Director of operations here and on behalf of our entire team thank you for being with us tonight. We are a nonprofit and by joining us you are supporting us at a time and we have been deeply impacted by a the cancellation of events and also help being authors during a challenging time to release about. Thank you. We are looking forward to this event. He has been a good friend over the years in the socalled my jewish life story telling show. Weve also been excited because of the accessible conversation democracy ahead of the 2020 election is one of the most important things we will be talking about right now. Said the new book is called democracy. And spells out how the democracy is different from the democracy were born into. The redesign system of government is responsible for the trouble america finds itself in. As he helps us to understand this new system of government he lays out solutions and with a wide range of domestic policy issues to serve as the lead joke writer and is curre
He is also a truman scholar. He has spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather. And he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman president ial library and museum in independence, missouri. Today, we will give a great opportunity for questionandanswer. Please weigh in with lots of questions. We have already been talking quite a bit offcamera about our topic today. And i guarantee there will be a lot of interesting ideas and discussion. So i will begin and introduce paul to the program. Thank you. Paul thank you, ed. Thank you, clifton, for being part of this today. Im very excited. This is one of those topics that has generated an enormous amount of debate throughout the years. The background for franklin roosevelt, of course, is that he was struggling in the late 1930s to convince americans who were very isolationist, that they had to take an interest in the problems going on in europe. Some of the things that he u
York city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is the daily social distancing show with trevor noah. Lets kick things off with the black lives matter movement. Although you may be hearing less about them than you used to, protests are still going on around the country. In part because Police Brutality is still going on around the country. And the ripple effects of this movement are reaching all aspects of American Life including a longawaited change in the nfl. The Washington Redskins have officially retired the redskins name in indian head logo after 87 years. The Football Team announced the change following recent pressure from spoarnses and decades of criticism that they are offensive to native americans. pe some time due to trademark issues. Lawyer warrior, red wolves and red tails are some of the popular choices among fans on social media. Major retailers already removed redskins apparel from store shelves and websites. Trevor yes, after decades of resisting the Washington R
Hold us over for a year. So the old name is officially gron. But now the team is searching for a new name. And i will be honest, i think when it comes to a new name they have to keep it simple, keep it seavment change the name to the washington washingtons. Yeah, its catchy, its easy to remember. And most importantly, it honors one of the greatest americans of all time. My man, ha ha. In other news, former Trump Campaign advisor and man get enically designed to look guilty, roger stone is back in the headlines. Tone stone was about to begin a 40 month sentence for witness tampers, lying to congress and tampering with evidence in the mueller investigation. But it turns out it really does pay to have friends in high places. Tonight the breaking news with president comeulted the prison sentence for his friend of several decades roger stone. Just days before stone was set to begin his more than three Year Prison Sentence the president making his long time friend and ally a free man. The 67
Structural racism is so difficult that instead america is just crossing off the easier items on its racism to do list. Okay, next item, we got to create an equal and just society. Hmmmm. All right, lets skip that one. What about changing the name of a Football Team and canceling aunt jemima, yeah, that should hold us over for a year. So the old name is officially gron. But now the team is searching for a new name. And i will be honest, i think when it comes to a new name they have to keep it simple, keep it seavment change the name to the washington washingtons. Yeah, its catchy, its easy to remember. And most importantly, it honors one of the greatest americans of all time. My man, ha ha. In other news, former Trump Campaign advisor and man get enically designed to look guilty, roger stone is back in the headlines. Tone stone was about to begin a 40 month sentence for witness tampers, lying to congress and tampering with evidence in the mueller investigation. But it turns out it reall