Good evening. Welcome to new america. I am the director of the Reform Program in new america. To ant to welcome you all discussion about the possibilities of ranked choice that can an approach revive our democracy in various ways, potentially solving a bunch of different challenges. Ofs is an event and series events for our 20th anniversary. We were founded in 1999 with the idea of creating a home for a new generation of people and ideas across a wide range of policy questions. I am one of the oldtimers although i was not here in 1999. I knew the founders and saw the creation of it. Ideas about reforming the political system have been part of the dna of this organization from the beginning. It waseague reminded me in the book that the founders wrote called the radical center, ranked Choice Voting was one of the ideas they promoted. It is not a bible for what we do but it is part of it. Back to thecame political Reform Program in 2014. Our finding founding ideas like introducing fresh t
Including if americans think president ial candidates should be required to release tax returns, and if citizens should be required to show government. D to vote ranked Choice Voting is a system that takes voters preference among candidates into account if no candidate receives a majority. Only 37 of voters prefer ranked choice over winner takes all systems. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Hello, good evening, and welcome to new america. I am glad we have such a nice room. I am the director of the Political Reform Program. I want to welcome you all to a discussion about the possibilities of ranked Choice Voting, potentially solving a bunch of different challenges. This is an event in a series of events for new americas 20th anniversary. It was founded in 1999. We are creating a home for new generation of people and ideas across a wide range of Public Policy questions. I am kind of an of the oldtimers, although i was not here in 1999, although i knew the founders and saw the creation of
Now on bbc news its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, i am stephen sackur. The Trump Presidency has seen us politics become ever more polarised and partisan. But in the words of one commentator, you aint seen nothing yet. The democrats decision to begin impeachment proceedings based on emerging details of President Trumps dealings with the president of ukraine has intensified the Political Warfare in washington. My guest is anthony scaramucci, former trump cheerleader, briefly his Communications Director and now an arch critic. Is impeachment a trap for the president s opponents . Anthony scaramucci in new york city, welcome to hardtalk. It is great to be back with you. Democratic leadership, after a lot of agonising, has decided to launch impeachment proceedings, impeachment investigations into resident donald trump. Do you believe they have made the right decision . I dont really think it was necessarily a right or wrong decision. I sort of feel it was the only decis
Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. The Trump Presidency has seen us politics become ever more polarised and partisan. But in the words of one commentator, you aint seen nothin yet. The democrats decision to begin impeachment proceedings based on emerging details of mrtrump . S dealings with the president of ukraine has intensified the Political Warfare in washington. My guest is anthony scaramucci, former trump cheerleader, briefly his Communications Director and now an arch critic. Is impeachment a trap for the president s opponents . Anthony scaramucci in new york city, welcome to hardtalk. Its great to be back with you, stephen. The democratic leadership, after a lot of agonising, has decided to launch impeachment proceedings, impeachment investigations, into president donald trump. Do you believe theyve made the right decision . I dont really think it was necessarily a right or wrong decision. I sort of feel it was the only decision. The Inspector Ge
I am in for francine lacqua. Lets check in on the markets and get a quick look at what is going on. Yield see an allnew low on the u. S. 30 year bond. The long bond came down to one point 1. 90 . It has bounced back, but still, that paper is weighing on the yield. You can see that across the curve. Brent crude is rising. The nymex wti is as well. It has been a rally for oil as as u. S. Stockpiles came up better than anticipated. And gold, coming off of its highs just a little bit but very little change to the bottom. 1541. 64 as u. S. 10 year yields are negative, making gold more attractive. Now lets get bloomberg first word news in new york. Sees an opportunity to restart bta european union. German and french counterparts. Officials tell as they appeared to relax len which on the need for the irish backstop. Dropping the position language on the need for the irish backstop. These requests are related to Financial Information on donald trump and his family but whose returns are still a