Its like daycare. And well get the signing set up right here. Booktv continue us now on cspan2. Television for serious readers. Saeed jones, some stories need to bullet is that a story . Guest absolutely. The earliest seeds of the book i actually started writing a week after the events that inspired it. New years, 2008 and as a college student. Went to a party in phoenix, arizona, and met a beautiful man, went home with him, started having sex, and he had what i can only describe as a true crisis of masculinity, and went from immediately like in the middle of having sex trying to kill me, and we basically just wrestled until he passed out. We were both so drunk and i escaped, and i went back to school, and literally within day is started writing out what became that chapter of the book. Writing was how i processed, regained control, regained an understand offering what had happened, why i had made it to that room and made it out, and it did save my life, and so that has always been an
Hes the u. S. Governments main person for fighting antisemitism abroad and the champion for the rule of law in vulnerable and jewish communities around the world, please welcome to the stage special envoy for monitoring and combatting antisemitism, elan carr. Thank you so much. What an amazing room. I am so pleased and so honored to be with you today. Really, my most Important Message to you is a message of thank you. I owe you a debt of gratitude personally and the United States government owes you a debt of gratitude, because in my work, monitoring and fighting this ancient relentless sickness that is antisemitism, i have no more important address than the adl. There are many fine jewish organizations out there, but there is one organization that is synonymous with the fight against antisemitism and with the fight against ethnic and religious hatred and intolerance. Thats adl. [ applause ] thank you to epstein, thank you to jonathan greenblatt. What amazing leaders you have. Tim jaco
Civil rights. In her postwhite house years she served as a delegate to the United Nations, and president harry truman called her the first lady of the world. Tonight well explore the life and legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt on first ladies influence and image at 9 p. M. Eastern on cspan and cspan3 as well as cspan radio. Cspans student cam video competition asks, whats the most important Issue Congress should consider in 2014 . Make a 57 minute documentary showing varying points of view, and be sure to include cspan video. The we hes has a grand prize of 5,000, and this year weve doubled the number of winners and total prizes. Entries are due by january 20, 2014. Need more information . Visit studentcam. Org. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Host well, the federal government reopened after 16 days during this current shutdown, and this week on the communicators a round table discussion on the effect of that
Call to increase Infrastructure Spending as part of a broader agreement on spending and taxes. The house gop seemed to be fracturing and pull from the appropriation bill known for the transportation of housing and urban development. The tea party opposed the bill because it didnt cut enough and moderate republicans including members of the Appropriations Committee because it cut too much in line with the automatic spending cuts that were put in place last year. Hal rogers of kentucky complained on a letter on his website, discretionary cuts must be brought to an end. With House Republicans unable to pass a seeming appropriations bill on their own suddenly looked like an open for the senate to broker a compromise and pass its own bipartisan bill and that, in turn, would put pressure on House Republicans to let that bill come to the floor for a vote and pass mostly with democratic votes. Such an arrangement would allow congress to avoid a debt limit showdown and maybe shut off the seques
New guidelines to curtail how long children should spend in front of the screens. Welcome to early start. Im michelle kosinski. Im dave briggs. You think later today the list is finally full. Has the field never say never. I know youre considering a run. I am thinking about it. I am sure others are. 20 for 20 sounds good. The list of democrats jumps to 20 today. Joe biden announced his president ial bid this morning. The former Vice President rallied donors and supporters on a Conference Call yesterday. He offered a brief preview of his campaigns message saying the soul of the country is at stake. Biden under scored the importance of a Strong Fundraising performance out of the gate. A source tells us, the pennsylvania native will hold a Campaign Event on monday and hit the road to the early voting states of iowa, South Carolina and new hampshire. Bidens decades in the senate, eight years as vp and high name recognition put him at the top of recent polls. But he faces a Democratic Party