other places. thanks a lot. i appreciate it. thank you, rachel. thank you to you at home for joining us. we are broadcasting not from new york, but from california. i did a book event in santa barbara yesterday for my book drift. i spoke to a room of about 2,000 people, which is unnerving if. you re not used to doing that sort of thing. and i talked about my book. i got asked a question at this event about the political impact of the first presidential debate. and the way it went seems to be important in understanding the temperature of the country on the presidential race right now. most everybody agrees that the first debate was won quite handedly by the republican challenger mitt romney and lost very much by president obama. but yesterday in santa barbara, i told this giant room full of people in this theater when asked about this subject that as clearly and as cleanly as mr. romney won the the debate, it still seems politically important that mr. romney did not win
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the. we have on our left and you re right another very distinguished american citizen who has come to join us and share his wisdom with us. he is the chairman of the council on foreign relations and the former secretary of the united states treasury. he joined the clinton administration in 1993, serving in the white house as an assistant for economic policy in the first director of the economic council. he served as our nations secretary of the treasury from 1995 to 1999 and from 1999 to 2009 he served as a member of the board of directors and a senior adviser to that company. from that point on, he has served in various communities and community organizations and at this time, those who need his talent. we are privileged here to have a distinguished american with us take his time and service about this issue which we believe is so important to our country and our future. thank you for joining us and thank you for testifying before us. we appreciate your presence. one wor
on charges the new york times said have never been a crime in america. we will speak with alabama s former democratic governor don siegelman as he reports to prison today after losing an appeal of a controversial conflict controversial conviction that many have compared to a political witch hunt. as a nation marks the 11th anniversary of the september 11 attacks, we will speak with pulitzer prize-winning journalist chris hedges. we are spiraling downward in this new world of global neil feudalism, this world of masters and serfs as more and more people wake up, they re going to have to implement the harsher measures of control that we see be made into law. chris hedges on days of destruction, days of revolt. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. thousands of teachers, parents, students marched in the streets of chicago monday, the opening day of the city s first public school strike in
limitation, fellow republican doug price said, quote, we shouldn t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban read african-american-voter turnout machine. let s be fair and reasonable, end of quote. that was shocking talk. but election officials dennis lieberman and thomas richie recognized the importance of weekend voting and decided to allow weekend voting anyway. and today, john hustard fired them for it. lieberman and richie joined us on the show last night. here is what they said when i asked if they were prepared to be fired. it is as i explained to my children, you know, i can get another job but i-can t get another conscience. and the right thing to do here is to have early voting. in 2008 we had 28,732 people
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