Please send yours up. They dont have to be related just the book. All right, here we go. My name is melissa king, welcome to Common Wealth club bsting of scott adams n new book, scott dives into the epidemic of mental shortcuts that he believes is making us prone to believing in bad ideas, according to scott, responsible for people stereotyping all of Trump Supporters as racists believing that gun control is equal to full confiscation and most importantly avoiding selfreflection when personal relationships end. We are excited to have him here today to discuss new book loser think and whatever else you guys would like to ask him, he has told me nothing is off limits today. Please welcome scott. [applause] loser think is a word i invented because i noticed when i was on twitter mostly the debating with various trolls and real people too and every once in a while somebody would make a good comment, i dont quite agree with that, thats really well put. , lawyer, economists, scientists and t
Impeachment trial and quoted the 1950s tv show dragnet to explain one of his points. Dragnet . [ light laughter ] oh my god, dude, are you afraid the glasses werent making you look old enough . [ laughter ] why dont you just put a bandaid on your face and be done with it [ laughter ] President Trump performed the coin flip before this weekends Army Navy Football game. Its the first recorded instance of trump intentionally letting go of money. [ laughter ] im going to need that back. [ laughter ] the House Judiciary Committee this morning published its full report on the impeachment inquiry, which describes President Trump as the Founding Fathers Worst Nightmare though, from what i know about the Founding Fathers, they wouldnt have been too crazy about the last guy either. [ laughter and applause [ audience ohs ] just sayying things were different at the founding. [ laughter ] senator Elizabeth Warren is reportedly trying to boost her poll numbers by shortening her stump speech to 10 mi
[ light laughter ] youre watching impeachment after dark live its the only show that talks about how im being treated very badly by the very rude, very nasty media [ light laughter ] theyre very rude and theyre very nasty [ laughter ] its just like a real housewives after show, if instead of committing tax fraud, they committed obstruction of justice [ light laughter ] and tax fraud. [ laughter ] now i know what youre probably all thinking its day three of the hearings your favorite president must be melting down by now. But it couldnt be further from the truth. In fact, just this week, i was rushed to the hospital for my standard physical. [ laughter ] everyone said i was a perfect patient. I even got a lollipop. [ laughter ] you always get the lolly roy cohn told me that. [ light laughter ] as always, im joined by my attorney general bill barr at the bill barr bar bar. [ laughter ] great to be here, mr. President and on behalf of your staff this week [ light laughter ] thank you fant
[applause] i guess they were all guilty. [laughter] thank you so much for the lovely introduction and for sharing the wonderful history of your friendship and his mentorship. Both of you have played a large role in the event of the history for over five decades and the law schools are incredibly fortunate to have you both in leadership and all of you are wonderful as leaders and as institutional leaders. I want to thank everyone for joining this to discuss the an exciting and extremely timely book and a portrait of donald trump and 3500 lawsuits. His other two books both of which are highly relevant to other books as well are cases that mattered and americans greatest trial court and supremely partisan here and how in Supreme Court. This is the fifth time you get to sit with you to talk about your wonderful work. So its meaningful and noise fun to have a conversation with you. You are someone who as i described an extraordinary contour. You have been a wonderful friend who is given so