Thick, and it was said all women should develop skin like a rhino. She is decisive when you hear about things she said to the aid and the whitehouse Correspondent Dinner and used profanity to say she didnt want to think about the effect it would have. And there is law emotion in a way more politicians are careful hiding. We had an aid say she is not as calculated about political comeback. Which doesnt mean she is not seeking it, but isnt thinking about the right moment with the right person. Thanks for being here and thanks to our students from Iowa State University and mediacom communication for sponsoring the buses. You are watching booktv on cspan2. Here is our primetime lineup we wrap up at 10 p. M. Wi with after wards. Next it is argued that the kill of Matthew Shepherd was an antigay crime but a robbery gone wrong let me tell you how we came to be here tonight. As most of you are aware, sorry,igate got cold here. I was the assistant principal at the Junior High School and was in
Next Stephen Jimenez argues the killing of Matthew Shepard in laramie wyoming in october of 1998 was not an hate crime but instead the result of a drugrelated robbery gone wrong. This is a little over two hours. Let me tell you how we came to be here tonight. As most of you are aware, i was an assistant principal at Virginia High School and was in the Laramie School systems for 30 years and so i saw a lot of stuff from my position and here in november a friend of mine palled around and erma said glenn have you seen a new book out on Matthew Shepard and as i am sure that a number of you are, its hey thats old news. Why do we want to drag that up . She said no, this i think is worthy of your reading it. Irma let me have the book and i didnt put it down for two days because i lived it and i mean this is the way i saw it as i was going through the schools and working with these young people. And you know i dont want to change anything. I dont want you to look at this in any other way. It w
Molly is live in washington with all the latest. This is a whole lot more hello molly quite slow arthel and games. This will come back to town next week. His work and and possibly as early as thursday a decision. Over the past its own and some democrats need more time at the table in hearings to a better bill. Next this both your hearings with very complex Economic Issues there. And you have to understand the implications of each one of these issues. None, zero ready to go to conference me with hammer out it provides. They theoretically fulfill their promise to voters to cut taxes. I have ever in my years as a member of congress, seen our Majority Party determined to do something then i am seeing this. X is looking for funding to form and the border wall. Will meet on tooth with a large group of Senate Republican to find a strategy but as a tax reform the timing is key. End of the year, diminishes next november. Some camping is already on the way. They want legislative excesses. Will r
I think that in the end we have members who are expressing what are legitimate concerns, who have ideas about how to make the bill stronger and better, and were certainly open to those, and were going to have an open process on the floor of the United States senate where people can offer amendments. Those amendments can get debated and voted upon. Plenty of opportunities to change in the bill in the direcn that some of our senators want to see. Arthel we have complete Team Coverage on this continuing story. Lets start with Molly Henneberg live in washington. Molly, senator franken is taking responsibility, he says, for what these four women are saying, but is he admitting what some of them are accusing him of, which is that they, he groped them . Reporter well, arthel, he said he would never, quote, intentionally do that. Senator franken says he will come back to work tomorrow and says this has been a, quote, shock to him, that women have accused him of groping them. Im someone who, yo