And we are live here in milwaukee, where the Wisconsin Democratic party is holding their 2016 founders day gala. The event will include remarks from president ial candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. We will also hear from several lawmakers including senator franken and Tammy Baldwin. And representatives more and marcy kaptur. Expects the program to begin shortly. Until that happens, we will show you a discussion from todays washington journal. Welcome to the program. Good morning, sir. Pleasure. It has been a week of storylines of politics and the media. It began monday with president obama speaking at syracuse university. Here is president obama speaking at that event come a talking about the future of journalism. We want your thoughts. President obama as i go into my last year, i spend a lot of time are selecting on on reflecting on how this crazy notion of selfgovernment works. How can we make it work. Important this is anything. Nt as in an era in which Attention Spans a
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Beating the eventual democrat nominee. I have decided it is best to give other leaders in the party the opportunity to become our next nominee. Marco rubio has left i am organizing a pac for donations. From all my supporters, and friends, and family. Goodbye. In our lineup romney and the budget. But first, romney. He has expired and gone to meet his maker. He is a late candidate presumably forever. Here is how romney explained his decision not to run on a Conference Call with supporters this monitoring this morning. Im convinced we can win the nomination but it would be a difficult test and hard fight. I would have the best chance of beating the democrat nominee. That is before the other contenders at have the opportunity take their message to the voters. I believe one of our next generation of Republican Leaders , one who may not be as wellknown as i am today, one who is not yet taking their message across the country, one who is just getting started, may emerge as being better able t
Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. BookTv Television for serious readers. From my father i inherited my confidence my resilience, my passion, and my audacity, looking back although it was never explained to me in this way, he taught me the spirit of which is greek idea of honor and doing the right thing, even when ones own interests or even ones own life is in peril. Growing up while i never fought anything but australian there were two stories about the Second World War and greece that i always kept close to my heart. The first was in 1940 when Benito Mussolini italys Prime Minister asked the greek Prime Minister for free passage through greece and on the spot at 3 00 in the morning without hesitation, without consultation he said oy he said no. It was spirited defiance and quite incredible when considering just how vastly outnumbered the greeks were by the italians. It prompted sir winston churchhill, the greatest figure of the 20th c
Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Booktv, television for serious readers. Rebecca frankel is the author of war dogs. Ms. Frankel, whats on the cover of your book . So this is a handler and his dog, and theyre doing a Training Exercise for a mission that they might have to do in afghanistan or iraq which does include a drop from a helicopter. What sparked you to write about war dogs . My job in foreign policy, weve been writing about the iraq war for as long as its been going on and i really love dogs. So as i was looking at photos coming in off the wire, i saw this one photo that sort of stood out as different in afghanistan, and it was because there were these marines and their bombsniffing dogs, and they were just hanging out, and everyone looked very happy. Theres a very strong contrast to the unfortunate photos that are more gritty and more gory. So tom suggested that we partner in [inaudible] and i did that for about four years an