Programs youll see today. You can check your Program Guide or visit our website booktv. Org who a full schedule. And joining harris is the author of this book information wars. We lost the global battle against this information and what we can do about it. Information about the u. S. To the world track is yes. In olden days during the cold war we used to say telling americas story to the world. And how did you do your job, its funny, took me a while to figure out the parameters of the job what are the things i came to the conclusion was the way we tell our story is will be to our store to ourselves with american media, newspapers, magazines, tv. Rather than produce content ourselves i used to do during the cold war i thought lets show people how they cover ourselves. That was one part of it. The other part was the more strictly Public Affairs things where people are standing in front and you have to have the government line. Its safe use of your stance on issues, heres our policy, make
Appropriate for nativeborn, healthy americans. Watch an extended version of booktv this Holiday Weekend and every weekend on cspan2. Good evening, i thank you all for coming to politics and prose. My name is alan, and the bookseller here where we host close to 1000 office a year. For a full list of everything that if confirmed for the rest of the year please go to our website, or you can pick up one of our monthly Events Calendar throughout the store with a current listing going to the end of october. Before we get started today i would like to ask you to please silage or cell phones was not to disrupt the event. When its time for the q a i would ask you to please step up to the mic so we can hear your question as we are audio recording it, and cspan is recording for booktv. Following the q a will have signing appear at this table so if youta havent already purchad the book we had plenty of them upfront at the registers. And then if you could fold up your chairs and link them against s
Stormed the u. S. Embassy and the culmination of worsening relationships between the wake of the iranian revolution in the wake of 1979. Even though the crisis ended with the release of the hostages on january 20, 1981 after an incredible ordeal that lasted some 444 days, it has had a lasting influence on the relationship between the two countries. Images of fanaticized and bushing the American Flag traumatized a nation and the presidency. They live on in popular consciousness here with such movies as the 2012 movie argo and continue to weigh on the public discourse. Here today we want to explore the Lasting Impact of the hostage crisis a bit further and we have convened a panel of distinguished experts which will be moderated by my colleague. I am very pleased that our expert that the distinguished guests have accepted our invitation. Todays event is by the Public Policy program and it seeks to provide meaningful, historical context, as a Global Leader uncovering and archival document
There are dates we have that are personal and dates ladies and gentlemen, please welcome former abc news anchor stan donaldson. Stan well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this mornings program. There are dates all of us have that are very personal, and dates that we have is a country that we all share. In my lifetime, december 7, 1941. November 22, 1963. 9 11. All terrible dates for the country. And november 8, 1989, good news, the fall of the berlin wall presaging the end of the soviet union. A subject we will discuss today, how did it happen . What were the consequences . Who did this . Who knew . For a look at what is in store for us, it is a pleasure to welcome andrew card, who served in three administrations with Ronald Reagan as Deputy Assistant to the president and director of intergovernmental affairs, with George Herbert walker bush the treasury, not the secretary of the treasury, secretary of transportation, and with george w. Bush white house chief of staff. Andrew card. [a
President with a complicity of most of the leftwing media and nearly all of the deep state. Now Speaker Pelosi has invited the president to testify before congress, even as she makes it ever clearer she means to destroy him. The schiffled assault has expand from the ukrainian phone call and quid pro quo to obstruction, bribery and back to the beginning. The dems want to investigate whether the president lied to the Robert Mueller special counsel which they tried to ignore all together because its concluding reported exonerated President Trump. Meanwhile the president has a government to run and not the least significant issue confronting the nation is National Security. And the peoples republic of china and the negotiation of the trade deal between the two countries. Our own Edward Lawrence reports. Reporter the Commerce Department announced it would extend the temporary general license allowing American Companies to sell to huawei the extension is for 90 days until february of 2020. I