Down from canada the wild mallards come in autumn, green heads pointing south. Thousand miles of Mississippi Valley below them. Quite a view from america. More limited, but still a pleasant view, america from a school room window in nebraska. The view of a country, any country is harsh through iron bars. Im joseph wells. I am a lawyer. A flight of birds, some americans in trouble, and a white temple on the hill. This is the story i want to tell you. It is the story of the Supreme Court of the United States. You feel very small when you stand in the entrance of the Supreme Court building in washington. The corinthian columns rise three stories high, made of marble from the quarry of the state of vermont. Inside, gleaming marble from alabama is underfoot and all around you. And polished walls and columns under a covered ceiling. In this room, historic meetings take place. With jurists of other days observing from the mall walls. A staircase of bronze and marble spirals upwards. In the ha
House Police Fatality and police profiling. April, mr. President , two questions, one energy and outside of the economy. Thank you, mr. President , last question i guess. [laughter] mr. President i need to find out from you. April ryan, how did the selfdescribed workingclass black girl from baltimore get to ask for u. S. Questions and get called out by everyone of them. I thought this was your life almost, a young april with bill clinton in 23 years later it makes you wonder, how do they get there, i was doing a lot of work, selling my seed when the harvest came up, i was out there working with American Radio Network recognized my work, they said look we may have a position open and i said okay and i thought it was for d. C. Bureau chief, they never told me it was the white house, mind you i had done local and washington and i anchored the weekends at w cop but never in my wildest dream what i imagine that i would be questioning for american president s and they called me by name, at l
Around the world and trying to figure out why young man get attracted. Thank you very much. I would start off with what was the impetus for this book . Like the rest of the world i observed National Terrorist attack in paris organized by a few young men who had grown up in europe mostly belgium and france and turned against europe and european men decided they wanted to join a foreign enemy and attack their own hometown so 500 people and i saw this but i never thought about jihadist or violence before but i just saw these young guys and i thought they grew up and not very different from me newcomers and secondgeneration european. In and out of criminal lifestyles and have seen their friends go through drama. And very much people i could have grown up with but then they wind up in this place i have a hard time understanding so i wanted to know i saw a lot of emotion and frustration from all sorts of different backgrounds and i wanted to write a book that would explain what we might lear
Activist and traveling around the world and really is about your journey about trying to figure out why young men sort of get attracted to violence and get radicalized. I just found it fascinating. Congratulations. Thank you very much. I guess i start off with this. What was the impetus to this book. If you could sort of tell me about this. I was like most of the rest of the world, i observed this massive attack in paris in 2015, was organized by a few young men who had grown up in europe, mostly in belgium and france. They turned against europe. These were european men who decided they wanted to join a foreign enemy which was the islamic or isis. They wanted to attack their own hometown. So 500 people were killed or injured. I saw this and i was not a person who ever thought about violence or terrorism before. But i just saw these young guys and i thought to myself, they grow up in a neighborhood not very different from mine. A lot of newcomers, they were secondgeneration european. Th
They stand for coming out here on this lovely saturday evening. We are very pleased to have steve waldon to talk about his new book. Sacred liberty. It is about religious freedom and what steve calls in the subtitle, americas long, bloodied and ongoing struggle for that freedom. These days we tend to think of a religious freedom as a basic fundamental principle of our democracy and one we take very much for granted. But our countrys history as they recount in a fascinating history is filled with examples of religious prosecution. In just the opening pages of his book, he recall stories of ministers brutalizing baptist ministers around the time of the resolution, the American Revolution and later catholics and jews from holding office, the banning of native american spiritual practices, attempts to exterminate women and much more. All of which underscores and despite the First Amendment, the struggle to ensure religious freedom in the United States has indeed been challenging and compet