A day the Prime Minister is due to speak to the nation. And an indian Jewelry Company polls an ad that caused outrage because it showed interfaith marriage. So the aljazeera undercover investigation which has led to cyprus suspending its controversial citizenship for Investment Program the attorney general has also announced a probe into possible criminal offenses following the revelations goes back to august when al jazeera Investigative Unit released the cyprus papers which revealed some serious flaws in the citizen by Investment Program it exposed high ranking officials expressing a willingness to help convicted criminals get citizenship lets get more from our Investigative Reporter David Harrison whos in nicosia. Weve had 3 announcements one the abolition of the Investment Program under which people could buy passports if they paid a certain amount of money in which our investigation revealed evidence of that was being abused the 2nd one was the president of the pall of dmitris sal
You are watching book tv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Book tv, television for serious readers. Tonight, one of the things you been happy to do over the past few months, you talk about things that are going on in our world and things that are happening, turn events, issues that you made in grappling with and weve had an event with a book on corruption in america we didnt want to turn that down and we had an amazing career with all types of different factors from being a reporter with National Public radio and the chairman of the joint chief of staff with all kinds of other achievements and it is one of our leading experts of a concept on corruption and what that means and thats something we are hearing about a lot these days, we will talk about this wonderful new book, what is been going on recently and much, much more, welcome, sarah is joining from West Virginia, hello. Hello and hello everyone, we were speaking before we all came on about how much we
If you didnt watch, i envy you. There was nothing new, republicans and democrats placed their assigned roles but we are not here to talk about that. We are talking about something more interesting, the Roberts Court. More than any other Supreme Court justice in recent history, john roberts has played a defining role in shaping our free speech block. Hes been more than twice as many majority opinions in this area than any of his colleagues and there is a certain result in 95 of the greek expression cases decided in his tenure, hes been in the majority. Hes taken the lead of nearly 80 of the time so theres Something Special about this, something that speaks to how john roberts sees the court. The first conference of report the roberts report, collins and hudson, each of whom is published more than ten books on free speech examined 56 cases handed down by Roberts Court from 2005 to 2020. He offers i open details looks at the cases and justices different approaches. Here to tell us about i
Up next Lawrence Odonnell talks about his book playing with fire. And the transformation of american politics, which recalls the turmoil of the 1968 president ial election. We recorded this in washington to d. C. In 2017. This 1968 election, was the first when i was alert for. I was in high school, i remember zero of the 1964 election, just the one right before that. And i remember just flashes of 1960, because it was a giant deal for Irish Catholic boys in boston. And one of us was on his way to winning it. And its hard to believe this now, but in those days we lived under a certain kind of, old ghetto culture notion that it could not happen. That they could not elect a catholic president of the United States. But if you know our political history, for the decades proceeding that without smith, and with others there was evidence, that you could not elect a catholic person. And that was transcended and exploded, one night in november in 1960. So the world we were looking at, in 1968 wh
There could be more explosive devices at the scene. Police say the man that was injured in this has not been charged with a crime. And they also say the bay areas joint travel task force had been notified of this explosion. Obviously this is going to take some time. Any indication when the investigation might wrap up and that area might reopen . Theyre gonna go very slowly. It only affects a couple of houses. And within that one block. But because of the nature of this investigation, because an explosive device is involve, and there could be others. There could be other material or devices around the proper. So theyre going to move very slowly just in case. Its gonna take today, tomorrow, perhaps another day after that, heather. Given all of that, they want to be as careful as they possibly can. All right, jesse gary, reporting live for us this afternoon. Thank you. A lot people died in the pg e pipeline ruptured, triggering an explosion that levelled that san bruno neighborhood. In th