[applause] welcome, everybody, my name is scott schaffer, senior editor, pleased to be moderator for this program, joining us today u. S. Senator and democratic president ial candidate michael bennett, senator bennett has represented colorado in u. S. Senate since 2009, before then he served as superintendent of Public Schools in denver where he worked to improve accessibility and quality of information in urban schools and also the author of a new book, a good one i might add, i call the land flickering lights restoring america in age of broken politics, we will talk about the book, unfolds the back story of some of the hyperpartisan conflicts in Congress Today calling washington out on the dysfunctions and running for president of the United States to restore integrity into the government, we are excited to have him here, please welcome senator bennett. Thank you. [applause] well, we are going to talk about the book and, you know, obviously we want to talk about congress and the camp
Michigans contom mated water supply. As always well take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host good morning on monday, september 16. Well begin this morning with calls from some democrats to Impeach Supreme Court Justice Brett kavanaugh after the New York Times over the weekend corroborated, they say, previous allegations of Sexual Misconduct and revealed new allegations. Those allegations raising questions about whether Justice Cavanaugh perjured himself during the confirmation hearings last year. Democrats, 2027488000, publicans 2027488001 and independents, 202748800 it 2 2788003 or go to twitter and post comments on facebook. Com cspan. Well get to your thoughts in a minute. Lets begin with the new york piece that ran over the weekend and the headline was Brett Kavanaugh was one of the privileged kids and she didnt fit in with the privileged kids. A story about Deborah Ramirez and her allegations that surfaced
Visit booktv. Org for the full schedule. Now we kick off the weekend with New York Times chief washington correspondent carl hulse on filling Antonin Scalias Supreme Court seat. Good evening, everyone. Can everybody hear me okay q it is not on. How about now . That is better. Okay. Thank you for coming. I am Laurie Gillman and im happy to welcome everyone here tonight. Anyone in this crowd here for the first time . One person . Welcome. We are very glad you are here. Normally we have half the crowd here for the first time but this is very much a hometown crowd this evening so i hope everybody behaves for you. We are always happy to have all our repeat customers back and some of you we see in here often and i want to say a heartfelt thank you to everybody for supporting the bookstore. Before we get started if you logistics. Please silence your cell phones. When i forget to say that i always rejected it so please do that. Books are for sale upstairs for anyone who missed that. If you hav
About now . That is better. Thank you for coming i am told coowner of the city book stop im happy to have everyone here tonight is anybody here for the first time . One person. Welcome. We are very glad youre here normally we have half the crowd but this is very much a hometown crowd this evening. And i just want to say a heartfelt thank you for supporting so a few logistics first of all please silence your cell phone when i forget to say that i always regret it. Books are for sale upstairs if you have it purchased a book if you havent youll have time after the talk we will just do the sighting right here. So moving on to tonights event majority of you here know car also a very short and sweet bio. From the New York Times serving as a washington editor at the time his chief Congressional Correspondent for judicial confirmation and we will have time for audience questions after the talks to take advantage of this opportunity for all the inside information that you would like to get. Ple
What we had seen with the weakness last month. Overnight in asia, the nikkei actually was down almost 1 . The shanghai was up by a half percent. In europe you will see the dax is flat. So is the ftse cac is up. There are green arrows across the complex of stocks. The treasury markets this morning will be closely watched. The tenyear at this point is yielding above 2 . We want to start with some developing news. The New York Times reporting that President Trump approved military strikes on targets in iran that would be in retaliation for shooting down a surveillance drone but the mission was called off at the last minute eamon javers joins us in washington, d. C. With the latest good morning. The New York Times and the Washington Post are reporting that the president authorized these air strikes last night but backed off at some point subsequent to having authorized it the New York Times is reporting that the mission was under way. There were planes in the air, but missiles had not been