Distinguished panel of americas leading lincoln scholars to discuss lincolns speeches and the american idea. Michael birmingham holds the chancellor naomi b lynn distinguished chair and lichen studies at the university of illinois springfield. Hes the author of several books on lincoln including and lincoln observed the inner world of Abraham Lincoln and the two volume american Abraham Lincoln a life as well as his new book, which hell be discussing tonight. The black mans president Abraham Lincoln African Americans and the pursuit of racial equality. Noah. Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter professor of law chair of the society of fellows and founding director of the Julis Rabinowitz Program on jewish and israeli law at harvard university. Hes the author of nine books including the three lives of James Madison genius partisan president and his latest book which will be tonight the broken constitution lincolns slavery and the refounding of america diana. Shall is professor of Political S
Ministers held an emergency cobra meeting this morning to address the escalating crisis in the middle east. The government is pushing for a pause in fighting, rejecting calls for a full ceasefire to facilitate aid reaching palestinians and in gaza, people are searching for bodies after another night of israeli airstrikes. The Health Israeli airstrikes. The Health Ministry in the hamas controlled territory saying the death toll has now passed 7000. They say that includes almost 3000 children since october seventh. And irans foreign minister has weighed into the conflict today, claiming hamas is ready to release hostages and the world should support the release of 6000 palestinian prisoners. And 6000 palestinian prisoners. And that development coming as the arab nations released a joint statement condemning what theyre describing as the forced displacement and collective punishment of palestinian lines. Israel, for its part, maintains its only targeting the terrorist group hamas. But the
Has stormed out of an interview today after he was challenged on comments he made last week about gay marriage and actually same sex relationships in general. Well be taking a closer look. Well be taking a closer look. But as you well know by now, this show is nothing without you and your views. Let me know your thoughts on all of the stories me and my panel will be discussing today by visiting gb news. Com forward slash your say. Join the conversation there or message us on our socials. Were gbnews. First of all though, heres your news headunes though, heres your News Headlines with ray addison. Headlines with ray addison. Thanks, darren. Good afternoon. 1 01. Our top stories afternoon. 1 01. Our top stories this hour. Former home secretary Suella Braverman has told gb news that mr sunak needs to urgently change course following dire local and Mayoral Election results. The Prime Minister dire local and Mayoral Election results. The Prime Minister has promised to take the fight to labo
And green for mostly the russell 2000 and ousting of speaker Kevin Mccarthy in the rear view, the bulls are holding on to the green by a gossamer thread and spiking bond yields barely retreated and point gain for the dow of nine measly points. Earlier gains of a gain of about 130 points and weve not come close to erasing tuesdays 430 point loss. Buyers of blue chips emerged earlier but since lost a bit of steam here. What is working kicking off the final hour of trade. To the dow heat map, theres amgen, microsoft, walmart, sales force, visa and nike in the lead. La guards are chevron laggards are chevron, walgreens, boots, 3m and not one sector getting slammed or jumping. S p up 18 points but yesterday it lost 58 points and nasdaq recovering, lets call it about 133 points of the 248 point route just 24 hours ago. Tech stocks tend to dot worst when bond yields sore those yields spiked on stronger than expected august jobs or jolt jobs opening and labor reports and thats got investors be
A lot of building tension over the last couple of days as this region really waited to see how israel would respond to that unprecedented attack by iran last saturday. We didnt know what it would look like in what would happen and some people yesterday thinking it was not going to happen until after the upcoming passover holiday. We now know according to fox news Military Source that israel is responding to iran with these very targeted and specific strikes in the esfahan region. That is roughly 200 miles away from the iranian capital of tehran. This is significant because not only is it close to the capital, but also near the Nuclear Facility. We should mention the site was not hit in the strike appeared to target the nearby iranian airbase. But really clearly shows that israel has the capabilities to hit this area and hit it when it wants to. As it stands, Iranian Media has been downplaying the strike. I havent reported damage from the strike or direct impact. Relieves only comments