shortly. elsewhere we are covering hearings this afternoon on the senate side on covid response, including dr. fauci testifying on that, 2:00 p.m. eastern. the senate is in at this hour this morning. and they will vote on the nomination of javier becerra to be health and human services secretary at noon today. the house itself not coming in this morning. there is some training that members and staff are going through. in morning hour this morning. they come in at noon. will take up two bills today on u.s. immigration policy. you re watching live coverage of this hearing about to get under way on c-span. i remind members we have established an email address and distributions dedicated to circulating exhibits, motions, or other written materials and members may want to offer as part of the hearing today. if you like to submit those materials, the cite is judiciary docx@mail.house.gov. i ask unanimous consent that our judiciary colleagues participating in today s hearing. hear
a history. at the immigration history research center, we have helped to merge immigration history with the digital humanities. she launched the national endowment for the humanities funded immigration stories project, which works with recent immigrants and refugees to collect, preserve and share their experiences. her book, america or americans the history of xena phobia in the united states, is tonight s talk. please welcome erika lee. [applause] seattle, i am so glad to be here and i m glad to be back here at townhall. i was last here in 2010 before it was renovated, so i m happy to be back. and i m very glad that we have begun this evening with an acknowledgment. i would like to repeat the land acknowledgment. as i will discuss later xenophobia and colonialism are tightly interconnected. native americans with african-americans were made into the country s first and the racism and discrimination that continues to impact native americans has also been a driving force in
at 1:00 pm eastern on sunday and watch our live coverage of the savanna festival on sunday on booktv on c-span2. tonight we welcome rick wilson, a top political republican political strategist, add man and writer in his new book, running against the devil, a plot to save america from trump, and the democrats from themselves. rick wilson lays out a witty roadmap to how to dump trump. s new book builds on his 2018 new york times number one bestseller, everything trump touches dies. rick wilson put forth a strategy to persuade alienated republicans and democrats who voted for trump in 2016 to change their vote. rick believes democrats should undermine trump s efforts to control america s political narrative with a case that argues our 40 fifth president is a mentally and morally unwell man. being married to democratic senator ron wyden of oregon i take a great interest in politics, i read this book over the weekend and was absolutely mesmerized by it. rick wilson s ideas ar
My back and i have to be upside down. Some of us,. Yes. Are you going to join the circus. Yes, it will take a contortionist to reveal at this hour. Cant wait. Lets talk about the weather today. The number is pretty good, considering the weekend we had , eight out of 10 with you we have some lingering fog and clouds around this morning. It is chilly. Temperatures in the 40s. So make sure you have a warm coat on just like buddy. Luckily rain is out of here. It is not that far away in virginia. We will keep an eye on it but so far nothing sneaking up in to our viewing area we have 45 degrees right now visibility improving at the airport, it looks like the includeds will be hanging around for a bit. We will call it mostly cloud which some sun peeking through here and there and milder then it was yesterday. High will be about 55 degrees but with the sky clearing out tonight it is a colder night down to 36. That is your forecast for monday and if it is monday, it must mean, bob kellys taking
To keep people vigilant in the case the United States entered world war i. The attack remains the worst act of terrorism in San Francisco history. This is about 50 minutes. Well, good morning thanks for coming. I appreciate you all being here on a drizzly day at providence college. Today i wanted to share with you i think a story and a moment in American History that is one of the, for me, more important moments of the late 19th and early 20th century. Holds a lot of significance in the period of the guilded age and the progressive era. It also happens to be a the subject of my new book. I have been living and breathing in this period and in this moment. Dh is very significant for 1916 and really for the nation as i this ill try to make clear. So what ill do today is start by setting up the context of San Francisco in 1916 during the moment during this summer. And then ill spend time in really three parts talking about why its significant. And why its important to American History and