Website at archives foundation. Org before we began, i want to make sure that everyone knows our distinguished speaker will be taking questions later in the program. We want to make sure that you have the chance to ask those questions. Well be using the youtube chat function. I see that we have regulars here, and you know but im going to tell you. Practice where you are going to put your questions, send your hometown and the state. We will give a shout out to a shot out later on. I see a lot of folks from around the country. That is exciting. You do not have to wait until the end to ask your question. Your questionut and, and we will have them queued up for only get to that point. I had the fortune of visiting the Ronald Reagan president ial library a number of times. In my current role, ive had the chance to partner with my current guest. About. Learn quite a lot duke is the president and dean of the library directors. He has been with the library for 20 years. To give you some sense
Taking questions later in the program. We want to make sure that you have the chance to ask those questions. Well be using the youtube chat function. I see that we have regulars here, and you know what im going to tell you. Practice where you are going to put your questions, send your hometown and the state. We will give a shout out later on. I see a lot of folks from around the country. That is exciting. We are going to have a blast. Duke are you with us out there, in a secure occasion . Duke i cannot tell you where i am. But it is secure. Thank you for the wonderful introduction. Patrick you can tell that you know someone well by the introduction. It has been a difficult time. How is the staff doing out there . Duke i think the staff is doing a great job of being productive, staying mentally healthy. We concern ourselves with that as the leadership at the library, trying to reach out to them, weekly, if not daily to make sure that everyone is fine. There been some losses that we have
Have in obligation to show you how we are doing that. To that end, i wanted to answer questions that we had been receiving in our office the last few days and updates. Namely, lets discuss the unofficial turnout numbers, election day registration, and the mechanics of a recount. We have put out a press release with this information and encourage you to share the facts with others who may have questions or concerns about the election process. Unofficially, wisconsin voters cast 3,929,374 votes for president. That is the most ever in the state of wisconsin, exceeding the previous record of 3,071,434 set in 2012. That makes the unofficial turnout percentage of wisconsin, which has a voting age population of 4,536,417 voters the unofficial turnout percentage is 72. 67 . It is important to note an effort questions about this that some jurisdictions choose to report their unofficial turnout as a percentage of registered voters. For example, if the city has 100,000 registered voters as they h
We just received positive. News for announcement that theres been progress made for a successful Russian Office didnt fix the financial problems to some semblance of hope to use. This far as its clear that this fact see even if approved will not be widely available for many months yet to come the economy will come back because people will start to feel normal its a challenge before us right now is still mentioned growing hopefully we have someone in office who can help us get rid of that whole big crisis and bring jobs back its not like people are not working because they dont want to they are having a tough time going to work. Also coming up after 4 years of Donald Trumps america forced us president elect joe biden is promising americas european friends a Foreign Policy that puts partnerships and allies 1st that he is someone who has a long and deeply value our partnership with the United Kingdom with the e. U. With nato and with other nations that share our core values so i think you
One of the windows of the capitol. She was also accused of using a bull horn to direct rioters. This all comes as were days away from the start of trumps second Impeachment Trial. One person we wont be seeing or hearing from, however, is donald trump himself. His defense team confirming trump wont testify. A new reaction this morning from congressman ruben gallegos. Well, this is more a typical trump move. This is not about defending his presidency, its not about defending his actions, its about, again, dividing america. Its a very cynical move because he believes and he understands the Republican Senate is not going to hold him accountable. Theres a lot of new information to run through with the trio of nbc reporters and we will begin with nbcs mike memoli, joining us from wilmington, delaware, where President Biden is spending his weekend. Mike, welcome to you. In the past few minutes were learning more from the white house on the former president and intel briefings. What do you kno