And Carrie Severino about the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett kavanaugh. Heres a portion of that program. A specific category for someone who has no memory of something and then claims to have developed one in therapy. Its not clear that shes claiming that, what we know is that she doesnt tell anyone until therapy but this is one of the things, Rachel Mitchell brought this out, on one side they were using these therapies as evidence and the lawyer, if youre using it as evidence you would expect its a lisle situation the court could examine them. They wanted to simultaneously use those as cooperation but refused to produce them and is very significant this is what the experts we spoke to talk to how the therapy went because there were no therapeutic techniques that can suggest abso you could attach the wrong person to a traumatic event and this can happen through therapy, this can happen just through regular discussions with people. Its been known to happen through
Schools. Hes also the author of a new book, a good what i might add, thats called the land of flickering lights. We will talk about the book. It unfolds the baxter, some of the hyper partisan conflicts in congress today, calling washington out on its dysfunction. Senator bennet said he hes rug for president to restore integrity into the government. Were excited to have her with us. Please welcome senator michael bennet. Thank you. [applause] well, we will talk about the book and obviously want to talk about congress and the campaign, but you were born in 1964 in new delhi, india,. Thats true. How did speed is as a second look at the very helpful origin story when youre running for senate in the state of colorado. But it worked. You were appointed. Tells the circumstances. I was there because my parents were there, for convenience. [laughing] that make sense. They were working for embassy. Theres a guy named Chester Bowles to some of you may remember our ambassador to india and they wer
Ideas business if you like. Host could you walk us through one of the times youve done this and with whom . Guest well, candidate up in seattle, a gentleman called mat susan who was bravely running as a libertarian in a 90 democratic district. So youve got to do some quite interesting things branding the message, you have to run in basically downtown seattle. We had a wonderful effective campaign, we ran a campaign that said there is no them and this is a statement against the sense that politics have become very tribal, very divisive and even up there in seattle where youve got basic political culture, right, throughout the United States that the problems of the extremes, whatever side youre on, left or right and in many ways, the quiet moderate left and the quiet moderate right have more in common with each other than with the extremes of their own political side. And that rising affection in the u. S. Polls are showing that and that means its a political open because its a problem t
Everyone. Fternoon yall find seats and will get our panel going. Good morning. Welcome to the fifth annual mississippi book festival. Im Chris Goodwin with Mississippi Department of archives and history. If you havent done so, please silence your cell phone. This panel on the u. S. Civil war is sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and Mississippi State university. One of the book festivals Board Members from Mississippi State John Marszalek is on the panel. Is Francis Coleman here . Dean of the libraries . Another strong supporter. As is stewart rock off director of the Mississippi Humanities Council. I do believe hes in the room. We thank them for their support and we are in the room today courtesy of foreman watkins law firm. Our panelists are Jacquelyn Hall, shelby harriel, ben wynne and john nsmarszalek. You can purchase the books ne outdoors. And you can find the times they will be signing in your brochure. We will hear from our panelists for about 40 minutes and then w
Thank you all so much for coming out tonight. I know the rain and the traffic have gotten in the way a bit but its lovely to have all of you here. I Melissa Muscatine one of the coowners of politics and prose. Along with my husband brad grant was out of town and not here but wishes he were. I just want to say welcome to our union market store. I think some of you know this is our third politics and prose outpost, second outpost, third store. Its our newest store. We really love being here. We are glad to share this space with all of you. I also just want to say that because it is september 11 i thought we might take a few moments just to pause silently to remember that tragedy of almost 2 decades ago. [silence] thank you. It is such a pleasure for me to host Stanley Greenberg tonight. We all know hes rudeness book with times of phenomenal title, depending on your opinion, r. I. P. G. O. P. In case you start flipping to the actual text make sure you stop on the dedication page because h