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Moved forward since that event. This is 40 minutes. I am going to have two introduce a little bit to make sure that everyone understands the order of the day. Im going to ask, who as you probably already know, is the editorial director and columnist and contributing writer to the New York Times and then im going to ask to follow on all of us i hope everyone in journalism knows, if you have a problem with the First Amendment, you call and there really is no number two. You just call floyd abrams....

Silvie first, will tell us what is going on and what the problems are, from her perspective. Ill let floyd outline the differences and similarities between our idea and america of Free Expression and perhaps a french notion which may be different in some respects. And then finally bret. With no further ado, sylvie, can you let us know what you think . Sylvie thank you very much and thank you for having me here. Its always a great to come back to new york where i have spent five of probably the m...

Challenges the Affordable Care act. And, the Atlantic Council talks about the threat of the Islamic Terrorist Group to the United States. We will take your comments on facebook and twitter. The American Israel Public Affairs committee is holding its annual Public Affairs conference in washington, it d. C. This weekend. It is described as americas proislamic lobby. We will have remarks live beginning at 5 00 p. M. Eastern here on cspan. D cspan city store takes book tv on the road. Traveling to U...

This week on q a our guest is Judith Miller former New York Times reporter and author of the book the story, a reporters journey. Jewely miller author of this story. Deep in the book you have a chapter called inmate 454570083 this paragraph. The worst part of jail was not sleeping on the paper thin yoga mat on the cold concrete ledges that had replaced more expensive cots nor the vile food mystery meets drenched that an inmate dubbed sloppy nose. So what was the worst thing about being in jail i...

Have a chapter, this paragraph. The worst part of jail was not sleeping on a paperthin yoga mat. Nor the vile food, mystery meat drenched in thick, brown sauce. Accompanied by starches and carbohydrate in shades of brown and gray. What was the worst thing about being in jail . Judith for me, it was probably being locked up all of the time without any control over my life. We take watches and cell phones for granted. You know what time it is, you know what youre supposed to be doing. Jail means a...

Idea. Either keeping fema out of it or keeping fema in dhs but more robust would be a better idea. Secret service could have been used opportunity to split secret service into two different agencies. Right now they have a dual mission. That dual mission is very confusing for people in secret Service Monetary investigations and protecting the president and other officials. Those are two you know, unrelated missions. So i think other things could have been done maybe not quite as extreme as what w...

Even if there is not an immediate lifting of the sanctions. On the pnd, i can tell you the , french are keen of having were not going to let the pnd issue under the carpet. The negotiations, for the moment, obviously they are not moving forward quickly. It means that the iranians make the calculation that it could be easier to get concessions from the ministers with some dramatization. A good deal of dramatization. It is also theater. There are some theatricals in negotiation. Really, dont liste...

Always about money melissa straight to the back room story tonight. The whispers are focused on the biggest wall street titan of them all, Warren Buffett. The oracle of omaha himself. He is known for not micromanaging companies he buys but insiders are warning that his 29yearold protege, tracy britt is stirring the pot at benjamin more owned by Berkshire Hathaway of the it is all the word on wall street. Here with the juicy details, the wall street journal ahead of the tape columnist, Spencer Ja...

Always about money melissa straight to the back room story tonight. The whispers are focused on the biggest wall street titan of them all, Warren Buffett. The oracle of omaha himself. He is known for not micromanaging companies he buys but insiders are warning that his 29yearold protege, tracy britt is stirring the pot at benjamin more owned by Berkshire Hathaway of the it is all the word on wall street. Here with the juicy details, the wall street journal ahead of the tape columnist, Spencer Ja...

Mr. Franken madam president . The presiding officer the senator from minnesota. Mr. Franken i would ask that the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Franken madam president , i have eight unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during todays session of the senate. They have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. I ask unanimous consent that these requests be agreed to and that these requests be printed in the record. The presiding officer w...