welcome to booktv s fiction edition. you ve written 50 fiction books. let s start with devil in a blue dress, the book that launched a series who is easy rawlins? guest: a kind of every man for the black community in the middle of the twentieth century. his whole view of himself has changed. he came back to southern texas and realized he could no longer live there because of what he has learned and he and thousands of others, from texas and louisiana moved to los angeles. what we do is follow him as a kind of unofficial detective. what he does is reveals what life was like in parts of los angeles that haven t been talked about. host: how did you come up with the name? guest: i was writing a story and there was a voice speaking first-person talking about a party he was given and how he was trying to raise money to pay his rent and a woman he was in love with who was in love with another guy and mouse comes in and looks at the person who is talking and says hey, e the
accounts today. nearly 10 million children are at risk of slipping back below the poverty line if payments are not extended. senator michael bennet will join us this hour. we ve got to start with the historic vote in the house to recommend criminal contempt charges against one of their own, former congressman and white house chief of staff mark meadows. just two, only two republicans, liz cheney and adam kinzinger joined 220 democrats in voting to hold meadows in contempt for defying a congressional subpoena. it s the first time a former member of the house has been held in criminal contempt since 1832. i want to bring in nbc s ali vitali on capitol hill, scott mcfarlane, investigative reporter nor nbc 4 in washington. luke broadwater, and joyce vance, former u.s. attorney and professor at the university of alabama school of law. ali you have to start on this vote because two, only two republicans voted for it. we all heard those text messages. those are republican members of
tapper from fake news cnn, morgan ortegos on the view and we got the tape. . appears joe biden has realized americans are not happy with the u.s. economy but according to joe the only fiscal responsible way to make things better is to pass the build back better and spend a couple of more trillion more dollars that we don t have and rob our kids and grand kids blind and put it on social welfare projects that are pretty much destined to fail. everyone not named janet yellen is warning this will greatly accelerate inflation at a time when it s already at a 30 year high. wholesale prices are up a whopping 8 points and 6% and gas prices are up on average $150 $1.50 a galleon. it could be up 100% by the end of winter heating your home and because of dire real shortagings because we are experiencing but joe biden knows best. he s the smartest person in the room and he believes spending 2 trillionen dollars is going to magically fix inflation and supply chain crisis. and why not ju
hello, this is bbc news with james reynolds. the headlines. the chancellor promises a budget that invests in infrastructure, innovation and skills as the economy recovers from the pandemic. strong investment in public services, driving economic growth by investing in infrastructure, innovation and skills. giving businesses confidence and then supporting working families. eight people have been arrested in brentwood in essex after the deaths of two teenage boys in the early hours of this morning. labour is urging ministers to bring in plan b measures to tackle covid in england, including advice to work from home and compulsory masks. new rules allowing travellers returning to england to take lateral flow tests instead of more expensive pcr tests have come into force. colombia s most wanted drug trafficker is captured after a joint operation by the armed forces and the police. now on bbc news, it s time for climate change: on trial. nick beake travels to norway to meet the
on the first of april. this was the first evidence of the crimes perpetrated here. the bodies of civilians left decomposing where they fell. for more than six weeks, the world s attention has focused on the horrors unfolding in ukraine. in particular, the town of bucha to the west of kyiv. we ve investigated three separate atrocities in bucha to give a sense of the widespread indiscriminate murder being carried out by the russian army. the first involves a man whose body was found at this mass grave next to the church, where investigators are beginning to uncover the scale of the slaughter in bucha during the nearly month-long russian occupation. volodymyr is just one of dozens of relatives looking for answers. the number of bodies buried here is unknown but it s thought there are 115. they were hurried intered here by locals. now each is being carefully recovered for a full forensic examination. we re with volodymyr, as he waits to find out if his brother is among the dead