Welcome the nbcc and to welcome to this Years National book. Critics circles awards. The new school and the nbcc have a long standing relationship going back to the very earliest years of the nbcc. Our faculty have been Board Members and awards recipients and our communities have worked together in classrooms and and events since before the memory of anyone here, the annual awards have been hosted at the new school for over 20 years. This few years have been very challenging for all of us with covid, we are finally back on campus for an in real life nbcc simone and of course at the new school we are emerging from last fall when all of us were tested and our ideals and faith in one another and the future working with the nbcc is something to remind us what were here for and were enormously grateful to have a friendship that extends beyond any of us individually. To begin, i have to thank our teams at. T. A. At the new school for bringing us to this evening. Look out for stuart pennebake
Hello, im john reed faculty here in the Creative Writing Program and the director of the creative Creative Writing Program at the new school. The one time i was on this stage, i was a board member of the nbcc chairing a category. Its my great honor tonight to welcome the nbcc and to welcome to this Years National book. Critics circles awards. The new school and the nbcc have a long standing relationship going back to the very earliest years of the nbcc. Our faculty have been Board Members and awards recipients and our communities have worked together in classrooms and and events since before the memory of anyone here, the annual awards have been hosted at the new school for over 20 years. This few years have been very challenging for all of us with covid, we are finally back on campus for an in real life nbcc simone and of course at the new school we are emerging from last fall when all of us were tested and our ideals and faith in one another and the future working with the nbcc is so
Of trustees and i am delighted to welcome to an evening that highlights so many amazing women who contribute to our literary and Cultural Community and most especially, lisa lucas. [applause] if you havent heard, lisa is the roxanne and shes been on campus in various groups today and so we welcome her. Tonights program is also part of this semesters script present theories, script present seeks to bring scripts to the world and the world to scripps by finding the intersection between and are caching and scholarship and society and culture. Presenters often linked to issues that are vital to student and faculty such as, race, gender, class, literature and the arts. Programs provide a form for Community Engagement and the exchange of ideas beyond the classroom and their environment for inquiry, ideas and intellectual exchange. While shes been on campus she has been meeting with students and faculty and sharing her perspective on the executive director of the National Book foundation and
I dont think most understand what the republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is saying. Michael charlie, this is complicated. Let me start with the punchline, the bottom line. This in no way validates the president s claim that he was or or his associates at trump tower were the target of surveillance by the Obama Administration. It does not even come close to validating. Not even close. What did the chairman say to the media and apparently to the president . He said he had a dozen intelligence reports that somebody gave to him. He did not get them officially from one of the agencies. Somebody gave them to him and said i think there is a problem here, take a look at these. A dozen intelligence reports that he said involved incidental collection of u. S. Persons, incidental collection about Trump Transition Team members. That is what he said he saw. He also said he was troubled that some of the names he saw were unmasked. We will talk about what all of that means. Lets
Rose welcome to the programment we begin with a Health Care Debate in congress and talk to ezra klein of vox media. President trump has been going to republicans, the last couple of days, three or four days and in private the case he is making to them over and over and over again is if you dont vote for this, you will lose your seat, republicans will do poorly in the mid terms, this senator, he made this point that when president obama was selling the Affordable Care act in 2009 he came to them and he said if you vote for this, you may lose your seat and it will be worth it. And this is a real difference between what happened with the democrats in 09y and the republicans right now. The republicans did not spend a lot of time working with each other to come up with a vision for healthcare reform that they liked. Rose also this evening a conversation about the ak kaition that the obama add the accusation that the Obama Administration had bugged trump tower. We talk to Michael Morell, for