Good afternoon, everybody. How is everybody doing . All right. Love this festival. Were talking about how much its grown over the years. Pretty phenomenal. Pretty wonderful. We are going to in a few minutes, give folks sometime to spill into the room. Just to let everybody know, we are being live streamed on cspan2, so tweets and tell your friends would also turn your ringers off on your phones, please. Im heather mcghee, president of demos, and i am really excited thank you. [applause] i am so excited to turn the tables today on my dear friend chris hayes whos often when interviewing me, and i get to do the same today. And for a little bit longer than we get to have on the air on his show. This is five minutes, right . Out go to commercial ties and i will talk over you most of the time. [laughing] just getting. I would not do that to you. Im really so thrilled to be in this conversation with you, chris, and to bring your stellar stellar book, yazidis audits your to the brooklyn book f
Time. [laughing] just getting. I would not do that to you. Im really so thrilled to be in this conversation with you, chris, and to bring your stellar stellar book, yazidis audits your to the brooklyn book festival, book this will also to the use of the live stream at home. I think anybody knows who chris hayes is Everybody Knows that he is the editor at large of the nation magazine. He is on our Television Screens and on our social media feeds, seems nearly constantly as he broke on to the scene, when was it . Winded when did i break . 2011. Which was really when thoughtful policy discourse joined cable news and usually been able to bring that to his nightly new show at 8 p. M. , all in. Chris also a New York Times bestselling book twilight of the elites, america after a meritocracy. And then this spring release this book, a colony in a nation. So lets get started. Chris, why did you write this book . Who did you want to read it and what did you want them to feel when they finished th
Florida sunday morning. Governor rick scott issuing the urgent warning a short time ago. Do not put yourself or your familys life at risk. If you have been ordered to evacuate and are still home, please go. We are running out of time. The storm is almost here. If you are in an evacuation zone, you need to go now. This is a catastrophic storm that our state has never seen. At least 17 deaths confirmed so far. The destruction immense. The island of barbuda reporting widespread damage. An official on the island of st. Martin says 95 of that island has been decimated. Our correspondents are tracking storm preparations and evacuations from their vantage points along the gulf, and atlantic coasts of florida. Also, along the northern coast of the bahamas, as well. Well get to them in just a moment. We are also waiting on a White House Briefing any moment now on the federal response. Were told thats going to happen roughly 30 minutes from now. When it does, we will go there. But we start with
country superstar. i must tell you, tammy wynette is hopping mad. and meet the patron with a $2 million toy train set. my interview with the arizona police chief defending his officer for ramming a suspect with his car. as minimum wage protests erupt across america, i ll talk to the ceo setting his company s minimum wage at $70,000 a year. all in starts now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. hillary clinton made actual real bona fide news today, announcing a new position on a divisive national issue. it was clinton s second day on the campaign trail. she was in the caucus state of iowa, with reporters taking any opportunity to hit their deadlines. that s peter nicholas sitting in a field with his headphones. clinton started her day in a little diner of marshall town where she chatted with owners, activists and small business owners. great to be here. hi, how are you? hello, everybody. i m running for the presidency. i hope so, too. it is fun. clin
as minimum wage protests erupt across america, i ll talk to the ceo setting his company s minimum wage at $70,000 a year. all in starts now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. hillary clinton made actual real bona fide news today, announcing a new position on a divisive national issue. it was clinton s second day on the campaign trail. she was in the caucus state of iowa, with reporters taking any opportunity to hit their deadlines. that s peter nicholas sitting in a field with his headphones. clinton started her day in a little diner of marshall town where she chatted with owners, activists and small business owners. great to be here. hi, how are you? hello, everybody. i m running for the presidency. i hope so too. it is fun. clinton then toured a food distribution company in norwalk, iowa and conducted a small business roundtable. unfortunately, the deck is still stacked in favor of those at the top, and we need to reshuffle the cards and begin to play