That does it for us. Early start begins now. Gun control on the table. The Vice President s task force gets down to business bringing in the nra for the meeting. Responding to the backlash. Brent musburgers bosses apologizing for his on air comments about the football stars beauty queen girlfriend. Balloon ride from hell. A camera is rolling as a Wedding Partys sky high tour takes a terrifying turn. They crashed. On their wedding day. Good morning, welcome to early start. Happy to have you with us. It is january 9th, 5 00 a. M. In the east. And at the white house today, the National Rifle Association Face to face on guns and gun control. Actually thats tomorrow. Nra confirming it will meet with Vice President and its gun Violence Project tomorrow. But they dont sound excited about it. Putting out a statement that reads were sending a rep to hear what they have to say. Listen to the response from the president s spokesman. We look forward to hearing from a variety of organizations and c
Im Brooke Baldwin at the cnn headquarters in atlanta. Check out my blog for all of the latest interviews. Now we send you to washington. Cnns the situation room with wolf start right now. Brooke, thanks. President obama as the president s inner circle. Also, the fierce spread of the flu across the United States and now a shortage of a critical medicine used to treat it. Plus, prominent voices lending support to an unlikely idea of a trillion dollar coin. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Judgment, integrity, and friendship all cited by president obama as he nominated his chief of staff, jack lew, to be the next treasury secretary but the announcement is drawing attention to the makeup of the president s secondterm cabinet. Its on track to be dominated by men. Our White House Correspondent Brianna Keilar is joining us from the white house. What is the white house saying about all of this . Reporter wolf, the white house has been asked about this quite a bit. White House Pres
Juxtaposition to my grandmother who was a big character in the story it was very and xenophobic so how she shaped my life as well and part of the reason i became an engineer was because of that and in pursuit of a career in the arts early on. In this book you sort of see you are reading i would hope you are reading with the context of this little kid who i am showing you eventually grows up and has this amazing moment in history. Wide view open the story with a wave of . Host in some ways she is the cause of a lot of trauma and she was very verbally abusive and very homophobic as i said and xenophobic. But on the flip side of that ironically in some way she made me a writer because she made me were withdrawn and maybe an observer of the world versus a participant. Also that led me to become, to learn how to read people. I had to know how to read people to know how to respond and not get called a you know what by her by others. All that power of observation and reading in between the li
Subject. And you are obligated to respect that and cover it, write about it in all fairness to your reader. The cast of characters is already ordained. With this book, i can cast the book myself. I would take the people that i wanted to write about. Probably 12 major characters in this book, probably 20 some people overall who are americans but thats a fraction of the number that went to paris during the 70 year. Not that i am covering. So when organizing the book, organizing my approach to the subject i was in many ways like a casting director. They would come in, show me what they could do, tell me their story and i would say dont call me, i will call you. In effect. So, i am picking the people that i want to keep company with for four years and i didnt pick any one but i wasnt interested in or that i would be an interested and so there were none of them that i wanted to talk to. Cspan of the characters in the book which one has the most to see in the United States, in other words a
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