Cspan, your unfiltered view of politics. Host representative omar, democrat from minnesota has a new book out. Here is what it looks like and this is called what america looks like. Congresswoman, thank you for joining us on book tv. There are two characters in your book and who are they . My grandfather and father. Abba is the word we use for dad in somali and abba is the Traditional Middle Eastern name for father since i was born as his child that is what his children call him and we continue to call him that as well. They were both father figures to me and so i continued to call them abba and abba. Host what were the first eight or years like for you . Guest peaceful. I had a really enjoyable childhood and i grew up in a household where we had, not just you know my siblings and my father, extended family lived with us, my uncles and aunties and grandfather and my greatgrandmother was always around and so it was a very loving environment and i was raised by educators so education was
Across the country and serving about 35 of our landmass. Host could you name a couple of those companies to help us get familiar . Guest absolutely. We could go all the way to western south dakota by Mount Rushmore to visit golden west and we could go to citizens on the Mississippi River up in wisconsin where we got cooperatives and if you are in my state of virginia weve got scott county down in the very tip of the state serving the tristate area so ive got 850. Host when you talk about landmass you not talking landmass or population at all. Guest peter, you hit upon the key part of this. Its about 5 of the American Population but they are truly the providers in this extremely rural part of the country and everywhere from alaska down to the panhandle of florida so they stretched all across and it got everybody from someone who is got about 150 subscribers to probably my Largest Company has just about 100,000 subscribers. They are serving those areas with quite frankly the Bell Compani
As well as a trade deal with china. Kicking off todays event is chambers tom doonahue and then well take questions from the floor. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming. Twice a year the chamber brings together the top state and local Chamber Executives from around the country to talk about our shared priorities and how we can best leverage the power of our whole federation. Its our partnership with these organizations that give the chamber a nationwide reach and businesses all over the country a voice in washington. This meeting comes at an important time for the businesses from arizona to new york and elsewhere in between. There are growing questions about the strength and the direction of our economy. Uncertainty stemming from the u. S. China trade tensions, various International Hot spots, and softening global economy, and warning signs in the bond markets are making people nervous, but when people get nervous, they sit on their money. A lot of companies are sitting
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Meets the republican candidate for senate in arizona a breaks that the republicans would need to win to keep their razor thin majority. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program turkish president type editor juan is expected to reveal the results of an official investigation into the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi today died at the saudi consulate in istanbul but the details of his death have been obscured by contradictory accounts from riyadh and a steady drip of revelations from the turkish media u. S. President donald trump finally joined other World Leaders yesterday and expressing skepticism at riad story but its only later today that aired juan will deliver what he has promised to be the naked truth. Hand in hand for the last time this recently released c. C. T. V. Footage shows Jamal Khashoggi and his fiance at the residence on the morning of october second. And then walking to the saudi consulate in istanbul. From which he never emerged. In the weeks since the journalist dea