Leleaders at the u. N. Climate action summit, but the Worlds Largest Greenhouse Gas emitters make few new commitments to address the climate crisis. President trump attended the summit for just 14 minutes. We speak to the prizewinning writer Tanehisi Coates about slavery, the power of memory, and reparations. His first novel is out today. The water dancer is the story of hiram maker, enslaved after nemec and the son of a slave master and the child of a woman w who that slave master intern sold out. In 1861laved people wanted freedom. Amy Tanehisi Coates on the water dancer. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. N. Climate action summit kicked off in new york monday with World Leaders calling for action to prevent apocalyptic Climate Change. U. N. Secretary general Antonio Guterres said his generation had failed in its responsibility to protect our planet. 16yearold swedish climate activist Greta Thun
Action summit, but the Worlds Largest Greenhouse Gas emitters make few new commitments to address the climate crisis. President trump attended the summit for just 14 minutes. We speak to the prizewinning writer Tanehisi Coates about slavery, the power of memory, and reparations. His first novel is out today. The water dancer is the story of hiram maker, enslaved after nemec and the son of a slave master and the child of a woman whoho that slave master intern sold out. In 1861laved people wanted freedom. Amy Tanehisi Coates on the water dancer. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. N. Climate action summit kicked off in new york monday with World Leaders calling for action to prevent apocalyptic Climate Change. U. N. Secretary general Antonio Guterres said his generation had failed in its responsibility to protect our planet. 16yearold swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg fought off tears as she ga
Generals letter cited a phone call between President Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky as a potential violation of federal Campaign Finance law. Jeff, this was a july 25th call. It was about 30 minutes in length. What did you see in that transcript . Yeah, we didnt get a lot of time with the transcript. We werent allowed to take it out outside of doj but we took some inserts. We took notes. This was a fivepage document and, you know, as you might imagine, it starts out like any other call with a foreign leader would start. Theres a congratulations on the election victory, but President Trump did allude to europe not doing enough to help ukraine. But then he seems to veer into the dnc server. He mentions crowd strike, a company that investigated the russian hack of the dnc server. And then from there he progresses to ask the ukrainian president about joe biden. Let me put this quote up on the screen for you to see. This is what the president said, according to the transcript, which according
Illinois. Located on the Illinois River, today, it is one of the largest cities in the state and home to the headquarters of caterpillar. It came from when the owner to tested his tractor as it was moving through the field, and the press was there. One of the reporters of that, said it look like a caterpillar moving across the field. Everyone starting calling the machines caterpillars. Announcer 2 but it was known as the whiskey capital of the world. Whiskey was king in the early 1900s. There was 73 different distilleries and 43 breweries, not at the same time, but that many. Announcer 2 with the help of our Comcast Cable partners, over the next 90 minutes, we explore peorias history. We begin with a trip down the Illinois River on board the spirit of peoria. Sing it if you know it. Join in if you know it. Everybody, sing along. Irene good night irene good night good night irene good night irene i will see you in my dreams welcome aboard the spirit of peoria. I am the resident historia
At cspan. Org, or listen on our free cspan radio app. History tvcan exclusive, pew area, illinois, to learn more about pe oria, illinois. You can watch more of our visits at cspan. Org citiestour. Most people know they may not know the details but they know it was king in the 1800s and early 1900s. 18801920. Was the distilleries lined the Illinois River from where the post office is just south of downtown all the way down to the southern suburb called barton bill. Barton bill, 73 different distilleries. Currently in the riverfront museum, located in downtown in this particular portion is called the street. It represents the history from its founding back in 1890. Variousthrough the. Tages brewing inted with 1837, distilleries came in 1943 1843. It was because of the quality of the water. It is filtered through limestone and that was perfect for brewing and distilling. Havecame a good place to breweries and distilleries. Transportation was critical. Back when they were first built, the