Andrei cherny formerly of the Democratic Party. [applause] dot everybody can say that in arizona and get applause. But the book readers are what we call the base. [laughter] dot thank you for that. Currently the ceo of aspiration. Com. Who are freezing can admire your shorts and tshirts and silently curse you. Speaking of the tucson festival of books, we have bill minor here today, one of the visionaries. Give him a round of applause. Very much a volunteerdriven effort a group of people bill and many others who made a big impact on the community. If you want to be part of that, i hope you will consider becoming a friend of the festival. A tax deductible donation that impacts this event and were moting around the country. Let me introduce the panel. David maraniss author of many books, he was won several wards prince of tennessee about al gore books about sports in the 1960s, and other political books as well. So please welcome him. [applause] if you are political aware and not living u
Pick them up before you go to get in line. Please note, however that one of our speakers today, dan fagin, will be about 30 minutes late for the signing hell be doing a live interview with cspan, as you just saw the ending of one with over here just after our session, and he should be in that signing area by 1 00. Our other author alexandra wit city, will be there immediately witze, will be there immediately following the the session. This session and all the others here in the gallagher are being broadcast live on cspan2 with taped repeats later in the week,and i think here locally on come kass channel 19 you may be able to see this again tonight comcast channel 19. I should remind members of the audience you may also appear on screen so if you dont want somebody to know youre here today, i would get up and leave now. [laughter] out of respect to our Television Audience but also our authors the moderator and the person next to you, please turn off your phones your ipads your gaming de
Now some Grocery Store employees are taking a stand. A very good morning to all of you. It is saturday, may 16th. Welcome, everyone. Im alex witt. Were going to give you a live look right now at austin, texas, where restaurants have reopened with some restrictions. On monday, the next phase of reopening includes gyms, manufacturing plants, and Office Building with capacity limited to just 25 . Lets get to the facts for you at this hour. This morning there are 1. 4 million confirmed cases of coronavirus across this country. More than 88,000 people have died. Overnight, the house passed a 3 trillion Coronavirus Relief package, which cloughs another round of stimulus payments for americans. But it is unlikely to become law. The president this week calling it dead on arrival. The house yesterday also approved a rules change allowing lawmakers to cast votes remotely for the first time in congressional history. By the end of this weekend, nearly every state in the nation will be partially re
Back from Law Enforcement. And a classic in the olympics. The shootout needed in the womens ice hockey. Wait until you see the move that finished the game. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. What a game. Im Alex Marquardt in for dave briggs. It was a powerful day yesterday of nationwide advocacy by survivors and families and gun control supporters following the florida shooting. The day was capped off by the emotional cnn town hall on gun violence. Signs that some marginal change may be possible. Florida senator marco rubio was the only republican willing to face his critics. He says he now backs raising the minimum age for owning a rifle from 18 to 21. In this country, if you are 18 years of age, you should not be able to buy a rifle. I will support a law. Traditionally i have not looked at looking at magazine clip size. After this and some details i learned, im reconsidering that position and ill tell you why. Ill tell you why. Because while it may not prevent an attack, bu
Done wrong illegally by me or my son. Every major, national, international and local news operations looked into it and said its a lie. This is a president who is flat lying, number one. Number two, the statement my son put out today which i saw when he put it out, i was told it was going to be put out. I did not consult with him about what was being put out. In fact, represents the man of integrity he is and what in fact he has done and why he stepped down, and can i te and i can tell you now ill build on the squeaky clean transparent environment that we had in the obama bide enwhite house and no one in my Family Associated with me will be involved in any foreign operation whatsoever period. End of story. Now lets focus on the problem. The problem is we have a president who violated his oath. Hes invited not just relating to me on three occasions. Hes gone to foreign governments and asked for their input in a domestic election, the russians, the chinese and the ukrainians, and theres