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Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on a tuesday night. And we begin with fastmoving developments for the investigation into that doomed passenger jet. An airbus a320 and that eightminute decent to death. What should have been a relatively quick flight. Barcelona to dusseldorf germany. Disappearing from radar, silence from the cockpit. Dissint rating in the french alps. 150 knew 00 now feared dead. That plane in tiny pieces. You can almost make out the name of the airline there....

Professor Matthew Green talks about his book the speaker of the house. This is half an hour. Host youre watching booktv. Were on location at the Catholic University of america in washington, dc, and were meeting some of the professors who have also written books. Joining us now is professor Matthew Green who has written the peeker of the house a study of lloydership. Whats the speaker of the house responsible for . Guest the speaker of the house has a number of responsibilities. He or she is the...

Facebook. Com booktv. Booktv is live from savannah, ga. Home to the annual savannah book festival we will bring you several authors including mike redmond, lily cobble, scott bird, john rizzo and debra solomon. We kickoff live coverage of the savannah book festival with gabriel asherman, author of the loudest voice in the room. Good morning, everyone. My name is alex gold and i am happy to welcome you to the seventh annual savannah book festival presented by Georgia Power. Into our new venue of ...

Speakers at least since the 1940s are known for at least producing one major work of legislation. But certainly at the top of that list id have to say would be sam rayburn. Host whats the speakers normal interaction with the senate . Guest with the senate . I wouldnt say that the speaker has a normal interaction with the senate. It varies by who the speaker is, it varies by which party is in control of the house and which partys in control of the senate, and it varies on the personal or the pers...

Statewide numbers add up. If youre philly and your vote this is like some guy living in the suburbs where the vote is more important. You live in a big city never lived in a state that really was a close call. I guess the saying about florida . Only three kind of people down here, those who vote, those who count and those who cant count. Stupid joke. [laughter] always had a different number. Always say, this thing called im sorry. Gore. Hi, chris. Quick question, i guess, the last one. Im a big ...

And she says, is that right . How would you know what god looks like what he pulled out a time and he said its right here, in god we trust, and heres his picture. And she said, thats not god, jack, thats franklin d. Roosevelt. Ya polio. He was on the dime, right . He was on the time because of the march of dimes. Congress decided after roosevelts death in 1945 they wanted to put his face on a coin, on the appropriate going with the dime because of the march of dimes, the Great Campaign to fight ...

For today and cspan 2 booktv so make it all proud just to give a brief sense of how we do things in the next 15 minutes. Im going to introduce just an art. Make sure thereve book will have a discussion. I think the title of this panel is rebuilding or evolution informally in my mind. It is detroit and austin that the beginning and end of all things. That appeals more to my grammatic sense. So jeff kerr is the author of austin texas history. The first was austin, texas then and now. The next was ...

In the constitution, and so theres an expectation that speakers are there to represent the house of representatives with the senate and the American People. The practical matter the speaker is responsible for ensuring that the house operates correctly, ensuring that legislation is enacted, helping to develop the agenda, interacting with the president , interacting with the American People, and ensuring that in general the house is working the will of the people. Could anyone be the speaker of ho...

Louisville Free Public Library in louisville, kentucky, is next on booktv. [applause] thanks a lot, greg. Thank you. Very grateful to be in this this beautiful library. Thanks to you all for coming out on a fashionty evening. I do hope that well mostly have a conversation, think about questions you might want to ask, because im speaking ill try to keep my prepared remarks short, read three short passages from the book, and then lets talk about fdr. My grandmother was a schoolteacher. She taught ...

Mystery. And going ape. A rare csection brings this tiny baby gorilla into the world where vets are keeping a close eye on her after medical problems. Well tell you how shes doing right now. Hey, good morning. As we come on the air there are late breaking developments in the mystery of flight 370. Malaysias Prime Minister making his first comments about the plane saying the investigation has now entered a, quote, new phase. According to the Prime Minister, the latest information confirms that wh...