Good afternoon and welcome to the gators bergh book festival, a resident here and id represent districts 17. Welcome. Cases spurred is a city. Okay so please silence all your devices thank you, and if you are on social media today and we hope you are, please use the hashtag gps, gbf sorry. There will be service, and by submitting a survey youll be entered in a draw to win a 100 dollar visit gift card. So i encourage each one of you to enter into that survey and at the end of this presentation, mr. Surely will be signing books and copies are on sale in this tent and around the grounds here. Make sure you take advantage of having renowned author mr. Shirley here. So this is a free event and but it does help, the book festival if you buy a book. The more books we salute our event, the more publishers will want to send their authors here to speak with us. Pushing basically purchasing a book it basically helps our partners and calm the great independent bookstores that we have here. It supp
condemn. the proud boys stand back and stand by. the proud boys celebrated that shout-out from then president trump during a debate in 2020. months later, members of that group would be heavily involved in the violence on january 6th. and now they are facing serious prison time for their actions. much more on yesterday s guilty verdicts in just a moment. meanwhile, in new york jurors in donald trump s civil rape trial heard more of his video deposition yesterday while taking through some of that testimony, and also ahead, more ethics issues for supreme court justice clarence thomas. this doesn t sound it s not good. it keeps on coming, and i m not sure what the consequence is here but it looks really bad. there is new reporting that clarence thomas wife was paid nearly $80,000 by a nonprofit that had a case before the high court. and her payments to her would come with instructions from leonard leo not to tell anybody she s getting the money. seems pr
course, and this is a picture of a guy, i m not saying the guy in the picture is himself cute, honestly, what would i, know not my area expertise. but i think just as a picture, regardless of the guy, i think as a picture this is kind of cute. just in terms of composition. in part because it s kind of got a swirl effects. like on the upper left side of the image, we ve got his eye that s looking kind of whisky, kind of head downstream, but then on the lower right side of the image he s got the biggest mark, heading straight up towards his ear so the whole thing is kind of a swirl you know? just as a picture as a mugshot in particular i think that s not bad. that person is the attorney general of the great state of texas and that is in fact his mugshot. his name is ken who s indicted in booked into the collin county jail in texas on felony securities fraud charges a few years ago, those felony charges are still pending against him, he was still under indictment on multiple fel
career and influence on american servantism. his book reagan rising:the decisive years. we recorded his remarks at the gaithersburg book festival in gaithersburg, maryland. good afternoon, welcome to gaithersburg book festival. i m member of democrat central committee encompassing district 16 which encompses the city of gaithersburg. welcome. gaithersburg is a city that proudly supports the arts and humanities. we re pleased to bring you this fabulous event thanks in part to our sponsors and volunteers. when you see them around and walking around here, please take time to say thanks. appreciate that. please take time to say thanks. we would appreciate that. i would like to get right to this event here, but first a few announcements. please, silence all your devices. i ll wait. i ll wait. go ahead. silence all devices. thank you. and if you re on social media today and we hope that you are, please use the #gbf, gaithersberg book festival. gbf. your feedback is really valua
Flatten. The currency move of the day is what is happening with the turkish lira. A huge move today. We will discuss that later on in the show. Because theres a war going on between the president and the central bank. The last 24 hours hasnt brought much certainty and who will govern germany. Chancellor merkels largest partners expressed no interest in coming together and she said she would rather have new elections they go forward without a majority. Matt miller has been covering each development and we welcome him from berlin. Bring us up to speed. What is going on . Matt you summed it up quite well. The key is she doesnt want to go forward without a majority. The form still prefer a Majority Coalition with either the ftp and the greens or with the std her Current Coalition partner. That seems so unlikely, the ftp having to walk out of Coalition Talks. The stp saying it is no way interested in prefers to stay in opposition. Now the president whom you see here is going to try and forc