Truman daniels exploring the american story. What American History tv tonight on cspan3. Good evening everyone and thank you so much for joining us area my name is bennett and im a bookseller and Event Coordinator and im going to be your host tonight for athome literati field featuring miles party. Before we get underway i want to explain a big thank you to everyone for your support of our virtual programming in particular. We feel incredibly lucky were able to continue to offer Virtual Events release through the difficult times and we wouldnt be able to do that and gather and hear about the intricacies it wasnt for you all showing and stopping by and continuing to be supported so that for doing that. I like to go over our zoom policies for event. We ask your video feed disabled for the duration of the event and if you do enable us he will disable it for you. If you enable a second time you will have to be removed from theevent. We appreciate your cooperation. I wanted to briefly go ov
We feel incredibly lucky were able to offer virtual events, and we wouldnt be able to do that and gather and hear about the king of confidence if it wasnt for you all showing up. So thank you for doing that. Id like to quickly go over our zoom policies for tonights event. We do ask that you keep your video feed disabled for the duration of the event. If you do enable it, well kindly disable it for you. If you enable it a second time, we will regretfully have to disconnect. We appreciate your cooperation. Were going to have a reading by both miles and donovan to start us off. After miles reads from the king of confidence which was actually published this past tuesday and donovan reads from the inner coast which was published early last month, in june, were going to hear an extended conversation between the two of them for about 3035 minutes, and were also going to have a few slides here and there if needed to add some supplemental images, and once were done with that, were going to wrap
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[ cheers and applause and now, here he is, seth meyers [ cheers and applause seth good evening, everybody im seth meyers. This is late night. How is everyone doing tonight . [ cheers and applause seth quick welcome to our guest announcer for the evening, my brother, josh meyers, is with us for the night [ cheers and applause very good job on your first time announcing thank you i watch the show seth that helps. That helps lets get started, i like this, i was happy to see this. Nascar released a Statement Today calling for the removal of South Carolina capitol released a statement, nascar released a statement, they should have sent a pit crew. That thing would have been down in like nine seconds [ laughter ] [ whirring noise ] thats the noise it makes, right . Yeah. [ whirring noise ] seth according to a new poll, 65 of americans do not consider donald trump to be a serious president ial candidate [ laughter ] 65 . Thats nearly 2 out of his 3 wives, to give you a sense of that number. [
So thats probably fine, right lets get to the news. Vice president mike pence is facing criticism after he toured a coronavirus testing facility yesterday without wearing a face mask but he might be okay, because looking at him, he drinks plenty of bleach. Hillary clinton endorsed former Vice President joe biden yesterday during a virtual town hall and this is nice, she even virtually smiled how nice for him following the news that the number of coronavirus cases in the u. S. Has surpassed one million, President Trump yesterday defended his february prediction that the number of infections would soon reach zero, adding, in fact a million has like six zeros, so when you think about it i was extra correct. An abc News Reporter appeared on Good Morning America yesterday without wearing pants while broadcasting from home pfft rookie mistake, bro. The trick is use a desk. [ knocking ] ah, old deskie fighter jets from the air force thunderbirds and Navy Blue Angels performed a joint flyover