let me say something about ezra's point. if you look on the brookings website, you will see two pieces. one from a couple years ago and one will be out this week that discuss the heritage foundation's data. i rarely am in the position of promoting this but i would urge you to look at the heritage foundation data on illegal votes . i do not know if you have seen this, ezra, essentially they did it to the whole u.s., the data set, and the headline is look at all of these illegal votes, oh my god. then you take a given state. there were 56 cases of people voting illegally in one state. those cases occurred over 25 years. 25 years. millions and millions and millions of votes. and as you said, when you figure out the percentages, which my good interns have done, it's minuscule. think about this. if you are in this country illegally, are you going to vote? you don't want to do anything that draws attention to yourself. you are going to stop at every stoplight, never j walk. you do not want to commit a crime because you might get s

. ♪ >> there was this party for ezra.al after more than a month in the icu. >> you've been so strong and brave. >> we first met the 5-year-old last may when he desperately needed a liver transplant. >> he is a perfect match. >> are you serious? >> yeah. >> and showed you the moment his preschool teacher, carissa fisher stepped in with this life-saving surprise. >> i'm going share my liver with you, buddy. >> the surgery this summer a success. ezra's mom karen forever grateful. >> we feel so blessed to, you know, have kind of formed a bond. we're just incredibly, incredibly grateful. >>> and how is this for a celebration? that's beloved northern california school custodian pedro taking a victory lap on his very last day. students and staff at montebello elementary marking his retirement with cheers and thanks for taking care of them and the school for more than a decade. >>> there was such joy. >> let's go! >> at south carolina's clemson university. that's charlie mcgee finding out he got into phi kappa alpha, and then run

ezra's mom karen forever grateful. >> we feel so blessed to have formed a bond.on -- that's the love, california, custodian taking a victory lap on his for last day. students and staff at mont bella elementary marking his retirement with cheers of thanks for taking care of them and the school for more than a decade. [ cheers ] there was such joy -- >> let's go. >> at south carolina's clemson university. [ cheers ] that's charlie magee finding out he got into pi kappa alpha, and then running into the arms of his new fraternity brothers. the guys say they chose charlie, who has down syndrome, because of his values and his involvement in clemson life and service to school and community. [ cheers ] >> and in st. louis, the slu high school football team winning off the field. >> oh, my gosh. >> there they are, more than 3 0 of them, getting their head shaved to support a teammate's loved one who is battling brain cancer. the defensive end organized it to show 7-year-old sarah how much she means. that's her in the pink hat helping with her big sister. what made you dec

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it's been the target of a jolly air strike since ezra stepped up air strike since ezra stepped up itsgo. —— of israeli air strikes. the strikes last night which have claimed over 60 lies and over 100 injured have had a number of locations in the valley. there have been reports that are residential buildings with families, we have seen pictures going around of women and children believed to have been among those who died. i think one of the significant thing is to highlight is that there was no warning from the israeli side before they launch these air strikes. we have seen a pattern emerge, that is an inconsistency, sometimes there is a warning given, sometimes thatis is a warning given, sometimes that is not. what they are not given warnings in advance, that seems to be the incidences that most casualties were recorded. we have not had a statement from the idf who the intended targets the bekaa valley, so it remains to be seen whether the idf will discuss this very deadly air strikes yesterday. we are looking as you are speaking at a skyline of david, more strikes there in the capita

joining me now is ezra leven. that is helping with get out the vote strategy in 16 states.t in terms of reaching low propensity voters. if you can talk to kind of what you've seen and what you think of the strategy. >> yeah, so i think reaching out to low propensity voters can make a lot of sense for a campaign. and the conditions in which it makes sense for a campaign are one, is your side unified behind your candidate. is there a lot of enthusiasm for your candidate. and three, do you have a really sophisticated ground game apparatus. do you have field offices. do you have a good system for reaching out to these voters. on the democratic side. we've got that. look we are unified behind kamala harris. there's a huge amount of enthusiasm for kamala harris. we're trying to reach undecided voters. how do we get these undecided voters. they can vote for trump or harris. the much much larger population are the folks who would vote for harris if they turn out. but they might not turn out. so, at indivisible is how can we get to these voters. how can we contact these folks. there

and ezra is one of our nation's most distinguish advocates for voting and civil rights., ben ginsburg, the volcker distinguished visiting fellow at the hoover institution of stanford university and the co-chair of the pillars of the community program which you'll hear about today. very interesting effort to deal with some of the crises that are afflicting confidence in our elections. interesting and, i dare say, effective. with that, i'll just add one more word about the extraordinary moment in which we find ourselves and then tush turn it over -- turn it over to our panel. if you thought that is events of the postelection of 2020 were compelling, then like me, you have watched in alarm as instead of that fire of disinformation, baseless litigation, attacks on the integrity of the election and election workers, instead of that fire burning out, it has continued to rage. we find ourselves once again four years later on the cusp of a presidential election in which the threats have metastasized is not --s it is not the identical threat, but the threats are significant. the

