so with that please join in welcoming sohrab ahmari. [applause] >> my friends, thank you all, thank you all for being here. i should start by saying that i'm grateful to the community foundation of the american conservative for cosponsoring this gathering. thanks especially to a meal for his stead fast support for my work and thanks to the other panelists not least senator rubio who has shown genuine and real leadership in pushing his party my party to rethink some of its political economic dogmas and has been kind enough to take both to endorse this book and have to take time out of the busy legislative schedule to appear at this event. so to begin i would like to pan out to a global picture. for years now defenders of freedom have been warning of a democraticin recession beginning in the 1970s and then especially after the collapse of the soviet union. dozens of societies built on coercion gave way to one's built on consent. more recently, however, coercion has made a depressing come back with many regions backsliding into kleptocracy

first sohrab ahmari, of course, the founder and editor of compact magazine. a contributing editor to our publication, the american conservative. and a contributing writer for the new statesman. previously, he spent nearly a decade at news corp as an editor and columnist with the wall street journal in new york, london, and as the op ed editor, the new york post. his book, which we're here to discuss, is, of course, tyranny inc how private power crushed american liberty and what to do about it. just out from penguin random house. if you haven't picked up a caveat, please do. next, marco rubio, of course, the senior u.s. senator from florida and the author most recently of of decadence how our spoiled elites blew america's inheritance of, liberty, security and prosperity, which was published earlier this year. matthew stoller is director of research at the american economic liberties project and author of the 100 year war between monopoly power and democracy. published by simon and schuster in 2019, soler has served as a policy adviser to the senate budget comm

you look at the previous round, yahya golmohammadi, sohrab bakhtiarzadeh , look at the previous one, khakpour's followers, count the previous one, mr. rahim mirakhori, mohammad panjali and morteza fanonizadeh , we have a bit of a problem with that defensive structure. if we move with our right defense our left defense should definitely stay focused. this is for the kids. i think you will see our national team in the game against the emirates. we should support our national team. our national team has already played most of its players. i don't think he has made his starting lineup yet, and one thing that is very important for our national team, look at the iraqi national team. this space is a space where this national team can be successful and i hope that it will it is important to achieve this by focusing calmly , regardless of many issues, maybe the pressure on our national team, and with the necessary concentration, if we can , it will go well. i will check the goals, but now we are looking to attack. who would have thought that qaidi would play? yes , qaed invited qaedi, maybe m

herson, sohrab, had hoped the country's leaders would reach out to them.them. they should have showed compassion. but they haven't. many in the community told us they're worried there might be trouble again after the inauguration. and so they were leaving the city for a few weeks. all major political parties have sought to appease voters through this politics of religion. but for prime minister narendra modi's bjp, its support of the temple as part of its aggressive assertion of hinduism is the reason why it's transformed from being a small partyjust a few decades ago, to being seen as one that is virtually undefeatable now. at a local bjp office, preparations are on for the inauguration. i met a member of parliament from the party, lallu singh. do you think it's appropriate for the prime minister of a secular country to be the main figure at a major hindu religious event? translation: it's 100% right. this must happen. the culture of the majority community in a country dominates the nation. this does not mean we do not respect minorities. if the prime min

herson, sohrab, had hoped the country's leaders would reach out to them.assion. but they haven't. many in the community told us they're worried there might be trouble again after the inauguration. and so they were leaving the city for a few weeks. all major political parties have sought to appease voters through this politics of religion. but for prime minister narendra modi's bjp, its support of the temple as part of its aggressive assertion of hinduism is the reason why it's transformed from being a small party just a few decades ago, to being seen as one that is virtually undefeatable now. at a local bjp office, preparations are on for the inauguration. i met a member of parliament from the party, lallu singh. do you think it's appropriate for the prime minister of a secular country to be the main figure at a major hindu religious event? translation: it's 10096 right. the culture of the majority community in a country dominates the nation. this does not mean we do not respect minorities. the opening of the temple is being seen as the start of prime mini

um, sohrab >> why? she had a go. um, sohrab ahmari. i'll bring you up to um, carol vorderman, to date. um, carol vorderman, who view, heading for. >> i haven't said anything about shaun bailey. why ? shaun bailey. oh, why? >> vorderman attacked, um , >> carol vorderman attacked, um, we've got the tweet here. >> it's almost i predicted >> it's almost as if i predicted the right wing nonsense from juua the right wing nonsense from julia hartley—brewer and her fellow cauldron stirrer , sarah vine. >> see, witches of fleet street, where this is what she's. >> she's tweeted january the fifth. she goes on to say sarah vine describes herself as a wednesday witch on her on her bio. here are her words. i'll await your apologies . i'm still waiting. >> no, no, no, i'm sorry i haven't said anything about carol or about, uh shaun bailey. please feel free to look at my twitter feed. yeah >> so she goes on. they are. they aren't serious politicians at all. most of this current tory are charlatans who've tory crowd are charlatans who've been to some