American veterans memorial. We broke ground this morning and we will turn to the business of building the memorial next week. And so were glad that youre here. Were excited to be talking about the memorial and lets get right to it. With me is harvey pratt. Harvey is a citizen of the tribes of oklahoma. Shes a cheyenne peace chief. Hes been a career Law Enforcement official. Hes a working artist and he is a marine and a vietnam veteran. So please greet harvey pratt. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you. Harvey, what caused you to submit a proposal, a proposed design for the memorial . Well, our veterans director just kept after me. I had no really had no hope that i would even come close or submit a design. He kept after me. He said, do it for the tribe, harvey. Submit something. And i thought about it and i said let me dream on it. I have to dream. I do some of my best creativity is done early in the morning, in that dream period. Thats what i did. I went home and i dreamed about it and i
Provide an update on emergency efforts. Here live coverage tuesday at three, cspan cspan. Org, or on the cspan radio app. On thanksgiving afternoon, President Trump held an event with troops overseas. He spoke with reporters about the results at his legal efforts to overturn the. This is 25 minutes overturn them. This is 25 minutes. Know whatp we dont his last. If you look at what is going on, there finding tremendous discrepancies in the votes. Nobody believes those numbers. Those numbers are incorrect numbers. A lot of numbers have been reported as incorrect. You are going to see things that are going to be shocking to people. If you look at the numbers in michigan and pennsylvania and five foot votes. I cant say what is first and last, if this is the first one or the last one or is this the first one of his second term. We will see what happens. No one was to see the fraud this has come to represent. We are looking at things that are so bad in georgia, they dont want to show signatu
Coming up, a live discussion about the Trump Presidency with Washington Post columnist, george will. He left the Republican Party in the first year of the trump administration, registering as an independent, instead. This event comes from the group, jews united for democracy and justice. It should be getting underway shortly. Will be in conversation with the awardwinning broadcast journalist, george will. You on behalf of our leadership. The Leadership Team of jews united for democracy and justice and Community Advocates inc. Thank you to our many wonderful sponsors. As it is thanksgiving eve, just a word on that topic. On october 3, 18 63, at the height of a bloody war dividing our country, abraham issued a thanksgiving proclamation that officially established x giving is a national holiday. He proclaimed the nation was at war with itself, there were whichblessings for both sets could experts gratitude. All americans should be concerned about those were suffering as a result of the ci
From uclas school of Public Affairs. This runs an hour and a half. Understand theo deep connection that the issue of guns and gun violence has with the work of the school of Public Affairs. Is a the other focuses focus on Mental Health. Guns are the single biggest killer of women. They are the single biggest. Ause of successful suicide it turns out people may try to take their own life more often than we would like, and its a tragedy, but we are not very good at it unless there is a gun present. If there is a gun present, the possibility of fatalities skyrocket. Guns tear at the fabric of american society, but as you will hear in tonights lecture, you can argue they are written into the fabric of american their advocates and manufacturers would tell us. We will talk a bit more about that. Its also important to understand that guns are a racial issue. Puts a simply, puts succinctly, as the Second Amendment is made up for white people. As more than 100 armed men descend on the kentucky s
You sit across from your grandmother, you are in complete silence, it is a sacred space. Listen andtes you ask questions. It is just two microphones and you look each other in the eyes. As you know i microphone gives you the license to ask questions you do not normally get to ask. From the beginning of storycorps people thought if i had 40 bits left to live, what i say to this person . At the end of the 40 minutes you get a copy and another stays with us and goes to the American Folklife Center in the library of congress. Your great, great, Great Grandkids can know your grandmother through her voice and story. Because of the nature of what happens in these booths, it started in Grand Central then expanded across the country, we are collecting the wisdom of humanity. We have about 650,000 participate so far. It is the largest collection of human voices so far. We are a Public Service and nonprofit. We are here to serve people. One of the things we are encouraging a thanksgiving, and if