then i was when i grew up in texas or lived in, you know, even lived in the texas governor's mansion. i'm very very aware of problems in the world. i'm aware of problems that women face in afghanistan for instance or in other parts of the world where women are oppressed. i'm very aware of pandemic diseases now and hunger in the world because i've had the chance to visit so many parts of the world, but also i've heard of all the things that the president works on every day. i know the issues that he deals with and so i'm aware of what those problems are. i think every one that comes to this job comes with a special interest. i was a teacher in the library and that's really where i focused a lot especially the first on developing the national book festival and helping the president with no check the no child left behind act because that was my expertise. that was my career and what i've been interested in. my whole life, but i will say that sometimes first ladies are trivialized by what we call a pet project and in fact our contributions to the united states from first ladies in many ma

>> the senator f from texas. >> mr. president, considering the way democratic friends talk about the state of voting rights in america, it is easy to see why some people have expressed concerns. because if you took them at face value you might be very worried about the state of voting rights in our country. but there's more to the story than that, which i will hope to explain here in the next few minutes. for example, when it comes to the alarmism about voting rights, look no further than the democratic majority whip, senator durbin from illinois, who said there is an insidious effort to suppress the rights of voters of color. senator schumer the majority leader, senator from new york has had the right to vote is under attack in ways which have not seen in generations. president biden himself has said there is a 21st century jim crow assault on the right to vote. if you were to take these at face value and accept them, obviously you would be very concerned about the state of voting rights. but there's more to the story,

texas. he obtained his undergraduate degree from the university of texas where he's been honored as the outstanding alumnus and his law degree from baylor university where he was honored as the baylor young lawyer of the year. while in the state senate brian has received numerous accolades including the taxpayer champion award the defender of the american dream award and the horizon award from the texas right to life. we will then be joined virtually by the honorable kyle arduin kyle is louisiana's 44th secretary of state and it's the president-elect of the national association of the secretaries of state. he served in that role since 2018 after serving for nearly a decade as the first assistant secretary of state. since his election kyle has championed legislation to strengthen louisiana's election laws and its cybersecurity including laws that ban ballard harvesting ballot trafficking and require managerial or managed service providers to register and report to the secretary of state becau

texas was pretty high. i think you were sixth but what that shows you is while a lot of states have done everything they can to improve the process to protect the voters we put up multiple walls on issues like voter id for example and this is going to be continually updated so we are going to be doing a lot of work from now on every time states have their legislative sessions we will update it. one final ruling about the scorecard you can have the best laws and regulations but if local and state officials don't comply they are not going to do you much good. the state legislators and others will use this to not only put in good laws but make sure officials are complying with the laws that have been constitutionally put in place by the state legislatures. practices, criteria and this is a work in progress. we want to hear about it so we encourage folks to take a look at this and the standards and methodology and let us know if there's anything wee should fix. there are a number of states at the bottom of the

the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: mr. president, considering the way our democratic friends talk about the state of voting rights in america, it's easy to see why some people have exercised -- expressed concerns because if you took them at face value, you might be very worried about the state of voting rights in our country. but there's more to the story than that which i hope to explain here in the next few minutes. for example, when it comes to the alarmism about voting rights, look no further than the democratic majority whip, senator durbin, from illinois, who said there is an insidious effort to suppress the rights of voters of color. senator schumer, the majority leader, the senator from new york, has said the right to vote is under attack in ways we have not seen in generations. president biden, himself, has said there is a 21st century jim crow assault on the right to vote. if you were to take these at face value and accept them, obviously you would be very concerned about the state of voting rights. but there is

