Pat toomey. Two senators from pennsylvania. First, the headlines. Georgia is heating up. Have announced a hand recount in the state. Biden is up to 14,000 votes in the latest Washington Post count. That is going to be a state that everybody in this country involved in politics will have their eyes on between now and the general area five runoff and the january 5 runoff. Speaker pelosi remains in charge. Challengended off no despite democrats losing seats in the house of representatives. It is a testament to her power. Its also a sign democrats were ambitious in the house and the probably going to waited out untils pelosi until pellucid the sets to retire at one point. There is a leadership challenge. Not this time. And primeiden minister Boris Johnson had a phone call that was productive. Boris johnson spoke to the house andommons in recent hours said it was a productive call. He also notably referred to President Trump as the former president. An acknowledgment from one of our top all
X are having. Reminded viewers about the purpose of your organization. Also if you would could you tell our viewers how you are funded . Judicial watch is funded through voluntary donations than the American People. We are a Nonprofit Educational Foundation that tries to bring more transparency and accountability and the rule of law to our nations public life. One of the issues of Transparency Organization spends a lot of time with previous at up to date is set of this look into the Russian Investigation of the background of the. Remind people i guess because we heard about it a lot but we like people again what was essentially your take on what was done in that investigation. Guest my take is that the Obama Administration, the Hillary Clinton campaign were very nervous about the legal issues surrounding Hillary Clintons emails and, frankly, other misconduct of the Obama Administration in 2016. As a related to Hillary Clintons emails and as related to the targeting of President Trump.
Depth. The next three hours shall see many of the authors who appeared on the program. We were also joined by an author, cornell west and the heads of Simon Schuster and rectory publishing. There is something there is still something that brings tears to my eyes. I hope it wont do it now. On the seventh of december, or the eighth of december 1941, i went to what you would call a problem, an event, you know. I was the equivalent of a freshman at the university. I came home atoc 2 00 oclock at night, the light was on. Excuse me. [inaudible] americas and the war. Yes. And why did that touch you so much . To act because we knew it was going to lose it. Would that mean for you and hungry . I did not cry then. How old were you . Eighteen . I was 18 yes. With that interview with the late author john lucas, indepth was born 20 years ago. 2000 leading nonfiction fiction authors of our time have appeared on indepth. Freeman, colton walker, bob woodward, george well, just to name a few. So over t
Four this evening. I am evan dolly, on behalf of the History Program here, welcome. I should say at the outset, we are able to hold this top thanks to the generous funding of the history fund which is supporting this event. And let me jump straight to introducing our speaker for the evening. Our speaker for this evening is doctor robert chiles. He studied music and found the true faith and began a ph. D. In history in 2012 at the university of maryland. The top he will be giving this evening is a result of that ph. D. Dissertation, i believe. Yes. He has, in the course of this particular research for this project received a couple of prestigious honors the new York State Library Cunningham Research residency, and the new york state archives Ownership Trust hackman residency, to conduct research on governor alfred e. Smith, and as part of his next research project, on a Congress Woman from the state of new jersey and an advocate from the fair labors acts, he has received from the new Je
Recent National Book festival on covert operations. Hi, everybody. Im david ignatius, columnist with the washington post. Welcome to the National Book festival. In this difficult time in the pandemic, one thing we can do is to read good books. I wrote a book that was published this summer which is about a cia officer whos struggling with one of the central problems of our time which is knowing whats true and what isnt. And its my great pleasure to have with me today two people who wrote two two of the very best books of this summer about issues related to our new technologically sophisticated world and the dangers. First, i want to introduce bart gellman, my former colleague at the washington post, who wrote an extraordinary memoir of husband dealings with Edward Snowden that led to the rflations about nsa technology and surveillance, and the subtitle of barts book says the american surveillance state. I also want to introduce another outstanding author the, thomas rid, who teaches at