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His work has appeared in the New York Times, salon and many other publications. He is the Elizabeth MorrisPolitical Science at Windsor College in oregon in portland, tonight he presents his new book the fire is upon us, James Baldwin, William Buckley junior and the debate over race in america. Please join me in welcoming nicholas buccola. [applause] thank you. Really appreciate that introduction. I want to start by saying how special it is to me to be with you. I live 3 blocks from here for 5 years when i was in graduate school and i would come to romans every wednesday with my mom kathy who is sitting here and my late cousin kathy martin and we wou ....
We should be grateful that we have an opposite party that makes us more clearly communicate because we need to do the work, if you think about sports im avid tennis player, im not very good but i love it and i love to have competition because it makes me work, it makes me think and thats where we are. We have to work and we have to think and we have to communicate better. Secondly, i want you to think about our National Narrative, again, the optimistic versus negative, right, optimistic, pessimistic, the left has fullon terrible narrative how terrible the country is, im not saying we are a perfect nation, do not say, we are not a perfect nation but do i beef we are the best nation. I also believe if we constantly tear ourselves down we will never be able to move forward. I think we have an entire generation of people who we have told they cant be successful and unfortunately they have begun to believe it and i think its a trav ....
mistakes but now i want to change my life if i hear you correctly, it sounds like you re crying out for a new normal, for getting back to normal and i m hoping that the things you have said today will help us begin to get back there. the late great chairman, elijah cummings in 2019, speaking to and about michael cohen. the ex-trump lawyer who testified this week before the grand jury investigating trump s hush money payment to a porn actress. cohen s attorney, lanny davis, joins me in a few moments for his first tv interview in the case also tonight, a major development in the criminal investigation of trump s mishandling of classified documents. there s a judge who ordered trump lawyer evan corcoran to testify. plus, ron desantis allegedly chooses his fingers as the spoon of choice for his chocolate pudding. it s just one of the weird, strange tales of the would-be presidential candidate who apparently likes political stunts and performative hate politics but peo ....
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