Jef, start us off. I think it is useful to stand back a little bit because donald trump is so unusual. It is very easy to go right into the horse race. 80 up, down . Letsjust stand back to think about who this quy stand back to think about who this guy is. 12,000 lives since he has been president. He has had his personal lawyer go to jail. It is well acknowledged. He is the campaign his Campaign Manager went to jail, his National Security adviser. Long time associates. The quy adviser. Long time associates. The guy he was conduit to the russians are getting the e mails. Wikileaks. This is who he is. Now lets go to the strange thing of impeachment. If there any doubt possible left from his own transcript of the coal from the interlocking witnesses, Good American bureaucrat without an axe to grind backed up by what is coming on ukraine, clearly he tried to pressure ukraine into giving data on joe biden. With any other president anyone would say, of course it is impeachable. But that is n
Hello. Welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. This week he says his style is modern president ial, but will impeachment hearings leave the American Public agreeing with donald trump on that . Pushed to the brink of total breakdown grim warnings from hong kongs police. And this weeks tv pictures may look like apocalypse now, but climate Scientists Say these fires and floods are just the start. So, how are politicians framing their message on averting an apocalypse ahead 7 my guests today chinese writer diane wei liang, american broadcasterjef mcallister, Stefanie Bolzen of german newspaper die welt and portuguese writer eunice goes. Thank you all so much for coming in. Now, for most politicians, it wouldve been a day to hide. A former ambassador gave startling evidence against his administration and a former close adviser was convicted on counts of lying to congress, obstruction and witness tampering. But this is donald trump were talking about, and instead of hiding, the us pres
Proclaims this has it all, love, death, and psychodrama. It goes on to describe the life story of richard st. George, the exhibitions starring figure, a wealthy irishman who finds himself on the wrong side of two revolutions in america and ireland, as part dickens with a spritz of yankee doodle. There is no doubt that richard st. Georges story is a cracking good tale, but the story reveals so much more than love my death, and psychodrama. In st. George, we see the complex entanglements of social, cultural, political identities of the time and the connectedness of the American Revolution. In st. George, we find a story of the age of revolution and a story of today, of who we are and how we got here, and what the past means to us as a people or as nations. But in st. George, we also find a detective story. A decades long mystery that started with two relatively obscure paintings, and a mystery that ended with this deal for and moving exhibition featuring 22 works of art depicting or comm
Oklahoma, an awardwinning journalist and the author of multiple books, this being the most recent. For two decades in the school of journalism, more recently in the school of international and public affairs. Before we begin, let me thank the Madison Public Library, Madison Public Library foundation. All the sponsors who contributed to making this a successful event and the director of the book festival who organized this celebration of books and authors over the four day weekend. On behalf of the Madison Institute i want to thank the w foundation, charitable arm of the Capital Times and many individual donors of Madison Institute who help our efforts to support and illuminate issues of public policy. Ann nelson will cast light on how the council for International Policy which was created in 1981 is worked for four decades to channel money and people to influence the outcome of our elections and public policy. The book is been praised by a number of individuals including nancy mclean w
Are here in the room and all of you watching at home at cspan book tv, we are delight today start the third day of this years fourth day celebration, today we will do 32 events, i hope you are all staying all day. [laughter] we couldnt be more delighted, thank you for making more time in the morning and check out schedule and come back for more things tomorrow, we will star today, how we win, shes in conversation with hannah and i will send you over to them. [applause] okay, what have i dont . Anyone who knows me, technology is not my friend. [laughter] hi, welcome to madison. Thank you. Let me just tell you a little bit about sarah, her bio is on the website, its in your information and its on the book that you all will be buying many copies of. [laughter] but sarah is a very incrediblable woman, she was getting ready to leave after president bush the second and getting ready to go until Hillary Clinton brought her in the office and said, talk to me about what youre doing and she said