can compel people to testify to the legislature, but he is attempting to jail the mayors of madison, wisconsineen bay, wisconsin, the second and third largest cities in the state. he's attempting to jail them because they will not sit for these extralegal depositions in some kind of contemporary star chamber in an office building that he has rented space in the suburbs. >> jeffrey mandell is president and lead counsel of law forward, who is absolutely part of this fight that is fully joined in wisconsin. thank you for helping us understand what's going on in your state tonight, sir. thank you. >> thank you. >> we have much more ahead here tonight. stay with us. it's our holiday savings event on the sleep number 360 smart bed. what if i sleep hot? ...or cold? no problem, the sleep number 360 smart bed is temperature balancing so you both sleep just right. and it senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both effortlessly comfortable. so, you can really promise better sleep? yes! you'll know exactly how well you slept, night after night. we take care of the science. all you hav

can compel people to testify to the legislature, but he is attempting to jail the mayors of madison, wisconsinand green bay, wisconsin, the second and third largest cities in the state. he's attempting to jail them because they will not sit for these extralegal depositions in some kind of contemporary star chamber in an office building that he has rented space in the suburbs. >> jeffrey mandel is president and lead counsel of law forward, who is absolutely part of this fight that is fully joined in wisconsin. thank you for helping us understand what's going on in your state tonight, sir. thank you. >> thank you. >> we have much more ahead here tonight. stay with us. esh. in wash-scent booster. ♪ downy unstopables ho ho ho! not again. oh no. for the gifts you won't forget. the mercedes-benz winter event. get a credit toward your first month's payment on select models. alice loves the scent of gain so much, she wished there was a way to make it last longer. say hello to your fairy godmother alice and long-lasting gain scent beads. try spring daydream, now part of our irresistible scent collectio

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. >> this year's wisconsin book festival in madison starts now on book tv. first, history professor discusses the firestone tire and rubber company's operations in the 1920s. >> good morning, everyone. i'm the director of the wisconsin book festival. thank you very much for joining us here today for our first in person wisconsin book festival in two years. it's been two years to the day. [applause] >> throughout the course of the pandemic, we put on more than 100 virtual events for people in madison, wisconsin, people across the country and the globe. it was a success, but we knew we wanted to get back to free cultural events in this space all together hosting great authors like this author we have here with us today to start off the 2021 fall celebration. this is the 20th time that we have celebrated the wisconsin book festival. it started back in 2002, and here we are bigger and better than we've ever been. i really want to thank you all for coming out today celebrating with us and want to greet the people viewing at home. thank you very much for watching.

gregg should get a phd at the university of madison wisconsin.plause] >> back to the question, yes, rubber is still a big commodity in liberia. [inaudible]. simply because someone told me, and that's true, you can't eat the rubber. so you would grow it mostly for export. but we use oil palm for food, cooking, medicine. that's why we chose to grow oil palm. the way we grow it, it is kind of different. used to export the oil to the u.s. and other places. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. again, thank you, gregg. >> thank you. [applause] >> any other questions? >> [inaudible]. >> d can you use the mic? >> [inaudible]. >> the lease has been renegotiated a number of times, when william tubman was president in the 1970s, it was renegotiated in a way that was much more towards liberian -- more favorable to liberia. for example, it was only in the 1970s that liberians started to be promoted into management positions. even into the early 60s, there was not a single manager on the plantations who was liberian. so things really started to change in the 1970s, in te

for people in madison, wisconsin, people across the country and the globe. tremendous success but we always knew we wanted to get back to free, cultural events in this space, hosting great authors who we have like greg mitmin we have today to start off the fall 2020 celebration. it started in 2002 and here we are bigger and better than we've been so thank you all for coming out today, greet the peel happen viewing the a home, thanks so much for watching, your time and attention really means a lot to me. i want to take a moment to thank madison public library, the foundation, and everyone who sponsors and supports the book festival, thank you so much, we really wouldn't be able to put on events of this level, quality, after caliber without your support. thank you so much and a round of applause for those people. this is the first event of 12 hours of events we'll do here at madison central library. i hope you looked at the schedule already, maybe picked out other things to do, upcoming events later in the month, please check wisconsin book festival.org. i alr

