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If i could have your attention please. We will get started. The president is on the west coast for a fundraising trip so i am filling in for him. I have a brief chat which is to introduce our distinguished introducer. Megan is a Washington Post columnist who writes about economics, finance and government policy. She has previously written as a correspondent for the economist, the atlantic, newsweek, daily beast. Articles have appeared in reason, the guardian, New York Post and the new york sun. She is everywhere. She started one of the First Business economic blogs asymmetric information and authors a 2014 book the upside of down while feeling well is the key to success. In her spare time she appears as a commentator on fox news, msnbc and npr. She is degree in literature from the Pennsylvania University and an mba from the university of chicago. Please join me in welcoming her. [applause] i admit when i was asked to stand in for him that i had a little trepidation because theres so mu
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Criticized in the book, big business. [inaudible conversations] if i could have your attention please. We will get started. The president is on the west coast for a fundraising trip so i am filling in for him. I have a brief chat which is to introduce our distinguished introducer. Megan is a Washington Post columnist who writes about economics, finance and government policy. She has previously written as a correspondent for the economist, the atlantic, newsweek, daily beast. Articles have appeared in reason, the guardian, New York Post and the new york sun. She is everywhere. She started one of the First Business economic blogs asymmetric information and authors a 2014 book the upside of down while feeling well is the key to success. In her spare time she appears as a commentator on fox news, msnbc and npr. She is degree in literature from the Pennsylvania University and an mba from the university of chicago. Please join me in welcoming her. [applause] i admit when i was asked to stand
Importance for this group because you just called for the impeachment of donald trump. [cheers and applause] i read the Mueller Report debate came up. I went into the afternoon and into the night and into the next morning. When i got to the end, i did not stick my finger in the air and ask about politics. I did not hesitate. I read it. I knew what it said and i concluded, first, that this is a man who is broken the law, and you should be impeached. And i said so on that very day. [applause] i come to you at a moment of great crisis insa this country,a crisis at the time when americans working better and better and better for a thinner and thinner slice at the top, while it leaves everyone else behind. The central question of my life work has been, whats happening to working families in america . Why is the road getting so much rockier and so much steeper . And for families of color, even rockier and even steeper . And answer is, its no accident. Race lies right at the heart of this iss