Booktv. Org. Joining us now on book tv is megan roper, shes the author of this book, unfollow, a memoir of loving and leaving, the west borough Baptist Church, where did you grow up and how . I grew up in kansas at west borough Baptist Church, started by my grandfather and, you know, at west borrow we had the normal life in some place, i went to public schools, made cookies with my parents, all wonderful memories but then there was this, our lives were organized around the picketing ministry, from the age of 5i went out to protest gay people originally and then from there it morphed to everyone outside ofin our church was headed for hell and we had a duty to go and warn them of the consequences of their sins and our whole lives were organized around that ministry. How did the picketing ministry begin, you talk about the loving family that you have and a normal childhood, when did the god hate fags come . In 1991 when i was 5 years old an incident occurred, shortly before that, incident
Those president s. Im mike nelson. Im the guy that you had to put up with the first panel. Fortunately, we have a new cast of people to add their voices to the wonderful voices that you heard from the scholars of the first panel. Once again, we have Miller Center people here. The Miller Center and one of the main emphases is to study the presidency in historical depths with objectivity and in other words, we are all in the business of doing stuff that an editorial cartoonist is not in the business of doing, and that is reacting to events on the daytoday basis as pat oliphant did in his 60plus years as a newspaper cartoonist, and whereas we all strive to be as objective as we can, the job of the editorial cartoonist, and pat oliphant as well as anybody has done it is to provide the comment, and to provide opinion and provoke discussion as opposed to aspire to settle the discussion. This panel today is going to cover the president s from george bush and i dont use the h. W. , but he was
The university of virginias Miller Center hosted the event. We are going to get started with round to of president s on home oliphant was able to bestow his gift. On a country who is able to combat his gift visually with president s. I am mike nelson. I am i am the guy you put up with during the first panel. We have a new cast of people to add their voices to the wonderful voices you heard from the scholars who are on the first panel. Once again, we have Miller Center people here. The Miller Center, one of its main emphasis is the focus on studying the presidencies in depth, historical depth with objectivity. We are all on the business of doing stuff that in editorial cartoonists is not in the business of doing, which is reacting to events on a daytoday basis. Which pat oliphant did more than 10,000 times in his 60 plus years as a newspaper cartoonist. Whereas we all strive to be as objective as we can, the job of the editorial cartoonist and pat oliphant, as well as anybody who has ev
The rules committee will come to order. We welcome back our two witnesses. At this time i am happy to yield to my distinguished i would like to yield to our colleague for some questions she may have. Without objection. Our witness. Without objection. Thank you. I just wanted to clarify one thing. We had a line of questioning from mr. Cole right before we broke and it had to do whether or not there had been subpoenas issued for Ranking Member nunes phone records and, you know, there seemed to be some confusion from our two witnesses here. But i recall the testimony that we had in judiciary which was that in fact no subpoenas had been issued for any member of congress or for any journalist that the Intel Committee has subpoenaed meta data, just call records, not actually phone taps, of four people who had been involved in this scheme to abuse the power of office and smear ambassador yovanovitch. After each of those people had been subpoenaed individually, so that was giuliani, sondland,
You dont think that affects our National Security, if you think ukraine is our ally as i believe you do and i do . I just dont accept the premise of your premises of thoughts. All right. What value for ukraine do you see in the oval office visit that was being sought . Youd have to ask ukraine. Do you recognize that such a visit would send a strong message to russia sort of like lavrov being in the Oval Office Last week and the rest of the world that the United States supported ukraine and was ready to defend it against russian aggression. I think a better statement was when mr. Trump sent russian weapons to shoot down russian assets. That ignored the fact that the aid was withhold and hot war was going. All due respect were going in circles. I do not believe there was anything wrong for the reasons stated. And mr. Trump did more for the ukrainians in the hot war than was previously done. You know, ive heard that before. Im not going to elaborate. But i can assure you if they point as