Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 thats why they pay us the remarkably modest bucks at the end of the day. But that is, in essence, one of the major problems okay. Just continuing on this question of contextualizing, i want to ask you a very specific question about infringed and abridged and how those two words differ if their implication and whether there is a Historical Context to that or whether we only need concern ourselves with our contemporary conception of the distinction between those two words . Well, i mean it depends on whether you think were doing a linguistic exercise where the meaning interchangeable. You know, you could say infringed means just the same thing as to violate. Its one of the definitions. It could be a binary. Either its on or off. You infringed or you vichavent a spectrum, a diminution, an infringement and theres not a good linguistic account i have seen so far about which way to interpret that. As between infringed and abridged i
The cspan cities tour is exploring american stories as we take book tv and American History tv on the road. We travel to san antonio, texas. Coming up in the next hour we will experience the history of this south, texas city. Starting with a visit to the San Antonio Missions National Historical park. Following that in about 20 minutes we will hear about the role the city played in early military aviation. And in about 40 minutes visit one of the citys most recognizable features and biggest attractions, the historic river walk. Later a trip to the Spanish Governors Palace, one of the oldest buildings in the city dating back to the founding. We begin our special feature at Mission San Jose, one of four remaining colonial Spanish Missions in san antonio. Welcome to our Spanish Governors Palace. What youre looking at is actually the last visual remnants of the presidio, the original facility was built in the 1720s and it was really the residence for the captain. What we are looking at toda
History of gun regulation and how the Second Amendment has been interpreted over the citys. Good morning, and welcome. Its a pleasure to welcome you to this briefing hosted by the National History center. Im karin wulf, im the executive director of the institute of Early American History and culture at william and mary and ill be introducing todays speakers and moderating the q a afterwards. Please note that we have distributed cards, theyre on your chairs. And the purpose of those cards is to facilitate the q a. Jeff is standing outside. Hes waving. Jeff will collect those cards for any questions that you have and ill facilitate the discussion the speakers. Were looking forward to a very valuable hour of presentation and discussion. This briefing is part of an ongoing series sponsored by the National History center that brings Historical Perspective to issue confronting congress and the nation. The center is strictly nonpartisan and as such the purpose of the briefing is not to advoca
Welcome back to the france 24 newsroom. We begin in the u. S. , where the death toll from the coronavirus has passed 60,000 people. Hope with glimmer of the preliminary results of a trial conducted in the u. S. And europe showing thehe antiviral remdesivirere helping patients recover more quickly from covid19. American officials plan to make it available to patients as soon as possible. It is set to become the new stanandard of care for patients with covid19. Early results from a study conducted by the u. S. National institutes of health found the antiviral drug remdesivir cut Recovery Time from 15 to 11 days. It caused even the measured u. S. Health officials to show excitement. Although does not seem like a knock at 100 , it is an important proof of f concept. What it hahas proven is that a drug can block this virus. Remdesivir is produced by gilead scienceces, which created it over a decacade ago. The drug actually virus directlyly, blocking enzymes tht allow it to replicate. E. An
People have died. Iran considers easing some restrictions as its leaders sway up the wrist to help with the health of the economy. And remembering the day its china pays tribute to its thousands of coronavirus victims. And a 2 week quarantine for prisoners across the u. S. As federal jails try to limit the spread of the coronavirus amongst inmates. When amber of confirms corona virus cases in the United States has no top 300. 00 thousands more than 8100. 00 deaths the grim news comes as President Trump warned reporters that the next 2 weeks would be the hardest but he told them he had contingency plans to handle the coming crisis. Were going to be adding a tremendous amount of military to help supplement the states thousands of soldiers sailors thousands of medical workers professionals nurses doctors and itll be a large number itll be will be telling them over the next very short period where theyre going theyre going into war theyre going into a battle that. Theyve never really train