Stephanie in the meantime well, for me it will be killing time for her it will be doing the news. Oh. Thats not very nice to jacki. Yeah tell everyone to go get a snack. Stephanie go get a snack. And then there will be really good gossip. Here she is Jacki Schechner. Im mad at you now. Good morning. President obama is cambodia today attending summit meetings but his attention is divided as violence continuing to rage in the middle east. The president has been working the phones and speaking with israel Prime Minister and egyptian president. Hilary clinton had been traveling with the president , but now she is on her way to the region. She will meet with netenyahu in jerusalem. More than 100 palestinians and 7 israels are dead. The president warns against escalating the conflict by sending in ground troops. Both seem to be open to egyptian lead negotiations. Hamas wants to stop all attacks, israel says hamas has to stop firing on israeli southern cities, and put an end to weapon smuggli
But the more i worked on this project that i became more and more convinced that as the war came to an end, that it was the americans who were not the good guys. It was instead the british and the spanish who were the good guys. The british and the spanish offered freedom to their slaves. The man who served with them and took them away from this land of bondage and for the americans, well, the americans will keep slaves and bondage until 1865. Next encore booknotes on booktv. Nina easton discussed her book gang of five in 2000 on cspans booknotes. Hourlong interview with ryan lamb ms. Easton offers interlocking portraits of many conservative figures including bill kristol and ralph reid. Cspan nina j. Easton, who isor who are the gang of five . Guest the gang of five arebill kristol, ralph reed, David Mcintosh, Grover Norquist and Clint Bullock comprise my gang of five. Cspan and who are they . Guest well, what i tried to do in this book was look at what i call the flip side of the bab
Issue congress should address next year . Make a 57 minute video and be sure to include cspan programming for your chance to win a grand prize of 5,000. The deadline is january 20. Get more info at student cam. Org. This week on q a, former Ohio Republican bob ney discusses his newly released memoir entitled sideswiped. Former congressman bob ney. Prettypter headlined alice. Pretty alice the most coldhearted, vicious, stunning instrument of evil that karl rove and the administration had. What are you referring to . Alice fisher. Is an interesting attention received from the administration. She was in the Criminal Division from 20012003. She went over to work for chertoff. She was a political operative. The bush cheney campaign. I dont want to she was a political hack. I say political hack. She then was up for appointment when Alberto Gonzalez was the attorney general of the united states. I ran a file of senator levin. He said she was close to tom delays defense team. B, she doesnt hav
Coming up, our special program looking back at the top religion and ethics stories of 2012 welcome. Im bob abernethy, and this is our annual look back at the top religion and ethics news of the year. Religion and ethics managing editor kim lawton is here, and so are kevin kstr, edor i ief Religion News service, and e. J. Dionne, senior fellow at the brookings institution, professor at Georgetown University and columnist for the washington post. Welcome to you all. Kim has put together a short video reminder of what happened in 2012. A wave of Mass Shootings renewed ageold theological discussions about evil, suffering and tragedy. Especially after the massacre at the connecticut elementary school, many religious leaders repeated calls for stricter gun control measures. Some called it a prolife issue. One of the Mass Shootings took place in a house of worship. In august, six people were killed when a gunman opened fire at a sikh temple in oak creek, wisconsin. Once again, religion played
I believe. I am convinced we are going to pull the United States of america back from this precipice, back from the brink. Its going to take each and every one of us getting in the wheelbarrel. And i just want to say thank you, and god bless you. Together we work to save the greatest nation in the history of the world. Thank you. [ applause ]. And we say thank you, senator ted cruise. My name is regime in a brown, its my honor to be here tonight to introduce a man who needs no introducti introduction, Lieutenant Colonel allen west. Allen west, as we all know served in several combat zones. He served in operation desert storm, and Operation Iraqi freedom. We understand the spine that he has, and we appreciate it. We thank you and we welcome. Give a nice florida welcome to Lieutenant Colonel allen west. Thank you. Thanks so much for having me here, i think the most important thing is the title you see on this roster, faith and freedom. I want to talk to you about how do you get to have f