What would the verdict be . You could have heard a pin drop in that courtroom. Reporter im lester holt and this is dateline. Heres Dennis Murphy with the a murder case, for sure, but so much more than that. Its a little bit fargo. It is a little bit fargo. Its got a small town. Its got love triangles. Its got fated love. And those elements, for a middle of it all, tandy cyrus. A very pretty woman in a town where pretty women stand out. Reporter one of her lovers stood out too, nick hillary. As a black man in a predominantly white town. You still have people who will not accept interracial relationship. Reporter what happened between tandy and nick would tip high profile, big city attorneys to confront each other in a murder trial now Getting National attention. This has become a story that kind of echoes beyond st. Lawrence county, and even beyond new york. Reporter except, when you drill down, its as local as it gets all about a smalltown boy. This one. 12yearold Garrett Phillips. Tan
In the last few months is so debased and wave. Its unlawful, its immoral that the book shows yet again that there are two things that torture absolutely guarantees. One is pain and the other is false information. Booktv continues now. Toby harnden recounts a british battalions efforts to prevent the taliban from seizing a province of afghanistan while awaiting the arrival of u. S. Marines in 2009. Mr. Harnden discusses his book with dan lamothe National Security reporter for the washington post. Its about an hour. Host toby thanks for joining me today on after words. I am dan lamothe and i run the military blog checkpoint. Im toby harnden with the bureau chief. We are talking about his book dead men risen which has just been released in the United States. Its about a unit traveling to afghanistan in 2009 i was unit that saw quite a bit of combat. Toby i was hoping off the top of the good explain about the title of the book. A very striking title. Guest its a phrase that in is a poem. I
Passage. We have a rare moment for the Senate Foreign Relation Committee and the senate as a whole to demonstrate this. And coming together to demonstrates our ability to give constructive input on one of the most Important National Security Issues of the day and strain our divisive influences in this body and demonstrate our ability to overcome them and show the relevance and Work Together to come together in the best interest of our nation. With that, madam president , i yield the floor. Next, the Supreme Court Court Hears Oral Argument in several samesex marriage cases. Then we open it up to you and later a debate on samesex marriage on todays washington journal. Throughout the day we have been seeing comments from a number viewers. This one from maxwell who says it has been legal in the uk for a while and their society is still entact and no one elses marriages have been ruined. Get the government out of marriage all together. Facebook. Com cspan. And on twitter jennifer who covere
Well, certainly if you look at that diagram you can see we are down more than 10 billion over where we would have expected to be if we had stayed on that dotted green line which is the trajectory for nih going back to 1970 so it will take quite a bit to make up that ground. The other thing the other thing i might show you a consequence of that for people trying to get Research Funded that is the success rate, an investigator who has sent there grant in is facing. You can see going back a couple of decades that has been in the range of 25 to 35 percent. More recently we are down in the zone of 16 to 16 to 17 percent, which is very unhealthy and has caused a great deal of teefor. What is the number . One out of six would be funded at this time. How easy you turn away . Five out of six. What does that mean . I see where you are going a number of grants we find each year at the present time is about 9,000 which means we are turning away about 55,000. I do not think i can tell the differenc
Secondclass status of these petitioners marriages. Thank you very much. Justice roberts thank you counsel. Case is submitted. During this month, cspan is pleased to present the winning entries in this years student cam documentary competition. Student cam is an and or competition that encourages middle and High School Students to think critically about issues that affect the nation. Students were asked to create a documentary based on the theme the three branches and you to demonstrate how a policy or action by one of the three branches of government has affected them or their community. This year, our grand Prize Winners are anna gilligan, katie demos and Michael Lozovoy from the school for the creative and performing arts at bluegrass in lexington, kentucky. Their entry focused on the subject of minimum wage. Narrator the federal government committed created the minimum wage in 1938 at the height of the great depression. It was designed to keep americas workers out of poverty and did