That way he can form opinions. Host how much of these reports are based on unnamed sources, and has that trend increased with this president . All right, i think we will get started. Thank you for coming. Thank you to cspan. I am the director of the Political Reform Program here at new america. I want to welcome you to this discussion on race and solidarity in the United States and the future of solidarity as a way of thinking about race. This discussion was organized by ted johnson, a fellow in our andonal Fellows Program also in our Political Reform Program. His work on the complexity of black voting behavior and Political Attitudes has been eyeopening to me enter medicinally important. He is a fellow at the Brennan Center for justice, an you can see that here. It is occasionally here. We often do things in partnership with the Brennan Center, a wonderful organization. Bit of ainging a nonlegal, beyond legal, scope of andysis to their work continuing hopefully to work in partnership