Your questions, your audience questions. To ask a question as a q a box at the bottom of your screen. You click on that and typing your question will try to get to as many of those as possible. There is a chat for you guys but if you could keep all of your questions in the q a, just make things a little bit easier. With all that out of the way, it is my honor to introduce jean guerrero. She is an Investigative Reporter contributing to npr, the pbs news hour and other public media. She is the author of, shes also the recipient of an emmy of the k pbs americas. That should be discussing her new book, hatemonger, steven muller, donald trump and the White Nationals agenda. Its from a spiteful teenage troll to one of Donald Trumps chief advisers. Muller who has outlasted many others in the trump forces has encourages his bosses worse impulses and helped him. From the muslim ban, the family separation policy at the border, millers finger prints have been all over the cruelest and most decisi
We do not participate in elections or endorse candidates in any way. Grateful to be producing with the nyu center that advocates for civil debate on politics and public policy, and nyu votes, which works to give every nyu eligible student the information they need to vote. I am especially grateful to be introducing an event with some of the countrys most important thinkers on what i think is one of the most urgent issues we face, and theres a lot of competition. Weve been witnessing a relentless and unprecedented series of attacks on the twin foundations of our democratic system. Free and Fair Elections and the rule of law. They are not unrelated. The president has made repeated threats to subvert the election, some with support from the attorney general, sending military to the polls, Voter Suppression, and perhaps most chillingly refusing to commit to abide by the election results. Some are worried the rule of law has been so eroded in this country, it may be possible to literally st
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Located in the chat. Theres a link to purchase it from politics and prose bookstores website. To be highly encourage everybody to purchase this book. Giving 5 for outreach and were also doing Curbside Pickup targeted the other thing that i would like to draw your attention to is the latter portion of tonights event is dedicated to your audience questions. And to ask a question from the screen they talk to the bottom of your screen. You click on that and type in your question. Will try to get to his many of those as possible. There is a check for you guys but if you could keep all of your questions in the q a, makes things a little bit easier. So with all of that of the way, is my honor to introduce jean guerrero, and invesco dave reporter contributing to mtr, the is our and their public media. In the other of the cross for memoir. And shes an enemy in a series of americas wealth. Tonight shall be trusting are book, hatemonger and donald trump and the White Nationalist agenda. Its at th