The woman who smelled propane and got out. 2 23 later, this. Good evening, and its great to have you with us here on a tuesday night, and we begin tonight with the allout battle, the white house looking to save the president s temporary immigration ban. Legal arguments under way at this hour. The president signing that executive order, halting all visitors from seven predominantly muslim countries. In the meantime, america has seen the reunions. Families racing to get loved ones into the country. The president has said if something happens, blame that judge. Tonight, the arguments now under way over whether that halt should be lifted. Lets go right to our chief white house correspondent, Jonathan Karl leading us off. Reporter tonight lawyers are making the case that the president s travel ban should be put back in place immediately. Save the president s temporary travel ban. A battle that could go all the way to the Supreme Court. Well see. Hopefully it doesnt have to. Its common sense
The woman who smelled propane and got out. 2 23 later, this. Good evening, and its great to have you with us here on a tuesday night, and we begin tonight with the allout battle, the white house looking to save the president s temporary immigration ban. Legal arguments under way at this hour. The president signing that executive order, halting all visitors from seven predominantly muslim countries. In the meantime, america has seen the reunions. Families racing to get loved ones into the country. The president has said if something happens, blame that judge. Tonight, the arguments now under way over whether that halt should be lifted. Lets go right to our chief white house correspondent, Jonathan Karl leading us off. Reporter tonight lawyers are making the case that the president s travel ban should be put back in place immediately. Reporter the white house is waging a legal battle tonight to save the president s temporary travel ban. A battle that could go all the way to the Supreme C
The Publics Health and they got it more than 150 photos an videos uploaded to their website this morning and there could be more arrests. Abc7 news. Too our other top story in San Francisco. The town hall wrapped up a few hours ago at the scottish rites hall in San Francisco. Kate is live with the story. Senator Dianne Feinstein has definitely been feeling the heat from her constituents to be more accessible. She held a town hall meeting for about 600 people who signed up in advance for free tickets and took turns asking this the senator tickets. Despite the demand and anticipation not everyone was satisfied. An agitate tore interrupting senator feinstein at her town hall was met with more shouting but likely not the kind she expected. The audience largely comprised of activists from the Group Indivisible were mostly eager to ask and listen. How many want me to continue and take your questions . Indivisible members held up colored signs to agree or disagree. The Healthcare Industry is
Shes been our guest here at the Los Angeles Times festival. Thank you, cspan. Thank you listener. Now we have a another panel coming up, author panel, is on syria. Beginning in just a second. After that, will be joined by corey field who writes about black republicans. Then an author panel on author publishing. One of the people is lisa lucas, the the National Director of the Book Foundation and will conclude our life today with a column on hugh hewitt, the radio talkshow host. Thats coming up today. People schedule schedule is on book tv. Com. Now are going back inside to hear from the authors on syria. Welcome to telling serious stories. My name is jeffrey and im a cultural writer for the Los Angeles Times. Ive been based in rome and berlin and is a cairo bureau chief. Ive written two novels, shadow man and thomas surgeons. Thank you for being here. In the strange times, strong journalism with good book and challenging ideas are critical. That is what the Los Angeles Times in the boo
Been included in the best american short stories. Hes a former marine and served five tours of duty in iraq and afghanistan where he received the silver star, bronze star for valor in the purple heart. Welcome everybody. [applause] when we think about the arab spring, its this thing in 2011 that started this glorious fire and it seemed to stir into asia, 18 days of furious energy, and egypt that brought down libya and laid in. Yemen and bahrain restless a little bit of saudi arabia and on and on. Syria stands alone. 400,000 dead, millions of refugees and displaced and a tide of anguish that has seeped into europe and across the world. Still he rules. Mocking a broken revolution and defined the world that is lefts band. Well begin with elliott. In your novel, very powerful, there is a moment when one of your characters a mere is deciding and hes in turkey and deciding do i go back to syria and he doesnt want to. He describes he says he feels that theres no life for them anymore and he g