Good afternoon. [laughter] welcome. Im deborah jacobs, cochair of the 24th edition of the book festival of the mjcca. My cochair and i are pleased to welcome you to the book festivals awardwinning afternoon featuring journalist dan ephron in conversation with nancy updike, producer for this American Life, and our second awardwinning journalist, mike kelly, in conversation with bill [inaudible] Senior Executive producer at georgia public broadcasting. We are also happy to welcome cspans booktv to our book festival programming this amp. This afternoon. On behalf of the book festival, we are truly grateful for the support of barbara exped mining and this years sponsors, wells fargo. In addition, there are over 25 valued sponsors who support our book festival year after year. We are also a proud affiliate of the Jewish Federation of greater atlanta. Please check your playbill for the lineup of our calendar of events the rest of the book festival. Tickets for all book festival events are av
Rooted in longing, not necessarily in truth. Truthfully but especially American Culture because we have from the start a culture of many languages and religions and ethnicities and part of what it means to be american is contested truths, a land of many religions and we never did a good job of negotiating. But becomes important as we negotiate moving forward. In answer to your question is a positive force. But and his ideas have been bred in all sorts of curious ways. As i said, he wasnt Necessary Force because he helped americans to confront fundamental problems we have had comeau living in a pluralistic society, doing so humane way, and here is a speak of the story. I had to think with about these issues. University of wisconsin professor teaches history here. Here is her book. History of an icon. You want to watch this program again . Type the author name or book title in the search bar. You canyou can also share the videos on our website. Book tv, society 98. All available at bookt
Obamacare was a huge legislative mistake has fouled up the Health Insurance market, put states in a deep hole in terms of the Medicaid Expansion in their own ability to finance it a few years from now. If i had the ability carl obviously i would get rid of it. Obviously its also chair he is still there so we will be discussing how to go forward on this issue when we get back. I will say this for sure there are pieces of it that are deeply unpopular to the American People. The medical device packs which has exported an enormous number of jobs, the loss of the 40hour workweek, a big mistake. That ought to be restored. Individual mandate. People hated so i think we will be addressing that issue in a variety of different ways. Host Jackie Kucinich this morning the Washington Post george will talks about what he says is a fresh start for congress and he makes reference to what senator mcconnell referred to as the medical device packs following a 29 billiondollar blow to an industry that has
The United States air force and the aviation components of the navy and the marine corps, the best in the world unmatch and they can do it. But it drives the risk up high schieffer what does it entail . It entails we should make no bones about it. Killing a lot of people and destroying the syrian air defenses and the people are manning those systems. And then it entails destroying the Syrian Air Force preferably on the ground and in the air if necessary. This is a violent combat action that results in lots of casualties and increased risk to our personnel schieffer what about the idea bob kagan who writes on Security Matters says we ought to disable the Syrian Air Force. Bomb the run ways and keep the air force on the ground. How does that strike you . I think that would be a significant escalation and a broadening of the objectives that the president defined. Right now we are focused on beating back isil not entering into the syrian civil war. So that is something that you know, needs
And good morning again. In the interview with steve croft of 60 minutes, president obama revealed new details on how the terror group isis used the chaos and confusion of the Syrian Civil War to rebuild its own force and why he concluded that the new u. S. Strategy had to include a military component. Here is part of the interview. How did they end up where they are in control of so much territory . Was that a complete surprise to you . Well, i think our head of the Intelligence Community acknowledged that they underestimated what had been taking place in syria. Essentially what happened with isil is that you had alqaeda if a lock. Which was a vicious group but our marines were able to quash with the help of sunni tribes. They went back underground. But over the past couple of years, during the chaos of the Syrian Civil War where essentially you have huge swaths of the country that are ungoverned they were able to reconstitute themselves and attract foreign fighters who believed in the