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Cspan is your unfiltered view of government. Funded by these television companies, and more. Washington journal continues. Host we welcome you back to the luncheon. Talk with us about the state of housing in the u. S. And focus here on Interest Rates and the increase in Interest Rates. Good morning. Thank you for having me. The base point Interest Rates were announced last week. What does that mean for Mortgage Rates in particular in the months ahead . Lets look at what happened 12 months ago, 18 months ago, to today. You had been close to 3 . Today, it is near 7 . This is due to the most aggr...

University of Southern California for the 20th annual Los Angeles Times festival of books. And why cuba matters. Before we get into cuba, for those who dont know why you are, give us a brief biography. I am an archaeological dig. I am 75 years old. I come from michigan and wisconsin. I was a student in 1960 at the university. I have always been a writer. I became an activist and freedom rider in the early 60s and i was in the anti vietnam war movement, 50 years ago this week, the first peace demonstration in washington and we are commemorating that on may 1st and Second Coming up in washington...

Their weapons behind and breaking news overnight. Overnight. The four remaining occupiers at a wildlife refuge in oregon will turn themselves in this morning. Morning. Sean anderson is one of the men Still Holding out t and he says he spoke with the fbi and agreed to leave their weapons behind and walk onebyone to a police checkpoint. This standoff has been going on since the beginning of the year when it started to protest federal landuse policies. The leader of the group ammon bundy was arrested back in january and the groups spokesman was killed the same day in a shootout with police. And r...

Would create a diplomatic relations and that was the original purpose in the book. No one believed including my publisher thank you dan simon, i started to doubt it myself. When it happened i had to rearrange the book and i was fortunate to update it. Its arts with a detailed account of how it happened on december 17th, the beginning of normalization. The rest of the book is about the preceding 55 years or 60 years and i interviewed for many hours a former leader of the cuban revolution and government his daughter in havana said it should be called two old guys talking so i made that the initi...

He dies under robert elys command and this is a devastating a devastating impact. He feels this loss very sharply. I am just curious how do they compare with characters today in washington . [laughter]. So i think he would find that interesting and i will take a pass on the question because it is just too hard because the civil war is just the meet period we can all agree that the country never has to undergo that again thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] host and thanks for watching booktv, 48 hours of Nonfiction Authors and books every weekend on cspan2....