The 33rd annual Chicago Tribune lit fest. A special thank you to our sponsors, todays program will be broadcast live on cspan2, book tv. If theres time at the end of the q a session with the other we ask you to use the microphone provided so viewers at home can. Before we begin please silence your phones and turn off all flashes on the cameras. And please welcome our interviewer, associate editor at the Chicago Tribune, colin mcmahon. [applause] and afternoon, thank you for coming, thank you for coming to the lit fest and im thrilled to be here with tom rex is written several books, well talk about his latest, tomato times previous book, the generals which was the most recent one, a fiasco which is a New York Times number one bestseller, this one is also on the bestseller list charting last week for the first time. Congratulations. Now about a previous book, fiasco, given the state of affairs today, international and national affairs, do you wish you had held back on ties the book fias
Please silence your phones. Welcome our interviewer, kolen mcmahan. Good afternoon. Thank you for coming. Thank you for coming to prisones row lit fest and im thrilled to be here today with tom ricks who as written several books. His brief books, the generals, and fiasco, which is a New York Times number one best seller. This one is also on the bestseller list, charting near i think last week for the first time. Congratulations on that. First question is bat previous book, actually. Fiasco. Given the state of affair today, international, national affairs, do you wish that maybe you had held back on titling the book fiasco. Its a little bit close to home on that question. Youre right, i never thought wed be living in a situation were living in this country no. Host lets talk about this book. Churchill and orwell, the fog for freedom. Im going to read one small passage which tells you the theme of the book and then ask tom to talk about why he whose these two guys. The people in my view
During us from capitol hill is nancy, senior Congressional Correspondent for bloomberg. Tell us about what the president requested for 2018 and what were his Top Priorities. The president stuck with the overall number in the loss, the budget control act, requesting that basically a little bit over a trillion dollars, 1. 1 trillion as the law allows for but with in and that number we really parted from the budget control act numbers and he requested a lot more for defense programs about 54 billion for securityrelated programs and covers that with an equal amount of cuts in nondefense spending, 54 billion. Thats a violation of the budget control act there but more than that its a very politically unpopular. Yes, members really like the defense number increase but they dont like taking it out of defense programs, agriculture, cut more than 20 . Transportation, federal housing programs, cut 15 . Labor, health, education rams, cut similarly. State department programs, cut tremendously. Cong
Thank you for coming. I am david cook. Our guest today is richard trumka. This is his ninth visit with our group. We appreciate this prelabor day tradition. He followed his father and grandfather into the mines. He worked his way to Penn State University and earned a law degree. In 1982, at age 33, he was elected president of the line workers of america, the youngest person in history to hold that position. He served three terms as president. In 1995, he ran to be secretarytreasurer and became the youngest person to hold that job, one he held for 15 years. He was elected as president in september 2009 and we elected in 2013. Last year, he became a grandfather. Thus ends the biographical portion of the program. Now onto the breakfast mechanics. We are on the record here. Please, no live blogging. No filing of any kind while the breakfast is underway, to give us time to listen to what our guest says. There is no embargo when this session ends. He will take several pictures of the session
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