you have the permian basin in west texas eaglefred shell in south texas to them. this is about their livelihood and getting rid of their livelihood and so that's why people are very like these are folks that are trying to impact me when you talk about defunding the police or defunding law enforcement the number of people that are in south and west texas that are that were have a family member working for border patrol or the sheriff's office or local pd. that's a large. that's a large group of people. so it is this a salt on their ability to to provide for themselves. now here's what's going to happen. it's it's almost accepted. it is accepted that republicans are taking house back in 22. if we had a vote today, some would say likely to send it as well. this is not a mandate from the american people being like hey gop. we love you. yeah for those that are watching on tv everybody laughed here and and and republicans come in and don't have a vision of how we're going to solve some of these problems if we don't if we only talk with the things that we're against all

narratives are people who were interviewed in texas. not necessarily who had been enslaved in texas, right? so these narratives develop because during the great depression. you know when they're putting people to work, they're also putting people writers to work to collect these narratives and the work really starts with black academics who send their students out from historically black colleges to go out and interview formerly enslaved people because they realize that it's you know getting they're getting older it's you know, 60 years after emancipation and that this is a valuable resource that's fading away. and so these black academics do some of this early interviewing of people and then the works progress administration kind of takes up the mantle of that and puts writers to work and has them have them go out and interview. formerly enslaved people and they ask about all kinds of stuff. food a punishment relationships church religious practices and there's a similar thing that happens with the indian pioneer histories. but again,

we go here through here in texas provide their prime real runoff election. in the primary 3 million people voted. a 1.8 million republicans one point to million democrats. that is 3 million people out of 30 million. that's a terrible part regarding their runoff election excuse me a runoff with a primary right now. maybe on the republican side of center 50000 people though. which means 375,000 that is texas that's going to happen the general election. inspiring people to come out and vote. the music, tv, and movie i'm on a number panel of youtube stories. four of the other panelists combined with the milling youtube describe her's. i had 64. and i see seven of those people here in the crowd right now. and one of the people that was there is a digital director for the rock. dwayne johnson. this is when the movie no one was coming out. set if the want fails at the box office,on are we going to blame the consumer, the moviegoer? or are we going to blame the product, the movie. she said chris are c going to blame the product at the chromate movie. the success at

he was named director of texas a&m's, texas center for climate studies. professor destler also served in the clinton administration during the the last year he served as a senior policy analyst in the white house office of science and technology policy his latest book introduction to modern climate change won the 2014 american meteorological societies louis j. batten authors award. we are also pleased to have alex epstein he is the president and founder of the center for industrial progress author of the moral case for fossil fuels. alex is a philosopher who argues that human flourishing should be the guiding principle of industrial and environmental progress. he is the author of the new york times bestseller the moral case for fossil fuels and alex is known for his willingness to debate anyone anytime. is publicly debated leading environmentalist organizations such as greenpeace the sierra club and 350.org over the morality of fossil fuel use and finally our moderator for this morning's debate is dan nigamir. he's the editorial page editor of the denver

texas, where texas goes, america goes in many respects and that's never been more true than today and texas has always sort of led the way for america in so many respects and we've had three presidents here in the last 60 years and ghw bush and outsize the presence in american life and texans wouldn't have it any other way. working for that in the capacity and and more in austin. lbj president and more in 2017 and now the president of the lbj foundation and written several books about lbj including one that we'll talk about today indom mittable will of the presidency and one reason i wanted to be the director of the lbj library now 13 years ago was the fact that lbj is a -- is one of the most consequential presidents in so many respects and i think he is known for vietnam predominantly but there's so much more to his legacy and while vietnam is part of the legacies and if it's not important andgr more so. very importantly striving on civil rights throughout the course and the presidency and meeting ther most important idel that all men are created equal and egalitarianism for american

basin and wested texas, shelton south texas. ihto them this is about their livelihood and getting rid of their livelihood. these are folks trying to impact me. me talk about defend the police or defendant law enforcement, a number of people in south and west texas that have a family member working for border patrol, the sheriff's office, local pd that is a large group of people.ir it is an assault on their ability to provide for themselves. here is what is going to happen. it is almost accepted it is accepted that republicans are taking the house back in 22. if we had to vote today some would say likely the senate as well.go this is not a mandate from the american people be like a common gop we love you. [laughter] for those that are watching on tv everybody laughed here. this saying we don't like with these other folks are trying to do. so if republicans come in and w don't have a vision of how were going to solve some these problems. if we only talk about the things we are against, all the proms are doing is written on country

