The only other excuse is if youre a homicide or narcotics detective. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Thank you so much for coming out tonight. Im one of the coowners of politics and prose, my husband is right there. We hope that by the end this event you will not be stuck here in a snowstorm. We are pretty confident you will get out okay but we are delighted to have all of you here. Before we get started, i think, many of you have been to events here. Just a few housekeeping reminders, if you have a noisemaking device and can silence it now, we would be grateful for that. The way this will work is our guest will be in conversation before a bit and then theyll be happy to take questions from the audience. We do have microphone set up right here. We really would love it if you make it to the mic so we can record the questions and that would be very, very helpful. At the end of the event there will be a signing at this table and kind enough and will expedite t
Special science conversation and humanities seminar. I also welcome you this morning heartily from my cohost, brian boone and charles zimmerman. My name is vanessa summers, coordinator of the humanities, special Research Division set up to stimulate Critical Thinking at the intersection of science and the humanities and what better subject to bring science and humanity together. To discuss science and society to study the deeper relationship that people always had with trees through the ages, as meeting points, object of the light, places of peace and wellbeing. Everyone here, i am sure, will have their own favorite tree. Think about your favorite tree. What better place to speak of urban forests, famous as this place is for its unique 68 acres of forest, the oldgrowth forest that the last remnants of the 17thcentury woodlands that once blanketed this whole area, this region on the east. The same words where the indians hunted, some of the very trees standing. This is also the reason t
With congressional leaders about the shutdown when he didnt get his way late today and the president walking out set the tone. Both sides addressing reporters afterwards with two very different versions of what went down. It wasnt even a highstakes negotiation. It was a petulant president of the United States. We saw a temper tantrum, because he couldnt get his way. I saw schumer continue to raise his voice. I thought the president was very calm. As for the president , he saved his version of the meeting for twitter. Quote, just left a meeting with chuck and nancy, that total waste of time. I asked what is going to happen in 30 days if i quickly open things up. Are you going to approve Border Security which includes a wall or steel barrier . Nancy said no. I said, byebye. Nothing else works. The problem is is that the person at the center of a negotiation, whether the outcome is whether his government reopens cant just say byebye. Trump has to lead. Just listen to donald j. Trump on oc
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