welcome to the 2019 mississippi book festival. this morning we celebrate the fifth anniversary of her literary long party. [applause] we are honored to have so many distinguished authors and friends join our celebration from the mississippi state capital. today more than 170 authors will visit with thousands of booklovers making connections through the love of books and the written word. c-span has been with us since the very beginning and we are grateful for the partnership we start today by recognizing the readers to mississippi culturally a landscape. the writers trail is an ever list the places all over the state that mark significant places in the lives of mississippi authors. ida b wells and richard ford are the very best writers. two is famous for investigative journalism. and ford is famous for his novels. the hard-hitting pieces about lynching of the 20th century achieve such notoriety that was known by some as the most famous black woman in america. her marker will
a preference for a supreme court justices being nominated by a republican, or by a democrat. and if you are prepared to live with supreme court justices from either party, then you are a very unusual voter. so this is the product of all of those votes, all of those people who went out and voted for joe biden, that is how this has happened tomorrow. a little piece of good news, i m looking forward to your show tonight, lawrence. thank, you ali, thank you. tonight, we have a new reason i knew apparent reason why the january 6th committee rushed into that special session yesterday, to hear the public testimony of cassidy hutchinson. they want the white house counsel. they want him. and that s why they had to have that hearing yesterday. because cassidy hutchinson s testimony fully justified the subpoena to trump white house counsel pat cipollone that the committee issued today. the last time a president was destroyed by a congressional investigation, the white house coun
testimony fully justified the subpoena to trump white house counsel pat cipollone that the committee issued today. the last time a president was destroyed by a congressional investigation, the white house counsel was a key witness. richard nixon s white house counsel, john dean, helped bring down the nixon presidency, with his testimony in the watergate hearings. and now it looks like pat cipollone could be the witness who locks in donald trump s guilt for the january 6th committee. when presidents break the law, the white house counsel knows. the white house counsel s job is to prevent presidents from breaking the law, among other things. that is to say, prevent them from breaking the law intentionally or, as can happen, unintentionally. when someone in the white house has a bright idea, like banning all muslims from entering the country, it is the white house counsel s job to say, we can t do that, that s unconstitutional. the white house counsel is not the president s pers
a cat with a need for speed holding on for dear life surprising the pilot and his passenger. well, good tuesday morning to you. i m reena ninan. and i m kendis gibson in for t.j. holmes. it has been a terrifying night for one stretch of the midwest. confirmed tornadoes blazing a path across the great lakes. that s a quarter mile away from us right now right next to us. just before dark this huge twister blue over edgington in western illinois. at least five homes damaged there. a few hours later a tornado struck coal city south of chicago. emergency crews responding in the dark to collapsed homes, gas leaks, people even trapped under the rubble. western michigan struck, as well. that s the steeple of a church in the small town of portland. it plunged 50 feet down through the roof. the radar shows that turbulence is moving heading east, millions of people in its path, so we turn our focus to accuweather s molly cochran tracking the storms for us. molly. thanks, ken
deal. who will benefit from the deal? we will host a debate between public citizen and the cato institute. then we remember the high priestess of soul, nina simone. to promote this feeling of, who am i? where do i come from? why do i like me? amy: what happened, miss simone? a new documentary looks at the remarkable life of singer and civil rights activist nina simone known for her politically charged songs including, mississippi goddamn and to be young, gifted and black. we will speak with filmmaker liz garbus and al schackman, nina simone s guitarist and music director for over 40 years. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. the senate is expected to vote today to give president obama fast-track authority to push the transpacific should deal through congress. the secretive deal involves 12 countries and nearly 40% of the global economy. on tuesday, the senate voted 60 the 37th in the d