Authors at the q a button at the bottom right of the screen. Kent will ask your questions. Before i opportunity it over to kent and jeffrey i want to remind you but a couple of other Virtual Events were involved in alert this week. This wednesday at 8 00 p. M. Our partners the marcus Jewish Community sir . Atlanta are presenting a free event with coverage kevin quan if his latest novel, sex and vanity, and this friday at 7 00 p. M. Is Bell Wilkerson will discuss her latest best seller with jon mecham. Thank you so much for your purchase tonight. Join us for this event and for your continued support during these extraordinary times. Now ill turn i over to Kent Alexander and jeffrey toobin. Thank you. Jeff, this book was fantastic. Im so looking forward to talking with you but it. Innovate going to get into more of an entry duke of you because i think people know you really well, but had you written this book five years ago, i would have said it was a thriller, paymentturner, a pageturne
He tried to murder general edwin walker because walker had given speeches attacking communism. So Lee Harvey Oswald never hid his politics. Not for a moment. He talked incessantly about communism to anyone who would listen. And yet Many Americans never really understood what Lee Harvey Oswald believed and they didnt understand it because news outlets didnt tell them. Instead, almost immediately, the media began spinning a different story. President kennedy, they suggested, had been murdered by conservatives, possibly by conservatism itself, by hate, as they often put it. The explanation was never very precise but the idea was the always same. Right wingers killed kennedy. The soviet union, naturally a suspect in this crime, was happy to agree with the assessment. As a soviet spokesman put it, moral responsibility for the Kennedy Assassination lay squarely with Barry Goldwater and other extremists on the right. In the end, the coordinated lying paid off. A year later, senator Barry Gold
And The Great One mark live in, hell be here. Youll have reaction. I want to first turn to a developing story on capitol hill. Tomorrow, house democrats, they will force a vote to strip all Committee Assignments from a giorgio her name is Marjorie Taylor greene. Wm im sure maybe until just last week, many of you have neverd heard her name as she has been on the job a whopping one month. She is elected from a district in North Georgia with an impressive 74 of the vote. This despiteep the widespread reportr Conspiracy Theories, the voters haveap voted. It appears they knew about some of her beliefs and they still decided to put her in office. A very high percentage. Democrats, they are trying to block representation in committees and the will of the voters because of these beliefs. Weve done our own research. Weve learned that taylor green previously said that a plane did not hit the Pentagon On 9 11. We all know as a fact that a plane hit the pentagon and it is real. Wefr lost a good fr
Been charged in the murder of george floyd. The officer was caught on camera kneeling on floyds neck for several minutes. Floyd later died. We have Team Coverage across the bay area of the response to last nights protests. We begin with abc 7 News Reporter luz pena tracking the current protest you were saying in San Francisco. The bay area woke up to shattered glass, looted businesses and protesters began to gather peaceful at u. N. Plaza across from city hall. Let me show you this video, after two hours waiting for the crowd to grow protesters began to move to Market Street while chanting no justice, no peace and, quote, say his name, george floyd. With Police Officers following protests with motorcycles and blocking side streets. In this next video we can see how protesters began to turn from peaceful to violent when officers were getting in their vehicle away from this crowd when at one point we can see an officer pointing a nonlethal weapon to the crowd as they drive away, a protes
Stunning scenes in more than 100 cities with soprotests peaceful with heavy Police Presence and the National Guard called up in some places. By our nbc news count, demonstrators appeared in 111 american cities. We have correspondents on the streets with live reports from many of those scenes. Then in our sunday closer, a conversation about george floyd, minneapolis and a painfully familiar sight to many of our fellow americans. And lets begin this morning right there in minneapolis where there was another citywide curfew, but protesters were out for most of the night. A different scene, though, than what that city saw on friday night. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez has been in minneapolis all week for us. Good morning. What does it look like there today . Reporter good morning. The overnight crackdown appears to have worked. This is the Police Precinct downtown, heavily fortified with concrete barriers right over there. After days of chaos, the governor here in minnesota activated the states enti