Washington, d. C. , across Lafayette Square at the white house with the slavery and the president s neighborhood. As we begin tonights program please welcome the 15th rector of st. Johns church, reverend john fisher. [ applause ] welcome, good evening. My name is rob fisher. I am the rector of st. Johns church, and i am thrilled that our friends at the White House Historical association asked us to provide space for tonights conversation. Stewart asked if i would share a little bit about the history of this very historic room that you are sitting in tonight and so i will share with you that this church was completed in 1816. The architect was Benjamin Henry latrobe. Not only did he design this church, he was rewould abouting the white house after it was destroyed by the british in the war of 1812 and in 1818 he built Decatur House which is now the home of the White House Historical association and if you go inside the Decatur House and you look up, you see a very similar entrance. It i
Attracted you. Call the number on your screen. Please include your first name, your city, the name of the book and perhaps a reason why that book has attracted your attention. Big crowds here at the National Book festival. They have a whole area for love authors from different areas of the country. It book signings, book sales. In 20 minutes, the librarian of congress is rejoining us to make a special announcement. That is coming up in about 20 minutes. You probably noticed as well on the screen that there is a 25th anniversary sliver on the right side of your screen. This is book tv 25th anniversary. September 12, 1998 will be our 20 for anniversary an hour cspan bags all have 20 for the on them as do our cspan book tv mugs. We are pleased about that. In the 25 years, we have been on their over 1300 weekends, 92,000 hours of programming which is all ailable online. Covered over 22,000 authors, 16,000 event cities that have hted book tv events 871 it book tv over the years has been to
Of you from Msnbc Roe Headquarters here in new york. Welcome everyone to alex witt reports. We are beginning with this Breaking News. Hundreds on capitol hill as the federal government heads towards a, potential, shut down in just 12 hours. Soon the house will vote on speaker Kevin Mccarthys new plan to keep Government Open. We see those votes being cast, in fact, as we speak. However, mccarthy is leaning on democrats to support it admitting that there is no guarantee that his own caucus would do it. The house is going to actually government will not shut down. We will put a clean Funding Stopgap on the florida keep Government Open for 45 days did you get any assurances from any of the republicans about this . No, i have tried. Well, a senate vote is also expected to get underway in the next hour. The impact of a potential shutdown will be felt foreign right across nonessential federal agcies. For almost 4 million employees and military, it would mean working without pay. Here is part
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In case anyone hasn't heard the stories he loves to repeat, Joe "Amtrak" Biden reminisced about riding the rails on Monday, during a stop at a Baltimore train tunnel that will undergo a $4-billion replacement.