Thank you good afternoon everyone for joining us for this book talk brick by brick building hopes and opportunity what a powerful title. Each word of the title has power within its own self and you will see that illuminated during the conversation today that karen will have with barbara. I am the managing director at the Aspen Institute its my pleasure to step in for my boss for the executive director and also Vice President at the Aspen Institute. And fortunately she had a family emergency today and is not able to make it. But she was heavily involved in the planning of which we are honored to host this book talk because she knows karen has a very close friend for many many years. And if you know and you know their commitments are important to her. Only an emergency would have kept her from this. So thank you for being here i will not spend a lot of time on introductions because you have the bio in front of you its important to get you into the conversation but i am honored to introdu
Supporters and this is cool, every single one of them watched it [ laughter ] senator Bernie Sanders today denied reports that he privately told Elizabeth Warren in 2018 that a female candidate is incapable of defeating President Trump. And in bernies defense, even if he said it privately, we would have heard him [ laughter ] his whisper is everyone elses id like to speak to the manager. [ laughter ] President Trump this morning retweeted a doctored photo showing democratic leaders, Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi, wearing a turban and a hijab and to get him back, they posted a doctored photo of trump wearing a suit that fits [ laughter and applause [ cheers and applause thats not me i swear to god, thats not me. Supreme court chief Justice John Roberts will be brought in to oversee President Trumps impeachment trial. Though experts say he will not have significant authority over the proceedings. Meanwhile, back at the supreme court, Justice Kavanaugh said, the boss is gone, bitches [ l
On Harvey Weinstein alleged sexual abuse of women in his book catch and kill in his book catch and kill. Good evening everybody. Thank you for your patience. I am the coowner of politics and prose on behalf of everybody here we are grateful here at the auditorium thank you for coming. We have been partnering with gw for a number of years now sponsoring the author talks and we are very grateful to have access to such a spacious and convenient facility here in washington we are also grateful for the support for all of you we know you have choices on where to buy books and we like to thank you for choosing to shop with your local independent bookstore. [cheers and applause] especially nice to be hosting ronan farrow this evening talking about his new book catch and kill it has been two years since he was writing in the neww yorker and with his writing in the New York Times since they published the separate Sexual Assault allegations against would be producer Harry Weinstein and that cause
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