course decided that that cdc were no longer applied in texas. as crazy as that is. they started allowing landlords toevict people at will . >> in texas you have one of the first states to challenge thesucdc moratorium and successfully so . >> throughout the pandemic emily was tracking how states were handling evictions. >>much of the tenants experienced during the pandemic was dependent upon the zip codes they lived in . >> whether or not you stayed in that home depended whether or not your landlord was going to comply with the moratorium or a local .oratorium for that matter what sheriff showed up at your door and what judge you appeared before. >> and bonnie bertram the narrator saying alexis hatcher, one of the first convicted under texas's law . how did you connect with her or were able to be there when the day she's being essentially evicted ? >> so we have been in touch with mark melton who is an amazing attorney in dallas. he was a tax attorney but he quickly realized that tenants had so many questions about how to navigate the moratorium

we heard more about the agreement from texas senator john cornyn who led negotiations on the republican side. >> madam president, tomorrow will mark three weeks since the devastating school shooting in you baldly texas. over those last three weeks managers murphy from kinetic, senator sinema from arizona, senator tillis of north carolina and others have been working to identify steps that congress should take to prevent similar tragedies from occurring in the future. this is not an easy debate. it's emotional. they can be divisive but it's also very important that we act. most often you hear people say do something. well, they don't give a lot of guidance on whaton that somethig looks like. and when you begin to dig down into the details you find out that there's not a lot of consensus about what that something should lookns like. the good news is as result of the work we've been doing these last three weeks working with our colleagues, i believe we're making good progress. over the weekend there was an agreement reached between 20 senators, ten republicans and ten democrats on a framew

the pundits like to say iowa and texas are states we can't win in. i disagree. i believe we make our own destiny. i believe in people. i believe in the power of ordinary folks doing extraordinary things. i believe in you iowa democrats. now the cynics are saying this may be a tough year for us. but we've overcome longer odds than this before.we can't lose hope. we have so many more tools at our disposal. then the african-americans that came before me, let the civil rightsmovement . there was no congressional black caucus then. now i'm a member of the congressional black caucus more than 55 members strong. we can't lose hope . we have to carry that hope with us everywhere we go. it's the hope of a 25-year-old don lewis crossing the edmund pettis bridge for the right to vote for african-americans. it's the hope of a young woman sitting in one of your public schools right now who spoke her first word of english in kindergarten. but who believes there's a place for her in this state. and in this country. the hope of a young man and a small town indiana whose last na

as i said, 16 states have red flags laws, texas does not. they certainly should miss out on access to resources for crisis intervention. but one of the things you hear people concerned with most when it comes to the red flag laws where people who are found aften an adjudication to be a danger to themselves and others can lose access to the firearms on a temporary basis. it is absolutely critical that each and every one of those includes protection that comes from due process of law. and particularly when it comes to the rights of law-abiding gun owners. : : : s married to their abuser. if the abuser is convicted of domestic violence, they should not be able to purchase a firearm. our proposal also cracks down on illegal sellers and manufacturers of firearms, like the man who sold a gun to the shooter who killed seven people and injured 25 others in midland and odessa out in west texas. the shooter knew he couldn't pass a traditional background pass a traditional background traditional background test, so he traveled to texas and purchased a

met women in texas remain pregnant and the constitution has been violated every day in the state of texas because the court refused to stay with the implementation of this law and in mississippi -- the mac it's clear in mississippi will be upheld and why else would the court take a it on because there's no conflict of service. the main reason is for the court to hear case and the case is one of more than 6000 filed every day so it's a very precious granting of review and very scarce. after considering it for many months because they don't like the status quo being that the conservative fifth circuit that struck down the mississippi law had to do it because the law on the books as you explained on fetal liability falls flat leon it's based on is unconstitutional so why else would they? how are they going to go about overturning it? it seems to me if they simply say well 15 weeks is -- a band that starts in 15 weeks is okay but we don't have to overturn roe v. wade. i don't see how that adds up because you said the viability firewall before fetal viability the state can make a woman walk on

