[ no audio ] [ no audio ] [ no audio ] Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. This morning were holding a confirmation hearing on Alexander Acosta to serve as secretary of labor. We will have an Opening Statement. Then we will introduce our witness. We are delighted to have senator rubio. Senator cruz is coming. After our witness testimony, senators will each have two fiveminute rounds of questions. Just ten years ago in 2007, steve jobs announced that apple reinvented the mobile phone. Just ten years ago. A micro blogging Company Named twitter gained its own separate platform and started to scale globally. Amazon released something called kindle. All that in 2007, just ten years ago. The same year ibm began to build a computer called watson that within a few years defeated human contestants in the jeopardy tv show and in 2007 the cost of sequencing a genome started falling from 100 million in 2001 to 1,000 in 2015 and a new book New York Times co
[ no audio ] [ no audio ] [ no audio ] Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will come to order. This morning were holding a confirmation hearing on Alexander Acosta to serve as secretary of labor. We will have an Opening Statement. Then we will introduce our witness. We are delighted to have senator rubio. Senator cruz is coming. After our witness testimony, senators will each have two fiveminute rounds of questions. Just ten years ago in 2007, steve jobs announced that apple reinvented the mobile phone. Just ten years ago. A micro blogging Company Named twitter gained its own separate platform and started to scale globally. Amazon released something called kindle. All that in 2007, just ten years ago. The same year ibm began to build a computer called watson that within a few years defeated human contestants in the jeopardy tv show and in 2007 the cost of sequencing a genome started falling from 100 million in 2001 to 1,000 in 2015 and a new book New York Times co
Well, brad and i do our weekly blog together every week and we were hearing from a lot of customer i wasnt here that day. Was in new york, but we were hearing from customers, from our staff, people were worried issue would say, just about what this change was going mean, to a lot of what this book store stands for. So justing so just intended to acknowledge that and hear what we were hearing to hear and acknowledge what we heard from customers, from others in our community. Brad graham, what chose to book store stand for . It stands for the things that many independent book stores stand for. Can be sum up as a third place. A place that people can come to in digs do in addition to home and office, kind of refuge, place to connect with other people and a place to shop and browse for books. Do you have a political point of view here in the store . We try not to exhibit one. We say that were open to all different point of view. I mean, because we present ourselves as a kind of forum for th
Yes, you can clap. [applause] welcome to the virginia festival of the book. And the panel discussion, hot discussion this afternoon. Questions, expertise, and the president. Not just for news junkies and we would like to think the city for providing the venue for todays event, and we want to welcome all of you viewers on cspan and tv 10. During the question and answer pouring we ask that you please wait for a meek crow microphone to be brought for you. The q a is coming up. I want to introduce our wonderful panel of authors. Were not washington. Were in charlottesville but these are top reporters and thinkers that delve into politics and we have a penal for you panel for you. Frank sesno, the author of ask more, be power of questions to open doors, uncover solutions and part change. A former cnn anchor, white house correspondent. He has interviewed dozens of World Leaders including five u. S. President s. Now, i believe it might we six with this one, right . Hope springs eternal. And h
Be sure to watch cspans washington journal. Live at 7 00 eastern on saturday morning. Sunday night on q and a, a conversation with thomas soul, who recently retired from the column he wrote for 25 years. Unlike todays left, i never felt i had to avoid being what people with different views thought. So during all of my years as a marxist, i Read Everything the political spectrum. There is a book on burke i first read when i was an undergraduate at harvard. I treasure that book. I can tell even then. I understood that there were reasons why people have different views. It is not just a question of being on the side against the forces of evil. I think the new administration in washington has some very good people, better than most of than most recent administrations have had. The only question is if the in washington has some very good president will listen to them, and we will not know until more time has passed. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern. Now, we will show you some of the four hour f