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One cia director, george h. W. Bush, later became president himself. The Smithsonian Associates hosted this program. Good evening, everyone. My name is ruth robbins. Its a pleasure to welcome you here tonight for our program. A couple of quick things first. One is, if you could, please put away your cell phones, turn them off, silence them, any electronic devices, we would appreciate it. If youre wondering why bright lights in here, because youre all going to be on tv. Cspan is taping tonight. I...

Lights in here, because youre all going to be on tv. Cspan is taping tonight. Im kidding, youre not going to be on cspan, the speaker will be on cspan. When we get to the q a, they usually want to bring a mic down so they can record it. So if you have a question, just try to wait until they bring the mic to you so we dont have to repeat it. The speaker will repeat the questions so you can hear, but this is so they can hear it or however they work it. Our speaker tonight is david robarge, receive...

Getting in line. Maybe well see. Maybe not. I think if you have any further questions you can ask them of charles as he is signing your book, hint, hint and lets thank him once moore wednesday more for the preparation. [applause] thank you for coming, and safe travels. Friday, book if there features program ford fairs and festivals. At 8 00 p. M. Merchandizes marylands gaithersburg book festival. And then chicagos printers row on the biography of russell kirk. At 9 35 p. M. Eastern, the Los Ange...

We have breaking news. New details on the fiscal cliff deal that Timothy Geithner put on the table today during his meeting with congressional leaders on the hill. These details just coming in. Jessica yellin has that and what have you learned about what geithner took you know, listed out with the numbers and put on the table . Hey, erin, here are some of the details im getting from senior officials on both sides. The headline is that he put out a number of 1. 6 trillion in new taxes. That was a...

Perform an abortion. Lets go outfront. Good evening. Im erin burnett. Details just coming in. Jessica yellin, our chief White House Correspondent has them. What have you learned about what geithner listed out what the numbers and put on the table . He put out a number of 1. 6 trillion in new taxes. That was, according to republican officials, a surprise. They expected a much smaller number and that has republicans crying foul. Additional spending on medicare to pay doctors, protecting middle inc...

Morgan college, loyola and johns hopkins, they decided they were going to stop taking no for answer answer and they were going to get this thing done. By this point, other businesses in the downtown, including drug steers, even some other theaters, they were already getting desegregated. But the northwood theater was a holdout. The students and the civil rights activists ramped up their protests that february. They ramped up into a confrontation that looked like this. On the left there, the whit...

Of President Trumps apparent threat. Can you prove obstruction based on the president s own words when we dont know whether we can believe this president . Those close to comey have a very different take, also a troubling take, on that dinner conversation. So im not sure you could prove the case based on this, but if there are tapes, of course, that would be the best evidence of what took place. If they exist, Congress Needs to get them. If they are not provided willingly, congress should subpoe...

Very unfairly by the media. As i call it, the fake media in many cases. And i think its really a sad thing that he was treated so badly. Well, again, donald trump is the man that fired flynn, not the media. Thats not fake news. Its just news. Just yesterday, his press secretary, sean spicer, said flynn was terminated because he misled the Vice President about his conversations with the Russian Ambassador to the United States. Well todays wackiness comes on the day the New York Times broke news a...

They go through this strange procedure theyre going through to try to do this. Weve got al franken here to give us his take on whats happening and why we may need to be flexible in terms of when we bring the senator on in terms of his voting schedule. As you can see, everybody is there in the senate. That said, thanks to the new yorker magazine and interview they just posted with the White House Communications director, tonight we learn that the white house is safed by some sweary staffer who do...

Russians for accountability in the 2016 hacks or also focused on americans who may have helped them . Tonight on the beat, we have for you a very special report on bob mueller who may well be the most consequential man to run if fbi since hoover. Were going to look at the work hes done in the past and the clues it holds with the case before him today. The russia investigation could clearly define the trump presidency, and the man running it has experience in Domestic Crime and foreign battles. M...