the national live book festival starting 10 a.m. eastern saturday on c-span2 s book tv. maryland senior senator ben cardin held a town hall on health care. he also discussed medicaid and medicare. he was joined by the leader of johns hopkins university. short talk on republicans failed efforts to repeal the affordable care act and then took questions. [inditinct conversations] [indistinct conversations] [raps gavel] hoping to have a town hall meeting where we can have a discussion about health care. i want to welcome [applause] thanks. for all! let s have a discussion for all. good evening. welcome to everyone who came this evening. my name is tom lewis. i m the vice president for government and community affairs for johns hopkins. i want to welcome you to johns hopkins montgomery county campus. promised 11 years we have been offering postgraduate level courses here. i want to introduce our speaker. for 20 cardin served years in the maryland house of delegates, the
good morning. i m joe and i want to welcome everyone here in our conference room and everyone watching through electronic means to a conference today addressing the general and very specific question also of stabilizing the health insurance market under the affordable care act and in particular a proposal made by a group of eight governors. we will actually be following the panel. you may wonder why we have the governor speaking after us. the answer is travel considerations. fortunately although this panel is not obligated to confine their remarks to the governor s proposal the governors did put out a letter last week that is really quite easy to summarize. i ll summarize the major points so everyone has a basic grounding in what is governors are talking about and to some extend what the panel will be talk about as well. so they identify really three categories of actions that could be taken, immediate federal actions to stabilize the markets and then other types of reforms t
thanks for being with us. thanks. keep us in your thoughts and prayers. health care also the topic at ben cardin s town hall. he reveals efforts to repeal and replace the law and the future of health care. tonight we are hoping to have a town hall meeting where we can have a discussion about health care. i want to welcome just thank you to. free speech for all! let s just have a discussion for all. so good evening. welcome to everyone who came this evening. my name is tom lewis, i m the vice president for government and community affairs for johnson hospital kijohns hopkins and i want to welcome you to the montgomery county campus. i want to say a little bit about our speaker tonight before i introduce him. senator cardin served for 20 years in the maryland house of delega delegates. he was the youngest speaker ever elected to lead the maryland house of delegates. he also spent 20 years as a u.s. congressman from maryland and had a distinguished mark there. he was e
professor adam rothman talks about the jesuits, roman catholic religious order and their history during the 18th and 19th century as slave owners in maryland and the washington, d.c. area. he also looks at how georgetown founded by the jesuits benefitted from the slave economy. this 90-minute la tee sha woods brown memorial lek kmur is given annually to honor the pioneering african-american educator and historian and was part of a conference on washington, d.c. history. i d like to begin by thanking the historical society of washington, d.c. for the opportunity to deliver this year s latisha woods brown lecture. professor brown was a champion of the african-american history of washington, d.c. and it s a real thrill for me to be able to honor her work and life in this forum. it was really just touching and moving to hear your recollections of your grandmother. and i can t tell you how happy it makes me to hear from you that she would approve of and appreciate the work that
this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: an act of terror in the heart of paris has shaken the city of light. tonight, the famous champs-elysees is locked down after a french police officer was shot dead and two others were wounded. police shot and killed the attacker. this happened three days before the french begin electing a new president. at least one candidate has called for the campaign to be suspended. elizabeth palmer is in paris. reporter: minutes after the shooting, police rushed to secure central paris, clearing panicked bystanders away to safety. in this video from social media, a not-yet-confirmed, you can see two armed men, possibly police, moving near a vehicle. french officials say a man armed with a kalashnikov opened fire on police officers. one of them was killed and two more were injured, and the attacker himself was shot dead. a tourist here in paris saw it all. the guy, he was shooting to police. he tried to shoot, and then suddenl