that this was politically motivated. the pelosi attacker reportedly confab says. he was gonna hold nancy hostage and dr.. if she lied, he was gonna break your kneecaps. tonight, the explicitly political motive. the pelosi attack and the suspects onwards. and nonstop lies and conspiracy theories from the right. she s, her house doesn t have a lot of protection. we then can you support an insurrection and get elected governor of new york? the new alarm over the republican candidate there. plus, what may be promising new polling numbers for democrats in the senate. amid record high profits for fossil fuel companies, the new white house effort to lower the cost of gas. give me a break, enough is enough. it s time for these companies to stop more profiteering. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. tonight, paul pelosi, husband of nancy pelosi remains in the intensive care unit of a san francisco hospital. he s recovering from s
reportedly confess. he was gonna hold nancy hostage and dr.. if she lied, he was gonna break your kneecaps. tonight, the explicitly political motive. the pelosi attack and the suspects onwards. and nonstop lies and conspiracy theories from the right. then, can you support an insurrection? and get elected governor of new york? new alarm over a republican candidate over there. plus, what may be promising new polling numbers for democrats in the senate. amid record high profits for fossil fuel companies, the new white house effort to lower the cost of gas. give me a break, enough is enough. it s time for these companies to stop more profiteering. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. tonight, paul pelosi, husband of the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, remains in the intensive care unit of a san francisco hospital. he s recovering from surgery to repair a skull fracture, as well as other serious injuries he suffered. he was vi
Good afternoon. [laughter] welcome. Im deborah jacobs, cochair of the 24th edition of the book festival of the mjcca. My cochair and i are pleased to welcome you to the book festivals awardwinning afternoon featuring journalist dan ephron in conversation with nancy updike, producer for this American Life, and our second awardwinning journalist, mike kelly, in conversation with bill [inaudible] Senior Executive producer at georgia public broadcasting. We are also happy to welcome cspans booktv to our book festival programming this amp. This afternoon. On behalf of the book festival, we are truly grateful for the support of barbara exped mining and this years sponsors, wells fargo. In addition, there are over 25 valued sponsors who support our book festival year after year. We are also a proud affiliate of the Jewish Federation of greater atlanta. Please check your playbill for the lineup of our calendar of events the rest of the book festival. Tickets for all book festival events are av
Thank you everybody, and thank you so much for being here here and for that introduction as well. This is not going to be a late discussion by any stretch but youll final it worthwhile. Ill speak for a while and then engage in questions and answers with you in the audience. This is a like i said headquartersy subject, crucially important for this nation as we head into the 2016 elects. And that is the mean by which business business bs have moved to steer the american political process their way, and by and large, by no means entirely but by and large, theyre succeeding. In its entirety and complexity, this is a story far, far bigger than any one book can hold. It includes such forces as the Koch Brothers and their farreaching networks that are as we speak raising enormous amounts of money to influence the president ial and congressional races and they have the a huge network of donors and also includes a whole swarm of super pacs and dark money groups that are forming alongside pretty
Position. This is very unamerican. Very unamerican. But you know, people are growing aware of that. You know, events like here, we try to take advantage of whatever venue we can have to express our views. And listen, i mean i came to this Country First time in the early 80s. Things are completely different, you know, 35 years later. America in the 80s, being a palestinian in the america in the 80s, i dont want anyone to experience that. It was tough. It was tough. Today, many sympathizers, many people who understand, many people who are willing to listen and this is encouraging, because the more we have people who understand both of you i never ask anyone to be antiisraeli, propalestinian. Im asking people to be for justice, for peace, for equality. This all im asking you to be. Thank you very much. [ applause ] ambassador, id like to thank you so much for coming to the Palestine Center today. Can i just thank you for being all of your experience as a diplomat political analyst and adv