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Next from the san antonio public library, home of this years san antonio book festival, hispanic essayist Richard Rodriguez, talks about his memoir darling. Well, good afternoon everyone. Thanks for coming to the san antonio book festival. We welcome all of you. This has been a year in the making, but months in preparation and its been an Incredible Group of volunteers that made this all possible. So thanks for coming and participating. Remember that just after this session, that Richard Rodriguez will be signing copies of darling and any other broughts you brought in the mezzanine level. So he will be there to do that after we finish today. Im john santos, it is an extraordinary honor to be here with two writers who i really regard as mentors, so its an honor to be given an opportunity to just introduce them. Wh ....
Had to do the fighting and we need the moses generation this weekend working with the joshua generation and dont let them divide us, old versus young. Some of this language clarence that we have heard before. The tea party is nothing but dixiecrat tenet was lee atwater who made that point. Lee atwater the southern strategy architect he said and ive got it on tape. You cant say it like you did in 1950 and 64. You have got to save us sing. You have got to use terms in the abstract and that is how he was able to capture the southern folk and they became republicans from dixiecrat to republicans. Its the same thing. Its just that they speak in abstract. America is getting smart. Everybody up here is absolutely right. It is no longer them saying its them, them, them. Its now us and these folks who are against medicare and social security, they are kicking their grandma under the bus. They are kicking their own people under the bus and i think mr. Turner is absolutely right. We are going to ....
Welcome back, everybody. Lets get a check on the day ahead before the day ahead. Secretary of defense and chairman of joint chiefs will appear before the Armed Services committee to discuss the plan to defeat isis. Trump plaza hotel and casino in Atlantic City officially closes its doors today. Another casino shuttering there. That will do it for way too early. Morning joe starts right now. You know, mika, we dont know a lot about the Shooting Range instructor in arizona who was tragically struck down last month, by a 9yearold girl. That horrifying incident obviously brought to light the insane practice of some shooting ranges that actually let very young kids shoot very powerful weapons. But this morning were getting very glimpse of the very least what kind of a father he was. His own children fought through the grief of ....