we are honored to have bob wilson speak today on barnum: an american life. welcome, bob. [applause] >> i have so many microphones going on here, i -- and now this is on too. thank you, kathy, for that lovely introduction. thank you for everything you do for the barnum museum. thank you for having me here at the barnum museum. and thank you for everything that you and the people who work with you have done to help me in writing this book, researching and writing this. book. i also want to thank adrian st. pierre, the curator here, and really just throughout the years of working on the book offered me encouragement, lots of good information and helped me a lot with the photographs in the book later on. i'm also really pleased to be able to tell you that the great barnum scholar of this time or any time, arthur saxton, is here in the front row here -- [applause] arthur could have been or forgiven for not being wholly welcoming of someone who wrote him a letter and said i'd like to write a biography of barnum. said, well, i did that. and i did it pretty well. not pretty well,

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coming up thursday morning, bob dean of the natural resources defense council discusses efforts to combat climate change. then author and police officer adam wilson talks about the challenges facing law enforcement in the u.s. and the state of police community relations. watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. >> c-span's live campaign 2020 coverage continues.

coming up thursday morning, bob dean of the natural resources defense council discusses efforts to combat climate change. then author and police officer adam wilson talks about the challenges facing law enforcement in the u.s. and the state of police community relations. watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. >> c-span's live campaign 2020 coverage continues. live thursday at 1:30 p.m. eastern with democratic presidential candidate senator cory booker from the university of new hampshire law school. watch live on c-span, online at c-span.org or listen live on the free c-span radio app. campaign 2020, watch our continuing coverage of the presidential candidates on the campaign trail and make up your

coming up this morning, bob deans of the national resources defense council discusses climate change. then author and police officer adam wilsonalks about challenges facing law enforcement in the u.s. and the state of police and community relations. watch "washington journal," live at 7:00 a.m. eastern this morning. join the discussion. live campaign 2020 coverage continues live today at 1:30 p.m. eastern with presidential candidate senator cory booker from the university of new hampshire law school. watch live on c-span, online at c-span.org, or listen live on the free c-span radio app. on friday, the d.c. circuit court of appeals will hear two courses, the first on whether doner white house counsel mcgahn needs to comply with a congressional subpoena to testify. the second on congress's access to the mueller grand jury testimony. oral argument begins at 9:30 a.m. eastern. we will have those live on c-span2. >> normally what would happen is there would be a team of helicopters helping each other and supporting each other to make sure that they were safe. but because there was no one else there and it had to be done, o'donnell

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