Every weekend, book tv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on cspan 2. Keep watching for more television for serious readers. And everybody got quiet right on cue. Thats never happened before. Im bradley graham, a coowner of politics and pros along with my wife, and on behalf of the entire staff at p and p and everybody at busboys, welcome, thank you so much for coming. Were very fortunate this evening to have with us eric liu to talk about his new book youre more powerful than you think a citizens guide to making change happen. What a timely work. In the wake of last novembers election, my staff and i at the bookstore have been approached many times by customers concerned about the course that events have taken and wanting to know what they can read to help them decide, how to get more involved in civic life and effect change. Well, erics book is now a good place to start. He began writing it before donald trump launched his bid for the presidency, but trumps election
At the tmp and everybody here at busboys, welcome. Thank you for coming. We are very fortunate this evening to have with us eric lou to talk about his new book youre more powerful than you think. A citizens guide to making change happen. What a timely work. In the wake of last novembers election, my staff and i the bookstore have been approached many times by customers concerned about the course of events have taken and wanting to know what they can read to help them decide how to get more involved in civic life and effect change. Well, erics book is now a good place to start. He began writing it before donald trump launched his bid for the presidency trumps the election is one manifestation of a mounting turbulence in us political and civic life that weve all been seeing for some years now. Into a book about civic power, what is, how to practice it, and why anyone would actually want it. As as a writer, educator and cic entrepreneur, eric has been thinking about Democratic Values in t
I didnt think about it with the tie. Do you have an orange tie . I do own an orange tie. But you never wear it. I never wear it. Are those pumpkins from last year . No. Those are not. Okay. Can you imagine we had things made exactly like us. I have pictures of those. Those arent actually us, are they, andrew . Remember in the past our face has been on them. Our face has been on them. But not these. I apologize, we are going to talk about the markets. We have breaking news the tell you about, we talked about it a little on friday, but now its official. General electric and baker hughes are merging their operations. Now there was a lot of conversation about whether ge was effectively going to be selling its business. We talked about whether this was all happening at the wrong time. This is now what is happening. They are merging the oil and gas operations into a new company that both companies will effectively own. They are looking to get 1. 6 billion in synergies annually out of this tr
Just to be clear, satellite imagery from china now, has captured picture of what could be debris off the coast of australia. This is in addition to the two pictures taken about a week ago now that australia has been looking into to get a visual confirmation of. China is sending ships to try to locate this piece of possible debris to determine if it is wreckage from the plane. Its about 75 miles from the two other objects, possible floating objects spotted by the commercial satellite one week ago. The search for all three of them could be complicated by bad weather. Conditions earlier today were good enough. Crews managed to see several small items in the ocean, including a wooden palette. None of the items got investigators excited. They do not think they are substantial leads. Family members of those on board flight 370 have been on an emotional roller coaster ride. Every new satellite image we are seeing. Many families increasingly frustrated by the way the government is handling the