[inaudible conversations] heres a look at upcoming book fairs and festivals happening in september. On september 18th the brooklyn book festival in brooklyn, new york. Later in the month the annual baltimore book festival in the inner harbor. On saturday, september 24th book tvs live from the National Book festival at the Washington Convention center in the Nations Capital including author talks from an at gordon reed and joey warwick as well as your phone call for authors john lewis and others. For more information about the book fairs, booktv will be covering watch previous festival coverage, the book fair tab on our website at booktv. Org. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] okay. Lets get started. I am albert teich, Research Professor for International Science and technology and policy at George Washington university and i want to welcome you on behalf of our center, and the center for science and democracy in the union of concerned scientists, they are cosponsoring
[inaudible conversations] call the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to order. We thank our witnesses for being here. I look forward to your testimony. As much of the world concentrates on the ice is a threat and instability in the middle east the Committee Takes this opportunity to consider efforts by the United States and other partners to counter extremism in the Subsaharan Africa area. Longterm development has been the norm across much of africa including here tell you what. Even with large letters i cant see anymore. Including here in our committee with the recent signing of the power africa legislation which we are all very proud of and appreciate the way the administration has let on that effort also. That we hope will bring investment to a key sector for Economic Growth and opportunity. Whereas in the middle east we have been reacting to terrorist violence and the uprooting of millions of people. And africa weve had the opportunity of years of influence through diplomacy and d
Florida. Straight to your comments. Caller good morning, and thank you to cspan. My question is concerning the integration of mission academics versus athletics and funding in the context that that the funding now, it seems has been diminished. Primarily, those featured with cspan are actually private institutions, as opposed to public. First, your funding has not been from the state, but from tuition, which then means you must continue to get enrollment because it generates funding. Host thank you caller. Guest we are staterelated, but you are right we are primarily a private institution. Net tuition revenue, coupled with fundraising advancement of development, your general fund, your scholarship restricted giving there, and the Research Dollars that are wonderful factory has produced faculty has produced. These are primarily the Three Streams of funding with enrollment the number one. We have to find multiple ways to increase in moment. You do not increase enrollment. You do not incr
Doug mckellen l and ellison barber at the white house. They are tackling the latest on the partial Government Shutdown from the o infighting in washington to what it means for ordinary americans so far. Plus, Lucas Tomlinson live from the pentagon on a new his outgoing defense secretary jim mattis. But first, lets start with the rich edson here in the Washington Bureau on the message from the markets to President Trump and his new nemesis, the fed chairman. A good evening, rich. Good evening, mike. U. S. Stock markets followed up their worst week since the 2008 financial crisis with the worst ever Christmas Eve. Top financial regulators are trying to reassure investors as they continue selling to close out 2018. Its a group of top washington regulators focused on financial markets. Its w commonly called the plune Protection Team and it held a rare call today. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin shares the group. Mnha he and other Administration Officials maintain that Economic Growth is
hurricanes, earthquakes and natural disasters, but today 80% of our expenditures are in war zones. the world food program was founded at the urging of the united states in the 60s in the u.s. continues to be at the u.n. s biggest funder. yemen is its most urgent case right now. 50 million are at serious risk of not having enough to eat. 85,000 under the age of five may have died from malnutrition during the war. intense fighting keeps food and medical suppliesma out. war has just brought about dire consequences. i ve heard people say it is on the brink of catastrophe. no it s not. it is a catastrophe. i saw little children, little boys and a little girls dying right before my very own eyes. in nigeria, boca herat is not only terrorizing the population in the northeast, it is starving it. many normally grow their own food have been moved off the land for safety and are not dependent on food aid. most of the hundreds of