And im just delighted that we can have his family here. Weve got members of Rufus Youngbloods family here. We appreciate that. We also have tom johnson who was an aide to Lyndon Johnson who is the man that Rufus Youngblood protected and we are really glad you are here as well, tom. He knew Rufus Youngblood very well. Rufus was a secret service agent. Hes known for his actions on november 22, 1963, when shots rang out in dallas, texas, and he leaped over the seat and protected Lyndon Johnson. And continued to protect him. Johnson was one of five president s that Rufus Johnson helped protect. After graduating from georgia tech here in atlanta with a degree in Industrial Engineering, he joined the secret service back in 1951, and he protected president s truman, eisenhower, kennedy, johnson, and nixon, during his 20 year tenure with the secret service. He retired in 1971 as the agencys Deputy Director. At that time, he wrote his memoir, 20 years with the secret service. It didnt get the a
Thank you. Book testify continues on cspan2, television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everybody. Welcome. Welcome to heritage, thank you for joining us, we will have a fun discussion about Jason Chaffetz new book, power grab and introduce him senator mike lee, best friend of the constitution. Hello. Its a pleasure to be with you. This merges several of my interests, the constitution, conservative politics, books about those things at the Heritage Foundation and my friends jason and julie chaffetz. I first came to know the name Jason Chaffetz over 30 years ago when he became the place kicker at byu, hes really good, to this day he holds records including the most successful points after touchdown scored in a single game and i think in a single season and he was also famous for the fact that immediately after he kicked a field goal or pap, the helmet would come off and then he had this awesome slow jog to the sidelines and became famous for that, the chaf
[inaudible conversations] okay. Greetings, everyone. My name is ted. Im the editor of Frederick Douglass in brooklyn and a professor of journalism. At st. Josephs college in clinton hill here in brooklyn. I want to welcome you to the brooklyn book festival paneland assure you that books for sale are available in the courtyard after the panel. The authors will be deeply grateful for your support. Our panel today includes mr. Matt tie even by. Taibbi who is a Rolling Stone Kole Jim Nuss and hi latest book is hate inc. The next is jonathon mettle. Hi book is dying of whiteness and also a professor of sociology and psychiatry at vanderbilt university. And to my right, the president of new american leaders, an organization that promotes the incoming new immigrants into politics and her book is people like us, the in the wave of candidates knocking at democracys door. Thought we would start with a moment of silence for bill deblasios president ial campaign. And now continue. So, well start w
Cents. The price of gold holding steady. Its up just a little. Have we got a price there . Okay. We will get to it later. Its 1300 an ounce. What did you say . 14 . Gold is 1400 an ounce this morning. Big gain yesterday, a fractional gain this morning. Got that. Investors do not know what to make of this. Chinas leader goes to north korea. Interesting that right after that visit was announced, President Trump called xi jinping and worked out an extended meeting. So its a threeway dance and no one knows whether it helps the trade talks or not. Look at this, too. After a big rally yesterday, no significant pullback this morning. Yes, the dow, the s p, the nasdaq, they will all open lower but all three are still at or very close to their alltime highs, despite whats going on around the world. Go figure, maybe. Friday morning. Varney company about to begin. Stuart want you to see the video. Look at it. Its cooling down a little bit now but that was a massive explosion at an oil refinery in
the way that we expand healthcare to more people and bring down premiums is by building on the affordable care act. how much is it going to cost? i will ask him again tonight. if you ask ernie he says go figure. he we will find out. we should be the party on the side of hard-working people. tonight in america 200,000 people are in jail without having been convicted of anything. that is outrageous. we are going to end. most americans feel like the political parties have been playing you lose i lose. for years. who has been losing this entire time we have. iowa is in the rearview mirror. new hampshire votes next tuesday. for some it is now or never. the youngest candidate pete buttigeig was in the line of fire with a strong performance in iowa raising questions about his electability. greg is here with the sparring at tonight s debate. reporter: the stakes were higher tonight. was the eighth debate. so far the most contentious we have seen. there was definite incr