this is his first book, a richard harris. [applause] >> five. >> thank you very much and for coming out i do appreciate it. so to talk about the book i'm interested in hearing your questions as she mentioned i have been at npr 31 years and to cover just about everything. after a long stretch of covering climate change in the 1990's and 2000's my boss said how about going back to biomedical research? i said i'd better brushup so one of the first things i did look at the nih budget i was startled to discover it had been undergoing severe gyrations from 2003 since 1998 which seemed like good news for biomedical research but after 2003 the dollars flattened out in the spending power a decreased by 20 percent so i thought this is not a good formula for things to be happening. fifty% increase of academic labs for biomedical research and basically congress said we have done enough that is not a good thing to be happening -- happening. so sure the there after i came across a paper published in the journal nature that looked at what w

richard harris reports on the challenges facing scientific research and we wrap up with former pepperdine university president david davenport and his newest book on american individualism. >> hundreds of author programs are coming up this week. we write about race in america featuring author and pennsylvania university professor mary francis berry. on wednesday, we head to the strand bookstore in new york city to here dr. elizabeth ford about her work in the mental health field. thursday we are live from the publishing industries annual trade show book expo america in new york city where former presidential candidate and secretary of state hillary clinton talks about her upcoming book. friday we continue coverage from book expo america as authors visit to talk about soon to be published books. first daughters jenna and barbara bush are joining us, lawrence odonal as well. and our live in depth program and matt taibbi who will talk about his several books and take questions. that is a look at some events booktv is covering this week. many events are open to the public and look for them it

contrast to harry, richard the third another person who talk about what he was doing and who could think about himself like a character in the play. early on in the history of richard the third, richard says after noting that he is deformed, saying that i've created my deformity to look at my shadow occurs. and therefore he says since i cannot prove to entertain these affair, well spoken days i am determined to prove a villain and hate vital pleasures of these days he's a villain. and later when he responds to two young princes about to go to the tower he calls himself a figure out of the place. richard knows that his audience knows that he is a character in a play. he also knows that history likes such characters. historical figure sometimes look at their actions after stories that they have encountered in sacred text or folktales. politicians and actors keep an eye and where legends may take them. no modern president can avoid a logan or reagan, these presidents are well aware of the way in which life becomes a story. and ronald reagan quoting the film in which she was the star. shakes

contrast to harry, richard the iii, another person who loves to talk about what he was doing and love do is think about himself as if he is a character in the play early on in the history of richard of iii, richard says after noting he is deformed and created the death cam of my deformity and look at my shadows and curse. therefore he says since i cannot prove a lover who entertain these farewell spoken days i am determined to prove a vilian and hate the idol pleasures of these days. later when talking to two young princes about to go to the castle, he knows he is a character in a play and also knows that history likes such characters. both of these presidents were well aware of the way in which life becomes a story and lincoln with his readings of shakespeare and ronald reagan quoting a film in which he was a star. shakespeare would have appreciated what jimmy stuart said at the end: when the legend becomes fact, print the legend. number six; shakespeare knew that race is a kind of script that governs our actions. the period in which shakespeare lived and work is a period in which so

contrast to harry richard the third, another person who loves to talk about what he's talk about buddies doing unless you think musty think about himself if it be the carrot during the play. early on in the history of richard the third, richards says after noting that he is deformed, saying i've created the death hand on my deformity, to look at my shadow incurs. and i cannot prove a lover to entertain these farewell spoken days, i am determined to prove a villain and hate the idle pleasures of these days. and later when it's talking to their two young princes about to go into the tower, he calls himself a figure from a morality play. his audience knows that he's a dear in a play and he also knows that history like such characters. historical figures sometimes styled their action they've encountered in sacred text. politicians as well as that does keep an eye on where legends may take them. no modern president from a boy being compared to others' actions were larger than life. both of these presidents were well aware of the way life becomes the story. his frequent reading of shakespeare

