Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Donald trump says the media launched a witch hunt against him. The chairman of the Republican Party says trying to launch an independent candidate to stop trump would be a suicide mission, and the democrats are trying to secure votes for tomorrows big primary in kentucky. Hena daniels is here in new york with our story. Good morning. Reporter good morning. All this as contenders are making a final push for votes ahead of tomorrows primaries in kentucky and oregon. Presumptive gop nominee, donald trump, is looking to add to his delegate count in oregon but still faces a challenge in getting Republican Leaders to unite behind him. Donald trump kept a low profile at his daughters Graduation Ceremony in pennsylvania sunday. As the campaign to build republican unity rolled on. Who is going to blow up the system that people want done . Thats what this elections coming down
Biographer talk about president ial politics. Go and to cspan. Org for the complete schedule. Next, the impact of the 2016 campaign. This roundtable with analysts was held at the Steamboat Institute freedom conference. Im going to introduce my wonderful candidates. They are very brave to participate in this conversation. This is a very divisive electionyear. Strong feelings about both candidates. So we have a diversity of opinions. The goal is not to change who to let your, it is understand the discussion that is going on right now. Ted of ahat, we have National Consulting company. He serves on the board of a ton of nonprofits. The third way Citizen Engagement board. And i hear he is an incredible rooftop garden or and has a knack for crawling things that dont normally grow in colorado. Next to him we have james toronto. An editor of the editorial board. Read his bestave of the web column. His entire living based on Critical Thinking and he has a taste in cigars and probably is singleh
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to brookings. We are here today to discuss afghanistan, as you know. In one sense, it is still a time of year. Hopeful. L 15 years into the afghanistan 9 11,n and 15 years after we know there is an ongoing very struggle throughout the broader middle east and in. Fghanistan is itself we are glad you came to join in this discussion. There are couple of words i want to say before introducing the panelists. The approach here is to have a broad discussion framed by each of them. We will talk amidst ourselves and then go to you for our question. All want to commemorate and and the victims of 9 11, this the families, soldiers and marines. In the and everyone else Intelligence Community who have worked so hard, offered a great sacrifice. It is just a day and moment to reflect and honor them since we are approaching 9 11. Second, in the way of commemorating big event, i want my colleague who has been the Communications Director who is leaving brookings after toda
Think they had over 100,000. What we are seeing here on these three floors i fully expect they will exceed the target again but i think it is an exciting time for book lovers and people who enjoy reading. I am pleased to come full circ circle. You wrote the department of transportation, library ofenkine congress, chief operating officer how could you get to washington from alabama . . A Political Science major came to washington interns here in washington. Very fortunate to be working with a number of people in this town. She is the author of this book disrupt living your best life at every age and 50 is the new 50. Thank you for being on book tv. My pleasure. Thanks so much for being with us today. Ive been looking forward to this. Youve written a great book for political junkies. Right at the beginning you helped us set up a theme. Therethere is usually an echo m the past. Im wondering in the current president ial Campaign Season as you look back youve written about what do you think
And donald trump says i alone can do it it is very much playing into that same fear about jackson. But if you go back to 1964 or 1968 and 64 stop gold water unit similar to the never trump unit equally as successful. In 1968 george walls will a Third Party Candidate is running an playing on same resent of donald trump is playing on, and testifies considered a joke at first. The way many people did donald trump. And so changed the race even though he didnt win. Changed conversation in the race in the way, obviously, that trump has. So these are three races that are just in this book. If i feel like we can find a lot, and its funny, obviously, trump is completely his own creator. Weve never had weve had businessmen but never a marketer which is really what trump is running president say. Never somebody who flew his own plane over a stadium before speaking to it his own new thing but there are after leals out there in history. Pated some say conman but same thing about those past candidat