Victims of the Florida School shooting. Mr. President . The senator from florida. Mr. President , those were all our children. Those of us who are parents, you can imagine the parents of those children wondering what else can be done. Because yesterday a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in northern broward county, parkland, florida, walked on to the campus with a gas mask, smoke grenades, and carrying an ar15 assault rifle. He pulled the fire alarm. He waited for the students to come out into the hallway and he opened fire. And as a result, 14 families are grieving. Their worst fears have become reality, and more than a dozen other students who were injured, theyre in the hospital and some of them in critical condition. At some point weve got to say enough is enough. At some point we as a society have got to come together and put a stop to this. This senator grew up on a ranch. I have hunted all my life. I have had guns all my life. I still hunt with my son. But a
8 00 p. M. Next on sara blakely from spanx shared her advice on being a Small Business owner. She gave them to Goldman Sachs summit in washington d. C. Hi, everybody. Wow. [ applause ] got to feel like a model for a moment. There you go. Hello. Sarah needs to introduction, but ill introduce her. Sarah is the legend in the entrepreneurial world of spanx. Incredibly in fundraising with her foundation. Thanks for being here. Thank you for having me. All right. So lets start at the beginning. Okay. So you were frustrated consumer. I was. And you decided to try to solve a problem. What was the problem you were trying to solve . Well, i couldnt figure out what to wear under white pants. And i was a frustrated consumer. Under garment options at the time were not great. Right. We had under wear that left a p panty line. Girdles that were uncomfortable. Then they invented the thong which put under wear exactly where we were trying to get it out of. [ laughter ] so i was like, yeah, no. And, lis
Shooting at a high school. The l. A. Times is led by the indictment of russian nationals for interference in the 2016 elections. Tribune is led by mitt romney who yesterday lost his bid for the u. S. Senate from utah where he now resides, calling him candidate romney. The monitor from a gallon, texas, talks about Vice President mike pence touring the. Order ellen is calling on our republican line from indiana. Good morning. Caller good morning. When i call, i would like to give information that cspan and the listeners can check out for themselves that might help bring democrats and republicans together by looking at information they might not know. I recently ordered a small where anyone can get it inexpensively from grass fire. Com. Grass it has 20 chapters with what the president did in specific areas. It is very interesting. When they talk about russia involved in our elections, i am 85 years old. Many years ago, before Rush Limbaugh had a talk show, a man named paul harvey had a ta
Host joining us from new york city is doug henwood, a contributor to in these times. He is here to discuss his piece in the february issue on the and howpension crisis the cities reliance on wall street is adding to the shortfall. Thank you for joining us today. Guest thanks for having me. Host what spurred you to focus on the Retirement Crisis right now . Guest for one thing, the magazine asked me to look at it. But this is something i have been following a long time. I wrote a book about wall street a little over 20 years ago. I have been following the Financial Markets and the pension crisis for a long time. A lot of people talk about the problems of the Social Security system, which i think are grossly exaggerated. But there are people who do not want to admit problems around the Pension System because People Associated are looking to cut back up with engines or eliminate them. It does no good to deny there is a problem. Pension funds have made assumptions about returns they will g
Twitter and instagram for behindthescenes pictures and videos at booktvs or handle. We kick off this year savannah book festival with retired air force Major General robertbo latiff on future war. Live coverage on booktv on cspan2. Good morning. My name is nancy lieb and im delighted to welcome you to the 11th annual savannah book festival. Isto presented by georgia power, david and nancy cintron, the gm family and mark metcalf. Many thanks to jack and Mary Raimondo our sponsors for this glorious venue the Trinity United Methodist church. We would like to extend special thanks to wire litter rowdy members and individual donors who have made and continue to make Saturdays Free festival of them possible. 90 of our revenue comes from donors just like you. Thank you. We are very excited to have savannah book festival this year for your phone. Please look in your program for information on downloading it. It just takes two seconds and it will be very helpful to you today. Before we get star