top officials in both milwaukee and madison, wisconsin, have been menaced as the lies spread and took root. it has never been harder in wisconsin or in the nation to do the hard work of actually insuring election integrity. and it's never been harder to do the hard work of actually telling the truth about the threats to our democracy. but on monday, senator kathy bernier told the truth, and every citizen of our state should thank her. that's the milwaukee "journal sentinel," again, this week, shining a light and really standing up and cheering for a republican who is being brave on this subject. who is the whole rest of her party nationwide and state-wide is indulging in this stuff. she is standing up and she's the chair of the elections committee in the senate in wisconsin. she's standing up as a republican and saying, actually, you know what, no, this is all nonsense, i'm not going along with it. and it cannot be an easy thing for a republican to do. but she is doing it. >> this is a charade. there's a simple explanation for almost every single thing that people accuse election offi

risk management and now i'm here in madison, wisconsin. largely physically in the midwest but i have work nationwide. host: we have just over to the house oversight and reform committee hearing that they are holding this morning by the national security subcommittee on terrorist threats facing the united states. we'll head there at 10a.m. eastern. we'll go to margie in pennsylvania. margie on that line for those who live in flood risk areas. good morning. caller: i'm calling about national flood insurance. we had one in our house in 2018. and our insurance didn't cover. and the national flood insurance i heard from people that had it and we don't cover this or don't cover that. very annoying. if you pay insurance premiums every year. and then we called the counti' thid they -- said they had to meet a certain threshold to get insurance coverage for the area. we were left out in the cold. it's not right. thank you. host: what the national flood insurance program does and doesn't cover.

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to madison, wisconsin. those lies are undermining confidence in the most basic of american institutions. the ballot box. all the lies and ceaseless provocation comes at a serious cost. 68% of republicans nationwide do not have confidence in the 2020 election, according to a november poll. what they're doing is dangerous. in addition to threatening democracy, some people are also threatening elections officials. top officials in both milwaukee and madison, wisconsin, have been menaced as the lies spread and took root. it has never been harder in wisconsin or in the nation to do the hard work of actually insuring election integrity. and it's never been hard toor do the hard work of actually telling the truth about the threats to our democracy. but on monday, senator kathy bernier told the truth, and every citizen of our state should thank her. that's the milwaukee journal sentinel, again, this week, shining a light and really standing up and cheering for a republican who is being brave on this subject. who is

reporter mark koehn of wisc in madison, wisconsin, shows us just what it takes to work on the road. >> steve ferdin has been driving big rigs most his life. >> 13 years ago he traded the road for the classroom, he is one of the instructors here at the diesel truck driving school in wisconsin. >> what is the hardest part about this. >> for most people it is double clutching. as you can see my left knee when i shift the gear, i'm going to go like this, half and out, half and out and that is a coordination thing. >> not to mention an empty tractor trailer weighs some 31,000 pounds, it's 64 feet long and eight and a half feet wide. driving one is not an easy job. on the road. >> off duty status. >> or in the classroom, more than 900 students earn their commercial driver's license or cdl. >> we go through double clutching and maneuvering, it is too much information to take in at one time but at least they have some idea, they see what double clutching is, they have seen. >> it is a difficult occupation from the standpoint that you have to be committed. you have to like it because whether y

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nurse in madison, wisconsin. >> we have patients coming in all the time, waiting in the waiting room, waiting in the hallways, waiting on carts, waiting to go upstairs. >> reporter: sarah rauner is the chief pediatric nurse at beaumont hospital in troy, michigan. >> we are burnt out. we are tired and we are disheartened. so much of what we see on a daily basis is preventable. >> reporter: president biden now calling in a thousand additional military doctors, nurses, and paramedics to help. and tapping the national stockpile of masks, gloves, and ventilators. >> we're ready to send them immediately to any state that needs more. >> and so let's get right to cecilia vega, live at the white house tonight. and cecilia, back to this issue with testing, the president promising to send out 500 million at-home rapid test kits to americans come january. and i know you pressed the white house press secretary today on exactly how this is going to work. >> reporter: yeah, david, they still don't have a lot of details. we know these are at-home rapid tests, brandens that have been approved by the f

