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See what they have, talk to the people. These are your maybe the neighbors. These are your neighbors. For more information on booktvs recent visit to santa fe, new mexico, go to cspan. Org localcontent. And now, general Stanley Mcchrystal discusses his memoir, my share of the task. In the book the former commander of u. S. Forces in afghanistan recounts the major turning points in his 34year military career which ended in 2010. This is about an hour. [applause] well, thank you very much. Thanks ...

Of africanamericans in this country. So by the time Robert Smalls died in 1950, he died brokenhearted, and financially, not near as well off as he once was. And so i have spent a lot of time talking about the history of this. As i used to say to my students when i taught, if it happened before it can happen again. And we see all the speculation about what the Supreme Court is going to do with the most important civil rights act, which i think was the Voting Rights act of 1965. And most experts t...

Day, and movies that depict the struggle of a young man or young woman coming out of prison for the challenges they face or heroic efforts to survive on the outside, that tells a different story than the one we have been fed for so long about criminals and what ought to be done with them. In the meantime we have to take responsibility for educating ourselves in our own communities using the means we have at our disposal. We begin a special look with a look at the library of one of the nations mo...

Prevent. And irwran that will stop at nothing to in secret develop a nuclear weapon. Many military analysts say a strike on iran, even a very good one delays that option. Leave one additional thought. Wharf whatever you thought of libyan intervention. It set off a whole bunch events it africa. That was predictable. Let me give you view of iran to operation in libya. This is what happens when you give up your wmd program. So my last question for you on this evening, after this remarkable career o...

Its an embarrassment of riches, and we must thank the city of Savannah Department of cultural affairs, festival upon spores, members, and individual donors for their support. It is because of them that we are able to bring you these esteemed authors for free. If you enjoyed todays speakers and would like to make a donation to the festival, weve provided yellow buckets at the door when you exit. Please consider giving to our bucket list for next years gifted scribes. Before we get started, i just...

All of the financial crisis and this slow grind that weve had of Jobs Creation over the past 74 months. Where were the jobs created . This is really telling, especially given the political climate. Business, net new jobs there. For years thats been a diverse with lots of different kinds of jobs that pay different pay scales. Manufacturing, this is a store of the past generation, honestly. We host about 4,000 manufacturing jobs. Over the past year, down 54,000 manufacturing jobs over the past yea...

Committee for information about his contacts with russia. They had subpoenaed him. They wanted him to testify. A source close to him is telling manu raju that he does not flynn does not intend to comply with the request and would invoke his fifth amendment right against prosecution. Keep in mind, you know, for months, we have been talking about flynn and the scrutiny that hes been under by federal investigators, by the fbi, and recently prosecutors in the Eastern District of virginia have subpoe...

She says she is going to be fine. She will be back soon. She wanted me to tell you she is thankful for all the good wishes. Now, we have a big show tonight. Trump is pulling the u. S. Out of the climate accord as you know. Tonight were going to hear directly from the man who plans to stand in his way. California governor jerry brown here for the interview tonight. That is coming up. But we begin with a report that is shedding light on a very dark corner of the trump russia mystery. The part abou...

Is still on the calendar for tuesday morning. So plan youre sick days accordingly. Ill see you again on monday morning. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Rachel, youre out of sick days for the year. I know. It has been an astounding week. Its hard to believe that here we are friday already. There was so much anticipation going into thursday. And then we got the surprises in the wednesday hearing. Yeah. And stuff continues to happen. Right. Even as of ...

Investigation and Jared Kushners communications with russians. What your question assumes is a lot of facts that are not substantiated by anything but Anonymous Sources. Your question presupposes facts that have not been confirmed. So again, im not going to get into confirming stuff. Theres an ongoing investigation. Im not going to dignify partisan accusations of Anonymous Sources and alleged unsubstantiated attacks. Anonymous sources. The thing is, it turns out that Anonymous Sources work just ...