Much. Thank you all for being here, appreciate it. Just some quick biographical stuff first, pete. Pete, you, as i was noting, were in the armed services. Heck of a basketball player in high school. I dont think you start off your career as a commentator, as a news guy. How did you and fox news ever meet . Good question. My First Television appearance ever was on msnbcs hardball with chris matthews. Ive never done tv before in my life and i had a marine buddy who had done tv twice, so he was an expert. He told me, he said just lean forward. Thats his first tip, it makes you look better stature, better posture. Lean forward and dont let the host cut you off. 46 times, Kris Matthews cut me off. So, i was a newbie, i did not ever anticipate id go into tv. I ran a couple vets organizations when i came back from iraq and then afghanistan. One, supporting the war fodder on the battlefield and then supporting reform at the va, still an ongoing issue obviously. Through that i ended up getting
What a crowd. Welcome both. Thank you so much. Thank you all for being here. Some quick biographical stuff for us. As i was noting, you were in the armed services, a basque ballplayer in high school. I dont think you started off your career as a commentator a news guy, how did you and fox news ever meet . Good question. My First Television appearance ever was on msnbc hardball with Chris Matthews. [laughter] i had never done tv before in my life and i had a buddy who had done tv twice so he was an expert. [laughter] he said lean forward that his first to. It makes you look better stature better posture. [laughter] lean forward and dont let the host cut you off. 46 times Chris Matthews cut me off. I was a newbie. I didnt anticipate i would go into tv. I read a couple of events organizations when i came back from iraq and afghanistan supporting in the battlefield then fighting for reform at the v. A. Through that, and it up doing appearances on tv in different places. A lot of ended up b
Why this book . Why now . I wrote a book on this topic turning years ago 20 years ago right after i discovered that the system called the Child Welfare system was a big state apparatus that monitored black communities and take children away. That was right actually i was finishing up my book, killing the blackbody. That book was about the regulation of the black womans child bearing. Mostly, i was focusing of the prosecutions of a black woman. I discovered that thousands of them were having their newborn babies taken from them because of a positive drug test, also because of a myth of the socalled, crack may be, which turns out to be a complete lie. I wanted to document this huge racial inequity in the Child Welfare system. I wrote that book. Then i worked in reaffirming the system reforming the system 20 years after that. We could talk about all of the kind of work that i was doing, training social workers, trying to reform foster care in washington state, which had been violating the
It straight from the source. No matter where youre from, cspan is americas network. Unfiltered, unbiased, word for word. If it happens here or here or here or anywhere that matters. America is watching on cspan, powered by cable. Is my pleasure to introduce doctor albert bourla, chairman and ceo of pfizer, nowadays a household name. Doctor bourla has worked at pfizer and has become the companys ceo in january 2019. Right before the pandemic so the timing was pretty incredible there. His new book is called moonshot inside pfizers ninemonth race to make the impossible possible. It takes us behind the scenes during the pandemic, the testing and manufacturing of the companies vaccine. Doctor bourla meets ceo of the year on the 2022 genesis prize laureate. Hell be discussing a lot in the next hour but its not going to be a conversation between thedoctor and i. We like everyone on youtube to also participate. Let us tell your questions you have and ill try to ask and getto as many of them so
What a crowd. Welcome both. Thank you so much. Thank you all for being here. Some quick biographical stuff for us. As i was noting, you were in the armed services, a basque ballplayer in high school. I dont think you started off your career as a commentator a news guy, how did you and fox news ever meet . Good question. My First Television appearance ever was on msnbc hardball with Chris Matthews. [laughter] i had never done tv before in my life and i had a buddy who had done tv twice so he was an expert. [laughter] he said lean forward that his first to. It makes you look better stature better posture. [laughter] lean forward and dont let the host cut you off. 46 times Chris Matthews cut me off. I was a newbie. I didnt anticipate i would go into tv. I read a couple of events organizations when i came back from iraq and afghanistan supporting in the battlefield then fighting for reform at the v. A. Through that, and it up doing appearances on tv in different places. A lot of ended up b