in the ring is pretty minimal," he said.

Chris Lu

Two years in, Donald Trump remains the 'unprecedented president'

Trump's first two years in office have proven that he really is an outlier among American presidents, concurred Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. "I would just say he is the unprecedented president. He is completely off the grid," she said. "He is not like anything we have ever seen."

Barbara Perry

The Score: Race Relations, Beer Battles, Minimum Wages, Tucker’s Economics

To get a preview of the panel discussion for The Score, I spoke to Melody Barnes at her Miller Center office in Charlottesville. Noting that January 20 will mark ten years since the inauguration of President Obama, she fielded my questions about the continuing conversation about race and race relations in the United States; whether Obama’s election demonstrated that we are in a “post-racial” era; and what “colorism” means within the African-American community, as highlighted on a recent episode of the ABC-TV sitcom, black-ish.

Melody Barnes

Nixon’s Personal Lawyer Paid Hush Money to Watergate Burglars

“He was basically Nixon’s bagman,” says Ken Hughes, a research specialist at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. “He got money where Nixon wanted money spent. He was the source of the money for the slush fund that paid for sabotage and spying activities on the Democratic presidential candidates in 1972.”

Ken Hughes

As The Shutdown Continues, A Look At Trump's Claims About Fixing A Broken System

Barbara Perry directs presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. She says foreign policy is an area where the Constitution and the Supreme Court are clear - the president has a lot of authority all on his own.

Barbara Perry