Not my first trip. Ive been to the border many times. This important aspect of this visit is having this visit after the work we did in guatemala and mexico. I said back in march i was going to come to the border. This is not a new plan. Harris however, critics are asking if this is too little too late. The Vice President finally went to the border 93 days after President Biden named her point person on the migrant crisis as i mentioned. Leaders in both Political Parties say Kamala Harris is avoiding the real trouble area. When it comes to the numbers encounters with people flowing in illegally has surged by nearly 450 in the el paso sector in the first part of this year. Thats bad. But thats certainly not the real epicenter of what were seeing. In the rio grande sector the numbers are up 700 . In fact, the texas Lieutenant Governor dan patrick is calling what he is seeing an invasion at this point. It is an invasion. I know people dont like that word. Some people dont like it but its
Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 thats the job for a historian. Most historians, if they think about photographs at all, focus on them as images not material objects and as illustrations rather than as primary sources that can and should themselves be the subject of historical analysis. Watch ken burns 1996 series on the west and Pay Attention to his treatment of the pueblo revolt of 1680. While he uses engravings of spaniards it to visual issize the story he relies on 19th and 20th century sorry gave away my story there, trying to highlight this picture here, he relies on 19th and 20th century photographs to depict the pueblo protagonists. This approach conveys an insidious image. European people change with time. One would never use images from two centuries later to depict them, but native peoples live on in an unchanging past, a photograph made 240 years later is just fine. We are susceptible to this historical use of photographs when we do not know better. I
Was up 41. The dow is up 43. It had been up 331, if that tells you anything. We have this developing news. President trump about to possibly address the media ahead of his trip to North Carolina where hes expected to lay out his vision for health care if he is elected to a second term. We are going to take you live to the white house as soon as we get the tape if he does stop to speak to the press. It all comes as a new wrinkle develops in oryacleorac deal to take over the popular chineseowned video app tiktok. Breaking news in just the last hour. A federal judge has just inserted himself into this battle. The deadline to ban tiktok, this is the extended one, supposed to be sunday night. But now all bets are off. Republican senator roger wicker of mississippi, he did not like this plan to have oryacle take Partnership Structure with tiktok. He sent a letter to the president along with several of his republican colleagues saying outright they oppose the deal as it currently looks. We wi
Either working or watching out international this monday morning where its just gone 9 oclock here in the russian capital now President Trump has lashed act against democrat politicians for supporting the idea of Defunding Police departments in the wake of George Floyds death the brutal killing of the black man by officers sparked nationwide protests and on saturday the mayor of minneapolis which has been at the epicenter of the Current Protest Movement was booed for refusing to cut spending on your own for some. I think i was yes yes yes yes yes no not anderson arent getting operations just. I understand that the culture in part because we just have to radically shaped correct Everything Everything now before you correct you with your stories still have a vision of the court meant. To. Get rid of Police Officers that are city right ill tell the truth and i dont agree with that ok you dont agree on what went. Well in washington the call to defund the police was painted next to a black
Behind those pictures to study and understand the American West, she has been studying and writing about photographs for 40 years, and argued that more historians should use photographic archives in their work. One minute past 12 30. Welcome, everyone. I have the happy task of introducing your president and my friend, marnie sandweiss. Im going to give you a version of what i have been describing as an intellectual wedding toast. We will present this room as a vegas wedding chapel and tell the story of marnie and me and marnies work, which got us all here. Let me start with the magical alchemy of graduate school. Us leadheaded thinkers turned into golden tongued scholars, writers, and teachers. Picture a process that works Something Like this. An Admissions Committee imagines a group of students as a cohort. The cohort becomes classmates. The classmates become colleagues. And once in a while, they become lifelong friends. So, colleagues, cohort, classmate, colleague, and that golden th