Moment how president of trump is dealing with the pandemic. Guest its not that different from the way weve seen him in the past three and a half years. Hes making it a very partisan talking about the democratic mayor isnt doing enough, and how important the National Guard is and i think that he is in a partisan issue where in the past weve seen president s reach out and try to be compassionate and bring people together instead of divide them. So thats something we have seen both in the pandemic and the recent protests. Host how did that come about, what is the genesis of its . Guest ive always been fascinated by what happens behind the scenes. When one new family moves in and another move south, as you know, this swearingin ceremony that we all watch, thats really behind the scene there is controlled chaos at the white house. And in the last inauguration i was fascinated by v. Obama is taking off in a helicopter right after president of trump was sworn in and flew over the white house
And free speech. The website is parler. Com, and joining us from las vegas is the ceo of that website, john matze. Thank you so much for being with us. Guest thank you. Host if you were to put a Mission Statement to your website, what would it be . Guest our Mission Statement would be to create a town square for free Speech Discussion and to protect peoples privacy while doing it. Host so why a need for yet another social media site . What is motivating you and others to start this . Guest well, lately i am sure you have seen a lot of the present surrounding what is going on politically and people feeling like they have been censored in the United States. Theres a lot of people that feel that they cannot reach out on social media, and they think that they are going to get ba attacked for their point of view, and they are looking for another place to go. And actually, this is a lot broader than the United States. This is happening all over the world. I spoke to people in israel, brazil,
Bring this collection of great talent and Close Friends together today for this conversation, and that Susan Glasser of the new yorker kindly agreed to host today. Susan, thank you, and over to you. Susan thank you so much, steve, and to everyone who is joining us on this incredible allstar panel of experts we have with us today. I cannot think of a group that as a citizen, and not just as an observer, im hoping you can help us provide, if not definitive answers, at least some thoughts on what the path ahead looks like, recognizing we are in a world where we could not have predicted what we would have been talking about this week even two weeks ago. So, no one will hold you to it, but i want to thank the panelists in advance for their expertise and insights today. Let me do a quick introduction of everybody so that our guests today can understand just what an allstar lineup this is. I guess in no particular order, but the order i am saying people seeing people on my view screen, i dont
Steve welcome to todays Bob Schieffer series, conversation on covid19 societal instability, where are we heading. I want to offer special thanks to the foundation that supports this series, as well as the Schieffer School of communications at tcu. Several staff here at csis have worked hard to pull this together. Emma, among the foremost of the staff, made this possible. We also have travis hopkins, Clifford Johnson special thanks to them. Lastly, we are thrilled we can bring this collection of great talent and Close Friends together today for this conversation, and that Susan Glasser of the new yorker kindly agreed to host today. Susan, thank you, and over to you. Susan thank you so much, steve, and to everyone who is joining us on this incredible allstar panel of experts we have with us today. I cannot think of a group that as a citizen, and not just as an observer, im hoping you can help us provide, if not definitive answers, at least some thoughts on what the path ahead looks like,
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