Sponsored by wells fargo. Tv critic for National Public radio, and im here with a couple of very esteemed authors, Christopher Caldwell, an american journalist, former Senior Editor for the Weekly Standard and author of the age of entitlement, america since the 60s. Hes joining from washington, d. C. We have historian, journalist, wall street journal columnist and author of the people no of the war on populism and democracy joining us from kansas city. I am in st. Petersburg florida. We are going to make this happen through the magic of video chat. So thank you for coming. I appreciate it. It seems your books in different ways are describing how we have landed in this crazy political time that we are in right now where we are understanding how the movements and politics. What i would like each of you to do is give a thumbnail synopsis of durable and what it might say about whether or how america sort of landed on the road to populism. What do you think . Its more like the railroad for
Fletcher from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park with her tonight. Before we get started a couple of things plays a member to mute your self. In our program site will be recorded. You will be able to find that online within the next couple of days. Also at the end of our program tonight we will have time for questions. Esif you have a question, please send that in the chat and will ask those at the end of the question. Sinso again thank you guys for joining us tonight. Help me in welcoming Ranger Fletcher to our program. Thank you very much. Thank you everyone tonight for joining. Again my name is ranger antjuan fletcher put in the science communicator for Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the appalachian center. Ten nights, on behalf of the National Park service i just want to welcome you all to your africanamerican experience in the smokies. This is so important. Or getting information out to the masses said tonight were going to learn about several different stories in sev
I am wes it is a distinct honor to sit here talking about the new book and it is great to be with you. I am glad to be here. So to give a background how i came to know about your book. I was sent this book by the good. Cspan said there is a new book coming out do you mind if we send it to you . Because i know about the work that you do and i read your book cuz and i was blown away. Just the power and in honesty with that structure taking place so it is a pleasure. So even before there are so many questions even before that talking about your process because this is a new type of book so what was your process to get to that point that you want to tell this story . There are a lot of different pieces in all honesty as a very talented writer having a hard life ending early so in the back of my head so i am a professor with an invitation and this was a famous lecture series and i agreed to these lectures to give the abstract titles and as we got closer we could not possibly talk about the
Question. Is that it . Done with the dips so buy the dip . Its going to be another very big day. It was certainly a big night. The president upbeat. Positive. Reaching out for bipartisan deals on immigration and infrastructure. Much of his state of the union speech outlined the economys success. And a cbs poll showed 75 of the tv audience approved of that speech. The democrats, angry and and silent throughout. Nancy pelosi and schumer sat on their hands and looked frankly resentful. How will the american policy look storming out of the chamber when the crowd chanted usa, usa . The president looked good. The democrats did not. By the way, moments from now on this program the treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin Varney Company is about to begin. Trump since we passed tax cuts, roughly 3 million workers have already gotten tax cut bonuses. Many of them thousands and thousands of dollars per worker. As tax cuts create new jobs, lets invest in Workforce Development and lets invest in job train
Name is michael sweet. Chair of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. Its my honor and privilege to welcome you all to tonights special meeting of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission which we have called to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the march on washington and Martin Luther king jr. s i have a dream speech. Now its especially nice to give our hero awards and not only do we have a number of wonderful recipients here but some great qualified nominees and a number of our honor reese from prior years. After the meeting we will have an at some point to have a special reception downstairs where well also down the hall. 201, where well take some time to celebrate this wonderful occasion. I would like to call the meeting to order and ask the Commission Secretary to please read the roll. Michael sweet, davis, kel her, not present at the moment, i lee, todd davis not present. You have a quorum. Thank you, madam secretary. The first item on the agenda is Public Comment that