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Prevent a bigger disaster. The truck overturned. But it could have been far worse. No one was seriously hurt. A victory this morning for gay rights advocates in florida. A judge has ruled that the states ban on samesex marriage is unconstitutional. But the ruling only applies to the florida keys. The state attorney general appealed within hours. That means samesex couples will likely have to wait until the case is settled to pick up marriage licenses. A new case of a mosquitoborne virus in the U...

Street protests expected today over whether officers used an illegal choke hold to bring him down. And killer caffeine. A teens death linked to a product 25 times more powerful than your morning coffee. What you need to know this morning about the fdas important new warning. Hey, good morning, everybody. Were going to get right to the breaking news on flight mh17. The plane ripped out of the sky over ukraine. Heres what we know this morning. President obama pointing the finger at rebel fighters ...

York city cops. I cant breathe. Street protests expected today over whether officers used an illegal choke hold to bring him down. And killer caffeine. A teens death linked to a product 25 times more powerful than your morning coffee. What you need to know this morning about the fdas important new warning. Hey, good morning, everybody. Right to the breaking news on flight mh17. Ripped out of the sky over ukraine. Heres what we know. President obama pointing the finger at rebel fighters in Easter...

Friends and intimates and developed a level of selfreliance that increased over the course of a life time and career. Elenor said he had no real confidants. Not me either. A speech writer for fdr was a very asstute observer of rogues roosevelt and wrote the classic bioography of roosevelt and hopkins. That is a bible in fdr history. He got to know roosevelt well. He said he has a thickly forestly interior. He didnt want anyone to penetrate that force to see what was going on inside. We was proba...

Started by washington and continued by jefferson became pa paramount to law. It was a deeply respected practice and very few considered challenging and no one had succeeded. He was going to retire because he said that he was tired and he was broke. And he was both. He had already designed and was then building the first president ial library in america in hyde park new york which has been restored. I urge you to go see that. It is a fabulous experience. He built a retreat called top cottage at h...

Moe definitely connects that decision to be out for with democracies from hitlers rampage. The book opens as a fellow writer i will say with a beautiful sentiment. Which is Franklin Delano roosevelt was an unusually found sleeper. [laughter] he then goes on to describe roosevelt being awaken on september 1st in 1939 by a call from the u. S. Ambassador of france who told an german troops across the border into poland were dancing rapidly. Richard moes experience served him well in writing this bo...

And here too i will refer to my fathers 1959 address. He worried then about californias dangerously overcrowded prisons. A he talked about identifying those prisoners who should never be released to prey again on an innocent public, but he also said, we should also determine whether some prisoners are now kept confined after punishment has served its purpose. We face these same questions today what purposes should punishment serve and for how long should a person be confined to jail or prison, f...

Donald ritie, thank you for ing with us on america history. The senate jority leader i not a position in the constitution. How did the job evolve . That puzzles a lot of people. We once had a former speaker of the house contact us and say i was the president pro perso ray in the pro tempore but not the majority leader because e speakers of e usee the nate majority leader as their equivalent, their functional equivalent on the senate side. Ofourse the speaker of the house is written ito the const...

In january. Next, we look at the historical role of the Senate Majority leader and its four former leaders, robert byrd, harold baker, and we hear from Donald Richie and mitch mcconnell. Donald richie, thank you for being with us. The Senate Majority leader is not a position in the constitution. How did the job evolve . We looked at a former speaker of the house, who contacted us and say why is the president pro tem a matter of succession but not the majority leader . That is the functional equi...

Majority leader, the functional equivalent on the senate side. The speaker of the house is written in the constitution. No mention of a majority or minority leader. Thats because the constitution did not anticipate political parties. Parties. We had no majority leader in the history of the senate from 1839 to 1914. There were chairman of committees who would take care of things and the chairman of the Party Conferences that open up and close things the way they do today. But nobody sitting down ...