he is the chair in geoscience at texas a&m and in 22 he was named director of the texas h&m texas center fortl climate studies. during the last year he served as a senior policy analyst in the white house office of science and technology policy. his latest book introduction to climate change one the american meteorological society's lewis authors award. he is at the center of industrial progress, author of the moral case for fossil fuels. alex is a philosopher who argues that human flourishing should be the guiding principle of industrial and environmental process. he's the author of "the new york times" best seller. to debate anyone at any time and has debated the leading environmentalist organizations such as the sierra club in 350.org over the morality of fossil fuel use. and finally, the moderator for this morning's debate is the editorial page editor of the denver gazette. a longtime journalistmo and more than 25-year-old veteran of the scene. he's been an award-winning newspaper reporter and editorial page editor, senior legislative staffer at the state capital and political consul

i'm going to go to texas because i heard the senator from texas accuse this body of creating rhetoric that was divisive. you want to know what's divisive to a country that's -- that says e. pluribus unum above where the presiding person is? you want to know what is divisive? is telling people in the congresswoman's state that if you live in a predominantly minority area, we're going to remove polling places and change laws so that black folks disproportionately are waiting five, ten, 15 times longer. facts. the burden of long lines in polling places, closures in texas and the post-shelby county area often falls disproportionately on black and latino voters. congresswoman, approximately 750 sites texas has closed since shelby v. holder. 542 were in the 50 counties with the fastest growing black and latino populations. don't lecture me about jim crow. i know this is not 1965. that's what makes me so outraged. it's 2022. and they're blatantly removing more polling places from the counties where black and latinos are overrepresented. i'm not making that up. that is a fact. i'm not going t

and the same weapon that was used against the children, the schoolchildren in uvalde, texas. on that website, you could buy an ar-15 last week, no background check required. how long do these background checks take? in most cases less than five minutes, and no law-abiding citizen needs to worry about passing this test. we should close the deadly private sale loophole to help keep guns out of the hands of people who are legally prohibited from carrying firearms. i support red flag laws that allow law enforcement to temporarily remove arms from a person determined by the court to be at risk of hurting himself or others. 19 states, including illinois, have these laws, and they are an important tool for preventing violence, even florida's republican-controlled legislature enacted a state red flag law after the parkland massacre. we should support similar efforts. i'll close with a story from my state. three years ago a convicted felon was fired from a job at a small manufacturing plant near chicago. he came back a few hours later with a handgun. he shot and killed five of his for

the same weapon that was used against children, school children in uvalde, texas. on that website, you could buy an ar-15 last week. no background check required. how long do these background checks take? most cases less than five minutes. and no law abiding citizen needs to worry about passing this test. we should close the deadly private sale loophole to keep guns out of the hand of people who are legally prohibited from owning firearms. i support red flag laws that temporarily remove our arms from people at the arts to be at risk from hurting themselves or others. 19 states including illinois have these laws and they're important for preventing violence. even florida's republican controlled legislature enacted a state red flag law after the parkland massacre. we should support similar efforts. i'll close with a story from my state. three years ago, a convicted felon was fired from the job at a small manufacturing plant near chicago. he came back a few hours later with a handgun. he shot and killed five of his former co-workers and wounded five police officers be

