Government and Foreign Governments. As you know, the state Department Also places a high priority on global womens empowerment, gender equity, combating violence against women. I was disturbed when there was a request from the Trump Transition Team to find out who the employees within the state been who havee worked on gender equity programs and while i know that has been walked back by that transition team, i think it sends a chilling message to people in the state department and the people concerned about efforts to empower women around the. Lobe can i ask whether you agree that we should continue that andiative to empower women what steps you would take to ensure that the state department continue to fund necessary programs to address global womens issues . This is an issue that has long been important to me personally as well. Ive seen firsthand the impact of empowering women, particularly empowering womens participation in Economic Activities in lesser developed part of the world.
And at the same time the adams camp accused Andrew Jacksons wife, but it was vicious. We think of it like politics, it was very civil. Adams it was great. It was very not very nice. Was there a particular period of her life or episode in her life or aspect of her life that you were frustrated by this horrible record about and wanted to go into more detail on . Great question. Certainly slavery is one of the things i was interested in. I know it is frustrating because i had census records and legal documents and she didnt write about that stuff. I cant talk about her attitudes in quite that way although she does talk about slavery later. There are periods she goes silent. I felt the lack of her voice in those moments but she did leave, she herself left a vibrant record, not like a lot of women at the time burn their letters because people didnt she burned this. I feel very lucky to have chosen a subject, she later said she had a mania for writing. I would like to think about that later.
Washington dc. On thursday at barnes noble in virginia, former secret Service Officer gary burns talks about what he observed about bill and Hillary Clinton protecting the first family. And we are live with bestselling author and journalist sebastian younger on indepth. He will take your questions and comments on many books including his latest on American Veterans returning to civilian life on homecoming and belonging. That is look at the programs booktv is covering this week. Many of these are open to the public. Look for them to air on cspan2. Who is Samantha Brinkman . Guest a criminal defense lawyer who left the office a couple years back in private practice, struggling to make a name for herself and bring her practice up, had a very tortured past, traumatic childhood, probably twisted at birth anyway and the combination made her someone unusual. A suggestion she ignored and frequently does. Host is there a certain breed for a defense attorney . Guest good question. I am not sure.
Guest a criminal defense lawyer who left the office a couple years back in private practice, struggling to make a name for herself and bring her practice up, had a very tortured past, traumatic childhood, probably twisted at birth anyway and the combination made her someone unusual. A suggestion she ignored and frequently does. Host is there a certain breed for a defense attorney . Guest good question. I am not sure. Defense lawyers have a different mandate. A prosecutor has to think about a fair trial for everyone, has an ethical obligation to make sure it is not just about a conviction but getting convicted in a fair way so everyones rights are protected. They have no such obligation. Defense attorney only has to take care of her clients and that is samantha. She worries about her clients and what is fair and winning and that is all she worries about. Host the client have to be innocent to defend . Wikipedia guest if it is only about defending the innocent that attorney would have no
Bring her practice to the majorleague. She had a very tortured past, very traumatic childhood. She herself was probably twisted at birth anyway and the combination has made her somewhat unusual. The laws a suggestion that she is free to ignore she frequently does. Is there certain breed for Defense Attorneys . Guest thats a good question. Im not sure. Defense lawyers a prosecutor has to think about a fair trial for everyone as an ethical obligation to make sure it is not just about getting a conviction but getting it in a fair way so everybodys right is protected. The defense have no such obligation. A defense attorney only has to take care of his or her client. And so that samantha, thats what she does. She only worries about her clients and about winning and thats only thing she worries about. Host does the client have to be innocent to defend . Guest for a defense attorney worried about only defending the innocence, that attorney would have no practice. You cannot be that picky. You