Folded her tent did nothing as antisemitic protest continue on her campus. And joe biden wants to blow up Donald Trumps successful tax cuts. There is a real bad idea. Tax Foundation Scott hodge will talk about it former speaker Newt Gingrich reminds us how Ronald Reagan refused to let campus radicals shut down colleges. Liz peek and carol downey will have a thing or 2 to say. First, we go to m Madison Alworth live at columbia, what happens and what didnt happen . Reporter well, you can see a lot of action students have been protesting for weeks, even after the columbia president threatens suspension it has not slowed them down, columbia receivings over a billion dollars a year from federal government, to my left, this is the encampment at the center of camp us, there are threats these students will be suspended, yet it still stands, now in washington lawmakers are pushing in a bipartisan way to push for ending funds for universities like this. Sending a monitor to school and assess how
You left . No answer. And this week on congress, investigate. Its the 1950s and the era of mccarthy ism. Well explore the hearings. Republicans senator Joseph Mccarthy of wisconsin and instigated as he search for alleged communists in government. And well also look at the subsequent investigation of senator mccarthy himself over his attacks on the us army, which led to the senators downfall. Joining us is jim townsend, director of the levin center for oversight and democracy. Mr. Townsend. What was the mccarthy era . Well, the mccarthy era was a period in the early 1950s where the public had become really quite concerned about the possibility of communist infiltration into major american institutions, including the United States government and senator mccarthy, who was a rst term senator from wisconsin, took advantage of that public concern. And his position on certain key committees in the senate to start raising allegations, making allegations against various institutions in the gove
That is having very devastating and bad influences upon our economy upon the morale of morals, of our people, and upon politics and government. And thanks for joining us for congress investigates an American History tv series looking back at historic and significant congressional hearings this week. Our focus is organized crime. Well, it was in the early 1950s that democrat senator Estes Kefauver of tennessee and his special committee in interrogated major organized crime figures like Frank Costello. The hearings held over a series of months, had 600 witnesses and went to 14 cities. Many americans learned details about organized crime for the first time in 1951. 12 million us households had tvs and this became a major and Early Television event. The hearings also made Estes Kefauver a household name and helped fuel his political career. Here to talk about the work of the Kefauver Committee is daniel holt, associate u. S. Historian. Mr. Holt, thanks for being with us. The official name
Our committee has found that organized crime does operate on a syndicated basis across state lines in the United States. That is a much bigger, more sinister and a larger operation than we had ever suspected. That is having very devastating and bad influences upon our economy upon the morale of morals, of our people, and upon politics and government. And thanks for joining us for congress investigates an American History tv series looking back at historic and significant congressional hearings this week. Our focus is organized crime. Well, it was in the early 1950s that democrat senator Estes Kefauver of tennessee and his special committee in interrogated major organized crime figures like Frank Costello. The hearings held over a series of months, had 600 witnesses and went to 14 cities. Many americans learned details about organized crime for the first time in 1951. 12 million us households had tvs and this became a major and Early Television event. The hearings also made Estes Kefauv
Our committee has found that organized crime does operate on a syndicated basis across state lines in the United States. That is a much bigger, more sinister and a larger operation than we had ever suspected. That is having very devastating and bad influences upon our economy upon the morale of morals, of our people, and upon politics and government. And thanks for joining us for congress investigates an American History tv series looking back at historic and significant congressional hearings this week. Our focus is organized crime. Well, it was in the early 1950s that democrat senator Estes Kefauver of tennessee and his special committee in interrogated major organized crime figures like Frank Costello. The hearings held over a series of months, had 600 witnesses and went to 14 cities. Many americans learned details about organized crime for the first time in 1951. 12 million us households had tvs and this became a major and Early Television event. The hearings also made Estes Kefauv