thank you to all of you who came out tonight and all of the people who are watching this. the event is being live streamed and also being taped by book tv for book tv and free speech tv, so i would ask everybody to check their cell phones just to make sure that your cell phone is off and also just so you know it is being filmed tonight. we will be taking questions later and passing around note cards and then reading the questions from up here so they can also be part of the live stream and the book tv. there will be a book signing afterwards. hay market books has a table and gary will be signing books. please join us afterwards. so this weekend i went to d.c., and i had a couple of extra hours, and so i went to see the king memorial. how many people have seen the king memorial? it s exceedingly depressing. the original plans for the monument included alcoves to honor other civil rights martyrs, but those were scrapped for insufficient funds. king towers over us. the sculpture
Festival. Found that [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the mac in morning. [inaudible] welcome to the best law school in brooklyn. Come on, that is pretty funny. Its too early. The locals that are 100,000 plus graduates since we opened our doors widely 115 years ago know that it the only law school in brooklyn. But we had the best law school and the biggest borough in the most drivers 50 great u. S. A. , so theyve got that going for us. Weve got a very special edition and were very proud of what we are doing here in producing new lawyers to serve the public in many different ways. So im glad that you are here. We are going to be beginning with an outstanding panel very soon. I just wanted to note among other things that when they over 10,000, between 10,020,000 people who will be despite some iffy weather enjoyed this incredible book festival, which may be the largest free public book festival in the galaxy. My penchant for understatement. Is
More protesters were taken into custody. Michael browns family released an unofficial report saying police shot the teen six times. Robert ray is in ferguson tonight. Hes been there all day. What is happening right now . Well, it was peaceful a couple of hours ago. Things have made a change. You can hear the noise behind me, thats the police. They want people to disperse the streets. This is a group that is voicing their opinion. Its rowedier over the course of the past hour. No tear gas has been deployed. We are ready for it in case it does occur. A couple of bottles of water from tossed. That brought in the police. People are just loud. Trying to figure out what is going to happen. Tensions clearly up right now. Let me bring in someone real quick. The head of the n. A. A. C. P. , adoll fizz pruitt. We are in the middle of this. Theres a huge armoured militarylike vehicle rolling past us. Tactical operations, st louis county. Your thoughts . Im glad to see it was a couple of bottle of
So i would ask everybody to check their cell phones just to make sure that a your cell phone is off. And also just so you know that it is being filmed tonight. We will be taking questions later and passing around notecards and then reading the questions from up here so that they can also be part of the life stream and the booktv live stream and the booktv. And there will be a book signing afterwards. Haymarket books has a table, and gary will be signing books so, please, join us afterwards. So this weekend i went to d. C. , and i had a couple of extra hours, and so i went to see the king memorial. How many people have seen the king me moil . Memorial . Its exceedingly depressing. The original plans for the monument included alcoves to honor other civil rights models, but those were scrapped because of ip sufficient funds. King towers over us. The sculpture is flanked by a granite wall. Fourteen quotes are on that wall, not one uses the word racism or segregation or Racial Injustice or
Hope that the fcc moves with dispatch in the proceeding that youve mentioned where weve proposed to get rid of the sports blackout rule. Host does that have to go through congress, or can you do that administratively . Guest oh, theres steps the fcc can take administratively. Weve already started the process of doing that, and were getting comments from the public about that proposal. Host you recently made a proposal about 9 11 calls from hotels. Why . Guest it really struck me that this was a gap in our Public Safety communications that was screaming out for some kind of public awareness. I saw the story on twitter, actually, of someone gave me notice about the issue on twitter, and i read the story, and i couldnt believe that this poor little girl, 9 years old, had to watch her mother get stabbed in a texas hotel, dial 911 four times and wasnt able to reach anybody and ultimately, as you might know, her mother died. And it just brought home to me the fact that Public Safety communic