ABOUT THE EVENT
Join groundbreaking Congressman Max Rose and brilliant writer and lawyer Steve Cohen as we discuss the issues impacting our country. What is the government doing about Covid-19, about racial justice and securing the safety and integrity of the 2020 election. What are the responses, or even lack of responses, to issues we are all facing, at home and around our country. Cong. Rose recently castigated his own party for not making a deal with Republicans to provide a lifeline for those Americans suffering from the economic downturn. Hear what Cong. Rose thinks needs to be done on major issues and what realistically can get done, and answer why we can’t do better? Can we get anything done in Washington or are we too broken?
Congressman Max Rose
A solider and a congressman all in one. Congressman Max Rose is a freshman Congressman for NY-11. The famously Republican district elected a Democrat back in 2018 and is only the second Democrat to hold the seat since 1981, and the first since then to unseat an incumbent Republican.
During his time in the US Army he lead as a platoon leader in Afghanistan where he received a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star. In recent months during the Covid-19 pandemic, while given the option to defer, Congressman Rose deployed with the National Guard to help with the NYS response efforts to the Coronavirus.
He currently sits on the Committee on Homeland Security and is the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism.
Moderated by Steve Cohen
Steve is the author of seven books – including three best-sellers – and more than 250 articles and editorials. He was only the second person ever to have Op-Ed articles in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal on the same day. He co-chaired Hillary Clinton’s White House Task Force on early childhood literacy, the Prescription for Reading Partnership, and for ten years was a member of the Board of Directors of the United States Naval Institute.
He currently serves as the co-founder of Cohen Pollock LLC, a renowned Manhattan law firm. He has received praise for his roles as the principal investigator and lead attorney on a $1 billion False Claims Act qui tam case; won his first trial; and was awarded the American Bar Association’s Outstanding Services Award for the Military Pro Bono Project.
Hosted by Joe Paolino
Paolino is an American politician and diplomat who was the former 33rd mayor of Providence, Rhode Island and US Ambassador to Malta.
In 1984, at the age of 29, he achieved his dream by becoming the youngest mayor of a major city in the history of the United States. He served as mayor until January 1991. He was then appointed by Governor Bruce Sundlun as the Director of the Department of Economic Development for the State of Rhode Island.
In 1994, at the request of President Clinton, he became United States Ambassador to Malta. As Ambassador, Joe worked with the U.S. intelligence agencies and helped facilitate the investigation of the Pan Am 103 crash. Joe was instrumental in getting large American corporations like General Electric and Boeing to do business with Malta. He successfully managed to get U.S. Navy ships back into Malta’s waters.
