Host joining us on newsmakers is Ellen Weintraub. She is the chair of the federal election commission. Joining us here for the questioning is Maggie Severns, reporter for politico. And michelle ye hee lee, who covers money and politics for the Washington Post. To both of you, thanks for being with us. Chairman weintraub, thank you for joining us. Let me begin with the enforcement mechanism that the fec has. You do not have a quorum. You do not have a majority. So what type of authority, what type of power do you have in enforcing fec laws . Chair weintraub well, the laws will be enforced, they are just not going to be enforced right now. There is a five year statute of limitations. No one should be under any illusions that if they do something now because of a lack of quorum, there will not be any enforcement. It is unfortunate we dont have a quorum. It is inexcusable, in my view. We had two commissioners who resigned, one two years ago, another almost two years ago. Those seats were n
Apis, i have the narrative she wrote, and the emails she tried to suppress, on the tape recordings of her lawyers, there is nobody reading this book. To come away with any doubt whatsoever. This woman made up the story completely. And i never met her. How to permit mouth, i never met her. Sue mcmanus 7 15 p. M. Eastern, and her latest book, this truth will set you free. But first it will put you off. Lori steinem has her live and career, through her collection of essays. I think it is supple to see, what came before because now the me to moment, thanks to all of this and thanks to technology and the web is now or the world but it is a process and now it is a majority consciousness. Sue mckennitt 9 00 p. M. Eastern on afterwards, Baltimore County president on his book the empowered university. He is interviewed by author and antipoverty firm revenue ceos westmore. We are through hard work in the humanities to the scientists, looking at ways of helping students to learn to ask the hard q
Yang, south bend, indiana mayor pete buttigieg, massachusetts senator elizabeth warren, former Vice President joe biden, vermont senator bernie sanders, minnesota senator amy klobuchar, and businessman tom steyer. Welcome to all. We will be back to begin the debate. American workers are being stifled. It has to end. We are the only major country not to guarantee health care for all people. That is what it takes to be part of americas middleclass. Everybody deserves a living wage in this country. The proposals i am putting forward would make me the most progressive president in my lifetime. If people are tired of our politics, they have a home with me. We have a broken government in washington, d. C. We need a new voice and a new set of solutions. Announcer this is the pbs newshourpolitico democratic debate. Live from los angeles, judy woodruff. Judy welcome back. A quick reminder of the rules. Each candidate has one minute and 15 seconds to answer direct questions from moderators. And
I hope you have time to walk around the library if you havent had a chance to see what we done. By the end of this year we have brought 15 authors to toledo and thats made possible through generous support to the robert legacy foundation. It allows to not only bring world renowned authors but helps us be a catalyst for positive change in toledo county. And that includes homework helpers, the ready to reprogram in the summary. And speaking of summer read we will be announcing a winter read. Keep an eye out will try to get the Community Reading just like the summer the month of january. In addition to the foundation we always have gratitude to the media sponsors, buckeye broadband and the supporting sponsor in our Community Sponsor friends of the library. As i mentioned weve had a great year and we are not done yet. I hope youll join us later this month as we wrap up the 2019 series we have authors with kevin wilson on november 14 at 7 00 p. M. Downstairs and tickets are free but registr
And this event excited to see folks here and excited for the last two events. We have stacy chin up next at 5 30. Closing us out for the weekend. But before that, im really excited to welcome Kimberly Dark here. Performer, thinker, critical analyst, and generally essayist. I dont know any other nouns you prefer. So sorry, im algebraic dead, long weekend. But im excited to welcome her here to our stage to talk about her book fat, pretty and soon to be old so join me in giving her a warm round of maas. Ill talk to the three of you sitting in front of me. I want to say thank you to dr. Kennedy diif would be standing there getting a book signed myself if i werent here busy with other things. Im Kimberly Dark and its my pleasure to be here with you. Im also fat, pretty and soon to be old, as the title says, and well talk about appearance privilege and how that works. So if you could just look around you right now and focus on a stranger. Dont stare. That would be weird, but just give a stra