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no deductions, you want to give to charity that is great, we are not giving you a tax break. if you do that, tax everything and give no right offs, you can set the rates very low. sunday night on c-span s you and a. welcome to the uk 56 parliament. although it was short the parliament witnessed extraordinary upheavals in british politics. alicia: two years ago we had different party leaders, the uk was a member of the european union and the word brexit had yet to be invented. as i once said i want the future once. alicia: new people at the top of. in accordance with the wishes of the rich people the united kingdom is leaving the european union. memorable speeches. they hold our values in contempt, tolerance and decency in contempt. alicia: and prime ministers questions. maureen wrote to me this week with a heavy heart, we have been treated disgustingly. keith: robust exchanges at westminster. you will be here the rest of your life. i am sorry we did it ....
[ applause ] thank you. thank you so much. good morning everybody. thank you to entire cap team for putting together this ideas conference. thank you to the staff here at the four seasons for looking after us so well. i m glad we could bring a little bit of l.a. weather here for at least a couple of days in washington. enjoy it while it lasts i hear. thanks to all of you mostly for coming here and being a part of this most urgent and important conversation. for the last few months commentators have been calling this a big moment for the democratic party. and they are right. i believe this is an even bigger moment for the american people, a bigger moment for our country. for practically my entire lifetime and maybe yours we have heard politicians at events like this talking about how we are on the cusp of a technological revolution, one that will forever alter the way we work, the way we learn, the way that we communicate, flying cars, solar energy, robots that will ma ....
prosperity was kind enough in the weeks before i came to actually bombard the telephones, fill the mailboxes, talking about the fact that i was going to come up and visit. i have no doubt that a whole heck of a lot of you don t know what it s like to have afp go after you but it s a fairly common occurrence in a place like montana. i showed up anyway. by the end of the meeting, they acknowledged that 40% of the people that walked through the hospital doors didn t have health insurance. they recognize if they lost that rural hospital, that community was soon to follow. they saw past the rhetoric and understood that not only could expansion improve the health of the friends and neighbors. but at the endst day, it would save that rural hospital which also saves that rural community. their support and then that visit gave their local republican legislator the confidence to defy her party leadership. to defy the coke brothers and actually support the measure and every vote m ....
but first, gabriel gatehouse reports from phoenix, where america s increasingly polarised political debate spilled out onto the streets. voiceover: bikers for trump. they came to phoenix, to show support for their president, and, they said, to stop protesters from harassing those who wanted to attend the rally. charlottesville is still fresh in the memory. two radically opposing visions for america clashed, blood was spilt, people died. we don t want to see anybody get hurt. the bikers condemned white supremacists and neo nazis, and so, eventually, did donald trump, but he was slow and equivocal. many saw in him a president who emboldened racist. for all of us to protect people from threats of violence by protesters. but america is in the grip of a cultural war so polarising, you might wonder whether these two sides lived on the same planet. obama for the last eight yearshas emboldened people to come out and be violent because there has been no consequences for any of i ....
has been a community effort to now we have more than twowo dozen sponsors and more than two dozen additional people and agencies and organizations that are partners and of course, you if you left, not knowing you re coming to a literary festival you re not alone often our festival goers don t come to the festival themselves but to see or hear or meet a favorite writer. that is okay with us.o have we are glad to have you. in fact, we depend on youu and and which is given prominence. in that same way that happened. chair of uh development committee for fall for the book with all of the great authors to keep up programs coming by raising the funds needed. fall for the book is a five 01 c3 that we rely on donations to keep this going it is thought 18 years we have been doing this of a one day festival now going through a whole week and we know this incredible resources to our community looke if you looked at the pamphlet you saw it was one week s worth of defense going ....