Behind the worlds favorite board game. Mary will sign a copy for you thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] you are watching booktv and cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the tucson festival of books, the seventh edition. My name is ron barber and i will be your moderators this afternoon. [applause] i want to thank, and communications for sponsoring the venue and thank the nation for sponsoring this session and you might be aware already there is a table at in the mall for the nation so hopefully you will stop by. Presentation will be 55 minutes including questions and answers. We did like you to hold your questions until the end. We will have a 15 20 minutes session for q a. Immediately following the session the authors will be autographing their books. That is sponsored by the arizona bookstores and books are available for purchase at this location.
Opened fire on a wedding at a Coptic Christian Church at a cairo suburb. Right now National Transportation safety board inspectors are on the scene of a weekend california train accident that killed two workers in a San Francisco suburb. This comes on day two of a transit workers strike leaving questions about whether it had anything to do with the death. The union suspended picketting today out of respect for the victims families. Ntsb officials just wrapped up a news conference. Lets go to lisa bernard for the latest. What did they have to say tonight . Reporter the ntsb is here looking at the tracks, looking at the train, gathering facts. The lead investigator tells us, quote, these accidents happen in an instant, but they take months to investigate. He asked b. A. R. T. For documentation, sketches and photos, and he said theyre looking at a camera that faces inside the cab. This particular train did not have any cameras facing outside, but he says whoever would have been standing i
Going to be we saw it happen with speaker gingrich and it can happen here. Boehner walked away from a deal shortly after that. I want to come to the interplay between the leadership on the republican side in in a second but i have to ask this based on what you said. I think you know the president gave what was initially an off the record interview to the Des Moines Register editorial board, speaking although he did not get the endorsement of that paper in one of the things he said in the interview was he believed he could get a grand bargain struck on the debt ceiling if he were reelected on november 6. A son what youre saying they may not be possible if if the freshman and now sophomores and many members who come and dont eventually give a nether blessing to cut a deal. In her may feel in the same tough spot now that but he was last year. A ground part and based on what you say may not be possible if obama wins under any circumstances. This is outside of the book but i will do it anyw
There is not domestic you. Thank you so much. Right behind you. I noticed mr. Ornsteins pantheon of views that are still in congress favor mr. Lugar will be in a few. It seems once they are on their way out or out the door, they say all the right things. When they are continuing to run, Olympia Snowe is another great example. What would you suggest we do as a public for others do to encourage politicians in office to the right thing because the right thing to do . Tom, you can start. Im curious because he done so much work and then whatever you want to say before. And then i guess, are we closer pass the time . I usually go over. We have many fascinating questions pending, most of which havent been answered. Let me try to run through a couple of them. The conservative wayne is now the party. Its been embraced by the party. Its agenda has been embraced by the leadership. The chairman of the Budget Committee, paul ryan, very able member is the archetype of that agenda, which should make
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