[inaudible conversations] good evening. Im at the library publicaffairs and i want to welcome you and thank you for being with us tonight and thanks to rainy day books our favorite collaborator and of course one of the nation great independent bookstores. We pride ourselves here at the library among other things on the timeliness and relevance of our signature programming, whether we are holding forums on local issues over addressing national topics. We certainly didnt intend on the particular timeliness of tonights presentation. Christopher leonard was a busy man at the end of last week, taking reporters calls, wrote a couple of pieces for the New York Times and four cnn business after the death of david. Chris spent eight years immersed in oakland. The state of the place and the title of his new book. On the extraordinary Business Empire and putins Political Network that was put together from their base some three hours in which debate over wichita. Anybody have the chance to read th
Tonight and thanks to rainy day books our favorite collaborator and of course one of the nation great independent bookstores. We pride ourselves here at the library among other things on the timeliness and relevance of our signature programming, whether we are holding forums on local issues over addressing national topics. We certainly didnt intend on the particular timeliness of tonights presentation. Christopher leonard was a busy man at the end of last week, taking reporters calls, wrote a couple of pieces for the New York Times and four cnn business after the death of david. Chris spent eight years immersed in oakland. The state of the place and the title of his new book. On the extraordinary Business Empire and putins Political Network that was put together from their base some three hours in which debate over wichita. Anybody have the chance to read the book yet . You wont understand that you will know immediately when you get into it what i am talking about. Its daunting when yo
[cheering] mayor buttigieg i think it cannot come soon enough. It is going to happen one way or the other. It will be a relief when it does. Putting the chaos behind us. Putting the corruption behind us. Putting the tweets behind us. [laughter] but honestly,g the reason i am asking you to picture this is not just to give us something to look forward to. The country will be better off only no longer have a divider and chief in the over oval office. That is beginning of the work that must come next. If you could picture what it will be like on this in this country on that day, the sun will come up in the United States that is even more divided than we are right now. Even more polarized, even more torn up over politics. With everything we have been through, with everything we are about to go through, that day our country will be exhausted from fighting, and more in need of unity than ever. And yet, Something Else is also going to be true that day, which is the problems we are up against a
I want to begin by asking you to picture as vividly as possible something that is going to happen in the future. That is the first day that the sun comes up over this country and donald trump is no longer president of the United States. [cheers] [applause] sounds like we are ready for that. [applause] i think it cant come soon enough. It is going to happen one way or the other. It will be a relief when it does , putting the chaos behind us, putting the corruption behind us, putting the tweets behind us. It is going to be a good day. The reason im asking you to picture this is not to give us something to look forward to. Yes, the country will be better off when we no longer have a divider in chief. That is the beginning of the work that comes next. If you picture what it will be like in this country, the sun is going to come up over a United States that is more divided than we are now. Even more polarized over politics. With everything we are about go our countryat day will be exhausted
Mayor buttigieg sounds like we are ready for that . [cheering] mayor buttigieg i think it cannot come soon enough. It is going to happen one way or the other. It will be a relief when it does. Putting the chaos behind us. Putting the corruption behind us. Putting the tweets behind us. [laughter] mayor buttigieg but honestly, the reason i am asking you to picture this is not just to give us something to look forward to. The country will be better off only no longer have a divider occupying the oval office. That is beginning of the work that must come next. If you could picture what it will be like on this in this country on that day, the sun will come up in the United States that is even more divided than we are right now. Even more polarized, even more torn up over politics. With everything we have been through, with everything we are about to go through, that day our country will be exhausted from fighting, and more in need of unity than ever. And yet, Something Else is also going to