They are the only institution, chartered by congress, to increase awareness of the constitution among the American People on a nonpartisan basis. We have a series of exciting town halls coming up and i want to plug them. A new book, the virginian dynasty. On october 1, the National Constitution centers drafting project. We have commissioned three teams, team conservative, team libertarian, and Team Progressive to draft a constitution. Its an Amazing Group of scholars that will tell us how they think a constitution from scratch should read. I cant wait to share that with you. We have great programs in october on immigration and the new book, the upswing. I hope you will join us for them as well as tuning into our weekly podcast. Now it is a pleasure to introduce the amazing panelists for this program tonight on the First Amendment, journalism, and the protests. We will be taking your questions throughout the program, so put them in the Community Box and i will introduce them. Now it is
Show lost history. And he is also the host of decoded. We although why you are here, with out further do lets welcome mr. Brad meltzer. [cheering] [applause] stomach or having fun now just you all know, cspan is here but you know what that means questioning that means all of us book nerds are being watched by her fellow book nerds. That that were altogether one place. [applause] we have as many viewers as espn right now. [laughter] that joke does not work in sports places. I love coming to virginia, obviously the washington d. C. Area was our home in a beautiful place for us where we had our children here, we had our lives here. We started writing here. Its especially important today, todays the day my dad died. And we mark today. And i know it seems like something sad part by loved my father specially loved biggins barnes noble because my father used to go into our local barnes noble, and he would always go yes im here for brad meltzers to but he is my favorite author. And they would
Gulf coast is battered by its strongest ever hurricane most of us. Has deserves to be a lifetime of complete and utter silence celebrations and relief in Christ Church as the mosque shooter who killed 51 people becomes the 1st person to be jailed for life without parole in new zealand. Over the head of nato and polands Prime Minister have urged russia not to meddle in the crisis in better ruse this after Vladimir Putin sent his clearest signal yet but hes ready to use force to support the belorussian president russias president said a reserve police force has been set up to help Alexander Lukashenko but will only be deployed if the unrest spins out of control if the mass protests across the country since you could shake a declared another overwhelming victory in the election just over 2 weeks ago his opponents say it was rigged. Claims western countries are waging a diplomatic war to exploit instability. In our police have detained around 30 journalists who were preparing to cover the
Because the event was livestreamed rather than held behind closed doors. You can see more of this on the youtube page. Kamala harris is in washington, d. C. , today. She is about to deliver marks originally planned on the coronavirus pandemic and its effects on the economy but she will also talk about black lives matter protest and hurricane laura. This is expected to start in a moment. Wife coverage on cspan. Live coverage on cspan. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] good afternoon. On the eve of the 57th march on washington, i will speak about recent events in kenosha, wisconsin, wildfires raging across the california coast tomorrow and rocky mountain. The storm working its way through texas, louisiana, and the gulf coast, and most of all, who we are as a country. We are a nation at its best loves, protects, and helps fellow a
To the rocky mountains, the storm working its way through texas, louisiana, and the gulf coast, and most of all, who we are as a country. We are a nation that, at its best, loves, protects, and helps fellow americans. Today, we see pain, hurt, and destruction. In the ashes of wildfires in the damage of hurricane laura. We encourage everyone to continue following guidance from local authorities to stay safe. Joe and i pledge to be there for those whose lives were turned upside down. Those who need help from neighbors, strangers, and our government to make it through, to restore your lives and your communities. We also see pain, hurt, and destruction in the aftermath of yet another black man shot by police. Jacob blake, shot seven times in the back, in broad daylight, in front of his three young sons. Seven times, in the back, in broad daylight, in front of his three young sons. As Vice President biden put it, the shots fired at mr. Blake pierced the soul of our nation. It is sickening t