Good evening and welcome. Im can weinstein, resident and ceo of hunter and institute. For the condition of my voice. I really wanted to be here for the book forum for melanie kirkpatricks book thanksgiving, the holiday at the heart of the american experience. I want to thank our friends at the historic explorers club, especially the executive director and our good friend. I also want to thank the viewing audience on cspans book tv. Institute is a policy organization, we are based in washington dc. We are dedicated to voting u. S. National leadership for the sake of security, prosperity, and freedom. Most of our work is in the Public Policy space. Insecurity of work in asia. Isis,ked at fighting talked about trying to overcome the challenges of the iran deal. We this book is an outlier. We have to be thankful for many things. That isit is a book extraordinarily timely coming now at the end of what was by all accounts a very challenging election season. Whether you fell among those, i in
Thanks for watch, our coverage continues. Well try to tell you about the murder attacks this morning at two mosques in new zealand. They were shot and killed in the very place for some, the only place they can come once a week to make sense of the world or make peace of themselves. There is not much we know about the victims at this point. We wish we could tell you more of who they were in life. How do we honor them tonight . At the least we are not going to insult their memory by suggesting they died as an isolated individual acting for in comprehensible reason. The man fired shot after shot at hundreds of men and children at prayers targeting them for a clear set of reasons. It is inspired by hateful and contagious world view. He did leave stream part of it because we are not showing it because who these people were. The threat he seems to think they posted to the white race. To him a threeyearold immigrant girl was a threat, thatto say also it is random or that it ran from nowhere,
Result of an isolated individual acting for incomprehensible reasons as if he were some human version of a Natural Disaster that randomly strikes from time to time. If reports, including the socalled manifesto he apparently left, are to be believed, the man who fired shot after shot after hundreds of men, women and children at prayer, targeted them for a clear set of reasons and was inspired it now appears by a consistent hateful and contagious world view. He did it, live streamed part of it which were obviously not showing because of who these people were. He did it because of the god they worshipped and because of the threat he seemed to think they posed to the white race. To him, a 3yearold immigrant girl was a threat, as was her father, as were their neighbors. That thinking is racist and repugnant but to say that its random or sprang from nowhere, that dishonors the facts as we are learning them, just as it dishonors the lives that were lost. Just before the account, an account be