[ crowd chanting ] contested elections. Undelivered ballots, legal challenges for days. What role the courts will play in this historic election. Good evening, whoever wins the presidency will do so on a razors edge we think well know before the newscast ends in a few hours but the winner has no mandate. We are not one United States, not right now. The evidence is irrefutable. We are two tribes who see this nation, its troubles, its trials, its triumphs vastly differently. We have our own priorities, goals and aspirations. We disagree about what america is and should be and many of us appear primed for a fight. Theres no solution that magically presents itself upon transfer or continuation of power. At some point maybe we better understand each other and Work Together towards common goals, were not there yet. Thats clear and if the elections process has taught us anything its that the road to unity does not run through it and may, in fact, lead us further from it. That said i can repor
Julian malvo, steve forbes and nobel prizewinning economist joseph stiglitz. Of this is a topic that interests you go to our website at booktv. Org and in the search bar type economics book and you will find a large archive of authors and materials would all of these are available to watch online. Host welcome to nashville and the southern festival of books. He will hear from many offers throughout the weekend including National Book Award Finalist Patricia Bell scott and nancy maclean, talk radio host eric erickson, basilica other liza monday and many others. For complete schedule visit booktv. Org or follow along on social media sites on facebook, twitter and instagram at booktv. We are kicking off todays coverage with biographer jonathan i on the life and politics of mohammed ali. This is live coverage on cspan2. [silence bracket good morning, everyone, thank you for coming and welcome to the 29th southern festival of books. It is my pleasure to have the opportunity to introduce jon
Talk radio show host eric erickson. Liza randy and many others. For a complete schedule visit booktv. Org. We are Facebook Twitter and instagram. Were kicking off todays coverage on the life and politics of mohammed ali. This is live coverage on cspa cspan2. [inaudible] of money. Think you for coming and welcome to the 29th southern festival of books. It is my pleasure to have the opportunity to introduce our author. Another that i really admire and have been reading his work for years. Hes here to talk about his biography of mohammed ali. This is only his third stop so thats an honor for us. Before he speaks the book festival is free but if youd like to contribute to the cause you can do that at the headquarters for the book festival outsider online. Also remind you that after the remarks will be heading over to the signing tent seeking to have him cite your book over there. Is one of the typewriters of nonfiction a fantastic author in addition to writing for bestselling books jonatha
V. Iraq ease i think one that as well. They dont like iran. Maybe they would like to move in and help clean some of this up but i dont think that works for either side and i think they want to see if they are to help balance it. We will remind the government that sanctions on iran is still not allowed. Although that 29 billion is like kleenex. Its nothing. But nevertheless the policy on serious supporting asad is not good. As we have the hydrocarbon law between baghdad and kurdistan this will move to maybe the next level over the territories, whatever. I think that is an important thing to do. But we cannot tell them what to do. We cannot have a favorite candidate and we cannot push for that. He publicly is not doing that either. Although privately i think that we have all learned he has mentioned to people that he would like to see an alternative working on that he was told by an official. I pulled but i dont know if it is true or not. I would also remind them that we support the terr
Democratic party a governorship here in this state, not just denying black people or people of color the right to vote, but we also have a system through Citizens United which allows billionaires to buy elections. So what we need to do, simple and straightforward in every state in this country through the federal government, if you are 18, you have a right to vote, end of discussion. We have to overturn Citizens United. We need to move toward public funding of elections. On this last point, mr. Steyer. I agree with exactly what bernie said, but i want to talk about how were going to win in 2020. I dont mean to change the subject, but i think its sort of important that the Democratic Party not only beat donald trump in 2020, but have a sweeping victory across the country. And what thats going to mean is turnout. In the United States of america, the Democratic Party keeps talking about trying to persuade a few people who are republicans to like us when up to half the people dont vote at