Institute for sponsoring our panel discussion. Our speakers today are david frisk, resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton institute, adam carrington, assistant professor of politics at hillsdale college, and michael uhlmann, a senior fellow at the claremont institute. We will have 20 minutes for each speaker to deliver his remarks. Then we will open up to questions and general discussion. And one note, if you do have a question, please bring it to the microphone in the center so you can be on camera. I think we are being recorded by cspan this morning. And without any further ado, david first. David thanks to all of you for coming out this early morning. I will be defending the Electoral College. And equally important, when we are talking about a major change, discussing the dangers of any really a common to almost any plans for alternatives. There always has to be an alternative. It seems to me that there are certain advantages to the Electoral College, which have been stated by it
Steve you just came back from a 1800s. Bus tour. Youre conducting another one. Where did you go and what did you learn . Secretary perdue the first tour was in wisconsin. We opened the fair together, but also used the opportunity for listening sessions for farm groups there, from organics to dairy production to specialty crops. It was a good listening session. What we want to do is get out into the hinterlands of where food is produced and where the impediments are. As you know, the president signed an executive order creating an Interagency Task or, toforce, so we were looking doing our duties in the rural prosperity aspect of the task force. We went from wisconsin, had a great meeting with the president in his barn with many of his neighbors and friends. Then, we moved on to minnesota and did a similar type of thing and met frankly speaker ryan , was with us in wisconsin. We had a meeting with supply people. They typically know what is on their mind. We went over to iowa, and down in
This is about two hours. Good evening and welcome to our program, and Perfect Union has america lost its moral center . My name is david gibson. I am the director of the department of religion and culture here at fordham university. We are pleased to see you here this evening and to have coverage by our friends at cspan at this event tonight. So look sharp. Try to behave. Cell phones on mute. But do feel free to tweet the event as you like. Maybe even our resident will between eating the event at some point president will be tweeting the event at some point although it seems hes more involved another matters. We began to conceive of this Program Shortly after mr. Trump was elected last november on the Famous Campaign slogan make America Great again. And of course, we were taking something of a risk by having this program, because we were betting in the course of one year he would not in fact have achieved his goal, an achievement that would have made this evenings discussion moot. We c
Caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] \ next a discussion about morality and the united states. Mediahe focus on the news and voter decisionmaking. This is two hours. Good evening and welcome to our program, and Perfect Union has america lost its moral center . My name is david gibson. I am the director of the department of religion and culture here at fordham university. We are pleased to see you here this evening and to have coverage by our friends at cspan at this event tonight. So look sharp. Try to behave. Cell phones on mute. But do feel free to tweet the event as you like. Maybe even our resident will between eating the event at some point president will be tweeting the event at some point although it seems hes more involved another matters. We began to conceive of this Program Shortly after mr. Trump was elected last november on the Famous Campaign slogan make America Great again. And of course, we were taking something of a risk by having this program, because we we
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