how best to reach a solution that both sides can agree on. >> madam president, like so many people in texas and across the country, i can't stop thinking about the 19 children and the two teachers who lost their lives in uvalde, texas. over the last several days, 21 families have started burying their loved ones. this tight knit community is 15,000 people 60 miles from the u.s.-mexico border is grieving the loss of classmates, playmates, friends, neighbors, colleagues, and fellow church members. as grief turns to anger, and anger turns to action, everyone is asking the question, the logical question, how do we stop these sort of things from happening again? well, i think that's the right question. that's the question that he is been on my mind and dominating conversations with my colleagues the last couple of weeks. now, this is a big diverse country. there are a lot of differences, regionally, culturally and the like and each of us have ideas about what would work best, but that's the genius of our federal system. when louis brandeis called democracy, one size fits all is not necessarily t

the atrocity that took place yesterday in texas. the senators can barely begin to imagine the passion that families in texas are feeling at this moment. they're living every parents' worst nightmare. this morning, around the country, millions and millions of parents dropped kid off at school and they were fearful. in the country that we all believe is and must continue to be the greatest country on earth, parents dropped their kids off at school in fear that a gunman would walk into their classrooms and murder them. just think about that. and it has been going on for decades. decades in our country. we can remember the sinking, empty feeling after sandy hook. for a few days, there was a glimmer of hope that the senate would do something on a bipartisan basis, but then, the other side caved to the gun lobby. congress has done nothing, in response to all of this carnage in our schools, our grocery stores, our churches. mr. president, atrocity after atrocity, after atrocity, and yet, people still live in fear that their kids are next.

it's affecting texas in meaningful ways. that people are turning themselves over two officials and they are told to do that by the cartel if they have any claim to asylum. and that the runners know if they get caught it will be bad they go across country and being chased by the police and they don't stop. staffer innocent citizens in their path or branches they destroy property so we went up law enforcement in that region to target people from the state level. we have soon on 11 different cases multiple cases to the united states supreme court. and we were just granted cert in the united states supreme court over the policy prior to rescission memo they like to use fancy words like prior to rescission like they are not prior my —- taking a priority but they make illegal aliens convicted criminals had an easy way to stay in the country. why is that? we got the case and beat the doj now we are before the supreme court. [applause] >> we have the attorney general from arizona who has rendered a legal opinion that does constitu

on the constitutionality of the texas law the texas case was weather. we should take a basically a decision of a lower court, which was whether certain defendants in the texas case had an immunity from suit. that was a proced relationship, but you were very concerned about what it would do to people in, texas. yeah, it was why was that? for reasons that are obviously i know i think i think they would like to know because there were a lot of of women who believe they had a right to abortion and that this might discourage or prevent some from doing it and that fits into the procedural law because one of the things you take into account is weighing the equities that is to say if you issue in injunction, will it who will it hurt and how much and if you don't issue an injunction, who will it hurt and how much and in my own view it might hurt a large number of women. that's what i wrote. who wish to exercise their constitutional right to have the abortion and on the other hand? i didn't think it was an enormous harm to texas to postpone their law. okay, but t

lady of texas and the first to be a librarian. then when she became first lady of the nation, she started with my predecessor the national book festival and now we have a connection with her again because our new literary director was the person who helped her in texas and also starting the national book festival. he joined us last year's now clay smith is back so it is full-circle. misses -- misses bush contacted me personally to recommend him. how is that to have laura bush call and say you might be good? >> you brought some books. what do you want to show? carla: i can't get enough of david maraniss in his new best seller about jim thorpe. it is a heart rendering story. can we give a peek about it? he lost his olympic medals because of something other people were doing but he got caught because he told the truth. he went on to have a fantastic career. he has really been proclaimed one of the best athletes that ever lived. when you think about the inequities and the native american schools, that is part of the story. and then be

