Hawkings. We will take your call and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington host good morning. At the house is in recess and democrats continued expected to continue their closeddoor depositions. Four Current White House order to testify, but the four expected to be a noshow today. Later this month or early next month, we expect to begin the next phase of the process, open hearings. That is our starting point, do you think these public hearings will influence, sway, or any change your view on the impeachment of President Donald Trump . You can give us a call at 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. If you are an independent, 2027488002. You are also we are also taking your Text Messages, tell us your first name and where you are texting from. 2027488003 or send us a tweet cspanwj. We are also live at facebook. Com cspan. A lot to talk about over the next three hours with a heavy focus on the impeachment process and your calls and comments. Wan
Who have been down this road many times. Criminal investigations are designed to find out if a crime was committed and hold somebody responsible. Congress has a broader mandate, were not prosecutors, but our goal is to shed light on information that may be highly significant but not necessarily criminal. Adjust policy as needed, change laws when appropriate. But in a particular circumstance, find out what happened, not as a prosecutor but as a policymaker. Mr. Rosenburg said in the absence of a constitutional privilege or selfimposed statutory restriction upon its authority, congress and its committees have a virtual pliniary power needed to discharge legislative functions. I think its true but its bounded by the respect for the criminal process. So were trying to find out where that boundary exists, how to navigate this problem, and proceed in an orderly manner so we do not get in the way of mr. Muller, but we discharge our duties to the public at large. After i cut my phone off, ill
Sometimes it seems that were all on the road at the same time. Were a nation on wheels. And soon to take to the air as a slim young man in a silver plane opens up new horizons. There he is. Charles a. Lindbergh landing at the ford airport. Another pioneer gives us the courage to try something new. In no time at all, there are scheduled flights to anywhere you want to go. The dimensions of time and space are further diminished. A new age begins and we move forward with it. Yet as we go, we preserve the past to mirror the accomplishments of those who have shown us the way to the futu future. Historians and law professors recently gathered at the university of Baltimore Law School to discuss the film mr. Civil rights Thurgood Marshall and the naacp. They explored marshalls early law career, as well as his work in the south to expand Voting Rights for africanamericans. Well also hear about his arguments before the u. S. Supreme court and how he became the first africanamerican appointed to
For knowing how to put machines together and make them run. He was born into a world of limited horizons. And though he left the farm that might have been his heritage, he never lost his love for the land and the everlasting cycle of seed time and harvest. What he accomplished helped men put the burden of work on machines and broke the barriers of space and time. Of isolation and distance. His life was a paradox. While his mechanical genius helped to change forever the lives of people ever where, he sought to preserve in some permanent form, a record of the world around him and his eve everwidening interest in it. He collected buildings the way others collect stamps. And put them in a village where time stands still. He assembled acres of machines and put them under cover in a vast historical museum. And early, he discovered the astonishing capacity of the Motion Picture camera to document for all time whatever it saw when the crank was turned. In april 1914, at his holland park plant,
Away in maine as i read and write. I dont have the opportunity to political in current and military things. But i have written biographies about Thomas Carlyle and Charles Dickens and henry james and mark twain. Somehow i got directed more towards some history and the interconnection between literature and politics in recent years. The figure that brought me there was our wonderful 16th president , Abraham Lincoln. My most recent book prior to John Quincy Adams american was lincoln, the biography of a writer. Me that lincoln was not only an extra ordinary politician and a deeply humane and beautiful man, he also was a great writer in his own way and contributed very importantly to american literature. That book focused on the development of literary genius. Lincoln brought me to John Quincy Adams because on various levels, items kept coming to my in terms of lincoln as a political philosopher, lincoln as a man reacting to contemporary issues, and lincoln as a writer. Suddenly it occurr