In many aspects and its held on the quad area of the campus in different buildings of surrounding it. There is a wild cat statue in the middle to represent the university of Arizona Wildcats and in just a minutes one of the panelists that you just heard, joe conason will be joining us and he will be taking calls. His book, his most recent book i should say is man of the world the future endeavors ofe bill clinton. We are tight about bill clinton and post presidency. If you have been listening to this panel and joe conason is now with us. T will thank you for being with us . Guest thank you for having a. Host how much money has the Clinton Foundation raise andnd given and spent . Guest i think the estimate is over 2 billion at this point. They have been in operation really says he was in the white house. They opened the foundation to raise money for his president ial library initially in 1998, i think, so its now been operating for about 20 years. It ramped up a lot after he left the wh
The man of the hour joins a long lineage of men and women who have broken barriers in this historic hall, advancing critical thinking, new ideas and the voices of others who have been marginalized. Some of the most important speakers in history have stood here to present, contest and shape the issues of their day. It is here that Abram Lincoln made his famous speech argument against the expansion of slavery and launching his bid to the presidency. Susan b. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady stanton advocated and organize here for the womens right to vote. Early meetings to form the naacp took place here. Before they were elected, president lincoln, grant, cleveland, past, theodore roosevelt, obama and trump all spoke here. President bill clinton made his first Major Economic speech year, speech that such upset the course for his presidency. The list goes on and so does the legacy of the great hall. With important voices like Preet Bharara tonight and congressman john lewis next month on may 11
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
When they got off the bus they were the mercy of this crowd who then proceeded to attack them even further. The deal that had been worked out with local Law Enforcement and the segregationists was evident 15 minutes they would have 15 minutes before Law Enforcement intervened. After about a 15 minute point a local Law Enforcement officer pulled his weapon and fired a shot. That is what stopped the attack. In the meantime the trailways bus arrived an hour later. They dont know until they arrived that the Greyhound Bus was already attacked. The interesting thing about the trailways bus, unlike the Greyhound Bus, several segregationists had gotten on the bus in atlanta. They were riding from atlanta. They had not only harassed the atlanta, the bus from but they had also beaten several of the freedom riders while on the bus. The trailways bus was able to continue on into birmingham for yet another mob formed and was waiting for that bus to arrive. While this was going on there were a group
Gate that the people were getting through yesterday. There are also Serbian Police that are manning that gate not letting refugees get too close. So the mood here more calm, but still a lot of confusion. Now yesterday when those scuffles happened. When the clashes hand we were here, we saw it, when people were met with tear gas, when they were fired upon by water canyons, here is our report. As tempered flared and fired ignite i the riot Police Stayed firm. Unwavering on the hard line they promised to take. Water cannons may have pushed them back to serbia but failed to extinguish their anger. Most of the crowd is now disbursed with hungarian riot police on the other side of the fence. But the mood does still remain tense, there are men that have come up in the last few minutes urging the young men protesting to please move back and let cooler heads prevail so this situation calls down. The mood changed almost moment to moment. Veering from defiance to june lance, when the gate opened,