Hello, and welcome back. Im steve clemons. We are delighted to have you join us for the second hour of the future of the health care summit. I would like to thank the support for todays great program. We are going to expand our lens in the session to look at policymaking breakthroughs and innovation in the face of seen and unseen challenges. Before we get underway, a few housekeeping notes. At an tweet us thehillhealth. If you experience a problem with the livestream, refresh. It should be a quick fix. I dont believe them, but thats what they say. Has a breath of experience of both the public and private sectors. Focuses on health care and innovation, all assuming added significance. Had a really fantastic forum and it wouldnt be what it would be without you. Let me start off and ask you, we have had various discussions of coronavirus challenges from the frontline, what is going on in communities, the debate around school. What i am interested in right now is vaccine. Vaccines. Vaccine
People will sometimes they northerners wanted to waive hearts and minds wasnt there why wasnt there a Marshall Plan well, there was. The friedman zero often gave more to governors than africanamericans, but it was pro trade as sort of agency of subjugation and oppression and tyranny and so on, so there was no link that lost cause types it would go to to distort history and part of their distortion was sweeping under the rug the evidence of dissent in the south, sweeping under the unity, sweeping under the rug the contributions of the southern black Union Victory in their opposition to slavery and so on to create a fiction and again, northerners and others who had hopes and a change to come in the face of a Massive Campaign of a propaganda. I have been thinking about this and im writing a biography of a james long street, a confederate general who almost alone among confederate generals accepted terms offered and through the conclusion that the confederates did have to yielded to the id
Dialogue around the most Critical Issues of our time. We are gathered tonight virtually anytime of uncertainty over the past two weeks its become abundantly clear theres no more urgent time to talk about Voter Suppression head of the upcoming 2020 election in this moment following ongoing tragedies of Racial Injustice in our country, i have more hope than ever that our declaration that black lives matter and our protest in support of freedom for all will be unrelenting in bringing about equitable and longoverdue change. We feeling credibly fortunate tonights guest is one of the nations foremost experts on Voting Rights, leader abrams is a bestselling author, nonprofit ceo and political leader and was the first black woman to cover the good between zero nominee for a major party in the us and in the race for governor in georgia in 2018 she won more votes than any other democratic in the states history. Stacy abrams again made history at the first black woman to deliver a response to the
Of 2017, and so i tide that for 13 months before general sessions resigned. Abruptly on the day after the election of 2018 and the president appointed me that day to be acting attorney general and ultimately bridge the gap between Jeff Sessions and bill barr. Host how did you become Jeff Sessions chief of staff. Were you a friend. Guest yes. Talk about hough i only met Jeff Sessions once before i was selected to be his chief of staff. He was i interviewed with him and talked to him many times but it was mutual friend in the white house and at the federal society that had recommended me to him and his people, and we bonded quickly over College Football and our love for good barbecue. So it was a match made in heaven. Host one thing you say aboutmer sessions are p recusal the russia investigation it was personal and factdriven. Guest yeah. I wasnt there when he did the analysis. He took over in february of 2017 after he was confirmed, and after the new administration came in, but having