An assignment manager he was video of the associated press. Thank you for joining us today for our virtual headliners newsmaker with rick wilson Steve Schmidt, cofounders of the lincoln product. We are happy to accept questions from our audience today and i will ask as many questions as time permits. To submit a question, email headliners at press. Org. We are 40 days away from election day. As in president ial campaigns past, the two candidates, President Donald Trump and democratic challenger, former Vice President joe biden are spending millions on advertising to spread their message and turned the tide in battleground states. This election is unusual, certainly the covid19 pandemic squelching the meet and greets. Then theres the Lincoln Project, a Political Action committee founded by several current informal influential republicans including attorney george conway, New Hampshire gop chair, jennifer warner, republican political strategist, mike madrid, ron and john and our guest he
Book came earlier in the year when i the press coverage of sara palin unfold and she to be on the National Stage i was amazed at some of the exaggeration and distortions or been told about her and some of our most established news media. People said that she was a supporter of pappy cannon, she wasnt. People said she was a supporter of the Alaskan Independence Party, she was not a member. Rumors about the paternity of her youngest child were circulated on the web. [inaudible] all of these rumors and lies i decided we should catalog them to show not only the fact that all of these myths were propagated, but also try to ask for the question of why. I think the question of why it isnt a way more interesting question. Sara palin has this unerring ability to summon up the worst feelings in her opponents. It is really quite amazing. What is that quality . Why is that quality they are invited to have the effect it had . Of personal thing she represents most of the things that the left in this
Great hall occupies an important place in the fabric of our city. Sitting here tonight, you are not only occupying a seat where, on this day in 1860, new yorkers listened to a thenlittleknown statesman from illinois deliver a speech that would not only alter the course of his life but would impact the future of our nation. Since that day scores of individuals have filled your seats, eager to discuss the issues that define who we are as a country. Tonight, you have a seat to another perspective on americas next chapter, inspired by the man who would reunite the country after the most divided period of its history and preserve the Great American experience. Abraham lincoln later viewed his Cooper Union Speech as the turning point to his eventual election to the white house and he made an impassioned argument against in slavery in the United States in treating his audience to have faith that right makes might. His words did more than make a president. The moral clarity of his imperative h
Death of george floyd in minneapolis and the protests that have followed. His podcast available on spotify. N we first book do you when we first booked you, the idea was to get your reaction to the george floyd killing. Broadly, your reaction to what you have seen in the country . It is heartbreaking. I grew up here. My parents were the first integrated high school class, so it is really personal. We keep seeing these shootings, and indifference to black life. We are now at a tipping point. 400 years of tragedy and confluence of factors have come together and they will not allow us to ignore it. Difficult video to watch a george floyd under arrest, a Police Officer with the knee on the neck of george floyd for almost nine minutes. Obviously there is foaming going on. Filming going on. It surprise you that these tactics still exist in American Police forces given the presence of social media, changes of leadership and police forces, and promises to change forceses and u. S. Police . Pro
A listen. Of stealing. Great citizens of this country to a certain extent and to a large extent as warriors. There warriors we cant keep our country close we have to put our country. Warriors yes we are all of us we are soldiers and love fight in the great war against. Wages who exactly are we fighting or more importantly what exactly are we fighting for are we fighting the virus that threatens us are we fighting for the health and safety of our friends and loved ones well my friends the president answer those questions as well take it away donald i created with a lot of other very talented people and the people of our country the greatest economy in the history of the world the best numbers weve ever had the best markets i think we had 144 days of wreckage stock markets. And then one day they said we have to close our country and now its time to open it up. Yes my Friends America will be opening up soon not for the ideals of liberty and freedom definitely not for safety your health or