This hearing will come to order. Good morning. Next week americans will honor our nations veterans who have paid the price for our freedom in times of conflict and served as our shield in times of peace. Today, nearly 20 million americans have earned the title of veteran. Im proud to say that maine is home to more than 114,000 veterans. The second highest percentage in our entire country. We owe them such a great debt. The gratitude we express in words on veterans day can repay this debt only in small measure. A truly grateful nation must match its words with actions. As we will learn today, one issue that calls for our immediate action is to fight a newer enemy facing our veterans and that is those relentless con artists who seek to rob them of their life savings and defraud them of the benefits they have earned in service to our country. Often, veterans fall victim to the same scams that this committee has highlighted in recent years such as the irs imposter scam, the grandparent sca
Most of the education of an idealist a memoir by ambassador Samantha Power comes out in september. This is a quick preview and oyyoure watching booktv on cspan2. Good morning, book lovers, how are you . Can we stop for a moment and acknowledge the librarian, hardworking staff and the volunteers . Absolutely. [applause] im chairman for the National Endowment of humanities, we proud to continue partnership of National Book festival, changemakers and one way we are doing so is to discuss topic on the bottom level of the convention center, theyll we will recognize importance of 19th document, documentary coming on pbs we have wonderful cutouting of Suffrage Movement leaders that you o can oppose with and children can pose with, grandchildren, Frederick Douglas and other, Alexander Hamilton some of the Popular Figures weve from the past will be there as well and well have programming about sifng and importance of librarieses at the parades of states. But for this room and this moment, were
Pulling a 2 workweek and destroys what america is founded on. I see this being the country for President Trump. Weve been in the game long enough and realize when you put on your stocking, the government will say theyll give you or some company will give you, youll be fine at the end of the day. Why are we allowing the Chinese Communist party to have access to a network with 170 million americans to push the propaganda. This judge in georgia seems the most fair. Compare that to new york. Theres no fairness coming out of the court system here. Stuart yes, were playing irish music today, irish drinking song and its st. Patricks day on sunday, march 17th. Its 11 00 right now here on the east coast. Friday, march 15th and its the ides of hayes when julius cesar was murdered. Not that big of a move to the southland. Big tech all over the place. All of them are down, me taxer amazon, app fade pattern pet, apple and apple, microsoft and alphabet all down. 431 is the yield on the 10 inform rea
The reputation of the Supreme Court is at stake. Good morning and welcome to sunday today on this may 7th. Im willie geist. We are waking up this morning to the tragically familiar news of another mass shooting in america. With the country on pace this year for a Record Number of them, the latest at an outlet mall in allen, texas, where a gunman opened fire on shoppers, killing at least eight people and critically wounding three others before police were able to shoot and kill him. Well have the latest on the investigation in a live report from the scene just ahead. Then, we will take you to london for a wrapup of the coronation of King Charles Iii on a day with royal family drama in the background. A kiss from william while harry sat back in the third row of the church. Also ahead, a sunday focus on Artificial Intelligence after the man known as the godfather of ai quit his job at google and sounded the alarm this week about the monster he says he helped to create. How will ai impact
Afternoon ben, it could go head to head with strictly come dancing under the terms of the new broadcast package. More details coming up. Louise has all the weather with snow showers in many some parts . Yes, plenty in the north and west, significant snow could threaten on sunday. More details in half an hour. Hello everyone this is afternoon live. Lets get the latest from brussels with david eades. Thank you. When it happened, my goodness that happened fast, talks to the matt done suddenly theresa may was in brussels talking with Jean Claude Juncker the president of the European Commission and the deal was done. That was spread from dublin to belfast, everywhere you looked, everyone had some sense of agreement that this would be good enough forJean Claude Juncker to announce that sufficient progress has now been made on three keyissues progress has now been made on three key issues of this brexit divorce to allow for future trade steel discussions to begin. It has been a tortuous proje