thomas lee, our artists, has designed it. [laughter]. >> every year thomas was the person who designed all of our creative his, and every year, we have a commemorative poster. [applause] [laughter] >> thank you so much, thank you. >> thank you. please feel free to take a picture with the poster if you would like. it is very beautiful. thank you, thomas. thomas was responsible for the design of all of our materials. so scott adams, would you like to come and say a few words about the a.p.a. heritage foundation and introduce the foundation directors? >> thank you, claudine, and thank you everyone for being here. a lot of familiar faces. a.p.a. heritage foundation was founded, obviously initially to raise funds and support the mayor's annual a.p.a. heritage month festivities. due to the tremendous hard work of our small board and the wonderful committee, we have expanded our program throughout the year to include community partner forums, and a whole host of other things. without further ado, i would like to introduce my fellow

thomas and lee before. american man was saying in essence the europeans can be can be nationalists could be. a patriotic about t their own country but they can also be internationalists and they can be patriotic about your what i think ought to be patriotic backed. out what what what you just heard the gererman c chancellory is that europope was built on common values and those values are a tolerance and being open minded and cooperating with one another. and the pasta would be taken if nationalist parties -- woods -- gain more seats in the european parliament would be dot over isolationism not on the from country to country but also from europe to was to weld. and that is the sum saying that for presenents a great danger fr the common values that are -- does of europe. all sounds very good but the vast majority of cook according to the figures the vast majority of european votes as european citizens believe the system is broken and is going to disappear within the next ten years. this is a massive crisis w

seen come to market and those waiting in the wings joining us is scott sperling, co-president at thomas h. lee >> in your world, there's a lot of companies thinking we've got to exit. we've got to exit the private market we've got to go into the public market is that a good decision in this market >> the public market seems to want more companies. obviously, you've had a situation over the last decade where they're the combination of stock buybacks and go-privates has reduced the amount of equity float available publicly i think the question that is often asked is are these companies waiting too long and what impact does that have on the valuation they get in the public markets at the end of the day, it's all about the fundamentals of the business model of these companies. the fact that they wait longer either allows them to develop a business model that is more clearly articulated to investors as one that can generate high levels of sustainable free cash flow or they go public and there are still significant uncertainties about their business model. >> but don't you look at these companies as

lee statue. now, of course, as predicted moving against thomas jefferson the author of the declaration of independence. buttigieg thinks he can rename the dinner. why wouldn't you rename schools why wouldn't you rename schools, boulevards, and ultimately take down the statues? >> one of the things i have concluded that these people are so radical we have to take them head-on. this is left-wing fascist totalitarianism. this is an effort to increase the memory of the united states. thomas jefferson is a fact. he wrote the declaration of. independence and he created the democratic party ironically in terms of people who want to besmirch them. he was extraordinarily important in the development of america but what you have as a group of left-wing democrats who would like to erase all of our memories of america. they really dive deep and want us to be like venezuela and it's remarkable and i think we as the conservative side have to be much tougher with taking them head-on. it's exactly like the taliban destroying the two buddhist statues that were historic worldwide monuments. pete is exactly like obama.

thomas' worldview. he temporarily disregarded them during his student face when he and his college comrades started off about how they were oppressed and victimized by a culture you retrieve lee tainted by racism, he quotes. someone became quite strange, he recalled. my grandfather was no victim, he writes. and he didn't send me to school to become one. my senior year, he snapped out of it. his old self-reliance expanded from a personal greed to a political one as he reflected upon how much his stance aggrieved victimhood that threatened to diminish and impede him, especially compared to what he came to see as his grandfathers heroic independence. he also conjured deeply the multiple harms that affirmative action had done to his black classmates, holy cross and yale law. that policy purportedly toward for its historic victimization of his race was just getting underway during his student years. watching it unfold, thomas saw that it lead to failure and grievance by placing smart but ill-prepared kids in out of their league institutions. granting the relatively few successes like him would be imputation of it. his nine years as a federal civil rights, running the civil rights

watch in-depth live thomas old sunday from noon until 2 pm eastern on c-span two. >> next on book tvs afterwards, republican senator mike lee of utah offers his thoughts on the overreach of government in colonial times and today. interviewed by georgetown law professor nicholas quinn rosenkranz. "after words" is our weekly interview program with guest hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work . >> senator, it's a pleasure to be with you, i've read your new book and i thoroughly enjoyed it and it's a pleasure to be here to talk about it, our lost declaration. you and i have spent most of our careers thinking and writing about the u.s. constitution, but here you've taken a few steps back from that, 11 years to be exact to the declaration of independence so let me shift your focus from the constitution to the declaration. >> having written two other books about the constitution specifically it occurred to me a few years ago that we can't fully understand the constitution or what it does, what its purpose is unless you understand the declaration of independence and what led to it. in some respects it's f

watch in-depth live thomas old sunday from noon until 2 pm eastern on c-span two. >> next on book tvs afterwards, republican senator mike leeutah offers his thoughts on the overreach of government in colonial times and today. interviewed by georgetown law professor nicholas quinn rosenkranz. "after words" is our weekly interview program with guest hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work . >> senator, it's a pleasure