Reelection than obama was at this point in time in his terms and the update on President Trump accused of pressuring the ukraine president to investigate joe bidens son. Now, this debate, critics say watch out, have the media and the democrats frame this one, they are ready to go from 0 to impeachment in a split second after they were so wrong on russia collusion as 2020 democrat candidates look at this they are turning on Elizabeth Warren, going after warren and the New York Times says warren does have an election problem, a working class voter problem, as Warren Benjamin netanyahu dodges yet another question on how she will have to raise middle class taxes to pay for all of her government plans to Andrew Mccabe accused of deceiving government investigators over fbi media leaks, hes now complaining about media leaks about him and he suggested on cnn where hes a cnn analyst covering his own crime probe that the doj ig who found he lied four times, three times under oath, should be repl
Booktv continues now on cspan2, television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] good evening and welcome to politics and prose. Finance jack bennett. Welcome. Before we begin, just a few notes. First we ask you to silence your cell phones. You dont want to be the person whose phone rings in the middle of the talk but we do want you to be heard in recording. Lastly after the talk please help us including the space by folding up your chairs and link them against the nearest wall. The signing will begin just afterward with a line stretching towards the front of the store books are available for purchase. Todays guest is professor Ganesh Sitaraman who teaches law at vanderbilt law school. Professor sitaraman worked as an advisor to Elizabeth Warren for the 21st century run and served as a genetic counselor in the senate. Additionally, he is a senior fellow at the center for american progress. Professor sitaraman is a to talk less news book, the public option how to expand freedom
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Hot Button Health issues impacting campaign 2024. We begin during this womens History Month with a question on women in elected government. We ask americans of this country would be better governed if more women would be in political office. If you believe the country would be governed better with more women in office, call 202 7488000. If you thi it would be governed worse, 202 7488001. If you think it would not make a difference, 202 7488002. You can also text 202 7488003. Please include your name and where youre from. Otherwise catch up with us on x at cspanwj and on facebook, om cspan. Here is where things stand what can when it comes to women officeholders in the u. S. , representing between a quarter and a third of elected leaders in the United States women make up 29 percent of the u. S. House of representatives, 20 5 of the u. S. Senate, 24 of state governors, 33 of state legislators, 34 percent of large city mayors, and 32 percent of municipal officeholders. The question that
Four Health Care Issues that you the 2024 elections. Two the democrats are focusing on, two the republicans are focusingguest i will say at th, there are lots of issues this year for the election and youre hearing inflation, order, foreign policy, but health care is so personal that it can be easily politicized so i do think this could be toptier sue. For republicans, you know, we are now out of a pandemic but i could see republicans harkening back to covido policies. What they see is covid overreach during the pandemic and i could also see them tying border politics with the illicit flow of fl. Ny have an overdose epidemic in this country. Democrats will focus on Prescription Drug costs and what costs and i think they will focus on Reproductive Health choices including abortion and ensuring access toy those optis and finally, there is the Affordable Care act. And you hear President Biden talking about it and former President Trump at times also evoke the Affordable Care act. It is rea