Look for these titles in bookstores is coming week and watch for the authors in the near future book tv and this is book tv live coverage of the 2016 Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. Over the next seven hours you will hear from several authors including eric larson, Kenneth C Davis and brian burrow. We began todays coverage with a discussion on politics featuring former pres. Obama adviser David Axelrod, author of axelrod, author of believer, and nationally syndicated columnist Clarence Page, author of culture, lawyer. This is live coverage from chicago on book tv. [inaudible conversations] all right. Welcome to the 31st annual Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. My name is tom for scholars. Before we get started i would like to send a special thank you to our sponsors. Todays program is being broadcast live on cspan2 book tv. At this time there will be a q a session and we ask that you line up in front of the microphone so that the home viewing audience can hear your question
Congressional leader, Kevin Mana Mccarthy and Steve Scalise as what they can accomplish in the new year as we look ahead right now. President elect donald trump expected to name his new secretary of state in the coming days. An exxoxxonmobil ceo the leadin. Mr. Trump praised Rex Tillerson. Hes much more than a business executive. Hes a world class player. Hes in charge of i guess the Largest Company in the world. He is in charge of an oil company that is pretty much double the side of his next nearest competitor. Its a company that has been unbelievably hanged. And to me, he knows many of the players and he those them well. He does massive deals for the company, not for himself. Lets bring in Kellyanne Conway, Senior Adviser to dond trump. Good to see you. Thanks so much for joining us. Its my pleasure. So where did Rex Tillersons name came up . You can take us behind the curtain a bit and talk about how donald trump decided to make him one of the leading candidates for secretary of st
Congressional leader, Kevin Mana Mccarthy and Steve Scalise as what they can accomplish in the new year as we look ahead right now. President elect donald trump expected to name his new secretary of state in the coming days. An exxoxxonmobil ceo the leadin. Mr. Trump praised Rex Tillerson. Hes much more than a business executive. Hes a world class player. Hes in charge of i guess the Largest Company in the world. He is in charge of an oil company that is pretty much double the side of his next nearest competitor. Its a company that has been unbelievably hanged. And to me, he knows many of the players and he those them well. He does massive deals for the company, not for himself. Lets bring in Kellyanne Conway, Senior Adviser to donald trump. Good to see you. Thanks so much for joining us. Its my pleasure. So where did Rex Tillersons name came up . You can take us behind the curtain a bit and talk about how donald trump decided to make him one of the leading candidates for secretary of
Tiller sons at the nastyy brought experience and deep understanding of geo politics make him an excellent choice for secretary ofe state. He will promote regionaliona stability and focus on the stability interest of the United States. Gop stat gist might wood wardod and gab i how do i say your last name marge jello. Thank you so much for joining us. Gab i, im going to start withar you, what are the proposed buildings and what are the cons of rec tiller son becoming our next of sit. A lot of them say that he ane the president elect are on the same page when it comes to pursuing warmer relations with russia. He has significant experience and expertise in International Law just because of the position that hes held as chief executive of exxonmobil and he has relationships with foreigngn leaders that are hard to come by if youre not so entrenched in business as s. The cons will be the reaction that were seeing fro a republican lawmakers on capital hill who worry about the close relationshi
In the, a ballclub still serves a vital purpose promoting nine nonpartisan dialoguing is together and to check those dedicated members who help to make this important work possible. Thank you. Hugh like to do more take a look at the poster on the way out with members of the Commonwealth Club have matching grants all gives onsite will be matched twice of 5 gifford will turn into 1,520 turns into 60 this will support to finish the Capital Campaign for the new building which i promise will be open this year. [laughter] contractors. Please turn off your cellphone or any other noisy devices for we are Live Streaming and have cspan your other programs that and not sold out yet. April 4 if the governments secret experiment with esp. April 18, april 19 the former president of mexico, kay and gender in the annual political lecture this of members of the event and it is a lot of fun. Their question cards on your seat for p. J. Orourke will be collected throughout the program and brought to the m