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Normal. You can watch this and other programs online at cspan. Org. This memorial day weekend book tv features three days of nonfiction books and authors, and here are programs to watch for. Go to booktv. Org for the complete weekend schedule. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good evening. My name is hisham ashur. Good evening. Thanks for coming. My name is hisham ashur. Im with the local Amnesty International group. I would like to thank you for coming here for this presentation tonight. The use of drones is becoming more and more widespread. Issues related to this topic, local, national, international, war, peace, privacy, you name it. Before i introduce our special guest, moderator of the event, i want to do some. He is a local piece activist, the chair of the center for peace and justice he has been over 15 missions over the world for piece. He is a retired from the universit ....
Do you still write your songs down with paper and pencil . Yes, i do. I have always carried a little recording device of some sort. They used to be pretty big, but now they are quite small, and i always carry a pen and paper, and i am ready if something occurs to me. You mentioned merle travis. What other musicians . Ry cooder is my favorite guitar player, but there are many others to choose from. There was an album that was a formative for me. Paradise and lunch. There was a guy coming up called tom rush who played here at the cellar door, and he played in boston at the 47. I really pattern myself after, just a guy with a guitar, full position, unapologetic. Falcon musician. Unapologetic folk musician. And i would say wouldtwo and the beatles. What do you think of current pop music . You know, i guess i do not like it a whole lot. [laughter] [applause] i guess i dont like it a whole lot. What would we find i sound just like my dad. There are great people out there, i know it. And i do ....
Political analyst juan williams. Washington juren live every day at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. The senate runches for legislative business on thursday and the house has a proform asession scheduled that day. The first would extend provisions of the fisa act. The other is a pack abbling for areas affected by hurricane sandy. You can follow live coverage of the senate on cspan2. And house members are on stand by as negotiations continue over the socalled fiscal cliff. Now a conversation on hollywoods portrayal of politics and policy making in movies and tv shows. Among those well hear from the crete or the of the show homeland. This is an hour 20 minutes. Good evening again. Welcome back to the forum. Im not the one youll be applauding for. You know we have public events, Public Forums in our headquarters campus about once a month. And weve had former president s and Foreign Mi ....
And surprise, an incredible story of two girls who became friends at college and looked so much alike, they joked they could be sisters. Well, guess what, they are, and theyre here live today, friday, january 24th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, welcome to today on a friday morning. Im matt lauer. Im Savannah Guthrie. Alongside al roker and Natalie Morales. Two weeks from today, Opening Ceremony in sochi. And yet, we continue to hear about these new threats. Its like a drip, drip, drip. And governor romney is here. Well be talking about that with him. He is the guy who had to handle the games in Sal ....