[inaudible conversations] all day here at the library of Congress National book festival we are recognizing and celebrating the importance of reading and authors and books. The library of congress mix it seem easy to do this each year but the truth is the National Book festival is a huge undertaking. Its a huge financial undertaking. And it has been made possible by generous support from our sponsors. You can see who they are in the programs and video monitors around the Convention Center but they ca tend to take for granted that this will continue to exist. So id ask you to consider making the contribution right now using your cell phone and you can send a text to make a onetime gift that will be added to your mobile phone bill. The details are on the screen and on the back of your program. Once you are to please silence your cell phone. Onto the main event id like to introduce the cochair of the National Book festival, david rubenstein. [applause] we are very honored today to have on
We thank everyone for joining us for our first Small Business meeting of 2020. I want to especially thank the witnesses for taking the time to travel from across the country and take time away from their businesses to have this important discussion. There will be members coming and going or overlapping hearings with other committees. Youll see folks, and we ask for your patience with that as well. Farming and agriculture are at the heart of strong economies around the country. It is crucial to insure that our communities thrive. Coming from colorado, i understand the importance that farming and agriculture have on our states way of life and economic wellbeing. Nearly half of colorados 66 million acres are dedicated to over 30,000 farms and ranches. Many of which are small, locally owned operations. Colorados a leading producer of cattle, corn, wheat, and dairy. Colorados small farms are raising everything from bison and ostriches and growing mushrooms and grapes to name a few. In the 2
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Welcome to the whole story. Im Anderson Cooper. Theres a heated battle across the country right now over transgender girls and women. And if states have the right to bar them from sports unless they compete with boys and men. The laws on this differ from state to state. And at the elite levels, each sport makes its own rules and who can participate over the next hour, well take you behind this emotional and politicized issue and how the controversies affecting the lives of athletes around the country around fifth grade, i think is when i started to notice i didnt exactly fit who everyone thought i was i always felt trapped trying to become her the first time i felt that i truly belonged was plane on the girls softball team. All right. Im ready. One going out the middle nice job, right i was horrified a few months later when i found out that that might be taken away why . Im get It Job Number and ohio bill that would ban Transgender Athletes from girls and womens sports is moving throug
News israel, im jessica dean in new york and tonight the hamasrun Ministry Of Health saying the number of palestinians killed in gaza since the start of the war has now Northern Gaza or the idf claims hamas is trying to rebuild more than 300,000 civilians have now fled rafah since monday. Thats according to the un, which has called It A Quote Inhumane Displacement a palestinians about them on model, there is no safe place its the same story, seven or eight times we move. Theres no place safe whenever we go there is bombardment. There was bombardment at the indonesian hospital and the doctors and medics were forced out i had to leave like everyone else i dont know what to say. Is this life. Death is more honorable than this humiliation cnn senior White House Reporter kevin lip tack, is traveling with President Biden and joins us now from delaware, kevin, how is the white house responding as we see israels military ramp up operations there in rafah, which at this point seem to be undeter