Visit booktv. Org for the full schedule. Now we kick off the weekend with New York Times chief washington correspondent carl hulse on filling Antonin Scalias Supreme Court seat. Good evening, everyone. Can everybody hear me okay q it is not on. How about now . That is better. Okay. Thank you for coming. I am Laurie Gillman and im happy to welcome everyone here tonight. Anyone in this crowd here for the first time . One person . Welcome. We are very glad you are here. Normally we have half the crowd here for the first time but this is very much a hometown crowd this evening so i hope everybody behaves for you. We are always happy to have all our repeat customers back and some of you we see in here often and i want to say a heartfelt thank you to everybody for supporting the bookstore. Before we get started if you logistics. Please silence your cell phones. When i forget to say that i always rejected it so please do that. Books are for sale upstairs for anyone who missed that. If you hav
[inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. Can everybody hear me okay . No. Its not on. How about now . Thats better. Okay. Thank you for coming. Im laurie gillman, coowner of east city book shop and im really happy to welcome everybody e everyone here tonight. Anyone the crowd who is here for the first time . One person. Welcome. Were very glad youre here. Normally we have at least half the crowd who is here for the first time but this is very much a hometown crowd this evening so i hope everybody buy behaves for you. Were happy to have repeat customers back and some of you we see in here often and i just want to aheartfelt thank you for toe everybody for supporting the book store. Before we get started a few logistics. First, please silence your cellphones. I forget when i forget to do that eye say that i always regret it so please do that. Ill do that, too. Okay. Books are for sale upstairs for anyone who missed that at the cash registers. He you havent purchased a book yet a
A Family Business with the agency in charge of diplomacy often sidelined it since this suggests that its totally chaotic why for example would you appoint a secretary of state because thats a trouble point not a holdover from obama where you hear so distrustful of your own appointee that you shield him out of the decisions trump until is in had a tempestuous relationship tillerson reportedly called trump a moron by all accounts trump has a much closer relationship with taylors ins replacement former cia director mike pompei oh trump tweeted that pump a it was doing a great job while tillerson was dumb as a rock and lazy as hell john hendren aljazeera washington. As executive director of the arab center of washington and he says the u. S. President as letting his private advise us hijacked the state departments responsibilities. These are very significant evolutions. Essentially revealing how dysfunctional this administration has been since its beginning when you have a secretary of sta
Amy from new york, this is democracy now do you agree today that you were wrong to oppose bussing in america . Do you agree . I did not oppose bussing in america. I opposed bussing ordered by the department of education. That is what i opposed. The failure of states to enter Public Schools in america, that is where the federal government must step in. That is where we got the Voting Rights act and the civil rights act. Amy senator Kamala Harris takes former Vice President biden in the second night of the democratic primary debate. First well play highlights. But first, the Supreme Court hands down two major decisions one a major victory for republicans allowing extreme partisan gerrymandering to continue. The other temporarily blocked the Trump Administration from adding a Citizenship Question on the 2020 census. And its the 50th anniversary of the stonewall uprising that launched the modernday Lgbtq Movement. Today i am a 38yearold drug cleaned drag queen. I think it my long hair, plu
Amy from new york, this is democracy now pres. Trump i will be signing an executive order imposing hardhitting sanctions on the Supreme Leader of iran and the also office of the Supreme Leader of iran and many others. Amy iran says the move will permanently close the passage of diplomacy between the two countries. This comes as the u. S. Carries out Cyber Attacks against iran. We will get the latest. Then to oregon where the State Government is in a standoff after 11 republican lawmakers fled the capital thursday, some fled the state, to avoid voting on landmark Climate Change legislation. Threats of violence from rightwing militias supporting the rope gop legislators then led the remaining lawmakers to shut down the state capital in salem. They could today could have been in a store day for organ. House bill 2020 was poised to come to the senate floor. Virtually, Senate Republicans failed to show up and failed to do their jobs. Amy we will go to portland, oregon for the latest. And we