Campaignb smith on 2020 and the role of military voters and young americans. Plus your emails, tweets, and phone calls. Washington journal starts now. First Lady Melania Trump closed out day two of the Republican National convention with a speech from the white house last night where she called on voters to support her husband for a second term claiming he will fight for them. Yourll continue with comments and reactions to the Republican National convention with a look ahead at tonights lineup. Here is how we are dividing the line. If you support the president dial in at 202 7488000. If you are supporting joe biden 202 7488001. If you have a thirdparty candidate or are undecided dialing that dial in at 202 7488002. You can also text us with your first name, city, and state at 202 7488003. Join the conversation on facebook and twitter. While we wait for your calls, here is a little bit from the first lady. As you have heard this evening, i dont want to use this precious time attacking t
They had . Saw is aat we continuation of this trend of unconventional convention. We had [indiscernible] this conflation of the president S Administration and his campaign. I think the messages they wanted to get across was they wanted to humanize this president somewhat. We had his wife talking about ,im, referring to him as donald talking about his record and what he has done in the white house. I think there was a continuation of outreach to minorities. Theyw on the first night showcased the depth of their bench in terms of having there and nikki haley there. Lets not come obese outreach to women as well as immigrants through the naturalization ceremony we saw. Host what was the goal of secretary of state pompeos address from israel . Caller that is what guest that is one of the that happened. The consternation before the broadcast, he was in israel on official business. The he addressed to the convention was [indiscernible] there were issues of whether they potentially violated the
I say that without any, in utter earnestness. Its really great to be able to turn on the tv and see serious discussions about books and literature x its great to have them here in austin and to be a part of it. My name is dan oppenheimer, im the moderator today. I think im here moderating these books because i wrote a book a few years ago about prominent americans who went from the left to the right of the political spectrum, and your panel today is really about american conservativism. Its sort of past, present and future. And the no, sir i have with me the authors i have with me today are anne nelson and tom lobianco. I just want to remind everyone that anne and tom will be in the signing tent after this. Their books are for sale in the book tent. Anne let me know that this is, her book actually doesnt come out til later in this coming week, but they made a special exception for austinen. So if you want the special right, hot off the presses before anybody else can get it copies of h
And texas, and also cspan2 booktv which is a Great American institution. I say that without any, in utter earnestness. Its really great to be able to turn on the tv and see serious discussions about books and literature x its great to have them here in austin and to be a part of it. My name is dan oppenheimer, im the moderator today. I think im here moderating these books because i wrote a book a few years ago about prominent americans who went from the left to the right of the political spectrum, and your panel today is really about american conservativism. Its sort of past, present and future. And the no, sir i have with me the authors i have with me today are anne nelson and tom lobianco. I just want to remind everyone that anne and tom will be in the signing tent after this. Their books are for sale in the book tent. Anne let me know that this is, her book actually doesnt come out til later in this coming week, but they made a special exception for austinen. So if you want the spec
Today, or he plans to sign an executive order on medicare. We will have live coverage on cspan starting at 1 10 eastern. We are joined by tom , he covered mike pence in the statehouse at indiana. For the associated press, fort cnn and the indianapolis cnn and the indianapolis star. What made you write a profile for the Vice President . Guest i was standing outside the u. S. Senate chamber right after the 2016 election, doing what we always do, shacking quotes firm senators, from senators, tracking them down before they run to the subway. I was looking at the marble bus. Out of all the Vice President , because they are the presiding officers of the chamber, i was like mike pence is in history. Marbleill be a chiseled bust of mike pence here. I have to go deep on this guy. I never understood him when i was covering him daytoday. Talking to other reporters, they said the same thing. I had to pull back, try to go deep and understand his faith in a real way. Outside of the politics. And, th