Additional funding is provided by. Corporate funding is provided by. Welcome to firing line,n brevenson. Thank you. You are the cofounder and the executive director the equal Justice Initiative in montgomery, alabama. And you have won relief for more than 130 death row inmates and hundreds of other accused and have argued five cas in front of the Supreme Court of the uted states. Now a hollywood movie, a major motion picture, is coming out about your life based on the booyou wrote, just mercy. Im going to show you a clip of that movie. Lets take a loost the fime i visited death row, i wasnt expecting to meet somebody the same age as me. Your life is still meaningful, and im gonna do everying possible to keep them w taking it. You dont kat youre into down here in alabama, where youre guilty from thet youre born. Guard. Mr. Mcmillian. Were done here. Mr. Mcmillian, please. You sawamie foxx there, who plays Walter Mcmillian. Yes. An innocent man who is sentenced to death by a judgee with
Additional funding is provided by. Corporate funding is provided by. Welcome to firing line, Bryan Stevenson. Thank you. You are the cofounder and the executive dictor the equal Justice Initiative in montgomery, alabama. And you have won relief for more than 130 death row inmates and hundreds of other accused and have argued five cases in front of the Supreme Courtof he United States. Now a hollywood movie,ma r motion picture, is coming out about your life based on the book you wrote, just merc im going to show you a clip of that movie. Lets take a look. The first time i visited death row, i wasnt expecting to meet somebody the same age as me. Your life is still meaningful, and im gonna do Everything Possible to keep them from taking it. You dont know what youre into down he in alabama, where youre guilty from the moment youre born. Rd. G mr. Mcmillian. Were done here. Mr. Mcmillian, please. You saw jamie foxx there, who plays Walter Mcmillian. Yes. An innocent man who is sentenced to
I mean it as a political operating system of the west, the United States, britain, europe. , europe. The political philosophy done that gave rise to our constitutional order. The governments role and protecting those rights if you have a more libertarian view or making it possible for you to have the full enjoyment of those rights if you have a more progressive view. The purpose is to provide liberty and protect liberty. This very purpose in this very end is undermined to protect and give rise to. We will into that. Ten both democrat, republicans, conservatives, do they do they all consider themselves to be liberal democrats to their extent . What we think of as our political spectrum is basically rightleaning liberals and leftleaning liberals or has been until very recent times. What we have seen in the west is largely a debate within the frame of liberalism. We are entering an age where that may be coming to an end. You write that liberalism has failed, now because it has failed shor
You talk about a political spin. You know, they were blaming it on a video. You know, i know, the American People know it wasnt a video. Did that have a political consequence . Yes, it was right before an election. And yet he didnt get impeached for that. So when we Start Talking about the standards, ill be glad to come back on and debate those standards all day long. But heres the bottom line. No facts, no credible facts, three of the top people in ukraine that continue, they continue to say, there was no linkage, no pressure. I mean, at what point do you say, where is the victim of this crime . Its not the American People, because the president was looking out for their best interest. I want to ask you about that because you say no facts, but we heard from the u. S. Ambassador to the eu, we heard from the top u. S. Diplomat in ukraine, we talked to the Top State Department official who oversees ukraine, we heard from yeah, none officials appointed by the president. All of them said t
Im bradly graham the cohonor of politics and prose and welcome and thank you so much for coming. We were vers very excited when we learned of last years hearings on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court that ruth marcus was writing a book on the subject because we knee that if anyone could deliver an indepth hen the scene s account of what happened, and also put the whole drama into a grander plate context it would be ruth. Her bookes revealing and incitele and evened hands and fast pace and elusive pros makes for a compelling read. In the acknowledgments she calls thats book she has been preparing to write for her entire career. And indeed she brought to it a wealth of knowledge and experience. Out indicate net history at yale and the how at harvard she went into journalism after he studies and spent 35 years at the Washington Post, closely observing how washington works and developing a wide network of friends and sources. I think nearly all of whom are here tonight.