And now we kick off weekend with Craig Shirley recounting president reagans political life from 19761980. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon and welcome to the gaithersburg book festival. Im a resident of gaithersburg and a member of the Democratic Central Committee representing district 17 which encompasses the beautiful city of gaithers burg, so welcome. Gaiters thug proudly supports the airports and humanities. We are pleased to bring you this event thanks in part to the generous support of our sponsors and volunteers. So when you see them around and theyre Walking Around here, please, take time to say thanks. Appreciate that. Like to get right to this event here, but first a few announcements. Please, silence all your devices. Ill wait. [laughter] ill wait, go ahead. Silence all devices. Thank you. And if youre on social media today, and we hope that you are, please use the hashtag gbf be, gaithersburg book festival. Your feedback is really valuable to us, so there will be su
Cspan2 with top Nonfiction Book developers every weekend. But Tv Television for serious readers. Hi everyone, thank you for coming to the Tattered Cover and thank you for joining us for tonights author event. Thank you for coming out to support your local independent bookstore, we greatly appreciate it. Tonight we have dan hampton, most of you probably know hes the author of hunter killers and wards of the sky among several others. Hes a decorated pilot and a historian of, okay. A noted historian. Tonight hes going to be discussing the flight, his recounting of Charles Lindberghs famous transatlantic flight from new york to paris. So without further ado, im going to go ahead and turn it over to dan. Lets give him some big applause. [applause] i also tap dance and sing badly. Well, thank you jennifer. And michael, and the Tattered Cover crowd as well as my cspan buddies mark and steve whove done this with me several times before. Probably tired of looking at me. And its good to be back
Hello. Look of the politics prose bookstore. My name is alexis. Those of you who have been here before will of heard this already, but bear with me for the new people. Please silage or electronic devices, cell phones and anything that might make noise. We want to avoid awkward interruptions during the event. There will be a q a session. We would appreciate it if you would step up to the microphone to my left so the audience can hear you, the author can hear you and so cspan can hear you as well. I think i speak for everyone who has attended one of our events before when i ask you put your question the form of an actual question and when the event is over we would appreciate it if you could help out our staff by holding up your chair and leaning against something sturdy, are pleased to welcome ali soufan to turdy, so withoute way we are pleased to welcome ali soufan to discuss his new book, anatomy of terror from the death of bin laden to the rise of the islamic state. Hes a former fbi
Progressive caucus has always wee, for a number of years, have the annual progressive caucus budget that we put forth that is full of those big ideas trying to move the ball forward. Only giving us policy solutions that people are asking for but how we can help elect electorally. I will let each person kind of say whatever they want. We will have five minutes to make some initial comments. We will ask a couple questions by the panel. So first, i will go in order here that we have. I will start this way. We have the president of democracy and color. Next to her, from the 17th district in california. Joshua, a polling firm that works a lot with aggressive democrats. And next to me is the Vice President for research and policy. It helps a lot of us in the progressive caucus, Democratic Party, and candidates come up with great policy ideas. We will do this in the last panel. Start here. Down the row and then open up the conversations. Amy is the president of democracy and color. Amy good a
We are here to discuss the intersections of outside platforms in the democratic already. Why the party is not enough internet itself. Might first representative we will speak with his Keith Ellison, we will talk about the most important part you think are important in the democratic platform and how they are conforming you and other candidates. First of all i think all of these platforms are very good and healthy. We should encourage people to coalesce around common shared values. When i was a Bernie Sanders supporters i was on his drafting committee. Thingsa lot of good done. I can tell you this, Bill Mckibben who is a leader on climate issues. There was a lot more we could have and should have done. If we do not have other groups doing platforms besides just the Democratic National committee then how is it going to look at how this policy may play out . Us whenactually inspire we find another platform. We can look at other things. Just to have a bunch of them out there is a good thin