Used to be the mayor of hazleton. Trump supposedly said, i want you to run in this race. Does he clear the field now . Is he the big gun . I dont think so. First of all, you know, he doesnt have much name i. D. The mayor of hazleton isnt as known, as you can imagine. Trump won this state by less than one point, too. I mean, it was super close. I think out of 6 million votes, about 60,000, 70,000 votes total. So i think it will be a complicated field. I think there will be a lot of opportunity for people to kind of get their name out there, but i have a hard time, given todays environment, thinking how you beat bob casey. Really . With casey moving more and more to the left, and heres barletta, who made his name on antiimmigration. People may not know him a lot now, but if you are a trump supporter, somebody in the middle of the state, it seems to me that he looks a lot more appealing to you than, perhaps, somebody else. I understand, but the way you win an election is 50 plus one, and
You northeasted a roof, a roof protects a build and can the idea was in russia comes from the mob, everyone was a roof. So he became a roof essentially, and he became a billionaire by worming his way into the kremlin and into yeltsins family with a capital f who ran russia. A roman is a toy saysmen from siberia, making rubber ducks and childrens toys. An orphan, again, jewish from nowhere. Has an idea of privatizing the oil industry and creating an oil company. They partner up. Just like the facebook story. Theres no shares of lawyers but he is the roof and they create the second Largest Oil Company in exchange, roman makes this human payoff. Every week they would send over a suitcase of cash, 3,000,005,000,000, whatever he asked for. 100 million one year. And that was their relationship. And that kind of the beginning whenever the story the money gets bigger and bigger, rompan becomes a billionaire, and then yeltsin starts to fade. Starting to die and with this time sentence oligarchs
To you. [applause] thank you very much. It must begin by apologizing for holding you up from a 20 minutes. Now that no work is revitalizing traffic at this time is impossible but thats a good thing i think so while i apologize im also happy that i got caught up in the works overflow traffic tonight. Its my role to lay out the ground rules for our conversation. We will begin with the author Dale Russakoff making a presentation. She will then be followed by the three panelists who have joined us to an affect react comments on what dale has written and what she will say to us tonight. Dales comments will be about 15 minutes. That means that panelists will each get about 10 minutes to respond. Is that all right panel . Again have ongoing conversation after those initial remarks have been made. After they have made their presentations then we will open the floor for comments, questions from the audience and i think we have a microphone here. We may have another mic somewhere in the room but
Ted lieu who is calling for a Justice Department probe of exxon as well as 350. Org cofounder Bill Mckibben who just got arrested for temporarily closing a local exxon gas station in a oneman protest, holding a sign reading, this pump temporarily closed because exxonmobil lied about climate. And remember this stunning announcement . So, mr. Zuckerberg, what role are you playing in all of this . Will the be a check offered at some point . Yeah, i have committed to starting the start of Education Foundation. The first project will be 100 million challenge grant. 100 million . Amy where has all the money gone . Five years ago, facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated 100 million to fix the schools of newark, new jersey. Tens of millions have been spent on hiring outside consultants and expanding Charter Schools, but what about the children in one of americas poorest cities . We will speak to Dale Russakoff author of, the prize whos in charge of americas schools . All that and more, coming
To build the infrastructure to allow that to happen. Thank you, shanae. I want to thank dale [applause] i want to thank Dale Russakoff for a very accessible treatise on what has been going on in the Public Education sector in newark over the last several years. Her book is a very interesting read, and i think the opportunity to meet her here and to hear her talk about her book was also very, very important. Dale will be signing in the gallery, so if you will line up the righthand side you will be in line for the book signing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] you are watching the tv, television for serious readers. Watch any program you see here online at the tv. Org. Next on the book tv, investigative journalist joe domenick chronicles americas policing from the 1990s. Follow the beating of rodney king in the late rights through 2014, that even some new york city and ferguson, missouri. We are here today to talk abo