Are thrilled that all of you are here. You are in for a special treat tonight. Before i talk about the book there are some quick things first. First to thank our sponsors for tonight and for the forum series. The bank of america, and our media sponsors, the boston globe, x kennedy, and be you are. Bur. Inity and in addition to tonight in your chair is a brochure of different activities. As you know one week from today the actual birthday for jfk we will be having a variety of things happening. We hope become of them as your schedule permits. We also want to welcome those who are watching this streaming or those on cspan. We appreciate their partcipation as well. After the presentation tonight our authors will have a meet and greek to sign books. This is a treasure. This book is really a treasure. I know a little bit about this topic. Whenever this have learned so much about how these two skilled writers put together their deep research and told a fascinating story of the road to camelo
It seems to me that all the evidence says he would do the second thing. Tim and i have argued on a lot of these issues. I am finding myself drawn into his perspective a bit. Attribute to your advocacy. I agree with the point that actually, surveillance law is developed more than other areas i mentioned. National security and counterterrorism law in checks and balances. And so, there is reason to think someone would blow the whistle if the Trump Administration tried to do something illegal and i fought hard for my 20 years in government, when i worked for National Security for increased information sharing, breaking down barriers within domestic agencies, and for the modernization of advisement so we could have a better approach to surveillance. But for my part, i would say as i fought for these changes, i did not bargain on a President Trump. That was beyond my ability to imagine as a leader of the country in thinking about how these policies would be implemented by the chief executive
Communicators, Carnegie Mellon university professor, the streaming,f the book sharing, stealing, discusses the impact of data on the book, movie, music, and television industries. He talked about how Companies Like netflix, amazon, and google accumulate large amounts of data on Consumer Preferences and use it to transform industries. Detailed user information and having the skills and putting to use the data, you would think that provides them an advantage. Watch the communicators tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan two. The new Congress Starts tuesday. Watch all of the openingday events and activities on cspan. We are live from the u. S. Capitol starting at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. You will meet you representatives in here from returning members. The house gavels in at noon. Openingday business includes the election of the house speaker, his address to the whole house, and later debate and a vote on rules for the new congress. One rule in part to cure is getting attention. A proposal to find
Welcome back to the campus of university of arizona and day two of the tucson festival of books. Booktv is life again today. This is the tv on cspan2 and we are going live to the first panel on politics. [inaudible conversations] welcome. Good to have you here. Welcome to the nice annual festival of books in tucson. Its under incredible experience for all of us in tucson to have this with such incredible speakers and authors coming in from all over the country. I will be your moderator this morning. [applause]. Think you. You are very kind. When i think cox cox mccue can indication for sponsoring this then you. Mr. Nichols is sponsored by cindy and neil raney. Can we have a quick round of applause parsed bonsers. [applause]. This will last an hour and immediately following the session the authors will go to the book signing tent. Mr. Nichols will be a bit delayed, so david will sign his books for you, if he would like. [applause]. Which will increase their value. Its the arizona bookst
Welcome back to the campus of university of arizona and day two of the tucson festival of books. Booktv is life aga we are in the gallagher theater and here is a quick look at the lineup in just a few minutes we will be discussing politics that followed by a callin program with venetians in his book is called People Get Ready. You will hear the authors talk about civil rights in the Supreme Court, freedom of the press, immigrants and education and epidemics. All sorts of callin programs today including one with maureen dowd of the New York Times. You can follow along with our programming and get behind the scenes pictures and videos on the site, facebook. Com booktv, insta graham booktv and twitter booktv. We are going live to the first author panel and this is on politics. I think i see many of the faces we have seen at similar panels in the previous years. Welcome to the ninth annual, can you believe the ninth annual festival ofestival of the books. It is incredible to have such spea