February when was the date . February 17, 1915, a showing at the white house with Woodrow Wilson. Explain how it happened. The filmmakers, griffith being the director, but also the author of the book, the clansman, written by a man named tom dixon. Wilson and dixon went way back they knew each other. Dixon said lets get this movie screened in the white house. He pulled it off and thats what happened. In the east room of the white house, the first ever screening. Who was in the crowd . His family, some of his cabinet members, other highranking washington figures. As i read in your book, a former chief justice . A former chief justice and it went so well that night that very quickly put together a second screening for the Supreme Court of the United States and congressional leaders. Again, terrific sense of marketing and getting these powerbrokers behind the movie as being an awesome piece of filmmaking. You have to remember when you go back to 1915, the film industry, is in its infancy.
Starts off this way no redblooded american would favor censoring works of art. While reading dick lehrs book you may find yourself rooting for that with a clampdown of the 1915 film of the same name. Isnt that a great start . Why the birth of a nation and what is it . Its considered the first blockbuster film. The story i want to tell is not only the making and release of the film in 1915 but the controversy that it provoked. It is mainly a story about a civil rights leader from a boston by the name of William Monroe trotter, a radical newspaper editor as well who was at the forefront of extensive protest action against this bill film about civil war and reconstruction which is entirely racist portrayal of black america. If it were to come out today, what would happen . I hope it would not get censored but i hope there will be lots of protest drawing attention to the racism at the heart of the story and in griffiths hands. We are going to do a minute want to show the opening of this if
So i have a question as to how that actually works. We dont have any money to contribute. It is the defense bar that has a fair amount of moan. Being see on the civil side where certainly money may play a larger rule but on the criminal side i have a hard time seeing how those studies would validate the suggestion that the Campaign Contributions do have an impact. As a more general matter it with seem to me that there is very little actual distinction especially at sort of county levels where everyone knows everyone and the judge can look at the list of who contributed and it does not really matter whether or not it is the Campaign Committee that asks or the uphill, the uphill will know who his friends are and who are not his trends. Im curious why theres not more of a move to florida passed the laws to solve the problem but it does not really seem this particular law solves the problem and i think when you think of the massey case i think there was a trip to the south of france involv
My goodness they were tipped upsidedown and had money shaikd out of their pockets at gas stations all across our country for years and finally finally the day of deliverance has arrived and they have 2. 21 on average for the price and now were told the price of oil is too low. Weve got to get it back up again. And so the best way of accomplishing that is to Start Exporting Oil because the less there is here, the less there is in north america is the higher the price is going to be for american drives, for American Home heating oil consumers. Very simple plan. Its not about helping americans at the pump. Its about pumping up the prices for new profits for the Oil Companies. Very simple. And if its not then just accept an amendment that keeps all the oil here. Simplest thing to do and then your rhetoric matches up with the reality of what it is thats going to happen. The fuel will stay here. Theyre not going to accept it. They have already made it very clear. So this is all smart of a wi
Us on cspan. Its great to be with you. Kristina peterson of the wall street journal and rebecca shabad. Congressman, i want to begin with the scenes were seeing in paris today as the unity march continues. Well over a Million People expected to pay their respects to those who were killed in the acts of terror last week, and i mention that because congress is about to debate the future funding of the department of Homeland Security. Do the events in paris change the dynamics in that debate . Well, steve, first, let me say, all of our hearts go out to the people of france, and as president obama has said, were going to be working very closely with them to continue to track down the terror cells that may have been responsible for those attacks. We had good cooperation with the french. Look, it would be a bad idea for anybody to play politics with the department of Homeland Security appropriations bills. It would be bad any time. Its especially i think a bad signal now to do that, and so i