21 conservative mps have been suspended from the party after helping to defeat the government in last nights vote on mps taking control of todays parliamentary agenda. In other news, hong kong leader carrie lam is expected to announce the formal withdrawal of the extradition bill, which sparked three months of Anti Government demonstrations. And after battering the bahamas, killing at least seven people, Hurricane Dorian is heading for the florida coast. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine on the bbc news channel, bbc two and were joined today by viewers on bbc world. What a difference a day makes. After a hugely dramatic return to the commons after the summer break, borisjohnson lost his working majority, his first vote in the commons, and potentially control of the entire Brexit Process. Mps voted by 328 votes to 301 to take control of the parliamentary agenda as they look to block a no deal brexit. The commons will decide later whether to back the bill which would bring
Would have passed, the exhibit on your way in tonight, marks an that markscument in an episode when president Abraham Lincoln directly interceded for american jews. Generale document is ulysses grants december 1862 general order to expel jews from the department of tennessee. Grant blamed jews for smuggling and demanded their immediate removal. Jewish citizens of paducah, kentucky appealed to president lincoln, expressing their outrage, and lincoln countermanded grants order. Histories cannot be written without the primary sources that tell us authentically what happened at a particular time. Grants order to expel jews and his later revocation of that order documents preserved here in the national archives, testify to a moment in history that many in the wider public are not aware of, yet it cannot be forgotten, because the records exist to tell us so. By gathering together and publishing the documents in his volume, dr. Zola has given access to a large number of primary source documen
Campus of Washington University in st. Louis, missouri. Three journalists will be asking questions tonight. They are john mashek of the boston globe, ann compton of abc news, and sander vanocur, a freelance journalist. We will follow a format agreed to by representatives of the clinton and bush campaigns. That agreement contains no restrictions on the content or subject matter of the questions. Each candidate will have up to two minutes for a closing statement. The order of those, as well as the questioning, was determined by a drawing. The first question goes to mr. Perot. He will have two minutes to answer, to be followed by rebuttals of one minute each from governor clinton and then president bush. Gentlemen, good evening. The first topic tonight is what separates each of you from the other. Mr. Perot, what do you believe tonight is the single most important separating issue of this campaign . Perot i think the principal that separates me is that 5 and a half Million People came tog
Service, and then i was an usher to 1986. Later, i was appointed as the chief usher by president reagan. Steve what were your responsibilities as a chief usher . Gary walters they were threefold. First was to protect the family. Second was to maintain the office of the presidency. Third was to maintain the house of the president for the american people. We would have a million and a half people that would come through the house. Those were the three main activities. The main responsibility is to take care of the first family and see to their needs in the house. Steve what were your Biggest Challenges . Gary walters trying to make sure we took care of the every day, mundane things for the president and the first lady. You can think of it as a home. Many people do not, but it is where the president and first lady live. It is one of our jobs to ease some of the burdens of the family. We went to make sure the house was taking care of and kept clean. That is one of the Main Responsibilities
My fathers funeral. Last week i ran into two agents at a Golf Tournament and they had the same story. It was, you know, how deeply things had changed from their per spektdive in the Border Patrol and not for the good, right . From a morale standpoint. And what ive found and this is notty a statement on the Border Patrol or department of homeland security, but with respect to federal agencies in general and the disconnect between the offices up here in washington, d. C. And whats going on on the gr. Sometimes contributed to a president s death or saved them from dying without public knowledge. For our complete American History tv schedule go to span. Org. Each week American History tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places. Next week on American History tvs reel america, faces from the west from in 1956. On september 20, Lady Bird Johnson and Stewart Udall set off on a fourday conservation tour of california, arizona, and new mexico. The u. S. Naval Photographic Center r