Captured in a poli im concer this country we are back with a third and fourth hours of today right live from studio 1a in after this first, your local news and power if he loses in november. Weather. Rockefeller plaza, this is the get rid of the ballots, and officers. 3rd hour of today. Youll have a peaceful there we had two officers shot wont be a transfer, frankly. Tonight, and that is very serious. It is a dangerous condition. Good thursday morning. There will be a continuation. Just ahead, how the white welcome to the if the3rd hour house is explaining what he meant, as one Top Republican condemns the comment. Today. September 24th, three months honoring an icon. From Christmas Eve. Reporter anger spilling into the streets after the grand jury stop. Yeah. Decision in the Breonna Taylor no. Craig melvin, al roker, case. Louisville under a 9 00 p. M. Thousands waiting late into the curfew. National guard moving in. Night to pay their respects to Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Sheinelle jones,
The example to support the club during these uncertain times. Today eye crimed to talk with tiffani cross, political analyst and author of book say it louder, black voters, white narratives and sieving our dem. Tiffany has spent years in politics and media and witnessed the ways in which black voterrers are minimized and suppressed through both policy and media coverage. Say it louder builds on the work and explains the way in which black voters have been crucial in the same political system that were an dismissed from and although Voter Suppression is not new, Tiffany Cross asserts the change is coming by way of political activism and a demographic shift. I if you have a question you want me to ask tiffany later put it in the chat box in youtube or the comments facebook and the question will get to me. Thank you Tiffany Cross for joining us today. Thank you, aimee, for being in this conversation with me. Im so excited to have it, but im especially excited to have it with you. So looki
This program is part of the Commonwealth Club virtual series. We like to thank our members and sponsors and supporters for making this and all of the other programs possible. We are grateful for your support and hope that others will follow examples to support the club during these uncertain times. Today im excited to be talking with Tiffani Cross longtime analyst and author of a brand new book, say it louder tiffani has spent years in politics and the media where she has witnessed the ways in which black voters are minimized and suppressed through both policy and media coverage. Say it louder builds on the work and explains the ways in which black voters have been crucial in the same political system that were often dismissed from and although Voter Suppression is not new, Tiffani Cross asserts that the changes coming by way of political activism in this country and a demographic shift. If you are watching along with this and have a question you would like to ask tiffani later in the
Patient with us as we have tried to figure it out this is an emotional milestone, but if it looks like im tearing up, i assure you, its just so hot in this attic that my eyeballs are sweating. Back in march our executive producer Mike Shoemaker said, you should get air conditioners now for when it gets hot in june. And i said, june . Im not going to still be here in june, because i am the shortterm thinking grasshopper and shoemaker is the longterm planning ant and if you want to make it to 1,000 shows, i promise you the ant has more to do with it than the grasshopper. Im so lucky to have Mike Shoemaker i also want to give a shout out to our head writer alex baze he is americas greatest living joke writer and the first person i asked to join me on this journey. Without baze, none of this none of this would be happening. Thanks as well to our crew and writing staff, who i miss seeing very dearly. We do our best to talk about reality on this show, but it is not a reality show, and i know
Influenza. [inaudible conversations] thank you all for coming. You are in a panel called microbes, viruses and destiny. This is a discussion in which we will reveal how microbes are our secret puppet masters. As a Science Writer i should first start out by pointing out that viruses are microbes as well but it made sense to call this microbes, viruses and destiny because of our two writers. This is ed young and he is a Science Writer for the atlantic, author of a new book, i contain multitudes about the micro biomes. Thus the microbes of our panel title. Here is carl zimmer, Science Writer for the New York Times and author of many books including, most recently, a planet of viruses bid im an author of the book called pandemic which is about how microbes cause pandemics and all these books will be for sale by barnes noble and will be signing them after this session and signing table eight. I hope you guys can come join us for more discussion there too. First before we start id like to as