Men of the Twentieth Century is the title king of the cats the life and times of Adam Clayton Powell, jr. Because it so aptly describes Adam Clayton Powell. He was smooth, he was cool, he was goodlooking, he was smart, and he always was a complete package that spoke eloquently for africanamericans and the poor in this country. One of the great things about this is not long ago we had a student come in who was looking for a biography of Adam Clayton Powell and there wasnt one. All the books about him were outofprint so it is a privilege to have king of the cats the life and times of Adam Clayton Powell, jr. Back in print. It is a privilege to have wil haygood here to talk about his book. Welcome. [applause] welcome, thank you. It is always nice to be here at this bookstore. They do treat me like i live in the neighborhood which i do, treat me as if i come here and do my book shopping which i do. I also notice there are these posters advertising the authors for the month of february. My
Celebrated the building of the 200th mile of border wall. And President Trump also held a round table event in which he hailed his administrations efforts in winning the fight against illegal immigration. My administration has done more than any administration in history to secure our southern border. Our borders never been more secure, other things that weve done. During the last two months, weve seen the lowest number of illegal border crossings in many years. Illegal immigration is down 84 from this time last year. Illegal crossings from Central America are down 967 . 96 . Lou and after the president s appearance at the border, he talked with an enthusiastic crowd of some 3,000 students for trump. At that event the president called upon those students for trump to stand up against radical leftwing ideology. And wednesday he began with the day with vindication as a d. C. Appellate Court Ordered judge em met sullivan to dismiss the federal cause against general michael flynn. The Just
And lockdowns. Welcome, good to have you with us. You see this outbreak again across the south and the west. I guess the question is did these States Reopen too soon . If they reopened too soon its really odd because they opened in the beginning of may and throughout may very little changed and all of a sudden starting early june and accelerated in june theres a huge spike of positive tests in the states. If anything the lockdowns caused this what happened, why didnt it happen in may and not june and thats a very good question which i dont think we have the answer to right now but its also a question that the media is not really asking. Paul do you have any speculation yourself about why that is . Where are they coming from . You have seen, houston, san antonio, miamidade, Maricopa County in arizona. Alex june has been very hot in the sunbelt states, its typically hot in texas and arizona, driven people indoors and use airconditioning. There may be Real Community spread from that. Clea
Reform as well as several nights of unrest that involved looting. As we cover these events, we are keeping our eye on the upcoming primary that falls on june 23 for many states, including for congress, for state senate, assembly. The people elected to these offices are grappling with serious issues here and all around the country. Tonight, were holding a democratic primary debate for new yorks 14th congressional district, which covers part of queens and the bronx. As you can see on the map, this stretches across several neighborhoods including a story a, jackson heights. The seat is currently held by alexandria ocasiocortez we also she joins us tonight. We have also invited some of the leading candidates challenging her to this debate. We are joined by Michelle Caruso cabrera and Community Leader and activist activists badrun khan. The rules have been agreed to by the candidate. You can see the full debate on nyone. Com we are taping this on thursday, june 4. Now on to the opening stat
American public to hear from. Me, john for having and i watch the entire interview and my reaction as an view thewas to credibility of john bolton and to look at it more from the standpoint of whether or not he could prove his claims and what evidence he provided to support those claims. What i found from a perspective of looking at fact and evidence sherry support and those types ary support was, what i thought john bolton was doing was putting out bold assertions. Conversationof elements that say i think or my perception was. He did not provide any sort of fact or proof other than this was my perception. Obviously, he and the president have had a lot of very different perspectives on foreign policy. That was the substance of their differences and why he was ultimately fired. I did not find it persuasive that this was some sort of bombshell that it was promoted to be. I found from a credibility standpoint, of course john bolton has had a lot of credibility issues in the past. He was n