Shannon from Wisconsin Public radio. Thank you so much for being here as well and moderating this conversation today. As always i want to thank the library and the Public Library foundation for the ongoing support of free cultural events through the wisconsin book festival. It is one of the great pleasures of this year for me that we are able to do these events virtually and ring is altogether even if we cant be all together. But we also have been expanded. There are many people from madison, many people from wisconsin with people from across the nation and across the globe so that is one small wonderful thing that has occurred because of the pandemic. We are grateful for it with with you today. Most notable are grateful Jennifer Palmieri is here to talk about her book, and i will turn the proceedings over to jennifer and shannon and and il sue at the end. Thank you so much. Thanks, tremor. This is so much fun. Thanks jennifer for joining us today. It is fun to be able to be in these d
walensky will join me. our conversation on the brand-new covid boosters. the potential for a once a year covid shot and the pandemic that s still killing nearly 500 americans every day. but first, it s decision time for the justice department. faced with the hugely consequential choice of whether to appeal a florida judge s decision to appoint a special master in the case of those classified documents seized from mar-a-lago. that ruling is now the subject of a ton of push back, even from conservatives including former attorney general bill barr. the opinion i think was wrong and i think the government should appeal it. it s deeply flawed in a number of ways. i don t think the appointment of a special master is going to hold up but even if it does, i don t see it fundamentally changing the trajectory. when you think the stakes can t be any higher, the washington post is revealing one of the documents taken last month revealed details about another country s nuclear cap
Defeat secretary clinton. Bernie sanders vows to fight on. Keeping up the pressure on Hillary Clinton in a nailbiter in kentucky. Have you made any mistakes in th campaign . To look back and say, gee whiz, i wish i didnt do this or that, i dont think thats healthy. Called them crazy, crooked. Used the word bimbo. As a feminist, its important to be treated equally. Flooding on the atlantic coast. Winds powerful enough to damage buildings. Got louder and louder. Me and my dog jumped in the bathtub. The su. S. Eenat coninfirmg a new secretary of the army, eric fanning is now the First Openly Gay Army secretary. Tsa extended help to chicagos Ohare Airport to cut security wait time. You fear youre not going to make your flight. Tens of thousands of new york commuter were stranded after a fire broke out below the Metro North Railroad track. A rescue of a man trapped in a i thought i was literally going to die. All that lara . Kobe yes. And you dont have to raise your hand every time. [ laugh
Neutrality issue, something that the ftc had been involved in. How has your work changed, how pressure goal changed since the fcc decided on Net Neutrality . I can tell youre a too obvious if you say the Net Neutrality just been semisettled because and theres still more to go in that story. But the issue isnt, she mentioned this, the common carrier exemption. So now that the fcc has reclassified Broadband Internet service as a title ii Service Companies common carrier service. So it creates a hurdle for the ftc to bring some of our traditional Consumer Protection enforcement in this space. A hurdle toward antitrust authority that doesnt run into the problem. So i am personally very concerned that we may not be able to continue to protect consumers as well online because of the reclassification. Commissioner mcsweeny come to you should and shouldnt . I. T. This is an era of long term bipartisan agreement at the ftc. We really give you the commentary exemption as an anachronism. When it
Ever and every year it gets better and better. So were very happy that we made that choice. For more information on book to tvs visit to and a halfston, texas, and the many other cities visited by our local content vehicles go to cspan2. Org local content. Now more nonfiction authors and books on booktv. Steven brill, the founder of court tv, discusses the creation passage, and effectiveness of the Affordable Care act with dr. Ezekiel emanuel. [inaudible conversations] coopener of politics and prose, along with my wife. On behalf of the entire staff thank you for coming out this evening. We at politics and prose and George Washington university the first time i made that slip georgetown but anyway we and gw have worked together a number of years to put on author events together. And id like to thank the gw staff who helped make tonights event possible. I also want to thank all of you for supporting such talks. Like many other independent book stores p p is facing a challenging marketpl