Give you guys a lecture. Ill leave you in the capable happened of our in the hands of our capable author instead. In his new book, americana, we go through a 400yearlong journey of capitalism highlighting some of our industries most important inventions from. The arrival of the mayflower to the inner workings of the mafia, he presents an exhilarating and eyeopening perspective of an American History of capitalism that im sure hes very excited to share with you all today. Mr. Srinavasan is an accomplished entrepreneur spanning pop culture, social media, and content. As a child he lived in the south, the rust belt, Southern California and the pacific northwest. His book is available for sale in the bookstore, and hell be up here afterwards for a book signing so, please, help me welcome mr. Srinavasan, everyone. [applause] thanks, everyone, for having me, and this is only my secondever book event, so i am very glad that you guys took a big chance on coming out and hopefully, based on how
Yearlong journey through American History of capitalism highlighting some of our industrys most important inventions from the arrival of the mayflower come in the inner of the mafia, and as a child he was in the rustbelt, Southern California. His book is available for sale in the bookstore and he will be up here afterwards for a book signing please welcome bhu srinivasan, everybody. [applause] thanks everyone for having me and this is only my second everbook event. So im glad you guys took a big chance on coming out and hopefully based on how this goes, i will get to do other events or never again. Hope you guys are a good audience. As rachel pointed out, i came to this country at the age of eight. My mother a ba in physics and she had gotten a role at Roswell Park Memorial Institute which is a Cancer Institute in buffalonew york. She had gotten a doctorate position and she was going to make the sum of 14,000 which meant in india that we were going to be very, very rich when we arrived
Chairman grassley welcome, everybody, to a very important hearing that we have. Thank you for being patient while we get started here. Ill have an opening statement. Senator feinstein will. And then well godirble introduce our first panel. Then when were done there go to the second panel and introduce that at that time. The Senate Judiciary committee today is holding a hearing that we entitled responses to the increase in religious hate crimes. This is a subject of great bipartisan interest in the committee. Religious hate crimes harm victims. And also have a great impact on communities. Many of these crimes would never have been committed but for hatred. They run counter to americas values such as religious freedom and tolerance. Americans have the right to be safe against those who would treat them as members of religious groups rather than as individuals. Religious hate crimes are on the rise. Crimes against jewish people are the most common religious hate crimes, and they have incr
Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff our lead story is just breaking now President Trump fired james comey as director of the f. B. I. Press Secretary Sean Spicer just made the announcement moments ago. Here to tell us what we know at this moment, our own john yang. John, this looks like a bolt out of the blue. What have you learned . Jonathan it was absolutely out of the blue. It was after the White House Press was told there would be no more news developments for the night. Sean spicer walked into the Briefing Room with a very brief statement saying that President Trump had fired james comey on the recommendation of the attorney general Jeff Sessions and the Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein. Were slow
Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff our lead story is just breaking now President Trump fired james comey as director of the f. B. I. Press Secretary Sean Spicer just made the announcement moments ago. Here to tell us what we know at this moment, our own john yang. John, this looks like a bolt out of the blue. What have you learned . Jonathan it was absolutely out of the blue. It was after the White House Press was told there would be no more news developments for the night. Sean spicer walked into the Briefing Room with a very brief statement saying that President Trump had fired james comey on the recommendation of the attorney general Jeff Sessions and the Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein. Were slow