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Abcs Pierre Thomas has all the latest from washington. Good morning, pierre. Reporter good morning, george. Its a showdown between the fbi and apple. The fbi trying to force apple to open that iphone as it hunts for clues in the San Bernardino massacre. Apple saying no way and this morning a federal court is weighing in. A federal judge in california ordering apple to help the fbi unlock an iphone used by syed farook who went on a murderous rampage with his wife leaving 14 dead in San Bernardino...

Good evening. Im so glad to be here at politics and prose with my wife this evening. Thank you so much to the entire staff for coming out on this damp august evening. Now is the time to turn off your cell phones or anything else that might be during the presentation. When we get to the q a in the program, there is a microphone over there and we would appreciate it if you would make your way to it if you would like to ask a question, especially with the cameras going here this evening. Finally, a...

Good evening. On behalf of the entire staff thank you very much coming out on this wet evening. Please turn off your cell phones and as they get to question and answer there is the microphone over there really appreciate it if you would make your way to it if you would like to ask a question we have the cameras here going. Finally at the end please help our staff by folding up the chairs. We are delighted to have with us a very prolific writer of narrative history Hampton Sides has several bests...

Of Human History that a test to quince reality. How does it tie in with what you do as a physical theorists, fit theoretical physicist . It doesnt tiein at all to what i do as the theoretical physicists. As i human being, physicists are people. We live in Human Society and my mind, religion and science have been the two most powerful forces that have shaped human civilization so if you are ignorant of religion or you dismiss it, you are discounting a lot of Human History. Are the incompatible . ...

Every weekend, booktv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books, on cspan 2 keep watching for more television for serious readers. Booktv is live this weekend from the tucson festival of books. Start agent 1 00 p. M. Eastern 10 00 a. M. Pacific well be covering several author panel on topics such as race and politics, Supreme Court, environment, immigration, and more. All this live from the university of arizona the site of the seventh annual tucson festival of books. I give an example...

Have you started your next project . Guest i dont ever talk about my new stuff. Im kind of superstitious about it. I feel like its not going to happen if i do Start Talking about it so i will be hopefully with you in two or three more years with my new book. Host in the kingdom of ice. Here is the cover in Hampton Sides is the author. August of 2014 publication date. In this encore booknotes from october 2001 columnist and author midge decter discusses her memoir midge decter seven decades in lo...

Could be, like i said, feedback from the retailers, or, or theres another cover out that has the exact same photograph, or very similar. We didnt realize. That we need to change. Starting now on booktv, Hampton Sides recounsels a u. S. Naval expedition to the north pole in 1879. The journey februariess by James Gordon Bennett and led by George Washington delong, began in San Francisco, july 8, 1879. The crew sailed for two years behalf breach of the ships hull, which left them abandoned a thousa...

The ability to resuscitator rehabilitate i always give the president the benefit of the doubt. The president deserves his team. General David Petraeus is a good choice. Got remember something about the army or the service. The Foreign Service like many of you, the war is not general David Petraeuss war, it is the president s war and the military, all the people who work in the government follow the policy of the elected civilian government. They can give their opinions and they need to end milit...

Im delighted to see you here to talk about my new book dinner with churchill policymaking at the dinner table. Since my book is all about the importance and dinners be assuredly not make you late for your own dinners. I will be brief. I want to whet your appetite so youll buy my book. You want to i have lived with wrurnlg Winston Churchill for four years. It was wonderful. Even though it took place in churchill college. Im asked where i got the idea to add to the thousand already written. I have...

Bring about peace and dangerous place Like Northern ireland. The reason the price is given because youre not going to go and fascinate somebody who just won the nobel peace prize. Its bringing world attention. The most significant Pulitzer Prize is the one for Public Service been given to newspapers daringly covering something the community didnt want them to cover. The journalists are ostracized, the local towns often pull out their advertisements and the newspapers right about some lame it cou...