Roosevelts tomorrow is now. Coverage of the 2013 president reaching festival starts now. Here is maureen beasley. Good morning. I am the Education Specialist at the roosevelt president ial library and museum and on behalf of the fdr president ial Library Museum welcome you in our audience, those of you at home watching on cspan to the tenth annual roosevelt reading festival. Franklin roosevelts plan for the library to become a premier Research Institution for the study of the roosevelt era, the librarys Research Room is one of the busiest of all the president ial libraries and this years group of authors reflect a wide variety of Research Done here. Let me go over the format for the festivals concurrent sessions. At the top of each hour session begins with a 30 minute author talk followed by a 10 minute question and answer period of. Than the authors go to the new deal store where you can purchase books and have them sign them. At the top of the next hour the process repeats itself aga
Like the person youre about to hear on their work. Before we get started, just a couple of housekeeping matters, the first is will everyone please take out your cell phone, pagers, things that beep and whistle and moon and turn them off so the program isnt interrupted. Thank you. The second thing, i want to thank cspan for being here and broadcasting this event today. They are great supporters of the Public Programs we do at the roosevelt library. We appreciate it very much. Let me tell you a little bit of the to mat for the session for those who havent been to the reading festival before. Im going to introduce the speaker. Shes going talk for forty minutes or so. After which, if time permits within well take questions. Im sure susan will be happy to speak with at the new deal store. Where you will want to flee the room to buy one for her to sign. Susan dunn is the author of 1940 fdr, wilkie, lindberg, hitler the election amid the storm shes the parish third century professor of humidi
In just a moment. Lets begin with the torturous report that has leaders around the world with sounding off. Former u. S. Vice president dick cheney was in office when these interrogations took place and hes been using some of the most colorful language in defending what happened. Take a listen here as he makes his feelings known. What are we supposed to do, kiss him on both cheeks and say tell us what you know. Of course not. Thats not all he said but you will hear more of his fiery comments in just a moment. First look at International Reaction coming in response to the report. Governments across the globe are condemning the u. S. After the release of the Senate Report on cia interrogation tactics. The report details brutal acts of torture and now has governments who helped the cia on the defensive. Heres our barbara starr. Today the impact of the torture report spread even as key allies are speaking out. Torture is wrong. Torture is always wrong. Reporter afghanistans new president f
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. The Senate Intelligence committee laid it all out for the world to see an accounting of the c. I. A. s extreme interrogation of terror suspects after 9 11. Today, the panel, controlled by democrats, released the results of a sixyear investigation that found the agency misled the president and congress. The report concluded that better intelligence could have been obtained by more humane methods. Well begin tonight with nancy cordes. A 500page executive summary. Reporter in a onehour speech, Senate Intelligence chairman Dianne Feinstein laid out her case, that the c. I. A. s Interrogation Program after 9 11 was far more brutal than the agency claimed. Y interrogators and guards used what they called rough take downs in which a detainee was grabbed from a cell, clothes cut off, hooded, and dragged up and down a dirt hallway while being slapped and punched. Reporte
So, kellyanne, whats this all about . I think the president called them new steps and we will be seeing them very rapidly. Well, we have many different options in moving forward as you know, eric yesterdays decision did not effect the merits at all. Were very confident, fully confident we will prevail on the merits. There is nothing that the ninth circuit did yesterday that calls in to question the president s ability under the statute and under his Constitutional Authority to keep the homeland safe, which is precisely his point. So there are a number of different steps. We can obviously go back to the district court. Some people said they can get all the way to the Supreme Court. He certainly always has the opportunity to put out new executive orders but the president will make that decision in due course. I just want to make clear that the branches are equal under our constitution. And in this case the court seemed to suspect plant the president s judgment about National Security wit