I started the book with a quotation from Thomas Jefferson the execution of the law is more important but if you think of leadership to get the answer right or the policy right to communicate at and implementing an the argument and make in this book is that president s spend so much time on communication that leaves them little time to think about how they will implement the of policies that were to implement so that involves understanding organizational capacity. It is a piece of the federal government that you give this job to it is it capable . That you are asking us to do . As we begin the National Book gourds plays will go onto the stage, oleary will mark. [applause] can you hear me okay . What a nice night broken to the 2016 National Book awards. Get used to it. What to a weak. How was your week . This was very bizarre for me. Wasnt this a real light and watching election since i was a kid that was exciting i dont know if i would use the word exciting in the same way as an asteroi
And the fire is still raging out of control. Firefighters here saying that of course with the tripledigit temperatures, along with the fierce winds, that is just going to add fuel to the flames here as tens of thousands of people are being told that it is still not safe for them to return home. The blue cut fire is showing no mercy to San Bernardino county. Walls of flames destroying everything in its path, sending people running for cover. Fastmoving. Very fastmoving. We barely got our stuff and got out. Oh, god, i just pray. Reporter as others watched helplessly while the flames surrounded them. There was a clearing there and right there, the flames all around us and we had to keep the windows open because we couldnt breathe and the smoke was so thick and as soon as the smoke cleared, we could see that everything was gone. Reporter more than 82,000 evacuated and even more expected. Deputies are asking people to follow the mandatory orders and get out. If we ask you to leave, you have
The blue cut fire and has been going strong for 36 hours. The latest numbers show 25,000 acres have burned, fire crews are trying to assess the Property Damage but a number of homes have been lost. Here is video from earlier this evening before it got dark. Firefighters said there was nothing they could have done to stop the advancing claims. The local battalion chief in San Bernardino told the l. A. Times, we got our butts kicked. Another said they were no match for the combination of wind, dry vegetation and steep terrain. Tens of thousands of people in the area have been ordered to evacuate. Some of them wont have homes to return to. It was devastating. A lot of homes lost yesterday. There will be a lot of families that come home to nothing. We want to show you where this fire is burning using data from cal fire. We created a map showing the fires perimeter. You can see it burned on both sides of interstate 15 north of the cajon pass. And west toward highway 138 and the resort town
Place on september 15, 1963. The assassination of president kennedy that took place on september 15, 1963 wherefore little girls were killed. The assassination of president kennedy. [inaudible] [inaudible] black people, white people coming together literally put their bodies on the line. And so for me i was a lifelong comics fan. With the congress and told me about a comic book called Martin Luther king and the montgomery story that was published in 1957, sold for 10 cents, when i found out edited edited by Martin Luther king, jr. Himself and used to inspire some of the earlier axis of disobedience it seems almost selfevident. We had to do it. Host well put this phone numbers up on the screen so you can start calling for john lewis and his coauthor andrew aydin. E we have a third number you can get through on. It is not for phone calls. It is for Text Messages only. Again Text Messages only, please include your first name and your city. Congressman lewis, we are talking about march boo
Once, too, big guy. Transitions can be very awkward. And its not just awkward transitions for president s. This was the tiny little outgoing mayor of new york city yesterday, sitting down with the enormous incoming new mayor of new york city. The two of them having what was supposed to be a friendly transition meal together. Looked like a lot of things, but friendly was not one of them. For shear caught on tape personal hard to watchness, though, you really cannot beet what happened today, this afternoon, in the executive mansion in good old virginia. Youve been here once or twice before. Have you ever been upstairs . Ive been up there. Yeah, its quite a place. A lot of history. Good. All right, lets go eat. Good. Youre not going to actually, i understand youre not going to move . Yeah, yeah. Youve got two . Yeah, so theyll finish the shes in eighth grade, so shell finish up and then ill come down. Peter is in fifth grade. Spread it out pretty well. Just because the transition of power