Conservative groups. Wednesday night the principle of hartford connecticuts Capital Preparatory Magnet School on educating children. Thursday the House Budget Committee hearing on federal state and private and the property programs. Friday night native American History. On cspan2 this week booktv in prime time. Join the cspan conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Up next its todays edition of washington journal. We kick things off today by asking viewers if they thought the Republican Party could woo africanamerican voters the next election. This is just under 15 minutes. Host lets begin with a look at some of the headlines on this monday morning. From the union leader and New Hampshire james foley is free now. Free Funeral Services, Memorial Service held yesterday in rochester New Hampshire for the american journalist who was killed by isis. From the boston globe, militants for u. S. Rider held in syria. That is from peter curtis was released. It was a ransom paid,
Had open china up and he had gone there to the peoples republic. In the middle of the room our final question from a young man from laguna nagao. Thank you. With whats going on now in the middle east and once again the United States and the russians seem to be playing this game of tactics or whatever you want to call it. You had mentioned before that egypt was removed from the eastern bloc bloc and to the west. Now it seems that thats either going to be slowly going back and the other middle Eastern States are going back to russia. How do you see all that playing out when you watch these things . Whats going through your mind because he wants to go the other way. My view is that my view of the russians is different than the number of folks. Theres no question putin wants crimea back. Putin to me is responding to what happened when his god in kiev whom he had cut a deal with to have ukraine come into his Economic Union was dumped over by the crowds in the streets in kiev encouraged by t
In january the new congress will have the largest gop majority since the 2000 elections. Craig detweiler talks about his book igods in which he looks at the impact of technology and social media in our culture today. This interview is part of booktvs College Series from Pepperdine University. Host you are watching booktv on cspan2. We are on location at Pepperdine University in malibu california as part of our university series. We like to visit universities and colleges and talk to professors who are authors. Joining us now is Craig Detweiler. His book igods how technology shapes our spiritual and social lives. Here is the book cover by professor detweiler before we get into that what do you teach a pepperdine . Guest i am a filmmaker first and so i teach screenwriting and i teach production and help students navigate the entertainment industry. Host you are also director of the center for entertainment. That is part of your professorship here . Guest yes its a bit of a think tank loo
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Of a tour that is open to the public. You are seeing it because of cspans special access. Vips coming to the space as they did in Lyndon Johnson say, it is not open to visitors daily basis. The remarkable thing about this basis it is a living breathing artifact. It hasnt changed at all since president johnson died. Theres a document in the corner of this room signed by, among others, then archivist of the united states, and Lady Bird Johnson telling my predecessors myself, and my successors that nothing in this room can change. We are here at the 100 block of congress avenue in austin. To my left, is the colorado river. This is an important site, because this is where waterloo austins predecessor was. It was for five cabins, occupied by families. Im standing at the spot where the cabin was. This is where they were staying when they got wind of a big buffalo herd. Lamarr and the other men jumped on their horses. Congress avenue was a muddy ravine that led to the north. The men galloped