And answer portion, in the interest of video and audio reporting, if you could just come to our microphone by the white pillar so we can hear your questions and engage in a nice discussion, and lastly, once everything is done if you could please fold up your chairs and place them against something solid. Our staff, as in me, would greatly appreciate that. Tonight im pleased to introduce jared cohen, to politics and prose the founder and ceo of jigsaw alphabet inc. As well as an adjuncrt senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. He is the New York Times best selling author with eric schmidt of the new digital age and has written the children of jihad. One of the great lessons of american politics that ive learned is the tale of two brothers. One went off to sea and one became Vice President. Neither was heard from ever again. However in rare cases, the Vice President is not relegated to obscurity. Namely when the president the previous president dies. And his newest, best New Y
Been someone i been covering for over a decade since he first ran for the u. S. Senate back in 2010, senator rubio thank you for being here. Good morning thank you for having me. We are 49 days away from the election, you serve as chairman of the Senate Select committee on intelligence from that seat, what is the biggest threat to our president ial election in terms of foreign interference. I think first we have to break up foreign interference in the two categories, one is meddling in the architecture and mechanics of the election and the other is a message and psychological operations and warfare designed to get us to divide against each other, let me talk about the second one in terms of putting out messages and the like, that is yearround and what the adversaries basically do, they look at all the preexisting fractures in our society and they push on that, they use social media increasing what they are using to create a website somewhere and maybe hire americans to ride on the webs
That was built in the 1730s, about 40 years before there was any such thing as the United States of america. Pennsylvania was a british colony. This was its capital building. Capitol building. They would make laws for pennsylvania and each of the 13 colonies has its own government. These are the issues in a lot of ways that will lead to the creation of the United States, most of which will happen in this room, because the colonies , as time goes forward, or at least many people in the Political Class of these colonies will start to grow , dissatisfied with the way the British Government is treating them, is affecting their lives locally, and one of the other side issues is americans living in the colonies do not get to vote in british elections. So when the parliament in london makes laws for americans, the most famous being various taxes you get to learn about in school, we will say this is taxation without representation. It is that idea you are not getting the voice. Thomas jefferso
The major candidates for president of the United States at the same time and never, until this series, have americans seen the candidates in facetoface exchange. Tonight the candidates have agreed to devote the full hour to answering questions on any issue of the campaign. And here tonight are the republican candidate, Vice President richard m. Nixon. And the democratic candidate, senator john f. Kennedy. Now representatives of the candidates and of all the radio and Television Networks have agreed on these rules neither candidate will make an Opening Statement or a closing summation, each will be questioned in turn, each will have an opportunity to comment upon the answer of the other, each reporter will ask only one question in turn. He is free to ask any question he chooses. Neither candidate knows what questions will be asked and only the clock will determine who will be asked the last question. These programs represent an unprecedented opportunity for the candidates to present the
And he argues that president lincoln was against slavery, but was willing to accept it in order to preserve the union. This is an hour and a half, hosted by the New York Historical society and the bryant park reading room. Thank you alex castle and paul room arrow. And thanks to the Bryant Park Corporation and the bryant park reading room, and the hsbc corporation and all those who have made it possible for me to appear here tonight. Its a particular privilege to speak here in new york city. Already, in 1860, as it remains today, new york was the nerve center of the nation. The herald, the tribune, the times, the three most influential and widely read newspapers in the United States, were publish right here. Each provides the historian with a wealth of insights, and each informs my presentation tonight. Here is what i am going to talk about. I focus on the fateful series of events in late 1860, and early 1861, when a president ial election triggered a grave crisis, and before long, a c