Hello everyone and welcome to this session of the san antonio book festival of the Foundation Thanks to the Central Library for hosting us on this amazing day we encourage all of you who following us on social media so at the end of the session there will be a book signing at the barnes noble tent talk to the author and get it signed into the end of this exchange you can ask at the end of the program. Also cspan book tv is presenting this as well. The book is republic of lies. This book has come out at the right time and i wonder whats behind that. But talk about conspiracy theories to dismiss them as a joke or make fun of them or hold them up to ridicule. It is a reasonable response to events that are complex and people try to make sense of the world that we live in. So why do we have conspiracy theories are we in that golden age and how do they impact the real world that we live in of policies that impact our lives . Ill introduce our author. [applause] so that me respond are we in a
Helped foil a terror attack. Russian agents raided a flat allegedly used as a base to plan an attack on the kazan cathedral in St Petersburg. The officers seized explosives and weapons. Seven people were detained on charges of being members of so called Islamic State. The suspects were reportedly planning to carry out a Suicide Attack at the kazan cathedral in St Petersburg on saturday. President putin has thanked the us for its help. The bbcs david willis has more from washington. He says this isnt the only recent call between the leaders. It appears to be a telephone conversation, the second between these two leaders in the space ofjust three days, in which Vladimir Putin thanked donald trump and asked him to convey russias thanks to the cia and to its intelligence officials for the information that was needed to foil this attempted attack, or alleged attempted attack, on St Petersburg, on the cathedral there, an iconic cathedral, and other parts of the city which are known to be of
Daniel daniel once agaie stephens always goes for the body first. Jon nice combination by stephens. I met misses with the right hand. Daniel that body shot is set up. Really trying to get off. Jon emmett misses with the right hand. Daniel follows up with the left. Jon emmett has never been finished. Daniel just noticed, hes going to start coming. Jon that right hook certainly got emmetts attention. A little bounce on the forehead for emmett. Daniel how hard can Jeremy Stephens get . He always gets those types of reactions from his opponents. Jon growing up, he was an amateur at 16. It was training fulltime by 18 years old. Oh, counterweight for emmett and he gets the knockdown he surprises himself and puts stephens on his butt. About a minute and round 1. Daniel you cant get overzealous with either of these guys. They are just too powerful. He has that great guillotine choke. Jon stephens back to his feet. Might be going right back down. Daniel Jeremy Stephens, right foot forward. Jon
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Wow and mostly positive news reports. Its going to be an incredibly exciting year. And were very, very happy to be a part of this project. But there seems to be a lack of some fundamental questions. How has this all come abouout . And what does the future hold if corporationswho hope to generate huge profitshold the key to the final frontier . In the spring of 1961 the United States is locked in this very desperate struggle with the soviet union over the cold war. And its really a battle over the economic and political systems that are going to rule the world. On april 12th, 1961, the russian cosmonaut yuri gagarin broke through earths atmosphere. Delivering a body blow to us dominance in science. No nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in the race for space. We have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We choose to go to the moon think about how ridiculous that had to so