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Its called evidence [ laughter ] in President Trumps letter, he accused nancy pelosi of declaring open war on american democracy and said, quote, you do not know, nor do you care the great damage and hurt you have inflicted upon wonderful and loving members of my family. This letter is bonkers [ light laughter ] i dont even know how to describe the tone of it. I guess if you took the most privileged white lady ever and gave her a whole bottle of wine and then asked her to write a yelp review of a restaurant that made her wait 40 minutes for a table and then got her order wrong twice. [ laughte...

9 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan, online or you can listen free on the radio app. This is David Blanken horn, he is the cofounder of an organization known as better angels and hes here to the talk about the work and civility in politics. Good morning. Good morning. Good to be with you. Thanks for joining us. The purpose of your effort is to bring people at least to a better understanding of where they are politically. Can you talk about the details of your organization and what its purpose is . We bring together republicans, democrats, independents, all three of your phone lines, to try to learn to...

Of your organization and what its purpose is . Guest we bring together republicans, democrats, independents, all three of your phone lines, to try to learn to respect and care for one another as citizens, despite our differences. And when possible, find Common Ground. Especially when it comes to ways to make a less divided and rank rancorous society. We think its important and necessary to save our country. Host go ahead. Guest we started a couple of years ago. We now have 8,500 members in all 50 states. Were very active across the country. And were growing rapidly. Host so how do you do that,...

Books of successful people and how, if you just do what they did then you to can be a Great Success in life. Because having read a lot of these books, i find the mall woefully loos loose useless. Barnum had made a Great Fortune at this point but like mark twain was broke prehe wrote the art of money getting while he was broke. In the seance in that book enable him to get his fortunes are going to be 2. 0. Its fascinating that mark twain is so good at so many things, he was a bestselling author at this time who made more money on the lecture circuit even as an author and thought he could do any...

Scholarship recipients from last year. Correct . She came here and enjoyed herself, im sure. Patrick is the author of the land shall be day loosed in blood, a new history of nat turners revolt published by Oxford University press. It is one of the finest books i have read on southern history in a long time. It is a book i assigned to my undergraduates in this spring, and as we all know, undergraduates are tough customers when it comes to books. They absolutely enjoyed mr. Breens scholarship and especially his writing. It is a bold book, important book, and one thing patrick and i talked about,...