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>> sandra: begin with house speaker nancy pelosi arriving in taiwan, it happened a short time ago for her trip there, raising concerns of how china could, and could still respond. and already beijing issuing a series of threats. hello, welcome, everyone. john, great to be with you. >> john: happy tuesday to you, im john roberts in new york. chinese fighter jets flew nearby, the speaker arriving safely but the u.s. and taiwan remain on high alert, as four u.s. warships have been reposit...

Resignation. This is about an hour. A testimony to the job they do and the reverence for books books that we all share. Richard nixon is a hard man to let go of. By first i remember as a child in black and white fuzzy television seeing this odd man, he was on a good ticket with general eisenhower and there was some problem taking money from a secret fund. And i thought this is interesting. He never stopped being interesting. Richard nixon was never boring. David mentioned he was probably as inte...

The one that ended his presidency when it did surface because they did do a cover up. How to that 18. 5 minute gap happened. It is pretty clear from the expert panel that there was an intentional situation. And i decided to put an appendix who had access, the fact that there were five to nine who intentionally erase the content. It occurs on a tape on june 20, 1972 which is his first day back in the office. It is his first conversation after the arrest. And i think it is very flexible. Its somet...

Next, a look at just given by previous president s. Including president clinton. He begins by referencing travels to africa and chile. [applause] president clinton thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. Powell. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. As you know, i have been traveling to other lands quite a lot lately. I just want to say what a pleasure it is for hillary and me to be in your country. [laughter] since i live tear arrived here i have been struck by the beauty of your...

Sustainable agriculture. We have to move away from the form of agriculture were now engaged in and has been supported by policy in all of our countries. And weve exported it. Theres an area of land three times the size of Great Britain in africa alone where foreign interests, foreign investors, Foreign Corporations foreign governments have come in and bought up massive amounts of land and water and theyre using it to grow crops that they sell out of the community. And theyre using all the same b...

Work in both print and broadcast. The print winner is peter baker of the new york times. [applause] and the broadcast winner is peter mayer of cbs news. [applause] the next award recognizes coverage of news or national and regional significance. The judges chose to winners this year. Oney at reuters. [applause] and the center for public and brian ross of abc news. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, we have one more award. We normally just award those three, but as part of the centennial of our ass...

[inaudible] and barbara were always very welcoming to me. They always said whens your next book . Youre on. [laughter] and it was lovely. And as david said, brad and lissa have carried on the wondrous tradition, the ingenuity and made it keep going, and the fact that all of you have come tonight is a testimony to the job they do and the reverence for books that we all share. Richard nixons a hard man to let go of. [laughter] i first i remember as a child on black and white fuzzy television seein...

Characters in the family which a dress. She argues that too little remembered victorian sisters changed the course of womens rights and American History sunday night at 8 00 on cspans q and a. Live on cspan a bit of a mob scene inside the South Entrance to the Washington Hilton Hotel looking at the red carpet arrivals at the white house Correspondents Dinner. Welcome to cspans live coverage here. For the next several hours well bring you the red carpet arrivals and the dinner eist, president oba...

Affiliated that is simply false. In that way get away from that question in the further we are. But carters campaign is the reversal in the fact that we spoke about it so freely with his appeal. Ive loved your closing sentence. Maybe he was the last one to no. Whats was his feedback . Steve is more likely to review the and i am. We just sent it to him last week. Iodine to space make city is not the last one. [laughter] but to be clearer that carter is animated or of assessed at dont think that i...

He was doing everything humanly possible working as hard as he could to solve these problems. After serving his defeat carter reaffirmed his commitment as a way to redeem his losses and the Carter Center would be an activist institution and habitat for humanity was not nothing if not an activist organization in the former president would not retire quietly into private life and there was work to be done eradicating disease monitoring elections elections, building houses and Teaching Sunday Schoo...