Your number is going to be 202 7488002. And if you are in american gun owner but not part of the nra, you should be part of this conversation, as well. Your number is going to be 202 7488003. Keep in mind, you can also text us your opinion at 202 7488003 and we are always reading on social media on ontter at cspanwj, and facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Once again this week, new york state announced a major lawsuit against the National Rifle association, accusing them of corruption and misspending of the organizations funds. Here is a bit of the story from the New York Times. New York Attorney general has issued an existential threat to the National Rifle association on thursday, arguing in a lawsuit that years of runaway corruption and misspending demanded a dissolution of the nations most powerful gun rights lobby. While the legal confrontation could take years to play out, it constitutes another deep blow to an organization whose legendary medical clout has been diminished by infigh
Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv television for serious readers. And now on booktv, former chief of staff john sununu discusses george h. W. Bushs presidency in his book, the quiet man. He recalls the 41st president s accomplishments in both foreign and domestic policy including his leadership during the collapse of the soviet union and the fall of the berlin wall and passing the americans with disabilities act. We ready to go . Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to gibsons bookstore. Its a beautiful, its a beautiful afternoon. Thank you for coming indoors to spend it with us. Today we are very pleased to welcome back to new hampshire, he was here for several times as governor, and then he went off to become george h. W. Bushs chief of staff. Please join me in welcoming for the quiet man the indispensable presidency of george h. W. Bush, governor john h. Sununu. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you. And let
Nation, insisting President Trump wants to start afresh with president putin. Joining me now from washington, julia ioffe of the atlantic and with me from new york, amy davidson of the new yorker. Welcome. Julia, everybody wants to understand what is the resistance of President Trump to criticize or separate out Vladimir Putin . Julia it is the one thing he has been remarkably consistent on. That, the wall, and who will pay for the wall. But to understand why, we have the Intelligence Communitys report on the hacking of the russian government the Intelligence Community says that they think that the russians hacked our elections to help elect trump and i think there is a fealty there. And i think he just likes the guy. I think there is this kind of affinity for this adolescent version of manliness. Charlie the thing on horseback did it for him, huh . [laughter] julia in the same way that Vladimir Putin likes Stephen Seagall and John Claude Van damme and all of these action heroes. I thi
Trump said about us having kilters too. Killers too. What i heard was moral indifference. A sense that there wasnt really a moral aspect to his choices. Rose and we look at that remarkable super bowl game with al michaels of nbc and bill cower of cbs. We talk about momentum and its really a cliche. But you could feel it yesterday. I mean once you had that sack fumble you go whoa, if they go in and score here and then theyre going to get the ball back and they score you could feel it coming. And it was almost as if, you know, as the old saying goes, you snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Rose we conclude with Susan Glasser for politico talking about james baker, the former secretary of state and his views on the trump administrations Foreign Policy. We clearly still see possibilities in trump and his administration. Possibilities to shake thickets up as you pointed out just by doing things differently. Possibilities to reset some Foreign Policy areas that baker was critical of when
Trump said about us having kilters too. Killers too. What i heard was moral indifference. A sense that there wasnt really a moral aspect to his choices. Rose and we look at that remarkable super bowl game with al michaels of nbc and bill cower of cbs. We talk about momentum and its really a cliche. But you could feel it yesterday. I mean once you had that sack fumble you go whoa, if they go in and score here and then theyre going to get the ball back and they score you could feel it coming. And it was almost as if, you know, as the old saying goes, you snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Rose we conclude with Susan Glasser for politico talking about james baker, the former secretary of state and his views on the trump administrations Foreign Policy. We clearly still see possibilities in trump and his administration. Possibilities to shake thickets up as you pointed out just by doing things differently. Possibilities to reset some Foreign Policy areas that baker was critical of when