Author of big, hot, cheap and right, and what america can learn from the strange genius of texas. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Im glen, the directer of the school of journalism at the university of texas at austin. I welcome you. Theres two superb authors here to morning to talk about the state of the union where we went wrong. We have 45 minutes, but could spend 45 hours on this. We better get rolling. Ill introduce the writers, ask questions, and i turn it over to you. I want to remind you when the session ends, two authors go to the signing tents, and theres a place to buy copies of the books and take them to the tent and have them signed. Follow us out when we leave. To the left, george packer, staff writer for the new yorker magazine, author of asass sins gate, named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times, written two novels and two Nonfiction Books, a play off broadway, and lives this brooklyn, new york, the new book called the unwinding inner hist
Translator the love story of this man to this country and who knew each fast and the smell of the plant of every plant and the changing of the or colors in the fields in the spring and fall, i would like to tell you a few personal orders, and today i will call you in your first name. Your living as of eight years ago was so unplanned that we did not have the time to say goodbye to you. We did not say hello and goodbye. I didnt even have the time to wish you a speedy recovery in the medical procedure and we couldnt tell you how much we loved you. All your team in the minister Prime Ministers Office we loved you. But you knew that we loved you. You always told us in a smile its not a bad place to be at. And what i know that you meant is not that you were at the head of the pyramid but in the place that you felt so beloved. I wanted you to know that like [inaudible] were beside you, we the people in your office recruited were recruited to help you in the funeral arrangements. We all came
In my view thats a military purpose. The lawmakers say the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School show that assault weapons need to be banned. A number of the police who came to newtown said to me we could not have stopped that shooter. Even with the body armor we were wearing with that kind of assault weapon. But Vice President biden downplayed the need for an asalts weapons ban thursday. He said those weapons are only used in a small percentage of crimes. Im much less concerned, quite frankly, about what youd call an assault weapon than i am about magazines and the number of rounds that can be held in a magazine. And even sponsors of the bill acknowledge an assaults weapons ban is a tough sell on capitol hill. We owe it to our constituents and our country to try. The nra calls the feinstein bill a wrongheaded approach and said gun bans dont work. Now, the original passage of the assault weapons ban in 1994 is blamed for costing the democrats both control of the house and the senate
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