harris. the dj, richard curtis. >> i wish somebody would give us the weather for wildwood. >> maybe we zero we'llin 15 seconds. >> flip flop day at the shore, 62 degrees, both saturday, sunday, today, 90, that's your "shorecast." if you're headed down to wildwood or where ever. today 90 here, and some thunderstorms, with a colds front, so it is only in the 70s over the weekend. and that is a look at your seven day forecast. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> welcome, quincy harry, we have to have a round every applause for our dj. richard curtis. (applause). >> hi, glad to be here, glad to be here. >> we have to introduce our two teams, to the left of me, we have the lovely alex holley. and michael eugene jerrick. >> and to the right of me, we have the lovely karen hepp, i lover the sunshine that you have you have radiating today, lovely sue serio. >> the rules are really simple. they're real certainly. dj richard will play a song, and the first team to buzz in, and name the song correctly, will get the point. okay, we'll try to get as many of these as we consideration okay? dj richard, drop that beat. >> ♪ >> okay? >

rolf harris has appeared at southwark crown court. richard lister is outside the court. has been following the events in court via video lunning, but today he came to southwark crown court for the first time in person. he was in the dock throughout. he was very he was in the dock throughout. he was very attentive as we heard from the third and final witness, the third woman of three who alleges that as teenagers they were molested by rolf harris between 1971 and 1983. the woman who we heard from today says that in 1983 when she was 13 she had been to the filming of a bbc kids tv programme called saturday superstore she says after the filming was finished she was this the green room and alleges that mr harris put his arm around her and touched her breasts and said, "do you often get molested on a saturday morning?" she didn't report this to police until 2014. she was asked why she waited so long? she said i spent 30 odd years not being believed and ididn't 30 odd years not being believed and i didn't think they would believe me and she added, "i didn't think they would se

rolf harris is on trial at southwark crown court for four allegations of indecent assault against three teenage girls between 1971 and 1983. he denies all the charges. richardthe judge told the jury last week that mr harris had been convicted of other offences but would attend this trial. the court proceedings have been monitored by him via a video link. today he arrived at southwark for the first time and sat in the tock using an audio hearing loop to hear the proceedings as they went on for the course of the morning. he heard allegations from one of his three accusers that in 1983 when she was 13, she'd been to the filming of a bbc kids programme, saturday superstore, and in the green room after the filming, she said mr harris came up behind her, put his arms around her, touched her breast and she said he'd said "do you often get molested on a saturday morning? ". the get molested on a saturday morning? thejury heard she didn't get molested on a saturday morning? the jury heard she didn't report this until 2014 and wood asked why she waited so long to bring the matter to the police. she said "i spent 30—odd years being believe and ididn't spent 30—odd yea

interfere in the election to congressional leadership, specifically senators harry reid, mitch mcconnell, dianne feinstein and richard burr, and to representativing paul ryan, nancy pelosi, devin nunez and adam schiff between 11 august and 6 september. >> that's last september, height of the campaign that he's briefing republican and democratic members of congress. are you -- what is your reaction to the reaction of folks like mcconnell and ryan and their -- the way they've handled this issue throughout? >> well, i think there's a question there whether they had informed congress about the russian manipulation of the election or the context with the trump campaign. but the fact of the matter is, this should have been a much bigger deal at the time. and i know that both senator mcconnell and speaker ryan know the potential gravity of this, and unfortunately, they are not taking it seriously enough. there's real political peril for republicans if they continue to stand with this president and back up some of his attempts to try to stop the truth from coming out. ultimately this will land at their feet, as well as the p

interfere in the election to congressional leadership, specifically senators harry reid, mitch mcconne, dianne feinstein and richard rr,nd to representatives paul ryan, nancy pelosi, devin nunes and adam schiff between 11 august and 6 september. i provided the same briefing to each of the gang of eight members. given the highly sensitive nature of what was an active counterintelligence case involving an ongoing russian effort to interfere in our presidential election, the full details of what we knew at the time were shared only with those members of congress. each of whom was accompanied by one senior staff member. the substance of those briefings was entirely consistent with the main judgments contained in the january classified and unclassified assessments, namely that russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the u.s. democratic process, denigrate secretary clinton and harm her electability and potential presidency, and to help president trump's election chances. let me conclude by saying that it was a very special privilege to serve as a cia officer for the first 25 years of my public service, and it wa

