And now we kick off weekend with Craig Shirley recounting president reagans political life from 19761980. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon and welcome to the gaithersburg book festival. Im a resident of gaithersburg and a member of the Democratic Central Committee representing district 17 which encompasses the beautiful city of gaithers burg, so welcome. Gaiters thug proudly supports the airports and humanities. We are pleased to bring you this event thanks in part to the generous support of our sponsors and volunteers. So when you see them around and theyre Walking Around here, please, take time to say thanks. Appreciate that. Like to get right to this event here, but first a few announcements. Please, silence all your devices. Ill wait. [laughter] ill wait, go ahead. Silence all devices. Thank you. And if youre on social media today, and we hope that you are, please use the hashtag gbf be, gaithersburg book festival. Your feedback is really valuable to us, so there will be su
Pleased to bring you this event. When you see our volunteers, please take time to say thanks. Like to get right to this event here but first. Please silence all your devices. ll wait. Ill wait. Go ahead. Silence all devices. Thank you. And if youre on social media today, and we hope you are, please use the hash tag gbf, gathersburg book festival. Your feedback is valuable to us, so there will be surveys available here at our tent and on our web site. By submitting a survey youll be entered interest a drawing to win a 100 visa gift card. So i encourage each onor thank you to enter the survey. At the end of this presentation, mr. Shirley will be signing books and copies are on sale in this tent and around the grounds here. So take advantage of having the awe authorized such as mr. Shirley here. A quick word about buying books. This is a free event but it does i emphasize does help the book festival if you buy a book. The more books we sell the more publishers will want to sipped the auth
Cancer. The president swinging against his own attorney general Jeff Sessions. Donald trump stopping just short of saying Jeff Sessions ought to be fired. I am disappointed in the attorney general. He should not have recused himself. Almost immediately after he took office. If he was going to recuse himself he should have told me prior to taking office and i would have quite simply picked somebody else. I think thats a bad thing not for the president , but for the presidency. Trish his frustration bubbling up amid the growing russia controversy as his soninlaw began a second dave testimony before congress. Why isnt Jeff Sessions looking into Hillary Clinton and why did he recuse himself from this investigation. Tammy, what do you think about what the president is doing and what the president is saying about Jeff Sessions . Tammy im a big fan of Jeff Sessions. I think hes fabulous. He was great in the senate. He was the first nor to support the president. At the same time im not going t
19 year we have not had snow. Since 17 years, we have had a trace so 26 of all octobers have a trace or no snow at all so this is not really all that unusual. One out of four years we do that and we will not have snow this month. Low 70s during the day with sunshine and also as far as warmth goes, were right now in the tie for fourth place with 1947 for the warmest october so pretty toasty from time to time. It has. Thank you, marty. Sky9 is cruising around 25 and 10th, nothing to complain about here and north end is beast picture perfect. Whether youre east or west of well and a great start to the south around c470 and e470. The a line will take you 37 minutes and the train is running on time and not too much to look out for here, great speeds and all of this green, hopefully, can stick around until 6 30. We hope so. Amelia, thank you. Republican president ial candidate donald trump spending more time in the nations capitol, regardless of what happens, while mike pence stop in colorad
It was yesterday that the house of representatives passed a bill that would hold off funding of planned parenthood for one year. In our first 45 minutes, we want to hear your thoughts on the issue of planned parenthood and in other ways,ut including a potential Government Shutdown. 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7488001 for republicans. For independents, 202 7458002. You can post on our social media pages. cspanwj is our twitter page. Acebook is facebook. Com cspan if you want to make your thoughts known on the d funding efunding of planned parenthood, you can also email us at journal cspan. Org. At the end187 votes of the vote. Nearly all republicans and two democrats approving legislation that would block federal funding for one year, giving Congress Time to fully investigate wrongdoing of the provider. Host in our first 45 minutes, your thoughts on this boat that took place yesterday in the house of representatives. 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7488001 for republicans. And, for in