Guest for me, too. Im such a big fan of your book as well. Im going to hold it up because its phenomenal. Host your wonderful. A i appreciate that but were going to talk about you today. Try to if we must thats fine. Host there will be overlap. We talked about the same things. We are two black women who are attorneys and the district of columbia, with given at least part of our careers to the criminal legal system, except at opposite sides of the table. You as a prosecutor and the as a defense attorney. I think this is a perfect opportunity for us to talk about your book, just pursuit a black prosecutors fight for fairness. So this is going to be great. I do want to waste any time. My guess is that you and i could talk for hours about that. Guest we are kindred spirits. Its a legal system aspired to be a Justice System for even though we came from different sides of the table are both at the table knowing that same concept. Host we will come back to that. Want to talk about what does i
Of fulfilled whatever plan i could have in journalism in the since ive been a foreign correspondent, i i did an edi, the president chairman moran of said journalism is not a fit profession. If you ever get serious call me. So i did and they found a position for me as a Senior Editor at random t house which s obviously a great place to go. So i made a lateral move out of Washington Post in giving a first book editor individually a book publisher. It was a midcareer move. I brought with me all the experience i had in journalism which turned out to be very valuable and i connections. One of i the last thing. I realize almost as soon as i gather that the difference is in the newspaper business human out and got the story, and the Publishing Business you get the story and then you have to sell the story. I kind of enjoyed that part of it as much as i enjoyed getting the story, so thats why i ended up doing a career i did. In acquw to how did that happen well, im my background in journalism
Committee. He has spent 15 years as an environmental attorney and was elected to the San Diego City Council for he became the citys First City Council president. Congressman peters the completion of a number of infrastructure product projects. Welcome and thank you for being here today. Thank you so much for having me, jessica. We have about half an hour and i will read the questions as they come in. I want to start with the big news of the day which is the passage of the inflation reduction act. In addition to that, you were one of the cosponsors of the adaptation and resilience strategy act which is a bipartisan bill designed to do a number of things, including streamlined the federal response to climate hazards that threaten human health, safety, and critical infrastructure. What can you tell us about all of these different moving parts and pieces, why they are important and what we should know about them . I should maybe start by saying where you stand depends on where you sit. I a
I have said and i believe that there is a good possibility that sometime in the next 20 years, we will have a woman president. Hillary clinton locked many first in her rule her role as first lady. As she considers another bid for the white house herself, Hillary Clinton story. Here to tell us the story for the next 90 minutes are to journalist who know the clintons well by covering them for many years. A biographer of Hillary Clinton, her book in 2000 was called hillarys choice or e. Welcome to both of you. Here, i want to play a bit of video from 1992. Is 105 or six Hillary Clinton clips that has become implemented of her. This is where she talked about how she might approach the role of first lady. Lets listen. [video clip] primarily children but other issues. It is not true and i dont know what else to say. I suppose i could have stayed home and baked cookies, but i decided to fulfill my profession. They really were promoting that she would be a very involved first lady. How did tha
You may have noticed the cameras. Cspan this will be broadcast. We can have a debate, a conversation like this where differences of opinion get raised. Figure out complexities. We do not need to shout each other. I assume that bill oreilly would say this evening was a failure because you are not going away angry or upset. It very encouraging and reassuring for our democracy that we can come together like this and share differences of opinion and understand that in those differences, we have a common goal, a common purpose to figure out how to live together peacefully. Thank you for a wonderful evening. [applause] coming up, a preview of the president s state of the union address. Fromwe will hear congressman Jason Chaffetz of utah. And senator Bernie Sanders of vermont on income inequality. Your calls, treats, and facebook between tweets, and facebook questions. Our first lady Series Features the life of Hillary Clinton. A preview of president obama state of the union address. Later, t