Welcome to the l. A. Times book festival grand old party forum thanks for joining us. I am a republican political strategist thanks for joining us we have a very distinguished panel on stage the four met today partially with the state of the Republican Party we will do that for about 30 minutes starting with the first panelist National Syndicated talk radio can you tell us about your new book . Sure. We did not bring copies of our book. I know cspan brian lamb is dying laughing right now. And it came out it was as opposed to be written from the earthquake but how republicans deal with their president and they are happy to do so so the keyboard working away but then the fifth time your watching in tv land i will sign your copy. Professor of sociology the book is called black elephants in the room so i guess this is a nice contrast. But that opposite spent three breyers so what is it like to be black with the Republican Party . In the post obama era . That covers the experience of politi
Awesome power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends. No interest in tweeting the presidency of anything but one more reality show that we can use to get the attention he craves. Donald trump has not grown into the job because he cant. And the consequences of that failure are severe. Dana we have team talks coverage karl rove and molly on in a moment but the response from the team over at the Trump Campaign and we began with Jacqui Heinrich reporting live from wilmington, delaware. Do we have anybody in delaware, what do you know . Good afternoon, dana. Last night was about painting the country in a state of chaos and crisis and blaming President Trump era tonight will be about joe biden trying to be the leader who can ride the ship. Biden will have a positive core beliefs of the country to be united and will lay out a plan. So far keynote speaker skirted specific policy talks, mostly selling the candidates. Testimonial supporters served to highlight policies and tack
Injustice, building on the case shes made when she was announced as bidens vp pick just one week ago. When we look at someone like the current occupant of the white house, again, he has not been lifting folks up. Joe and what we are about is about lifting people up, understanding that the strength of a leader is based on not who you beat down, but who you lift up. His empathy, his compassion, his sense of duty to care for others, is why i am so proud to be on this ticket. He knows, and he cares about the fact that we have, as a nation, witnessed 165,000 people who just in the last few months have died in our country. So what real leadership looks like is joe biden. To speak up, sometimes telling us the stuff that we dont necessarily want to hear, but we need to know. Harris is the candidate that the Trump Campaign viewed as the most skilled and in a clear sign of their concerns, or maybe its just how they roll at this point, the racist and sexist smears against her from trump and his b
Under arrest. In a notoriously tough and now nationally familiar office, the Southern District of new york. And his attorney entering a formal plea of not guilty for steve bannon. Heres what the fed. They have evidence to prove political fraud and corruption and this alleged corruption comes at the worst time for donald trump, reinforcing a main argument at the dnc from biden allies and former president obama himself about trumps corruption, and personal abuse of power that they say threatens democracy itself. Now here tonight is the legal evidence as we know it. The feds say he was part of a plot with three others that fraudulently misused a lot of money from a political operation that claimed to be all about backing Donald Trumps border wall. The effort raised about 25 million for building the wall through a go fund me page, just like the ones you may see friends and family use. Even the bannon, Donald Trumps former number one, took about 1 million from that effort into his own pocke
Prude. We begin right now tonight with the Trump Campaign absolutely burning through cash. These new reports that basically show that joe biden leads in state polling which is key and now in the cash battle. Here are the facts. Donald Trumps Campaign spending 800 million, for comparison, thats most of what it raised just over a billion, through july of this year. The cash crunch comes as joe bidens fundraising is also exploding bringing in a record 365 million last month, powered partly by the vp pick and today donald trump conceding some of the costs. We needed to spend more money up front because of the pandemic and the statements being made by democrats, which were again disinformation. The press was fake and we have to spend a lot of money. If we did need, we have much more money than we had last time, i think double and triple. If we needed more, i would put it up personally. Put it up personally. Donald trump landing on it saying he can sell fund to millions of dollars up like jo