Everything im going to say about the relief efforts are in the context of the battle over intervention and antiintervention. I dont think America First has received the attention it deserves. Justice don has done some good work on it. It is usually written off as right wing isolationist organization, but it is a key factor in the Antiwar Movement, along with hoover, who did not belong to America First committee, the quakers, the pacifists, people who were upset about world war i. It is truly the Antiwar Movement to 19. It deserves more attention. Arthur slashing said the battle over intervention was the greatest split in American History except the runup to the american civil war. He said it was greater than the split during the war in vietnam and the anticommunist crusade in the 1950s. I wonder what he might say about that now. Let me go back and show you one more. This is one of the very strong antiwar pieces published during this time. Within this contest, since hoover is an anti in
And evidence of record changing that looks like malfeasance. There is evidence of both. Liz ig horowitz testifies for the first time that Deputy Attorney general sally yatess staff remember sally yates worked under president barack obama, that the staff knew about fbi abuses with fisa warrant but did not speak up. As the Deputy Attorney general was signing fisa warrants to spy on the Trump Campaign. Deputy attorneys generals office, Deputy Attorney general or right below the Deputy Attorney general, have someone on your staff doing what was going on, and not telling anybody, is highly problematic. As we point out here, the net result of that is the Deputy Attorney general was signing awarrant that did not include Key Information that someone on her staff knew and had told the fbi. Liz that would have undercut what the fbi was doing. Lets get right to it with former congressional investigator sam dewey. Youre reaction to what the i. G. Said today . More ends justifies means kind of thin
The plight of war victims, especially women and children. This is the title for my new book called the battle royale, hoover versus roosevelt. Im going to show you two images first. This is the first one from the America First committee, which alist, andntervention lis some would say isolationist. Here, we will take a look at these two and go back. These are from the committee to defend america and to aid the allies. Everything im going to say about the relief efforts are in the context of the battle over intervention and antiintervention. I dont think America First has received the attention it deserves. The justice has done some good work on it. It is usually written off as right wing isolationist organization, but it is a key factor in the antiwar movement, along with hoover, who did not belong to America First committee, the quakers, the pacifists, people who were upset about world war i. It truly is the antiwar movement. It deserves more attention. Arthur schlesinger said the batt
Shutdown. Republicans are still struggling for support at this hour, putting the blame on democrats, reminding voters despite controlling executive and both houses of Congress Republicans still need a dozen Senate Democrats to vote with them on a budget. Despite the president sitting down with senator minority leader Chuck Schumer at the white house this afternoon to discuss a possible deal, omb director Mick Mulvaney already putting a senate loss on the democrats, referring to upcoming schumer shutdown. Were following all of the twists and turns. Lets to to capitol hill where adam shapiro is standing by with the very latest details. Adam, where do things stand right now . Reporter right now there is no agreement. Chuck schumer did meet with the president. Nothing came out of the meeting that would lead anyone on capitol hill to believe the senate will avert the shutdown. When you talk to the people on the house side, different rumors another kind of cr, a shorter cr, the response from
Yet to take it one day at a time and think about all the new day she survived already. I glanced at cynthia to see if shes appreciating this and her eyes are wide and a wet with amazement. We are witnessing a pivotal moment, a collective responsibility to care for someone else and no one wanted to end. You can watch this and other programs online at the tv. Org. [inaudible conversations] the texas book festival live from austin continues and this is the knob author conversation about race and the Justice System. Good afternoon. Welcome to the texas book festival and our panel on mass incarceration, racing criminal Justice System. Im a professor of Public Affairs and history at the university of texas at austin and we have really two very very brilliant and important scholar activists today talking about two brandnew books. To my immediate left and to your right is James Foreman junior, professor professor lott Yale University in his new book. Terrific book and i am going to give it som