Will. Hello, everybody, welcome to the National Book festival. One thing we can do and i know you are all loving it as i am is to read a good book. I wrote a book that was published about a certain struggle with one of the central problems of our times, knowing what is true and what isnt. It is my pleasure to have with me today to people that wrote two of the very best books of the summer related to the world on the dangers. First i want to introduce Barton Gellman my colleague at the Washington Post who wrote an extraordinary memoir of the feelings with Edward Snowden that led to the revelations about the nsa, technology and surveillance and the subtitle of the book says the american surveillance state. And i also want to interview another outstanding offer, thomas rid who teaches at hopkins and has a history of what weve come to call disinformation, the ways of which our election systems, our very fabric can be manipulated by foreign governments and a history of that operation going
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Monitoring events throughout the week. The San Francisco Police Department has canceled the case days, so that means all officers will will be on duty over the next two weeks. California has already shattered its early voting record, more than 11 million mailin ballots have been returned so far. Thats more than half of the states registered voters, and according to state records, nearly 6 million of those early months are fund from registered democrats. Maureen naylor joins us live with the records already being broken in this election and also some stories about some first time voters, as well. Reporter like other residence, Santa Clara County has already reported record voter registration. Now south bay Election Officials say they are on track to also see record voter turnout, as well. On the day before election day my your votes count. Your idea needs to be respected, whatever it is. Reporter south bay residents were casting ballots early in san jose, including many first time voter