You are watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors at the weekend. Tv, television for serious readers. She teaches American History at university is the wishes a professor, a Mcknight University professor, the rudolph chair in immigration history and the director of the immigration History Research center. Lee is the author of three awardwinning books in u. S. Immigration, americas gates, chinese immigration during the exclusionary era, 18821943, and angel island, gateway to america in the making of asian america, a history. At the immigration History Research center she has helped to merge immigration history with the digital humanities. She launched and oversees the National Endowment for the humanities funded immigration story project which works with recent immigrants and refugees to collect, preserve and share their experiences. Her book america for americans a history of xenophobia in the United States is the subject of tonight talk. Please welcome erika lee.
Hours of work through depositions, open hearings, and compiling all the evidence into todays report. It was enor it was an enormous task and i want to begin by acknowledging the great work of the great and late colleague of mine elijah cummings. We continue to be inspired by his legacy. And guided by thoughts of his integrity and the great moral clarity he always showed in his work. I also want to thank my colleagues, chairman engel, chairwoman maloney, for their tremendous work as well. This report chronicles a scheme by the president of the United States to coerce an ally, ukraine, that is at war with an adversary, russia, into doing the president s political dirty work. It involves a scheme in which donald trump with held official acts of acts, a white house meeting, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars of needed mill tafere assistance, in order to compel that power to deliver two investigations he believed would assist his reelection campaign. I want to underscore first of al
Palatine losing 9 today. Dominos is down 3. 3 . Is that the one where the guy ate like 40 pieces in 30 days . Joe that is the other one. Romaine lets dive deeper into the action. Mike the vix has clearly shot up a little bit below 12 before thanksgiving. Today, up to about 16. Any time it has risen this year, it has been sort of corresponding trade tensions ratcheting up. What is interesting is that moves in the fed have often echoed by risk reversals in the korean won. Volatility between puts and calls on that currency. This week is different in that the risk reversals have not really errored the move higher. You can see, the white is the vix. They risk reversals are the ones not really moving in lockstep. This was pointed out by a volatility specialist his interpretation is basically that this suggests that the pivot is increasingly moving to the u. S. Side of the trade war. Abigail we are just two days into the month of december on a trading basis and we are already looking at two d
Onrings on entrenchment impeachment in the Judiciary Committee. Despite the fact that the speaker of the house said the clear,e needs to be compelling, and bipartisan, the democrats fail on every single one of those counts. And we have been pointing out and talking about now for several weeks since the impeachment process began, the extent to which the process was fundamentally unfair. I would ask people to remember that they have failed despite the fact that they had a process that basically but everything tilted in their direction. Asocrats were able to act judge, prosecutor, the democrats were able to select every single witness. They were able to prevent and did prevent witnesses from answering republican questions. They decided what the American People would the end when. They decided the timing on the release of important pieces of transcripts, they still have not theased the transcript of icy Inspector General plaguerist the democrats essentially stacked the deck in their favor.
Know, and will begin tomorrow, onrings on entrenchment impeachment in the Judiciary Committee. Despite the fact that the speaker of the house said the clear,e needs to be compelling, and bipartisan, the democrats fail on every single one of those counts. And we have been pointing out and talking about now for several weeks since the impeachment process began, the extent to which the process was fundamentally unfair. I would ask people to remember that they have failed despite the fact that they had a process that basically but everything tilted in their direction. Asocrats were able to act judge, prosecutor, the democrats were able to select every single witness. They were able to prevent and did prevent witnesses from answering republican questions. They decided what the American People would the end when. They decided the timing on the release of important pieces of transcripts, they still have not theased the transcript of icy Inspector General plaguerist the democrats essentially s