Are here in the room and all of you watching at home at cspan book tv, we are delight today start the third day of this years fourth day celebration, today we will do 32 events, i hope you are all staying all day. [laughter] we couldnt be more delighted, thank you for making more time in the morning and check out schedule and come back for more things tomorrow, we will star today, how we win, shes in conversation with hannah and i will send you over to them. [applause] okay, what have i dont . Anyone who knows me, technology is not my friend. [laughter] hi, welcome to madison. Thank you. Let me just tell you a little bit about sarah, her bio is on the website, its in your information and its on the book that you all will be buying many copies of. [laughter] but sarah is a very incrediblable woman, she was getting ready to leave after president bush the second and getting ready to go until Hillary Clinton brought her in the office and said, talk to me about what youre doing and she said
A couple of notes for you, please silence your cell phones as always. Also, if youd like to ask the question this evening, right over here in front of the wisconsin book festival banner there is a microphone, we are joined across the nation on cspan booktv today so please ask your question from the microphone. Also as a special treat, artist will santino is here and will be graphic recording throughout the event. Writing down things they discussed, questions we ask and then his piece of art will be on display after stop here is Angela Batista from a [applause] abi want to give a big thank you to Madison Public Library, the Madison Public Library foundation and all our amazing sponsors for making this whole thing possible. Thank you. And thank you for coming out to the wisconsin book festival to hear adam rippon talk about his new book beautiful on the outside i dont think he needs an intro, everybody in this room probably knows him. If you dont, get a tv. [laughter] check your internet
As for me, let me riff on this. Americans are accustomed to a prosperous, confident and happy state of the union. All right. Thats their normal attitude. But these are not normal times. And under joe biden, the american condition looks like its unhappy, somewhat demoralized, and even fearful. Now, a recent poll shows 43 believe joe bidens policies have actually hurt them. And the same poll shows that the lives of working class blacks, latinos, whites, women, other groups, theyre actually better off under donald trump than they were under joe biden. Biden has spent 6 trillion of democrat pork on climate and welfare and woke schools and student debt and other crazy boondoggles, but all thats done is up. Inflation hasnt made people any happier. The high prices for basic goods like groceries and gasoline or home mortgages, all thats been killing off the middle class. Under joe biden, the work force has taken a pay cut. Listen to this from a real weekly wage of 399. When Joe Biden Took Offi
We are live from washington, d. C. We are talking about the state of the Union Message tonight as President Biden takes center stage. The nations state of the union is unhappy, demoralized, even fearful if you ask me. Our very own John Robertses will be here in a minute. He will lead us off what we might expect. Speaker of the house mike johnson will join us. He will be here to talk about whether the border catastrophe will ever get solved, will we ever see a balanced budget in my lifetime . I dont know. Senator marco rubio may have something to say about joe bidens cockamamie idea for the u. S. Military to build a port in gaza, more insanity. Senator rand paul will be coming around. Will joe bidens spending spree ever be stopped at home or abroad . Kevin hassett and steve moore why biden tax cuts will backfire. Biden tax hikes i should say. Then my favorite congresswoman, Claudia Tenney, she will report on Donald Trumps own state of the union prebuttal, very cool. First up, a couple t
From all of our colleagues across the networks that nbc news, thank you for staying up, late be good this, weekend and i will see at the end of monday. In a federal court in miami at 10 30 am on monday. And then on Tuesday The Graduate special counsel jack smith has been using in his investigation into trumps attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, that jury is expected to meet again, which could mean more testimony or it could mean a possible indictment. And as much as everyone is and has been holding their breath to see what happens in that investigation, lets be clear that special counsel jack smith took us all by surprise yesterday with a new superseding indictment in the maralago investigation and that new indictment offers a potentially valuable clue about what we might see in smiths other indictment, shouldnt actually happen. All sorts of information in the maralago case seems to come from a witness referred to as Employee Number 2. It alleges that one of the cons