A moment to assess what the real situation is by the way just in recent time there has been the blame russia narrative im sure youre very familiar with that and then there was the blame mexico narrative and who could ever forget Freedom Fries when we decided as a nation that it was time to blame france so now our media and our government leaders want to shift our attention away from whats going on right here in the United States and focus instead on what happened in a lab in china last year which may be a legitimate side of the story and certainly worthy of coverage but shouldnt whats going on right here right now to all of us affecting our families be more important just a question theres 2 ways to look at this right and i want to break it down for you numerically and visually 1st the numbers. There are right now 234000. 00 people in the world who have died from the coronavirus of those 63000. 00 are americans that means the United States which accounts for less than 5 percent of the
Landscapes. I wanted to write a little pamphlety kind of book that took eight issues that i care about and, incidentally, where i think im in the majority of public opinion. I dont think im a barricaded minority with some weird, outlier ideas. I think im in the majority on issues like war and peace, issues like mass incarceration. So what i wanted to do was take it out of the frame thats been given to us and make it kind of in the form of a manifesto, this is what were fighting for. I wanted to say that, you know, lets just take one example, health care. So the debate is obamacare or the way its always been. I reject that. I want with Free Health Care for all. And i wanted to break the kind of, you know, duality that we sometimes get trapped in. And the kind of framing of issues that i think is wrong. Schools is something, as you know, that im passionate about. So the framing of the debate is those who want to privatize and crush the unions and measure education by a single metric and
[inaudible conversations] booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what theyre reading this summer. Well, first of all, thanks to cspan for all you do on this front. Its very Important Service you give to the country. My folks are watching this. My kids will get a kick out of it. I hope they see their picture behind me. Ive got a pretty extensive reading list not only for the summer, but over the next year. I thought id start off with prayer for people under pressure by jonathan aiken, written by a former member of the english parliament, so he knows a little bit about pressure, and i thought i could learn something from him. Troublesome young men by lynne olson has to do with the rise of a small band of conservatives in the parliament during the churchill period and kind of motivated by im a member of the House Freedom caucus. We have 40 or 50 great folks that are trying to solve some of the fiscal problems. And just kind of represent the people more closely, do
Gene. Ingratitude the Late Position all of her his life and thats a look at from the current nonfiction bestsellers according to the los angeles times. Many of these authors have appeared or will appear on book tv. You can watch them on her website, book tv. Org. Up next on book tv, Debbie Cenziper and Jim Obergefell talk about their book, love win. This weekend marks the oneyear anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling making samesex marriage legal in all 50 states. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] hello, welcome. The lgb t was, back in 1983, 33 years ago. As a nonprofit it has a threefold mission, one career. We offer seminars and workshops on career transition and professional Development Number two, community. We help members build lg bt business relationships at breakfast and after work mixers and three, culture. We program theater parties, screenings, walking tours, bus trips and autho
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