Presence and persistence and devotion to this very worthy and necessary and urgent, and i would say even medicinal, organization. At the beginning of this year, in january, United States lost one of its most innovative and exciting writers, baracka. Twice winner of the american book award, who is a strong supporter of the before Columbus Foundation. In fact, his last appearance here in San Francisco was at a fundraiser at yossis, not far from here to raise money for the before Columbus Foundation. So, in our embrace, of the arc and an panorama of american art and history i want to dedicate my portion of the program to the memory of a poet and writer, ameri baraka. We have quite a harvest this afternoon. And were honored by the presence of many of the most fertile writers. Who offer illumination and insight, and as i mentioned, a few moments ago, some very strong medicine, and some very ill times. So, before we get into that, id like to start with a gentleman, good friend, who cant be w
Go to booktv. Org. The before Columbus Foundation presents the winners of the american book awards in San Francisco, calif. I am the chairman of the board of directors and i want to thank our friends for their sponsorship for this afternoons awards and my colleagues on the board of directors for their presence and persistence and devotion to this very worthy and necessary and urgent and i would say even medicinal organization. At the beginning of this year january, the United States lost one of its most innovative and exciting writers, mary barracca twice winner of the american book award a strong supporter of the before Columbus Foundation. His last appearance in San Francisco was a fundraiser not far from here to raise money for the before Columbus Foundation. Still in our embrace of the panorama of American Literature and history of this afternoon unlike to dedicate my portion of the program to the memory of appellates and writer, amory bar barracca barracca. We have quite a harvest
Cashin in class in session starts right now. Hi everyone im eric bolling. Our cashin in crew, Wayne Rogers Jonathan row lick. Come and go as you please. You heard the white house saying their attitude toward americans hog overvaes to train with terrorists and allowed to come back. There are growing calls to revoked the citizenship much anyone who does this. Michelle, we saw it happen in france, why take a chance here. I have no idea. Look, if there is proof that someone has gone and joined isis, not only should we revoked their citizenship we should revoked their right to live. These are people who are going and joining an organization that wants to destroy our country and kill innocent americans. This is a serious issue as many as 40 people from minneapolis alone have gone to join isis. If you go and you join our enemy, well, youve basically renounced your citizenship. John you agree with this one . We also need to point out that the law says because isis or al qaeda is not a foreign
Cashin in class in session starts right now. Hi everyone im eric bolling. Our cashin in crew, Wayne Rogers Jonathan row lick. Come and go as you please. You heard the white house saying their attitude toward americans hog overvaes to train with terrorists and allowed to come back. There are growing calls to revoked the citizenship much anyone who does this. Michelle, we saw it happen in france, why take a chance here. I have no idea. Look, if there is proof that someone has gone and joined isis, not only should we revoked their citizenship we should revoked their right to live. These are people who are going and joining an organization that wants to destroy our country and kill innocent americans. This is a serious issue as many as 40 people from minneapolis alone have gone to join isis. If you go and you join our enemy, well, youve basically renounced your citizenship. John you agree with this one . We also need to point out that the law says because isis or al qaeda is not a foreign
Of where we are as a country, one think we can know he would be fascinated by the develops in transportation because he was an engineer to the end, and he did have this great feeling about the country being bound together by these different modes of transportation, whenever he took a train, he would clock and say, it could have been a half a day faster if it had been run more efficiently. So i think he would find that very interesting. But as for a political situation, im going to take a pass on the question. Its just too hard to make comparisons. The civil war is such a unique period in our history, and i think we can all agree that we hope that the matter has been forever settled and our country never has to undergo Something Like that ever again. Thank you. Thank you. [applause] this weekend, saturday morning, start agent 10 00 a. M. Eastern, live on cspan, our nations governors get together to discuss issues affecting their states. Guests include danny meier, ceo of union scare hos