Welcome to politics prose. Im brad graham, the coowner of the bookstore along with my wife Lissa Muscatine and were very delighted this evening to be hosting Nicole Hemmer whos here to talk her new book, the partizans the conservative revolutionaries who remade american politics. Nicoles a political historian and founding director of the new center for the study of the presidency at vanderbilt university. Shes also a cofounder of made by history, the historical Analysis Section in the washington post. And she writes regularly for number of other publications and a book six years ago, messengers of the right, nicole traced the emergence of conservative media institutions in the midtwentieth century. In her new work, she examines why the Republican Party in the 1990s shifted from kind of conservativism that Ronald Reagan had represented and the previous decade, a conservative wisdom that was optimistic and, popular to a more pessimistic, angrier, even revolutionary conservativism. It was
The outrageous racism. And this is the birthday of patrick ewing, and the late great adam of the beasty boys who would have been 49 years old today. 47 years ago today the beatles released revolver, the greatest album of all time, and a Young Ronald Reagan once said where free unions and collective bargaining is lost, we lose the middle class. This is viewpoint. [ theme music ] john good evening, friends, im John Fugelsang this is viewpoint. The latest case of minimum rage spilled out into the streets. Thousands of fastfood workers walked off of the job. They want the right to unionize, and for the federal minimum wage to double from 7. 25 an hour, to 15 an hour, and i call that a pretty good start. The image of a fastfood working has long been painted as a teenager. But the average age of a male employee is 29, and 32 for females. More than 25 of fastfood employees are the heads of their households. Mcdonalds posted revenues of 8. 48 billion from april to june alone while fighting aga
Police reform package which bans chokehold and qualified immunity for Police Officers. Since theres no interest in either side, reconciling the gop bill with the democrats house bill it appears Police Reform will not get done for the november election. A new poll showing a tight president ial race in key states like north carolina, georgia and texas but in my point thread in florida. We will dig into the data. Breaking tonight the white house signaling the return of the Coronavirus Task force meeting tomorrow as the country reports new record 37,000 new cases today, the highest one day count of the entire pandemic. We begin with Congressional Correspondent chad program with the latest on the partisan split over Police Reform. The house of representatives passed the Democratic Police bill, that was 236181, there were three republican pas comfort up to him, will hurt and Brian Fitzpatrick but there is now an impasse. They are frozen because the senate is not passed a bill because democra
Campaign ahead to get at or close to that number. As for Hillary Clinton shes less than 500 delegates away from the magic number she needs. And the proportional allocation for democrats makes it much harder for Bernie Sanders to chip into that. And flipping super delegates in the coming weeks or months if they want to emerge the winner at the convention. John berman, thanks so much. And Hillary Clinton switching her focus to the general election after stopping Bernie Sanderss winning streak. He flew back home to vermont taking a day to recharge. So what is his strategy heading into next weeks five northeast primaries . Our senior Political Correspondent Brianna Keilar is live with us on this big morning. Reporter after a very big win for Hillary Clinton and trying yet again to pivot to the general election. Victory is in sight, the message out of camp clinton, but not if Bernie Sanders has anything to say about it. In this campaign weve won in every region of the country. But this ones
Sanctions he would want to get rid of. The Senate Intelligence committee is promising to look into russian cyber activity and possible links between russia and individuals associated with u. S. Political campaigns. What are the expectations and how would that potential be received there in moscow . Well, they dismiss it here in moscow out of hand. I mean, its been dismissed, in fact, the other day when we were talking with Dimitrios Peskov said were tired of talking about this. Its fake musnews and were not going to talk about it. So in that sense, they dont want to because its not a narrative that they want to pursue. They denied it and thats it. What they want to do now is move toward this new relationship which will start in just a week and even less and try to smooth the way as much as possible. So they are denying certain things, but theyre not, theyre not taking, lets say, a hard stance on anything that the incoming President Trump is saying. They want to work with him. Theyre no