Welcome to politics and prose. Im brad graham, a coowner of a bookstore along with my wife Lissa Muscatine and were very pleased to be hosting professor, author and journalist Samuel Friedman this evening. Hes here to discuss new book into the bright sunshine Young Hubert Humphrey and the fight for civil rights. Now sams journalism professor at Columbia University and formerly reported and wrote columns for New York Times as a reporter in the 1980s, he worked in the culture of the times. Then in the mid 2000 wrote the papers on education column. And then for ten years he was responsible for. The on religion column. Hes also written nine previous books on a wide range of topics from high school to american jewry to college football, to his mothers own story. In his new book, sam delves into the early life of humphrey, who spent three years in the us senate representing minnesota and four years as Lyndon Johnsons Vice President , but is largely remembered for losing to Richard Nixon the
Rain well offshore. We have several hours until the rain moves in. As we look at the time line, there is a possibility well have light rain in the santa cruz mountains. The push of heavier rain, potentially thunderstorms moving in this afternoon. Look at the time line there, at about 2 00 this afternoon. Ill be talking more about when this becomes more widespread in a few minutes. We are out there on the roads with an early look at traffic. We have off to a good start this wednesday morning. It is all green. No major slowing or accidents to report at this time. Chp hasnt reported anything major. If we look at the bay bridge, we can see it is looking beautiful, but, if you notice the cars out there, well, we are starting to see slowing. I havent seen them turn on metering lights, its early for that. Im going investigate what that is all about. They might have one of the metering lights on to slow down traffic a bit. Ill give you an update on that in a bit. Back to you. Thank you. Now, a
Coach, advanced autoparts and even home depot is on the red and thats dragging the dow down well tell you whats behind these big moves. Four people have left President Trumps Manufacturing Council in the wake of trumps reaction to the deadly violence in charlottesville this weekend. Is it a sign President Trump is losing support from the Business Community in general. And after the bell our friend Mohamed Elerian talks about whether geopolitical tensions and north korea could still be a risk factor. Always look forward to talking to mohammed. Lets take a look at the ugly day for retail Courtney Reagan has all the numbers the numbers, the big numbers, the High Altitude numbers were good, but the stocks are just getting slammed today, courtney. Reporter and i think thats the point, bill. If you look at the stock movement, you may not realized there was actually good in todays retail report, though it wasnt really the case for dicks Sporting Goods. Shares here hitting sevenyear lows after
Nays are 42. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the nomination. The clerk George Jarrod hayesle of maryland to be United States district judge. The presiding officer the senator from vermont. Mr. Leahy i ask unanimous consent to yield back the time before the vote. The presiding officer without objection, all time is yielded back. The senate will tom company order. Come to order. The senate will come to order. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion works we hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the nomination of nancy l. Moritz of kansas to be United States circuit judge for the tenth circuit signed by 17 senators. The presiding officer by unanimous consent the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of nancy l. Moritz of kansas to be the United States circuit judge for the tenth circuit shall be brought to a close. On this vote the yeas and nays are man
A report on military Sexual Assault. Senators john mccain and as a grim talk about the obama administrations response to the benghazi this libyan attacks and later the house hearing on the humanitarian crisis in the Central African republic. On the next washington journal the head of the center for politics of the university of virginia talks about political tv ads. He wrote a recent article in political about the more than two and a half billion dollars expected to be spent on ads this year. We will talk about the effectiveness of sanctions as a Foreign Policy tool. So jennifer de pauley with Civic Enterprises take your questions about u. S. Highschool regelation rates. Washington journal is live on cspan every day at 7 00 a. M. Eastern peaking join the conversation at facebook and twitter. Almost 5,000 students and did this years cspan student can video competition on the most important Issue Congress should consider in 2014. We talked to the top five winners about the documentarys.