[cheers and applause] mr. Franken werent they great . I told james, who played bernie , he has to start at a higher level and ramp it up. Wow. It is great to be here, isnt it, at politicon . People all over the ideological spectrum, left, right, farleft, farright, the nutcase left, the nutcase right, and there are even people here from nutcase middle. David brooks is here. [laughter] mr. Franken wrote another great column in the New York Times about how there arent enough americans like him, and it was very, very balanced, i have to say. I know a lot of you might be wondering what i have been up to. Well, when i left the senate, i was going to give up my seat, but not my voice. Thank you. [applause] mr. Franken i have spent a lot of time thinking about how to do that, and how best to make a difference, so i have been spending the last few months going around the country, making speeches, about politics, health care. I have been raising money for organizations that do great things, like
Account on how to organize with community guess that is grassroots and corporate power, asking too much. I know the richmond, california story is an incredibly important story, has really been told, i have seen a couple articles about it but it is one of the real stories we should be learning especially in baltimore, in terms of deindustrialization, racism, poverty and one of the most important things is lack of luxury to get hung up on not working together, like baltimore, richmond too small to have too many sectarian divisions and what is exciting about the richmond story is a found a way to get over those divisions, Work Together in an alliance that is able to get stuff done, significant Green Party Mayor in the united states. Really excited to learn. Join me in welcoming steve early. Thank you very much for that great introduction. The privilege to be here tonight. I apologize for the formality of the arrangements. Good friends at cspan booktv are here so this is an opportunity for
That announcement last night. Brian stunning. The white house says its clearing the way for turkish troops to invade. Isnt this great . Take control of captured isis fighters who have been imprisoned by us. Ainsley ellison barber joins us from washington with what this means. Good morning there are numerous reports sources in northeast syria are already pulling back and withdrawing from the area near the border with turkey President Trump spoke on the phone with turkish president erdogan late last night. The white house confirmed that call and announced the u. S. Withdrawal of u. S. Forces in northeast syria. Clear the way for a turkish assault. Stephanie grisham said this the United States armed forces will not support or be involved nut operation and United States forces, having defeated the isis territorial caliphate will no longer be in the immediate area. Turkey will now be responsible for all isis fighters in the area captured over the past two years. Erdogan has been threatening