Are you gonna run for president . Think i just got an f from you, actually. audience applauding kurt andersen, welcome. Happy to be here. Good to be with you, congratulations on this book. Well talk about it first, fantasyland, the timing of this book is exquisite. Im assuming its not entirely accidental. It is entirely accidental. It is entirely accidental. It is entirely accidental. I started thinking about this book many years ago. Really decided that it was a book i was going to write as my next book in 2013, started writing in 2014, still no donald trump on the horizon. No one had talked about fake news . No one had talked about fake new or post truth or any of that. Alternative facts . Alternative facts was not yet a phrase. And then, really as i was finishing the draft, i put him in the book. I dont think he, donald trump that is, would have appeared in this book had he not run for president. And this book would have appeared without donald trump. This book indeed would have app
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Announcer earlier today, former Vice President joe biden discusses the article he recently cowrote on russia and look at current relations with the kremlin, russias interference in the middle east and the foreignpolicy approach of the Obama Administration. From the council of Foreign Relations, this is one hour and 20 minutes. Good afternoon. I want to welcome one and all to odays council on Foreign Relations meeting. Liek al iron ridge you to read thisurge you to read issue. Havelk about how countries failed or either dealt with the legacies of their own past. This deals with countries like south africa and also the United States, given our complicated legacy. As well as russia, china and others. I would invite people to look at it. The subject of today is another article in the magazine. I should probably introduce myself. My name is richard hoss, i work here at the council on Foreign Relations. [applause] richard we are joined today by the gentleman on my right, joe biden who served
Next, former Vice President joe biden on relations with the kremlin, russias interference in the middle east and the foreignpolicy approach of the Obama Administration. The event hosted by the council on foreign of Foreign Relations is one hour and 20 minutes. Good afternoon. I want to welcome one and all to todays council on Foreign Relations meeting. I urge you all to read it. We talk about how countries have failed or either dealt with the legacy of their own past. This deals with countries like south africa, but also the United States, given our complicated legacy as well as russia, china and others. I would invite people to look at it. The subject of today is another article in the magazine. I should probably introduce myself. My name is richard hoss. I work here at the council on Foreign Relations. And i work for richard. Richard we are joined today by the gentleman on my right, joe biden who served as the 47 Vice President of these United States and now leads the biden center. F
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