and thank you for watching news night. laura coates live starts now. the weekend is finally here. it is calling. a week from now there could be a government shutdown, where will we be at that point in time? deja vu it feels like for us today. it does, have a good weekend. we ll see you back here on monday. bye. now, walking down the streets of new york city, imagine this, and then you hear move over, mr. mayor, we re here for your cellphones. that s tonight on laura coates live. so it s america s largest city, and running it comes with a lot of attention, maybe more attention than new york city mayor eric adams bargained for. a federal investigation into campaign fundraising now appears to be inching that much closer to the mayor of new york. and by the way, in a very dramatic and a very public way. fbi agents seized adams two phones and an ipad not today but several days ago on monday. first telling us that agents approached the mayor on the streets of new york,
War. Booktv in prime time continues this week. Tonight after the communicators, well bring you authors from book fairs and festivals. At 8 30 p. M. Eastern, we begin with Oscar Goodman at freedom fest. He talks about being oscar from mob lawyer to mayor of las vegas. After that, well go to this years printers row Literary Festival to hear about the cooked seed. Then on to bookexpo be america in new york city city with erica jong who talks about fear of flying. And we finish with author and radio talk show host larry elder at the Los Angeles Times festival of books as he discusses his memoir about his troubled relationship with his father in dear father, dear son. Booktv in prime time all this week on cspan2. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Host well, with the announcement this week that the Washington Post has been sold to jeff bethos, we thought wed take this opportunity to look at changes in the newsp
And hes that guy. So i dont i mean i just think that america, like everyone else believes or most people belief, is at a crossroads right now. If you go to other countries, especially asia and other stuff, importing all their students to get educated here and exporting all the brain power out right after that, i think its a real problem, you know . But theres nhing i can do about that except try to make great music and great headphones. Next question, please . I really enjoy the conversation you all were having about the Entertainment Industry an the how it relates to the Technology Industry because i come from an industry thats sort of a marriage of both, the video Game Industry. Of. I study at the school of cinematic arts but my specialty is video games. My question, inhe spirit of all that great informati sharing you all obviously do between the music and film stry, where do you think we are . What are the big challenges in trying to work more together than the current state of affa
Smaller population, which makes it harder. They are more of a minority. It is important we do these things to reassure them and the organizations. I need a point of order. [laughter] you can go on this time. I do not want to through do that again. It is not as ivy league schools. My College Public institution that serves the innercity section of york did away with rotc about 16 years after i graduated because of the vietnam war. They have decided to bring it back this year. [applause] i want to leave you with one story and one thought. I was in minnesota. They have the military appreciation fund. They collect money for rehab, college, and other things. It unifies the entire state. The speaker was a mother of a National Guardsman who had gone three times to iraq. She is a big executive at the target corporation. She did not want to be involved with her sons activities. She went off to see him often. She was named the chair of the parents left behind. Look at the Young Mothers with their
Secretary of state paul, Stanley Mcchrystal and marcia anderson. This is part of the chicago ideas week conference. They represent less than 1 of the american population. Most of them, from workingclass families. From not too far from here in the workingclass neighborhood of chicago or the bar rios of the southwest or the deep woods of the self and the hills of new england. Or from the rural part of my native great plains. They volunteered a sense of patriotism and a determination to advance their own lives as well. In the course of these two long wars, they have 100 of the risks and 100 of the wounds and deaths. Their families at home have been living in bubble of Emotional Trauma thinking that no one on around them cares because no one was asked of the rest of us. If we did not have someone in that war, or if we did not know someone in that war, it could be out of sight, out of mind. We were not asked to make any sacrifices. The war just went on, fought by these brave Young American