i want to talk a little bit about abca 15. a lot of people ask when we had him, how old he is, when we got him so i wanted to introduce you to him all the way since he is not here tonight. he is resting. he had a lot of press interviews this week so we thought we would let him rest up. i got marlon at depaul university in chicago. i was studying digital cinema and english. i wrote a short film, it needed a bunny in it. a lot of people told me change it to a turtle or something, easier to find. i don't know why internal would be easier to find. it needs to be a bunny. and i looked online, looked at pet stores and found him on craigslist. he is a craigslist bunny and no price was listed and i asked the owner how much for the bunny, make me an offer. this became a godfather joke with my friends. we should name him marlon brando. i said no but we have to name him abca 15. got to get the bunny pun in. that is how marlon came into our family. he lived with me in college in the dorm for only a week because that is not allowed. he liv

joseph surette, desiree cooper, margo jefferson, abca 12, abca tylan. thai -- tai allen. >> good afternoon. my name is joseph surette from african-american studies. it is my privilege to moderate this panel. just to give you a quick sense of what to expect our call to this roundtable gathering of waters to call for healing and introduce panelists in the order in which they open the conversation, they offer brief remarks, brief opening remarks and follow-up you and a among the panel and open up looking to engage all of you who are here in conversation. a call for healing, the mandate from the national black writers conference literature and poetry often served as a bomb where we are faced with personal and societal challenges, through creative storytelling and prose writers expressed ways of overcoming ideas for harnessing emotional strength and meditated on the elements that pertain to the well-being of families and communities, individually and collectively. during this discussion panelists discuss how literary narratives, nurturing and reflecting refl

house, four different bills headed by republican congressman will flappy aim to reverse the obama era abca5 program protecting illegal miners from deportation and calls to strengthen border security but not with the border wall. backers urging paul ryan to schedule a debate. new call for criminal investigation into those involved in the clinton email probe. a dozen republican rivers of congress sending a referral to the justice department and fbi to look at potential violations of federal law. x atty. gen. loretta lynch and the investigation was mishandled and politically motivated. >> those were the critical emails and the hillary clinton investigation and jim comey didn't pursue this was how can you be socialist with everyone associated with trump's campaign and bend over backwards time and time again, to not be after obstruction. neil: more on that. 10 minutes after the top of the hour and attacked with guns and explosives, the un team inspecting syrian chemical site will try again today after coming under attack. live overseas with the push for more security to access that area and don

abca 12 grew out of conversations from betting the farm. it was conversations with people like you. i can be reached pretty much 24 hours a day 7 days a week at 570588-6000. that is my home phone number. 570-236-4050 is my cell phone number. seamus mcgraw - i am on facebook as seamus mcgraw and i'm on twitter is seamus mcgraw. if you like the book when you read it and like the characters and read the other books you like the characters in it, join the conversation because we are all having a conversation and you guys will lead me to my next book. >> as i mentioned, the previous book that seamus mcgraw came to our festival to present, is about people from the east coast to the west coast, this book has the subtitle, the book is called a thirsty land. the making of an american water crisis. the book is about water in texas. it is about texas and so seamus mcgraw, bad subtitling, why is this book all about texas? >> i will put it this way. texas is not, from my experience, i have fallen in love with texas. let me put it another way. i have fallen in love with all the texans. there isn'

. >> reporter: the stakes couldn't be higher, donald trump tweeting abca 20 unnoticed, if the meetingoes nowhere he will not hesitate to walk away. >> if the meeting is not fruitful i will respectfully leave the meeting. >> reporter: japanese prime minister shinzo abe echoing the confidence but cautioning against being too soft on the dictator. this comes a day after it is revealed that cia director mike pompeo said easter weekend in pyongyang the groundwork for successful stocks but pompeo facing serious opposition in his senate confirmation, 9 of 10 democrats in the senate foreign relations committee, filled up against him with the lone democrat from delaware remaining undecided concerns. >> it makes me more concerned, not less that pompeo asks for the purpose of the president and stand up to him at times he makes abrupt and unwarranted changes in direction. >> reporter: sen. koontz could be a critical vote because at least one republican, sen. rand paul, not likely to change his mind because of concerns of pompeo's hockessin this. the president is not worried about pompeo's confirm