Salutations will break out the champagne and warm up the order darmes heart watchers because on january 21st 2020 which is just a few short shopping days away we here in the United States of america get this celebrate the 10th anniversary. Drumroll not really anyway Citizens United yes the 10th anniversary is that this is united that Momentous Supreme Court decision that essentially decreed that corporations are people too and that the money they spend on influencing a politician or Political Party is the same as practicing the sacred right of free speech if thats turning 10 years old january 21st i know you had it marked on your calendar and just what great gifts of corporate bribery sorry sorry free speech in the form of digits and decimal points has the Citizens United decision brought to us all well according to a new study a new Study Released this week by the nonprofit Consumer Advocacy Organization Public Citizen over the past 10 years just 25. 00 ultra rich individuals have pou
Lus an ncis star on his tv glow up. Lets go. Look who is in our fice. Kate flannery. Thats wt she said. A shocking tearfilled elimination on dancing with the stars. And here as our gut cohost tonight dancing contestant and star of the office Kate Flannery. Kate, that was heart breaking. Youre absolutely right. I promised myself i wasnt going to talk about last night episodentil now. I cant wait to hear your take. I need you to hold our hand. Im so not okay. Our lauren zima was backstage ter james shared his tragic loss. My wife kimberly and i went worst nightmare. Pecting parents we lost the baby. The little soul that we had expected to welcome into our family took a shortcut to whatever lies beyond. If the heavens ever did speak james dedicated h dance to his wife kimberly and later shared phos of her in the hospital with thr oldest daughter olivia. We lost our bab boy, by the way. I almost lost my life. The 42yearold father of five wrote weve been through this befor but never this la
Are gutsy not only because they want to achieve something but because they want to pave the way for others who are going to come behind. Background sounds. Please welcome the 17th president of the George Washington University Thomas locke. [applause] sued a im going evening everyone and welcome to the George Washington university. I am pleased to you to tonight his if it. Presented in partnership with politics and prose bookstore and the second in the George Washington university his president ial extinguish if it series. We want to series last semester to give our students the opportunity to hear from renowned leaders. Individuals who bring them eliminating dialogue insight and inspirations to our campus. Tonight is an honor to host secretary Hillary Rodham clinton and Chelsea Clinton. Our campus. [applause] is i greeted secretary clinton on arrival i remind her that i traded trace the arc of my career with hers. A being at the university of rochester, i welcomed her to our campus. I
[cheering] its great to be back here. I want to thank president leblanc for welcoming all of us. Our family loves coming here. We were speaking and chelsea was dancing. Not nearly the range we could stay for the weekend to talk about all of them. Its an amazing book and so important to have stories of so many women in one place and people talk about that in a second. So we should get going because we dont have time. The process of the joined by line writing a book or anything else with someone is incredibly rich because of the different experiences and points of view that the coauthor brings to the project and virtual c. And d. If was especially exciting because it comes out of a conversation weve had since she was a little girl talking about people especially women who inspired us. Thats what is so great about iit is the stories are deeply personal. To most of you in some cases across the cultures and generations into geographies and backgrounds its an extraordinary range that youve p
[inaudible] great to be back here at gw. I want to thank president leblanc for welcoming all of us. Our family loves coming here. We were just talking backstage that both my husband and chelsea as well as myself have been here numerous times on this stage, bill and i speaking, chelsea dancing while she was on the ballet. I dont know why you all laugh. I was never a star. [laughter] its great being here and always great to be with you. I feel like weve done this in various combinations and its always fun and such an honor for me. First i just want to thank you on behalf of womankind for this book. I was saying to them ahead of time its a frustration tonight is going to be that we can only talk about so many of them. Not nearly the range we would want to, we could, we could stay for a week and talk about all of them. Its an amazing book, its so important to have the stories of so many women in one place. We will talk about that in a second. We should get going because we dont have a ton