Look for these titles in bookstores this coming week on booktv and booktv. Org. Now booktvs College Series continues with interviews from the Catholic University of america. Her besser John Kenneth White sits down with book tv to talk about his book Barack Obamas america. In the book are besser white looks at the demographic changes in the west since the 1980s. This is about 20 minutes. The book is called Barack Obamas america how new conceptions of race family and religion ended the reagan era. Catholic University Professor John Kenneth White is the author. Professor lets begin. Tell us about the cover of the book. The cover was done by an artist in ann arbor michigan and i had nothing to do with the cover but it works so well for the book because it is the photographs of people who attended obama rallies in 2008. You have a mixture of white, black, hispanic men, women you name it. Theres even a couple of pictures in there i think of al gore. You have to really search for them. It des
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Oversight in the process. Next, a portion of that meeting with one of the former judges. We will hear from officials who previously served at the Justice Department. This is a little over an hour and 10 minutes. We are pleased to have james baker, who was formerly with the , judgeent of justice. Arr from the district of ohio mark sillinger, a former doj attorney at the computer crime and electrical property section. These make your remarks and then afterwards we will have five minutes for each of the board members. Thank you very much. I would like to thank the board for inviting me back. It is an honor to be here and an honor to be able to discuss these kinds of issues in this type of setting. I appreciate the opportunity. I have just a couple of quick comments. The focus of our discussion is on 702 of the fisa Amendment Act and 215 of the patriot act. While these are very important statutorily authorized and judicial he reviewed surveillance programs involving the collections and com
Followed by the commander of Coalition Troops in afghanistan. He hasnt acted on the situation in the area. Then jeh johnson testifying on his department 30 8 p. M. Dollar 30 billion budget requests. Newsmakers joining us on adammakers this week is schiff, a Senior Member of the House Intelligence Committee. They do for joining us. Our two reporters are michael and christhe hill strohm with a bloomberg news. It has been an interesting week to have you here. Edward snowden be a keynote speaker at the sxsw conference by video. We also had some very serious accusations i a supporter of the cia, diane feinstein, on the senate floor that on many making many people who Cover National Security and privacy wonder what is next in this National Debate were having. Lets start by asking your reaction to the accusations against the cia and their spying on the senate. They are very serious. Has been anstein great champion of the cia and Intelligence Community. This is a senator who does her homework.
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