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Welcome to the center for American Progress, i am the executive Vice President of external affairs. Im so delighted that you could join us today. In our recent report reviving antitrust, it highlighted the idea that the economy has grown more consolidated with more power being concentrated in the largest firms in america. This is in no small part of the conservative assault on both government and the middle class. This assault has played out not just in the courts, but in antitrust enforcement practices of the department of justice, the federal trade commission, and at a wid range of deral reg...

Book. You wrote even as it was losing ground, the number of isis inspired attacks in the west increased. The loss of territory appear to have little effect to influence americans like omar mateen. This will be isiss legacy in the United States the crowdsourcing of jihad, so that can convertr mateen personal grievances into what they believe is a righteous holy war. Isis is a problem of i was in iraq last week. Lose syria, other capitals, but isis exists because of problems in the middle east and related problems in the west. Regional civil war between the shia and sunni, the collapse of govern...

Nathalia holt who is here today talk about the research of your new book called rise of the rocket girls. Guest thanks for having me. Host i would like to begin hall you discover this group of women and how you managed to write about this group of women . It is a strange coincidence. My husband and i were expecting our first baby in 2010 having a difficult time coming up with names. One suggested Eleanor Francis and i wasnt sure and tell i googled name Eleanor Francis helene and i was just done by the picture i had no idea that women worked at that time so i found out Eleanor Francis was not a...

Well thank you so much for coming. I appreciate it very much. So many of you come from out of town. Thank you. [applause]. I appreciate that. What were going to do is let the party continue and you can hang around as long as you want. I will be signing books as long as there are people who want their books assigned to. Im happy to do that just to hang out. Please tell your friends about socrates in the city. Please read the book, please if you dont want to read the book at least by several copies if you dont mind. We will leave it at that. God bless bless you and god bless america. [applause]....

Years of the 20th century, by the way. Thats whats interesting. The jim crow rules, thats when they came in, when i talked about that transit, the boycotting the Transit System being segregated in mobile. I mean, up until then it was a very different world. Up until then black people could go to the restrooms. Not that they often had the money to go there, but they could go to white restaurants. So that changed. And the south is at a crucial juncture now, and well see which way things go. [inaudible] okay, thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] next up, former white house pr...