[inaudible] [inaudible] welcome. Thank you for coming out today. Im james taylor. Good afternoon and thank you for coming to the Commonwealth Club of california. The place where you are in the know. You can find us online at Commonwealth Club. Org or on facebook and twitter and on the youtube channel. Im james taylor, professor politics and director of africanamerican studies at. I also teach at uc berkeley. Your moderator for todays program. Today we have the pleasure of hosting david brock, the founder of media matters, politically Progressive Research and Information Center and a lot of other things according to. He is also the author many books but he is here today to talk about the latest coming killing the messenger, the right wing. Killing the messenger has talked about how far he sees the new rightwing elite will go in their efforts to control the media battle over the 2016 election. He has the unique political perspective because over a decade ago he underwent a political tran
Hard time trying to sell the idea of democracy abroad. Thank you very much. Thanks very much. Tom . Well, thanks, will. And thanks for the invitation to join this conversation this morning. In the spirit of in which ambassador basora launched us a little while ago, ive been thinking about making there a really interactive kind of event. So ive been listening intently to each of the three previous speaker nz it may seem at some level that they presented alternative schools of thought or approach to this question. So im not sure im allowed to say this but i agree with all of them. I agree with in particular with the way nick framed the tradeoffs that we often face in government between our understandings of potential shortterm benefit or shortterm need versus longterm. Thats the world in which i live every day in the u. S. Government as we sit around tables not usually as pretty as this but trying to talk about how we integrate our interests in strengthening democratic governs and respec
Chris mcdaniel, the state senator, the last man standing 11400 more votes than cochran in the primary election. The two facing of tonight. The upshot is calling it, close enough that it will depend upon the turnout in the big counties. And they say also, just a reminder, mississippi counties routinely take electronic pds of results and facts them to state headquarters. Here are the results so far with 80 percent of the mississippi precincts reporting. Thad cochran the 6term incumbent with 51 percent of the vote and state senator Chris Mcdaniel with 49 percent of the vote. Here is a new york, the 13th, with Charlie Rangel. 56 percent of the vote. Charlie rangel with 37 percent of the vote. The polls close in new york city at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Mississippi new york 7 00 central, 8 00 eastern. Live from year to harlem in the headquarters of Charlie Rangel, we will have his concession of victory speech for you this evening here on cspan2 as well. Just a reminder, results throughout the ev
Trump trailing joe biden by 13 points. This is in florida. Other polls show biden leading in other Battle Ground states as well. Overnight, the cdc released a new guideline supporting opening schools but only if its safe. If its not safe enough to hold the Gop Convention in florida how is it safe enough to open schools . Joining us now is cnn chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta and john harwood. Sanjay, in terms of the type of event that is clearly not safe, an Indoor Convention is very high at that list on that list. So as a doctor, your reaction to the decision from the president . Yeah, i mean, it was an inevitable decision, frankly. I mean, i say that, of course we saw what happened in tulsa and arizona. But i think at this point, given how much viral spread there is i think the Public Health communities have been pretty unified in their voice on how risky this is. You can look at one of the riskiest type of events and one of the lowest risk types of events and frankly, an
Suspicious money from Foreign Countries including china. Pressure building on joe biden to speak out publicly after repeatedly claiming that he and his son hunter did nothing wro wrong. No one has indicated of any consequence that anything was done wrong or illegally by knee or by my son. My son has not made money in terms of this thing about, what are you talking about, china. Its a bunch of garbage. Absolutely zero basis to the accusation that i acted in any way in appropriately or my son did. Is not one single bit of evidence, not one tiny bit to say anything was wrong. Jesse dana, i have a feeling we might be playing some of those sound bites for a long period of time going forward. Let me set this up for you. If they are investigating Hunter Bidens business deals with china antonio belinsk might joet where this could be going . Dana not from their Public Comments but i cant imagine that internally on my campaign, at the transition, that they are thinking this this is great news fo