sophia rosenfeld. [applause] dr. rosenfeld: thank you, that was such a nice introduction. i feel like i should sit right back down because you have given it all away. it's a great honor to be at the robert c. byrd center for congressional history and education. it is an honor to be here at shepherd university and an honor to be giving the 2019 memorial lecture on what is almost constitution day. one day off, we are close. i especially want to think jim -- thank jim wyatt and the moses family who are here tonight. i also want to thank the audience for coming out on what is a beautiful wednesday evening. it is very kind of you to be here. i will try to be lucid. i will see if i can do that. [laughter] brilliantlyd: lucid. that is a tall order. just lucid will go ok. even though i'm a historian by training and profession, i'm going to begin this evening by talking about the present. we will back up a little while. it probably won't surprise anyone in this room if i start out by saying truth has been having a bad time of it lately, not least about 70 miles to the southeast of

announcer: next we hear from sophia rosenfeld, who is the author of "democracy in truth: a short history." she talks about the long-held tensions among citizens in a democracy to determine what the truth is, rather than relying on an elite class to determine what the truth is for them. the robert

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this will be presented by the assistant principal of raul wallenberg, christopher rosenfeld. >> thank you so much. it is my pleasure to present mr. batt to the board of education. not only does he do a fantastic job of meeting the needs of all of our students, he goes above and beyond in so many different ways. last year, i was struck by the fact that he was analyzing his own data and going over the d.n.f. and noticed some results and trends and the result of that work on his own that he did is that his d.n.f. list is virtually nonexistent. all of the targeted groups that he was interested in supporting are now achieving mastery and mr. batt has done that all of his own accord. in addition to that, he is a teacher leader. he led our culturally sensitive pedagogy. he is an honor among us all. i am honored to work with him and thrilled to present this award to him tonight. thank you, mr. batt. >> hi. good evening. i'll keep this short. i think i'd be remiss as a teacher to not say i feel fortunate to be a part of this community, so thank you very much, and much appreciated. [applause] >

. >> chairman: i would like to welcome controller ben rosenfeld. >> good morning.introduce it and hand the floor over to our external auditor. as you know, the city has two key financial documents that we prepare each year. the first, at the beginning of the year, the adopted budget, which is the plan on how the city is going to spend funds in the year ahead. at the close of the year, we close the books and produce financial statements that disclose the city's actual financial condition at the end of the fiscal year. to ensure that those documents are full, complete, and tested, the board of supervisors retains an external financial auditor that reviews them and other things and then reports to you on their findings. the goal is to ensure that there is a reasonable assurance that what we're representing in the comprehensive financial report is accurate. so what we have here today is the external auditor's reporting to you on their audit work for last fiscal year, the '17/'18 plan, and the cafer for the close that we're working through now. i'll say briefly as a bit

down, michael mckee sits with eric rosenfeld.loomberg. ♪ >> music around the world. export thean, you music of jason donovan to north korea. under this government, we have an economy that has grown for the last nine years, 20% bigger than it was in 2010. last week it was announced that the rate of unemployment has fallen to the lowest level since 1974. and yet there is something very frustrating about this recitation of triumphs because it is only half the story of an economy that is still not achieving what it could. supercar ofla one the kind of which this country excels but is only firing on half of its cylinders with so much more natural energy waiting to be unleashed. the country is being held back by politics. that for thent last three and a half years has simply failed to discharge its basic promise to honor the mandate of the people and deliver brexit. that is why we must have this election now. i don't want election in december. nobody does. we have no choice. we must get brexit done. we have to clear this parliamentary