Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to barnes and noble upper west side. David blake and to the white house in 2011 and lasted until 2016 as a special assistant to senior president ial speechwriters. Described as a comic music to the president , david contributed to resident obamas speeches and was a lead writer on for white house correspondents messages. He is currently the head writer for funny or die dc. Adam davidson is a staff writer at the new yorker. He also cofounded and cohosted and pr planet money after serving the international plummet. He has been a frequent contributor to this american life. His work has appeared in the atlantic, harpers, gq, Rolling Stone and other publications. Then bring us tonight, mister david litts new book thanks obama. More than any other president , Barack Obamas eight years in the white house were defined by young people. In 2011, david litt became one of the youngest speechwriters in history until leaving the white house in 2016, he wr
Coming is making him pay. Her unconscious motivation is having her 12yearold need met. Rose writing speeches for the president and starring on broadway. Funding is provided by the following captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose president obama considered one of the great communicators and has drawn comparison to j. F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan and heres a look commemorating the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday. Were well served to remember that at the time of the marches many in power condemned rather than praised them. Back then they were called communists or agitators. Sexual and moral degenerates and worse, they were calls everything but the name their parents gave them. Their faith were questions, lives were threatened, their patriotism challenged and what would be more american than what happened in this place. Rose the president has also shown a talent for comedy and delivered his eighth and final white house co
Coming is making him pay. Her unconscious motivation is having her 12yearold need met. Rose writing speeches for the president and starring on broadway. Funding is provided by the following captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose president obama considered one of the great communicators and has drawn comparison to j. F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan and heres a look commemorating the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday. Were well served to remember that at the time of the marches many in power condemned rather than praised them. Back then they were called communists or agitators. Sexual and moral degenerates and worse, they were calls everything but the name their parents gave them. Their faith were questions, lives were threatened, their patriotism challenged and what would be more american than what happened in this place. Rose the president has also shown a talent for comedy and delivered his eighth and final white house co
Airport, should not affect air travel. It is game day, caps fans. The caps and pens head back to Verizon Center tonight. Our coverage starts with the quest for the cup special airing at 7 30. The puck drops at 8 00. Rock the red a lot of excitement for that on this saturday morning, and we welcome you back to news4 today. We are off to what is a cloudy and rainy start this saturday. Yes. Get a look outside. A little chilly out there and were in for even more rain today. Later today. You can see showers on this storm team 4 radar here. Theyre moving closer to the washington area. Timing is everything. You want to get outside without an umbrella, meteorologist tom kierein is going to track that weekend well check in now. Outside on the weather deck letting us know when its all going to be clear. Here in northwest washington weve got a gray skies, but everything is so green. Look at the grounds behind us here. They have to mow the lawn here the grass this time is year is growing so fast.
Remanning open for a single day, closing for good at night. And, oh, by the way, the more than 900,000 workers will be woefully underpaid. That is election day in america. David litt who once wrote speeches for president barack obama wrote that assessment in his latest book democracy in one book or less. Sounds scary, right . And litt published his analysis before coronavirus. The presence of the pandemic has only compounded our problems. Pew Research Points out in the 2018 Midterm Election nearly 60 of american poll workers were 61 or older. If they dont show up, its a problem. Any shortage of election workers could extend lines and delay the counting of mailin ballots. My first guest who youll meet in a moment had to study the impact of election lines since 20, an election in which he concluded that 750,000 americans left the polls without voting due to delays. In 2016, he concluded that there were 1. 6 million lost votes in the mail ballot process. And that number will likely grow i