he is also a truman scholar. he has spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather. and he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman presidential library and museum in independence, missouri. today, we will give a great opportunity for question-and-answer. please weigh in with lots of questions. we have already been talking quite a bit off-camera about our topic today. and i guarantee there will be a lot of interesting ideas and discussion. so i will begin and introduce paul to the program. thank you. paul: thank you, ed. thank you, clifton, for being part of this today. i m very excited. this is one of those topics that has generated an enormous amount of debate throughout the years. the background for franklin roosevelt, of course, is that he was struggling in the late 1930 s to convince americans who were very isolationist, that they had to take an interest in the problems going on in europe. some of the t
he has spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather. and he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman presidential library and museum in independence, missouri. today, we will give a great opportunity for question-and-answer. please weigh in with lots of questions. we have already been talking quite a bit off-camera about our topic today. and i guarantee there will be a lot of interesting ideas and discussion. so i will begin and introduce paul to the program. thank you. paul: thank you, ed. thank you, clifton, for being part of this today. i m very excited. this is one of those topics that has generated an enormous amount of debate throughout the years. the background for franklin roosevelt, of course, is that he was struggling in the late 1930 s to convince americans who were very isolationist, that they had to take an interest in the problems going on in europe. some of the things that he understood abou
harry truman, and the manhattan project. joining him are fdr presidential library and museum director paul sparrow and historian edward lengel. edward: i am edward lengel. i am senior director of programs in new orleans. i m joined today by two gentlemen. the first is paul sparrow, who is director of the franklin d roosevelt presidential museum and library in hyde park, new york, following a career as a documentary filmmaker and a senior executive at the museum. paul has been directing the roosevelt library museum since 2015. he will be talking obviously about fdr and the manhattan project. our second guest is clifton truman daniel who is the eldest grandson of president harry truman. he is also a truman scholar. he has spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather. and he currently serves as honorary chairman of the board of trustees at the harry truman presidential library and museum in independence, missouri. today, we will give a great opportu
sentence there s no credible alternative which i thought weakens the sentence. i find it astonishing. anybody has leaked from such a high powered committee. and. the claims that he should be prosecuted. which obviously there may well be an offense here. the difficulty is in succeeding on a prosecution because no journalist worth his salt will reveal what he s been told all that he has been told my view is this the government should seek the advice of the attorney general who is in charge of all the sponsible for the crown prosecution service he is independent as a prosecutor though he s a collective cabinet of responsibility in all the matters but as a prosecutor he s a dependent and they should consult with him and see whether it s a feasible pop proposition to prosecute can you remember at any time in post-war british politics in lieu of this century that a cabinet minister could be sacked with such a thing what i mean how they fight it s alleged to have happened and. there
is involved in such a decision. it beggers belief, really. good morning. it s february 24th. welcome to bbc newsroom live. the conservatives have labelled their victory in the copeland by election a truly historic event . they took the seat from labour by more than two thousand votes the first time a governing party has won a seat from another party in a by election for 35 years. the area has had a labour mp since the 1930s. for labour, the shadow chancellor john mcconnell called the result disappointing . the party did hold on to the seat of stoke on trent central, in the other parliamentary by election result declared overnight. labour finished two and a half thousand votes ahead of ukip leader paul nuttall. in the last hour the labour leader, jeremy corbyn has been giving his reaction to the by elections results. after his speech, he is taking questions now. is defeated in copeland a disaster for the labour party? it s a disappointment. i m very sad about it. we camp