Could you go back into that environment today or what was the formula that allowed you to exist for three decades . Did you have a particular relationship with ted turner or just enlighten us a little bit for the developments. Its helpful that i joined cnn 1980 at the beginning. I was one of the founders of cnn, one of the fortunate ones who was there from the you know, i was present at the creation as they say, and it was a spectacular place to work as we built it because it was something unthought of before ted turner. The global cable newscast and he put it into action and institutionalized it. It was really truly remarkable. But it changed over time, as these things do. And we founded it in 1980. By 1984 ted was on the forbes most, you know, the wealthiest list and it been basically on the verge of bankruptcy just four years earlier when he founded it. So his position changed, so did ours, suddenly were in the white house pool, were growing, and over time his commitment, teds commi
Book row dwindled until after next three years this grant is the sole survivor now run by thirdgeneration owners. I want to thank all of you for your support. Without oil demand booklovers and authors like carl and steve we wouldnt be here today. So tonight rex had to with us carl hoffman and steve benen for a double book club. Carl is a former contribute editor at wired and National Geographic traveler and is travel on assignment to 80 countries. Picky set author of five books, savage harvest was in your times editors choice, New York Times bestseller, the Washington Post notable book of the year come has been translated into nine languages. The last wild man was a finalist for the Book Competition and edgar award. Lunatic express was named one of the ten best books of the year by the wall street journal. Tonight marks the launch of its latest book, liars circle a strange and terrifying journey into the upsidedown world of trumps maga rallies. Stephen is produced on the Rachel Maddow
Listen live on the cspan radio app. Election night on cspan, your place for anunfiltered view of politics. Good evening to the students in our audience and our viewers, welcome to coaldale college, im, vicepresident of the college. The college of course is based in coaldale michigan and we are near the colleges washingtondc campus. Also the puppy school of government. The nations capital. You can find out more about our programs at dc. Hillsdale. Edu. But where in the library with Michael Antone who is a college lesser Research Fellow here and were going to be discussing his new book the face, america at the point of no return welcome my area glad youre here. You might know michael from his previous work, he wrote my election, under certain time, he was working the private sector at the time. He wrote under a pseudonym until he was outed and then you went to work for the Trump Administration in the national securitycouncil. That worked, they saw the election 2016 as an x essential ques
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Thank you for watching wherever you are and really thrilled with engagement level weve had with all of you. Well be doing a lot of fun stuff, and pretty compelling conversations in the fall. I would say would probably not be doing any inperson events since 2021 which is a bit of a bummer obama but we want to be safe and smart with what we are doing. We will keep bringing you guys interesting conversations with authors, so we have everything from a wonderful event coming up in october, a conversation you wont want to miss. Everything from that to a conversation with matthew mcconaughey. If thats not a wideranging list of events, its going to be quite a fall so stay tuned. You can follow all our defense on magic city books. Com. I will go through the whole list here. Tonight im so thrilled to have a conversation with mychal denzel smith in the book that seems like it was written for the moment were living in, although books are written quite a bit before the published in print it and Eve