Good evening, welcome and thank you for joining us. My name is richard fontaine. Im the president for the center of new american security. Its a pleasure to welcome you all here to celebrate the publication of Robert Kaplans new book the reason geography what they tell us about the coming conflict in the battle against the state. Ive heard it said before that you all very great author by reading his books not by buying them they will be sold on the stage in this room back here. Bald kaplans work is known no doubt why this audience. Hes been a senior fellow and in march of 2008 a Foreign Correspondent for the atlantic for about a quarter of a century and is currently the chief geopolitical analyst. I first became acquainted with his writing during his book with traces of history of the tight midwesterners living and working in the middle east. And since that book, the very titles of his work goes to the coming anarchy have provoked the debate. The recent book of American Power has becom
750. He reportedly paid the same amount in his first year in the white house. The biggest takeaway is that the president has reportedly paid zero income taxes in 10 of the previous 15 years. The times says that is because he reported losing much more money than he made. Heres what the president had to say about this report tonight at the white house. Its fake news. Its totally fake news. Made up, fake. We went through the same stories, you could have asked me the same questions four years ago. I had to litigate this and talk about it. Totally fake news. No, actually, i paid tax, but, and youll see that as soon as my tax returns are its under order. Theyve been under order for a long time. The irs does not treat me well. It is important to note that nbc news has not seen any of the documents related to this reporting. This has been a contentious topic for the president for years now. Hes fought hard for these very documents to not be released. The times says it obtained the papers from
County, republicans have been fighting democratic efforts to increase polling locations. Local Election Officials in florida are working with felony with rights for those with felony convictions and Outstanding Court debts and voter rolls, a move that could disenfranchise 700,000 voters, but despite these efforts, the uncertainty of voting around the pandemic has sparked recordbreaking early voting hours. As of today, more than 21 million early votes have been cast. Thats up 367 from the same point in 2016. Im going to say that again. 367 points higher than this very same time last year. Joining me now is a Democratic Congressional candidate for californias 50th district. Amare, im so happy to have you. Im happy to be with you. Im happy to have you back. I covered your campaign in 2018, and im happy to have you here tod today. So ive got to talk to you about whats happening in california. The fact that the go president obama had these harvested ballot boxes all around the state was ver
Hold of the american dream. So, georgia, i am honored by the faith that you have shown in me and i promise you this tonight, i am going to the senate to work for all of georgia. The race between warnock and leffler has been decided. Nbc news says the race between democrat jon ossoff and republican senator david perdue remains too close to call. Ossoff has taken a slight lead and his campaign has issued a statement essentially declaring victory. Nearly all ofy the vote is now in. A far cry from november where it took more than a week to count all of the votes. The georgia secretary of States Office says there have been no reports of major issues with ss voting, so i want to get started with a look at the very latest resultser from georgia. You all know what that means. I almost feel like not having to say it. Here we go. The one and only Steve Kornacki at the big board. Sir, take it away. Well, ali, you know, we have been telling a story all night about warnock getting the lead. It feel
Politics. I spent a semester in washington with my school, colgate university. I saw washington and i thought, a think tank might be an exciting place to be. I know people dont think of think tanks as being exciting. So the center of American Progress was starting up one of my professors gave me a new York Magazine article about it. It was new, aggressive, it was a think tank but sort of wasnt your grandmothers think tank. So i decided to apply for an internship at the center for American Progress. It was great, it was a lot of fun. It was pushing a Progressive Agenda like many think tanks havent been. It was trying to change the message to show that progressives werent all week on national security. Showing religious voters could be progressive. It was trying to change things. Where has this idea come from in your life . My family in part because i grew up in a small village in upstate new york under about 1,000 people. Im adopted. Im from korea. My siblings are also adopted. My one b