[ ] drumming [ ] drumming thank you, everyone for coming out to city hall tonight. Lets give another round of applause for the lion dance performance sponsored x the chinese consolidated association and thank you for all the Family Association representatives for being here tonight. Thank you very much. [ applause ] speaking mandarin good evening. Lane. First let me introduce myself tonight. Im so honoured to be the miss stress of ceremony nor this celebration tonight and this is the official Lunar New Year celebration hosted by march y mark officer real. And together with have visser president brenda lee and fehr and supervisor james kim and supervisor cawty tim and norman yee and recorder carmen schue. speaking mandarin first i would like to introduce our dignitary tonight. We also have the consular general of canada. Ying chan. And California State Assembly man david schue. I think theyre not here yet so maybe first maybe let me talk a little bit about the year of the dog first. So
Guests. [applause] Nonfiction Author or what you would like to see featured on booktv . Send us an email at booktv cspan. Org. Tweet us at booktv or post on our wall facebook. Com booktv. Robert doubek, cofounder of the Vietnam Memorial fund provides an inside account of the creation of the Vietnam Veterans memorial which was completed in 1982 after a much debated Design Competition. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, thank you for coming out this afternoon. I am one of the coowners of politics and prose. I wasnt expecting that. I did not arrange that. Kerri kind. My husband and co owner is not here, he wishes he could be. The rest of the staff we are delighted to have you here for this event and for such a fascinating book and topic. I want to make a couple quick housekeeping announcements, the first of which is if you happen to have a device of any sort that might make noise in the next hour we would be grateful if you could turn it off or silence it or get it to a point where
Development and the Trump Administration. Are tax cuts,d budget reform, and how reforms might be affected by voters. It is one of the most polarizing issues in washington and one of the most difficult, and that is tax reform. As we heard in the last panel, it has been over three decades since we didnt copperheads of reform since then comprehensive tax reform. Unfortunately, as a essult, the United States tax have become less competitive. At ced, we came out with a bipartisan blueprints which you should have in front of you somewhere. The recommendation featured in the report level the Playing Field in making American Companies more competitive while not adding more to the debt. What we said in the report is that if you a limited if you things we have an expert panel and we to have jean as the moderator. Andcovers taxes, spending, other issues. Scott wheeler who is the chairman of signal hill. Pat mckay was a partner with appleton and company. We also have the cfo of many Public Compani
Policy conditions. We have some bad hombres here, and were going to get them out. I strongly support row v wade. And fitness for commander in chief. She should never have been allowed to run for the presidency. Quite a debate tonight. At this hour, the big post debate talking point is trumps refusal to say he would accept the results of the election. We begin this coverage with ross polumbo. Reporter both sides of course are claiming victory on the. But critics are saying the precise moment that donald trump lost this debate was the moment that he refused to say that he would accept any possible election outcome. We covered a lot of ground before we got to that point. Some of that ground weve seen before. In a city world famous for prize fights, it was round 3. The first topic is the supreme court. Reporter neither candidate came out swinging. The supreme court, its what its all about. Reporter at first, donald trump was soft spoken, even sleepy. I strongly support row v wade. Reporter
Your babies. Im holding back my tears right now. My grandson would have been 4 in two weeks. Reporter instead of celebrating his birthday, theyre now planning his funeral. They share these facebook photos with us. They say their daughter, crystal, left their sunnyvale home to drive back to her san ramon house. Her three kids were in the car. Ran out of gas. Pulled all the way over to the right side of the shoulder of the road, all the way against the wall there. Reporter the chp says thats when the 39yearold slammed into the parked car. Officers arrested her for driving under the influence and gross vehicular manslaughter. Shes the wife of an alameda sheriffs deputy. Are you an sheriffs deputy. Yes. I see. Is she your wife . Yes. You dont have any thoughts for the family . Theyre going through a pretty difficult time. No, i dont want to make any comments. To the deputy, i know you cant say much. You dont have any words for me. But my heart goes out to you and your family as well. One d