David, its great to be with you. Thanks for making time to talk about your book american underdog. [inaudible] [laughter] im eager to talk to you about this because i enjoyed it as you can tell ive got dogeared pages. As you know, i worked in the house of representatives as a staffer to the former free markets professor and dick armey had a big impact on the house and the underpinning that the congress did in the 90s and we talked about this and here you are coming to former freemarket economics professor, still a professor but in the house of representatives. I followed his work and all the guys like him. They had been role models for me. You cant put free economic values together into your politics. Host that his wife was so fascinated about because the book is as you talk about this emphasis of ethics and economics, Public Service and the fact is he has a lot of people came to know you in your surprise victory as a House Majority leader you were the only person in the house to be th
And worked on kennedys campaign. All of these people help make me the people that i am today. Youve a lot of people here at the National Book festival watching it right now. A bunch of young people here as well. What do you tell them . Their parents want to know. Thank you for being here. Stay in school get the best possible education that you can get be helpful, be optimistic and be happy. Dont get lost in the sea of despair. Here is the book. As the illustrator. Nominated a frat National Book award. This is again a book three representative lewis has written to others in graphic novel form. For longer conversation with congressman lewis. They sat down with him for three hours on her our indepth program. If you go to our website type and representative john lewis include the word book otherwise you will get all sorts of videos from the sea stand archives we sat down for three hours. You can put them together, you can put freemarket economics and your values together and your politics
We just had president ial level on the republican side and the democratic side and 80 outside votes going to president ial candidates and the American People put all the in cumincum incumbents. If you photo vote in lock step with leadership to get the spot you can start looking. You are not doing what is best for the country all the time. Afterwards airs on booktv on saturday at 10 00 p. M. And sunday at 9 00 a. M. Eastern. Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies and brought to you as a private service from your cable or satellite provider. Afterwards is next on booktv. Dave brat remembers his victory over former House Majority leader eric cantor. He is interviewed by former Republican National Committee Chair ed gillespie. Host i am eager to talk to you about this. I enjoyed the read and you can tell i have dog eared pages and things marked here. As you know, i worked in the house of representatives as a staffer to a former economics professor named dick army who had a b
He didnt desire a death sentence at grant county jail. Honors for an american hero. Shes absolutely the only reason i made it home to my family. Pelley and the mother of all three pointers. She was captioning sponsored by cbs like, your baby just hit the shot. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley Hillary Clinton is far and away the democratic frontrunner, but she just cant shake bernie sanders, who is on a winning streak lately and looking to extend it tonight in wisconsin. 86 delegates are up for grabs, but even if sanders won them all, clinton would still have nearly threequarters of what she needs to clinch the nomination. Heres nancy cordes. Reporter wisconsinites like to back a frontrunner. Since 1988 every democrat who won the badger state went on to clinch the nomination, but this we have won six out of the last seven caucuses and primaries. Reporter sanders is a hit with the states progressive base and in big college towns. Daniel miller is a student in milwau
Overnight tonight. Especially tomorrow night where the entire region is posted for a saturday night, sunday morning freeze. Any warmer days ever . More coming up in a few minutes. Maureen stay ahead of the weather every day by signing up for stormwatch7 and alerts. You can have them texted right to your phone. Sign up on wjla. Com. Leon the former Wooten High School quarterback accused of driving drunk causing a horrific deadly crash pleaded guilty. That surprise plea came days before samuel ellis was supposed to go on trial. Montgomery county reporter kevin lewis is covering the story and checks in live from rockville. What do we know about the deal reached here with the plea . Kevin this was mutually beneficial for all parties involved. The prosecutors get convictions on the two top charges. In turn, samuel ellis gets three additional charges dropped. The vi weeklong and emotional trial. I can tell you a very tight knit group of people knew about the plea deal. No reporters were pres