Policy put in place 30 or 40 years ago are having an adverse effect today. You will hear from him next on book tv. [cheering and applause] thank you. Thank you everybody for coming out. Want to think politics and prose and busboys poets for hosting this event. Obviously there are too many people here who i love and have known for a long time to shout out everybody individually but i do want to shout out a couple of families and i want to shut out my pbs family. [applause] thank you. You taught me how to be a lawyer and i want to shout out to my maia angela family, you all taught me how to fight for children. And i want to give a shout to my sick family. [cheering and applause] i am wearing my button tonight and i am right now thinking of you all and im thinking of my dad and i know that he is here with us so i want to Start Talking about why i wrote this book. The first reason for writing this book is that i dont know if you all are like this or have friends like this but im the kind o
Times know about the drones, i guess. [laughter] i think we can say that. No, i think, i think journalists have done their work in developing a lot of information about what our National Security apparatus thinks, how its motivated and how its acting. I think thats true. But what we, but we have not had a fundamental policy discussion in the country that we need to have. And i think and i think we can define that along many different lines. But for me the key issue is, um, if we look at whats going on in pakistan, for instance, you know, we have the cia engaged on a traditional, in a traditional theater of war in what historically have been viewed as military tactics over a sustained period of many years involving hundreds of strikes with clear military objectives. And is that a correct use of an Intelligence Service . I think thats a very fundamental question, and weve got the same issue with respect to yeaman, i think yemen, i think, potentially other places. So this is the cia growi
Timothy thyssen, also known as, tim tyson, tim is the Senior Research scholar at the center for documentary studies at duke, visiting professor of american christianity in southern culture at the Duke Divinity School and an adjunct professor of american studies at unc chapel hill. So you can tell it is a very inclusive guy. He has an appointment at duke and you and see. Were not, talk basketball tonight. He is the author of which is a finalist for the National Book award. In a book called radio free dick see. Tim also serves on the executive board of the North Carolina naacp. Tim can tell you more about this book than i can. I just want to say that he does a marvelous job of putting emmett tills murder and lynching into a context of American History. His earlier books and is about a similar incident that happened 15 years later North Carolina law 25 miles from here. I learned a few years ago about another similar incident that happened three blocks from here. At the intersection of clu
Leadership. And white house counsel. I have tremendous advantages quite frankly. Of course youre gonna meet new people and people that dont know you because theres a hundred 5,000 people at the department and they all want to look at the boss. If the project a level of confidence and also from my perspective i spent as much time as i could. Going to the various agencies and their floors and stopping by shaking peoples hands and getting to know the employees at the department of justice. I would say that question is a little bit unfair to me. B final comments . Because my wife is here i want to say and i talk about this in the book and i think it will be reflected in the book. That is the importance of family and support. I could not had done what i did without the support of my family. I talk about the difficult times that we went through in washington and how it affected my family and becky was always there for me. Im very grateful for the service that she provided. Grateful to George
You can join also on twitter and facebook. Com cspan. There is a conversation going on there as well. Looking athington the news, what do you have . Demconvf you go to ention. Com you can find the schedule. Democrats will gaveling tomorrow at 4 00 p. M. Eastern. The fame, according to the Washington Post is united together. It will feature First Lady Michelle Obama along with senator Bernie Sanders. Tuesdays theme is a lifetime fighting for children and families, it will be headlined by bill clinton and mothers of the movement referring to the black lives Matter Movement whose sons and daughters were killed by the police. Will start tim kaine, president obama, and Vice President biden. Is when the that democrats will hear from Hillary Clinton, the first female president ial nominee of a major party. She will be introduced by her daughter. Chelsea clinton will not be speaking at the democratic who will not be speaking at the Democratic National convention . Debbie Wasserman Schultz will