Season . If you support President Trump and mike pence, the line is 202 7488001. If you support joe biden and kamala harris, the line is 202 7488000. If you are undecided, or you support other candidates, the line is 202 7488002. If you want to send us a text, that is 202 7488003. Make sure you tell us your name, where you are texting from. Where on twitter cspanwj, and on facebook. Com cspan. Looking at this issue in terms of your political view, your friendships and how that is going on. Americans are less likely to have friends of different political opinions compared to 2016. They write, the last four years have taken a toll on democrats bipartisan friendships. Nearly a quarter of democrats say they are not friends with anyone who holds very different political views from them. That is a 14 rise from when questionked the same in 2017. Changedans have not significantly, 10 to 12 in the last four years. None of the Political Parties to sharen more likely friendships with different po
Joining us now on book tv was representative tom cole a republican from oklahoma. Congressman kobe have asked you this question before, you have always had a large reading list. What is on your current reading list . I have just finished the splendid and the vial by erik larson. A wonderful of churchill and his family. Really in the worst year of the war. Right after he becomes prime minister, may 10 of 1940, really the day of the german invasion in the low countries of france. And basically what it was like to stand alone consulting germany until june of 41, the russians are in the war. And then by december of 41 United States is in the work. Its an extraordinary book. Until wonderful read by a guy i considered the greatest person of the 20th century. The supreme ordeal of a long and brilliant career. Then ive also been reading, i just picked up grade story by the name of Jean Edward Smith great, great biographer. Ive read his biographies of granton eisenhower. Eisenhower is by far th
Good to have you with us authorities in belarus has suspended the popular independent news outlet before 3 months the site has covered the ongoing protests against the reelection of the authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko for people to be has been a key source of information about the government crackdown on the demonstrations at sprawled cast images documenting police and mass arrests including those of opposition leaders journalists and photographers the government is also making it increasingly difficult for foreign journalists. Is trying to stop the cameras from filming and what that might mean for the protest movement. Weeks of protests capturing imaginations around the world colorful symbols charismatic leaders. Its often turned ugly Security Forces cracking down brutally on peaceful protests and when it did photographers and journalists were there to report. People here tell you one thing time and time again knowing that the world is watching makes them feel safer. They sh
Conscience not her fealty to trump. 60 out of that number. One vote was present. We have manu raju on capitol hill. An historic vote. There was a lot of talk. The feel of it was as you were reporting earlier that cheney might lose. She went behind the scenes for several weeks in the aftermath of the vote to impeach donald trump, talking to members trying to get them on their side explaining her vote. It appears to have paid off. She was listening to the concerns and did not back away from her vote. In fact today she said she does not regret voting to impeach donald trump. She made that clear to her conference but there were an outspoken contingent of members who came after her very aggressively through the course of this more than fourhour closed door meeting. At the end of the day the members decided it is more important to unite at this moment than engage themselves in a divisive leadership fight and the ouster of the highest ranking republican woman in leadership. Now, at the same t
There are significant Republican House members that are very angry Marjorie Taylorgreene is part of their party and is going to still represent constituents under the republican banner for sometime to come. Lets not forget we are only talking about the house tonight. There is a whole flock of Senate Republicans that are have come out and very strongly denounced her role, said she should be removed from committees and so far as to say she should not be part of the Republican Party. This is a divide that maybe tonight theyre showing somewhat of a unified force. But this is a lingering problem that is going to continue to exist as republicans try and forge their way through this process. A lot of it comes down to winning elections, right . It tends to be that you can win an election as a primary candidate when you run close to president donald trump. We are now starting to see a consistent pattern outside of those strong Republican House districts that are drawn in a way that have more Re