Sen. Ernst thanks everyone for coming out today. This is my 33rd town hall of this year. Been active and busy and out and about amongst our communities and constituencies. Thank you very much for taking the time to be here with us today. We do have a lot of national media. Thank you folks for coming out. It must be quiet on the president ial trail here in iowa today. You are absolutely welcome. Thank you for being here as well. The way our town halls work, we do have a number of cards filled out by folks who would like to ask questions. If you would like to fill out a card and you didnt when you came in, raise your hand. Staff will come by and will provide you with a card. You can fill that out and get your name thrown in there to be drawn as well. With that, we will go ahead and get started. I wont have an Opening Statement or anything. We want to get to as many questions as possible. If you have cards, send those up to the front here. Emily will go ahead and call a couple names out.
The time to be here with us today. We do have a lot of national media. Thank you folks for coming out. It must be quiet on the president ial trail here in iowa today. You are absolutely welcome. Thank you for being here as well. Work, weur town halls do have a number of cards filled up by folks i would like to ask questions. If you would like to fill out a card and you didnt when you came in, raise your hand. Staff will come by and will provide you with a card. You can fill that out and get your name thrown in there to be drawn as well. With that, we will go ahead and get started. I wont have an Opening Statement or anything. We want to get to as many questions as possible. Those upve cards, send to the front here. Emily will go ahead and call a couple names out. She will get folks in line. We will get started. They give coming. I apologize for any name i butcher. I will read to names. Deb, followed by and are amber. Hello. Im a Small Business owner here in carroll county. I want to kn
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Rob, you are coming up here, too. We are arranging ourselves. Welcome to the Wilson Center. I am jane harman, the the prest and ceo. I am a recovering politician. Happy to be a recovering politician but its not an easy job. Heading this place is an absolute joy because this place leverages Woodrow Wilson two presence, two passions which were scholarship and policy. Thats the intersection of the book were going to talk about today. And its just my pleasure to introduce this and introduce a friend of many of hours, rocket man. Ill explain why called him rocket man. And that is because theres a movie, has anyone seen the movie, the elton john movie . Dan and i sat next to each other recently at the elton john movie, which is great, recommend it. And dance at a written this book and it would want to come to the wilson sent and talk about the book. Rocket man is here and he will talk about this book. He asked as i think emily knows, you got that cheat sheet writer, you all memorized it with
That we keep thinking we hit rock bottom. I suspect we thought that two years ago, and we are bottoming out again. So, governor, congratulations on the book and thank you for making time to talk about it. Thank you, dahlia, great to be here today. Host i wonder if we could start with the question that hovers a little bit over your first couple of chapters in book and then hovers over so much of the debate were having right now in america and its this question of place. I think its not an accident that you start the book saying that when you wanted to run for novembers virginia, people said to you, youre from new york, youre from florida, youre not from here. I lived in charlottesville for 17 years and heard, youre not from here asian lot, but i think it has a funny echo in the things say when people protest immigrants. Youre not from here. And you clearly anxious about establishing that, look, im from here, lift here most of my life. I live and work here. Why are we having this convers