After you decided in late 2011 that he wanted to get a gun and the District Of Columbia where the handguns had been forbidden until the Supreme Court decided in the District Of Columbia versus heller case and 2008 that a handgun ban was unconstitutional and. According to justice antonin scalias opinion, quote, surely elevates about all wall of lighting responsible citizens to use arms in defense of home. You think it would have been straightforward in 2011 for you to describe by a gun but it wasnt. Tell us why you wanted one and what happened when you took the first steps towards getting a gun. Guest this year as the gun control laws that in b. C. Had spread to the country it was a horrific tragedy who in the newtown mayor bloomberg pushed these walls and the country and i had just gotten a gun in d. C. Myself and had a gun control act so while it took me four months and 435 of government fees to get a gun that i still cant believe was in my home and in other places you just walk in an
I would hope that the Lgbt Community would recognize me to continuing that progress is the key to the progress weve made so far which is engagement and political engagement. And what also recognize that both the Supreme Court and elsewhere around the country we have systematically than limiting what was a limited democracy to begin with and making true selfgovernment harder and harder and would recognize if our political progress and progress on race and gender and a series of other things are intimately tied up in making this really into a self functioning democracy again i recognize that commonality is political. I would say that we need to recognize issues of race, class, sex is some are lgbt issues and we have an investment not only in cases like this one, but comprehensive Immigration Reform in access to health care. All of these are lgbt issues because people look like the rest of the country. We shouldnt get so into our silo that we forget that. Theres something about being a mi
Host our guest, larry elder. Radio talk show host, columnist. The firms are up on the the numbers are up on the screen. Were talking about his most recent book which is a memoir. Mr. Elder writes a lot about politics as people who follow him know. If youd like to dial in and talk about that as well, 2025853885 in the east and central time zones, 5853886 if youre in the mountain or pacific time zone where we are right now on the campus of usc. Mr. Elder, chapter two, if norl was hate. My hatred for my father was not the kind where you get a spanking, seethe for a bit and things go pack to number go back the number because you realize he punishes you because he loves you. Norm was intimidation. Normal was tense. Normal was wondering if you would Say Something that could set him off. Normal was hate. Yeah. When people look at me and im smiling, they often wonder why is it that im so sort of nonchalant about it. Im writing that from the perspective of a child, andering seems romantic, ever
War. Booktv in prime time continues this week. Tonight after the communicators, well bring you authors from book fairs and festivals. At 8 30 p. M. Eastern, we begin with Oscar Goodman at freedom fest. He talks about being oscar from mob lawyer to mayor of las vegas. After that, well go to this years printers row Literary Festival to hear about the cooked seed. Then on to bookexpo be america in new york city city with erica jong who talks about fear of flying. And we finish with author and radio talk show host larry elder at the Los Angeles Times festival of books as he discusses his memoir about his troubled relationship with his father in dear father, dear son. Booktv in prime time all this week on cspan2. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Host well, with the announcement this week that the Washington Post has been sold to jeff bethos, we thought wed take this opportunity to look at changes in the newsp
Senate. This is live coverage on cspan3. Let me begin today by calling us to order. And thanking our witnesses for joining us to discuss the current humanitarian challenge that is playing out along our southern border with mexico. Unaccompanied children as young as 4 years old arriving in record numbers almost every day. Before discussing the administrations robust response to this Current Situation, however, i think its important to try to put things into context. Over the past decade, weve made significant progress in securing our borders. Since 2003, for example, weve spent about quarter of a trillion dollars to enforce our immigration laws. More than doubling the size of the Border Patrol along the way. Weve also built 670 miles of fencing and deployed force mu i multiplier multipliers, such as hightech cameras, drones, and other aircraft up and down our border. 2006, just eight years ago, the Border Patrol apprehended more than 1 Million People at the border. Last year, we stopped