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now jo nichols, national affairs correspondent for the nation in madison. wisconsin. good to see you, john. what did you make of president biden's push? as i said, he pulls at the patriotic strings. maybe that will work, but there's always gonna be this portion of society who's just saying not, not going to get it. i think that's exactly right. you could hear that in the president's message. he will certainly as you suggest, pulled at the patriotic strings. he also gave a very, very long address. he spoke for a good deal of time to the american people in a live setting, which i think certainly will get a lot of attention. but with the in it, you heard the evidence of the challenge that he faces. at one point he called out those who had been critical of are skeptical of getting vaccinations. he basically pleaded with them to start distributing misinformation. he also made the point that donald trump has gotten a booster shot. and so he was clearly trying to address this division and i, you know, i mean, i'd give him credit for doing that. but i think if we're honest wi

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. >> reporter: at least the mayor of madison, wisconsin. a democratic strongholds.blic view. >> because he wants to ask you those questions in private, he is going to seek your arrest? >> yes. if it comes down to it and i have to go to jail for democracy, i won't be first person to have done so. >> reporter: gableman was hired by speaker robin boss pictured here with donald trump. he tweeted about the top to bottom i nvestigation. after this tweet, gableman's investigation expanded. >> good morning. >> reporter: we tried to talk to speaker vause. his office says he had no time this week. we wanted to know why he would hire gableman who just days after the 2020 election cast doubt on wisconsin's election results. >> our elected leaders have allowed unelected bureaucrats at the wisconsin election commission to steal our vote. >> reporter: records obtained by american oversight show taxpayers paid to fly gableman to arizona last summer where the widely debunked partisan review of the 2020 ballots took place. then he went to south dakota to my pillow guy cyber symposium

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a lab in madison, wisconsin is behind the technology. >> we take the carbon from the sugar, we rearrangec process and create the same materials that you would get from the traditional petroleum refining process. >> and it smells like gas, looks like gas? >> smells like gas, looks like gas, burns like gas. kumasi: it burns up to 75% cleaner than regular fuel, but this is a whole new industry. it will take a few years for this field to be made available on a commercial scale, because refineries have to take the time to build it. reggie: overnight, tesla began selling the cyber quad for kids. it is a small four wheel atv with the lithium ion battery with a top speed of 10 miles per hour. tesla says it is suitable for kids eight and up with maximum weight being 150 pounds. the actual full-size cyber quad is not available yet, but the kids model gives a good indication of what that is going to look like. remember when you just got kids a bike? like a bicycle, and that was a big deal? mike: that you have to paddle yourself? reggie: use your legs, your heart, your energy. mike: there's a little

that includes madison, wisconsin, where residents woke up to these headlines on the front page of theal, warning the area's hospitals are already, quote, dangerously close to crisis and testing is in short supply. joining me now is madison mayor conway. good to have you with us. thanks so much. i know madison short on hospital beds, short on tests. what are you doing right now to tackle this? what is it your city needs right now? >> thank you for having us on to talk about what's going on in mad sob, in wisconsin. we are concerned, we are currently experiencing a high number of covid cases. as you said, and hospitalizations. we also have pretty high testing, which is a good thing. honestly, we need more tests, we need more testing capacity. we need people to be able to test at home if they have an exposure so that we can really understand who's been exposed, who's got covid and who needs to be isolating or to get care. honestly, we're doing pretty well in terms of vaccination here in madison. we're very proud of that. and, of course, we need everybody to get vaccinated or boosted if t

. >> jimmy: chicago, madison, wisconsin.eriences let's just say that. >> yeah. >> jimmy: at the airport and you've taken photos, and you've brought the photos to our show >> yes >> jimmy: and can i show the photo first or do you want to talk about the situation >> well, i'll tell you, you know, we are in the middle of a pandemic and i was in between cities and i was hungry and so, i scoured the airport for a place to sit alone, away from everyone to be as safe as i could to take my mask off and eat. >> jimmy: yeah >> and i laid out all of my food on the seat next to me. and right as i started eating, and i'm telling you, the area was empty. show the picture [ laughter ] these are all empty seats. so are these [ laughter ] so are across from her >> jimmy: but right behind - >> so was the whole row that she was sitting in but she sat right there. right behind me. >> jimmy: this other photo is something that we can all help you with you brought us a problem that we can give you a solution >> i'm hoping. here's the thing i don't

