[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, please find a comfortable seat and before we begin i need to tell you that theyll be a book signing afterwards and its outside on table h and all the authors will be there with their books and let me introduce the speakers for today. The first speaker will be darrell pinckney, and then i dont know who wants to be the second speaker but we might as well do it in order. Yasmine el rashidi, the bottle of egypt, and important pieces for the new york review and lastly on my right, masha gessen who has written several books about russia, including the man without a mace, totalitariaism. We will be talking about immigration, theres so many different ways to address it. We will start with darryl. Oh, god, i cant ad lib so i will do something to read sorry. I dont know anything about immigration. You live with an immigrant, my boyfriend said but i think of you as englishman in new york just passing through, yes, im an immigrant just passing through. Its
Time. [laughing] just getting. I would not do that to you. Im really so thrilled to be in this conversation with you, chris, and to bring your stellar stellar book, yazidis audits your to the brooklyn book festival, book this will also to the use of the live stream at home. I think anybody knows who chris hayes is Everybody Knows that he is the editor at large of the nation magazine. He is on our Television Screens and on our social media feeds, seems nearly constantly as he broke on to the scene, when was it . Winded when did i break . 2011. Which was really when thoughtful policy discourse joined cable news and usually been able to bring that to his nightly new show at 8 p. M. , all in. Chris also a New York Times bestselling book twilight of the elites, america after a meritocracy. And then this spring release this book, a colony in a nation. So lets get started. Chris, why did you write this book . Who did you want to read it and what did you want them to feel when they finished th
Trump with awardwinning russianamerican author and journalist masha gessen. Trump used to tell us that putin was brilliant. What putin actually said was that trump was colorful. The word colorful. In russian can also be transcribed in and bush as bright. In english as bright. Amy we also talk about her new book, which has just been shortlisted d for the National Book award. The president t trump said tuesy his administration would help puerto rico wipe out its 73 billion debt to help it recover from the extensive damage caused by Hurricane Maria. Then walkedirector back those comments. You will get response from Puerto Rican Born new york congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, who would to puerto rico with andrew cuomo two days after the storm hit. We need to make puerto rico whole again. Are 3. 5 million citizens. These are american citizens. Amy all of thatat and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In puerto rico, more than
What putin actually said was that trump was colorful. The word colorful. In russian can also be transcribed in and bush as bright. In english as bright. Amy we also talk about her new book, which has just been shortlisted for the National Book award. The President Trump said tuesday his administration would help puerto rico wipe out its 73 billion debt to help it recover from the extensive damage caused by Hurricane Maria. Then walkedirector back those comments. You will get response from Puerto Rican Born new york congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, who would to puerto rico with andrew cuomo two days after the storm hit. We need to make puerto rico whole again. Are 3. 5 million citizens. These are american citizens. Amy all of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In puerto rico, more than 90 of the island still does not have electricity from the power grid and half of the island does not have clean drinking water.
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, please find a comfortable seat and before we begin i need to tell you that theyll be a book signing afterwards and its outside on table h and all the authors will be there with their books and let me introduce the speakers for today. The first speaker will be darrell pinckney, and then i dont know who wants to be the second speaker but we might as well do it in order. Yasmine el rashidi, the bottle of egypt, and important pieces for the new york review and lastly on my right, masha gessen who has written several books about russia, including the man without a mace, totalitariaism. We will be talking about immigration, theres so many different ways to address it. We will start with darryl. Oh, god, i cant ad lib so i will do something to read sorry. I dont know anything about immigration. You live with an immigrant, my boyfriend said but i think of you as englishman in new york just passing through, yes, im an immigrant