[smith] keb mowelcome. [keb mo] thank you, evan. [smith] good to be with you. [mo] its good to be here. [smith] may i say,i dont e ive had a twoapostrophe guest in 17 years . laughs time for everything, right . [mo] yes. [smith] for the record, its kevin moore. [mo] yes, thats my birth ne. [smith] birth name is kevin moore. [mo] Kevin Roosevelt moore. [sKevin Roosevelt moore. We have a former drummer of yours to thank for chris ning you or coining k, right . [mo] yes. [smith] tell that story. [mo] well, the was a band called the Billy Mitchell trio, and Quentin Dennard was the drummer in that band. They played at a club called the nucleus nuance in l. A. , durin the late 80s and 90s. They didnt have a guitar player because it was a jazz trio. So i would go in and play for free. My job was to play along with the band. It wasnt really a job, [smith] it was a gig. [mo] whener i felt like it. And i would play the blues. When it was blues time, i was on. So then, theyd go, keb mo, all right
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Ukraine into opening an investigation into political rival joe biden. And that he obstructed congress by defying numerous subpoenas for documents and stimony as part of their impeachment probe. United in their opposition, publicans say democrats are rushing through the imanachment process d using it to overturn the results of the 2016 election. President trump has deinnded his dealgs with ukraine and called the investigation a quote witchhunt. Here to discuss this our republican consultant and senior contributed to bulwark tim miller. He is with us. And also whron aldinger joins us via skype from washington. Thank you for being here with us. Why just two articles of mo impeachment for the ats abuse of power and obstruction of congress over president trumps dealings with ukraine . Why not obstruction of justic in thMueller Report, there were 10 instances listed. Or bribery that the democrats were exciting even before this began. The democrats made a choice. They couldve reached to the s
Historical society. Im thrilled to see all of you this evening in our beautiful robert h. Smith auditorium. Tonights program, give me liberty a history of americas exceptional idea, is a part of our bernard and Irene Schwartz speakers series, and as always, id like to thank mr. Schwartz for his great generosity which has enabled us to bring so many fine speakers to this stage. Also want the thank all of our Chairmans Council members who are in attendance this evening and to thank you for your great support which enables us to do our work. Tonights program will last about an hour, and it will include a question and answer session. You should have receivedse a noe card and pencil as you entered the auditorium this afternoon, in the evening, and if not, my colleagues are a going up and dn the aisles with note cards and pencils. The note cards will be collected later on in the program with your questions. Following the program, there will be a book signing in our ny district store and copi
[smith] tommy orange, welcome. Orange] thank you for having me. [smith] thank you very much for being here. So, i love the book. I wanna talk all about tt book and talk all abu, but i wanna talk about the title of the book first. So i didnt actually get the reference until after that this is Gertrude Stein. [orange] mmhmm. [smith] right . Like you, an oaklander. Is that the right way to say it . Oaklandit [orange] oaklander. [smith] oaklander. [orange] yeah. [sth] so Gertrude Stein mously said of oakland, theres no there there. And this is esponse, this is your rebuttal of Gertrude Stein. [orange] and its also, i wouldnt put so much of the weight on Gertrude Stein as more on people who have sort of misused that quote. Because she was just talking about her childhood home. [smiry specific. [orange] and it was developed over. So in her everybodys autobiography, somebody asks her, why dont you write about oakland . There is no there there. Shes just talking about r experience. And so peop