interfere in the election to congressional leadership, specifically senators harry reid, mitch mcconnell, dianne feinstein, and richard burr, and to representatives paul ryan, nanci pelosi, devin nunes and adam schiff, between 11 august and 6 september. i provided the same briefing to each of the gang of eight members. given the highly sensitive nature of what was an active counterintelligence case involving an ongoing russian effort to interfere in our presidential election, the full details of what we knew at the time were shared only with those members of congress, each of whom was accompanied by one senior staff member. the substance of those briefings was entirely consistent with the main judgments contained in the january classified and unclassified assessments, namely that russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the u.s. democratic process, denigrate secretary clinton and harm her electability and potential presidency, and to help president trump's election chances. let me conclude by saying that it was a very special privilege to serve as i cia officer for the first 25 years of my public service, and

both republican and democratic presidents from truman, harry truman, some say back to franklin roosevelt to richardchard nixon, back further, tried to expand health care to all americans, it was president barack obama, however, who was the first to actually deliver the affordable care act. of course, rebranded obamacare standses ah ss as his signaturec accomplishment. >> i have no problem with folks saying obama cares. i do care. if the other side wants to be the folks who don't care, that's fine with me. >> principle campaign promise that bill was signed into law on march 23, 2010, aloud americans to purchase health care and almost immediately came under assault. >> look at how this bill was written. can you say it was done openly? >> with transparency and accountability? without back room deals and struck behind closed doors? hidden from the people? hell no you can't. have you read the bill? have you read the reconciliation bill? have you read the managers amendment? hell no you haven't. >> obamacare was bad law yesterday. it is bad law today. >> today we start the process of rescuing the america

harris got into some kind of argument and it was drug related. johnson is charged with first and second degree murder. >>> army lieutenant richard collins iii will be laid to rest tomorrow. his murder raddled university of maryland and police say he wasle an unprovoked attack while visiting some friends at maryland this past saturday. the accused killer was a maryland student. investigators are trying to figure out if it was a hate crime. the university of maryland has launched an action plan to deal with hate and bias incidents on campus. >>> next last minute drama in a special election in montana. you have been hearing about it all day. one of the candidates charged with assault. will it stop him from getting elected to congress? news 4's cameras were there as a disabled vietnam veteran walked into his new home. we will have the reaction. and the story so many of you are sharing. the real reason for this holiday weekend. we will take you out to arlington cemetery for the annual flags in. to take on the "tom insurance companies and the credit card companies and the wall street banks... that's what tom perriello is about." p

harry talked about some form of national healthcare. it has been 70 years and presidents since him, including lyndon johnson and richard nixon and jimmy carter have tried various versions. why is it so hard? why, after seven years, can we not get this right? mr. isasi: we really struggle with the question of, is health care that every family deserves to live to their full potential or is it something you have to earn? that debate goes back and forth year after year. i think the answer is clear. everybody has to have access to high-quality health care in order for every person to live up to their full potential. steve: from thomas in lexington, tennessee with the obamacare insurance. caller: good morning. the affordable care act is the only way that i can afford insurance. i've had insurance before, but i'm self-employed. it was a lot more reasonable 15 years ago or more. when republicans had the power they didn't do anything. but my issue with the state of tennessee was that it has six and a half million people and half of those people are children and elderly and the other half work and probably have insurance. if you take the basic element

