The great debate, the fractured republic and a time to build. This is two hours. Host author yuval levin, what is your assessment of the United States . Guest thanks for having me here. That is a wonderfully broad question to open within a challenging one. They are living in a moment of crisis. It is hard to deny. We have been through a spring dominated by a Public Health crisis. We are facing now also a social crisis and the struggle for racial the quality and very much of this moment that forces us to confront challenges that weve had trouble with in recent yea years. In th a time of crisis, you kno, its because it is the time of testing its also the time to think about what americas strengths are, what they are good at as a country and how we can build on that address the enormous problems in front of us. Host how did we get here . This is that an era marked by crises from 9 11 to the financial crisis to a pandemic that forces us to look to the sources of restraint what the politics
Include jesse hollands, reporter for the Associated Press and author of marvels the black panther. I do not know if we will have questions about that today. [laughter] dr. Berger where the Vice President and Founding Editor of and a professor of law at Georgetown University law center and executive director of the center on conventional studies at georgetown law. She is chief Legal Counsel for Vice President biden and the legal staff for the Senate Judiciary committee. Thank you. A pleasure to be with you. Thank you for being here. We would like to get started right away by giving an opportunity for one of our panelists to speak to a question that has not come up yet the original purpose, if you will, of government long before we thought of government as making policy. People looked to government for the protection of their rights, and you have written about this. Tell us more about what is meant by that, the original purpose of government. Thank you for letting me be a part of this ev
Trump by two other half points, although that was closer than it looked because the race was over by early voting, which lasts two weeks, and the democrats had banked enough votes. Biden is ahead in polls, only slightly outside the margin of error in recent polling. There has not been a lot of public polling. The democrats have a substantial registration advantage, which they have for many years, including 154,000 voters or so in clark county, where las vegas is, 70 of the vote. Very difficult for a republican to win statewide in nevada with that firewall the democrats have in clark county. Steve it seems so long ago, the nevada caucuses in which senator Bernie Sanders won with 40 of the democratic vote. Many people were beginning to write off joe biden. So much has changed. What about the sanders support in nevada . Is it solid for the Presumptive Democratic nominee, joe biden . Jon interesting question. Sanders won here essentially in a landslide over joe biden. It is a caucus. They
Things that i just told you i cared about, and i want you to know, a lot of americans dont trust our government and thats sad. The problem with that is, though, is i was allowed to believe things that werent true and i would ask questions about them and talk about them and that is absolutely what i regret. Regret. Its about the closest youre going to hear for anything that even comes close to an apology. There was no apology. We have a lot to unpack from those remarks. As you can see there, congresswoman greene basically tried to portray herself more as a victim, not as a perpetrator of all this nonsense and she tried to distance herself from past support of qanon conspiracy theories, drawing a line around the year 2018 and compartmentalizing things there and saying that was a different person. The house is debating ahead of that vote this afternoon to strip congresswoman greene of her two Committee Assignments. A vote putting every member on the record about where they stand on greene
Land in joe biden and president donald trump. Jon biden has an advantage, steve. The democrats have a formidable machine. They won the president ial race the last three cycles. Hillary clinton beat donald trump by two other half points, although that was closer than it looked because the race was over by early voting, which lasts two weeks, and the democrats had banked enough votes. Biden is ahead in polls, only slightly outside the margin of error in recent polling. There has not been a lot of public polling. The democrats have a substantial registration advantage, which they have for many years, including 154,000 voters or so in clark county, where las vegas is, 70 of the vote. Very difficult for a republican to win statewide in nevada with that firewall the democrats have in clark county. Steve it seems so long ago, the nevada caucuses in which senator Bernie Sanders won with 40 of the democratic vote. Many people were beginning to write off joe biden. So much has changed. What abou