Welcome to Let's Find Common Ground from the Center for the Political Future at the University of Southern California's Dornside College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.

I'm Bob Shrum, director of the center. And I'm Republican Mike Murphy, co-director of the Center. Our podcast brings together America's leading politicians,

strategists, journalists, and academics from across the political spectrum for in-depth

discussions where we respect each other and we respect the truth.

We hope you enjoy these conversations.

The Common Ground Committee and the University of Southern California Center for the Political Future at the Dornside College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences have shared a mission over the last few years.

And that mission is to

advance the politics where we can actually talk to each other and where we live in a universe of

knowledge, not alternative facts, and where we can see if there are ways, despite our differences,

where we can move things forward. We did some, I think, wonderful programming

with the Common Ground Committee on climate change, on political difference. And in that process,

we got to know each other. Enormous respect for Bruce Bond, who led the Common Ground Committee, died tragically.

Committee is going out of business, I think has the challenge of fundraising is just too

difficult without Bruce.

And there were so many other wonderful people like Eric Olson, who I'm going to talk with

on this podcast.

We thought it was essential to keep this marvelous,

insightful, let's find Common Ground podcast, not just going, but to advance it, to enrich it,

to make sure that it fulfills the mission that the Common Ground Committee set out,

a mission that we very much share.

So we've decided to merge the Bullipulet podcast, which basically will go out of business,

with the Let's Find Common Ground podcast, which will continue to reach all the thousands and thousands

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