Welcome to the, welcome to the Gallup Organization. Im going to emcee you through this, and and weve got a couple of people who are going to speak, and then im going to introduce our new bestselling author. His book is number one on amazons movers and shakers list today. And i know youre not following it very closely in the world its 30 something in the world, so congratulations on all that. [applause] we have a really important american here today, and for those of you that know gallup, our biggest business sector around the world is actually banking. So we have a lot of sectors. We work for all kinds of option option of organizations, be but our biggest sector is banking. Bankings been a very good supporter of the operation. I think most of you know that john has built an Organization Called operation hope and john, i would say as a board member, that our best friends are banks at operation hope. The banks have an organization here in up to thats a real powerhouse called the Financia
Itself with positive social trends have been but also in and of itself that when something bad happens with mass media could be at the hands with the political authorities there is soulful trend with the rise of social media but if you think of a simple a example these abuses think of the example where is the big story locally at a north you heard about dead nationally from a certain new jersey governor and of rich and he paid the enormous political price for a relatively minor abuse. That is freedom of the press said action. And the concern about mass media that it could be bribed zero were coerced by those in power. When there is freedom of the press is very positive. [inaudible] ironclad you say that because it makes clear the dictator and a and the the debate if there are such benevolent dictators is the little bit we need to have. The cases you mentioned, is somewhat like the case of Economic Freedom and the credit for this is different than the autocrat to empower. It is not all
Campaign finance institute. We have sandy from nebraska. Good morning. Caller i dont watch politicians commercials, i dont have a computer, and i dont recognize the door or the phone if i dont recognize them. Thank you. Caller you are in my realm because you are the toughest voter to get and your vote is important. When i sit down with a candidate i say the voter that is running away from you, doesnt care about you and wants to live their life and doesnt want you in their life but they know it is their civic duty to vote. We will put a blitz on you. We will try to email you and put ads get a message to you from my candidate. Host who have are bundlers . Guest theyre donors who know other donors. Sometimes they go to a who is one of their recurring voters. They will say let me introduce you to my friends who would like to donate to you. Host lets go to jules in atlanta, georgia. One more time for jules in atlanta. Were going to have to go on. Cathy in new castle, delaware. Caller i had
Conservative groups. Wednesday night the principle of hartford connecticuts Capital Preparatory Magnet School on educating children. Thursday the House Budget Committee hearing on federal state and private and the property programs. Friday night native American History. On cspan2 this week booktv in prime time. Join the cspan conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Up next its todays edition of washington journal. We kick things off today by asking viewers if they thought the Republican Party could woo africanamerican voters the next election. This is just under 15 minutes. Host lets begin with a look at some of the headlines on this monday morning. From the union leader and New Hampshire james foley is free now. Free Funeral Services, Memorial Service held yesterday in rochester New Hampshire for the american journalist who was killed by isis. From the boston globe, militants for u. S. Rider held in syria. That is from peter curtis was released. It was a ransom paid,
Reject the scholar who doesnt give them what they want. It strikes me, in other words they are engaging in some way. Just on their own terms. You know, someone like Steve Mcqueen has an idea and he found this book. He had an idea. His wife found him the book and he put it all together and that is the narrative and the story and he has his ideas and scenes. I was struck powerfully by spielberg having scenes in his mind telling the historians what he saw. Was it possible . Could it be . What was the weather at the gettysburg address . Could the flag have been flying . And the several hundred page screen play gets shrunk down to a few months. So there are ways. Theyre saying can mary lincoln wear this . Can she wear that . Well, she was actually wearing black. She was in mourning. But the larger authenticity of the film was to portray her as a vain shopaholic, someone difficult. So she wasnt accurate. If i had been someone who said, no. She must wear the black, otherwise its inaccurate, y