America and is written on a broad range of issues including river pirates in the amazon, paraguays guerilla insurgency and the shifting politics of antarctica. He was nyt Andean Bureau chief based in caracas, venezuela for the New York Times as bureau chief where he covered hugo chavez, the colombian war and politics in bolivia. Give a warm welcome to simon romero. Thanks for the kind introduction. I will introduce this wonderful panel i have the pleasure of moderating. Cecilia bailli is a journalist and cultural anthropologist and writer at texas monthly. Her work focuses on the u. S. Mexico border in the history and culture of south texas. Her writing has also appeared in harpers magazine and the New York Times. Angela kocherga is a multimedia journalist who has covered the u. S. Mexico border in mexicos interior for television, newspapers and radio and was mexico border chief for a major broadcasting group. She is currently the Southern New Mexico reporter for the albuquerque journa
Is only solidifying the president s support. Joining me now is syndicated columnist and Fox News Contributor and also the author of divided era. Good to see you both. Thank you for being here. Julian castro out, so much for Ethnic Diversity in the Democrat Party; right . I think i describe this as hashtag democrats so white. David thats rough. These people are all about diversity and people of color and all of that. I guess andrew yang is still there. You look at the debates and you see a lot of essentially old white people and mayor pete is an exception to that. Focused on this and that aspect of their effort is going nowhere. Even more fundamental than that, they thought they would be able to get President Trump and bring him down and have people screaming to get him out of the white house. Before they started the impeachment hearings, there was a margin of people saying lets impeach the man, thats now down to zero. As his popularity goes up, the fund raising coming in, the economy i
Law school in the states chapter of the American Civil Liberties union. [chatter] good afternoon, everybody. Good afternoon and welcome. Good afternoon and welcome. Here at the unit Franklin Pierce school of law. My name is john and i direct the rudman center. It provides curricular, experiential, and Financial Support for law students interested in public student readers. It serves as the face of the university here in concord by presenting public programming such as todays event. We are happy to be able to partner with the aclu of New Hampshire with an ongoing series of Civil Liberties and the presidency. We are happy to welcome to the law school senator cory booker from the state of new jersey. Not New Hampshire. [applause] senator booker has been a senator since 2013. Newark, new jersey, from 2006 to 2013. He served on the council in new york. Graduate of Stanford University and yale law school. Moderating todays event will be genie from the aclu of New Hampshire. Neither the aclu
Im andre senior. Frank has the night off. Escalating tension in the middle east. The air strike carried out earlier this morning. Developing coverage now from jana katsuyama. Andre and julie, the pentagon called this deadly air strike a defensive action to protect u. S. Personnel overseas. Officials say seven people were killed, including the general and a Deputy Commander of an iranbacked militia operating in iraq. I spoke with a stanford expert who says he was considered the secondmost powerful leader in iran. The question is how that regime will the pentagon the u. S. Mi strike. He was a prominent Iranian Military leader. The pentagon said he had orchestrated attacks on coalition bases in iraq in the past month and approved attacks on the u. S. Embassy in baghdad this week. The statement said the strike was preemptive. Actively developing plans to attack american diplomats and Service Members in iraq and throughout the region. He was easily the second most powerful man in iran. He h
He has written 3 previous books before homewrecker is, how america lost iraq. And washingtons battle against americans, veterans and the thing is. What he has done is looking at veterans, looking at war, because of his reporting, fewer us military veterans face long lines waiting for disability compensation. He has sparked, his journalism sparked federal legislation, congressional hearings. What he does leads to a response by government and maybe we will see the same hedge fund magnates, shady banks and vulture capitalists suckered millions out of their homes and demolished the American Dream. He is a peabody award winner, Journalism Award winner, twice nominated for National Emmy for his work on pbs news hour. He is really good at what he does. We are very fortunate to have Dorothy Brown from Emory University school of law, nationally recognized scholar and tax policy, race, class. And and she was excited because she was eager to read his book. And lets join me in welcoming. Please we