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Hello. Good evening everyone. Welcome again i am the director of religious programming and like to start by asking who is here for the first time tonight whether a first or a repeat offender we have a bunch of programs to check out with a conversation with dan pfeiffer to a concert with josh ritter. Went to see the things that drive us to drink im sure reality has something for us all we are undeniably into 2020 the most t polarized election of all time the 2016 election seemed we didnt know our country or communities or who we thought we did questioning those deep rooted values and with that divisive twoparty political system tonight we are thrilled to welcome ezra klein back to make sense of it all to hear his perspective how the polarization has been growing roots for decades and why we are polarized he asserts the system is a broken but working exactly as designed and how our identities the disastrous results with the bonds of older country together the editor at large in cofounder
Them guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Very high standard. It is not that they were blameless. Its not that they were innocent. But we say we would rather let 100 guilty go free than convict one innocent man. We are loading it to a high standard. The other thing that lawyers argue, which the public sometimes has trouble with, is procedure. If you need to get that evidence if you did not get that evidence into the courtroom properly, then it cant come in. If you did not share information exculpatory information properly with defense, those are which can violations equally invalidate a verdict. And i am happy to argue both. That is kind of what we are going to go through. One word from last week. Last week was the allure of the white house tapes. I went through a bunch of them with you. Perhaps too fast. What i find fascinating about this because i transcribe them. I worked word for word for hours in tracing what they were saying and the points they were trying to make. Trying to underst
A sledgehammer what i think are the judicial and prosecutorial abuses that categorized the watergate coverup trial. I understand people were convicted. But you need to understand lawyers lawyers dont play fair. , they argue two things. They can argue, look that the , person did not do the crime, the person was not guilty. But usually in a political scandal, the argument is, there was not enough proof to find them guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Very high standard. It is not that they were blameless. Its not that they were innocent. We say, we would rather let 100 guilty go free than convict one innocent man. Properly, then it cant come in. If you did not share information properly with the defense, those procedural violations can equally invalidate a verdict. I am happy to argue both. So that is kind of what we are going to go through. One word from last week, last week was the allure of the white house tapes. I went through a bunch of them with you. Perhaps too fast. What i find fas