very real possibility that democrats could lose the house and lose the senate, not to mention multiple major gubernatorial races across this great country of ours. this weekend, barack obama, bernie sanders, first lady jill biden are hitting the campaign trail hard in a desperate attempt to salvage some of these races. but not joe biden. the president is just not up to the task. it s more than he can handle at this point in his life, so he will spend the weekend in delaware with his granddaughter. so much for needed rest and relaxation. after all, it was a busy week for joe. public events almost every day. needless to say, the struggle was very real. yesterday, for example, biden seemed to think that he s inherited $5 a gallon gas prices and you the american people should be thanking him for coming to the rescue. he said it. take a look. today the most common price of gas in america is $3.39. down from over $5 when i took office. we need to keep making that progress. sean
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Will see tuesday, wednesday, thursday of next week we have signings for the following week we have signings and even more coming. If youre not on our email list and youd like to get on the email list, we would be more than happy to put you on there. Today, we are very happy to have doctor gerald horne back with us today. Cspan is also that when you come up to ask questions, come up to the microphone. This is all being filmed to be broadcast. They are here to talk about two new books, stormy, the heavens. The book is so new that gerald just saw today. [laughter] its published by our friends at black classic press and were happy to see them do yet another good book and the story of the associated lega negro press is the other book you will be discussing and hopefully we will have him back in a couple months. He usually comes out to the pan african film festival. He has a couple more books coming out in january and hes been passing out flyers. As you all know hes a professor of history do
8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. Look backcontinue our at the 1965 watts riots in los angeles. At our guest is gerald anden horne, professor author of fire this time. He joined us earlier on washington journal to field questions from viewers. This is about 45 minutes. Host this month marks the 50th anniversary of the riots outside of los angeles known as the watts riots. 40 million in damage at the time. More than three dozen deaths. Cbs put together a documentary that focused on the riots. It was released in december of 1965. In a moment, gerald horne is going to be joining us to talk about the significance of the events 50 years later. But first, this from cbs news. [video clip] [yelling] it was the most widespread racial violence in American History. White people driving through the area were considered fair game whether young, old, or women. Their cars were battered and burned. The mobs might grow in disappointment when a white got away and sheer like a football and then che
Pack aipac to join us anytime to discuss this as well. This month marks the 50th anniversary of the riots outside of los angeles known as the watts riots. 40 million in damage at the time. More than three dozen deaths. Cbs put together a documentary that focused on the riots. It was released in december of 1955. In a moment, gerald horne is going to be joining us to talk about the significance of the events 50 years later. Put first, this from cbs news. [video clip] [yelling] it was the most widespread racial violence in American History. People driving through the right area were considered fair game whether young, old, or women. Their cars were battered and burned. In mobs might grow disappointment when a white guy way and sheer like a football crowd when a car went up in flames. The burning and looting, the shooting and beating, went on for nearly a week. 34 persons were killed. All but five negroes. More than 1000 persons injured or wounded. More than 200 business places destroyed