Terrorism stories despite other groups being far more likely to commit to tax. Payer moscow time friday 28th of august good day from russia than my name is kevin i would hear it out th queue for the next 30 minutes so you stay with me to take you through those headlines 1st a noisy dance party slash protesters been held outside the white house while donald trump was giving his reelection acceptance speech holds a chance and hundreds try to disrupt the event with some carrying black lives matter about me too but it didnt stop the president from claiming hes done more for black people but all his predecessors almost all. Say very modestly that i have done more for the Africanamerican Community than any president says a. Bram lincoln our 1st republican president. And i have done more in 3 years for the black community then joe biden has done in 47 years the one im reelected the best is yet to come. But as trump wrapped up the Republican National convention with his boast on the black comm
Series. These are made possible by more than 200 sponsors and more than 1000 local aa special thanks to the arizona daily star, university of arizona in tucson medical center. The festival three present expenses. Todays conversation is presented by western notion ab and sponsor of the National Experience pavilion at the tucson festival of books. To keep uptodate with the festival live events and sign up for the festival newsletter visit tucson festival books. Org. Joining me today is bryan walsh kebab ryan is. He signed the awardwinning egocentric blog and has reported for more than 20 countries on science and environmental stories like stars, Global Warming at extension. He is the founder and editor of technology and science 10 his book is end times. Bryan, welcome, thank you for being with us. This book is about existential risks, risks which could illuminate all of humanity or enough of humanity survivors would not be able to rebuild society to what it is now. Hence end times. Lets
He received his undergraduate and masters degrees in history. I got to know david when he was running on Hillary Clintons campaign. He is a distinguished fellow, National Security and board of law school. Scholar of the university of texas. He spent many hours together in the situation room and previously served president home and security and counterterrorism. Middle Eastern Affairs and counterterrorism, john received several awards for his contributions including National Security panel, Public Service medal and fbi director medallion. Please join me in welcoming david and john. David, congratulations on the release of the book before we get to the specific aspects, can you give an over view of what the book is about . Why you wanted to write about this topic. I want to say thank you for being here and i am excited to talk about these issues. I would say i wrote this book because after 2016 after russia attacked our democracy, i found bizarre, dangerous the operation was treated as u
Host good afternoon and good evening. Welcome, happy tuesday. Thank you all for spending your tuesday with us. Im executive director. Institute here has been here over three years now. Ross has been reported member of the Institute Since our founding, he has been immediate fellow and estep coordinate some of our events. Some are more contentious them into mayay have seen ross was involved in. [laughter]. We are super pleased that ross is joining us today on a date the day of the release of his latest book. All of you know him as one of the most important commentators on American Culture today. He writes the opinion page of the new york times, more than a few books at this point. They seem to all have the title would became something right. You might want to steer clear of that. Anyway, today the format is going to be that i will engage ross in a conversation about the book. I actually had the pleasure of reading it and its really an interesting book. In my judgment of the started to go
Historic mission. As all of you know we were founded by 1961 by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy who had a vision in such a young age as first lady to create an organization to give nonprofit, nonpartisan support to the work of maintaining the Museum Standard of the white house but also an Education Mission to teach and to tell stories of the white house and history going back to 1792 when George Washington who were talking about today actually selected that piece of land and hired the young irish architect james hogan to build the white house. Well, creating educational materials and content is a core part of our mission and thats what we do every day through the wonderful books that we publish, our programs that we host at the Decatur House and around the country and online social media content and website content and this is an example of that. We are doing more and more of this during this time when we are all at home looking for interesting things to do. I would encourage you to chec