May have your attention please. Take your seats. The presentation is about to begin. Before we get started like you to be aware most likely a question and answer period at the end of the presentation. When it is time for theat questions and answers go to one of the two microphones on either side of the stage, line up to ask a question. To begin our presentation, i would like to introduce eric digins, a tv critic for npr. [applause] how are you doing . Thanks so much for joining us here. We really appreciate it. As was said, im eric degins, tv critic for National Public radio. So of course i should be talking to a author. Ive written a lot about race in media and also, i interviewed taraji p. Henson for the smithsonian. We have a little bit in common here. So our esteemed guests, the daughter of a nasa scientist and english professor . Yes. Virginia native. You worked in Investment Banking . That was my first job out of school. Wow. Also had a magazine for expats in mexico . Mexico. Ins
Contends that executive power has gone beyond its constitutional limits under president obama. I think the story of the Obama Administration has been the expansion of the administrative state, of the agencies, the federal government as a whole. When we look at the media sometimes we see corruptions, tiny signs here and there, lots of cases are collected in the book but the real story is how large the government has grown over the last seven years, you might see it in cases like the obama care statue. Or the bailouts here and there, its a story that is in almost every subject area where the federal government asked today. Afterwords on book tv. You can watch all previous afterwards program on our website, booktv. Org. My name is sarah and it is my pleasure to welcome you and to welcome randy for his book, blood brothers. He is a distinguished professor and has written biographies of iconic athletes and has been published in u. S. History, u. S. Sports history and Popular Culture. Blood
Fifteen hundred dollar fine in the Council Meeting voting says it was because he informed the public about a closed Council Meeting last month moodys came with the cash in hand last night to pay his fine council says moody violated a rule that members previously approved that anyone who spoke openly about close meetings would be fine. The money was eventually turned over to the mayor but no receipts were exchanged and no one said where this money was going. Moody has set up a go fund me page to pay for any future fines he may face he says his priority is to keep the community informed fifteen hundred dollar fine is substantial for her informing citizens. I think the mayor is just a continuation of this veil of secrecy. This lack of communication with citizens modi says he plans to appeal the fine to a higher right now in thirteen years now but calm we have the full exclusive video of the confrontation between the sheriff and the mayor and we will keep following the felony case against
Pleasant thanksgiving holiday. The dow was able to squeeze out just enough of a game to notch a fresh record close on a holiday shortened day on wall street. But, the big story of the day was another tumble. And i do mean a tumble in the price of oil. Rattling the Energy Sector and keeping equities from making even more gains today. Todays big drop in crude prices. Comes after opec ministers voted on thursday not to cut production levels, despite lower demand and an oversupply on the market. Some analysts expected the cartel to cut production to help end a monthlong freefall in oil prices. They are down about 40 just since june. But no cuts came, and oil prices spilled like they had sprung a leak. Domestic crude off 10 today, tanking at 7. 54 to close at a 4 1 2 year low of 66. 15 a barrel. The International Bench mark brent fell another 2 to a fresh multiyear low of 70. 15 a barrel. Now with the price of oil plunging how bad could it get in the Energy Sectors . Bertha coombs has more.
Pleasant thanksgiving holiday. The dow was able to squeeze out just enough of a game to notch a fresh record close on a holiday shortened day on wall street. But, the big story of the day was another tumble. And i do mean a tumble in the price of oil. Rattling the Energy Sector and keeping equities from making even more gains today. Todays big drop in crude prices. Comes after opec ministers voted on thursday not to cut production levels, despite lower demand and an oversupply on the market. Some analysts expected the cartel to cut production to help end a monthlong freefall in oil prices. They are down about 40 just since june. But no cuts came, and oil prices spilled like they had sprung a leak. Domestic crude off 10 today, tanking at 7. 54 to close at a 4 1 2 year low of 66. 15 a barrel. The International Bench mark brent fell another 2 to a fresh multiyear low of 70. 15 a barrel. Now with the price of oil plunging how bad could it get in the Energy Sectors . Bertha coombs has more.