where democratic presidential candidate elizabeth warren is going to deliver a speech on corruption, one of her campaign themes. this is washington square park in manhattan and you are watching live coverage on c-span. i am so proud to be in new york where the working party was born. today we are a national organization for members across the country, but new york will always be home for us. helped take back the state senate from the corrupt, independent democratic conference. control intoown donald trump for nearly a decade. give it up. we took back our democracy. in the past few months the working families party had a deliberative process that , membersstate chapters and supporters. to say not be prouder that this moment, this morning, we announced our support for senator elizabeth warren for the democratic nomination. [applause and cheers] warren has been a fprsonal hero to many w members. she helped lay the groundwork for occupy wall street and give it up. [applause and
hello, new york. now some of you know this. i never thought i would get into politics. not in a million years. but when i got into this fight, i quickly found out nobody makes it on their own. if you are going to make any kind of progress in this country, you need aleyes who know how to fight. and more importantly, you need aleyes who know how to all eyes who know how to win. [cheers and applause] the working families party has been on the front lines of fighting for racial and economic justice and building a grassroots movement to elect the next generation, and i am honored to have their support. cheers and applause] and tonight, with all of you as witnesses, i am going to make a promise, and that is when i am in the whitehouse, working families will have a champion. [cheers and applause] so, thank you maurice, and thank you to the working families party. now when so many good people show up, i usually do a town hall followed by selfies. tonight, a little something dif
[applause] if you are not yet on the email list, sign-up. we just added senator amy so now for tonight, we re it was unforgetting. bob s story about the genius of the political like his subject, caro has no peer. over the years bob has spoiled us with his portraits of robert moses and lyndon johnson and treated us to slight left turns in the narrative, his diversions into fascinating bystanders, they might form the basis of future studies in and of themself. so consider his new book, working, as a companion piece to his great moses and johnson books, and today in 2019 is more resonant than ever about power used for good and power used against the greater good. as the book answers core questions, it raises more, as caro gives us deep background into the ways and whys he does what he does with such graceful shorthand. asra if his books weren t physil and intellectual evidence enough about why he takes so long to crank out the next volume, caro gives us the background on t
i m guessing this is because my lapel microphone is working or not. it is working? okay go with this. one of the things i want to start with is let s just remember what was 1919? that was after the soviet revolution right after world war i. i think the leaders came together and said this is a multiple cataclysms happening at once. the capitalism we probably need to look at it. the rise of labor unions having completely unbridled capitalism where people are treated terribly or abused, was bad or that of people were mistreated there could be revolutions. there has also been a major global clash so there was a major questioning of capitalism . there was a major questioning of the system we need to reform capitalism to save it. i suspect is probably what happened. we ve got some challenges and i think it s interesting that the first meeting in washington take us a while to get it right. winston churchill may be in the same category all said that the americans will do the rig
the center for strategic and international studies talk about the future of the international workforce. 2019 marked the 100th anniversary of the ilo which the united states joined. this is about two hours. what was 1919? that was right after the soviet revolution after after world war i. i think the leader of that time came together and said whoa. multiple cataclysms happening at one. capitalism as we knew it, we probably needed to look at it. there s been sort of the rise of labor unions saying we have completely unbridled capitalism where people were treated terribly or abused was bad or if people were mistreated there could be a rise up and create revolutions like in the soviet union, and there d also been a major global clash, and so there was a major questioning of capitalism. there was a major questioning of the system, and so i suspect they say we need to collectively solve the problem to save it. we ve got some challenges, we re going to come together to do this. i