Talk radio show host eric erickson. Liza randy and many others. For a complete schedule visit booktv. Org. We are Facebook Twitter and instagram. Were kicking off todays coverage on the life and politics of mohammed ali. This is live coverage on cspa cspan2. [inaudible] of money. Think you for coming and welcome to the 29th southern festival of books. It is my pleasure to have the opportunity to introduce our author. Another that i really admire and have been reading his work for years. Hes here to talk about his biography of mohammed ali. This is only his third stop so thats an honor for us. Before he speaks the book festival is free but if youd like to contribute to the cause you can do that at the headquarters for the book festival outsider online. Also remind you that after the remarks will be heading over to the signing tent seeking to have him cite your book over there. Is one of the typewriters of nonfiction a fantastic author in addition to writing for bestselling books jonatha
Bear with me. Number one, please silence cell phones obviously unless you are looking for a haubted one haunted one and have no control. After this event, this is the last event. Finally, chance for questions and we really, really ask you to use the microphone we have right here because cspan is here recording and our videographer is recording. Its a whole new development, it looks amazing, really cool, so go down there and check us out. If you live in southwest and you can prove it in anyway, show your id to one of bookstores and youll get a sixmonth trial membership which is really, really convenient because the present giving time is coming up and you can check website for information. We have events there starting next week, so finally im very excited to introduce colin dicky. This is not obviously his first into strange and unusual things, hes written two books and he also has short essays in the new republic, quarterly and contributes to la review books. How many of we here on th
Glor good evening. Im jeff glor in Sutherland Springs, texas. Behind me is the scene of another mass shooting. It didnt happen in a big city like oral human papilloma virus virus orel lando or las vegas. The target this time were worshipers in their smalltown church. This was the scene just after the attack. Investigators say the suspect wanted to kill everyone in the church. 26 were killed, ranging in age from 18 months to 77 years. 20 others were wounded, ten remain in critical condition. Police believe the gunman, 26yearold devin kelley, took his own life after being chased by armed bystanders. He had received a bad conduct discharge from the air force for domestic assault, and cbs news has learned a mistake by the service may have allowed him to buy his weapon. We have a team of correspondents covering this. We begin with the moments after the shooting. Somebody ran in there and started shooting everybody. Glor cell phone video shows the victims and the chaos that spilled on to the
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And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Please welcome senator al franken to this program. Before entering politics he was an award writing comedy writer. You can now read about his unlikely journey into politics in his new memoir, al franken giant of the senate. I love that. He joins us live from new york. Good to have you on the program. Great to be here. Thanks for loving that. Let me start with this. You were an entertainer before you got into politics. Its not lost on me that donald trump was an entertainer of sorts before he got into politics. You have made the transition to being taken seriously. Can donald trump do that . I dont know. You know, we took different approaches. I thought that i had to sort of prove something because i had not served in Public Office before and i made it a point to read as much as i could and learn about policy and he seems to have taken the opposite approach saying things like no one knew that health care was comp