Guests ab i am honored and have the privilege to welcome you to the virtual programs we been able to shift to. We look forward to lovely having you join us for more in the coming weeks. Before we get to the subject of the next program i want to share a little bit about some things we have coming up, things to look forward to, more virtual programs hopefully you might be interested in joining us. He will be hosting next week will be hosting ab anticorruption expert and former new York State Attorney general candidate sharing ab exploring the connection between big money and the impact on the democracy. That will be august 11 the following week we will host Rick Perlstein in a conversation with Jeffrey Toobin discussing his new book abwhich continues in the exploration we been doing with the recent history of the Pelican Party and modern american athat will be on august 19. We are also proud to partner with the ms. Foundation on an upcoming series entitled women in power 100 years after
Next, political analysts debate the future of the Republican Party. Topics include how millennials view the Trump Administration and the twoparty system. Christina bellantoni of the Los Angeles Times moderated the forum which was hosted by zocalo Public Square in los angeles. Usthank you all for joining here at the National Center for the preservation of democracy. I am the associate publisher of zocalo Public Square. I want to begin by thanking our hosts, the Japanese American National museum and a big thanks to cspan for recording tonights program for a later broadcast. [applause] here are mission is to connect people to ideas and to each other. We are a Nonprofit Organization publishing an online ideas magazine and providing live events of that examine essential questions in an acceptable and democrat spirit. Since our founding in 2003, we presented 548 events featuring 2184 speakers, and 23 cities, seven states, and six countries. We do this all on the staff of eight people. [appla
Thank you all for joining us here at the National Center for the preservation of democracy. I am the associate publisher of zocalo public square. I want to begin by thanking our hosts, the Japanese American National museum and a big thanks to cspan for recording tonights program for a later broadcast. [applause] here are mission is to connect people to ideas and to each other. We are a Nonprofit Organization publishing an online ideas magazine and providing live events of that examine essential questions in an acceptable and democrat spirit. Providing live events of that examine essential questions in an acceptable and democrat spirit. Since our founding in 2003, we presented 548 events featuring 2184 speakers, and 23 cities, seven states, and six countries. We do this all on the staff of eight people. [applause] so we thank you for joining us today at even number 549. As always, this is free and everyone is welcome. At a time when our countrys public sphere and our conversation has be
We are a Nonprofit Organization publishing an online ideas magazine and providing live events of that examine essential questions in an acceptable and democrat spirit. Since our founding in 2003, we presented 548 events featuring 2184 speakers, and 23 cities, seven states, and six countries. We do this all on the staff of eight people. [applause] so we thank you for joining us today at even number 549. As always, this is free and everyone is welcome. At a time when our countrys public sphere and our conversation has become polarized and segregated, it is important to provide a welcoming space, because democracy is as much a culture as a system and we believe in creating meaningful opportunities for people to learn about one another. And in everything we do across our defense and our journalism, were dedicated to expanding dialogue, not shutting it down, and viewing the world kaleidoscopic leak. It is not in here with a panel, the discussion is followed by a question and answer session
Well also join the conversation on the issues in the campaign with the panel of political on ultants, live coverage span 3. Representative Debbie Wasserman schultze. Thank you for being with us. Youre welcome. How much of this convention have you been watching so far here in cleveland . Well, i thinf it. Enough to see how divisive and feminist the rhetoric has been divisive and venomous the rhetoric has been. Enough to see how uncomfortable speaker ryan was, so much so that he was really unable to wholeheartedly embrace or support donald trump, or even speak his name more than twice during his remarks. You can see throughout the whole tenor of the convention that they are really training all of their messaging against Hillary Clinton, and really doing nothing to lay out their own vision. Was the theme of make america work again, and they laid absolutely no policy out on how they would create jobs or anything to continue to move the economy forward. That will be in stark contrast to wha