that s a look at some of the programs booktv will be covering this week and many of these are content events are open to the public. [inaudible conversations] good evening. good evening, everyone. my apologies for the slight delay, but i m rick powell, the president wilshire boulevard, temple there were thrilled you here tonight but for security reasons we are a little slow getting people check into what you know each and everyone of you can appreciate. first let me wish all of you a very happy and most importantly a healthy new year. i would like to have our current trustees, our past trustees and our past presidents at the time please stand up. [applause] that would you, howard. thank you all for being here tonight. i am excited about this new year and all the wonderful things that this temple will be doing for our members and for our community as you see this evening here we are continuing to grow and we want to devote our purpose in our community. we want wilshire
rose: and so you began how? having that conversation. rose: is it luck at all or is it something else? i have that belief in myself. rose: what s the object lesson here? build up the whole process. rose: tell me the significance of the moment. this was the week donald trump s presidential campaign was battled by controversies. concerns over the swriers zikaa virus swept the u.s. and the olympics. here are the sights and sounds of the past seven days. looked like a nice guy to me. if you look at his wife, she was standing there. she had nothing to say. maybe she wasn t allowed to have anything to say. rose: trump faces backlash about his comments about a fallen soldier s family. he is incapable of empathy. i don t know where the bottom is. we all feel sorry for what he went through. we have to stop the risk of radical jihad. the spread of zika in florida. that s why we ve taken the the step of advising pregnant women not to travel to this area. pr
having that conversation. rose: is it luck at all or is it something else? i have that belief in myself. rose: what s the object lesson here? build up the whole process. rose: tell me the significance of the moment. this was the week donald trump s presidential campaign was battled by controversies. concerns over the swriers zikaa virus swept the u.s. and the olympics. here are the sights and sounds of the past seven days. looked like a nice guy to me. if you look at his wife, she was standing there. she had nothing to say. maybe she wasn t allowed to have anything to say. rose: trump faces backlash about his comments about a fallen soldier s family. he is incapable of empathy. i don t know where the bottom is. we all feel sorry for what he went through. we have to stop the risk of radical jihad. the spread of zika in florida. that s why we ve taken the the step of advising pregnant women not to travel to this area. president obama s administration
[knock knock] hey, lauren! long time no see. how was your psychology conference? great, except i missed alex. is he around? no. no. out of sight, out of mind. maybe he s with that other girl. andrew! don t know what you mean. you mean marty. he s told you about her? he said he s tutoring her. oh, he is tutoring her. oh, yeah. a purely business. relationship. yeah. hey. oh, look who s home. hey, honey. so, did you miss me? yeah. sure, i did. did you miss me? well, sure. but i did get friendly with the man at the conference who suffered from wide mood swings. he even signedmy freud anthology. dear lauren, it was nice to meet you. p.s. i can t stand you. want to go get a bite to eat? let s justsit and talk. it s been two weeks. that s the longestwe ve ever gone withoutseeing each other. yeah. well, not including the 20 years before we met. heh heh. alex, are you ok? yeah. i m just, uh, like really tired. well, if you re tired,i ll see you tomorrow. lauren, wait. we ve always
bank, all those years that we gave it free. legendary they write and poet amiri baraka has died at the age of 79. just like martin luther king told me the week before he died in my house, he said what we must have is a united front. will spend the hour looking at the life and legacy of amiri baraka. poet sonyajoined by sanchez, philippe a lily larry hamm, and more. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. president obama met with privacy advocates at the white house thursday as part of his ongoing surveillance reform. groups included the american civil liberties union and the electronic privacy center aesented the president with number of demands. a white house panel last month issued a similar call among several others to reign in the widespread spying exposed by edward snowden. at the white house, jay carney said a bomb he would unveil his policy changes in the coming weeks. he is still soliciting input, which he did today, reviewing the scop