zero public consequences until today, when he was asked about it publicly. representative scotty campbell handed in his resignatio today. that does it for us, we ll see you again tomorrow now it s time for the last wor with lawrence o donnell, goo evening, lawrence. good evening, alex, i learn something today about what w call the wild west the old wil west that there was way more contro in the wild west, in those towns, and all those movies we saw with the guys would wander out carrying guns. it was all illegal, and a lo a federal courts o appeals has agreed to hear attorney alvin bragg s appeal. a federal judge ordere yesterday saying that th former assistant distric attorney, mark pomerantz, wh briefly worked for alvin bragg needs to testify to the hous judiciary committee in accordance with a subpoena issued by the chairman republican, jim jordan we report on that case her last night, the appeals cour has given alvin bragg unti tomorrow to file his appeals briefing
Georgetown University Law center. He has served in all three branches of government and hes argued, remember, the mb cases before the United States Supreme Court. So he brings a really ni,diversa book. The court during this era. Cliff also has worked with the Washington Post company and. He has gosh, youve written extensively in t media about Court Related issues and and other issues sow id like to welcome cliff stone. Well thank you so much, bill thank you. And thâ– ank u all for here. And i just want to say it is an honor and a pleasure for me to here, d as bill was saying, the publication date is the first officialb special place to have it and its so ny days researching at the wonder library here with, the very helpful perso and so its just terrific to be here. And i really appreciate it. We, thatlets just launch righ. As i was saying before, i think e this roosevelttime aligned themselveo perfectly World War Two and the personalities involved here to give a perfect natural framew
They had very, very close personal relationships. And just to kind of briefly get the players on t table, they sort of into three justices were very well known, hugo black, felix frankfurter, William Douglas robert jackson. Those are the four very well known ones. O were not very well,murphy, james burns y from South Carolina and he was only on the court f fall of 1942, fdr to him come work with me in the white house. Youll be the assistant president overseeing the domestic economy and burns lef supreme to join fdr in the white and fourth justice in this category of lesser known justices in the fdr appointees was Wiley Rutledge replacement. And then the third group is the appointed by fdr and are only two in this category. One of them was harlan fiske stone, who hadn appointed in 1925 by calvin coolidge, his Amherst College buddy, and as i mentioned, fdr e justice in 1941. In the summer of 1941. And its very clear that fdr did single mindedly focused and preparing the country for war,
Pres. Johnson my fellow americans. Not long ago, i received a letter from a woman in the midwest. She wrote dear mr. President , in my humble way, i am writing to you about the crisis in vietnam. I have a son who is now in vietnam. My husband served in world war ii. Our country was at war. But now, this time, it is just something that i do not understand. Why . I have tried to answer that question. Dozens of times and more, in practically every state in this union. I have discussed it fully in baltimore in april, in washington in may, in San Francisco in june. Let me again, now, discuss it here in the east room of the white house. Why must young americans, born into a land exultant with hope and with golden promise, toil and suffer and sometimes die in such a remote and distant place . The answer, like the war itself, is not an easy one. But, it echoes clearly from the painful lessons of half a century. Three times in my lifetime, in two world wars and in korea, americans have gone to
Given visas to visit the u. S. Unless theyre planning to meis that it comes after a u. S. Consulate employee in istanbul was arrested on charges of links to to get in a cleric blamed for last years failed coup tuchman has more. The u. S. Embassy in turkey has described as wholly without merit the accusations of terrorist links to a man described or identified only as m t a citizen a local citizen in turkey who employ is employed at the consulate but there is a much greater context to this the a long running or the increasingly worsening relations between the Trump Administration and the government of president air to one who has been trying for more than a year without success for the extradition of. The alleged leader of the plot against the turkish government he is living in selfimposed exile here in the United States and it dition to this what this latest arrest weve had more than a dozen american citizens imprisoned without bond in turkey one of whom a Christian Missionary named An