Good morning. My name is kevin gaines and its a pleasure to welcome you to the Miller Center for a conversation about the postpresidency of barack obama. In his farewell address, president obama spoke of threats to american democracy and called for an actively engaged and vigilant citizenry to preserve democracy. It falls to each of us, he said, to be those anxious, jealous, guardian of democracy, contemplating his future as a private citizen after the honor of serving his fellow americans. Obama pledged, as he put it, that he will be right, right there with you. As a citizen, for all my remaining days, he urged Young Americans to believe in themselves and their ability to effect change. We know what happened next. The Trump Administration sought to undo the policies of his predecessor, and at every turn, trump sought to undermine the democratic norms that obama had extolled and defended. Adhering to political custom. Obama remained largely silent for most of the one term Trump Adminis
Good morning. My name is kevin gaines and its a pleasure to welcome you to the Miller Center for a conversation about the postpresidency of barack obama. In his farewell address, president obama spoke of threats to american democracy and called for an actively engaged and vigilant citizenry to preserve democracy. It falls to each of us, he said, to be those anxious, jealous, guardian of democracy, contemplating his future as a private citizen after the honor of serving his fellow americans. Obama pledged, as he put it, that he will be right, right there with you. As a citizen, for all my remaining days, he urged Young Americans to believe in themselves and their ability to effect change. We know what happened next. The Trump Administration sought to undo the policies of his predecessor, and at every turn, trump sought to undermine the democratic norms that obama had extolled and defended. Adhering to political custom. Obama remained largely silent for most of the one term Trump Adminis
Have multiple committees on which we serve in the senate and from time to time its important to check in with those committees. Senator barasso will be along and ill make my Opening Statement and then i will introduce the first three witnesses. Senator grassleyey will introdue a witness in senator lee will introduce a witness and we will proceed. We are here today to discuss womens rights, the right to bodily autonomy, the right to set the course of their own life and their right to economic freedom. I hear off in the Budget Committee should only be concerned in deficits but in a serious conversation about debt and deficit must analyze threats to Economic Growth and ability. Deficits do not occur in a vacuum. Welcome. They result from a fiscal decision that we make and from what we do. It it strengthens or weakens our economy. Y. Reproductive rights it turns out are intrinsically tied to economic opportunity. Reproductive justice is Economic Justice. Restricting one restrictsin the oth
Professor of history and faculty member from the university of illinois at chicago. The Research Focus is race agenda. The author a black entrepreneur in San Francisco and the price from women historians. In 2019 she was a fellow at the huntington library. Her new book the fight against the color line. Thank you for being with us. Im going to hand it over to you and i will see you again for qanda at the end. Thank you so much. I am so happy to be here. Let me just get this going. First of all i have a big thank you for the California Historical society. I wouldnt have a career as a historian without them. They have been helping me every single step along my career. I visited them for my first book where he mentioned my research on the old library on bakers street and the librarians, the curators, i cant say enough. I dedicated all of my time and i want to give a special shout out for them helping me tonight and setting the program up. But i also want to give a shout out to deborah kauf
Between a player, a city, and a tie quick shout out to, to kylie kelce, who refuse to wear any other teams jersey, go birds thanks to all of you for joining us. Im kasie hunt. Dont go anywhere. Cnn news central starts right now its a Super Tuesday i really its Super Tuesday. Millions of americans are going to go to the polls to cast their votes in primaries and caucuses. This will be decided some day for nikki haleys campaign as donald trump looks for sweeping winds to help him clinch the republican nomination and well do they show any more signs of trouble for President Bidens Reelection Campaign an air force employee accused of sharing Classified Information on a foreign dating site that man now under arrest and cnn takes you to the capital of haiti as violent gangs rule the city and residents live in fear. Im sarah sidner with kate bolduan. John berman is in colorado for Super Tuesday. We will see him in just a bit. Cnn news central starts right now. There are tuesday and then there