College campuses. I will yield so he can say a word about the tragedy that occurred in texas. I thank you, mr. Chairman. Welcome. Let me just say briefly that before discussing the important topic of todays hearing on sunday a gunman shot and killed 26 church goers in texas. We now know that information concerning his courtmartial for Domestic Abuse should have been submitted by the air force to the instant criminal background check system. Should have been prevented from purchasing firearms from licensed gun dealers via the brady background check system. Yesterday before this information came to light, i wrote to you, mr. Chairman, requesting that the briefing planned for our members tomorrow afternoon by atf on the issue of bump stocks. Be expanded through the fbi to discuss the background check issues. Related to southern springs. And in that briefing be conducted as a formal hearing open to the public. Now tat we have even more information that theres been a break down in the imple
This is about two hours. Good evening and welcome to our program, and Perfect Union has america lost its moral center . My name is david gibson. I am the director of the department of religion and culture here at fordham university. We are pleased to see you here this evening and to have coverage by our friends at cspan at this event tonight. So look sharp. Try to behave. Cell phones on mute. But do feel free to tweet the event as you like. Maybe even our resident will between eating the event at some point president will be tweeting the event at some point although it seems hes more involved another matters. We began to conceive of this Program Shortly after mr. Trump was elected last november on the Famous Campaign slogan make America Great again. And of course, we were taking something of a risk by having this program, because we were betting in the course of one year he would not in fact have achieved his goal, an achievement that would have made this evenings discussion moot. We c
Caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] \ next a discussion about morality and the united states. Mediahe focus on the news and voter decisionmaking. This is two hours. Good evening and welcome to our program, and Perfect Union has america lost its moral center . My name is david gibson. I am the director of the department of religion and culture here at fordham university. We are pleased to see you here this evening and to have coverage by our friends at cspan at this event tonight. So look sharp. Try to behave. Cell phones on mute. But do feel free to tweet the event as you like. Maybe even our resident will between eating the event at some point president will be tweeting the event at some point although it seems hes more involved another matters. We began to conceive of this Program Shortly after mr. Trump was elected last november on the Famous Campaign slogan make America Great again. And of course, we were taking something of a risk by having this program, because we we
Later in march its the virginia festival of the book in charlottesville and the National Black writers conference in brooklyn, new york. In april were headed to texas for the san antonio book festival, and well be live once again at the Los Angeles Times festival of books. For more information about up coming book upcoming book fairs and test values, click festivals, click the book fairs tabben our web site, booktv. Org. Lets dive in a little bit more. Who is eric garnersome. Eric garner excuse me, who was eric garner. Yeah. The reason i wrote this book, let my back up for a moment, is because on the day that the grand jury decided not to indict the Police Officer responsible for or his killing and ill use a different word, but i cant legally but i went over to staten island, and i started talking to people in the street asking, you know, what was he like. And i immediately found that everybody had a story about this guy, and he was, he was just interesting and funny and complicated an
Church, one of the sites of the savanna book festival. Starting now is offer Celeste Headley talking about the importance of civil communication. Good afternoon. Hope you are enjoying the book festival. My name is our styles and im delighted to have you join me in the 11th annual savanna book 1st. The festival is presented by georgia power. David and nancy cintron, she and family foundation, and mark and pat, many thanks to jack and mary romanos come our sponsors for this glorious venue Trinity United Methodist church. We would like to extend special thanks to our individual donors who have made and continue to make Saturdays Free festival events possible. 90 of our revenue comes from donors just like you. We are very excited to have savanna book festival apps available for your phones, just look in your program for instructions for how to download it. Immediately following the presentation, celeste will sign copies of her book out here and if you are planning to stay for the following