>> obviously to get a bipartisan agreement and then to represent texas. and then to get an outcome. and how many will vote for it to have an agreement yet. i want to speculate. and step onee is to get a deal and i said repeatedly. and it is definite related to the subject matter. >> [inaudible] >> on the issue of energy production it is utterly ridiculous that senator barrasso pointed out the various ways this administration is depressing fossil fuel production in ourn country. that they were exporting. and it is starting to get her own production up. >> we have heard from survivors. and to say it is time to raise the age limits on a semi automatic rifle. >> that would it surprise you to know i will try to negotiate the deal with you. waiting to see if we could get an outcome that directly relates to the problem that brought this issue to the floor one more time i personally would prefer hopefully to have

the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: madam president, i want to express my gratitude to the senator from ohio for his excellent remarks and for his support getting us to the point we are today which is on the cusp of a historic accomplishment, and that is to make sure the supply lines of advanced semiconductors remains available to american businesses and even more importantly to our national security. now two years ago, senator warner, the senior senator from vermont and i introduced the chips for america act. and it's been a long, strange trip until today. but i dare say at the time we introduced the bill, there were many people didn't know the difference between chocolate chips and microchips. and frankly that's an exaggeration but the point is most people are really unaware of the dependency of our economy and our national security and frankly just the quality of our life on access to these microcircuits known as semiconductors. and over time the semiconductor manufacturers have been able to make them smaller

an tense tennessee, pennsylvania, south carolina, arizona, texas, georgia, new york, and michigan. madam president, no other developed nation on earth as even a fraction of the mass shootings we have in thes united states. president lincoln once said famously, we cannot escape history. this senate cannot escape its responsibility to do something. we cannot allow ourselves to go numb and resigned to this mass murder. negotiations arens underway on a bipartisan basis to help reduce gun violence in america. i want to thank senators chris murphy of connecticut, joan cornyn of texas and the others democrats and republican who are trying to find a day to reduce gun violence but it takes 60 senators for that to happen. i hope in good faith we can at least take a step forward from this awful situation. house of representatives already acted last year to close gaps in gun background check system. this week the house will vote on bills to support extreme risk protection orders or red flag laws and other important measures. tomorrow the senate judiciary committee which i chair will hold a hea

so texas band abortion after roughly six weeks. that is the question. we know six weeks e is before viability, 15 weeks before viability. aside from the weird vigilante stuff t about your neighbor can sue your doctor and all that, at the heart of the question, can texas restrict access to t eabortion? that's a question agreed to decide. typically when the court has agreed to decide something and new case raising then' same question comes up, they put that on hold for an eventual decision in light of the first case to be decided so in the normal course of things what would have happened is the request for a stay in the texas case would have come off and the court would have stayed it, held in place to say the texas law on the verge of taking effect would not take affect but eventually the court would take that case if they felt necessary. the fact that they didn't do that says okay, there's an agenda driving a bunch of them, it takes only four votes to agree to hear ae case by five votes to grant a stay. also, it underscores the difference that amy barre

you mentioned texas. i want to talk about [indiscernible] better at organizing positions, recruiting top-notch talent in their offices [indiscernible] they have definitely been proactive. how has that played out in the immigration context? and in the most recent phase of immigration legislation, have they been more or less successful than we thought they would be? >> i will start, which is to say that yes, i think it was a dramatic change that started with the daca case in 2014 when president obama tried to expand the daca program to give preferred status to the parents, if they worked in the united states while they have this status. texas was successful in that litigation to shut down that program and it shut it down for the entire obama administration. president trump immediately put the travel ban in basically in the first week of his presidency and we saw the state of washington spring into washington to violate these travel bans and from there it just became four years of that, which now by texas an

the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: mr. president, considering the way our democratic friends talk about the state of voting rights in america, it's easy to see why some people have exercised -- expressed concerns because if you took them at face value, you might be very worried about the state of voting rights in our country. but there's more to the story than that which i hope to explain here in the next few minutes. for example, when it comes to the alarmism about voting rights, look no further than the democratic majority whip, senator durbin, from illinois, who said there is an insidious effort to suppress the rights of voters of color. senator schumer, the majority leader, the senator from new york, has said the right to vote is under attack in ways we have not seen in generations. president biden, himself, has said there is a 21st century jim crow assault on the right to vote. if you were to take these at face value and accept them, obviously you would be very concerned about the state of voting rights. but there is

