Instead of rallying the whole world, rallying a coalition, maybe getting us back in the Transpacific Partnership where we could have a coalition of countries that could deal with china he has done it all by himself and america has paid a big big price for that, youve got to bring the world together to fight china. You sign tpp, what do you do . Absolutely would rejoin tpp in a heartbeat. During the Campaign Candidate trump said we cant join the Transpacific Partnership because it would be dominated by china. He is so incurious and so ignorant about Foreign Affairs that he didnt know china is not a member of tpp. The whole idea was that we would have a consortium of 12 pacific nations, some in asia and some in the americas without china at the table. It would be our beachhead in asia. All the treaties he has ripped up, even a treaty with iran he is scrounging around trying to get back to where he was at square one before he ripped up the 2015 deal with iran. I think the relationship wit
T7 book tv on cspan2 television for serious readers we are at the libertarian conference in las vegas now former New York Times reporter his most recent book is wild bill. What do we know about Wild Bill Hickok and what should we know . That much and that is the motivation and their hasnt been one since the 19 sixties but mostly what we know that he was a famous outlaw. Was one of the most dynamic marshals and that is true to some extent and was a great gunman the only way he died is somebody shot him in the back. Theres so much we dont know he spent two years in the civil war spying for the army. We had the rumor the love of his life was Calamity Jane. Thats not true. It was the rival of barnum bailey. What we dont know it is waiting to be unearthed to be as interesting or more interesting. With genome can temporarily . He was. As you make the argument for George Custer but as a western celebrity he had a resume built up by gunfire but the monthly magazine sent to interview him and th
[inaudible background conversations] [inaudible speaking] the panel is titled American History, renegades and sponsored by the Mississippi Library commission. Tracy carr, with the library commission, was in the room for the very first organizational meeting of the festival we couldnt do this without the Mississippi Library commission or libraries from all over the state so thank you very much for your support. We are in the room today courtesy of foreman watkins law firm, our gratitude to them. Our panelists are tom craven, eric j dolman and Peter Houlihan. You can purchase copies of their books from vendors outside and you can find the times are authors will be signing in your program. We will hear from our panelists for about 40 minutes then open the floor to questions. Please come to the podium in the center of the room to ask your questions. Help me welcome our moderator for this panel, kitty blunt director of Mississippi Department of archives and history. [applause] thank you. Im
Were just taking a moment to watch the proceed next whole Supreme Court chambers inside the state capitol, as the authors make their way out of the room. [inaudible conversations] youre look outside at the statement capital the mississippi Book Philadelphia it underway today. This live coverage on cspan2s booktv. While we wait for the final author panel of the day from the mississippi book festival, well share you a portion of one of our true crime archival programs from 2009, jeff guinn details the lives and crimes of bonnie and clyde. In the case of bonnie and clyde and the legend thats green and been refurbished and reshaped, i theres two whys to be answered. The first is, why did two kids, from a terrible slum, who were among the most incompetent thieves that ever pulled a gun and said, stick yes, maam up who were the an antithesis of glamow why did they choose to embark on a life of crime that would bring them fleeting fame but had to inevitably end with their violent deaths. They
Along with the forbes media chairman. Its great to see everybody this morning. We have the Federal Reserve. With the pmi coming out. Thats where we first saw the weakness in the economy. The thing to watch for is hong kong. If you get a bad situation in hong kong its can affect the trade negotiations and a lot of other things as well. He was so adamant in terms of this extradition. The demonstrators also realize that beijing has been engaged in stepbystep. This is it for them. Thats where the protesters are. They see the future threatened by all of this. And they dont have a place to go. This is it for them. A does he really feel threatened by this affront to beijings power. The trade talks where theyre going to be be somewhat influenced by that. He thinks it is completely unlike 2015 this is a really serious Pressure Point for beijing administration i think thats pretty serious. To your point its a different crowd coming out. He feels it feels very different in terms of the crowd and