edward jenner, the smallpox vaccine, louie pastor, rabies, lela denmark, al -- albin sabin, he came up with the oral version so we didn't have to get a shot. they improved and saved lives with breakthroughs in agriculture and science. i want to remember another person to be remembered in that same light. his name is anthony fauci grew up a yankees fan and was the captain of his high school basketball team and worked construction jobs during breaks at school wanted to pursue a career in medicine. thank goodness he did. in 1972, anthony fauci accepted a position at the national institute of health, and for the past 38 years, he has been the leader of that institute. he has advised seven presidents of both political parties. he's guided our nation and the world through countless public health crises, sars, influenza, zika, ebola. he's best known for his work on hiv-aids. anthony fauci is known domestically through pep-4, the emergency plan for aids relief is the main reason why hiv-aids is no longer a death sentence. some of us can remember when hiv-aids was first discovered. i can recall

we saw there was owing to be a meeting featuring lela. we made a determination that she has been a member of an organization that was designated under u.s. laws as a terrorist organization and we tried to work with the university to deal with that. ultimately we made the judgment that this would not be an appropriate use of our platform. doesn't that be consistent with the terms of service, and disallowed the meeting. >> host: josh kallmer, does that lead to a slippery slope in the sense? i mean, edward snowden, should he be allowed under platform? should president trump be allowed to give his views on your platform? where do you draw the line? >> guest: i don't know that you can draw the line, peter, in the abstract, in a hypothetical way. what we are committed to doing is to have a set of principles to make sure the reflect your values and to articulate them as clearly as you can in a week and actually administer. that's one of the reasons not only with our terms of service and with our community guidelines but also with the document we

lela rosenthal knocked. she was hoping we might join her tomorrow for lunch, there were people she thought we should meet. we would be unable to join or invite her, for we owed a friend a thank you -- [inaudible] i remember not naming his name. [laughter] part of this was inverse snobbery -- [laughter] a distaste for admitter by association. and part a suspicion had lela known baldwin was coming, we should have had to invite her also. they would have been water and oil. at any rate, she told us, she hoped we would take in our wash. it hung on the clothesline outside. [laughter] she wanted to walk by the house and let her friends take photographs. they were passionate photographers. her friends were distinguished, she said. they were the last of the habsburgs and the last of the -- [inaudible] or perhaps they were the last of the holsteins or collateral branches instead. in any case, they were old and distinguished and wouldn't appreciate the laundry on our line. she hoped we would ready the house. we promise

i'm lela kite, i'm your room host for the day. wearing a little weary by time but glad to be here. i'm also chair of the brickle avenue literary society. turn your cell phones off, please. thank you all for coming. let's thank our sponsors. we need to do that in every session, because they are so important to the success of the fair. so big thanks to knight foundation, ohl, the bachelor foundation, the deging ro to ot -- degroot foundation. as always, thank you to all of the friends of the book fair. we hope everybody in this room will be a friend by next year so you can enjoy all the activities that are available for friends during the year. we thank our volunteers, we thank the staff of the book fair and super big thanks to miami-dade college. [applause] okay, thanks to all. [applause] we have a big crowd for a mighty important, prize-winning author, so let me start by introducing his introducer. marsha dunn is a longtime miami resident, and she has been, talk about good examples, a friend of the miami book fair since the very first year. how many of you are founding book fair fr

. >> thank you, lela. thank you. thank you very much. [applause] >> we would like to from you. tweet us your feedback, twitter.com/booktv. >> here's where the story starts to get interesting. i'm condensing a lot of things but i'm giving you the basics. he was sent off to fort leavenworth. a lot of people in the army didn't really like the trees. and elect officers who are too bookish or who stood up too much, at the trace was very much guilty on both accounts. so he comes to fort leavenworth and a lot of people are thinking that's great. we are sending him out to past year, literally. but he gets to fort leavenworth and he realizes something. he realizes that this is actually the intellectual center of the army. they write documents. they form the curriculum of the command and general staff college. they organize a national training center. and the loop all these together. and he says to himself as learning all this, what kind of power see potentially has and says, holy cow, and he talks like that, he says things like holy cow and jeepers, super. he says, holy cow, they have p

nina wrote a book 16 years ago, so did lela at eye on the persecution of christians. and both of those books if you asked us what's the worst place now, the answer is clear, we are stuck. made a particular focus. there is tremendous lobbying in the united states. by a whole range of groups, but in terms of the number of bodies, most of them were dealing with christians because there are 350,000 congregations in this country, so you can mobilize far more people than say amnesty international can. but particular focus on this event. the bush administration and colin powell said will get rid of this whole idea of special envoy. it messes up the lines of authority in the state department. but against that pressure that was strong lobbying by coalition in the united states to have a special envoy for sudan, which was granted. john did a very good job. there were many other countries involved and i don't just -- those were the central players, those were the largest players. that led to a cease-fire in sudan that laid onto a a referendum and accretion of in this country in

lela gilbert, paul marshall and nina shea. they prefer true or false questions. if you can't come up with feature or false question, multiple-choice does. thank you very much. so anyway, i really mean to facilitate the conversation. there's no right or wrong answers. we really want to facilitate a conversation. my first question before i sit down and it will is why did you write this book? if that's not enough of a softball at good others. but how come i get this wonderful product will be my follow up question. for any of you, you won't have to answer this, but that is the main question. i've got some thoughts on that, but we are interested in yours. anyone who wants to lead off and will just have a conversation. >> first of all, really appreciate your taking the time to be here and really draw public attention to this important story. all of us, and i'll let my colleagues speak for themselves, have been working on this issue documenting religious freedom violations in christian persecution for many years. we have other books from 60 years ago on the same subject

>> co-authors paul marsha, lela gilbert, and nina shea look at the's accusation of christians around the world, next on book tv. >> welcome. on behalf of our chair, i'd like to thank everybody for attending. and thank our authors and panelists for making this program possible. my job is to be brief. i'll try to meet that. and secondly, my only task is to introduce eric metexas who is going to chair the program. he doesn't need much introduction because he has done many important things nobody to you and others that will be joining us via television. perhaps some of you have already read his book, pastor, martyr, prophet, spy, "new york times" best seller and an important book about an important man. in addition, metexas was the keynote speaker at the national prayer breakfast here washington, dc and i believe there are copies of that presentation available outside. we're also grateful for him being a participant in this book, persecuted, which we're releasing today and this panel is about. he helped to write the forward and has been an important contributor to the work of the office

abiliha ionfor lela o hn about 300 million new people live like us. so standards that we have grown accustomed to hear. sort of good news if you patwie ri f. vetewllha r k population of a billion and for people who by the way are trying to live better and better life in demanding increasin net ss eos. whis gng in china is someing that will continue. wealthmany do in this room 18 hiniaehe thatbc in esunso e thad feike ta st hree hunches of economic development. we are eing economic growth. we are seeing alth improvements, significant in the couny. nostnaas emngld atl pure edutisle lkabwe, yo n hoin atcular with the improvements in life that is going to demand increased amounts of resources. just abo a finr pont wiilmwthppl orsf oen a ftdin china. the worst estimates i'm seeing our staff in the 7.5% gdp growth. as cee h ors utme,t 3rfmu wr. inir hse economy continues to powerhouse along you can expect that economic growth will translate into more weal and, therefore, greater resource demnd. ainomreicn hagoon here. consumption is a very interesting piece