Stephen thank you so much. Good to have you with us. Please, everybody, first off, everybody at home watching right now, i want to thank everybody in here, out there, all around the world. But if you are just if are you just joining our broadcast already in progress, you may be noticing this. laughter this will all be explained later. laughter for now just enjoy the ride. laughter i know i am. But first, folks, its a great day for america. And i could not be angrier about it. laughter i try getting angrier and i couldnt do it because i started getting happy about how angry i was. laughter and its all because of major news from our war in afghanistan. First were still fighting in afghanistan. laughter who knew that thing was still going. Its like the greys anatomy of war. laughter but this weekend, the conflict grabbed headlines. A u. S. Soldier captured by the taliban five years ago is free and hes coming home. Bowe bergdahl, sergeant United States army. The taliban snatched him while
What i thought i would do is i have three short excerpts to read tonight. Then we could have a little discussion and sign books. Has anyone actually read the book yet . Some people are still working on into. Just to give some context the format is unusual. It is the category stretcher basically written prayer merely as a memoir and a very personal story about my experience trying everything i could possibly fate of and how i completely failed and how i tried to make sense of that failure to put it into a bigger context and the idea for turning this into a book when i started to hear stories from other brendon that were eerily similar about birding out and i realize how maxed out we all are and i wanted to industry and in a bigger way. And i try to include a little essay from that chapter and i will share one of those tonight. I guess where i would like to start is in the middle. I have a baby girl and a stepdaughter to is a toddler and i started a big management job at a Consulting Fir
Crisis on the border. Border bedlam. Humanitarian nightmare. Chaos and despair. The situation is so dire. The crisis at hand demands action. Unless we sit down and reason together, were going to end up with the status quo. Jon so all we need to save ourselves is for congress to sit down and reason. [laughter] together. Oh, my god [screaming maniacally] can they do it . [laughter] did they do it . Because actually, spoiler alert, you could have watched the news between friday and monday and you probably already know, but if you did not because you were at the theater, heres how it went down starting on july 8th the white house today asked congress for 3. 7 billion to deal with the flood of unaccompanied children coming into the United States illegally. Jon okay. But i dont think they asked for it by putting it on a white board on a fence. 3. 7 billion dollars. Thats a lot of money. Congress . Were not going to write blank check for 4 billion. [laughter] jon you do realize how, chairman
Visit us online at booktv. Org. Morten storm is a former danish radical islamist. He talks about his experiences as a member of alqaeda and his later life as a double agent employed by u. S. , british and danish intelligence agencies. This is about an hour and a half. The i will be brief, but as you know, as we follow the media even in these days, the rising concern about young men going to the middle east in search of jihad or in search of adventure and finding themselves caught up in extremism and violence and in many cases converting either to extremist causes or becoming disillusioned and returning, in either case resulting in their becoming a problem when they return to the west. There was a book during the cold war, my war, which was a 1949 book called the god that failed. It was about people who had embraced communism, felt it was they were true believers, and they lost the faith. They realized that was not the holy grail. And tonights story is very much a story of conversion, o
Through, so pick your poison. Is what the trade off here. We have a nice clear sky, it will continue, so nice weather is making a return appearance. We will have details coming up, jessica. Good morning, everybody. 5 30. Relatively quiet start to our morning here. Youll see behind me the schuylkill expressway at Spring Garden. Everything is moving great. On the lefthand side there headlights towards the city, moving nicely on the westbound side, taillights heading toward king of prussia area. We have road closures in just a couple minutes, ukee and natasha, good morning. New Surveillance Video in the beating of the same sex couple in center city may help police break the case wide open. Jane carabao joins us live from central detectives to tell us more about it, jan . Reporter it seems like just time before these suspects are caught in this cases specially because of this Crystal Clear Surveillance Video police have releasedded. Since releasing this video they told Eyewitness News thei