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two dozen house contests, three gubernatorial elections are all within two points. that is called a statistical tie. now, as a reminder, three key swing states , if you go back to twenty sixteen , propelled donald trump to victory in 2016. the combined vote of those three swing states . seven thousand votes, 2020 forty three thousand votes in three states. that would be georgia, wisconsin and arizona decided the election. if you stay home, democrats. well, theyre likely to win and you ...

Lets get ready to go. Once again, im going to give everyone the reminder, when you have a question for the speaker, come up to the question mikes, say your name, your university and your nice concise question. It is my great pleasure, were very fortunate to have Michael Steele with us, the former chairman of the Republican National committee and former Lieutenant Governor of maryland. When he was elected Lieutenant Governor in maryland in 2003, Michael Steele made history as far as the first afr...

Good afternoon again. Please take your seats. Were trying to stay on time here. Id like to get started as soon as possible. Good afternoon. Im Malu Harrison i would like to welcome you back to this session. Miami book fair, 2017, if you are here this morning, and you know Miami Book Fair very well you know that book fair is presented by Miamidade College and thousands and thousands of volunteers among whom are students, faculty, staff, administrators, and many, many individuals from the communit...

[applause] so good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the kansas city public library. Robert merry is this is his second presentation in the somewhat hallowed halls of the kansas city public library, fivestar library this week from library journal. Thank you. [applause] hes a graduate of the university of washington. He has a masters degree from Columbia University school of journalism. Hes been a reporter for the observer, the wall street journal, managing editor, executive editor and ed...

Primary. Graduated with b. A. s in Political Science and journalism and an editor of the University Daily camden and you can see her frequently and she msnbc. Quent guest on thank you so much for being here today. William hope that introduction of the rest of the panel going end, so margaret, someone i had the opportunity to wello know very, very because she is also a White House Correspondent and we actually have deckses that are a each othereet from at the white house. Thank you for being here...

For 45 years. And this book talks not only about that life in law but also about your political history and a lot of personal stuff on the issue of personal stuff i should disclose the beginning i was your law clerk some wraps around 40 years ago, a long time ago. And you also officiated at my wedding so we been good personal friends for a while as well tread to a law clerk relationships one of the great perks being a judge. I have had 95 locks or expert you are one of the very first seven have ...

Question but we have a microphone here and if you could please get up and use the microphone, then he gets recorded and a bullet else can hear the question and the answer. So thank you in advance for that. Finally, we have two more events today, sometimes as beautiful the pictures but if you could not today that would be awesome. Thanks. If you enjoy this event with about 500 of author events a year to check out our november, december events calendar. Sign up for an email and also we opened up a...

Your microphone is right on you. You have two of them. But they are not on . [inaudible] ladies and gentlemen, how are we tonight . So welcome to the American Writers Museum. Id like to get everybodys attention as we have a very special us tonight. The American Writers Museum is where we celebrate the impact that writers have had on American History and our culture and our daily life. Now, on our walls and in the exhibits at the hwm, our writers in fiction, fantasy, science, spirituality and pol...

Of this haut was hosted by the ages society in new york city. A little introduction to this wonderful friend of mine. Anita raghavan. I first met her back in 1995. I was then coming to new york and looking around for stories to do and i decided to do a story on indian journalists who were rising in the mainstream is this press. At that time when i was interviewing all the people who had reached the top position someone said to me hey you know, there is this reporter you must meet at the wall str...

Ask about how we got to where we were in after the wall fell. I was born in 1964, old enough to remember what the world was like before that, when the soviet union was not only grim and desperate, but scary and looked kind of modern as well. Thats very hard i know, its hard to get back into, but if you look at the year 196061, you have the Kennedy White house saying we have to close the computer gap with the russians, use cybernetics as intelligently as they do in the soviet union. Most was smok...