to her right is a.b. stoddard, a veteran columnist and political analyst, now at the bulwark. we also welcome back joy reid, who is the host of the readout and a political analyst for msnbc. each panelist will have about five minutes and if you look to your left you will find catalina navarro who will hold up a one minute card when you have one minute left and a stop card. in order to get in all of the panel and the very high volume of internet questions i will be a tough cough -- a tough cop. you can see i have some pork from the american people in that. -- i have support from the american people in that. [laughter] i would ask you if you have not done so already to please silence your cell phones or pagers. with that melissa, over to you. melissa: good morning. first off, i want to welcome everyone here on behalf of prri and extend thank you to the brookings institution. this is the 15th annual american values survey and has been our longest standing partnership in the most fun. catalina, thank you for keeping the trains running. i want to acknowledge the incredible work of

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a.b. they have been hearing all this noise we've been talking about on fox news and elsewhere about her being some scary liberal. when they see her and they hear her and they hear her talk about her commitment to be a president for everybody, when she goes on fox news and tells fox news viewers, or soft and fed a bunch of crap about her what the truth is, which is that she actually cares about being a president for all americans and she's going to wake up every day, even if you didn't vote for her, try to make your life better, when you get out to these battleground states and talk to these voters directly with a rockribbed conservative like liz cheney, it helps illustrate that point and shows people she's not the caricature of donald trump tries to paint her out to be, because she isn't. she's going to keep talking about the fact that she's going to be a president for all americans. it's why you seen hundreds of americans come out and endorse her presidency. former vice president cheney.

at the brilliant a.b. stoddard of the bulwark has joined us today. even if you are not a numbers guy, which i confess i am, you are in for a real treat today. in the process of enjoying that treat you will learn a lot of stuff you did not know. welcome, everyone, and i want to welcome, the president and founder of prri, the author of some extraordinary books. robbie has been at the forefront of demonstrating the racial and racist past within our religious traditions but also pointing the way towards reconciliation. his last book -- let me plug the last book. title should have written down. it is "the hidden history of white supremacy." it has a section on efforts communities have made to achieve reconciliation. a profit of problems but also a profit of solutions and he knows a lot about numbers, robbie jones. [applause] robbie: welcome, everyone. it is great to see a full room. we are coming back from covid, still. it is nice to see everyone in the same room. a quick thank you to ej and bill , i feel old, joy told me i should use the word seasoned. i

to her right is a.b. veteran columnist and political analyst now at the bulwark and we also welcome back joy reid who is the host of the readout and political analyst for "msnbc." each panelist will have about five minutes and if you look to your left, you will find catalina navarro who will hold up to one minute card when you have one minute left. and then i stop card. [laughter] in order to get in all of the panel questions with a high volume of internet questions we have received i will be tough. as you see i have some support from the american people in that. [laughter] andd they would before we start to ask you if you haven't done so already to please, please, please silence your cellphones or pagers. with that melissa over to you. >> good morning. can you hear me okay? before i begin my comments i want to welcome everyone here on behalf of c. r. i n. to say thank you to the brookings institution. this is the 15th annual american values survey that this is then i think our longest in a partnership an

also, a.b. it is worth mentioning that, that shook me up terribly when the union came in. was like, we failed. i said, when i finish this hike, i was hiking, i said i'm going to go visit every single s store in the company, i will talk to team members one on one. i want whole foods to be the best place to work in united states. how can we do that? help us. i went and talked to every store, every team member in the company and i got some great feedback. the thing they most said was raise our pay, which we did. i found out that our health benefits were a dissatisfaction point. it was like in the early days with healthcare everybody was young, now they are waged, 24 years later, they were middle age and they had children and they were worried about health benefits or their kids read we heard it, we upgraded our health benefits, we improved s our medication with the team members, we raised pay everywhere in the company except madison. we tried to do it for madison too but the union said you cannot do that you have to negotiate with us. we want to raise the pay and they said no

at the brilliant a.b. stoddard of the bulwark has joined us today. even if you are not a numbers guy, which i confess i am, you are in for a real treat today. in the process of enjoying that treat you will learn a lot of stuff you did not know. welcome, everyone, and i want to welcome, the president and founder of prri, the author of some extraordinary books. robbie has been at the forefront of demonstrating the racial and racist past within our religious traditions but also pointing the way towards reconciliation. his last book -- let me plug the last book. title should have written down. it is "the hidden history of white supremacy." it has a section on efforts communities have made to achieve reconciliation. a profit of problems but also a profit of solutions and he knows a lot about numbers, robbie jones. [applause] robbie: welcome, everyone. it is great to see a full room. we are coming back from covid, still. it is nice to see everyone in the same room. a quick thank you to ej and bill , i feel old, joy told me i should use the word seasoned. i

by a.b. fanatics. the couple was released without physical harm, but they were severely traumatized by the experience. in 1984, two dozen abortion clinics were physician's offices were bombed, burned or otherwise attacked. william webster, the director, the fbi, said in an interview it wasn't terrorism because we don't know who did it. bombing abortion clinic is not an act of terrorism. the bombers were caught prosecuted and convicted. one of them said that the bombings in florida were a present to jesus from the of the anti-abortion violence that bill berge clinic in 1979 through 1978. there were 110 violent attacks on abortion clinics and. doctor's office in the united states. we were under siege. our worst were being realized. the anti-abortion fanatics were becoming more and more violent. i became increasingly worried about fatal violence. encouraged his enhanced status on ronald reagan. joe seiler went around the country in a learjet, leading demonstrations against, doctors and abortion clinics wi