Vote is still expected sometime tonight. Earlier today the house of representatives passed the rewrite of the tax code, but just hours later three provision s in the house bill were found to violate senate rules. The house will revote tomorrow and the legislation is expected to pass again. New tonight, busted for dui an elected d. C. Neighborhood leader is firing back at the Prince Georges County police department. Offersers say when they arrested Paul Trantham he was belligerent and cursed officers out and they say they have the video to prove it. Tonight trantham spoke to fox5. Sarah simmons is live in the news room. Reporter officers stopped trantham on indian head highway last night claiming that his car was swerving. He refused to take a sobriety try test and took him into custody. He locked himself in a Bathroom Police release a video of that incident. Take a look. Come on , mr. Trantham, come on out man. Call your supervisor, punk. Police say trantham cursed out the officers and
We are going to get started here tonight. My name is seth mnookin im the director of the Communications Forum and a couple of quick announcements before we start. First Communications Forums are held three times a semester, six times a year. If you would like to be informed of future events theres a signup sheet over their. Put your name and email and we promise we will only send you information about our six events a year. We had judge john hodgman last semester. We have great stuff planned for next semester already. Also tonights form is being filmed by cspan so during the question part of the forum if you would go up to one of the microphones and hopefully state your name and your question. Another reason we ask you to state your name is we then go right up to the forums afterwards which you will be able to read a couple of days after the event on our web site and the last announcement is that this event tonight is cosponsored by radius which is another group here at m. I. T. I am t
Held three times a semester, six times a year. If you would like to be informed of future events theres a signup sheet over their. Put your name and email and we promise we will only send you information about our six events a year. We had judge john hodgman last semester. We have great stuff planned for next semester already. Also tonights form is being filmed by cspan so during the question part of the forum if you would go up to one of the microphones and hopefully state your name and your question. Another reason we ask you to state your name is we then go right up to the forums afterwards which you will be able to read a couple of days after the event on our web site and the last announcement is that this event tonight is cosponsored by radius which is another group here at m. I. T. I am thrilled to be able to introduce these three. It is a different breed than we initially thought would he here because jeff howe called me up at a little past five and said his daughter was and as
Medical history from a collection at marylands National Museum of health and medicine. Each week american artifacts takes you to museums to reveal what americans know about american history. Lamar alexander from richard rings onto bill clinton. He recalled his walk across tennessee after part of his 1978 gubernatorial campaign. And he shared stories behind his mementos in his d. C. Office. My walk across tennessee was 1978. I began on january 26th at my parentss home in east tennessee. And then i walked east until march 1st. A big three foot snowstorm. It took me to july 6th. Its 1,000 miles. I shook 1,000 hands a day and spent every week night with someone whom i didnt know. I grew up in the great smokies. Or right next to it. Our scout troop every weekend, we would be in the mountains. And i love the outdoors. And so do most tennesseeans. We have more people with hunting and fishing licenses than vote in republican pry marries, for example. When i ran for governor for the first time
Follow me along. We would set it up. They would get up and play music. A crowd would gather. I would make a speech. Sometimes i would play the trombone or washboard. And then we would go to the next place. It was sort of a throwback to a campaign from 50 or 60 years ago. So i walked across the state 1,000 miles. Spent the night every night with someone in their homes. I went home on weekends. Usually saturday and sunday night. Then i would go right back to the same place. People would give me walking sticks as a symbol of my walk across the state. The first day was january 26th, 1978. And it was so cold and there was so much snow and ice as i stood there on my parentss front porch in tennessee that the trombone slide froze. So i just took off walking. I think my parents were probably pretty embarrassed. They raised me to be a respectable young man. I was standing on their porch announcing i was going to walk 1,000 miles across tennessee. I would rye to shake 1,000 hands a day. Usually