Ferguson, former george w. Bush Administration Justice from an official john you and awardwinning author shall be steel it up first, here is a portion of a 2013 interview with George Scholz, secretary of state during the reagan administration. He talked about his book, issues on my mind. And issues on my mind you right when it comes to terrorism we in this country must think hard about the moral stakes involved if we truly believe in our Democratic Values and our way of life, we must be willing to defend them. Passive measures are unlikely to suffice and means a more active defense and deterrence must be considered and given the necessary political support. Well, you say if you have a Law Enforcement approach, you say, okay, let a terrorist act happen and then we find out who did it and then we try them in a u. S. Court and if we make them guilty with their endless appeals they go to jail. Well, what does that accomplish . A certain deterrent but in the meantime the terrorist act has t
Bestselling author James Patterson is our guest on book tv. Author of about 150 books or so. The most recent is a nonfiction. Yes. Welcome to my house. How many nonfiction have you written . I dont count so probably four or five. The first one was jeffrey epstein, filthy rich which is now, they just dropped the video today. It is for parts, i think the 25th of the month or Something Like that. Then it was Aaron Hernandez did that and then this one, john lennon coming out later which is interesting. This connected to a house john owned, a bridge between these two houses. Who used to live in your house . Nobody famous but it is a disgustingly big house. [laughter] they were here for a while and she held onto it for a while. Another in his florida fami family, why did you choose to write about kennedy . It seemed to me this was the Great American family story a royal family and what i wanted to do was write about the whole family. There were plenty of stories about jfk and robert, etc. Bu
Im here with others author of the American Gods country and for me in the heartland. On return to the bulk and marie in a moment. Just have a couple of announcements to make. My name is danny im the owner of the raymond bookstore in kansas from city right now. The director of the literary festival. We appreciate you being here. With us, trend 12 the author. It would perhaps be more fun if we were altogether this beautiful sunny day. But we appreciate regardless. And we plan to be back stronger than ever in 2021. We had a great series of Online Events are all archived and available for replay just like raven bookstore at the top of the page. To get to the list of archived events. In a couple of other things about how this is going to work. Marie is going to give a sort talk and show some photos about the book. Then well open it up to questions. You can ask a question by clicking the ask question buttoned at the bottom of your screen. We appreciate you asking questions to kind of keep th
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In washington, d. C. , earning her logic refrom the hastings law school, was the District Attorney in San Francisco and law on to earning her degree from hastings law school. She announced her candidacy for president back in january 2019 in oakland, california. She withdrew from the race in december of last year. Joining us from los angeles is an l. A. Times political reporter , and in philadelphia, covering politics for politico, holly otterbein. And i want to begin with you, holly otterbein. I wonder if you could walk us through the process of what led to her selection. Sure. A debaten during between biden and sanders. Biden broke the news that he was going to choose a woman as his Vice President ial nominee. That kind of kicked everything little while, a later, in april, he announced his Vice President ial search committee, which included four people, including former senator chris dodd, who has been a longtime friend and ally to biden. He took an important and powerful role in that