some of you may have read columns lately by ezra klein in new york times and my colleague jean robinson in the washington post and also our friend and colleague elaine said stop reading polls, stop doom scrolling. after this event you can stop reading polls. not just because i am obviously biased, but also because the survey really sheds important light on issues we should be thinking about as election day and perhaps its aftermath approach. in a campaign where the words "enemies within" have become part of the campaign dialogue, this catches out not only polarization. you thought we couldn't get more polarized? this survey suggests we are even more so. also as robbie will show -- no one does power points as well as robbie in his presentation in a moment, there is real division about the role of violence in our society and in the electoral process. it is a very troubling time that is a country we need to come to terms with now but also after this election is over. i want to thank catalina navarro of brookings who has done so much, particularly to pull this together today. one of the gre

ezra klein had a great line the other day. it was that he's never known a program that survive trump. i mean and this is this is basically it and it's why i'm less afraid of project 2025 than many people are because. i think it is a program that would take the authority in a sense from him and his personal wishes and experience and make it into program of reconstituting government. and he's not a government reformer. you know, david, there's there's something about the information environment here that here you're on, which is the old know since in brooklyn begins ten commandments where he says, you know, never get high on your own supply, which was, you know, sort an important rule for drug dealing. right. like if you become an addict, you're going to be a bad drug dealer. and there's a lot of getting high in their own supply, i think in rightwing politics these days where there used to be a little bit of a division of there was like a certain sort of populist mode communication that was for the base. and then, you know, the

we had a study group that i cochaired with ezra vogel at harvard, looking at japan. we felt japan was really not a threat. but trying to get that opinion across in washington in 1993 was very difficult. it wasn't just washington. remember in tokyo, the ldt had lost its dominant position. these socialists were part of the opposition coalition. and the socialists have a long history of resisting the u.s.-japan security treaty. you had in tokyo the hit gucci report -- the higuci report that said japan should no longer rely on the u.s. for security but should turn to the united nations. today you think, how could people think that? but in the post-cold war period, you realized the world looked very different than it does today. those were the circumstances of the end of the cold war. what i felt was that if you looked at the future of east asia -- i should add one more point. china was still in the post tiananmen turmoil. when warren first went to beijing in 1993, it was to berate them about human rights violations, not economics at all. it was not about the military. at

we had a study group that i cochaired with ezra vogel at harvard, looking at japan. we felt japan was really not a threat. but trying to get that opinion across in washington in 1993 was very difficult. it wasn't just washington. remember in tokyo, the ldt had lost its dominant position. these socialists were part of the opposition coalition. and the socialists have a long history of resisting the u.s.-japan security treaty. you had in tokyo the higuci report that said japan should no longer rely on the u.s. for security but should turn to the united nations. today you think, how could people think that? but in the post-cold war period, you realized the world looked very different than it does today. those were the circumstances of the end of the cold war. what i felt was that if you looked at the future of east asia -- i should add one more point. china was still in the post tiananmen turmoil. when warren first went to beijing in 1993, it was to berate them about human rights violations, not economics at all. it was not about the military. at that stage, the world l

ezra klein had a great line the other day. it was that he's never known a program that survive trump. i mean and this is this is basically it and it's why i'm less afraid of project 2025 than many people are because. i think it is a program that would take the authority in a sense from him and his personal wishes and experience and make it into program of reconstituting government. and he's not a government reformer. you know, david, there's there's something about the information environment here that here you're on, which is the old know since in brooklyn begins ten commandments where he says, you know, never get high on your own supply, which was, you know, sort an important rule for drug dealing. right. like if you become an addict, you're going to be a bad drug dealer. and there's a lot of getting high in their own supply, i think in rightwing politics these days where there used to be a little bit of a division of there was like a certain sort of populist mode communication that was for the base. and then, you know, the

some of you may have read columns lately by ezra klein in new york times and my colleague jean robinsonington post and also our friend and colleague elaine said stop reading polls, stop doom scrolling. after this event you can stop reading polls. not just because i am obviously biased, but also because the survey really sheds important light on issues we should be thinking about as election day and perhaps its aftermath approach. in a campaign where the words "enemies within" have become part of the campaign dialogue, this catches out not only polarization. you thought we couldn't get more polarized? this survey suggests we are even more so. also as robbie will show -- no one does power points as well as robbie in his presentation in a moment, there is real division about the role of violence in our society and in the electoral process. it is a very troubling time that is a country we need to come to terms with now but also after this election is over. i want to thank catalina navarro of brookings who has done so much, particularly to pull this together today. one of the great things ab

ezra klein had a great line the other day. it was that he's never known a program that survive trump. i mean and this is this is basically it and it's why i'm less afraid of project 2025 than many people are because. i think it is a program that would take the authority in a sense from him and his personal wishes and experience and make it into program of reconstituting government. and he's not a government reformer. you know, david, there's there's something about the information environment here that here you're on, which is the old know since in brooklyn begins ten commandments where he says, you know, never get high on your own supply, which was, you know, sort an important rule for drug dealing. right. like if you become an addict, you're going to be a bad drug dealer. and there's a lot of getting high in their own supply, i think in rightwing politics these days where there used to be a little bit of a division of there was like a certain sort of populist mode communication that was for the base. and then, you know, the