Good evening everyone and thank you so much for joining us. My name is bennett and im a bookseller and Events Coordinator and im going to be your host tonight for literati featuring myles harvey. Lets get underway and i want to extend a thank you for your support of ourVirtual Events programming. We feel lucky that were able to continue to offer Virtual Events and we wouldnt be able to do that and hear about the king of confidence if it wasnt for you all showing up so thank you for doing that. Id like to quickly go over our policy for tonights event. We ask you keep your a video feed disabled throughout the duration of the that event and if you dont we will disable it for you and if you enable it a second time we will have toreview you from the event we appreciate your cooperation. I just wanted to briefly go over our plan for tonight, a reading by both miles and after myles reads from the king of confidence which was published this last tuesday and donovan reads from his book publishe
And im a marketing director of the book stores. We have two become stored. Started in 1961 and in 2019 they became the first not for profit book stored Whose Mission is book selling. The kill tour mission work allows us to keep over 100,000 books on our shelfs and work live likemind cultural partner is leak the center for effective government. Testimony ices re vent is mold rated by Karen Tumulty. The winner for excellence in political reporting, joined the Washington Post in 2019 after with time. During her 15 years at time she wrote or coriot three dozen stores and helped with the white house correspondent, karen is on the board of institutes of politics at the university of chicago and hopes to create the university of texas and Harvard Business school and now turn it over to Karen Tumulty to introduce tonights authors. Good evening and duso much for being with us tonight. The only thing that makes me sad about this is i cant actually be at the university of chicago, which is a plac
Underway. President biden sitting down with House Democratic leaders, this is as Congress Pushes forward with his 1. 9 Trillion Covid Relief Package. Republicans so far have pushed back on the size and scope. They proposed less than a third of that value. But democrats do have the votes to pass their own bill. Putting the president s call for bipartisanship and unity to the test. We are also watching less than an hour from now, the white house covid19 team holds a Press Conference as we get new warnings on Coronavirus Variants rapidly spreading across the country. Lets begin with manu raju on the hill. John harwood joins us from the white house. Manu, it is really interesting, Jared Bernstein said, no, were still negotiating but still full steam ahead into not needing a single republican vote. It is unlikely that this bill will win over any republicans, certainly not any Senate Republicans based on the size and scope of the legislation. They are pursuing this morning, early this mornin
Announced new restrictions for millions of people to try and stop a new wave of covert 1000 caissons. Back for a 4th time 11 m. Names hariri as Prime Minister once again is the country battles a political and economic crisis. So in just 2 hours from now President Donald Trump will meet democratic nominee joe biden for a final debate ahead of the elections on november 3rd organizers in nashville in tennessee have made changes to the fallout aimed at avoiding a repeat of trumps interruptions during the 1st debate lets cross trade away to our White House Correspondent can be how get outside where the debates will be taking place in nashville in tennessee. Well it was a testy choice a testy encounter last time to say the least so this is a last chance for trump to kind of pull back a biden to close that gap. Yeah thats exactly what it is hes looking for some sort of magic moment that will sort of dominate the news cycle and allow him to kind of close the gap on that lead that joe biden has
With miss dewy by his side. He makes another strong bid for the northwest ballots. It appears he has at least one supporter. Those are some of the regions finest sentiment specimen. Well know soon. November is just a rant the corner. President truman continues his swing around the circuit. Meeting former president in texas. The chief executive gets a president which he says he passed around the white house lawn for the next four years. He goes to the home of his friend, where he has breakfast and its a warm welcome. Later in nearby san antonio heat vista alamo, historic sure im of texas independence. In austin, a big crowd reads the president as he continues his campaign for lone star states 23 electoral votes. Civil, writes the president stuck at republican say they dont want unity. On his tour the president spoke with the former speaker of the house. At port, worth hundreds of thousands turned out as he fights to win the southern vote. Do we defeats. Truman the famous photo of the Ch