To hear from journalists and Media Literacy. Part of a conference in washington, d. C. Watching live coverage on cspan. I do want to thank cspan for taking the time to cover this and points out it would be good to have other microphones. As you know, im going to talk about this, but i wanted to share with you our agenda. Its alarming, as you know, the theme of our conference has been sponsoring freedom and defending democracy. I want to talk a little bit about what we are facing. Then i want to cover about how our homes are media platforms and what it has done and bias in the news media. I try to go very quickly. As you know, for a long time, we knew that we were meeting in washington and our team spon sorg freedom and defending democracy. I actually worked with colleagues to decide on the theme in october. But never did i realize that we will be at a time when we would be going through so many things. If you would allow me, i wanted to start by saying that recent attacks on diversity
Thank you. Very excited. Were gonna go talk to people about happiness. Oh, oh, beautiful. You guys are going to like it. Are we gonna find some happiness here . Of course. Yeah . I can feel it. Ok. Trust me. [chuckles] [horns honking] if the point of this journey is to find happiness, i need to force myself out of my comfort zone. So im visiting one of the statistically most optimistic countries on earth. This place is an avalanche of smiles and cheeriness. Iwell, i cant get past the feeling that all this positivity is gonna be the end of me. [nicky blitz blast off] getting too close, better pull on back what if i travel the world, what if i travel the world, explain what makes some places happier than others . Im looking at the ways that where we are effect who we are. It has been said that [inaudible] is the chief force of unhappiness. Well, that is okay. Im already unhappy, so i have nothing left to lose. Holman le pen heres something you dont see every day. Beans, everywhere. I fou
I do want to thank cspan for taking the time to cover this and points out it would be good to have other microphones. As you know, im going to talk about this, but i wanted to share with you our agenda. Its alarming, as you know, the theme of our conference has been sponsoring freedom and defending democracy. I want to talk a little bit about what we are facing. Then i want to cover about how our homes are media platforms and what it has done and bias in the news media. I try to go very quickly. As you know, for a long time, we knew that we were meeting in washington and our team spon sorg freedom and defending democracy. I actually worked with colleagues to decide on the theme in october. But never did i realize that we will be at a time when we would be going through so many things. If you would allow me, i wanted to start by saying that recent attacks on diversity have chilled fre speech. My legal colleagues would say it has a chilling effect. These attacks have also affected journa
The reidout tonight on the reidout it is now up to donald trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support it. And i hope he does that. At its best, politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away. And our conservative cause badly needs more people. Nikki haley declines to endorse trump, for now. Although Mitch Mcconnell and many others are genuflecting to trump, despite the ritual humiliation from the would be autocrat. Also tonight, North Carolina republicans nominate for governor a holocaust denying, Massacre Victim Mocking Lunatic who once described the Lgbtq Community as filth and denounced the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s without which he likely wouldnt even be able to vote in the south. A man that donald trump has despite all of that described as, dr. King on steroids. Mark robinsons democratic opponent josh stine joins me tonight. Plus, facing likely defeat in arizona, Kyrsten Sinema says she will exit the senate, le
Straight from the source on cspan. Unfiltered, unbiased, word for word. From the nations capitol to wherever you are. To get the opinion that matters the most. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. Im veryi pleased to have steve as our speaker. He will tell us about John Burroughs. As a youngman came to capitol hill and introduced the nation toci the na beauty of washington. I suspect that burroughs would respect the career path of our aspecter. Speaker. With Political Science from duke and a masters in affairs and from columbia. Has led to steve to almost 20 years as a reporter and editor for leading newspapers both here and abroad. Steve is focused on the very local and the rock creek songbird which is a Habitat Restoration project and for many years as in serving as executive director of pierce mill deeper into the history of Natural Resources of the area that John Burroughs knew and loved 150 years ago. There is a second reason to be delighted to enter the spe