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We appreciate everybody being here. I turned it on. Especially welcome the nominees and their families. Today nomination hearing. This is the tenth nomination hearing the committee has held this year. I want to take a minute to thank Ranking Member and her staff for working diligently. With my staff. And this senator to process these nominees. Filling judicial vacancies, and executive appointments is an important part of committee responsibility. And i know that all members of the committee take...

Its famous feuds through the decades. Feuds. They are fights that go on and on. And on. Many of us have them with family, but history has witnessed ongoing arguments among rival scientists, sports figures, politicians and even actors. Today here on through the decades, were taking the hour to look back at some famous feuds throughout history. From the duel between Alexander Hamilton and aaron burr that ended a bitter rivalry as well as hamiltons life. To comedians jack benny and fred allens pret...

And fight, but you wont stand up for me at home. From muhammad ali to Billie Jean King, the legacy of activism in sports. First the night line 5. Line 5. And number one is coming up in just 60 seconds good evening, and we are dedicating our show tonight to the fierce debate over a longstanding american tradition. After President Trump criticized nfl players who refused to stand during the National Anthem, the president not backing down from this controversy, as he faces grave crises from north k...

Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful wor...

Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems skollfoundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention, in the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at lemelson. Org. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful wor...

Everybodys attention please. All right. Welcome to the met club thank you for coming out on this rainy evening and i know theres a lot of traffic and everything so we appreciate you coming here. Were absolutely delighted im not doing introduction yet but delighted to have dick march here the first time hes been here at the club. Thank you, welcome to the met club. [applause] were to have our friends from cspan here thats pretty cool so wave to the guys at cspan there. [laughter] yeah. Okay just ...

Just a couple of quickckan announcements, the next adventure at the club will be the first thursday. The next event the first thursday october 5, and that will be the Farewell Party to the chairwoman who she and her husband moved to washington, d. C. Her husband, david who is a noted economist is the undersecretary of the treasuryne for International Monetary affairs said hes been confirmed as the undersecretary of the treasury. B he apparently is going to be here that night so it is a great opp...

Thank you so much, welcome to the National Constitution center, such a pleasure to see you here. I am jeffrey rosen, president of this institution, the National Constitution center. Those who have been here before know that it is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis meaning we bring together the best scholars and commentators from all sides of the constitutional debate the transects the nation and let...

Julian malvo, steve forbes and nobel prizewinning economist joseph stiglitz. Of this is a topic that interests you go to our website at booktv. Org and in the search bar type economics book and you will find a large archive of authors and materials would all of these are available to watch online. Host welcome to nashville and the southern festival of books. He will hear from many offers throughout the weekend including National Book Award Finalist Patricia Bell scott and nancy maclean, talk rad...

Joseph today im going to talk about the korean war and were going to talk a little bit about Civil Military relations. Last time we met we talked about the cold war and the development of containment. Korea was an unusual situation in that it had been a colony of japans since 1910, during the Second World War there was fighting in korea. The u. S. And the soviet union jointly occupied korea and they agreed to divide korea. Now, now, northern korea, that is what we call today north korea was very...