Good evening. Im bradley graham, coowner of politics and prose, along with my wife. On behalf of the entire staff, welcome. A few quick administrative notes. Nobody could time to turn off your cell phones or anything that might go beep. Secondly, when we get to the q a part of the session, we would ask if you have a question that you make your way to that microphone that there because we are videotaping tonight, taking ourselves of our Youtube Channel and also cspan booktv easier. Lastly, at the end before you come up to get your book signed, please fold up the chairs that your city in and leaned them against something that looks like it wont topple over. We are very pleased to have Robert Grenier here with us this evening to talk like his new book, 88 days to kandahar. Bob spent 27 years with the cia, three of them as station chief in islamabad during what turned out to be a very critical time. Before and immediately after the 9 11 attacks. He was very much involved in the u. S. Effor
Weekend between Colin Mcgregor and Floyd Mayweather well talk about the big business of the big fight, massive fight. You are watching. Ill definitely be watching that i dont know about either sport. It will be a spectacle for sure. But you do it yourself or no . No. I wasnt clear here id probably ends up in the heavyweights category and i would be destroyed. I was beginning to see that im kidding. Yes, you would. No, i wouldnt. Joining our Closing Bell Exchange today to knock things around, we have chris constantino, jonathan le the futures turn over by nine point, whats going on there . No major headline thats out there. Sorry as soon as i asked you about that, we go to the white house. A lot of shared goals, thats what we are focused on we are disappointed that obamacare they failed to get it repealed and replaced, but at the same time President Trump has worked with leader mcconnell to reach out to other members and to work on those shared goals. We will continue to do that when th
History of the Confederate Flag and much more. For a complete Television Schedule visit booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. And now from the spy museum here in washington d. C. , bryan denson talks about Jim Nicholson, the highest ranking cia officer ever convicted of espionage. [inaudible conversations] and a hush fell over the audience. [laughter] its terrific. You guys are a great audience. I am peter earnest, the executive director and absolutely delighted to have you here this evening. Its always were always not sure what an author will draw, and clearly you have driven drawn a very good crowd. And i think youre in for the telling of a really very strange story, but a very well told story. I would ask you, please as a courtesy to the speaker if youd be kind enough to turn off your cell phones and other electronic data. Weve got both were both taping and cspan is as well. So that would they can occasionally interfere. So th
History of the Confederate Flag and much more. For a complete Television Schedule visit booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. And now from the spy museum here in washington d. C. , bryan denson talks about Jim Nicholson, the highest ranking cia officer ever convicted of espionage. [inaudible conversations] and a hush fell over the audience. [laughter] its terrific. You guys are a great audience. I am peter earnest, the executive director and absolutely delighted to have you here this evening. Its always were always not sure what an author will draw, and clearly you have driven drawn a very good crowd. And i think youre in for the telling of a really very strange story, but a very well told story. I would ask you, please as a courtesy to the speaker if youd be kind enough to turn off your cell phones and other electronic data. Weve got both were both taping and cspan is as well. So that would they can occasionally interfere. So th
In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Host it is november 4, 2013. Tom wheeler [captions copy right National Cable satellite corp. 2017] the term comes to an end on january 20. Wheeler, during your tenure what did you get right . I hope that what we did was, we said that our job is to be the publics representative. In a rapidly changing technological environment, which is affecting the way in which everybody deals with the networks that connect us. And at the heart of that was consumers and competition should come first. How did that manifest . You can look at a list of things you know, we can of course had the open internet order. Which says that the internet should be fast fair and open for everyone. We established privacy rules for networks, for consumers in so far as their relationship with the networks. That says its the consumers information. Its not the networks information, the consumer ought to be in con