My name is kevin butter fooerfi. Im t it is my pleasure to welcome you here tonight on behalf of the mt. Vernon Ladies Association and the Ford Motor Company which each month sponsors a free monthly book talk just like this one, an opportunity for people to the community to come and learn from some of the greatest historians in the field. Thank you so much for being here tonight. Were thrilled to have you. To begin the program, just shortly, well hear a brief presentation from susan swain, copresident , chief executive officer of cspan, and coauthor of the president s which will be discussed tonight. Shell be joined by brian lann, founder and executive chairman of cspan, in moderating an esteemed group of historians in discussing the american presidency. And the american presidency is, as you know, a fascinating subject of inquiry in every possible way. In the constitution theres not as much said about it as you might imagine. Article 1 is quite long. Article 2 much shorter. And the ke
Formula for success is simple. We invite extraordinarily bright speakers who offer bold perspectives, perspectives which rarely get a hearing in manhattan ballrooms or progressive cabins. Inivering the reston lecture 1995, that was a huge laugh line. [laughter] are we napping . Delivering the restaurant the reston lecture in 1995, the speaker asked why americans were unhappy with the country that was more powerful and prosperous than ever. He drew attention to signs of disorder, crime, failing schools a coarsening culture and deteriorating civic life. Wilson argued these problems had begun with the dissolution of the family. Then as now, a controversial view. Today disorder is rising again, and i am not just talking about mayor de blasios much lamented return from iowa. [laughter] you are getting there. [laughter] this disorder is the consequence of a nationwide effort to roll back many successful policies that mi scholars have spent careers advancing. President ial campaign may have g
Richard bilton, bbc news. And you can see panorama how to brainwash a Million People on bbc one at 8 30 tomorrow night. Now its time for a look at the weather. Hello. We start the final week of meteorological autumn, and with it comes meteorological autumn, and with it co m es yet meteorological autumn, and with it comes yet more rain. Now, through the rest of tonight, the focus of the rest of tonight, the focus of the rain is going to be across South West England, wales, into Northern Ireland, slowly moving its way north and east words, not getting to too far ahead of it. We have a lot of patchy light rain and drizzle, not so much of it getting up drizzle, not so much of it getting up into scotland and also eastern england. But everywhere there will bea england. But everywhere there will be a lot of cloud, some misty, murky conditions as well. So were going to start monday morning on another grade note. Quite wet in places, especially across parts of South West England and south wales
With the current field of candidates. If you say yes you are satisfied, tell us why at 202848800. You can text us your opinion. All we ask is that you include your city, name, and state. Our twitter feed cspanwj and our facebook facebook. Com c span. Ll to thiso question, some comments this morning, one from erin saying, how about dropping everyone, but Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren . Someone else on facebook saying, yes. Im trying to figure out what the deal is with tulsa gabbard. They are fine and capable folks. James davis from facebook, Michael Bloomberg was not my choice but i can support him now. He seems more realistic and sane. Michael bloomberg and norfolk, virginia with a start to his campaign. Asing that he chose norfolk the first stop because the region is a case study for political change. Southeast virginia proves that with the right candidate, we can turn areas from red to blue, he said. Bloomberg also said he would make a gun violence a major focus of his campaign
Received a luxury watch and tens of thousands in wire transfers. The fbi says he gave them a fake invoice, claiming funds came from consulting services. Abu amu left twitter in 2015 and went to work for amazon in seattle where he was arrested tuesday. The complaint also names ali alzabara, a Saudi National living in san bruno and working at twitter as a site reliability engineer in 2015. Ali alzabara allegedly assess data for thousands of twitter users. It struck me as a class of espionage or intelligence operation. Reporter jim density is executive director at the Uc Berkeley Center for law and technology. He says this is a wakeup call for Tech Companies to be more vigilant. Not just about outside hacks, but inside threats. You will have to be very careful about which employees have permissions to access what information. Reporter in addition, Companies Need to think beyond encryption of messages, but also to the security of metadata that identifies users, which often is not encrypted