Thank you. Book testify continues on cspan2, television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everybody. Welcome. Welcome to heritage, thank you for joining us, we will have a fun discussion about Jason Chaffetz new book, power grab and introduce him senator mike lee, best friend of the constitution. Hello. Its a pleasure to be with you. This merges several of my interests, the constitution, conservative politics, books about those things at the Heritage Foundation and my friends jason and julie chaffetz. I first came to know the name Jason Chaffetz over 30 years ago when he became the place kicker at byu, hes really good, to this day he holds records including the most successful points after touchdown scored in a single game and i think in a single season and he was also famous for the fact that immediately after he kicked a field goal or pap, the helmet would come off and then he had this awesome slow jog to the sidelines and became famous for that, the chaf
The authors will be deeply grateful for your support. And the panelists are, our esteemed panel today includes mr. Matt taibbi whos a Rolling Stone columnist, and his latest book is hate inc. , the next panelist is jonathan metzl, his book is diagnose of whiteness. And hes also a professor of sociology and psychiatry at vanderbilt university. And save you bhojwani, to my right here, is the founder and president of new american leaders, an organization that promotes incoming, new immigrants into politics, and her book is People Like Us the new t wave of candidates knockig at democracys door. All right. So i thought wed start with a moment of silence for bill de blasios president ial campaign. [laughter] and now continue. [laughter] so well start with matt. You missed that . Ive been moving. [laughter] okay, matt. Tell us what is hate inc. So hate inc. , it started off as a rethink of manufacturing consent. It was a book that i was really influenced a lot before i joined sithe journalism