Nonfiction authors. Panel featured discussion on civil rights, education policy, Mississippi State history and the 2016 president ial election. Notable authors include john meachum. And former Senate Majority leader trent discussing book on political polarization, crisis point. Go to booktv. Org for the complete weekend schedule. Our cspan campaign 2016 bus is in chicago this week at the National Conference of state legislatures asking what issue is more important to you, your district, and your state. Probably the most important thing issue is education by far. All of the things that were top of the bad list and bottom of the good list is all because of lack of education. Weve got some of the general population in louisiana, and we need to do a better job to starting probably childhood education and going forward. My name is ryan, im from u. S. Virgin islands and the most important issue in my district right now is having the United States giving the Virgin Islands allow to vote. Curr
This. Number two, it is also a message to the people of las vegas, the Voting Community there that theyre sure i couldnt say about bringing this team there. And what comes next is they have to approve through get the governors approval and the legislature in the state of nevada to approve this, then the taxpayers, of course, have to vote fort. So theres plenty of steps to go but theyre putting this thing on a fast track. And the reason for that is the nfl owners meet in january, and they would vote, conceivably to approve this. And they have to have, again, i repeat, 75 of the owners approval to do this unless, and i see you looking at me, ken, unless mark davis is prepared for a long legal fight, as his dad d. Well, his dad moved the team to l. A. And he didnt have the owners voting to do that, did he . Exactly right. But the point of the matter is, is he willing to do that . Al davis had to take on the entire nfl, spent a lot of money in court to fight that out andy did up and pull i
With the details. Reporter hi, melissa. Treasury is implementing imposed regulations on tax inversions, an issue weve heard a lot about, criticism from both Hillary Clinton and donald trump. Now treasury saying its taking new regulatory steps. Heres what treasury says is actually happening. They will try to limit inversions by disregarding foreign parent stock attributable to recent inversions or acquisitions of companies and they will try to address earnings stripping by targeting transactions that generate large interest deductions allowing the irs on audit to have debt instruments and debt equity and requiring certain implementations of debt instrumentation of what is debt and not deal in one of the tax inversion deals. Treasury has done this two times before and on a Conference Call with reporters that happened a few minutes ago they declined to say whether the two previous actions the treasury has taken actually had any effect in limiting the tax inversion transactions. Mel sla .
In honduras, and Bernie Sanders critique. Then to vulture funds in argentina. Ive never had anybody be angry. [indiscernible] amy journalist greg palast will join us to talk about how billion Republican Party donor paul singer has just made billions of dollars by profiting off argentinas economic crisis. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Japan is marking the fifth anniversary of the meltdown of the Fukushima Nuclear plant. On march 11, 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the northeast coast of japan, killing 20,0000 people. Another 160,000 then fled the radiation in fukushima. It was the worlds Worst Nuclear Disaster since chernobyl. At least 100,000 people from the region have yet to return to their homes. A full cleanup of the site is expected to take at least 40 years. A representative of the families of the victims spoke during fridays Memorial Ceremony in tokyo. For those who remain, we are
Amy what is your response to Linda Sarsour singh the head of the gop should be condemning what donald trump says about muslims . Understand the condemnation thing, technique, sometimes it is more effective than others. As an american muslim, i want effectiveness more than, frankly, making me feel comfortable. And right now if rains prebus was to condemn, condemn, condemn every silly statement that has come out of weather trump or other candidates over the past eight months, it would actually end up empowering those individuals in the party and weakening the more moderate and balanced more sophisticated nuance voices. Lindathe trum supporrs, i kn you hav expresd yourore afra of hisupporte than yo some of his statements, what is your sense of what is happening in terms of the ang and the fury he is unable to marshal at many of his rallies . Youre watching people cheer on an american fascist. He has asked people to pledge to him. We have seen this publicly. I dont think there are rallies,