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Smart guy, a guy that is a deep thinker to me. ill pose this question to you, they say hindsight is 2020, what is the right way to evaluate the actions and decisions of those who came before us? we know what our own sense of morality and truth is. what is the right way to view the decisions of those who came 200 or 400 years before us? >> well, i think we view them with realism, with understanding. we dont want to be guilty of presentism, that is importing our understanding and at attitudes of p...

Or warts or failings, they gave to us the greatest country in the history of the world, you take men, women and totality of their actions and in that, they come across well. the point here is you do about founders who owned slaves, you say that is too bad, they should not have, a lot of the founders understood there was something wrong in owning slaves, men of the great men at that time freed their slaves and wrote about the eventual freedom for all. trey: dr. bennett, imagine you get to teach a...

Strong feelings about these minimum sentencing guidelines. did this case expose some of the flaws in that system? >> it absolutely does. im so glad i have an opportunity to be here. thanks, jessica, for this. as a former head county prosecutor, it may sound counterintuitive. most us, only 21 in the entire state. we were appointed by the governor so it wasnt an elected d.a. system so we didnt have to worry about the court of public opinion but we used to lamont neve with the mandatory sen tension...

Filibuster which he might be willing to employ coming up during this calendar year if it will help him to get voting rights across the finish line here? have you ever heard anything about a small exception to the filibuster and what in the heck that means? >> well lets just recall there are no small steps. there are only big steps that lead to even bigger changes in the rules in the senate. the senate is supposed to be the deliberative body. if i recall correctly both senators sinema and manchin...

Smart guy, a guy that is a deep thinker to me. ill pose this question to you, they say hindsight is 2020, what is the right way to evaluate the actions and decisions of those who came before us? we know what our own sense of morality and truth is. what is the right way to view the decisions of those who came 200 or 400 years before us? >> well, i think we view them with realism, with understanding. we dont want to be guilty of presentism, that is importing our understanding and at attitudes of p...

Smart guy, a guy that is a deep thinker to me. ill pose this question to you, they say hindsight is 2020, what is the right way to evaluate the actions and decisions of those who came before us? we know what our own sense of morality and truth is. what is the right way to view the decisions of those who came 200 or 400 years before us? >> well, i think we view them with realism, with understanding. we dont want to be guilty of presentism, that is importing our understanding and at attitudes of p...

Administration about voting laws and voting flaws places like georgia and texas but if this administration believes theres an overarching threat of democracy from the opposition party, it is really not something we have heard from the president and it will be important to watch whether that changes in the election year. >> and that is key to the debate about a potential carve out in the filibuster and something that voting rights groups have encouraged the president to seek. well see how they ha...

Tightness relaxes a little bit. we know that in mourning there is despair and there is anger. but those are things that are part of the process. theyre not to be acted on until we come to the end of the mourning period. and the end of the mourning period is a time where we reach shalom. shalom is a lot more nuanced than the word peace. it really is a word that means inclusivity. shalom is related to the word shalude which means wholeness. in wholeness, every voice is included. that sense that we...

A stunning headline in "the new york post" caught my eye over the weekend. quote, sons brutal obit of his plus sized redneck mother goes viral. the idea that a son would trash his dead mom and go viral for it, you can imagine why i found that distressing. then i took time to read the actual obituary in "the fayetteville observer." it was nothing like what "the post" suggested. here was an obituary who paid tribute to a woman who was a force, flaws and all. here is what he wrote. because she was ...

And some of them were remote learning centers and some of them were vocational schools. they didnt hold up to the test admiral. this is why the american people are so distrustful of the mandates coming down from on high. do you blame us? >> i dont divlam you i was embarrassed to draw the conclusions that they did. it was really in line with modus operandi to take whatever pieces of data and fit them into the data they want and masquerade that as science this was a terrible study. im not saying m...