Tonight we encourage you to ask questions. The back portion of our event will be dedicated to your questions. At the bottom, you have seen where people have already asked question and you can vote on the questions that youre most interested in hearing our authors answer. And, lastly, reminder to everyone that you can see us, but we cannot see you. Feel free to relax and get comfortable. Tonight shes here with her new book. Tonight we are also joined by Zachary Carter where he covers congress, white house, tonight he will discuss price is king. So without further due i introduce stephanie and zachary. There was a tweet from lincoln public, antitrump republicans, how donald trump had run up 18. 17 billion of debt, theres columns in wall street journal, New York Times about debt, debt, but your book calls of deficit as a myth. What do you mean of by the deficit myth and why do you think its important to write at this time. Pleasure to be with you. First, let me start by saying increasing
Your question widgeon at the bottom, you can see more people are really ask questions. And you can answer questions and you can those on the questions that you are most interested in hearing your author sensor. And lastly, just a reminder to everyone that you busiest but cannot see you. So feel free to relax and accountable. So without any further ado, is my daughters to introduce stephanie kelton. She said that State University of new york right and columnist. Modern terry. Tonight were also lucky to be joined by Patrick Carter who is a senior reporter. It was congress, the white house and economic policies. Tonight will be discussing his book, the crisis piece, money democracy and the life of john. Without any further ado, heres zachary and stephanie. Hi everybody it is really nice to be with you and i want to start by talking to stephanie about her book which is called the deficit myth. Stephanie la care about is when i listen to the commentaries and talk about debt and deficits. Th
Eryone, the Truman Institute to do this. Its one of the first place to do research on this project. This is a wonderful thing to be able to do at the end of it. This is my fifth or sixth time coming to kansas city. I have yet to be here when the weather was tolerable. [laughter] ive been here for a blizzard, a thunder snow, tornado and now this. But every single time i have left with barbecue in my stomach, wonderful people that i met and more admiration for this great city that you have. So thank you for your hospitality here. [applause] and im a baseball fan. So to be in the world series is fine even if it isnt pittsburgh. I did not want to write a book truman and what stalin has said. Those books have been written before. I didnt find those interesting. I didnt wabblet to write a book as the two other histories of pottsdam that a cold war was going to come after it. The participants didnt know there was a cold war coming. They were there not to set up a conflict amongst themselves b
This is my fixed time coming to kansas city. I have yet to have been here when the weather was tolerable. Every single time ive come here, i have left with barbecue in my stomach and wonderful people to have met. Thank you for your hospitality. [applause] and im a baseball fan so to be in the world series city is fine. Book not want to write a those books that been done before. And frankly, i didnt find them that interesting . A cold was about to come after it. Because they they didnt know a cold war was coming. It was to stop the 30 year conflict that europe has just withdrawn from germany. I wanted to go back to the start. I wanted to go back to the original sources. They were there not to set up a conflict amongst themselves but to stop the 30year conflict with germany. Thats what they had come to potsdam to do. I wanted to get back to the original sources i wanted to go back without any preconceived notion and see if the conference might look different if i did that and as crosby s
birther, look no further than a new poll. it s a democrat-leaning group, but it finds 51%, remember that number tonight, 51% of republican primary voters believe affirmatively that president obama was not born in america. what this means is that in order to be nominated for the republican nomination a republican has to pretend or actually deny that president obama is a legitimate president he would be running against. the lie that won t die is our top story tonight. and speaking of those republican candidates, where are they? why hasn t a serious candidate even declared yet? could it be as joe scarborough suggests in politico this morning that they secretly believe that obama is going to be very hard to beat next year? morning joe himself joins us tonight. joe scar borough in ten minutes. plus, the phony case for war against iraq. the guardian reports today that the source the bush administration relied on known as curveball believed that there was no weapons of mass