Tonight we encourage you to ask questions. The back portion of our event will be dedicated to your questions. At the bottom, you have seen where people have already asked question and you can vote on the questions that youre most interested in hearing our authors answer. And, lastly, reminder to everyone that you can see us, but we cannot see you. Feel free to relax and get comfortable. Tonight shes here with her new book. Tonight we are also joined by Zachary Carter where he covers congress, white house, tonight he will discuss price is king. So without further due i introduce stephanie and zachary. There was a tweet from lincoln public, antitrump republicans, how donald trump had run up 18. 17 billion of debt, theres columns in wall street journal, New York Times about debt, debt, but your book calls of deficit as a myth. What do you mean of by the deficit myth and why do you think its important to write at this time. Pleasure to be with you. First, let me start by saying increasing
Publications including the american scholar, the american short fiction, the atlantic monthly, new republic, the smithsonian, the Washington Post magazine, and the wilson quarterly. And opinions and book review pages of the boston globe. The New York Times, u. S. Today in the Washington Post. He lives in virginia. Please give a warm welcome to robert wilson. [applause]. [background sounds]. Thank you ce that introduction. I am hoping your app works a lot better than the app for the iowa caucuses. [laughter]. I trust it will. You can probably actually test it. Thanks to all of you for coming this morning on this cold morning. It is very pleasant to see so many of you here. Very pleasant to see cspan here. I dont think cspan for all of the done to support book culture in america. I am attempt to say that normally what remains of the culture in america but on a day like today, its very easy to be optimistic about the state of books. I love being in savannah. My wife martha and i come here
To get medicaid, but often only in certain states. Health policy researcher dr. Aaron carroll. Weve done almost nothing to try to ease the path or to make it easy. In fact, it appears to be incredibly difficult. Reporter whats worse, he said, many states appear to be overwhelmed. It takes a significant infrastructure to do all of the checking and signing people up and checking to see if they qualify for subsidies during all of that. Its not clear that right now in april, a lot of the exchanges, especially at the state base level or federal, i guess, are actually staffed up and prepared to do that. To me its outrageous in a ou reporter senator mark warner and other democrats are proposing a bill to reopen enrollment for the affordable states where it hasnt yet happened so people dont put off getting care. Somebody god forbid who may be coming down with signs of the virus, should not be afraid of going to the doctor because they cant afford to pay. In this circumstance, that kind of relu
Chief executives and leadership styles. Visit our website, cspan. Org the president to learn more about president and historical features and order your copy today whether wherever books and ebooks are sold. Good evening. Welcome and thank you all very much forbeing here tonight. We are delighted to have someone whos been here, here meaning this store but our original location good number of times, approaching 30 years now. And having Lawrence Weschler back and for him to come to seattle. For us it feels like having a member ofthe family back. He has a literal family in seattle so thats part of his seattle visit and hes an author too, Tony Weschler but Lawrence Weschler has often come, his books have always had Something Interesting going on and i say this, hes sort of in a singular way right about, has written about unique people or sometimes theres extraordinary situations as well but often at the heart of his books are these unique and unusual and distinct people and this is a time
Buy . And that is not necessarily really how we want an economy or Innovation Sector to function. Announcer watch the communicators monday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan two. And our question we started with this morning, should religious gatherings be exempt from stay at home orders . Our lines for you 2027488000 for the eastern and central time zones, 2027488001, mountain and pacific and if youre a religion leader, that line is 2027488002. Well be right back. Announcer tonightannouncer at 9 00 eastern on afterwards, netflix director of inclusion and former u. N. Official Michelle King with her book the fix. We are often in denial the challenges women face at work. It is something i discovered in my own research. People assume places of meritocracys. There is this belief that everyone is the same because everyone is treated in the same way. If people dont have experiences of work and without logic, we are not only do lot denying difference but we are denying inequality. Announcer watc