Want to watch them in their entirety, visit our website booktv. Org. Ocess our archives by using the search box at the top of the page and search the economy in books. Good evening, everyone. Im so gladt. Youre here today. Im going to say a few words about this before i welcome tonights guest. For a moment of history, it was found 93 years ago by my grandfather, benjamin. [applause] he founded the store in the area known as grow along 4000 around the corner from here. Theres a storm of the depression and he fired the altar by surviving all the other 48 book stores. The store was passed on to my father who grew the store through popularity, he never thought it was possible. Now i am the owner and critics set as a woman, it is going to be hard to front the store and i get wiped out by this digital age. So i want to thank you in the book Loving Community in this audience for helping us not only survive but thrive through the ages. [applause] it is impossible to read tonight book, watergat
Remarkable places and events like this are really remarkable opportunities we have. I always like to start with these events especially on nights when we are inviting remarkable writers into our midst to talk a little bit about the shop. First i want to talk about richard bell tonight who is a scholar and writer, beautiful writer. This particular book really jumps in with this incredibly human picture of a young boy and from that moment i knew i was in short creative hands as well as scholarly hands. He is educated at cambridge and harvard and beloved professor at the university of maryland. One of the Major University system of maryland awards. I think if there is a round of applause as well its for people educating the next generation of people to have a sense of our history and a sense of what it means as human beings in the world but also particularly americans and someone from elsewhere dedicated to helping us mind history. He is a 2017 public scholar after the National Endowment
At the white house, right now, President Joe Biden preparing to Face Congress and the American People and deliver a speech that could have huge consequences for his reelection campaign. Theyll soon leave for the us capitol to give his state of the Union Address. Less than 48 hours after his long anticipated rematch with donald trump became a reality. Welcome to a Special Edition of ac360. Im Anderson Cooper and im jake tapper. About an hour from now, President Biden will walk into the House Chamber under enormous pressure to forcefully and successfully sell his vision for america and his argument for a second terme. Mister President Biden needs to take advantage of this opportunity with tens of millions of americans watching to make his case and perhaps, perhaps the most important speech of his decades long career in public life, this will be a critical test of the 81 year old commander in chief. He will try to convince skeptical voters that they have benefited from his presidency, and
I think they have more evidence as to President Trumps state of mind. Donald trumps former Attorney General with an ominous prediction for the former president in the 2020 election case. It comes as trump faces arraignment today in Federal Court in washington. Well get a live report from washington, d. C. , and legal analyst on what we can expect from todays hearing. Meanwhile, former Vice President mike pence just gave his most direct criticism of his former boss. Well play those comments for you. Also ahead, new reporting on a private meeting between President Biden and former president obama over concerns about the 2024 election. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, august 3rd. Along with joe, willie and me, we have the host of way too early, White House Bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. Senior attorney and fbi official, chuck rosenberg. Reporter for the Washington Post, Jackie Alemany. And Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and Associate Editor of the Washin
good day to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i m john avlon in for kasie hunt. it is wednesday, december 20th. 5:00 a.m. here in new york. 3:00 a.m. in denver where layers for donald trump have vowed to appeal a colorado supreme court ruling that could keep the former president off the 2024 ballot before state justices ruling 4-3 that trump is ineligible to be president under the 14th amendment because he engaged in an insurrection on january 6. the court put its ruling on hold until january 4 pending trump s planned appeal to the u.s. supreme court. an attorney for the plaintiff seeking to block trump says he thinks that they have decent odds at winning there. first of all, trump is going to have to convince the supreme court to take this case. and i can imagine a world in which the supreme court says this is pretty early on in the election cycle, let s see how it plays out in some other states first. so he is first going to have to convince the supreme court