Hello again. I hope everybody had a great lunch. We are at the portion of the program that i i know many pee are eager to hear. So please welcome to the stage the moderator for our keynote address, our truman member monique alcala. [applause] hello. Good afternoon, everyone. I am so delighted to be a today to introduce our keynote speaker Rachel Maddow and also moderate the q a portion of this conference in just a little bit. This is actually very special for me. I dont think i mentioned to her whenever we were chatting back, kind scared, but i did, i did, i moved back to austin like a couple of years ago and when was because my father was sick. Sadly, he passed away in october but but i remember him telling me a few years ago that he thought watching he stopped watching this because all the extremist rhetoric and all the attacks on our country except for rachels show. [applause] so when truman sp to do this, of course i. Im huge fan it also its incredibly extra special me just because
Lunch. We are at the portion of the program that i i know many pee are eager to hear. So please welcome to the stage the moderator for our keynote address, our truman member monique alcala. [applause] hello. Good afternoon, everyone. I am so delighted to be a today to introduce our keynote speaker Rachel Maddow and also moderate the q a portion of this conference in just a little bit. This is actually very special for me. I dont think i mentioned to her whenever we were chatting back, kind scared, but i did, i did, i moved back to austin like a couple of years ago and when was because my father was sick. Sadly, he passed away in october but but i remember him telling me a few years ago that he thought watching he stopped watching this because all the extremist rhetoric and all the attacks on our country except for rachels show. [applause] so when truman sp to do this, of course i. Im huge fan it also its incredibly extra special me just because of that. Very thankful to truman for aski
Welcome back to the stage at trumans Vice President of policy and programs john simmons. Vice president simmons hello, everybody. I hope everyone had a great lunch. We are at a portion of the program in many are eager to hear. Please welcome the moderator for our keynote address. Monique good afternoon, everyone. Im delighted to be here today to introduce our keynote speaker Rachel Maddow and moderate q a motion of the conference in a little bit. This is a very special experience for me. I do not think i mentioned it to her when i was chatting with her back there. But, i moved back to austin a couple years ago. Because my father was sick. Sadly, he passed away in october. I remember him telling me a few years ago. He thought everything was extremist attacks on our country except for rachels show. When truman asked me to do this i would like come of court of course. I am a huge fan. I am very grateful to truman for asking me to do this. Lets introduce our speaker. Rachel maddow is the h
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