Continuing his policies. Yellen is expected to be confirmed by the senate, although she has her critics on capitol hill. Senator corker will be our special guests coming up at 8 00 a. M. Eastern time. The other major story out of washington, it is day night of the Government Shutdown. President obama and Speaker Boehner trading words once again yesterday. A very briefly phone call where they basically figured out they had nothing to say to each other. The uncertainty was enough to send stocks down about 160 points for the dow industrials. Futures are indicating a bit of a bounceback. Do i dow features up by about 48 points. We will see what happens as we get into the trading day. It is the very shortterm treasuries that people have been watching very closely. Were going to talk more about this with mark a little later this hour. Andrew. Thank you. On this very topic, a number of individuals in countries and organizations continue to speak out about the situation in washington. The bank
World. Especially for ted cruz, his unfavorables have doubled. But its the whole party thats taking a beating tonight. People dont like having their government held captive, dont like their economy being threatened and guess what. They now like the president S Health Care plan a lot more. It hurts the country too much to laugh, but lets face it, even the republicans are facing it tonight. They followed the wrong leader into the wilderness. They went off a cliff because a bugle boy out there blew charge into the nasty winds of reality. They got drew into a cause that no one can explain now. Did ted cruz only have one cause . Could it have been ted cruz . And is john boehner about to take back the banner of leadership . Can he . Will he . Before his party is drawn further into regret. And will he . Chuck todd, ed rendell, michael steele. There have been major developments in washington today with john boehner proposing now a sixweek debt ceiling increase. But the government would we main
But its the whole party thats taking a beating tonight. People dont like having their government held captive, dont like their economy being threatened and guess what. They now like the president S Health Care plan a lot more. It hurts the country too much to laugh, but lets face it, even the republicans are facing it tonight. They followed the wrong leader into the wilderness. They went off a cliff because a bugle boy out there blew charge into the nasty winds of reality. They got drew into a cause that no one can explain now. Did ted cruz only have one cause . Could it have been ted cruz . And is john boehner about to take back the banner of leadership . Can he . Will he . Before his party is drawn further into regret. And will he . Chuck todd, ed rendell, michael steele. There have been major developments in washington today with john boehner proposing now a sixweek debt ceiling increase. But the government would we main shut under his plan. And republicans are calling for negotiati
For today and cspan 2 booktv so make it all proud just to give a brief sense of how we do things in the next 15 minutes. Im going to introduce just an art. Make sure thereve book will have a discussion. I think the title of this panel is rebuilding or evolution informally in my mind. It is detroit and austin that the beginning and end of all things. That appeals more to my grammatic sense. So jeff kerr is the author of austin texas history. The first was austin, texas then and now. The next was republic of austin. On the most recent one of the reason we are here this morning is seat of empire the embattled birth of austin, texas, which is a history of the founding of boston and the battle in the republic of texas over by this capital would need. Jeff also raised a regular history and he is practicing pediatric urologist at the same time. If we have and the emergence sees. The author will take care of them. Mark binelli is the author of vincennes msi, contributing editor to relate to an
Start by asking each of our authors starting with h. W. About his subject and why they wanted to write it right now. H. E. W. . Yeah, thanks, erica. Thanks all for coming. I wrote a book about ulysses s. Grant because i had music that he said i was going to write a history of the United States through biographies. I had written my way up to the middle of the 19th century. Then i had a gap and i picked it up again at the end the 19th century and id been avoiding the civil war for a while for a number of reasons. One is theres lots of subjects about the civil war. Secondly, there was a lincoln bicentennial that was coming and it was pretty clear, it was 2009 and it was pretty clear stuff on lincoln was going to suck the air out of all the rooms on the general subjects i wanted to give it some clearance. When i eventually came back to it i wanted to write about someone i had a very specific need. I needed an individual whose public career or adulthood could spam from 1845 when the biggest