My own blood raised too a few weeks ago after the last parliament had been dissolved when i received my own writ of summons, sealed with a seal, giving me exactly 40 days notice of a Certain Parliament to be holden at our city of westminster. Harking back, i felt sure to chapter 14, of the original magna carta, to obtain the Common Council of kingdom out an aid, we will be summoned the archbishops, abbotts, earls and greater bands, individual letters. And in addition we will be caused through our bailives for a fixed state namely after the expire of at least 40 days and to an affixed place. This is the foundation of a second principle which we can trace at least as far back as magna carta that the people for whom the taxes are levied should have a voice in deciding what they should be. Usually embodied in the saying no taxation without representation, i understand has a special significance in the district of columbia. As i also understand it was the ignoring of that principle which lo
Joining us is a history professor at the university of South Carolina but also the editor of the product of the Miller Center at the university of virginia. Mr. Germany, thanks for joining us thank you. Its my pleasure. Joining us from new york, joseph califano, the assistant for Domestic Affairs from 1965 to 1969. Also secretary of health and welfare from 70 to 79. And the author of the triumph and tragedy of Lyndon Johnson. Thank you for joining us. Nice to be with you. Before we go into the conversation and the phone calls, a little bit about your perspectives coming from mr. Germany to you first. The lbj project, what is that . The lbj project is a gold mine project in essence. It is a group of scholars at the university of virginia, public affairs. That is trying to get all of the recordings tribed, annotated. Everything you would need to know whats going on in the information. Editors there try to present it. We are trying to put everything out from the assassination all the way
With Julius Chambers he would call me up at night and say why you sleeping. She did. She really did. Summer of 1984 for many of you who were active in the campaign of Jesse Jackson throughout the country. And for all of you who have spent the last 14. 5 years like myself fighting to renew voting in this country. I want to say thank you. Especially to this panel for your willingness to fight and also your willingness to tell the story and history. We should never forget that history. Because that is our history. Our collective history. As americans its our history. As grandma francis would do every night of our childhood she would call us in order of our birth. We had lots of kids in louisiana. My grandmother voted in 1972. She would call us and recite scripture and i have to do it in her honor. Do not grow weary in doing good in due season we will reap a harvest if we dont give up. I am here to say we have not given up and we thank you. 16 days from now when we commemorate that histori
Worldwide exchange on cnbc. Im sara eisen here with michael santoli. We are worldwide today because will fred frost is in london covering the British Election tomorrow. Well hear more from him, a lot more including great guests in just a moment. First, lets check in on the futures this morning. After a second day of losses for u. S. Stocks, nothing severe in terms of the decline, but, still, it was two days ago. A little bit of caution building up. Caution into a triple event risk kind of day. Comey, British Election, ecb all out tomorrow. Futures looking up this morning. Up 12 points. S p futures up 1 1 2. Nasdaq up 7. 5. Rebound morning. Treasury note yield, the trade there yields back to november lows. Gold to november highs. Dollar to november lows. So were starting to see all of this retracing of the trump trade. 2. 15 is the yield on the ten year which is pretty much the low of the year. There has been a lot of demand for ten year treasury yield ten year treasuries keeping yields
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