And legal follower coming up. Welcome everybody, this is youre world. We begin with charlotte where trump is set to speak and just got a big endorsement. Reporter he did, he got a big endorsement from the fop, he is going to be here speaking to the fop annual meeting. And we are told by the campaign that those remarks were slated to begin about 445, so in your our charles, we are expecting the former president to take the podium here we dont know if he will route react or make the first on camera remarks about george my seans ruling to delay the sentencing and that hush money, so cold when he tried. But we will be here listening and watching and waiting to see if the former president indeed does remark about that, he did tell Brooke Sigman over the phone earlier today, a few words about this. He said the case was delayed because everybody realizes there was no case and i did Nothing Wrong, its a case that should have never been the case should be dead. Those were word from the presiden
Thank you everyone for being here. I see friends and family, colleagues. Library of congress and staff, influential to put book together. I am nervous. So i will just say thank you so much again for being here. So yeah, Frederick Douglas in d. C. Fred lick douglas moved to emancipation hall. We will not get much past the talking points. We do not scratch the surface of who douglas was as a grand father and a newspaper. So i try tried to get into that. And to get into the element. And of his life in the book. And as he talked about kind of a revelation to help me to put the book together. I will share this is assign for the douglas historic site. 16th and w street. Southeast. And it is a roughandtumble corner. So i worked in the united planting organization 1649 good hope road. And basically was a poverty worker and i worked in social services. Would i take the metro there and i would walk from the metro station and mlk. W street and make a left. And earlier in the morning. Not too much
people a few things they hadn t heard before. but i ve been excluded from it because i m told i m an extremist. um, i tend to refer to the president of the united states as a stealth socialist, and that s considered extremism. though actually, i think, i ought to appear hat in hand before cnn and ask them which words in the vocabulary i m allowed to apply to the stealth socialist, if we re amongst friends. [laughter] but at any rate, i d like to make a few observations about my new book, um, the death of liberalism. historic eras have a habit of slipping away with few people noticing their passing. the holy roman empire had lost its hold on the potentates of europe, yet it was years before anyone discerned that the empire was no longer holy or roman or even an empire. there were a lot of colorful uniforms around, and even helmets and ceremonial swords. but no one took any notice of them, not even the swords. the empire had regressed to a gaggle of municipalities and, later,