Youre watching live in depth on booktv. December 7, 194,a day of infamiliary. Even as japanese diplomats were con ferring on peace measures, japanese plains were swooping down on pearl harbor. They dropped their death on the air base, civil homes and schools. A hundred japanese planes and midget sub marines took part. The arizona was completely destroyed and four others severely damaged. Three other battleships and three cruisers suffered damage. Nearly 200 planes were destroyed and that sunday morning the Pacific Fleet appeared to be completely immobilized by this sneak attack. Nearly 3,000 casualties added to the catastrophe. Its been 75 years since over 2400 american sailors and soldiers were killed in the japanese attack on pearl harbor, december 7, 1941. Starting now on booktv, on cspan2, a threehour discussion of that day, what led up to it and its aftermath. We have three authors joining us, eri hotta, steve twomey, and craig nelson, each of you in your book about pearl harbor a
For us he is a 1989 graduate of emory law school. And he was managing editor of emory law journal and got the enemiry University School of law merit scholarship. After that, howard clerked for to years for judge William Hutchinson on the third circuit. Another thing that is very important about Howard Bashman is he is the founder of the blog how appealing all about the business of the appeal at the federal appeals courts, and i remember back in 2002, im one of the bloggers on a blog called the conspiracy which started april 10, 2002, and that was the very beginning of the Public Policy and Legal Affairs blogs. A popular blahing instapundit had just been up and running several months, started in august of 2001, vola conspiracy pie, and another blog with an opening sentence that win Something Like hello and welcome to the first day of the nations first appellate blog, and as hauls an one also hauls been the best place to go to get muse on what is going on in the Appellate Courts and find
Protrump propaganda tour. Ep spent last week as Donald Trumps head leader, a trumpet. The republican leader left washington ten days ago without doing his job on zika so he could stump for trump. In the last ten days it has become clear that senator mcconnell will go to any length to support donald trump. Consider the Republican Leaders refusal to denounce Donald Trumps racist attack on the United States district judge, a man born in indiana, in the United States. Donald trump said the federal judge should be disqualified from deciding his case because of his mexican heritage. He went further saying he would feel the same way if the judge were muslim. How did the republican leader respond . Senator mcconnell repeatedly refused to say Donald Trumps attacks on the judges ethnicity would be racist. It is precisely the kind of failure that gave rise to donald trump in the first place. Senator mcconnell and all congressional Republican Leaders have never taken a stand against trumps rhetori
2. 45 is not enough. As bad or worse as last year senator gronstal says democrats want closer to a four percent funding increase. Thats double the amount already approved in the house. One idea thats getting bipartisan attention is the governors call to reform how the state punishes and rehabilitates those who break the law. 2516 its time for a fresh look at the criminal Justice System in iowa to ensure that we are doing the right thing for all of our citizens. The governor has already pushed for Early Release for some inmates. The number of inmates has also dropped eight percent since he returned to office five years ago. Branstad is also creating a Wrongful Conviction division to investigate claims of innocent people serving time. The democratic attorney general tom miller. 4510 i think it makes sense. Conservatives are libertarians. Liberals wants to rehab criminals and bring back into mainstream of life. So you have common basis to go forward. The governor would also like to expand
Bombardment still. And ill have your sport. Including special tribute to Philip Hughes who died on thursday, as kraus cricket australia announces an investigation. Into player safety there has been fierce fighting in iraq. The oil city of kirkuk is in the middle. Kurdish peshawar have been involved in a fiercele fierce battle for three days. I. S. I. L. Holds thousands of kilometres of territory shown here in yellow. In the shaded area, most backs the sunni armed group. In the past few days there has been heavy fighting. Lets cross live to imran khan. Lets begin with the fight for kirkuk. Who has the upper hand now. What is the latest there . At the moment what we are seeing, and this is typical of the tactics that we see from i. S. I. L. , is when they are pushed out of an area, they take refuge in a country side, and that is problematic for iraqi forces. The fight at the moment is for the town. You take the major towns, you deny i. S. I. L. Cover. They then go into the countryside an