Hold and reflected on her governing principles. Here she is at George Washington university in washington dc. This thing has got to come down lower for me. How are all of you tonight. Happy new year and thankyou for being here. Im less of muscatine and im one of the coowners of politicsand prose bookstore. Thank you. And along with my coowner and husband graham was in the front here and are fabulous wonderful staff, we welcome all of you to tonights event here in our Nations Capital and on the campus of George Washington university. I mention our location because well, think about it. We are at an institution named for our nations first president and we are assembled only blocks from the nurse centers of american government, the white house and congress so what better venue for a conversation with the next guest speaker . Better Kamala Harris spends her days on capitol hill and youre not alone if you think in a couple of years she just might be taking up residence at the other end of p
Organizations magazine asking the question, what is american conservatism. Tell me about this project . Mr. Burtka thank you so much for having me on, susan. I conceived of the project because there is a lot going on in our country right now and it is unsettling times for a number of americans. Everything having to do with the covid crisis, to the lockdowns, to the killing of george floyd and subsequent protests and riots, and the president ial election. So a lot of people are taking the opportunity to really reexamine first principles, and trying to figure out where we stand as a nation. And people on the right at the end of the president s term as the end of the president s term comes into focus are asking themselves what is conservatism . Has the president made an impact on the overall trajectory of the conservative movement and the Republican Party . So i want to take this opportunity to reexamine those fundamental questions. Back in 1964, there was a seminal book called the federa
So, hello, everyone, and welcome to fields farm on such a snowy sunday. But were here to welcome to all of you and welcome to senator harris for coming. We really appreciate this. Im nancy and i am the democratic chair. As you know, i ran for office and failed and then ran for school board but im going to keep it up because i never g got i know about discrimination. When i was in eighth grade, we moved fr ed from iowa and th kress cal, iowa. Its wellknown for basketball. We did the petitions and we had 1,000 signatures and guess what the school board said. No girls basketball. So we had no girls sports until after title 9. I have a sister whos eight years younger than i am. Shes in the Wisconsin University Athletic Hall of fame. And that was because of discrimination, i didnt have that opportunity. I also was a farmers wife and i went to sign up our farm with usda and guess what. Usda said no, you cant sign it up. Doesnt make any difference if your name is on the mortgage. It doesnt ma
So i will keep on doing what i am doing. Sen. Booker thank you. Please. It is hard. Youre really inspirational. Sen. Booker you are inspiring me. Thank you. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Morning, reuters jeff mason and voxs ella nilsen will join us about the week ahead in washington. Then, the Economic Policy institutes Heidi Shierholz and Michael Farren of the market is center will discuss efforts to raise the federal minimum wage to 15 per hour. Be sure to watch cspans washington journal live today at 7 00 eastern. Join the discussion. Tonight on the communicators, congressman ro khanna, who represents silicon valley, talks about the big issues facing the Tech Industry and the oversight role of congress. Foodessman khanna is any by Washington
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