I think of students in college as the best thing to do is to take the teacher, not the course and hear to take these incredible authors and to be in the room, whatever they are talking about. The problem with this festival is there is somebody in every room you want to be with. Douglas brinkley has written biographies of more president s than most of us have ever heard of. Other interesting things a prime focus on the space program. The great space race. Be watching for that. And hes a cnn historian. He has a little basement studio envy of jon meacham. And Margaret Macmillan is trying to make the deal with cnbc. The great historical deal one of those transformative books but so important and jon meacham has written so many wonderful biographies, former editor of newsweek. The assignment is to talk about your favorite historical figure. I want to make that a fun thing so maybe we will get into some other elements. John why dont you start us off with your favorite historical figure. Its
That was so controversial they forced a secret vote on whether to keep her in power, a vote cheney ultimately won by a lot. Meanwhile congresswoman greene who built her public reputation as a supporter of anti semitic Conspiracy Theories and straight up Political Violence she got the opposite treatment. Republicans publicly rallying around her after she reportedly apologized for some of her past statements. Democrats are not so forgiving. They are going to force a vote on the House Floor Today that could strip greene of her committee assignments. I want to start with Garrett Haake on capitol hill. What are we going to see with this vote today . Reporter some of that will depend on how congresswoman greene chooses to handle herself going forward. Ill be curious to see if the apology she made Behind Closed Doors to republicans is the kind of thing she might repeat on the house floor in public. We do expect this vote to go forward this afternoon stripping her of committee assignments. Dem
On saturday alone. Now measures are being taken to slow the spread, with miami beach enacting a new curfew overnight. We will have the latest in a live report from south florida just ahead. Then in our sunday focus, a conversation about the life of john lewis, with historian john meacham who speak with the congressman in recent weeks while finishing a new book on the civil rights icon. Plus, in our sundays spotlight, with some promising news this week about a potential Coronavirus Vaccine, how soon could it be approved, and how long will it take to produce and distribute across the country . And later, a brand new virtual sunday sitdown with captain america himself, chris evans, on his hit series defending jacob. His new step into politics, and his oneman dance parties during this long lockdown. Im a big proponent of just you know, its sunny outside, i start jammin and looking like a lunatic really. A sunday sitdown with chris evans, plus another life well lived, all a bit later in the
Give us a wonderful, wonderful presentation about george h. W. Bush. Well have question and answer after weekends awards and becaus filming tonight, please, use the microphones that we will place, i think one right there and one over to the side there, and thats so your question doesnt get lost on cspan. I want to welcome all of you, and let you know how much we appreciate you all being here tonight. Especially knowing that the democratic partys done a little bit of counterprogramming. [ laughter ] of course, weve got another, another 15 monthsplus to get our fill or probably more than our fill of 2020 president ial campaigning. Here were going to take a few moments to remember a man who won it in 1988. A president who it seemed the longer he lived, the more loved and appreciated he became. I was struck like many others, i think, by the national outpouring of respect and affection in the days leading up to and through the funeral of George Herbert walker bush last november. The funeral
Announced that the spread of the virus might be reaching an apex, and were getting close to that flattening of the curve. Positive messages about the outbreak were welcome news on wall street, helping to send stocks soaring on monday, and by wednesday the s p 500ed had joined the dow in exiting the bear market it fell into on march 12th. Its now up 25 from its low point just a little more than two weeks ago. More gains came as the fed stepped up its efforts. Meanwhile, the irs was moving to send direct payments to individuals, and billions of federal dollars to help Small Businesses stay afloat were being sent to banks for loans that could eventually be forgiven although problems caused a bottleneck in getting the cash out. Still, the grim news about the economy continues unabated as another 6. 6 million filed firsttime jobless claims this week. Meanwhile, theres a growing push by the president and others to start allowing businesses that have been shut down because of the coronavirus