College professor bradley bircher, former Washington Post reporter Molly Mccartney examines the u. S. Military industrial complex, jack cashin takes a critical look at the crash of flight 800, and booktv visits peoria, illinois. For a complete television schedule, booktv. Org. Booktv on cspan2, its 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, its for serious readers. And now were kicking off this weekend with John Strausbaugh, author of city of sedition. Its about new york city during the civil war. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Good evening. Thank you so much for coming out here to politics prose. Thank you so much for coming out here to politics prose for yet another one of our enlightened and lively author talks. You cant hear me . Okay. Well be quiet. [laughter] and at that cue, please let me please silence all your cell phones at this point, and also let me just go through a few other housekeeping details. So the author will speak for about 20 minutes, 20, 25 minutes, and w
Treatment. That has to be against the law. It doesnt matter whether the employer knows it too absolute certainty. Absolutely. In that situation what is relevant is the employers intent. If the employer intends to discriminate on the basis of religion, that is a title vii violation. But whats going on here is that the employer seeks to apply a religion neutral dress code. It makes religious practice the refusal to accommodate religious practice is itself a violation. And that was done deliberately, was it not . So that religious practices would have to be accommodated. Yes, your honor. Two points in response. First we are not contending that religious practices do not have to be accommodated. But what we are contending is that an employer did not intentionally discriminate on the basis of a religious practice by enforcing a religion neutral dress code. What the statute does is to say that if you are wearing a headscarf for religious reasons, that the neutral policy really doesnt matter
Washington and new york and as the evening goes west with the time zones, in cities across this country. Our coverage continues here, of course. For the top of the next hour, we will throw it to chris hayes in dallas, texas. Chris . Brian, thank you very much. Good evening from dallas. Im chris hayes. This is msnbcs continuing live coverage of the deadly ambush attacks on police in this city last night. Not too far from where we are right now. As peaceful protests continue tonight in cities across the country like you are seeing, tonight in atlanta, last night here in dallas, a gunman opened fire on 12 officers, killing five of them. Two civilians were also wounded in the attack. The events unfolded at the end of a protest march over the recent Police Shootings of africanamerican men in louisiana and minnesota. Cell phone video from the scene last night captured the rapid barrage of gunfire as Police Rushed to the scene. [ gunfire ] the suspected gunman is dead, identified today as 25y
In the last couple of days but nothing serious. He has been self monitoring, taking his temperature twice a day since he returned last week. He reportedly did not have a temperature until this morning, but then he did. They said it was 103 degrees when he contacted Doctors Without Borders to tell them about his fever. That organization contacted the Health Department. The Health Department contacted local Emergency Services in new york city. This is interesting. The Emergency Services in new york city dispatched one of the 36 teams in the foot ny, 36 has tacked teams that have been set up by the new York City Fire department to handle first medical response and Medical Transport for Infectious Diseases and hazardous materials. The Fire Department of new york city has more than 30 Specialty Teams set up to handle difficult situations like this. One was dispatched today. That unit brought the doctor to Bellevue Hospital. He was then put in isolation in said that hospital. All in all, the
He reportedly did not have a temperature until this morning, but then he did. They are saying it was 103 degrees when he contacted Doctors Without Borders to tell them about his fever. They then contacted the Health Department. The help department contacted local Emergency Services in new york city. Emergency services in new york city dispatched one of the 36 teams in the they have been set up by the new York City Fire department to handle first medical response and also Medical Transport for Infectious Diseases and hazardous materials. The Fire Department of new york city has more than 30 Specialty Teams set up to handle difficult situations like this. One was dispatched today. The time that elapsed from when he first took the temperature and realized he had a fever and the time he was in isolation at the hospital appears to have been in total about two hours. After they had him at bellevue, they tested his blood at bellevue. That preliminary test came up positive for ebola between 8