The story of how African Americans come to congress is not an easy story. We had many serve, we had how story. But it has to do with, the role of congress and during the civil war and in the decade after, and during the civil war there was a group of radicals in congress, radicals because they believed in the equality of African Americans and wanted to create a society in the south after the war, that was a most racial society. These were radicals in the house, like fadi is stevens, who is chairman of the ways and means committee. And was a leader, also people like henry winter davis, elijah wash burn. The senate, Charles Sumner, an andrew wade. And they really drove the agenda, and push the lincoln administration, to not only prosecute the war more vigorously, but also to have a reconstruction after the war, that was one that was not so lenient towards Southern States. That would assure Political Rights were extended to African Americans. Also the war ends in 1865, but how do you get
Steps against her. He is calling out what he sees as democrats double standard pointing to their own refusal to take action on controversy surrounding their own members of the house ilhan omar and eric swalwell. They are going to judge her on things that were said that she has now denounced before she was a member of congress. I wonder if they take that same standard. Are they going to leave swalwell on Homeland Security and intel . It is on the democratic side that is difficult that they dont ever do that. When omar made her comments, whats unfortunate democrats dont keep that same standard. Harris Speaker Nancy Pelosi denouncing mccarthys position and referring to his state and Party Affiliation as qca, thats a reference to a qanon Conspiracy Theory greene formerly supported. Developing alongside this news with Marjorie Greene. Unity breaking out among republicans as they voted to keep congresswoman liz cheney as Conference Chair by a wide margin. She voted to impeach then President
Is good to have you with us. Good morning. Good morning to you, frank. We will have our forecast. Good morning to you. Hey, guys, good morning. We are feeling some cool air. We are going to warm up again today. Get ready for it if you are inland. Id like to start up by saying that our marine layer is interesting. It is just hugging the coast this morning. Take a look at the visibility at Half Moon Bay. Is showing a little bit in the bay, but for most part, if you see those clouds, they are left over from a thunderstorm that went over the sierra last night. Certainly some fog there. Santa rosa right now, 54. 56, San Francisco. 62, livermore. San jose, 62. Today the coso clouds will be sticking around for the rest of us it will be a Sunny Afternoon. Be prepared if you are inland. We are going into those 90s. I will talk about who will go to what number and how long it will last. Knew this morning, a San Francisco firefighter was injured while battling a two alarm fire. This was on, lida
City. This conversation took place online due to the coronavirus pandemic. The New York Historical society provided a video. Good evening everyone. Im delighted and have the opportunity to talk to my good friend and professional colleague, harold. I want to remind you that you can ask questions anytime during the program by using the q a buttons. We will get to your questions after the conversation. Lets turn our attention to some objects that help us describe the civil war. In the history museum, objects to a lot of heavy lifting and standing in for a larger historical narratives be on the characteristics that define the objects itself. Let us just talk for a moment about the book civil war and 50 objects which inspired this program. Harold, tell us about it and how did the objects help to develop the complex story of the civil war . Its extraordinary, really, because when we undertook this project eight years ago it was difficult to find the objects, although we think they tell the s
And the exercise of executive powers and now youve are presenting him as the defender of the Constitutional Order regarding president ial power. What changed your view, how did you move from where you were before to what you have presented in your new book . Guest thanks for inviting me to come on with you. Im looking forward to the conversation. Ive been an admirer of your work. This should be fun. I start to weary of President Trump. The thing that worried me as he was a populist and fairly antidemocratic in a lot of ways like the senate and Electoral College, the presence of the states constitution so i was worried when he came in as a populist who wants to achieve an agenda he received a mandate for what hthat he would go beyond te constitutional restraints of power and i was worried at the beginning. The beginning he would do that to think the travel ban and building a wall without congressional approval. I urged them to try to use the president ial powers for National Security an