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Perspectives on the Party in Power April 21, 2018

Opening program & “America the Beautiful”

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Opening remarks Bill Chapman Executive Director The Richmond Forum

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Joe Scarborough and Newt Gingrich with Mara Liasson

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As the face of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, former U.S. Representative Joe Scarborough ignites early morning audiences with his no-holdsbarred political commentary. Pulling from his experience as an influential player in Republican politics, Scarborough leads candid discussions about the important issues facing America. He offers a dynamic and fast-paced perspective on the current political and media landscape and the headlines of the day. Scarborough made a name for himself in politics long before he became a nationallyrecognizable media force. He was elected to Congress in 1994, the first Republican to do so in Florida since 1872. He was part of a influential show in politics. Anyone who is group of freshman Republicans in the House anyone in politics, or cares about politics these called “The New Federalists,” which wielded days, is plugged into the program. They created a large amount of influence for its size and a format that is substantive, informative and worked to promote a conservative agenda and entertaining.” Newsweek notes, “One reason for “reduce the size, scope, and intrusiveness of the the success of Morning Joe is that Scarborough Federal government.” Scarborough served on and his team generate an ideologically numerous committees through his tenure and unpredictable vibe.” In 2016, its hosts were in 1998 he was named chairman of the Civil inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame. Service Committee. There, he drafted a bill on Scarborough is the New York Times long-term healthcare that President Bill Clinton bestselling author of The Right Path: From called “landmark legislation.” Scarborough Ike to Reagan, How Republicans Once Mastered retired from Congress in 2001. Politics—And Can Again; Rome Wasn’t Burnt In 2003, Scarborough joined MSNBC in a Day; and The Last Best Hope: Restoring as the host of opinion and analysis show Conservatism and America’s Promise. He also Scarborough Country, until he left to host writes an opinion column on politics for The Morning Joe in 2007. Balanced by Democratic Washington Post and founded the Florida Sun, an co-host Mika Brzezinski and flanked by diverse award-winning weekly newspaper for which guests, Scarborough’s Joe navigates the political he served as editor and publisher. environment with an insider’s perspective In 2017, he left the Republican Party to and a no-nonsense attitude. Scarborough become an Independent. and Brzezinski have been widely applauded Scarborough holds a Bachelor’s degree for bringing something different to morning from the University of Alabama and a J.D. television. GOP consultant Mark McKinnon degree from the University of Florida College said, “Morning Joe has become the most of Law. He is engaged to Mika Brzezinski.

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Newt Gingrich was the 50th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and served the 6th Congressional District of Georgia from 1978–1999. Gingrich was the architect of the “Contract with America,” which led the Republican Party to victory during the 1994 midterm elections, capturing the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time in forty years. The plan outlined ten bills to fulfill the party’s campaign promises of reducing the size of government, reforming the U.S. welfare and tax systems, and balancing the federal budget. Following historic gains in the House, the new Republican majority elected Gingrich to serve as its Speaker. Under his leadership, Congress passed welfare reform, the first balanced budget in a generation, and the first tax cut in sixteen years. In addition, Congress restored funding to strengthen defense and intelligence capabilities, an action later lauded by the bipartisan 9/11 Commission. TIME magazine named him “Man of the Year” in 1995, saying, “Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable. Newt Gingrich belongs in the category of the exceptional.” He resigned from the speakership and Congress in 1999. In 2003, Gingrich launched the Center for Health Transformation to foster a modern health system that provides better outcomes at lower costs. The American Diabetes Association awarded him the Charles H. Best Medal for Distinguished Service in the Cause of Diabetes and the March of Dimes named him “Citizen of the Year” in 1995 for his work in healthcare. He led the Center until he stepped down in 2011 to seek the Republican nomination for President of the United States.

An internationally-recognized expert on world history, military issues, and international affairs, Gingrich has served as a member of the Defense Policy Board. He was a member of the Independent Task Force on America’s Response to Terrorism for the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2005, he co-chaired the Congressional Task Force on U.N. Reform. Today, Gingrich is a leading voice in conservative policy and politics. He is a political contributor to the FOX News Channel and other news networks, a Senior Advisor at Dentons in Public Policy and Regulation practice, a Senior Scientist at Gallup, and founder and chair of several policy think tanks. Gingrich has published 27 historical novels and public policy books, including his most recent, Understanding Trump. With his wife, Ambassador Callista Gingrich, he hosts and produces historical and public policy documentaries. Gingrich holds a Bachelor’s degree from Emory University and Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Modern European History from Tulane University. He resides in McLean, VA, with his wife.

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Mara Liasson is a political analyst for FOX News Channel and the national political correspondent for National Public Radio. Liasson provides extensive coverage of politics and policy, focusing on the White House and Congress. Her expertise on elections, national policy, and government is heard on FOX’s top-rated programs Special Report with Brett Baier and FOX News Sunday and NPR’s awardwinning news magazines All Things Considered and Morning Edition. Liasson joined NPR in 1985 as a general assignment reporter and newscaster. She received a Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism and took a leave

of absence to attend Columbia University. She returned to NPR in 1989 to serve as a Congressional correspondent and as White House Correspondent during the Clinton administration. In 1997, she joined FOX as a regular panelist and contributor. Liasson has covered all presidential elections since 1992 and regularly reports on Senate and House elections. Liasson has received numerous awards and honors for her reporting, including the White House Correspondents’ Association’s Merriman Smith Award in 1994, 1995, and 1997 for excellence in daily news reporting. A native of New York City, Liasson earned her bachelor’s degree from Brown University.

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Ambassador Sam antha Power Why America Can’t Afford to Look Away In March, Ambassador Samantha Power shared the lessons in diplomacy gained from her wide-ranging career as a war reporter, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, Harvard lecturer, and the youngest-ever United States Ambassador to the United Nations.

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Having now returned to her role as a professor at Harvard, Ambassador Power enjoys spending time with students. She spoke to 550 student delegates at the Governor’s School Model United Nations earlier that day, over 100 Richmond area high school students in our Student Room (middle), and with Richmond Forum Scholar Carlos Brown in the Green Room during intermission (right).

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Power concluded her speech with a parting thought: “What are each of us usually not, that these times require us to become? I thank The Richmond Forum for making conversations like this, about questions like that, possible.”

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