About 50 wounded. Theres no word of any americans hurt, the two terrorists were also killed. The Prime Minister called in a direct attack on the economy which is so dependent on tourism. The u. S. Of course condemned it. Secretary of state john kerry said america would continue to support tunisia support democracy. Allen pizzey is in tunis. Hundreds of panicked tourists clung to loved ones and ran for their lives. Gunmen wearing military fatigues and armed with assault rifles opened fire on two bulls in the bardo museum in the heart of the capital. Eight were killed when they got off a bus, at least ten were taken hostage and later killed. As Tunisia Special forces flooded the area, visitors scrambled to find places to hide. Many couldnt make it out of the building and hold up wherever they could. I came out of the museum, this eyewitness said, and there was this guy who was about ten meters away from me, then he started shooting the tourists. Medical teams rushed to help dozens of wou
Welcome back, everybody. Big new developments today in the trump effort to overturn the election, a day after the president was publically rebuffed by republican lawmakers from michigan, invited to the white house. The Republican Party itself is trying to do what those legislatures would not do. They launched a fresh effort to keep the state from certifying the outcome, taking aim at predominantly minority voters in one county. Coming up in a few moments, i will talk to one of the members of the canvassing board in that county. This is the latest in a war on democracy from a president who cant muster up much passion for his position when hes anywhere outside of twitter. This is not an easy thing to do. Big pharma ran millions of dollars of negative advertisements against me during the campaign, which i won, by the way, but, you know, youll find that out. All right. And while this may seem like games manship to the president , it has real world implications for the president elect as he
Remove the magnet from illegal immigration in five or 10 down years down the road you are dealing with the same thing. With the aflcio and some unions and leftleaning groups opposed to expanding the Guestworker Program i worry that the blanket pathways to citizenship or legal status where the want to call it and leave the guestworker part out of it and we dont solve any problem and gave politics are just as bad for us in the next 10 years. Quite frankly dont trust congress so if congress cant make the contracts, the first thing that will come down is who will be highskilled or if the was enforcement only and they said oh yeah by the way we are definitely going to do a lowskilled thing of future and do highskilled i wouldnt support the enforcement only because i dont trust them. I think they will stop after stop after that about this over the last couple of years when they did these peaceful approach is a lot of them failed. The immigration act that moved the countries of origin toward
Keep your hand up. I think you for the paper clip moment. I doubt i will look at a paper clip again with such value. Thank you. And we say thankyou said alice walker. Thank you for coming. [applause] for more reformation, visit the authors website. Youre watching book tv on cspan2. Here is our prime time lineup for tonight. Next, an interview from book tv recent visit to london. We sat down with virginia nicholson to talk about her research on women in wartime and her famous family. Then at 8 00 p. M. , a panel on the protection of Civil Liberties in the united states. At 10 00, Susan Crawford joins book tv in an interview she talks about her book captive audience the Telecom Industry and monopoly power in the new gilded age. We wrap up tonights programming at 11 00 p. M. Eastern. Reporting on the hijacking of western Airlines Flight 701 in 1972. A visit booktv. Org for more of this weekends television schedule. And now book tv in london. Book tv interviewed virginia nicholson during o
If you remember nothing that i said tonight, then you probably had too much to drink. [laughter] if you remember one thing that i said tonight, let it be this. As dire as things look right now, i am profoundly optimistic. We have seen things look dire before. I am optimistic for three simple reasons. Number one, we are right. Freedom works. [applause] there is a very simple dynamic, conservatives win when we effectively articulate what it is we believe. This is fundamentally a center right nation. Liberals win when they effectively off the skate obduscate what they believe. Their policies do not work and all we have to do is speak the truth. Secondly, there is a new generation of leaders stepping forward in washington. New, young at leaders, people like rand paul and marco rubio and mike lee and kelly ayotte. [applause] you know what is incredible . Five years ago, not one of them was in office. You have to go back to after world war ii to see an instance where the generation of leader