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Hes interviewed by tom daschle. This is a weekly Interview Program with relevant guesthouse interviewing top nonfiction authors about the latest work. Welcome. Im thrilled to have an opportunity to talk with you about your book. The books title is in triggering, the broken. Can the senate save itself in the country . What is your conclusion . Guest im thrilled to have a conversation with you, when cspan told me you were going to do it i felt i had won the lottery. To see an old friend and also a great senator and Senate Leader and an author on the subject, you cant much better. The easy answer is that the jury is out on how its going to go. What i try to convey in the book was first that the senate has declined for a long period of time, not a couple of years, more like a couple of decades. The senate has declined in a way goes like that then stevens over the last nine or t ....
They are just adding names to this. If there was a way for you or other community leaders, to add to this growing item, because of you know the people, they want to know them also, and nine times out of 10, there is not a there and maybe youppening would be able to influence it by bringing together a group. Getting activeat power often means getting types of power oftentimes mean is that there are a lot of people who have power. In order for new people to have it, other people have to relinquish them and that will take all of us to really come to terms with what that means and i hope that we are all of to the challenge. Just to the comment on the erosion of democracy, i wanted to share that. The elections we see Strong Political participation. President ial elections it is somewhere in the mid 40s. To me that says when we see that we have people who represent us and take on issues relevant to our daily lives than we come out. I ....
Or rural, you want to live a make sure your children have a great future. Decentdont get up for they get up for good and for great. Thats really what it is. The Democratic Party is recognizing that. Ohio has 88 counties. In speaking that, starting with the issues we have in common four guns in urban areas it is a whole different discussion. Rural brothers and sisters. It is starting at those places where behalf that commonality about economic fairness, Economic Justice, where your children have a future. Because of the makeup of ohio, that forces us to do that. We cant really separate the two. We are trying very hard to bring that together a little more into leaf that into the narrative and weave that into the narrative. Wen with our party chairs, have found world leadership who will take that message back. We have the urban leadership and bringing those forces together, ....
With those policy issues but peter is the first in the best call. With Community Engagement to moderate the success into a dive into new topical issues said your questions to me we are a completely nonpartisan in organization we are partisan but only of the mission and a and policy but still from time to time the election season our issues are propelled to the fore of the debate this Campaign Season has ben an exception. [laughter] in you have heard her voice loud and clear with bigotry and stereotyping is part of the debate so i am more intent to make impact were so happy to have our panelists here to rapper heads around this moment we start with the session on the art of perception and how difficult it can be twoseat beings hiding in plain sight. The expectations were so out of sync, what did we miss . Thinks having me thanks for the important work that you do in som ....
A combination of how far this anxiety anger frustration goes and where it gets channeled in the future. Thank you. Peter, why dont you take a stab at that, because you didnt weve spent time together, so i know you missed a Little Something also. Well, thank you for reminding me. If ruth had to do it, equal opportunity. Right, and i have the benefit if you missed it, Dana Millbank had to eat a column. No, that was the recipe in the washington post. If you dont get it, you dont get it. I read ruths columns, by the way, i want to say right off. I read them every day so i remember how i should think. [ laughter ] i mean, after all, i am an ethnic irish Second GenerationRoman Catholic from maine, so i have no business actually thinking any other way than the way rut ....