Anna good morning. Im anna palmer, coauthor of the politico playbook and i am joined by jake sherman. Welcome to a special edition of the playbook interview. Joining us now is the Senior Vice President of the Milwaukee Bucks. He has previously worked in Democratic Politics and his family owns the bucks. Jake for a connecticut kid like me, vin baker is a legend. He went to the university of hartford and had a 13year career in the nba, mostly with the bucks and seattle supersonics. Allstar,ur time nba olympic Gold Medalist and is currently an assistant coach with the bucks. We have a little news. This makes it a very timely conversation. The president of United States moments ago tweeted, people are tired of watching the highly political nba. Basketball ratings are way down and wont be coming back. I know football and baseball are watching and learning because the same thing will be happening to them. Stand tall for our country and flag. That is the backdrop with which we have this conve
Economics, state and city news, immigration, law and education. In her career at the wall street journal emily is held reporting and editing positions in new york, london, pittsburgh and atlanta. Tonights featured offer, melissa korn reaches a Higher Education were reported for the wall street journal previously she wrote for dow jones newswire she is a graduate of Cornell University and the Columbia University graduate school of journalism. Also we have jennifer levitz. She is a National Reporter for the wall street journal. Previously schroepfer the providence journal. She has been a member of two Pulitzer Prize finalist teams prayed she graduated from loyola university, maryland. And theyre reviewed of unacceptable, they wrote the authors highly readable expose goes well beyond the tabloid level. A capable examination of the seeming intersection of ambition, money, and Higher Education. Library journal calls it a fastpaced account of the massive College Admission scam designed by br
Cspan. Org. New york Times Economics and tax reporter joins us now via zoom for the conversation about joe bidens campaign you series of economic plants. The first of which was released last week. The second came yesterday. He first explained the pitch that the Biden Campaign was making would these spending and Economic Investment plans. Thank you so much for having me. Its a pleasure to be here. Which will biden is trying to do is counter President Trump on the economy. President won election in part on the string of a very populous pitch for workers who feel left behind and in the current economy and in particular, biden making lots of appeals to the industrial midwest about manufacturing. The first part of joe bidens new plan that he put out last week its called build better back or build back better. It is an alliteration. A little like a little laugh love of the economy. What the vice, the former Vice President wants to do with that plan is to promote much more of a by american et
Coming to you shortly. In the interim i am so pleased to welcome my guest Douglas Murray to our event this afternoon. Douglas is a journalist, and im sure many of you, if not all, have read his work on the pages of the wall street journal or National Review or of course in the spectator but hes an associate editor. Douglas is also an author most recently his 2019 book, the madness of crowds, and he was with us in person at the Manhattan Institute i think in early 2018 and that was just after the publication of this book, the strange death of europe. Douglas is a Formidable Political critic, and while he is an observer of all things uk and i think u. S. , im not sure that he knew the subject of both his most recent book and this one would come into play so much during this particular moment in time, but they have and its for that reason and many others that it is my pleasure to welcome you, douglas, to our event this afternoon. Thank you very much. Its a great pleasure to be with you an
In speaking with two of the leading lights of the english book world, two of my neighbors in brooklyn. One is johnny campbell, the other is jessica the noodle of the green light bookstore in my neighborhood bookstore. Welcome to both of you and thank you for taking the time to speak. I want to talk shop with you guys give people inside baseball about our new lives as independent book people. We will start with you jessica. What has this doneto your business . It a lot really fast, right west and mark its been a real reinvention over the past six or eight weeks. Midmarch there were a couple of days where we were like we need to consider closing . Suddenly it was like yes, you absolutely have to and you also need to send everyone home and in that week of transition, i think march 21 we close the doors and walked away from the bookstores that was terrifying because we didnt know what was going to happen next. I feel like we were in a fortunate position that weve already had a really welle