To covering live house coverage here on cspan as they gavel in eight bills today, including antilynching legislation. The speakr pro tempore the house will be in order. He prayer will be offere by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain onroy let us pray. Dear lord, we give you thanks foriving us another day. Use thismoment to be e reminded of your presence c1 tap the resoces needed by the members of this peos house to do their work as w as it upon those torn nation and upon the members of this assembly who struggle to see the shared hope for a Better Future in those withwhom they disagree. Fo many americans, the holy season of lent begins tomorrow d foreheads are marked this as men andwomen and as a reminder of your power to thrugh our failures all this day and through the week, may our representatives do teir best to find solutions to pressing issues facig our nation. Please hasten the day when justice and love shall dwell in the hearts of all peoples and rule the affairs of the nation
Grunwald a writer with political magazine i live down here in miami we know something about Climate Change down here, im working on a book about it myself. I really want to thank all of you for coming this is such an important topic. This is the only planet with pizza. We do need to try to save it. This is a tough topic that not everybody wants to hear about. These guys have done is really incredible. I remember interviewing al gore he said when he does talk siesta think about three budgets what is talking about climate yes to think about a time budget because people can only listen for so long he has to think about a complexity budget because people only have so much tolerance for that and then he is to think about a hope budget because is only so much climate people can take the doom and gloom before they start to nod off. We have an incredible panel here guys will have tough times with the hope budget. David has written an incredible book about how we are all screwed. [laughter] nat
Programs youll see today. You can check your Program Guide or visit our website booktv. Org who a full schedule. And joining harris is the author of this book information wars. We lost the global battle against this information and what we can do about it. Information about the u. S. To the world track is yes. In olden days during the cold war we used to say telling americas story to the world. And how did you do your job, its funny, took me a while to figure out the parameters of the job what are the things i came to the conclusion was the way we tell our story is will be to our store to ourselves with american media, newspapers, magazines, tv. Rather than produce content ourselves i used to do during the cold war i thought lets show people how they cover ourselves. That was one part of it. The other part was the more strictly Public Affairs things where people are standing in front and you have to have the government line. Its safe use of your stance on issues, heres our policy, make
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