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Taxation will speak about his research and that committees records and the history of the joint committee and on may 26, we host a professor of Political Science of wind Gate University who will discuss her research for her book about the politics of National Identification documents in the United States in the 20th century. An Important Mission of the center is promoting Scholars Research in the records of the senate and the house of representatives and advancing the study of the history of congress. This researcher series helps us understand how fully that mission is being met and we do so by regularly hosting scholars who have conducted research in house and Senate Records or who have written significant books on the history of congress. In todays much anticipated talk, we hear about one of those very significant books on the history of congress, our guest, charles stewart, gave a marvelous Research Talk last november on a book he wrote. At that time the battle over who would succee
Foundation. Their support for online cultural events has been absolutely unwavering and they are, oh my gosh, im so excited to see john nichols. Their support for these events has been absolutely unwavering and they have been so dedicated bringing author events to all of you whether you are watching in your home in madison or across the country or across the globe. Seen an incredible uptick in her audience of people from all over and it is just absolutely wonderful to see the response. Thank you to everyone here tonight and everyone who comes and to all the sponsors who made sure these events keep going. Without further ado i would like to bring john and mary to the screen and step away myself. Larry tye. Hello everyone. Thank you for joining us. Larry, thanks for coming all the way to massachusetts to be here with us. [laughter] larry is on cape cod as we speak. You have about 100 people or close to 100 people with us and some more may join us as we go along and as was explained upfro
And welcome across town where all things are considered. Im peter lavelle. What does the Election Results today . Tell us about the state of american politics. There was no blue wave. Instead, there was a red ripple instead of calls for reconciliation. There are those looking to punish trump supporters. One step forward 2 steps back. There is gus these issues and more. Im joined by my guest in syracuse. We have how he is a former candidate for the Green Party Nomination for u. S. President and in atlanta, he crosses around she is a us independent president ial candidate. All right, cross up rules in effect, that means you can jump in anytime you want, and i always appreciate. Ok, so why dont we go to you 1st here . Where do we stand right now . , a little more than a week outside of the election. We have the g. O. P. , a lot of and most conservatives refusing to recognize a job, i missed president elect with some cretin states. There hasnt been any vote certification yet. And on top of
A job. I missed president elect with some cretin states. There hasnt been any vote certification yet. And on top of that, there are more and more calls of fraud and 70 percent according to a number of polls saying republicans, they dont believe the outcome of the election. So were in a pretty bad place right now. If we can, in the least, have a bipartisan deal wanting to know exactly what happened in this election because we dont at this point, go ahead. I think whats happening is we do have a very awkward situation. The whole, think with the pandemic, a lot of people were afraid to go vote in person and what not, in terms of the mail in ballots. There was a large amount of them. There is currently evidence that is being shown that there are, you know, a lot of tampering with the mallon ballots. That something that i would have been expected. A lot of people that theyre trying to look right now that it says that they were voting. That might have been just ceased, you know, they asked m