knew he lost the 2020 election and that their scheme to overturn the results was illegal. and yet, they attempted it anyway. president trump rejected the advice of his campaign experts on election night. and instead, followed the chorus recommended by apparently inebriated rudy giuliani. to just claim he won. and insist that the vote counting stop. to falsely claim everything was fraudulent. and there are an lies the true nature of these hearings. to truly hold trump and his fellow coup plotters accountable. the committee has already uncovered evidence that trump may have committed serious federal crimes. but it s up to the justice department to bring criminal charges. as neil cocktail argues in the opinion page of the new york times today, attorney general merrick garland could bring a charge of conspiracy to defraud the united states even if trump truly believed in what he was saying. and it wasn t just democracy at stake, but lives as well. vice president mike pence fa
600 families were enslaved on the sprawling grounds in charlottesville virginia. to share with life was like at monticello. experience of monticello is so much richer because it embraces all the complexities of this man. pour into the people around you. if you know the family stories, whoever you are, however old you are, pour into every listening. because that is the way things are kept and passed down. oral histories are so crucial. and to learn more about slavery and monticello and the oral history project, go to monticello, dot org. and coming up, african american descendants of another virginia community learn where their ancestors were enslaved. but there is a unique twist of the story. we ll tell you about it after the break. the break.
jefferson in a sense completed the declaration of independence which accords to every citizen the right to pursue happiness but for jefferson the pursuit of happiness could not be successful without education only with education could the individual ascend to a higher level of knowledge. the university of virginia is more closely linked with its founder than any other american university jefferson was not only the architect he also wrote the curriculum and set up the library which used to be housed here in the rotunda. jefferson can truly be called the father of the university and he kept a careful watch over the growth of his child if he couldn t go to the site personally he observed the progress of the work from one to cello through a telescope. all my wishes and where i hope my days will end at monticello. on the fourth of july eighteenth
world. as a work of art to monticello is a kind of aesthetic declaration of independence intended to demonstrate america s autonomy to britain and the rest of the world. jefferson called monta chalo his essay in architecture with his vision of a new style of architecture for america jefferson created an aesthetic model which occupies an important place in american architectural history. the formal language of jefferson s architecture is as direct and precise as the words of the declaration of independence. and that s the logical correctness of the proportions became his distinguishing mark jefferson new
whether i retired to bed early or late i rise with the sun. a carefully planned daily routine helps jefferson to organize the varied life he led at monticello. it was here that he finally withdrew enterprise. that life weary of the trivialities of politics. here at the place that brought him his deepest satisfactions he was at last able to lead the intellectual life in tune with nature that politics that always denied him. and he and the former president took advantage of a fundamental human right he had accorded to all of humanity in his declaration of independence the pursuit of happiness. possessed of an intense love of nature he sat monte chalo on a hill so that the lights and the landscape seemed to enter the house