so texas is abortion after roughly six weeks. six-week is before viability. something weird vigilante staff. neighbor can see your dr. all about. the heart of the question is texas restrict access to abortion in this manner? that is a question the court decided typically on the court is already agreed to decide something same question comes up they put the case on oregon jule decision in light of the first cases decided. the workhorses of what happened is the request for a stay in the texas case court would have stated it, held things into place the texas law on the verge of taking effect would not take affect. but eventually the court would take that case in light of the going to do mississippi. fa did not t do that there is an agenda driving tape only four votes to retake encasement five votes to grant a stay is also underscores the difference in you. assumption to the court and ruth gator ginsburg's seat. what is meant it certainly had justice ginsburg five votes to stay. is just to set it in her dissenting opinion with the court for the second time refuse

next we hear from democrats at the arena summit in austin, texas. wendy davis has the words not deeds of political organization. ♪ ♪ ♪ thank you, good morning. good morning, good morning, good morning. i'm so to be here with you. thank you so much for that wonderful introduction. thank you all so much for showingd up with your energy, ad your desire to do good in the world this morning. i was asked by our friends at arena to begin byth talking with you a little bit about why i got into politics. how i got into politics. but i thought it might be better to start the question really are the answer to the question, who was i when i showed up to do that? it is a question i hope you ask yourself today and on this journey ahead, why am i showing up? who am i? what are the values bringing forward to creating what my desire to get involved in some way. whether it is to run for office others to work in the nonprofit world on an issue that you care very much about. regardless of what it is showing up for reason. showing up for something in your own pers

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is it still a stain in texas? does it still affect texas politics? guest: it was interesting, i was doing several events after the book was published in as you hear from the call, it was still very much top of mind. when people thought of john f. kennedy, a thought of the assassination. i heard a lot about it in dallas. the texas book depository in the museum exists, museum paying tribute to john f. kennedy, the site where lee harvey oswald perpetrated the murder of president kennedy. there is still a presence in dallas, but it really is on the mind of folks in that part of the world, anyway. i couldn't quite have imagined had i not gone up there to talk about john f. kennedy and of course, other places in the united states to talk about the book. it wasn't quite as prevalent as it was in dallas. i don't think it continues to be a stain, but it is still very much a part of the consciousness in particular of those in dallas. host: carlos in studio city, california, you're on the historian mark of the group. go ahead. caller: so great to see you and he

everyone welcome and thank you for being here at the 2022 texas book festival, live from austin, texas. my name is brian sweeney. i'm the proud member of the advisory board at the texas book festival. and though i am biased, i firmly believe it is the best one in the country. so thank you for being here. we are absolutely delighted today to have two unbelievably talented authors on our panel talking about the environment both past and future. i'm going to start at the end. i'd like to welcome maya cave and ross and to austin and to the book festival. she is an author. lawyer and activist. for 30 years, she has led the delaware river keeper network, which is the area where she grew up and lives now with her family. and she is the founder of the green amendment for the generations, which is the subject of her book, which has been updated. it is called the green amendment the people's fight for a clean, safe and healthy environment. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome maya, keith and rossum. and sitting to my right is a gentleman that i've had the opportunity to work with previously, bee

he is the chair of science at texas a&m and in n2022 he was named director of texas and items center for climate studies. professor dessler served in the clinton administration during thelast year he served as senior policy analyst in the white house office of science and technology . his latest book introduction to modern climate change won the 2014 american meteorological society's louis j batten authors award. we are also pleased to have alex epstein. president and founder of the center for industrial progress, author of the moral case for fossil fuels. alex is a philosopher who argues them and flourishing to be the guiding principle of industrial and environmental progress. he is author of the new york times bestseller the moral case for fossil fuel and alex is known for his willingness to debate anyone anytime and has publicly debated leading environmentalist organizations such as greenpeace, the sierra club and 50-50.org over the morality of fossil fuel use. and finally our moderator for this morning's today is dan njegomir. dan is a longtime journalist and more than 25 year ve