The president will tour a relief center, and meet with a texas congressional delegation. We will have more of president trumps visit to texas and louisiana, later today. Right now, we are going to take a look at the National Book festival, which is being rock cast live on cspan two, from the Washington Convention center. This is the 17th annual National Book festival. We are seeing an interview with the author of the book, hislbilly elegy, recalling life in a rustbelt town in ohio. To booktv. Org, for the full schedule. Eastern,unday at noon book tvs indepth. America is not defined by ethnicity. Every ethnicity exists in america. America is not defined by religion. Inry religion exists america. America is defined by an idea. And, in order to keep the republic as franklin and joined us to do, we must know those those we must understand ideas, we must buy into those ideas and we must leave them out. If you can keep it the forgotten promise of american liberty. Live, sunday at noon easter
Cspan was created as a Public Service and is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. We are on capitol hill, this is from the Consumer Technology association, where Tech Companies bring their concerns and technology to show members of congress. This week we will speak with members of congress and we will showcase some of the latest technology. Ceo of c. P. A. , what is important for bringing these companies to capitol hill . We have a couple dozen companies, and we want to give a sample of what we do every year in las vegas, which is about 4000 companies. What we want to show, we want them to see innovation happening in the u. S. ,ifechanging innovation whether it is health care, navigation, so many things. The decisions they make have real life consequences. Impressionyour early of the Trump Administration and the Tech Community . Whats the Trump Administration wants to help drive the stock is important. We are seeing positive action on nafta, rewriting it in a way which w
Something people are curious about. I get asked how my mom is doing, she is doing really well. Host not married but living in ohio. She has been clean for a long time and mom may not be ready to play this role so i wont foist it up on her, she is a really good example what can happen when even after 5 or 6 times you get knocked off the horse of addiction and back into relapse it is still possible to climb back out, find the right support and make another go about it. She is incredibly tenacious. [applause] host does she now have a Business Card that says j. D. Vances mother . Guest she does not. Host your biological father . Do you have contact with him . Guest i got a text message before i went up here. My dad and i are still close, he is doing pretty well, he is a great guy and he and are most often talk about his grandson and that is what hes most interested in and that is true of a lot of grandparents. Host you grew up with your sister. What is she doing now . Guest she has three k
[inaudible conversations]. That is autor j. D. Vance, hillbilly elegy. Bestseller the past year or so, talking about 25 minutes. The next author at National Book festival will beonal b New York Times columnist, tom friedman. Thank you for being late. That is his latest book. Were pleased to be joined here at the Washington Convention center, historian, David Mccullough. His most recent book american spirit, who we are, what we stand for. If you live in the east and central time zones an want to talk to mr. Mccullough, 2027482001. For those in the mountain and pacific time zones. Youre familiar with his work. Familiar with all his book. John adams, harry truman. Johnson flood. The wright brothers. That is couple of the books hes. Has written. American in paris. The greater journey is the name of that book. You know what you want to ask him. Were here to to facilitate that conversation. At jenette in sarasota, florida, youre on booktv with historian David Mccullough. Caller good morning,
And how theyre returning a sense of normalcy. He outlines the forms of system available. Heres a look. Tell us about femas mission here and how long you guys have been here since Hurricane Harvey. We got here in texas on the 27th. Came down to houston on the 28th. Some got here before me. A bulk of our team arrived after that. Our goal is to assist the state of texas as they recover from the effects of Hurricane Harvey. There are a lot of things that go into that. A lot goes into that. A lot of sheltering stuff. There are people that as we move them into the recovery phase, they start to look for short term and long term housing so collusions. We are here to support the state. This is actually a Disaster Recovery center. What we do here is help people register or fema assistance or come in and help answer some of the questions they may have. We understand at the end of the day it can be a very confusing process. Here is where we try to have that face to face interaction they may not be