We are doing our part so its a little easier to do yours. Discussing the Civil Rights Movement on an event marking the 70th anniversary of the brown v board of education decision. The discussion was hosted by Supreme Court Historical Society as a part of their National Heritage lecture series. It runs about an hour. Are we good . Grade. Good evening, everyone. Im the treasurer of the Supreme Court Historical Society. I actually stayed in this room with some frequency but im usually faced in that direction so its a nice change of pace to be looking out there. I am asked to remind everyone please turn off all cell phones, tablets, apple watches even if they are in silent mode they can cause interference with the sound system so appreciate your assistance. This has been a long time coming. We began in 1991 with Justice Kennedy talking about the Court Packing plant and then the privilege of doing it again in 2018 to celebrate justice marshalls 50th anniversary on the court, so its fitting
Are we good . Grade. Good evening, everyone. Im the treasurer of the Supreme Court Historical Society. I actually stayed in this room with some frequency but im usually faced in that direction so its a nice change of pace to be looking out there. I am asked to remind everyone please turn off all cell phones, tablets, apple watches even if they are in silent mode they can cause interference with the sound system so appreciate your assistance. This has been a long time coming. We began in 1991 with Justice Kennedy talking about the Court Packing plant and then the privilege of doing it again in 2018 to celebrate justice marshalls 50th anniversary on the court, so its fitting that we are here once again after the pandemic. Its nice to be back in the courtroom for the 70th anniversary. At the White House Historical association into the u. S. Capital society and we appreciate very much our partnership in that end ever. Id like to express the societies gratitude this evening to Justice Ketan
And lets just say that a lot happened today in lower manhattan. Lucky for us, we have the perfect person to talk about it with. Diane perry has been serving as counsel for Michael Cohen during the trial and has given an interview about the testimony. We will talk to her in a moment. Her client, Michael Cohen, of course is the star witness in the case and he returned to the stand today for a third day of crossexamination. From the beginning, we have known that putting Michael Cohen on the Witness Stand was a high risk and high reward proposition for the prosecution. On one hand, he is the central player. After all, he paid Stormy Daniels out of his own pocket pick he said he did it at Donald Trumps direction and said donald trump was fully aware of the plan to cover it up. Those are the key details. At the same time, cohen is a convicted felon who pled guilty to lying to congress and making false statements to a bank. Not to mention he spent over a decade doing trumps dirty work. And th
The current agenda. Hamas militants released two us citizens taken hostage during attacks on israel on october 7. This is mother and daughter. They were released due to the poor health of the mother. And at the moment they have been handed over to employees of the International Red cross. Cnn reports this with reference to its sources. Well, as the tv channel adds, us citizens were released as a result of negotiations for the release of about 200 hostages, which qatar has been conducting with hamasi since october, it is for the sake of these secret negotiations that the United States is keeping israel from launching a ground operation in gaza, bloomberg has already reported this, with reference to to your sources, like the publication adds that the americans need to buy time; there is a chance that some of the hostages will be released without preconditions, although previously the hamas leadership demanded in exchange the release of 5,000 palestinians who are in israeli prisons, while
Please invite him, and then, of course, well exchange views on the most pressing issues on the current agenda. Hamas militants released two us citizens taken hostage during attacks on israel on october 7, these are a mother and daughter, they were released due to the poor health of the mother, and are currently transferred to employees of the International Red cross, cnn reports, citing its sources. Well, as the tv channel adds, us citizens were released as a result of negotiations for the release of about 200 hostages, which qatar conducted with hamas on october 7, it was for the sake of these secret negotiations that the United States was keeping israel from launching a ground operation in gaza, bloomberg has already reported this, with reference to to your sources, like the publication adds that the americans need to buy time, there is a chance that some of the hostages will be released without preconditions, although previously the hamas leadership demanded in exchange the release