Ack. The theme of this years festival is whats your story. We encourage you to share your stories on twitter, instagram or facebook using prl f16. You can keep the spirit of it going by downloading the app where you will find all of the chicago tribunes premium book content free an ebook for subscribers and complete schedule. Download today to get a free ebook and 5 off. Todays program will be broadcast live on book tv. If theres time on the end we will ask you to use the microphone located to the right so that the home viewing audience can hear your question. Before we begin the program we ask that you silence yourself phone and turn off your cameras flash. Please welcome associate professor at the university of chicago and todays interviewer, jane daily. Thank you. I am here with david daily, no relation was the editor in chief and has published a new book, theres been some controversy on how to say the title but i think im going to say just ratfed. The true story behind a secret pla
As some of you heard me say, some guest my have to depart earlier. Chairman walden is here, and rob simms. This is chairman waldens fourth visit and thank you for coming back and bringing mr. Simms with you. I will talk about representative waldens family coming by wagon train in 1845 in order to get as many questions. That is it for the biographical portion and now to the ground rules. We are on the record, no live bloging, tweeting, no filing of any kind while the breck breakfast is underway to give us time to listen to the guest. It is likely we will beending well before the 9 30 usual stop time. To help you resist the selfie urge we will email pictures to the reporters after the breakfast. If you would like to ask a question do the traditional thing and send a subtle, nonthreatening signal and i will call on one and all in the time we have available. We will start with letting the guests make opening comments and set the stage and go to questions after that. Thank you for coming. A
In federal change was a violation of the law and the Supreme Court didnt agree with that. But we are larrying it over and over again. It turns out it was a good program, i can personally testify to that, when it was implemented there were delays because it is very complicated in implementing these complicated laws. They said it was quote wise unquote to do this. I think these charges of overreach reflect the reflection of this administration demonizing the act. It is reason to believe the executive branch acted appropriately in executing the law. My republican colleagues have been examining this for two years. Todays hearing is the filing of a lawsuit questioning the constituti constituti constitution constitutionality of the program. It follows interviews with 13 current and government officials from four federal agencies. My question is congress has a wealth of tools. Have they used their legislative authority to review this. I think the fact that Congress Republicans have taken no s
Nightclub, that killed 49 people, House Democrats are calling for a vote on the bill that would bar individuals on the nofly list from buying firearms. Democratic leaders discussed the measure in a news briefing at the capitol. This is 20 minutes. Rep. Becerra good morning. Xavier becerra, chairman of the House Democratic caucus, joined by our democratic leadership including congressman steve israel, chair of our communications and policy committee. We just had another discussion in caucus about doing something, taking action as a result of this weekends mass killings, the atrocities that occurred in orlando, florida. To all those who are thinking about the victims and their families, we say, standwithorlando and in spanish, hash tag. [speaking spanish] i just have to note that for the Latino Community, this has hit especially hard because when you see the names, theyre human beings but i dont believe in the Latino Community people would have expected that so many of the names would ha
When you view documents that have been cleaned out, purged out of the training material for the f. B. I. For the state department for the f. B. I. , for the state department, for the defense department, for intelligence, for department of defense, its no wonder f. B. I. Agents cannot discern that tsarnaev had been radicalized even though russia told us twice and still this administration could they had so miseducated d underelingted our and undereducated our agents, they didnt know what to ask. How do you establish somebody had been radicalized. My tear friend, philip haney, one of the original members of Homeland Security, probably was a record the number of people that he put together the information to show their terrorist ties he got a commendation for it. But when he started showing there were ties to people with this administration were having with no with known terrorist they deleted thousands of pages of entries of what he has done. When he filed an i. G. Report, they came afte