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Already begun at the white house this morning. President obama sat down with president elect trump, but trump did a funny thing. He came in and said, youre fired. You know, and they left. This is the first time they met. They never met before. That must have been so strange. Sasha, malia, come down, meet the man who questioned daddys citizenship for eight years. They met for about 90 minutes. They were only supposed to meet for 15 minutes but trump had questions for obama, like, how the hell do ...

If you can possibly make it to the microphone that is right here next to this pillar we would be really grateful because that makes the audio much more enjoyable for those who are trying to listen who arent actually physically in this space it if you have a phone or nose making device on your person and you could possibly silence it or make it so that it wont make noise, wed be grateful for that. And then lastly at the end of the event if you wouldnt mind folding up your chair and putting them t...

To protect nonconformists of all stripes. The core particularly focused on schools because the case involved a two Elementary School girls. Said because schools are educating the young for citizenship, they must scrupulously protect individual rights if we are not to strangle the free mind at its source and to teach youths to discount important principles of government as mere mere platitudes that you can watch this and other programs on my netbook tv. Org. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible c...

In this culture brief time that was pretty admirable and having lived through those days it was a delight really to go back and live through what kennedy did. I was at a lecture of the library of congress of biography is the she give you a copy and i had read this number of years ago but i am so glad i did it was a delight i am also reading the book on dark many that is less but not because of her but relieve the and believable influence of right wing in american political life. Natalie buying T...

But there will be divergence as well. The way the differences tend to be around issues of social welfare policy and by this i mean writ large, education policy, healthcare policy, policies that have to do with children, the elderly, women are more willing to see the government as a positive force in terms of these particular issues more so than men. Women, some parents might it is more sophisticated than that. A more positive attitude towards state involvement providing for healthcare, supportin...

[inaudible conversation] book tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what theyre reading this summer. I hope to finish a couple books, first of all im reading freedoms task which was given to me by senator roy blunt and this is a book that is about the dome being put on the Capital Building precivil war but what i found is especially interesting is as i get into the book of focus on the House Chamber and Senate Chamber and how those were added to the original Capital Buildin...

Which is almost impossible to compute anyway. All you have to do is look at the price of oil, nominal price of oil in the 7s so when we went from 3 to almost 40 a barrel. The price was going open, people thought we were running out youve had Huge Investments in alternatives and Huge Investment in the Energy Industry in the early 80s. Terrible inflation, oil crashes to 10 a barrel, texas goes into a depression, the agricultural economy goes into a depression. Unstable money we saw the same thing ...

To. A book i am rereading. I am also reading a book at the National Gallery a week or so ago called the accidental masterpiece. It is about how you see art and to me i am a great lover of art, every day objects, everywhere you look. An interesting book i picked up. You see by my office, i do my own art. And keep my day job here. Reading, i want to mention, is foundational. I was not born in this country. English is not my first language. I credit a library and in Elementary School who awakened m...

That will change soon. Heres 495 near connecticut avenue. We are clearing the work zone. The cones have been set up along the right side of the roadway. Now they have all travel lanes open on 95 in virginia headed to the Prince William parkway. A little heavy traffic but nothing so far. Im hearing callers from the overnight work zone that may have gravel still in the roadway. Well have more coming up. Aaron and eun, back to you. Developing right now, Prince Georges County are investigating a hom...

Grab a book and have it signed. Thank you all for attending this presentation. The lit fest appreciates your feedback. Thank you. [indiscernible] you are watching book tv on cspan two. Television for serious readers. Heres a look at what is on prime time tonight. And then it is a clock they talk about the book why president s fail and how they can succeed again. And then eastern a week count of the social and political upheavals that took place in the u. S. And at 10 00 on book tv afterwards pro...