Good morning. Im jonathan capehart, opinion writer for the Washington Post and welcome to first look, Washington Post onestop shop for news and analysis on the most pressing political issues of the day. This morning we are reviewing an actionpacked week, Amy Coney Barretts nomination, the coronavirus, stimulus talks and, of course, last nights dueling banjos of town halls, one for president donald trump, the other performer Vice President joe biden, the democratic president ial nominee. To get it started to talk about all of this is the Washington Post White House Reporter ashley parker. Thanks so much for being here. Thanks for having me, jonathan. So on the town hall, these dueling debates, did the Trump Campaign achieve its t aim, scheduling the trump townhall at the same time as biden . Well, its the aim in some way was to compete with biden for airtime and overshadow biden. I think yes. Anecdotally, or people seems to be watching thetr trump townhall in real time than the joe bide
Mark also worked with ben cramer on joe dimaggio, published in 2000. Since 1989, he produced, directed, and has written many awardwinning programs for pbs spanning a rich friday of subjects such as battle of the bulge, the pilgrimage of jesse theon, mount rushmore, Transcontinental Railroad, and jesse james. He has received the dupont columbia award, the George Foster peabody award, the Writers Guild award, and the prize from the japan foundation. Was producer and writer for the four hour pbs history of the United States supreme court, which was awarded the International Documentary associations award for Outstanding Limited series. Also the American Bar Association and the Parents Choice gold award. Mark was also nominated for a primetime emmys in the category of Outstanding Achievement, in nonfiction filmmaking and Outstanding Achievement in writing for his pbs program on walt whitman. Hes also the author of will you miss me when im gone . , which came out in 2002. It was one of the
Produced, directed and or written many programs for pbs. Spanning a rich variety of subjects, mount rushmore, the irish in america, Transcontinental Railroad, robert e. Lee and jesse james. He has received the dupont columbia award, the writersa™ guild award and many others. In 2007, he was a writer for the four hour pbs history of the United States Supreme Court which was awarded the International Documentary associations award for Outstanding Limited series. In 2007, he was a writer for the four hour pbs history of the United States Supreme Court which was awarded the International Documentary associations award for Outstanding Limited series. In 2008 he was nominated for a prime time emmy in the category of Outstanding Achievement in outstanding filmmaking and achievement in writing for his pbs program on walt whitman. Hes also the author of awill you miss me when im gone the Carter Family and their legacy in american music,a which came out in 2002. It was one of New York Times no
Children and elderly people and the brutal, vicious rapes of women, you have the no business serving in government. Anyone who can excuse it, that can somehow condone it or even look the other way is absolutely a part of the savagery. New york is home to Largest Jewish Community outside of israel. I dont know where hatred comes from. It doesnt headache sense to me. And its not new. This is an administration and the white house in particular keeps pumping the brakes on what israel is allowed to do from their perspective. I think that they have pumped the brakes so much that israel may not be able to achieve its goals. I do think theyre being pushed to delay right now by the biden administration, and the illness with all of this is iran. And we have got to shift on our iran policy all of these other groups, theyre just a symptom. Theyre a tactical problem of the overall strategic issue, which is iran. Stuart morning, everybody. 11 00 eastern time. It is thursday, october the 26th. On the
Authors every weekend. Book tv, television for serious readers. Good evening, thanks for attending tonights bookmark with Mark Zwonitzer, author of the statesman and the storyteller. Facilitating tonights discussion is a friend and former education director, you will notice a camera in the back of the room. Tonights program is being filmed by cspan. We will be offering a q a at the end. Please, if you want to ask a question wait for the microphone to come to you. You want to be heard as well as scene. Finally on the way out, if you could please pick up a listing of our Upcoming Events and information on the Mark Twain Commemorative Coin Program we encourage you to take a look at those opportunities. Thank you for coming tonight. Double thank you if you are a twain house member. With that i turn it over to begin the program. Thank you. Thank you. Its my pleasure to introduce our author, Mark Zwonitzer who wrote the statesman and the storyteller, john hay, mark twain and the rise of amer