democrats. garrett in chicago, thank you. you ve got it. john: fox news alert, waiting to hear from the white house after new attacks on the troops in the middle east. national security adviser jake sullivan will be there to field questions from the assembled white house press corps and with that, begin hour two. john roberts in washington. welcome back to another busy week of news. good to be with you, this is america reports . that attack seen as the biggest escalation yet against u.s. troops in the region. it is sparking alarm that president biden is failing to head off a wider war in the middle east. iranian backed militias are responsible for at least 75 attacks on american troops in the region in just the last six weeks. john: complete coverage now, daniel davis moments away why the biden administration is not doing more to protect american troops in harm s way. sandra: first chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin live at the pentagon for us.
opioids in america play out at the highest court one hour from now the court takes up the purdue pharma bankruptcy deal. the agreement that could shield the family from further lawsuits down the road. the families of opioid victims not happy about it. d.o.j. is challenging. see what the supremes say. keep an eye on this. an american warship came under attack and how the pentagon is responsible to that. it will take us a long way whether or not iran the gets a message. it s monday. hope you get ready for the holidays. we are, right? dana: i m dana perino. and this is america s newsroom. good to be with you today. we want to tell you about the attack that happened yesterday off the coast of yemen. enter bill: the assault lasted for hours and the u.s.s. carney shot down three drones in self-defense. dana: it s seen as the biggest escalation against u.s. troops in the region. bill: general jack keane has analysis. trey yengst reports from southern israel on the war with
winning doris kearnes goodwin. she has appeared on c-span and book tv over 60 times. she s well-known for her work on abraham lincoln. her book was inspiration for steven spielberg s film in 2012. she earned her ph.d. in harvard. coming up, we ll reair her indepth appearance where she discussed her entire body of work and took phone calls. we ll show you discussions from her books, leadership in turbulent times and bully pulpit, but we ll start with her january 1st, 1995 appearance on the c-span series book notes. in this hour long interview, she discussed franklin and eleanor roosevelt in the home front during world war ii, her book no ordinary time won the pulitzer prize for history. here is historian doris kearnes goodwin. doris kearnes goodwin author of no ordinary time if you could ask franklin roosevelt or elino eleanor roosevelt any questions, what would it be? i would ask her why she was unable during the war where he asked her to be his wife again and stop tr
So, again, encouraging people to take their seats. Good evening, everyone. My name is kai bird, im the new executive director of the Leon Levy Center for biography which is celebrating its tenth year now all due to shelby white and the leon levy foundation. And i want to advertise, first of all, our new alliance with bio. This is our first sort of jointlysponsored event with them, but we are also, courtesy of will swift here the president of bio, we are also going to be doing, cosponsoring their great annual conference on biography next may. And that will also be happening here at cuny. Should be a great event with over 200 biographers. I also want to advertise and put out the word, we have a december 15th deadline for our new, our annual fellowship, and there are four fellowships given out every year of 65,000 a pop for aspiring biographers. So if you know of people who are aspiring, please encourage them to apply. And finally, i just, you know, im really thrilled that were able to do
Good evening welcome to the u. S. New York Historical society i am thrilled to welcome you here to the auditorium. This Evenings Program is presented in conjunction with our exhibition of 1945 vietnam war that i hope you have had a chance to see but if not it is on view through april 22 so i hope you will return during using them hours to see that. Our story is a lecture on leadership and to create this series five years ago as a permanent way to honor too great americans including David Petraeus who want a history maker award in 2013 i would like to thank mr. Herzog from the new York Historical and general petraeus for his leadership and for the generous participation over the past four years when this illustrious lecture series. [applause] i would like to thank and recognize our trustees and the chair for all she has done on behalf of this Great Institution and also the chair susan. Also migrate colleague for the programs he will hear tonight at the close but this Evenings Program pr