Across the country on our 50 capitals tour. We recently stopped in annapolis maryland, asking folks whats the most important issue in their state. Hi. Im xena. I live in annapolis, in maryland, and i teach at sta Johns College where were filming now. And an issue that a lot of us in maryland are concerned with is our heritage, the heritage of slievry, and the heritage of the civil war. Im sure many of you heard, theres a statue of the justice who wrote the dread scott decision that was taken down in front of the state house. My real concern is how do we have conversations about our past . And here at st. Johns, we read frederick douglass. We read the dreadscott decision, speeches of lincoln, and try to have real conversations with one another about the issues and different points of view you might have on them. I suppose thats one of the things i care about most deeply, is how can we as americans, how can we as marylanders have real cobsations where everyone is respected and also some
Bullets. [gunfire] [screaming] [bleep]. Get down trish as many as 20 two thousad people were at the con kert 22,000. Many were sent ducking for cover. Many thought it was a fireworks displacement it was end of a threeday concert. They thought it was finale. What you see from video, many people there, witnesses there with cell phones, that you didnt see immediately people start to run. Because they were confused. They did not know what this gunfire was. We do know it was a 64yearold nevada resident who holed himself up inside after room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and shot down at those some 22,000 people. President trump calling this mass cure as an act of pure evil. For the latest Hillary Vaughn in las vegas. Certainly a lot of questions still. Hey, hillary. Reporter hey, trish. The biggest question of all for these victims at the concert last night why did this happen . What was the motive . Police are still whering through that. The District Attorney for clark county
Institutions. The crisis led to greatly expanded fed emergency liquid support t. Became the lender of first resort instead of the last resort. The Congress Passed the doddfrank act to extend the federal governments post tarp control over the system t. Ga. It gave regulators extensive new powers over the defense system. The slow recovery triggered fed qe stimulus which created massive Bank Reserves which required new fed operating procedures. So this morning were going to discuss all these changes with a panel of experts. And instead of me introducing a panel of experts, im going to introduce our moderator of the panel. Alex j. Pollack is a distinguished senior fellow oh art street institute. Alex was previous lly a residen fellow at aei and at the Home Loan Bank of chicago. Alex is a recognized authority on financial policy issues including financial cycles, government sponsored enterprises, housing finance, banking, central banking, uncertainty and risk, retirement finance, Corporate
One of President Trumps Core Campaign promises was to defeat isis. With a stunning fall of mosul in june and now with isis nearly eradicated from raqqa, it is ra clear that isis so called caliphate is crumbling. Our brave Service Members comes at a high cost, particularly to the Syrian Democratic forces who suffered many casualties as they fought to liberate their own country from the oppression of isis. Instead of caring for the urgent humanitarian needs of raqqas residents, isis utilized the money it stockpiled to finance terrorist attacks across the world, including against many muslims. As coalition and our Partner Forces closed in around them, isis used civilians as human shields and killed those who attempted to flee. Isis barbaric acts have left many scars across the region, and we remain committed to supporting stabilization efforts and local Security Forces in liberated areas through a political transition in syria. Unfortunately, the Syrian Regime and its supporters hindered
Audience members watched clips of the documentary. We were unable to show them due to licensing restrictions. This is about 40 minutes. Please welcome to the stage mr. Mark updegrove, documentary filmmakers and producers of the vietnam war, mr. Ken burns and miss lynn novick. [applause] mark welcome. Ken thank you. Mark ken, we have been trying to get you here for six years. [laughter] ken not only is this such an important and tragic part of the story, but this has been domestic agenda, so now we are in the process of developing a series on the johnson presidency. [applause] mark we are delighted with that and look forward to seeing you again. As david mentioned in his introduction, you two are americas most preeminent storytellers. You have taken on the civil war, you have taken on the roosevelts, you have taken on baseball and jazz, why vietnam . Ken we were focused on the Second World War and we realized that vietnam had to be put there, that it would form a trilogy of films that w