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I have reaction to President Trump postponing potential i. C. E. Raids tomorrow morning. The marine layer is getting out of here. That means a hotter day tomorrow. The plane that crashed in hawaii used to take off from this drop zone. Abc7 news starts right now. Now, news to build a better bay area, from abc 7. President trump has postponed tomorrows i. C. E. Raids that were planned for ten major u. S. Cities including San Francisco. Good evening. Those predawn raids could have targeted up to 2,000 families. President trump is now saying the raid also happen in a couple of weeks. Our reporter is live with reaction to the change of plans. Reporter good evening. We have learned that President Trump postponed these raids after speaking with San Francisco democrat and House Speaker nancy pelosi. Some are now asking if this is a good faith gesture or a political ploy . I think the way theyre doing it is not the right way. And the consequences are not going to be good. Reporter San Francisco
[inaudible conversations] host book tv live coverage on tucson festival of books continues on the campus of the university of arizona, which has been the home of the festival for the past nine years book tv has been live for the last several years as well and coming up there are several more panels including in half an hour or so freedom of the press with authors maureen dowd, joe carson and evan thomas. Thats whats coming up and if you want to follow along you can go to book tv. Org and get the full schedule or you can follow us on twitter at the tv or facebook, facebook. Com. book tv. Lots going on outside, but we are inside and for the next halfhour we are pleased to have New York Times calm this, maureen dowd here before her panel. We will take your calls as well. Maureen dowd, how do you view your job . Guest well, peter, thats a big question. I dont like to talk about this because it sounds a little corny. I view my job as a watchdog and times readers often dont understand that i
Can follow us on twitter at the tv or facebook, facebook. Com. book tv. Lots going on outside, but we are inside and for the next halfhour we are pleased to have New York Times calm this, maureen dowd here before her panel. We will take your calls as well. Maureen dowd, how do you view your job . Guest well, peter, thats a big question. I dont like to talk about this because it sounds a little corny. I view my job as a watchdog and times readers often dont understand that im not an ideological columnists, not coming from the left or right. I was a political reporter for 20 years and so i come more from a political reporting point of view. On just going to try to tell them its like toto pulling the curtain in the wizard of oz. Im going to try to give our readers anything i can find out that they need to know about, you know, what is true and what is false and whats these people will have lifeanddeath power over us are really like and where they are lying and where they are, you know ris
Before her panel. We will take your calls as well. Maureen dowd, how do you view your job . Guest well, peter, thats a big question. I dont like to talk about this because it sounds a little corny. I view my job as a watchdog and times readers often dont understand that im not an ideological columnists, not coming from the left or right. I was a political reporter for 20 years and so i come more from a political reporting point of view. On just going to try to tell them its like toto pulling the curtain in the wizard of oz. Im going to try to give our readers anything i can find out that they need to know about, you know, what is true and what is false and whats these people will have lifeanddeath power over us are really like and where they are lying and where they are, you know rising to the occasion of. Host maureen dowd most recent book is called the year of voting dangerously. , us president s have you covered you know . Guest well, i covered the very tail end of reagan when he wa