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Conference, the spouse of a jailed cia whistleblower will speak out today for the first time. Her she heads to the National Press club, holly sterling, the ,ife of imprisoned former cia will join us. Then to israel and the occupied territories. Have killed more than 30 palestinians in the last two weeks. With tensions rising over is really control of the temple mount in jerusalem, Palestinian Authority president abass accuses them of sparking a religious war. These days the israeli aggressive as...

We will look at Election Results across the country as ohio says no to legalize marijuana, voters in houston reject a measure to bar lgbt discrimination, and airbnb scores a victory in San Francisco. Then to banning the box. The federal government, i believe, should not use criminal history to screen out applicants before we even look at the qualifications. We can dismiss people out of handsomely because they made a mistake in the past. Amy president obama announces a stearic series of steps to ...

The era of the obama gridlock is over. Were going to make them squeal. American people have spoken. Theyve given us divided government. They expect the people they elect to get the job done. Just because you have divided government doesnt mean you dont accomplish everything. I look forward to working together to deliver for the American People. Former cbs reporter Cheryl Atkinson said her reporting was stonewalled. Alex rodriguez confessed to using steroids to federal officials. His credibility ...

And much more. On consider this. Republicans now control the house and the senate. The era of the obama gridlock is over. Were going to make them squeal. American people have spoken. Theyve given us divided government. They expect the people they elect to get the job done. Just because you have divided government doesnt mean you dont accomplish everything. I look forward to working together to deliver for the American People. Former cbs reporter Cheryl Atkinson said her reporting was stonewalled...

Shame. And gay talese. Revisits the bridge that made him a literary giant. We begin in washington, where a 1. 1 trillion spending bill hangs in the balance with the u. S. Senate. The house narrowly approved the legislation last night, despite support from president obama it is getting a lot of push back from democrats who put a lot of the blame on banks. Here we are five years after dodd frank with congress on the verge of ramming through a provision that would do nothing for the middle class, d...

It still says in 20 years theyl bring us Artificial Intelligence. Theres a wonderful guy in my book who ill get to in a moment. Lickliter said maybe so, but in the meantime, why dont we connect ourselves more closely to our machines, because thats going to be more useful. So in all the data points we have of the 60 years or so of the digital revolution has been that the combination that ada envisioned of the technology of humans and machines has always proved more fruitful than the class of pure...

Compromised, these have become two of the polarities that structure the very leftright order of battle in american political life as much as the debate over the role of government, led by Barry Goldwater, and the cultural war between mutually recriminating cultural sophisticates on the one hand and the plain or silent majority on the other that i labeled in my previous book nixon land. Note well that reagans side in this plait call battle of political battle of assets which is carried far above ...

About William Wells brown . How many of you knew his work . Was seen no before tonight . The camera cant catch all of them. I counted four hands and maybe that is part of the justification for five years of hard but very devoted and rewarding work. Anyone else . Thank you very much. [applause] we have books for sale. As i said before we also have other ridings. Thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend, booktv, te...

Okay. So i think what this case illustrates in the broader trends that we were talking about are some threats to press freedom, but i think its important to put that into a global context. And there are many countries, including russia, that have far worse press freedom records and where journalists are imprisoned, journalists are killed and their murders are never investigated. Indeed, in most cases of george journalist murders, nine out of ten are never investigated. Several outstanding in rus...

I have to think about that for a minute. I just came here, really, today, to thank everybody involved with this. I was not involved with this petition drive at all. And anybody who knows me knows i couldnt organize a onecar funeral. The fact that this has happened just leaves me speechless. And the main thing that gets to me is i realize i dont deserve all this. But i also know its really not about me. Its about some basic issues that affect all journalists and all americans. You know, when the ...