For cspan and public radio audiences please be aware that in the audience today is members of general public, and any applause that you will hear are not necessarily from the working press. Id like to begin by introducing our head table. Please hold your applause until all of the head table guests are introduced. To my far left, i have robert wynner, president of wynner public news opeds and a member of the npc headliners team. Next to robert is miron bellkind and former president of the National Press club. And we have eleanor clift, a Political Columnist with the daily beast. Wesley lowrie, a National Reporter at the washington post. Beside wesley is michael holoman, Deputy Communications director for fair right, and Eric Holloway for news. And to my right, donna who is president of Media Strategies and former president of the club, and cochair of the headliners team. Speaking over the speaker for a moment, and we have, sorry. We have angela garling king Deputy Managing Editor of pol
This is Aljazeera America live from new york city. Im erica pitzi. Police in ferguson, missouri will be out on the streets early this morning, trying to maintain calm after a second tense night there. Officers arrested nearly two dozen people during protests marking one year since the death of Michael Brown. At least one officer was seen using pepper spray on the crowd. Earlier monday, protestors shut down interstate 70 during the afternoon rush hour. St. Louis county is now under a state of emergency. Andy is live on the ground there in ferguson. Good morning to you, andy. We know police made dozens of arrests overnight. What can you tell us . Calm now, erika, but it did get hot last night. Much as it did the night before, but not quite as bad as the nice before. It started with these protests, we had a line of police and riot gear on one side of a majoring street and protestors on the other side yelling back at them. At one point, police moved in around midnight to clear protestors a
Believe in. Sunday gets under way at 10 30 a. M. Eastern and features fox news host and former White House Press secretary dana perino with her latest book, let me tell you about jasper how my best friend became americas dog. Pulitzer prizewinning journalist susan faluti on in the dark room. Colson whitehead with the underground railroad. And cofounder of the Miami Book Fair and owner of miamis books and books book store mitchell kaplan. Live coverage of the Miami Book Fair saturday at 10 00 a. M. Eastern and sunday at 10 30 a. M. Eastern. Go to booktv. Org for the complete weekend schedule. This weekend, cspans cities tour, along with our Comcast Cable partners, will explore the literary life and history of pittsburgh, pennsylvania. On book tv on cspan2, hear about industrialist Andrew Carnegie on how his innovative spirit transformed pittsburgh into the Steel Capital of the world, from author ken cobis. Carnegie talked about the burning sun of chemical knowledge. And so, he started t
Believe in. Sunday gets under way at 10 30 a. M. Eastern and features fox news host and former White House Press secretary dana perino with her latest book, let me tell you about jasper how my best friend became americas dog. Pulitzer prizewinning journalist susan faluti on in the dark room. Colson whitehead with the underground railroad. And cofounder of the Miami Book Fair and owner of miamis books and books book store mitchell kaplan. Live coverage of the Miami Book Fair saturday at 10 00 a. M. Eastern and sunday at 10 30 a. M. Eastern. Go to booktv. Org for the complete weekend schedule. This weekend, cspans cities tour, along with our Comcast Cable partners, will explore the literary life and history of pittsburgh, pennsylvania. On book tv on cspan2, hear about industrialist Andrew Carnegie on how his innovative spirit transformed pittsburgh into the Steel Capital of the world, from author ken cobis. Carnegie talked about the burning sun of chemical knowledge. And so, he started t
Believe in. Sunday gets under way at 10 30 a. M. Eastern and features fox news host and former White House Press secretary dana perino with her latest book, let me tell you about jasper how my best friend became americas dog. Pulitzer prizewinning journalist susan faluti on in the dark room. Colson whitehead with the underground railroad. And cofounder of the Miami Book Fair and owner of miamis books and books book store mitchell kaplan. Live coverage of the Miami Book Fair saturday at 10 00 a. M. Eastern and sunday at 10 30 a. M. Eastern. Go to booktv. Org for the complete weekend schedule. This weekend, cspans cities tour, along with our Comcast Cable partners, will explore the literary life and history of pittsburgh, pennsylvania. On book tv on cspan2, hear about industrialist Andrew Carnegie on how his innovative spirit transformed pittsburgh into the Steel Capital of the world, from author ken cobis. Carnegie talked about the burning sun of chemical knowledge. And so, he started t