Download the iphone or android app for program and Schedule Information and pod cast of past programs. How is that for a lit ration. Now its my pleasure to intro introduce our speaker, columnist, and writer. Jonathan alter. A writer and a contributor to the bloomberg. Author of the new book well talk about the center holds obama and his enemies. As i hes an analyst and contributing correspondent. Youve seen him on nbc and msnbc. He worked for almost thirty years writing more than fifty cover story. Me wrote for the New York Times, the wall street, vanity fair, and the new republican. Hes the author of other books fkd he is a, in my judgment, probably one of the preimminent experts in this country on president obama. We are pleased and honored to have him here tonight to speak about his new book. Our thanks to Jonathan Alter for joining us. [applause] the floor is yours for twenty five to thirty five minutes. Great. Thank you very much, joe. Thank you to everybody for coming. This feels
Let me finish tonight with this. A sixth of our country is now of hispanic background. 1 in 6 and growing, imagine the enhanced dignity they must feel today after what happened late yesterday in rome. The election of pope francis is something so new it may take a while to get our heads around it. It wont take that long for people who come from latin american backgrounds. All the people here in our country from Central America and the caribbean, they must be thrilled. And the cardinal from buenos aires was a surprise last night. He wasnt even mentioned of the possible popes of the newspapers. My sense is hell be very offbeat from what were used to in politics in this country. Usually you hear someone from the suburbs say im a liberal on social issues but conservative on economic issues. Well pope francis is the opposite from you. Hes conservative on issues like marriage and equality, but progressive on poverty and justice. Some old style democrats who are pro life but solid on health ca
1 in 6 and growing, imagine the enhanced dignity they must feel today after what happened late yesterday in rome. The election of pope francis is something so new it may take a while to get our heads around it. It wont take that long for people who come from latin american backgrounds. All the people here in our country from Central America and the caribbean, they must be thrilled. And the cardinal from buenos aires was a surprise last night. He wasnt even mentioned of the possible popes of the newspapers. My sense is hell be very offbeat from what were used to in politics in this country. Usually you hear someone from the suburbs say im a liberal on social issues but conservative on economic issues. Well pope francis is the opposite from you. Hes conservative on issues like marriage and equality, but progressive on poverty and justice. Some old style democrats who are pro life but solid on health care for the poor, protection of the minimum wage, sort of like bob casey. So get ready f
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Dislocated from standard republican and partisan axes on those subjects. Are we fighting too Many American wars . What are the conservatives going to say about that . A panel today was moderated by republican congressman steve king of iowa. Yes, that steve king. But the real star of the discussion was republican congressman Louie Gohmert of texas. And this was his contribution to the question of do we fight too many wars . One of the things that we have heard over and over again since vietnam is, you know, well, we dont want to get in another unwinnable war like vietnam. Im not going to debate the merits of whether we should or should not have gone to vietnam. But what i will tell you is, vietnam was winnable but people in washington decided we would not win it folks, when you hear people talk about the lesson of vietnam, it ought to be this. You dont send american men or women to harms way unless you are going to give them the authority and what they need to win and then bring them ho