Albright. Well tonight weve got two nor stars. On this stage john and mark e grove, john is a true rising star in this country in the journal war. John got his start as a speech writerring Rudy Giuliani both when he was mayor of new york and later as a president ial candidate john today is editor in chief in managing director of thedale beast but hes way more than that. Hes a very act active writer in this country every major magazine has seen one of his pieces. Moreover hes on television all of the time you can look at cnm, msnbc and pbs you can look at cspan, and youll see john avalon. I will also tell you hes a prolific writer of books hes written multiple books. The one that is most prominent and spotlighted is about washingtons farewell address. And he reminds us that thats truly topical today. Because in his farewell address washington warned this country against excessive partisanship. Greedy selfinterest, and foreign powers that night affect our elections. Now think about that
This is a statement on how pathetic things really are in government, they imagine themselves to be solving a great case in a quote, in the global war on terrorism. Getting three kids in miami beach, stopping them from shipping ammo to afghanistan was them winning the global war on terrorism. And that literally is how it was discussed inside government. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. And now from politics prose bookstore in washington d. C. , Nprs Steve Inskeep provides a dual biography of Andrew Jackson and cherokee leader john ross in the leadup to president jacksons signing of the indian removal act of 1830. Our featured attraction, of course, this evening is the great Steve Inskeep who im sure is already familiar to many of you. Certainly, those of you who listen to National Public radio. Hes been an onair presence there for 19 years, and for over a decade now hes been one to have hosts of morning edition, the most widelyheard Radio News Program in the
Todays panel is pivoting left, how we win by standing up for working families. We want to take a look at what happened in the last election and some lessons we learned and where we need to have a bigger and bolder message as opposed to maybe a message of incrementalism. One of the things the progressive caucus has done for a number of years is the progressive caucus budget that we put forth that is full of those kinds of big ideas trying to move the ball forward in a very big bold way to try to give us the policy solutions that people really are asking us for, but also how to help electorally about talking about the bigger and bolder issues. We have a great panel here today. They are going to be with us talking about issues. Im going to let each person kind of say whatever they want to about themselves, other than a brief introduction, everyone has five minutes to make initial comments. And then we will ask a couple questions from the panel based on that discussion and then well like t
This week on q a, Mark Cheathem on his biography of Andrew Jackson. He talks about the comparisons made between president jackson and President Trump. Brian Mark Cheathem, author of Andrew Jackson, southerner, and a lot of other books about Andrew Jackson and the south, when you see this picture on the screen, what comes to mind . Mark all the comparisons between trump and jackson and how wrong they are, frankly. I dont see a lot of similarities in terms of depth between donald trump and Andrew Jackson. Brian really . Not a mark really. Brian not a thing . Mark im not saying there arent some similarities. They both have great hair, of course. But i think a lot of the comparisons try to push trump into a box with jackson and its not a viable comparison, in my opinion. Brian thats a picture of i mean, a painting in the oval office that he put up. Why do you think he did that . Mark steve bannon convinced him to do it, i think. I dont think trump had any clue as to who jackson was, probab
This week on q a, Mark Cheathem on his biography of Andrew Jackson. He talks about the comparisons made between president jackson and President Trump. Brian Mark Cheathem, author of Andrew Jackson, southerner, and a lot of other books about Andrew Jackson and the south, when you see this picture on the screen, what comes to mind . Mark all the comparisons between trump and jackson and how wrong they are, frankly. I dont see a lot of similarities in terms of depth between donald trump and Andrew Jackson. Brian really . Not a mark really. Brian not a thing . Mark im not saying there arent some similarities. They both have great hair, of course. But i think a lot of the comparisons try to push trump into a box with jackson and its not a viable comparison, in my opinion. Brian thats a picture of i mean, a painting in the oval office that he put up. Why do you think he did that . Mark steve bannon convinced him to do it, i think. I dont think trump had any clue as to who jackson was, probab