interfere in the election with congressional leadership, specifically senators harry reid, mitch mcconnell, dianne feinstein, richard burr, and representatives ryan, pelosi, schiff between 11 august and 6 september. i provided the same briefing to each of the gang of eight members. given the highly sensitive nature of what was an active counterintelligence case involving an ongoing russian effort to interfere in our presidential election, the full details of what we knew at the time were shared only with those members of congress. each of whom was accompanied by one senior staff member. the substance of those briefings was entirely consistent with the main judgments contained in the january classified and unclassified assessments, namely that russia's goals were to undermine public faith in the u.s. democratic process, denigrate hillary clinton and affect her potential presidency and to help president trump's election chances. let me conclude by saying it was a very special privilege to serve as a cia officer for the first 25 years of my public service, and it is the highest honor of my professional career and alway

richard galpin, bbc news. a former television producer has been found guilty of trying to hire three hit men to kill his wealthy partner. the old bailey heard david harrisnherit her fortune. here's duncan kennedy. for nearly 30 years, david harris and hazel allinson shared a life together, but harris had a secret and a problem. the secret was ugne cekaviciute, a woman he met in a brothel. the problem was he was broke and couldn't indulge her. so harris decided to try to hire not one, not two, but three hitmen to kill his partner, hazel, and set up life with ugne. hire three separate hitmen to kill your partner, it all sounds ludicrous, but that's exactly what david harris did. his aim was to get rid of hazel, and get his hands on the £800,000 house here in west sussex. all the hitmen, including number two, duke dean, were innocent. did you get the impression he was serious about getting rid of hazel? he was quite serious about that. that's what he wanted? that's what he wanted. harris told police he was researching a hitman novel like day of the jackal, and wanted to meet a real hitman. the police say the book didn't exist. this was a man who in fact wa

harry truman was president. and since president johnson offered medicare and medicaid. bob dole and richard nixon understood you needed the mandate to provide health care to american families and they are going to turn their backs on pre-existing conditions. remember, real national defense also means providing health care for members of the american family. and i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from florida reserves. the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. mr. cole: before i go to my next speaker, i want to respond to my friends. so i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. cole: i came here to debate the appropriations bill, which is a great bipartisan compromise, but i'm happy to engage in the health care debate as well, if that's what my friends choose to do it. i remember the conditions under which obamacare was passed and that we would save money. i remember if you liked your plan, you could keep it. not true. if you liket your doctor, you could keep that individual. no true

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richard kay. it was the last conversation they would ever have. >> and i could tell from her voice that she was tired. she was anxious about getting home. she was missing william and harrye the crowds and paparazzi waiting outside the hotel for diana and dodi to appear, as seen in this video, shot by an australian tourist and later obtained by paris police. among all the photographers was pierre suu, eager to snap a shot and cash in. >> maybe one picture would go over $100,000 at the time, which would be, like, $300,000 today. >> reporter: with that kind of money on the line suu and his fellow paparazzi were prepared to stay there all night. but later that evening, the couple changed plans dinner here at the ritz hotel, diana and dodi decided to go to his apartment, to avoid the swarm of paparazzi waiting in front of the hotel, dodi and his father hatched a plan to secretly slip away by leaving from the back. >> reporter: dodi was eager to leave the paparazzi behind especially after the media frenzy of the last few weeks, according to his bodyguard trevor rees-jones. >> the attention of the press in paris was a more aggressive attitude than anything we had seen that sum

harry potter. their adventure after your local news and weather. >>> this is a news 4 today newsbreak. >> good morning. 9:26 on this friday, may 26th. our headlines today, richarde of three people killed in the crash. >>> we will have a look at the forecast when we come back. stay with us. very customizable. you can choose the back, you can choose the arm, you can choose the leg. we couldn't be any happier. you can choose the arm, you crepublican leaders are to affordable health care. i'm tom perriello and in congress i voted for obamacare because it was wrong that a million virginians weren't covered while insurance companies held all the power. now i'm running for governor because it's wrong that most virginia incomes haven't gone up in 20 years. together, we can stop donald trump, raise wages and build an economy that works for everyone. and we'll make sure this never happens in virginia. >>> skies partly to at times mostly cloudy. a patch of light rain near front royal down the interstate 66. not everyone will get rain but there's a chance for a passing shower. highs today mid to upper 70s sunshine. on the breezy side today. watching out for stronger thunde