California. Im reall a member of the leadep council. As chairman of the California Republican party and moderator for todays program. What a welcome our audience members and thank you for your support here. She was make a donation, please text the words donate to 415 3294231. We will be discussing this in the next hour and be sure to ask your questions as well. If youre watching along with us, please put your questions in the text chat on youtube and we will get to them later in the program. And now it is my honor to introduce our distinguished guests. Maria bartiromo is anchor the mornings with maria and with wall street on Foxbusiness Network as well as anchor of sunday morning features on the fox news channel. If you are a busy woman maria. And shes also twotime Emmy Awardwinning journalist who was the first person to report live in the florida New York Stock Exchange in 2011, made history once again as the first female journalists to be inducted into the hall of fame. Duf also with
A brief intellectual history of the trump era interviewed by New York Times book review editor, paul. Watch book tv this weekend on cspan2. It is great to be back as we kick off our fall season and our inaugural speaker as you mentioned is ted freeman, professor of Business Administration atthe Darden School at uva. His latest book which is still relevant youre in the current discourse that is going on in our nation is called the word and. The most powerful word in our language. So lets find out why the power of and is responsible for this without tradeoffs. Thank you very much for having me. Its a real treat to be back even if only virtually. At fordham. Many years ago in a fit of youthful idealism, as dave had mentioned, i got a phd in philosophy. And that was great. My father was always terrific and he said well, youll never have to worry about a job because just opened a bunch ofphilosophy factories outside the interstate. Youll be fine. I got very lucky with sort of a postdoc war.
Which is so relevant given the current discourse that is going on in our nation, the word a and d, the most powerful word in our language. With find out why in the power of and responsible business without tradeoffs. Thanks very much. A real treat to be back even if only virtually. In florida. Many years ago, as david mentioned, phd in philosophy. That was great, you will never have to worry about a job. Just opened a bunch of philosophy factories on the interstate and you will be fine. I got lucky to do a postdoc at wharton and always taught at Business Schools but i want to recapture if i can that sense of optimism and idealism in the shadows of this awful pandemic, and the really devastation that has occurred in many communities. I still remain incredibly optimistic we will find our way out of it, to Racial Justice and build a better world, all of us would like to do. I want to focus on the debate which exists about ethics in capitalism. There is an old story about business deeply r
A long time ago france stopped in 1075 because the process is rife with fraud and i have to tell you i think its incumbent upon the trunk campaign to say al gore took 37. 00 days to litigate florida were going to go litigate and were going to demand recounts some were going to be automatic obviously in georgia but in wisconsin in michigan in pennsylvania in nevada in arizona we want to get to where we have free and Fair Elections where every legal vote is counted in a trustworthy and transparent way the American People deserve it i was wishing and hoping that last night trump was going to look into the camera and say im demanding a free and Fair Election that the American People can trust not for myself but for you because you deserve it and i think the scary thing in all of this is at the end of the day no matter who ultimately wins half of the population of america is going to think the election has been stolen that is a very dangerous place for us to be as a country. What else does
Could you go back into that environment today or what was the formula that allowed you to exist for three decades . Did you have a particular relationship with ted turner or just enlighten us a little bit for the developments. Its helpful that i joined cnn 1980 at the beginning. I was one of the founders of cnn, one of the fortunate ones who was there from the you know, i was present at the creation as they say, and it was a spectacular place to work as we built it because it was something unthought of before ted turner. The global cable newscast and he put it into action and institutionalized it. It was really truly remarkable. But it changed over time, as these things do. And we founded it in 1980. By 1984 ted was on the forbes most, you know, the wealthiest list and it been basically on the verge of bankruptcy just four years earlier when he founded it. So his position changed, so did ours, suddenly were in the white house pool, were growing, and over time his commitment, teds commi