Good afternoon everyone im robert doar and im very glad to welcome you all to super power in peril. A conversation with David Mccormick this event is part of a ise edward and Helen Hintz Book Forum series where we bring in the authors of new and books and we are very grateful to ed and helen for their generous for this mission which makes talks like these possible. Now David Mccormick is the author along with James Cunningham of super power in peril, a battle plan to renew america, which was recently published by Center Street press. David is the former ceo of bridgewater associates, the Worlds Largest hedge fund. He served in the George W Bush administration as the of treasury for international and under secretary of commerce for industry and security. A graduate of west point. He served in the United States army and saw combat during the gulf war and he also was a candidate for, the United States senate, in last years senate race in pennsylvania. Im very proud to welcome david here t
Good afternoon everyone im robert doar and im very glad to welcome you all to super power in peril. A conversation with David Mccormick this event is part of a ise edward and Helen Hintz Book Forum series where we bring in the authors of new and books and we are very grateful to ed and helen for their generous for this mission which makes talks like these possible. Now David Mccormick is the author along with James Cunningham of super power in peril, a battle plan to renew america, which was recently published by Center Street press. David is the former ceo of bridgewater associates, the Worlds Largest hedge fund. He served in the George W Bush administration as the of treasury for international and under secretary of commerce for industry and security. A graduate of west point. He served in the United States army and saw combat during the gulf war and he also was a candidate for, the United States senate, in last years senate race in pennsylvania. Im very proud to welcome david here t
That does it. We are done . Thats it. Velshi is going to start right now. Ali velshi, take it away. It is nice to see you all. I am in chicago today. I love the city and i am going to be at the chicago humanities fest with jen psaki this afternoon, so that will be fun. A little field trip for us, but i am glad you are holding down the fort on that end. Have a great rest of the day and i will see you tomorrow. And thanks to you at home for joining us. Today on velshi, the story of a symbol of election deniers and capital rioters on display at the home of a Supreme Court justice keeps getting worst. The disturbing new context being offered by the justice himself. Plus, the tactic offered by socalled Real Republicans to convince them that their party is not dead. I have a lot of questions for two of the people behind the latest effort to salvage our twoparty system. Then who is behind the Group Spending tens of millions of dollars in democratic primaries to try to oust the most progressiv
All right, i start this hour by taking you back to the quaint time that was 2015. Back when we were still figuring out what the dating term ghosting actually meant. And what a lot of us didnt know how much about that Fringe Movement that was the alt right. Of course, that all changed with Donald Trumps Golden Escalator Ride at trump tower when he announced his long shot president ial campaign. Trump of course started by courting the fringe Alt Right Movement, retweeting their memes, enlisting the help of steve bannon then Executive Chairman of the far right Site Britebart to run his campaign. This was concerning for conservative commentator david french. He wrote an op ed in 2015 calling out the movement saying quote, many of them are White Nationalists, hate interracial adoption, and other race mixing practices. French and his wife and ghost writer nancy were quickly bombarded with threats from the alt right troll. As french writes in her new book ghosted, an american story, the most
On this new hour of ayman, What In The World happened to reagans Republican Party . Our first guest wrote the book on how the alternative right took center stage. Also, the clock is ticking for trump to pick a running mate. Who he chooses could boil down to one thing, loyalty, and believing the big lie. And, the mindnumbing conversation between ann coulter and Vivek Ramaswamy that earned them the title of worst of the week. I am Ayman Mohyeldin. Lets do it. I start this hour by taking you back to the quaint time that was 2015, back when we were still figuring out what the dating term, ghosting, actually, meant, and what a lot of us did not know about that Fringe Movement that was the alternative right. That all changed with Donald Trumps Golden Escalator Ride at trump tower, when he announced his longshot president ial campaign. Trump, of course, started by courting the fringe alt rights movement, enlisting the help of steve bannon, and then Executive Chairman of breitbart. This early