Are always on the treadmill, struggling to survive. Hat is our single our symbol. Host thank you. Dsausa. Org. We will take a break and when we come back, who will be the next speaker of the house and what lessons are there for past for thence 1986 speakers . Since 1986, every speaker has either resign or step down, so what is next as they gather to decide the next speaker . Matt greene knows a thing or two, the author of the book the speaker of the house. You are watching washington journal. Back in a moment. The signature feature of booktvs coverage of book fares from across the country, with cap nonfiction authors. Here is our schedule this weekend. We are live from austin for the texas book festival. The following weekend, we have life the nations heartland for the wisconsin book festival. At the end of the month, we will be in nashville for the seven festival of books. At the start of november, on the east coast for the boston book festival. In the middle of the month, the festiva
Have covered it on their own. You look at the cast of characters, and certainly the troubling relationships that they have had. What we are trying to do is get more information about that stuff out to the american people. There are friends over at the Government Accountability and stew, which is our partner organization, run by peter schweitzer, as well as through breitbart. Anyway we can get more information out to more people about what is happening and the relationships that the Clinton Foundation has with various troubling characters throughout the world by the way, you look at some of these different donors and World Leaders that they are associated with, Jeffrey Epstein he is a convicted sex offender. These are serious questions. She is a president ial candidate, she has to answer for this stuff. Host you mention peter schweitzer, the author of cling cash. There is a close relationship between him and the ceo of your company. Thet we are proud of relationship. Peter has done a ph
Lobby government. At all. Now we try to stop it by saying you will not use any of the money i give you to lobby. But you have plenty of other money, money gets mixed together. So a lot of Big Companies that do business with the government, theyre able to use that money to go lobby and get more. Some of these big corporations have 50 lobbyists, some have 100 lobbyists. But the ones that are usually getting stuff from government, i determine the difference between corporations who want to be left alone with lower taxes and less regulation which is a legitimate complaint versus those that take money to get more of your money. I would separate that way. I have time for one more. Right here. Do you think an employer should be able to fire and lgbt employee because that person is lgbt . Senator paul i think the things you do in your house, you could just leave those in your house and not be a part of the workplace. To tell you the truth. These are very difficult decisions on what you decide,
Press reporter stephen ola ohlemacher. Washington journal live at 7 00 on cspan. President ial candidate Hillary Clinton spoke on friday and spoke about a range of issues including energy policy, student debt, lgbt writes and the heroine impacting the state. In her plan to organize an alternative group to the National Rifle association. This is about 1. 5 hours. [applause] i think we can all go home now. Wow. Thank you. I know, as you said, this was not easy to do. Ank you. I want more people to hear stories like that. So that this is not just some political debate about something happening far way. But people can really begin to think about standing in the shoes of those who have been victims of gun violence. And trying to understand what e can all do together. Clay survived that brutal, hateful attack in her own home. 90 people a day dont survive because of guns. 33,000 people a year die, by homicide, by suicide, or by ccidents, using firearms. I think we are better than that, as a n
It is about a person who had a reasonable opportunity to the president at that particular time. He had a particular issue that was important. It is the story of somebody who went through a process who never thought about running for president , who became convinced himself that it was something he probably could do, but did not do it because of family concerns. I think the interest is not only the story itself, but so many other people who are going through that right now, who will go through it in the future. What amounts to a lifechanging decision, we thought it would be applicable down through the years. Brian this is meant to be the history of why somebody decided not to run for president. I want to show you some video recorded right here. It was june 3, 2009. [video clip] brian are you still of the same mind . No matter how many people are writing these days, we are getting back in the race. For many reasons, yes. Brian youre not going to go back under any circumstances . I painte