With each discussion we will conclude with time for your questions and if you have a question for our speakers at any time, click on the q and a button at the bottom of the screen and we will get through as many as time allows. Ill send a link to donate in support of this series. Your purchases and financial contributions events like tonight possible and help ensure the landmark bookstore. Thank you for tuning in in support of our authors. We sincerely appreciate your support now and always. Finally as you may have experienced virtual gatherings technical issues may arise and if they do we will do our best to resolve them and we thank you for your understanding. Im so pleased to introduce tonights speakers, professor martha s jones, professor of history at Johns Hopkins university and copresident of the brookshire conference of historians. Her work has been recognized by the organization of american historians, American Society for history and the National Committee center and she hold
Lead reporter for coverage of the 9 11 terrorist attacks. His books also have made big news and drawn many readers pick his nose book rage is his 20th. All of been national bestsellers. We are accustomed to bobs books taking us behind the scenes of highlevel meetings and into the minds of those making critical u. S. Policy decisions. His extraordinary about United States is at this time donald trump himself spoke with bob not once or twice but 17 times while the book was being written providing a remarkable series of glimpses into the president s thinking at key moments. The conversation with bob the cd will be another prizewinning journalist jane mayer, chief washington correspondent for the new yorker magazine which is been for 25 years. Jane is also the author of authoritative books that helped deepen our understanding of such important topics as the money behind the rise of the radical right, the war on terror, the Clarence Thomas hearings, and the irancontra affair. So jane and bo
Purchase it. Of course youre going to want to purchase it for yourself, your relatives, your neighbors and friends because theres a lot riding on what he says. So please go ahead and purchase pauls book and help support this discourse that hes, hes lending to all of us in the next few months and beyond. I just want to say that any night of the week wed be thrilled to have either one of our guests for a p and p event, but getting them together is kind of like a hallelujah moment for us at p and p. I dont know how many of you are counting or have that thing that shows the days, minutes and seconds until the election, but if youre not counting, there are 88 days remaining. Personally, i kind of wish the election was today, but were to wait 88 days. And given whats riding on the outcome, its such an to introduce my old friend and former colleague paul begala. He is going to tell us how democrats could win in america. That would, of course, rid america at least one of the two plagues curren
University in washington dc. Good evening. This thing has got to come down lower for me. How are all of you . Happy new year, thank you for being here. I am one of the coowners of politics and prose bookstore, lissa muscatine. Thank you. Along with my coowner and husband brad grant who is somewhere in the front and our fabulous wonderful staff, welcome all of you to tonights event in our Nations Capital and on the campus of George Washington university. I mention our location because think about it, we are at an Institution Name for our nations first president and only blocks from the Nerve Centers of american government, the white house and congress so what better venue for a conversation with tonights guest speaker, senator Kamala Harris spends her days on capitol hill and you are not alone if you think in a couple years she might be taking up residence at the other end of pennsylvania avenue. Since her election to the United States senate in 2016 senator harris has emerged as one of
Just released. Hes a former staff director for the Senate Armed Services committee and prior to that he was advisor for john mccain and previously held other positions in the government. Right now he is the chief Strategy Officer that builds capabilities for the military as well as the department of Homeland Security and we can talk about that as we go through the interview thank you very much for being with us today. Its great to be here. So just to start off with what led you to do this book . Youve been thinking about these issues for a while and obviously this is something youve encountered a lot during your several years on the Armed Services committee and with senator mccain as a policy advisor what was the genesis that led to you sitting down and writing an entire book . Its a great question and i asked myself that constantly, why did i get into this every day i was working on it . I guess it was basically two things. One was and both of these were a product of the many years i