Next conversation was the chief of staff with four president s. They talk about 9 11, the 2008 financial crisis, benghazi attack, angle and the covid19 pandemic. From georgetown university, this is an hour and 15 minutes. I wanted to thank everyone for tuning in tonight, both here in the zoom chat, members of the georgetown community, but also the broader public who is following us on social media or other channels. This is a really timely conversation, i think, as we look at the world and the state of our politics right now, and the number of crises that were all dealing with, much of it falls at the doorstep of the oval office to be dealt with. And so to help us sort of sort through how president s think about this, we thought who better to convene than a group of former chiefs of staff who have been there on the front line, working arm in arm with the president of the United States, with the last four president s of the United States in tackling various crises. These crises have com
Freedom Coalition Founder ralph reed who over the next two hours will be talking your calls and comments. His books include act of faith and for god and country which was published earlier this year. Host author ralph reeding when we asked you what some of your books are, the first one you listed was the bible. Is the bible a political book . Guest i dont think of it that way. Certainly, it has instruction about Civic Affairs and politics and how we order our societies, but i for me, obviously, the bible is primarily the revelation of gods man and principles for humanity and the best huawei to know best way to know the keys to living a godly life with intimacy with him. And if you believe in the new testament, as i do, his son, jesus christ. I also think as a trained historian its one of the most important history books that youll ever read. I mean, if you want to understand the ancient world, theres no better Single Source than the bible. Its all there, the rise and fall of empires fr
So i knew of course that taft succeeded teddy and they would run against each other 1912, but then you always go back and i know scott does too, you want the primary sources, the letters and diaries and private journals for historians so when i found the 400 letters between the two, i realized they become friends when they were in their early 30s and an odd couple, teddy who is marching around everywhere doing wrestling and boxing and taft wayne between 250 and 350 is not doing much wrestling and boxing at that point, but they liked each other and the opposites almost attracted and teddy brings them into his cabinet, he becomes the most important person in his cabinet even though all his life he wanted to be a judge, never a politician, from from that he decides hes the man i want to succeed me, he runs the taft campaign, gives him advice at every moment, the only thing he did not give him a vice was the Campaign Song which i dont think teddy wouldve approved of it was get on a raft wi
Faith boston. Its about an hour. Im one of the cofounders of safe boston. [inaudible] a lot of Educational Forums like this to talk. Tonight i want to welcome everyone that is watching on the live stream and the people watching on cspan book tv. And i want to let you know that despite the covid regulations and we are still in lockdown over time if we are doing tonight is streaming and getting together for this wonderful event to talk about a very important book in our lives. 50 of it deals with immigration, legal and illegal. [inaudible] [applause] bear with me. Its very hard here in boston. Its kind of get right to it. An adviser to the campaign. Brian is a political consultant for the american conservative and his work is in human events. We will just get right to the buck. I spoke with steve this afternoon and he said this is an essential time with the populist movement is. She called this a critically important book. Jv vance called it intelligent and extremely real. [applause] let
Host this is the headline, joining us on the phone from poland is marc anthony centaur who covers all of this as the bureau chief for the new york times. Thank you for being with us. Explain what this means for poland and also the Trump Administration. This party came to power five years ago, part of a wave across parts of europe, and it ,erved much of that five years in part because of their ideology but probably more so because of the financial policies that were very generous social worker programs. Before the pandemic hit, it looks like the president was coasting to reelection, but then the pandemic hit, and then they had to postpone the election. Hen the mayor of warsaw entered the race, and he deprived surprised everyone by giving it a tight context. Sunday. Last that is the background. The reelection of the party, some of the things theyve done over the past five years that have concerned observers and members of the European Union having to do with changes to the takeover of, t