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Today. My name is bethany allen. Abrahimian. Im the china reporter at axios and im here today at Hudson Institute to speak with nuri terkel a senior fellow here at hudson about his new book which we have right here called no escape and let me first introduce nuri he is a senior fellow here. He is a lawyer. He is vice chair of the Us Commission on International Religious freedom, and he is cofounder of the wieger human rights project. He is one of the most prominent people who has been speaking o...

Withdrawn. Amendment 5745 is agreed to. And the bill as amended is considered read a third time. The question occurs on passage of the bill as amended. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote vote the pr the presiding officer on this vote the yeas are 272, 72, the nays 25, the 60vote having been achieved, the bill is passed. Mr. Schumer thank you, madam president and congratulations to the third circuit, theyre gaining an outstanding jurist as of now. Can we have order, please . Oh, that wa...

First Lady Laura Bush along with then library of librarian of congress and the current librarian of congress has continued. Carla it is so delightful to see people line up outside waiting to hear authors and get their books signed and all of these things. There is just so much excitement. After two years of being virtual, that was good for when we all had to hunker down, but being in person is just delightful. What is your role today . Carla my role is head cheerleader, and also to open up the m...

Then library of librarian of congress and the current librarian of congress has continued. Carla it is so delightful to see people line up outside waiting to hear authors and get their books signed and all of these things. There is just so much excitement. After two years of being virtual, that was good for when we all had to hunker down, but being in person is just delightful. What is your role today . Carla my role is head cheerleader, and also to open up the main stage to actually get a chanc...

Higher a gallon than when President Biden took office. Diesel prices are even higher, nearly 2. 81 per gallon more than in january of 2021. In short, look, we need to unleash our Domestic Energy production, not ask for help from opec. Or venezuela. We need to unleash our oil and Gas Resources in states like my home state or the presiding officers home state. We can produce a lot more oil and gas in this country and we have the best environmental . Andz. Thats how you bring the price down at the ...

[applause] also with us tonight is our cryptic congressman who is retiring after 26 years of service. Thank you, sir. [applause] are Ventura County supervisor, peter ford, peter, thank you for coming. [applause] now, for those of you who are patient enough to go through the book signing line just prior to the event this evening, you know that wonderful woman is with us tonight. Shes a bestselling author of the New York Times and the president of Newt Gingrich production. Please join me in recogn...

Welcome to this session of the texas book festival with h. W. Brandis. My name is steve hair again. I will be doing a q a with bill. 15 minutes after the session phil will be signing books in the book signing campus between the tenth and eleventh down the street. Please patronized the book signing tent in the bookstore, and pleas by the the book which wont be a problem. This is the book, the man who saved the union, Ulysses Grant and war and peace. If you by this book, proceeds will go to suppor...

Organization oh z work and why they are hoping the 113th will shift to the left. An upcoming budget battles between president obama and the 113th congress. After that, looking at the tenure of House Speaker john boehner and what his legacy will be. Plus your emails, phone calls, on cspan. [applause] Chris Christie delivered his state of address today and discussed Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts. The house is expected to vote on an additional 51 million in the package. This comes courtesy from ...

Ifill plus, the sweeping Public Health transformation in rwanda. Where aid groups and Trained Health workers are overcoming a shortage of doctors, while still achieving dramatic results. Reporter the number of children dying before age five has dropped to a quarter of what it was in the year 2,000. The number mothers who die in childbirth is down 66 since 1990. Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by...

Welcome back. Thats all for us tonight. Tomorrow is the big day the floats, the parades, and the inauguration ball. That will be all right here on cnn as president barack obama is inaugurated for a second time. I cant wait. Good evening, everyone. A big night tonight as washington gets ready for an even bigger day tomorrow, as many as 800,000 people expected. Tomorrow morning, president obama will make the journey from the white house to this end of pennsylvania avenue up here to capitol hill. T...