Good afternoon and welcome to sunday of the 31st annual southern festival of books this festival is presented annually by humidity his tendency and it is is affiliate of the National Endowment of the humanities. Public Financial Support helps make this a free if it and for information on how you can donate please go to communities. Org and before i introduce our featured guest please let me provide a brief logistical information. You should and can visit the tent on legislative plaza and chopper titles by the author lineup. That will certainly include some of the powers new book, the education of an idealist mmr and a portion of book sales and fits the festival. Ambassador power will sign copies of her new book and the author tent which is located was from the nasa tent. Now about her guest. Actress Connie Britton is the boston native. She was raised in virginia and graduated from brockman college. Her feature debut was in the independent film, the brothers mcmullen. A great film. She
Good afternoon and welcome to sunday of the 31st annual southern festival of books this festival is presented annually by humidity his tendency and it is is affiliate of the National Endowment of the humanities. Public Financial Support helps make this a free if it and for information on how you can donate please go to communities. Org and before i introduce our featured guest please let me provide a brief logistical information. You should and can visit the tent on legislative plaza and chopper titles by the author lineup. That will certainly include some of the powers new book, the education of an idealist mmr and a portion of book sales and fits the festival. Ambassador power will sign copies of her new book and the author tent which is located was from the nasa tent. Now about her guest. Actress Connie Britton is the boston native. She was raised in virginia and graduated from brockman college. Her feature debut was in the independent film, the brothers mcmullen. A great film. She
Administrations decision to withdraw u. S. Troops from Northern Syria. Good afternoon, everyone. I want to welcome you all to todays meeting on u. S. Turkish relations, the shifting nature of two nato allies. I am currently the director of the International Security program at george mason university, and it is a great pleasure too preside over todays discussion on the topic that i i think is particularly compelling. So, in our topsyturvy world where we write love letters to authoritarians and publicly disparagee our allies, its kind of interesting to think where does the u. S. Turkey turkish relations in the spectrum from how we treat allies and authoritarians. It seems to fit into every category or maybe none coming and maybe we will figure ou out today how special is the case of u. S. Turkish relations. Its of course been a tumultuous relationship, one where the executive branch and congress dont always see eye to eye. Is it fundamentally a Security Partnership or do we have a stake
We are going to talk about something thats very popular right now. Podcasts. I dont know what they are, you dont know what they are. Nobody knows. But these people know and they will help walk us through what we need to do to create a podcast. Joining me today , i have the take off the glasses. Is a journalist. She relocated from chicago. Shes the host of the promise podcast which is about life in nashville Public Housing. Covers manufacturing in the rustbelt. Aviation and transportation. New york times, the new yorker, and on and on. Actually i have six cats. I have five cats. Ive gone full crazy. At the end is former director of nonfiction programming for slate sister company. She has hosted probably by the book. When megan met harry appeared in the Washington Post, collects im a dog person. But im allergic to all animals. No offense. Stephen is Program Coordinator for fm for memphis, tennessee. Because he apparently angered the gods at one point, stephen has on more than one occasio
Some of it is redacted as you can see the black marks here. We dont know what it is. There is a reference to military aid that was suspended, essentially, or put on hold to ukraine that is raised in the whistleblower complaint. That is at the heart of what some have described as potential quid pro quo, one the president has denied. Let me explain what that is. The United States had been set to deliver this military assistance to ukraine. The president did ask for that to be reviewed. That was not because of anything nefarious, per se, the president wanted to get other allies onboard but it is notable it is raised in the complaint as we take a look inside the hearing room. This issue of Rudy Giuliani repeatedly being mentioned is of concern. The president , when i asked him about his personal attorney over the last 24 hours fiercely defended Rudy Giuliani. He did not try to distance himself from his lawyer who, as this complaint describes and as giuliani himself acknowledges, talked wit