Now on naturalized u. S. Citizen, mr. Winchester was born in and first visited america in the 1960s. Recorded at the Boswell Book Company in he discusses the process of writing the book and his love for the country. Well, thank you very much indeed. First of all, to sort of its slightly weird to be writing a book called the united the states when it was disunited for a long, long time. People turn off their cell phones. I cant, ill play you a short the end. Usic at i hope no one telephones me. R ill feel like rudolph giuliani. Im addressing a huge political now. Ign right hope that doesnt happen. What were trying to do is tell this book kground of which is a big sort of plum pudding of an affair. How it all came into being, sort of pluck one or wo of the plums from the pudding and try to illustrate what the book is all about. But first, the background. Come into being. Its quite a complex story. Able to tell,t be am english. Ut i fell in love with this country quite literally when i 19
There are all kinds of permutations on what could happen, but in a sense, mcallister is running for reelection, when you look at his indiscretions and compare them to some others in congress to some have survived, you cant count him out. He is running against not only several republicans, of the democratic mayor. If he is the only real credible democrat in the race gets 25 of the vote it could be enough to make it into a runoff against barbara mcallister. Thedentally, duct i missed liu ck sty duck dynasty , one of the relatives to a person on that show is running as the moral alternative. Host heres the latest advertisement in that race. [video clip] Vance Mcallisters personal issues are wellknown. What is less known is how liberal he has been in washington. He voted for about for government that raise taxes and increased spending. These as they are passed repealing obamacare. The more you know, the worse it gets. Another example of outside money in the election. In this case that obam
Pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida, ms. Roslehtinen, for five minutes. Ms. Roslehtinen thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to strongly oppose the december 17 announcement by president obama on policy changes toward the cuban communist regime. The cuban regime from day one was planning on using alan gross as a pawn to receive concessions from the Obama Administration and their strategy worked. In april, 2013 when asked about a possible swap for mr. Gross secretary kerry testified before congress that, quote, we have refused to do that because the
Demonstrators are also still active right now in chicago. Theyre blocking traffic along lake shore drive in downtown. Nbc spoke to a local Group Planning more protests. This is not something demonstrators think will be an easy fix. Reporter certainly not and several of those demonstrators told me tonight that protesting is an important tool. But what was really striking was the contrast. As other cities marched the streets again tonight, this philly group was on streets this afternoon the chant of this groups out rage follow add moment of symbolic silence. I cant will organized something far definite. More than a hundred people gathered in this north philly church strategized over how to turn their anger into lasting referral. Theres been an unprecedented level of different organizations coming together to wok on these issues. This man wants to involve labor unions in the fight against system wide racism. Others see strg strength in growing numbers. This focused meeting because strikin
Still, a lot of activity here. A number of these triage stations set up around me in the blocks around here and theres Fire Equipment down here at water street just ahead of us here a couple of blocks. What we dont know so far is the origin of all of this and what started it. But again, a number of fire and e. M. S. Folks here paramedics mass casualty buses here. So take the folks on to the hospital. We talked to some of them who have gone to the hospital. Difficulty breathing again and the nausea. And again the soot around their faces where they had been breathing in this thick dark smoke from whatever that incident was that started in the metro tunnel. Again, a number of triage stations here and we dont know a total number of folks treated but a significant amount we should say. Ok. Roz, thank you so much. And as she mentioned, folks with the soot on their faces, Horace Holmes just a short time ago talked with some people who had been through just that and what a remarkable story you