Authors at the q a button at the bottom right of the screen. Kent will ask your questions. Before i opportunity it over to kent and jeffrey i want to remind you but a couple of other Virtual Events were involved in alert this week. This wednesday at 8 00 p. M. Our partners the marcus Jewish Community sir . Atlanta are presenting a free event with coverage kevin quan if his latest novel, sex and vanity, and this friday at 7 00 p. M. Is Bell Wilkerson will discuss her latest best seller with jon mecham. Thank you so much for your purchase tonight. Join us for this event and for your continued support during these extraordinary times. Now ill turn i over to Kent Alexander and jeffrey toobin. Thank you. Jeff, this book was fantastic. Im so looking forward to talking with you but it. Innovate going to get into more of an entry duke of you because i think people know you really well, but had you written this book five years ago, i would have said it was a thriller, paymentturner, a pageturne
I have read the book. Not only that, i highlighted it. [laughter] i made notes. Come on. Thats a phenomenon with the movie but people talk about books without reading them. Sometimes when they are promoting the movie im working off your page. I feel i could do better than Rachel Maddow right now the goal is to go even deeper than she did. That congratulations on the book and these ideas of what is happening that we wonder about how did this happen . How destructive is it and will it ever get better. But a question of how you got into journalism i got a sense that you were a journalism nerd the way i was a comedy nerd as a kid. Out often interviewed comedians i would hunt down john candy or Jerry Seinfeld because i was obsessed and you did a version of the same thing. The only job i ever wanted in my life when i was five i wanted to be a trash man that was a big event in my house. Was so amazed. Ever since then i wanted to be a journalist. Some people will say the two jobs are the same.
Welcome to another one of our exclusive event tonight featuring a Jeffrey Toobin bestselling author of true crimes and misdemeanors the investigation of donald trump. He will be discussing his book tonight with former u. S. Attorney Kent Alexander. Buster he joined Jeffrey Toobinn and the rank of offers of combustible readers with his book the suspect in olympic park bombing, the fbi, the media and richard tool the man caught in the middle. You are invited to be part of the conversation as well. Please type in your question at the bottom right of your screen and keyboard answer questions after hes finished with his. Before i turn it over i want to remind you about a couple of other events that we are involved in later this week. Wednesday 8 p. M. Hour Community Center of atlanta are presenting an event with kevin kwan with his latest novel and this friday at 7 p. M. , Pulitzer Prize winner will discuss her bestseller with another Pulitzer Prize winner jon meacham presented by the atlan
Hours after announcing senator Kamala Harris is his running mate, the scene at a high school in wilmington, delaware. Senator harris leaving washington, d. C. Earlier today for the trip via the suburban vehicle to get to wilmington, delaware and the remarks line on cspan. Our phone lines are open. Your reaction to the announcement by senator Kamala Harris run with joe biden as his running mate. You heard from the former Vice President the criteria he took in place, including being the last person in the room, something he was asked when meeting with senator barack obama to serve as his running mate. Tell us what you think about the selections and the speech tonight by the former Vice President and senator Kamala Harris. We will begin with amelia joining us from california, democrats align. Caller good afternoon and thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak up. I think it is good. There is not going to be no perfect candidate for Vice President. Everyone has their different kinds
Its allies in western media today portraying china as either the victim of disinformation about the wuhan virus or claiming that western nations are using the contagion as distraction from their own policy failures. Even insinuating in one case that the United States is, quote, hiding something. The Trump Administration official telling fox news today they also have reason to believe the chinese have underreported, dramatically underreported the tally of deaths and cases of the virus in their country by a factor of at least 50. Can chinas initial and persistent lies and deception about the dangers of the virus have now caused the infection of 3 Million People worldwide and killed more than 209,000 people. Chinas maligned actions have killed 55,000 americans and infected nearly a million more. Much remains to be discovered, and among those discoveries we await are the dark reasons that motivated the ccp leaders to, first, release the virus and then to carry out can chinas deadly decepti