This really sets out in quite excruciating detail just how elaborate this russian effort really characters were, what likes they went to to influence our election, how much they wanted to send discord in the united states. And the president who continues to call this a witchhunt, the effort is overwhelming and unequivocal. We need to move to protect ourselves from russian interference and election test in elections are coming up. The british house of commons is in recess this week. Tonight, we sure you we show membersrtion of where questioned journalists on the topic of thickness. Of fake news. It was the first time a house of Commons Committee broadcast a live session outside of the u. K. Every journalistic outfit, large or small, have try to fight a way to merge audio, video, and publishing together, to do it credibly. I have been in this business since 1984. When i worked in a community newspaper, it was the Community Talking to itself, its values, its sense of perspective. And ther
The senate seat in utah. He gave the keynote address at the lincoln day dinner in provo, utah. This runs about 40 minutes. A few months ago, as we were preparing for this event, we ran a lot of names across everyone and we sent out some requests. 0 we sent out some information. And we and then name of the speaker that is coming in a few minutes came across our thoughts and ideas in the midst of all of these discussions. And it was about a month ago that we found that everyone turned us down that we liked but we go big and tried to get awesome people that you would like to listen to. We put in a tickler and thought lets try. We put in a tickler to try to get the republican the former Republican National president ial nominee from the party to come speak to us. That took a few weeks. It was only just two to three weeks ago that we actually had an answer. We thought that was fantastic. Then we went spinning quickly to try to organize and finalize what we were going to do this evening. So
So, again, encouraging people to take their seats. Good evening, everyone. My name is kai bird, im the new executive director of the Leon Levy Center for biography which is celebrating its tenth year now all due to shelby white and the leon levy foundation. And i want to advertise, first of all, our new alliance with bio. This is our first sort of jointlysponsored event with them, but we are also, courtesy of will swift here the president of bio, we are also going to be doing, cosponsoring their great annual conference on biography next may. And that will also be happening here at cuny. Should be a great event with over 200 biographers. I also want to advertise and put out the word, we have a december 15th deadline for our new, our annual fellowship, and there are four fellowships given out every year of 65,000 a pop for aspiring biographers. So if you know of people who are aspiring, please encourage them to apply. And finally, i just, you know, im really thrilled that were able to do
Section in depth. Youll see special guests like Walter Mosley, last month we had david ignatius, the Washington Post columnist in the thriller writer who writes about the cia and such. This month we are pleased to have the Pulitzer Prize author Colson Whitehead as the guest comments most recent book he underground railroad. What is the appropriate response when your books are praised by oprah, president obama, you win the Pulitzer Committee National Book award, so what is the appropriate response . [laughter] guest this book has taken off in a way that was unexpected so most of the i just thank my lucky stars and sleep a little betterne and try to enjoy it despite my best efforts. Host why does that put you in a better mood . Guest ive been writing for 20 something years and sometimes you write a book and people dig it and understand it and other times nobody cares and it sort of disappears. So i have the pride thinking i did a good job on the book and the bonus of other people thinkin
Scientists and more importantly, at that point they thought, get the equipment and the rocket in particular to study it and keep it out of the hands of maybe potential enemies of the future. Like the soviet union. It is first based on fear and the idea that we needed to understand how far they have gone and what theyve done with the weaponry. And later became, what can we do with these scientists and this material . Intelligence operatives conceived of ways to bring them back to the United States or possibly deal with them in countries during occupation. Paperclip was first an idea among intelligence professionals and also the american scientific community. That was aware of how germany had progressed in Weapons Technology during the war. And there was an understanding that with the atom bomb and with the invention of these longrange rockets, we have entered a new era in warfare. It was not quite yet the cold war where you are looking at the soviet union as his intense enemy in 1945. B