Transitions, sunday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspans q a. Former House Speaker john boehner joined a discussion on the Incoming Biden Administration and the 117th congress. The mir i hadian International Conversation also included former transportation secretary Rodney Slater who served in the linton administration. Ms. Verstandig thank you, thank you. Its an honor and privilege to be here. Meridian has been very much a part of my personal and professional life and i very much appreciate the opportunity to be in dialogue with this distinguished group of panelists today who are both friends and colleagues and i think that group is very much representative of the things that you just laid out. And theyre the themes of disgraced democratic experience this great democratic experience that we here in america undertake and have undertaken for the last 240 years. But it is a Bipartisan Group and if i can just add a p. S. On my personal bio, as everyone who knows me well, not only do i do
Thank you so much, that was an incredible discussion. If youd like to buy their book, the green button you can click that. Thats it, thank you all so much. Have a good night. Representative rick larsen, democrat from washington, recently joined booktv to discuss the books hes reading. Congressman rick larsen of washington, whats on your reading list right now . It has been long but its coming in to the middle of the summer now so im working on racked the third iq novel by joe your day a los angeles mystery writer and iq is his character and wrecked is the third book in the series. Its a detective novel. Is a private investigator and a lot of action a lot of great relationships in that book so im working on that. Im also working on Frederick Douglass biography published recently working on that, its a fairly long book so im popping in and out of that in and out of that duck quite a bit. Kind of taking that into chunks. For the policy wonk in me, david dollar at one of the think tanks in
This red november to serve . Well, i became interested in the left ward drift of the Democratic Party because it seemed to me to be quite radical and bad not just for the Democratic Party but for the country. I had been a democrat in my College Years and shortly thereafter and i became more conservative before becoming a republican and joining breitbart and even then i retained an empathy for the kind of utopian thinking that the left does. Im not a utopian myself, but i do think that Many Democrats with whom i disagree on policy issues, ideological issues are coming from a very good place, they want to make the world better. And what struck me about the direction of the Democratic Party was that it is taking that party in such an extreme direction that it risks falling over the cliff and pulling the country with us. One of the most important things that changed my mind about politics was my experience for 7 years in south africa seeing that leftwing government mismanage the country af
49 cents today, 3346. You gotta see tesla, jeffries is alien that stock could go to 2500 a share, maybe 3000, its up 23 bucks premarket. As we keep saying, you are watching history. The open today, the dow is going to be down about 20 odd points, then we have the s p, its hit 17 new highs this year, itll be up again this morning, the nasdaq has hit 38 highs and up again first thing this morning. Blockbuster economic news, google good orders come up 11 . That is money, now politics. An audacious second night at the Republican Convention, the president parted a bank robber, then he surprised five immigrants making them instant citizens right there in the oval office. Mike pompeo appeared from jerusalem and niclas salmon said you cannot cancel me. But it was First Lady Melania Trump who stole the show at least for me. She walked down the white house and delivered a speech about growing up economy and is him and yearning to complement america. An immigrant who likes it here. I promise, you
If we take a look see the wind about 14 Miles Per Hour but relatively humidity 50 . Further north its only two Miles Per Hour. If we look at surface winds in san jose, were calm. Sfo breezy at 21 Miles Per Hour. As we look further north, relatively calm this morning. Not bad. A break from the wind is a good thing. Current temperatures, San Francisco 54. A live look at oakland. 58 in san jose. For the most part theres a few low clouds mostly clear skies today. Woer going to see that change as we head into our monday night and tuesday. When we start to see the marine layer return. Cooling off and temperatures are pulling back. More wind this afternoon. Im a little concerned about that but temperatures are pulling back at the coast in the low 60s and mostly 70s around the bay. 80s inland. More about your extended forecast, when we come back. Good morning, sal. Good morning, kyla. Traffic that is mostly good but one problem. First of all, i want to show you the bay bridge toll plaza. No ma