[inaudible conversations]. [bells ringing] [bells tolling] [bells tolling] [bells tolling] the bells youre hearing here from st. Patricks church. Other bells are tolling for president lincoln just as they did in 1865. St. Patricks church by the way is the Oldest Church in washington d. C. They were founded by the masons building the and doing the stone work for the white house and the u. S. Capitol. Irs commissioner john cost kins men will take questions about the implementation of the tax penalty in the health care law. Watch live coverage from the Senate Homeland Security Committee 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan3. Later in the day u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. , samantha power, will testify about the president s 2016 budget request. She is also expected to be ask about yemen iraq and Irans Nuclear program. Our live coverage begins 2 00 p. M. Eastern also on cspan3. This weekend the cspan cities tour has partnered with comcast to learn about the history and literary life about st. Augus
I am on, hope is light enough for you. Welcome, everyone, to panel number 3117 entitled hands up, dont shoot. Requiem for an American Police state. Dont you wonder about the people the wonderful volunteers who put these titles together in some room somewhere this winters a and this will get them going on wednesday morning at 9 00 a. M. Ambiguity where you can too. But i cant handle it. This panel certainly can. Here is good for. Let me introduce myself, i am ginny corsi. I love being part of this all. All cellphones off, get them off 5 break too so we have no information in the landing. I will open it up to the panel and ask each of them to give us a 10 minute opening. After which i will hope there are questions. After that, then we go to these microphones. First i might have a question or two. I could be coming up with a great question and dont want to waste it so i might ask a question or two but the questions are from you and you know you come to the microphones and dont be afraid.
Country and ill be asking some of the questions you submitted online. Its never been a more important or difficult time to be a mayor of a big city in america. Over the last month, mayors have faced unprecedented challenges, a once in a century pandemic thats forced mayors to make timely and difficult decisions under tremendous pressure. Decisions that if they get wrong, could cost thousands of lives. Then, in the wake of the Police Killing of george floyd, we have seen a once in a generation movement. Huge street protests and calls to end police brutality, but more deeply to fundamentally reorder the priorities governing the agendas of cities, to undo the decades of systemic racism that have resulted in everything from mass incarceration to health and racial disparities. S all of that is happening in that fraught moment. Because big city mayors are navigate thing, they are negotiating the calls for safety and health, equity and justice being made. Its been over a month since george fl
Do historians watch enough tv. So just to let you know what were going to be doing were gonna have a conversation and hopefully insightful conversation around that very question, but were also going to show you some television clips. So if historians do not watch enough television, maybe youll get the chance to do it here and then were going to talk about how we work with with tv and and at the end we want to bring you into the conversation, of course, and so if youre looking at the program you can see that that frank isnt able to join us today, unfortunately, and then my lights and everything you can tell that this is being recorded for cspan. And with me today to to help moderate this sage goodwin of university of oxford. Yes. Hi everyone. So yeah, were getting pretty massive. Were gonna be filmed talking about tv, but first were gonna introduce some of the political historians we have here to talk about working on tv and were gonna you know, you can you can google them to find out i
Then were going to talk about how we work with with tv and and at the end we want to bring you into the conversation, of course, and so if youre looking at the program you can see that that frank isnt able to join us today, unfortunately, and then my lights and everything you can tell that this is being recorded for cspan. And with me today to to help moderate this sage goodwin of university of oxford. Yes. Hi everyone. So yeah, were getting pretty massive. Were gonna be filmed talking about tv, but first were gonna introduce some of the political historians we have here to talk about working on tv and were gonna you know, you can you can google them to find out itll be Amazing Things that theyve written but were gonna get to know them a little bit better by asking and their relationship with tv by asking them. What was the First Television event that they remember watching as a child and also who is there face of the Television News so well begin with David Greenberg who is a professo