Years now run by thirdgeneration and thank you all for your support authors and book lovers and tonight we are excited to have with us in new religions for those world. And as in the former staff writing on religion with National Geographic and the Washington Post the New York Times and a doctorate in theology from oxford also author social creature. The author to change a church bad religion in privilege and the for joining the New York Times the Senior Editor for the atlantic for National Review and the New York Times weekly oped podcast. Living in new haven with his wife and three children. Please join me to welcome our gas. Thank you so much. Thank you for joining us at this exciting virtual experience in this way of talking about a book with the subject matter. Thank you for letting me interrogate you. A typical thursday night. I just want to make two comments. First in the era of coalbed i have done enough zoom events to know sometimes people are more hesitant to ask questions an
And democrats across the country are battling an enthusiasm gap. Even in deep blue, maryland, democrats are turning out the base in a surprisingly close governors race. Michelle obama is campaigning for anthony brown. Thats where we find our bruce leshan. Both republicans and democrats doing everything they can to get their voters off the couch and into the voting booth tomorrow. For democrats, it is crucial the drive turnout in places like here in baltimore city, as well as in montgomery county, Prince Georges County, anthony brown, the Lieutenant Governor who is running in this tough race against republican larry hogan is on the stage right now. We are expecting him to introduce Michelle Obama any minute now. The democrats have been working for months to get Michelle Obama here. In part, because right now, she is even more popular than her husband. How are you doing . Good, how is everybody doing . Both candidates barn storming the state on the last day of what has been a nasty, inte
,epublicans www. Cspan. Org 202 7370002 republicans , independents 202 6280205. The hill newspaper this morning reports that shutdown are no shutdown lawmakers will get paid. The constitution requires all members of congress be paid. It is merely a question of timing. Shutdown pay for house members can be withheld temporarily. And in political this morning, president obama canceled his asian trip to fight the Government Shutdown. He was scheduled to leave washington this weekend to go to ali and brunei. Kerryary of state john will take the president s place. Back to the hill newspaper. This is an article, a long article that was in political this morning. Bad blood for feuding leaders. Senate majority leader harry fellowivately told Democratic Senators this week what he really thought of Speaker John Boehner. A little bit from the politico article this morning. As we announced prior to coming up on the washington journal,. Joining us for a few minutes is robert costa, the washington ed
With richard brookhiser, Senior Editor of National Review at the New York Historical society. Everyone felt they knew her. And they did pretty much because she laid her life out for everybody to see. And she told us about what life was like in suburbia for women in the 1960s through the 1990s. And one of the wonderful things about her, you know, she wrote mainly humor, and it was schumer that was accessible to everyone. Because it was humor that happens to everyones lives but they might not recognize it until they saw it written on the page or in a newspaper column. Because funny things happen to us all the time, but we have to be out on the look out for them come and she was the one that focused our attention on the funny things that happen in the family, things that at the moment seem like craziness and driving you nuts, but when you look back at them you think that was really funny. So thats a real gift. Thats a literary gift. The life and times of erma bombeck this weekend as a boo
Britain, tony blair, on why he thinks islamic extremism in the middle east is worse than its ever been. From nbc news in washington, the worlds longest running television program, this is meet the press with david gregory. Good sunday morning. Developing story this weekend to talk about. Its what we begin with. Im joined by civil rights activist and the host of politics nations on msnbc, the reverend al sharpton. Lorraine miller and Bryant Gumbel host of real sports with Bryant Gumbel. Here are the comments by Donald Sterling allegedly made by Donald Sterling first revealed on tape by the site tmz. Listen. Yeah, it bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that youre associating with black people. Do you have to . You can sleep with them, you can bring them in. You can do whatever you want. The little i ask you is not to promote it on that and not to bring them to my games. This is purportedly, reverend, a conversation with sterlings girlfriend. What should happen now . Well, i think