In modern history is the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, to now be head of the Leadership Conference on civil and human rights, she has always been guided by her sense of justice and she always leads with her heart and her values. Shes one of my closest and dearest friends. Shes also someone i look up to and consider a hero. Im so very, very proud of her and i love for her to join me on the stage right now. Thank you. [applause] hi. Good morning, everyone. A very warm welcome from my dear friend, nick. I am so glad to see everyone here today. I know the panelists are joining us on the stage right now. I just wanted to open up with a couple of framing remarks about the incredibly extraordinary time that we are in and i dont mean that in a great way. This is i think its so important that all of you are gathered here this morning. This is an extraordinary time in our country and its a time when baseline norms are being turned on their head and when were reminded,
Tuesday, see the debate between the new jersey governors candidates. Next, a look at National Security and Foreign Policy during President Trumps first in office. Representatives joined former Deputy Defense secretary kathleen hicks. University of texas Robert Chesney and author malcolm nance at the annual Texas Tribune festival in austin. This runs one hour. Applause] good morning. Thank you for coming out to perhaps the most timely and serious and important session you will hear at the seventh annual Texas Tribune festival and of course, by this i mean the deadly serious topic of President Trump and his views on professional athletes. [applause] [laughter] my bad. Im sorry. I just checked twitter and i thought i am happy to say this panel is sponsored by the obj school of school of Public Affairs. That sponsorship. Im dutybound to say my sponsors i love them but they do not get to choose the questions or answers. With that caveat out of the way, a your host and moderator professor he
Welcome back to the campus of university of arizona and day two of the tucson festival of books. Booktv is life again today. This is the tv on cspan2 and we are going live to the first panel on politics. [inaudible conversations] welcome. Good to have you here. Welcome to the nice annual festival of books in tucson. Its under incredible experience for all of us in tucson to have this with such incredible speakers and authors coming in from all over the country. I will be your moderator this morning. [applause]. Think you. You are very kind. When i think cox cox mccue can indication for sponsoring this then you. Mr. Nichols is sponsored by cindy and neil raney. Can we have a quick round of applause parsed bonsers. [applause]. This will last an hour and immediately following the session the authors will go to the book signing tent. Mr. Nichols will be a bit delayed, so david will sign his books for you, if he would like. [applause]. Which will increase their value. Its the arizona bookst
Good afternoon and welcome to the eighth annual tucson festival of books, one of the largest book festivals in the country. My name is ron barber. I am glad to see such a big crowd. Must be a lot of political junkies in the room. Raise your hand. I thought so. Me too. That is why i am glad to moderate. We want to thank cspan which is broadcasting this panel live. Also booktv and Cox Communications for sponsorship of the venue. The presentation will last about an hour. The last 15 or 20 minutes we will reserve for questions and answers from the panel. We ask you to hold your questions for the end and we will give that a full 20 minutes to your questions. Right after the session the panelists will be available to sign or autographed their books which will be on sale. Go to booth number 153 sponsored by the university of arizona bookstore. Books will be available in that location. If you want to meet the panelists, samara klar will do an interview with cspan following the session so she w
Who are freezing can admire your shorts and tshirts and silently curse you. Speaking of the tucson festival of books, we have bill minor here today, one of the visionaries. Give him a round of applause. Very much a volunteerdriven effort a group of people bill and many others who made a big impact on the community. If you want to be part of that, i hope you will consider becoming a friend of the festival. A tax deductible donation that impacts this event and were moting around the country. Let me introduce the panel. David maraniss author of many books, he was won several wards prince of tennessee about al gore books about sports in the 1960s, and other political books as well. So please welcome him. [applause] if you are political aware and not living under a rock you know about mark levitch and his book this town that caused a lot of stir and conversation. Number one New York Times best seller followed up with a collection of his fantastic articles over the years called sitcitizen ci