[silence] ladies and gentlemen, please welcome former abc news anchor Sam Donaldson. [applause] thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this mornings program. There are dates that all of us have a very personal. There are dates that we have as a country that we all share. In my lifetime december 7, 1941 november 22, 1953, 911, these are three terrible dates of the country. Then there is november 9 1989 good news, the fall of the berlin wall. Presaging the end of the soviet union. Its a subject that we are going to discuss today. How did it happen . What are the consequences . Who did this . Who for a look at whats in store for us this morning its a pleasure to welcome andrew card. Who served in three administrations with the Ronald Reagan as Deputy Assistant to the president and director of intergovernmental affairs. With George Herbert walker bush the treasury secretary abnot treasury, secretary of transportation. And with george w. Bush he was the white house chief of staff. Andr
The rise of five new powers, and certain western values, russia, china, turkey, iran and radical groups. Good evening everybody and welcome. I am jesse, one of the rabbis here. By show of hands, how many of you is this your first time here . Welcome. For those of you who are new lets give you a bit of her history. The building open at the synagogue in 1908 in about 50 years later it became the home to the memorial ame church in a 2002 it was almost sold to someone who wanted to turn it into a nightclub. It was saved within 24 hours in a building in search of a mission. Todays it is a center for arts and culture in entertainment and ideas in a synagogue that reimagines jewish life and religion and community in the 21st century. If you want to explore the past programs you can check out our podcast on itunes which features a conversation with a recent guest including howard schulte, doran door screens goodwin. And im delighted to welcome tonights guest, he is a philosopher of public inte
Good evening everybody and welcome. I am jesse, one of the rabbis here. By show of hands, how many of you is this your first time here . Welcome. For those of you who are new lets give you a bit of her history. The building open at the synagogue in 1908 in about 50 years later it became the home to the memorial ame church in a 2002 it was almost sold to someone who wanted to turn it into a nightclub. It was saved within 24 hours in a building in search of a mission. Todays it is a center for arts and culture in entertainment and ideas in a synagogue that reimagines jewish life and religion and community in the 21st century. If you want to explore the past programs you can check out our podcast on itunes which features a conversation with a recent guest including howard schulte, doran door screens goodwin. And im delighted to welcome tonights guest, he is a philosopher of public intellectual and an author with a distinctive view of World History and current affairs. The wall street jour
Survived on the streets for a long time and i said what do you have on trump because i know that he covered them for the New York Post and had a lot off great resources in the new york state gop. He told me about the run in 2014, and ive lived back and forth between new york and la. I didnt realize how serious he took that and almost how serious that was. I handed him a copy of this oral history, which i am a fan of that format, and it turns out that he had a great resources. He brought his political sources in iraand ive got a lot of meda sources and in the end we produced a book that has 114 on the recor record and on now on s sources telling the story of how trump was deliberate and methodical in his political strategy, but this wasnt something that he just decided a few days before the famous escalator ride into this wasnt a joke. He wasnt trying to get a tv channel at the end, and that surprised look he might have had on Election Night was a surprise that he actually won, not surp
That time i was just referring to was a time as most of you remember it for conservatives it was a time of great hope, we were very young and inducted into this movement but it was extremely exciting to be part of something to be fighting for something that seemed to us to be cohesive and good and clear and fighting actual opponents. We knew who the good guys were and so on. What is funny about the passage of time over the decades the clarity of those years becomes more and more blurry, what i remember as is not what other people remember. And thats interesting and significant. I remember a conservative movement that Irving Kristol of modern conservatism is religion, conservativism and Economic Growth. There had been many of the tripod formulations. For us it was a towering figure. And thats it i what i thought i was joining. What is interesting about religion nationalism and Economic Growth is that crystal was very clear to be an american conservative is not simply about Freedom Freed