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Great day to be in texas and today i have the honor and pleasure to be at the texas book festival serving as a moderator, and im pleased to be here with rachel l. Swams. I will tell you a few things about rachel because you came here to hear her and not me and our time is limited. She has worked for the New York Times since 1995. Reporting on domestic policy, national politics, immigration, the president ial campaign of 2004, and 2008, and first Lady Michele Obama and her role in the obama white...

Just to compare this number for you, the romney effort collected 170 million for the entire month of september when the president beat him by 11 million there. Want to listen quickly to mitt romney. He was speaking this morning in cincinnati. You know somethings wrong about the direction were headed right now. You know that we dont want to keep going in the same path weve been on for four years. You know we cant afford four more years like the last four years. You want i mean, do you want real b...

In my life. Well be dissecting that tornado you see there in ha hattiesbu hattiesburg, mississippi, at 10 00 p. M. Eastern ahead of us. We want to get you to our next program. Ill see you back here in an hour. Jake tapper reports an American Hero the uncommon valor of Clint Romesha begins right now. October 3rd, 2009. A storm of bullets, rockets, grenades and mortars rain down among a remote outpost in eastern afghanistan. Deep in a valley. The taliban had found a perfect target. Combat outpost ...

Home runs. Pablo sandoval helps the giants tame the tigers in game one of the world series. Will detroit even things up tonight . And her tv career has spanned decades. Melissa joan hart will join us live to talk about her latest projects. Its thursday, october 25th, and starting point begins right now. Welcome, everybody. Our starting point this morning, the high stakes struggle for eight mustwin swing states. The president obama and governor romney tapping into their travel budgets, both men c...

Were working hard to make that happen so that the will of a place to come to, a refuge in case of whatever may happen. The interpreters are very much at risk. They viewed Death Threats and serious potential risk. It is the least we can do your show our thanks to them for all that the reference. And the will to say one other word about the final brother. He was in a medal of honor battle for which a u. S. Staff sergeant and special forces posthumously receive the medal of honor. And he a captain ...

Welcome to this session of the texas book festival with h. W. Brandis. My name is steve hair again. I will be doing a q a with bill. 15 minutes after the session phil will be signing books in the book signing campus between the tenth and eleventh down the street. Please patronized the book signing tent in the bookstore, and pleas by the the book which wont be a problem. This is the book, the man who saved the union, Ulysses Grant and war and peace. If you by this book, proceeds will go to suppor...

Introduce you to people who came generations before and connect it in realtime. My favorite instance when i was nine years old. The first day of fifth grade sitting at my desk reading before classes began. A news today came into the classroom holding her mothers hand when she saw me reading she said look, she reads the same kind of books that i do. She quickly became my best friend and matron of honor at my wedding in hess shared many books since the fifth grade at wells fargo we would all child...

Franklin roosevelt appoints him in the summer of 1941 aswhat eventually becomes the office of strategic services. Kind of a strange choice because donovan was a staunch republican, had run for governor of new york on an antiroosevelt, antinew deal platform. But he was also a man of irrepressible spirit, boundless optimism, full of ideas and, in a sense, hehe reflected the qualities of Franklin Roosevelt so he was named the head of our first spy service. Cspan as you know, they called him wild bi...

Hours to go this afternoon, and now joining us here on our set in miami is Jeremy Scahill. Here he is, his most recent book, dirty wars the world is a battlefield. Mr. Scahill, earlier you were on a panel with dan balz and george packer, and one of the questioners asked you what do you see as the difference between how the Bush Administration and the Obama Administration approach the war on terror. Right. , i mean, i think first of all its great to be with you here on cspan and booktv. The bush ...

I want to maximize every platform i have two goround the world and talk about why the surveillance policies are so dangerous and why government secrecy is dangerous urging people to protect their own privacy and talk about why thats so urgent. It was announced today that Sony Pictures purchase the book to make a film about it. Im thrilled about that as well. [applause] when i was growing up i was accessed with the film all the president s men. It reached me about the duties of journalism and i t...