treating covid patients coming to us from around the country, new york, houston denver, and madison, wisconsin, dr. angela chen, mt. sinai er doctor. dr. morgan eatermoser, and dr. joseph varon from the united memorial medical center in texas. welcome to you all and thank you all for all of the work you've been doing over the last two years and for your entire career, appreciate you taking the time. i know you're all quite busy right now. dr. chen, i want to start with you on this one, because you are in new york, where i am as well. you diagnosed the first covid patient back in march of 2020. 21 months later, did you expect to be where we are now with covid raging throughout new york? >> no. i truly think that along with the rest of my colleagues, we thought that we would be far beyond where we are today. you know, there have been so many twists and turns with new variants popping up. a lot of us were very, very hopeful when vaccines were available and we thought that we would see the pandemic come to an end. so seeing numbers like we are currently seeing in new york city, where cases are up

. >> satya rhodes-conway is the mayor of madison, wisconsin, a democratic strong hoel one of a numbergate her in this building away from public view. because he wants to ask you those questions in private he is going to seek your -- >> yes if it comes down to it and i have to go to jail for democracy i certainly won't be the first person to do so. >> reporter: she was hired by voss, pictured here with donald trump. voss tweeted about the top-to-bottom investigation by justice michael goeblman. after this tweet goeblman's investigation expanded. >> good morning. >> reporter: we talked to talk to speaker voss. >> we sent in a request for an interview. >> reporter: his office said voss had no time this week. we wanted to know why he would hire goeblman who just days after the 2020 election cast doubt on wisconsin's election results. >> our elected leaders have allowed unelected bureaucrats at the wisconsin election commission to steal our votes. >> reporter: records obtained by american oversight a left leaning watch dog group show taxpayers paid to fly goeblman to arizona last summer wh

. >> reporter: liz cheney was born to dick and lynn cheney in 1966 in madison, wisconsin. undergraduate. then, before going to university of chicago law school, she worked for the state department for five years. later, she ran for the senate. >> today, i am launching my candidacy for the united states senate. >> reporter: in her 2014 run, she spoke out against same-sex marriage despite the fact her you younger sister mary married a woman. >> i do believe in the traditional definition of marriage. >> reporter: she has since changed her position. >> i was wrong. um, i was wrong. i love my sister very much. >> reporter: liz cheney ended up dropping out of that senate race. but in 2016, she won wyoming's house seat and quickly became the most powerful woman in the house leadership. her place in history is still being written, though. she is vowing to keep her house seat, despite trump's endorsement of her key opponent. and the wyoming republican party calling for her resignation. >> there is nothing liz cheney loves more than a good fight. >> reporter: randi kaye, cnn, palm b

it is the 20th time, that madison, that wisconsin, that the country has come together to celebrate the wisconsin book festival. i feel a tremendous sense of kind of weight y history as i stand up here today. i want to take this moment to thank madison public library, the library foundation and all of our sponsors. their support, particularly over the last 18 months, but over the last 20 years to ensure that we have free cultural events like this where we can celebrate great wisconsin authors like megan. it's been steadfast and unwavering. a quick round of applause for the library foundation. [applause] to the matter at hand, megan is a writer who is raised and still lives in the midwest. it is always wonderful when the wisconsin book festival can host great wisconsin authors and megan is certainly one of those. you may have seen her at the festival for her first collection of essays "interior states" which was published to a wide acclaim and won the 2018 believer booker award for nonfiction. it is absolutely wonderful that we get to call her our own here in madison. this book is really

madison room. >> the wisconsin book festival continues. next author jude stuart talks about the science behind our sense of smell. >> hi, i'm the owner of table wine, a wine store here in madison. thank you for coming to the wisconsin book festival on this beautiful afternoon to see june stewart for her brilliant new book. thanks to the madison public library and all of our sponsors. if you haven't already, please silence your cellphones. we encourage you to post about this and other events on social media and remember to include the hashtag wibook fest when you do. and i seriously believe you all need to buy a copy of this book and for every single person that you know. this is her third book. and jude writes about design and culture for the atlantic, slate and other publications. in addition to being an aesthetically beautiful book, revelations in air and a masterful combination along with instructful exercises for the reader. jude's writing manages to be friendly and complex, and you want to follow her on all these smell journeys even if

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