Capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. I love this time of year for so many reasons but one of them is having a Summer Reading list and things that i can focus on, things i wanted to read through. A couple things i finished, i highly recommend, just finished a lincoln by ron white. A biography of one of my favorite people, its hard not to be a huge Abraham Lincoln fan but this is so much new information i didnt know about so i enjoyed a lincoln. Growing up in chicago, huge cubs fan, just finished s wavelike opportunity in a really fun story about the last hundred and 80 years of struggle for the cubs to finally win the world series last year and walking through literally game by game of the world series. It was a fun read, when i couldnt put down and i also finished the book recently by eric taxes call if you can keep it. Really referencing that question Benjamin Franklin had walking out of Independence Hall of selfgovernance is all about and what do
Subject which ive been doing for decades now that really seriously, its a couple years while i was writing the book i found empathy coming up more and more and i began to realize the things i have learned that came to the essential were good communication often boiled down to empathy. But i first i wasnt crazy about that idea because i didnt trust the word empathy. When i first began to hear about the it started to show up in our culture and awful lot a couple decades ago. And when i started to think about it i thought this sounds like a very soft, q. Week, new ag emotional kind of emotionbased thing that im not sure i believe whats being transmitted by that notion. And then themore i worked on it, the more i realize that for me , my definition of the, the way i think about it is not the way everybody thinks about it. There are many meetings that empathy has two different people. To some people it means compassion. It means sympathy. It means getting to the other person. And letting th
Otherwise. When should a president go to the site of a disaster and what should his or her role be when there. Our phone lines are open. A special line for Louisiana Residents this morning. 202 7488003. You can also catch up with us on media on facebook, its facebook. Com cspan. Cspanwj. Er, its were talking about the president s visit yesterday, but your thoughts on the role of a president in time of disaster. Headlinese of the stemming from the louisiana visit yesterday. Obama meets with louisiana flood victims. It shows he hasnt forgotten us is the headline there of the front page of usa today this morning. Headline. Obama sees firsthand, louisianas devastation. And theres a picture of president obama walking with a family to tour their flood ravaged home. Washington times, obama tours baton rouge flood damage, not worried about tardiness, or criticism. And thats what were focusing on this morning. Timingticism about the of the president s visit. A role politics played in the timing
Biographer talk about president ial politics. Go and to cspan. Org for the complete schedule. Next, the impact of the 2016 campaign. This roundtable with analysts was held at the Steamboat Institute freedom conference. Im going to introduce my wonderful candidates. They are very brave to participate in this conversation. This is a very divisive electionyear. Strong feelings about both candidates. So we have a diversity of opinions. The goal is not to change who to let your, it is understand the discussion that is going on right now. Ted of ahat, we have National Consulting company. He serves on the board of a ton of nonprofits. The third way Citizen Engagement board. And i hear he is an incredible rooftop garden or and has a knack for crawling things that dont normally grow in colorado. Next to him we have james toronto. An editor of the editorial board. Read his bestave of the web column. His entire living based on Critical Thinking and he has a taste in cigars and probably is singleh
The Trump Campaign thinks they have a chance in ohio, inhi pennsylvania. Some of those blue color statesor where his message really resonates who may be out of work in terms of trade deals. It with ill be interesting tore see how this all plays out. Interestingly enough there was another poll, a cnn poll which put donald trump up by two points. Lets break it down by region for you. In maryland, a twoway raise between trump and clinton, 61 percent of voters said theyd would vote for clinton. 31 say trump and 8 percent at this point were undecided. Compare that to virginia, a very crucial state in recent, 49 percent Hillary Clinton. H49 donald trump, nine49 percent undecided. The district, we should noteuld here the sample size for d. C. Too small to report. Typically d. C. Is a democratic strong hold. Old. The associated to for the hill joins us. Its always good to have you on. Good to be here,ha lets talk about some of the break down. Hillary clinton is winning inon some polls but then