Below new york, thank you for joining us live at town hall in new york city for this very special addition of why is this happening . He is incisive, he is big hearted, he is very, very smart, and admit it, he is taller than you expected. Please give a warm welcome to my friend, my beloved colleague, msnbcs chris hayes. Hey, everybody, hello. [applause] thank you, hey, oh, stop. Stop. [applause] how are you . Good. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Sit down, sit down, sit down. Thank you, thats extremely kind. I hate attention and positive feedback. That was a really hard 20 seconds for me. Thank you for cutting it short. Its amazing to be here, in my hometown of new york city. I got some family here. Tonight, we are going to talk about democracy, and that word, i think we have probably talked more about democracy than the last four or five years that i had in all of my time as a journalist. Even as a topic seems a longer. We all know, america is a democracy, and there is a history that
Welcome back to the stage at trumans Vice President of policy and programs john simmons. Vice president simmons hello, everybody. I hope everyone had a great lunch. We are at a portion of the program in many are eager to hear. Please welcome the moderator for our keynote address. Monique good afternoon, everyone. Im delighted to be here today to introduce our keynote speaker Rachel Maddow and moderate q a motion of the conference in a little bit. This is a very special experience for me. I do not think i mentioned it to her when i was chatting with her back there. But, i moved back to austin a couple years ago. Because my father was sick. Sadly, he passed away in october. I remember him telling me a few years ago. He thought everything was extremist attacks on our country except for rachels show. When truman asked me to do this i would like come of court of course. I am a huge fan. I am very grateful to truman for asking me to do this. Lets introduce our speaker. Rachel maddow is the h
We are here in south dakotas black hills, Custer State Park and we are at the State Game Lodge, which is a 1920s era building that was constructed several years before president coolidge made summer white house here in 1927. So president Calvin Coolidge and the first lady and Grace Coolidge stayed here for nearly three months from june. Through september 1927, while they were on vacation that summer, Calvin Coolidge took office in 1923 when he was vice president. Warren harding died and, so he served out the last little bit of warren term, and then he was elected to his own term in 1924. And so he came to south dakota in 1927 when a lot of people were speculating would here, would he not run for another term in 1928 . And it was widely expected that he would. But he came here in 1927 because he was looking for place to kind of escape the oppressive summer in washington, d. C. , in the mosquitoes and bugs and attention of the white house coolidge had vetoed a farm bill and there was a f
Cade of the nations best minds, we begin with gordon chang. Go. Freeman of New York Times he has praised the chinese system. The one party they know how to get things done. While condemning the american system. Has he turned out to be right . What is going on in china . Well, Thomas Friedman has been wrong, so has klaus schwab head of World Economic forum who said that china was a model for the developing world, they are wrong, weve seen the fire on the 24th. Immediately there were protests, they were not coordinated. People were on the streets. They were on Streets Protesting Covid Rules which contributed to deaths in that fire, they said down with xi jinping, and down with the Communist Party. The mood on the streets in china, is they realize the root cause of the problems is the Communist Party, the system does not work. And if they thought about it, they would have said, Thomas Friedman is wrong. Mark yeah, New York Times, and cnn, have both praised the communist chinese handling o
to you in real life. you are, okay. we re going to need another chair over here. bring mine from here. rachel, as you know, i am crippled with a boston accent. rip pronunciation across the board is wicked hard for me. you ve been saying ultra all day, and i just heard you say, ultra, there is something? it comes at also add some people say it. i ll throw or ultra, as long as people don t know they are talking about light beer, it s fine. i am ultra excited to be talking to you about that, because i listened this morning when america got his first chance to listen to the podcast. i still don t know why it s called ultra. that s one of my questions. i have just been dying to talk to you about it all day, and we will talk about some other stuff here, for a few minutes, i ll be right there. to make your way through the building and get over here we have to get a chair. i ll see you in a minute, thank you, thanks lawrence. donald trump has confessed. he confe