But i never really understood the trajectory of this man until i was writing my last book, the arsenal of democracy in. That book there was a book where senator truman goes to detroit to investigate the Car Companies and their failure to produce airplane pieces. It struck me as amazing that this on cure person should become the most powerful president in the history of the world. Even my last book was done i was beginning in my head to structure this one. Brian in your book to talk about a newest session. What does that mean and what were they . A. J. when you research this book, you end up eating a lot of Peanut Butter sandwiches and going through cheap hotels. You talk about something newest asession. It just means this is a document thats new. And it will list the date when it showed up. So the great truman biographies all came out in the 1990s, right . Anyway, so i knew if i found these documents that they hadnt been available to biographers in the 1990s and i knew these were piece
Making a book like this . A. J. i grew up thinking that truman was this man of integrity. But i never really understood the trajectory of this man until i was writing my last book, the arsenal of democracy in. That book there was a book where senator truman goes to detroit to investigate the Car Companies and their failure to produce airplane pieces. It struck me as amazing that should become the most powerful president in the history of the world. Even my last book was done i was beginning in my head to structure this one. Brian in your book to talk about a newest session. What does that mean and what were they . A. J. when you research this book, you end up eating a lot of Peanut Butter sandwiches and going through cheap hotels. You talk about something newest asession. It just means this is a document thats new. And it will list the date when it showed up. So the great truman biographies all came out in the 1990s, right . Anyway, so i knew if i found these documents that they hadnt
Overall evenings discourse about a 50 minute podcast and also a radio broadcast, and because of that we will do bits of production in front of you. You will see me say things like that i will be right back, but i wont go anywhere. [laughter] i will still be here. The other part of it is we will take breaks and i will ask for your entirely spontaneous applause, for the atmospherics. I want to introduce the debaters, etc. I will let you know ahead of time i will be making that request. We dont have an applause sign. It is going like this. If you see that, play your hands together. Lets do that right now. Lets have one more round of applause. [applause] in a time when Companies Like amazon and google and facebook are piling up mountains of data about us, the one place left in our digital lives where true privacy can be found exist oddly enough on our smartphones, which are designed so when you put the phone on lock, no one can get past its encryption, not even apple with the iphone or goo
Planned to nominate a replacement next week. Cbs news has learned that trump has narrowed down the list to two Appeals Court judges. They are conservatives. Charles schumer wants someone mainstream and promises democrats will fight against a conservative. You touched on this for a moment the issue of voter fraud which seemed to dominate todays press conference. Did press Secretary Sean Spicer mention what the white house is going to do about this if anything . Reporter spicer took so many questions about this very topic because we want to know where these allegations are coming from. What information is President Trump referring to when he says theres this widespread voter fraud and spicer didnt provide any details. But he did say the president believes what he believes. And then eventually he said, an investigation is possible. But right now, there is not one in the works. Thank you. While President Trump was at the white house some of his cabinet nominees were back in front of the se
Trapped in that city. And they kept scoring and scoring and scoring again during a recordsetting allstar game. Nearly 400 points racked up. Those are the top stories this february 20th. From abc news, this is world news now. Trying to fast forward . I dont know what day i am living . February 28th . No, it is february 20th. It would be exciting if payday was right around the corner. Lets get started with the news. We begin with the president explaining himself. Some of his comments at a weekend rally caused International Confusion for some. He referred to something that happened friday in sweden. Many thought the president was talking about a terrorist incident. That was news to swedish officials who wondered what he was talking about. Heres reporter in one of his new freewheeling speeches, President Trump included these remarks. You look at whats happening in germany. You look at whats happening last night in sweden. Sweden. Who would believe this . Sweden. They took in large numbers.