Conversation by adam gopnik. My name is bo mendez, manager of program progressive communications. Brooklyn Historical Society. While we walk in the tort physical location i am still honored and have opposed to welcome you all to our virtual programs. We look forward to hopefully having you join us for more in the coming weeks. Before we get to the subject of two Nights Program i want to share a little bit about some things we have coming up, things to look forward to more virtual programs. We will be hosting next week will be hosting former new York State Attorney general kenneth philby shared her new book in the conversation with they will explore the connection between big money and impact on our democracy. That would be on august 11. Following week will be hosting Rick Perlstein in a conversation with Jeffrey Toobin discussing his new book which continues in the expiration we been doing with the recent history of the Republican Party in modern american conservatism. That will be aug
And when he says Something Like that, you know its true. And the president fired the crowd up sharing many tales of victories and he did that at the state of the union. On tuesday, i delivered my address on the state of the union. And i had somebody behind me, who was mumbling terribly, mumbling. Mumbling, wah, wah, ho, ha. Mumbling. Very distracting. Jimmy we did some digging, and we went through all the footage to figure out who was mumbling behind him, and i believe we found the culprit. Here, on this land, on this soil, on this continent. I love you, i love you, i love you. I love you. Jimmy its nice that they still have that spark after all this time together. As he often does, trump covered a wide range of subjects, including the time in 2017 when a man with a gun shot louisiana congressman steve scalise. Scalise was at the rally with trump. A very brave man. He took a bullet. He got shot. And he got up, he was going to die that night. I tell this story all the time. His wife, sh
So deep laying to rest the legacy of colonize ation me take many years yet. For sports not a long wait is finally over for fans of german football here and around the world now in this stadium later today the new going to sleep a season kicks off of champions buying in extra their campaign against have to berlin and byron are aiming for a record 8 League Titles in a row this season but they will face some stiff competition they only narrowly beat dortmund to the title last time around and dortmund have brought in some new players including those who left byron to return to his former club. And we have tom the noise from the sports with us to give us the lowdown on the new bunch of sleep a season hi tom thanks for joining us by and they were champions last season but did they showed off weakness to give other teams some hope this time around i think so certainly yeah i mean obviously the headline is of course that they were champions last season for the 7th time in a row they finished t
does that end up hurting him enough that elvis s son, nephew, can win? you know, that s a good question. you know, how does that translate for folks? to be honest, stepping away from it and being this far, i don t think it will really factor. for a lot of those voters. there hasn t been a lot of blowing up around that. and yeah, it was a scandal. i think they re blowing up about it. it s hurt his popularity. it s made him very unpopular, tate reeves. yeah, but the question is how does that then translate into votes? donald trump is unpopular. but that has him beating joe biden. i m not going to base my experience in politics. i m not going to base how a campaign is going to turn out based on who is unpopular. what i m going to base it on is how reeves and presley are managing their ground game. and how they re managing the vote. and who they re turning out. are they turning out voters who see reeves as unpopular? are they taking advantage of his unpopu
just. close in ohio, mayors on marijuana and abortion rights are on the ballot. reproductive rights are also the center the ballot for control of the state legislature, both houses in virginia. in all of tonight s elections will be a test of a fascinating and defining political dynamic of the biden era, where we have seen democrats reliably outperforming against all odds. first, the incumbent party controlling the white house is usually at a disadvantage. boaters nationally react against swimming back in the other direction, that s why midterm elections tend to favor the party that s out of power. then of course there are conditions joe biden democrats but up, against coming out of the covid pandemic. they have dealt with serious economic headwinds that have racked most of the economies of the world. chief among them, high in inflation, which peak last year in a stunning 9.1%. the president s approval rating has suffered, to say the least. he has been underwater since his fir