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I am the Vice President of the open Society Foundation that is hosting this event. And i should say, that we are going to talk to around 45 minutes, give or take. And that we have enough time for another 45 minutes of questions. Those questions that you would like to share with eric and maya and me should be sent to questions at open Society Foundations. Org. Questions and open Society Foundations. Org party can also do this by twitter. If you really need to, you can do it via facebook. We are r...

Group everybody together as the same and what america forgets about is at the rugged individualism, its very difficult for us to look at the case, lets just say in minneapolis were george floyd died and Law Enforcement, the first thing we think about we think about, he was a black guy, it was a white Law Enforcement officer. That tells me everything i need to know about why this took place. What happens is when you try to make it an issue that an individual died was black and the person whos res...

I would like to welcome everyone, there might be big news today in american politics, but it aint nothing compared to this, which is so much bigger insignificance, and opportunity for us to celebrate eric alterman. With his new book lying in state why president s lie and why trump is worse we are going to spend, my name is Leonard Bernardo by the way, Vice President of the open society foundations, hosting this event, i should say that we are going to talk for around 45 minutes, give or take, th...

Karen welcome. Thank you all for being here. Before we get started, i just want to tell you that i am so happy to be having this event because we never get to talk about history and historians. We always talk about politics and the law and Foreign Policy. And it is all very interesting. But those of you who know me know that i like the history. And i think it wouldve been a very good thing if more historians were weighing in more frequently and people who write about politics in a historical vei...

This is our meager attempt to try to do that. Before we get started, let me just say that this is being recorded by cspan. You know the routine, which means that when you get the mic, speak into the mic, wait for the mic before you speak. And be aware of the fact that its being recorded. So before we get started with our discussion, let me introduce the men to my left. Jim banner who edited the book president ial misconduct, which is our kickoff for our discussion tonight, is a visiting scholar ...

Our discussion, let me introduce the men to my left. Jim banner to edited the book president ial misconduct which is the kickoff for our discussion tonight is a visiting scholar in history at George Washington university. Having spent most of his career teaching at princeton, he is the founding director of the history news service. His most recent book is being a historian being a historian and he hasory edited and written numerous books including the one we are featuring tonight. He also was on...

the way. the officers approached the 19-year-old suspect, shot them through the door, and of the window, hitting the one officer in the leg, another in the head, and a third of the trust. the suspect was then killed after they returned fire. all three s.w.a.t. officers are said to be in stable condition at this point. the crime crisis has already taken its toll on the city of philadelphia and the young people who live there, philia seeing a surge of crime over the past year with signif...

Spilling of blood for the. International live from moscow would mean a day or two day welcome to the program as the starts to settle from the operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul to its residents is becoming painfully clear. Went to the city to assess the real scale of the civilian tragedy. Weaning isnt always pretty. Is testament to that its being that almost half a year since they declared this a victory and it was despite its ugliness that of these than isis but no one mentioned the ...

Anytime you want and i always appreciate it let me go to lionel first in new york im not going to list all of the mistakes the Mainstream Media has made over the last few months because that would take up the entire program and then some suffice to say lionel i think its quite evident that the New York Times the Washington Post c. N. N. M. S. M. The m s n b c and other news organizations theyre making mistakes because they have a blind hatred for donald trump their blind hatred is throwing journ...

And welcome to cross talk were all things are considered im Peter Lavelle trust in the Mainstream Media is an all time low but no one should be surprised in the media has itself to blame for this sad state of affairs is a selfinflicted wound and actually a conscious Business Model the media no longer has an interest in reporting the news media today propagates ideology. Crosstalk in the state of the media im joined by my guest Eric Alterman in new york he is a sunni distinguished professor of en...