Thank you all. Thank you, thank you so much perrys. Went to welcome it to this session on behalf of humanitys tennessee. Tennessee Arts Commission and a built University Thoughts my honor to host the conversation today between two nonfiction authors who have created what reads as fiction. These are non fiction novels. And i can tell you that by the end of them youll either be rooting for the heroes, hating the villains or weeping with relief that justice is finally been done. So let me introduce you to our authors for today. We have an Investigative Reporter with an author writing arguably about the birth of investigative reporting. So let me bring to the stage the author of citizen reporters, ss mcclure, ida tarbell, and the magazine that re grows america, stephanie bolton. And also joining us today chris hanvey who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reports for the New York Times on how some lawyers and doctors rigged the system to deny benefits to coalminer stricken with black lung diseas
Pennsylvania in michigan in arizona what isnt clear however is what the strategy is going to be here because as weve said time and again these legal challenges have been dismissed or rejected by various courts now because they have not been able to provide proof of any sort of malfeasance any sort of fraud and it is important to say that right now President Trump is trailing joe biden by a number of votes that even if you were to win or be successful with a legal challenge in one state it would not be enough to change the outcome of this election so really were wondering what the strategy is going to be from the trump team. All right sumi thank you so much were just seeing live pictures from wilmington delaware there again. Lets just clarify this for our viewers is there any evidence at all to back. Trumps claims of election fraud. No theres not that we have heard that you know certainly there have been a Record Number of ballots that have been cast by mail this year that we know and w
A record high chance or albion medical announces the nationwide lockdown will be extended into january. But restrictions will be eased over the Christmas Holidays and outgoing u. S. President donald trump pardons his former National Security advisor, Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to a lying to the f. B. I. During its investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 president ial election on the welcome to the show one of the greatest Football Players ever to have graced the pitch as no longer with us argentinian superstar Diego Armando maradona, died on wednesday, after suffering a heart attack at only 60 years of age. He was revered around the world and worshiped and his home country ever since he kept and argentina 2 world cup victory and 986. Lets take a look back at his life. A life of extremes, full of ups and downs. His doctor at his side. This is the last public photo of diego, armando modeled on her after a successful brain operation. Early november. Hed been visibly ill for
Hearing. Shana broussard, sean cooksey and Alan Dickerson are the president s nominees to be members of the federal elections commission, as our witnesses are joining us remotely, i also understand that their families and friends are watching today and so i welcome them as well. This is a big responsibility, is significant president ial nomination and significant to the work of this committee and i know youre proud, your Family Member as they have moved forward to this opportunity. Let me say a little bit about the nominees and then ill turn to another Committee Member senator cruz to talk about the third nominee, Alan Dickerson is not the nominee to be a member of the federal Election Commission for a term expiring on april the 30th 2025 and he has been practicing law for 20 years primarily in the areas of First Amendment and campaignfinance since 2011 mr. Dickerson has been the legal director of the institute for free speech, a Nonprofit Organization that litigates First Amendment an