I am the Vice President of the open Society Foundation that is hosting this event. And i should say, that we are going to talk to around 45 minutes, give or take. And that we have enough time for another 45 minutes of questions. Those questions that you would like to share with eric and maya and me should be sent to questions at open Society Foundations. Org. Questions and open Society Foundations. Org party can also do this by twitter. If you really need to, you can do it via facebook. We are recording this event. It is being live cast. And it is going to be quite a show. We have someone i have known and admired for a very long time, mile wylie is with us as a discussant. She has a very long time civil rights lawyer and activist, former chair of new york cities civilian Complaint Review board. Former Corporation Counsel to his honor, william de blasio, a University Professor at the school and ongoing legal analyst for both nbc news and msnbc. And so its a great pleasure, maya to be wi
I would like to welcome everyone, there might be big news today in american politics, but it aint nothing compared to this, which is so much bigger insignificance, and opportunity for us to celebrate eric alterman. With his new book lying in state why president s lie and why trump is worse we are going to spend, my name is Leonard Bernardo by the way, Vice President of the open society foundations, hosting this event, i should say that we are going to talk for around 45 minutes, give or take, then we have enough time for another 45 minutes of questions, those questions that you would like to share with eric and maia and me should be sent to questions opensocietyfoun dations. Org. You can also do this via twitter and you can also if you really need to, do it via facebook. We are recording this event. Its being live cast and its going to be quite a show. We have someone i have known and admired for a very long time, maia wiley with us as a discussant. Meyer, who is been a very long time
Want to watch them in their entirety, visit our website booktv. Org. Ocess our archives by using the search box at the top of the page and search the economy in books. Good evening, everyone. Im so gladt. Youre here today. Im going to say a few words about this before i welcome tonights guest. For a moment of history, it was found 93 years ago by my grandfather, benjamin. [applause] he founded the store in the area known as grow along 4000 around the corner from here. Theres a storm of the depression and he fired the altar by surviving all the other 48 book stores. The store was passed on to my father who grew the store through popularity, he never thought it was possible. Now i am the owner and critics set as a woman, it is going to be hard to front the store and i get wiped out by this digital age. So i want to thank you in the book Loving Community in this audience for helping us not only survive but thrive through the ages. [applause] it is impossible to read tonight book, watergat
Kangaroos. Must be Kangaroo Time taking us off the air tonight. On that Pretty Amazing note, i wish you a very good night, but do not go anywhere, at least not tomorrow, tomorrow we are going to a very, very special coverage of the State Of The Union address, starting right here at 8 00 p. M. Eastern, followed by commentary from our allstar cast, and of course friday night do not miss our night cast with maia wiley, christine romans, and one and only savannah guthrie. Not only on friday, but saturday, too, 11 00 p. M. Eastern. On that note i wish you a very good night, we had kangaroos tonight, great women for the next two nights. Across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. Ill see you at the end of tomorrow. Donald trump is now the Presumptive Republican nominee for president. Is only opponent in this race, former governor nikki haley, had vowed to stay in the race through to Super Tuesday and this morning, after only winning the state of vermont and the city of washi
The time has now come to suspend my campaign. The General Election has begun. The race is set, now, it will be a rematch and we like that rematch. Donald trump Running Unopposed against President Biden. Tonight, a Special Edition of allin, Rachel Maddow and alex ragnar join me on bidens chances against candidate trump. As republicans try to erase the memory of his disastrous presidency. Are you better off today than you were four years ago . Then the big board on who will decide this election. Claire mccaskill at 6 00. I think america knows who donald trump is. The question is, who are we . Plus, a big announcement in arizona. Ruben gallego joins me for his First National tv interview since Senator Cinema dropped out, when the Special Edition of all in and starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes, thank you for tuning in for this Special Edition of allin on march 6, 2020 for what looks to be the unofficial official first day of the president ial General Election. Jo