Afterwards. High everyone, my name is brittany kerr. ,deputy director of events at politics and prose and id like to welcome you all. A few housekeeping items before we again, first i will be dropping links in the chapter you can purchase copies of both speakers books today, straight from pmpyou can also ask the author question today by clicking on the q a button at the bottom of the screen and we will try to address everybodys questions near the end of the program but if we dont get to your exact question we apologize, i have a feeling there will be lots of questions today. It is my pleasure to introduce todays speakers, first, Maya Rockeymoore cummings, the former chair of the Maryland Democratic party and wife of the late congressman Elijah Cummings. In were better than this, congressman cummings details the formative moments in his life that prepared him to hold President Donald Trump accountable for his actions while in office. s final words are a call to action for us all to rema
In tehran, the American Embassy is in the hands of several hundred iranian students. 52 americans were being held hostage in iran, during an Election Year and there was no end in sight. It must be made clear that the failure to the release the hostages will involve increasingly heavy cost to iran and to its interests. In 1980, jimmy carter and his staff believed that if they could show progress in freeing the hostages that would be enough, that would take him over. Larry is director on of the university of Virginia Center for politics. What they did not count on, is that the promises from the cy before the tuesdays election. So, basically americans were told right before they went to the polls, that it was either hopeless or they had better try somebody new who would try new things to get the hostages back. So that was an october surprise that jimmy carter thought was going to help him, but it reversed. It helped reagan instead. 1980, might have been when the term october surprise was
The screen and we will try to address everybodys questions near the end of the program but if we dont get your exact question, we apologize. I have a feeling there would be lots of questions today. It is my pleasure to introduce todays speakers. First Maya Rockeymoore cummings is a a former chair of the Maryland Democratic party and wife of the late congressman Elijah Cummings. In were better than this congressman cummings details the moment of which is life the prepared in two oh President Trump accountable for his actions while in office. His final words are a called action for us all to remain rooted in the politics of optimism and enact change in any way we can. Moderate to nice conversation is april ryan, cnn political analyst, bureau chief for american urban rear network and author most recently of under fire. Reporting from the frontlines of the trump white house. Please welcome my in april to p p life. Hi, ladies. Thank you. How are you doing . Everyone, thank you for joining.
Of wanton endangerment. Johnsons bond was set at a million dollars. Hell be back before a judge on october 5th. Law enforcement on high alert tonight, more violence is feared. Fox correspondent mike tobin live tonight in louisville with the latest. Mike. Reporter and, lou, we have already seen some weapons show up on the scene, but weapons i mean some of those particle boards fashioned into shields to defense against the nonlethal weaponry the police use, also some guns here on scene. So its going to be another tense night in louisville. If you look behind me, you can see a humvee, indication of presence of the national guard. Behind that you have a snow blow and some of the jersey bears that are snowplow and some of theirly bears, they take the blades off and use them to block the streets. Another jersey barrier, and then youve got Jefferson Park, and thats where the demonstrators are gathering, that is where weve seen some of the weapons start to show up as the protesters numbers are
Of wanton endangerment. Johnsons bond was set at a million dollars. Hell be back before a judge on october 5th. Law enforcement on high alert tonight, more violence is feared. Fox correspondent mike tobin live tonight in louisville with the latest. Mike. Reporter and, lou, we have already seen some weapons show up on the scene, but weapons i mean some of those particle boards fashioned into shields to defense against the nonlethal weaponry the police use, also some guns here on scene. So its going to be another tense night in louisville. If you look behind me, you can see a humvee, indication of presence of the national guard. Behind that you have a snow blow and some of the jersey bears that are snowplow and some of theirly bears, they take the blades off and use them to block the streets. Another jersey barrier, and then youve got Jefferson Park, and thats where the demonstrators are gathering, that is where weve seen some of the weapons start to show up as the protesters numbers are