She was able to get out, walked to the side and i had a broken ankle but didnt know it, for a few days. Another car came up, a man got out of the car and went to the person lying on the ground, my friend judy said that is the persons father on the ground, no, i said it couldnt be, that is mister bassett. When we got taken to the hospital we were in a room with a cloth draped separating us, judy and i were, we had very minor injuries, no one was there with us. I could hear mrs. Douglas crying on the other side of the curtain. And then when i got home that was just a huge tragedy and a life lesson that is a very hard lesson to learn that i learned early, things that happened to you, you cause things to happen if you could take it back you would but there is never anything you can ever do about it and it is just a fact and you have to accept it with whatever grace you can accept it with. Host you hadnt talked about it. Guest i had. In the 2000 race when it came out in the newspapers i was
National book festival Live Saturday september 26 on booktv. And welcome to another summer evening with booktv is binge watch series. Tonight were focusing on books written by former first ladies. The first first lady to venture into publishing was nellie tapp who recalled her time in the white house in her 1914 memoir, recollections in four years. Since then another for slaves have published memoirs. We will focus tonight on five women with serve in a position in the last few years. First up, Rosalynn Carter, she served as first lady from 19771981 and shes the author of five books. In 1984 for bestselling memoir, first lady from planes, was released. Her subsequent books have focused on caregiving and Mental Health care. A subject chess champion throughout her life. From 2010, here is Rosalynn Carter talking about her book within our reach. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you. Im really pleased to be a tonight and really pleased to see so many people in interested in my book. Iv
show, trump versus desantis. fascism versus fascism. is this what the grand old party has been reduced to in 2024? really? but, congressman jamal bowman, one of the lone defenders of tiktok, will be with me to argue against congress trying to ban it. and filmmaker an activist michael also join me on the show tonight. 20 years off from his famous anti-iraq war oscar speech. good evening. i m mehdi hasan. as we read the tea leaves ahead of the next election, the 2024 presidential election, the week we ve just enjoyed have proven to be most clarifying. well the democratic presidential nominee is almost certainly gonna be joe biden, not a lot of internal party infighting for him incite the republican nominee will be certainly one of two men. donald john trump golf club slash wedding venue mar-a-lago, and ron desantis out of tallahassee. that s it. that s the choice. forget about nikki haley, mike pence, its former president trump versus ron desantis. this week has ser
heritage. after all our flaws and disagreements, and the push and pull of all that makes us human there is a nation that cannot accomplish, there s nothing was nation cannot accomplish when we stand together, and defend with all of our hearts, that which makes us unique in the world. our democracy. we are not only a nation based on principles, but based on an idea. we are the most unique nation in the world. an idea, that everyone is created equally and should be treated equally throughout their lives. we don t always live up to it, but we never walked away from it. that is what makes us strong, that is what makes us who we are, and that is what those hijackers most hoped to destroy when they targeted our buildings and our people. they failed. no terrorist could touch the wellspring of our american power, and it falls enough to keep it safe on behalf of all those we lost 21 years ago, on behalf of all of those who have given their whole souls to the cause of this nation every
Be made public. By them says israel has not done enough to protect aid work as in gaza. Is real, its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was admitted as far as, as long as the strikes have killed the workers. But says it was unintentional. Members of the United Nations security accounts like coding for de escalation and accountability. Falling on his radio strike on the radio and consulate in syria. So this is monday, striking domestic us kill to see now come on because of these nomic revolutionary god. Along with 12 of the people rons been courting for both israel and the us to be held accountable for the attack. Russia requested the emergency meeting of the Security Council and describe the nature of the strikes as reckless iran is willing to retaliate for the strike and its consular building in the syrian capital around spring lead to add to the fund. Benee says, israel will be punished under the major aggressive sanctions present and, but im right, you see condemned the attack as a c