The United States of america. It is my considered conviction shared through our government that is inactionible for detective inaccessible for peace. It will always be measured. Its nation is peace. History bookshelf features popular writers and airs every weekend at this time. Next Louisa Thomas recounts the life of her great grand foreNorman Thomas. Theythe Thomas Brothers had conflicting views of the war raging from soldiers in the war to pacifist norman. The author discusses her familys history with jonathan meacham. This summer marks the 100th anniversary of the start of world war i. Thank you to the museum, which has in a relatively short time has become such an important part in the city. You hear about it in the south and they are instrughted that not everything is tenement so they can look and see what it used to be like. Congratulations to louisa who has written, i think, a wonderful book. A deeply researched and engagely written account of her own family, which is not always
The debate on the impeachment of the president of the United States. It is a matter of fact that the president is an ongoing threat to our National Security and the integrity of our elections, the basis of our democracy. He says article 2 says i can do whatever i want. No, it doesnt. Today we are here to defend democracy for the people. He gave us no choice. She was challenged at the outset of her speakership by her own party, about whether she was the right person to take on trump. And, again, after the Mueller Report when she resisted moving forward. Amidst all that over and over she has proven herself to be the president s most skilled adversary, landing the most damaging political blows to the president , iconic moments like the state of the union, when she essentially broke the internet with the clap examined around the world. Effectively upstaging trump without saying a word, walking out of a white house meeting with the president that she described afterward as a president ial m
business reporter, right? anybody else in the country who did anything like that would be arrested and jailed. well, tom price wasn t arrested and jailed. he was confirmed for his job by the united states senate. and i think some of them probably regret that at this point. i think one of the interesting questions going forward is now that the bar has been set for a cabinet secretary who did all this private travel to lose his job, what does that mean for the other white house officials that have been using private travel? will the same standard be applied to them? jonathan meacham, those other cabinet officials who have been cited for travel issues in addition to tom price, steve mnuchin, we ve talked about this already, scott pruitt, ryan zinke, david shulkin. ryan zinke made a speech today, he called it a little bit of bs. yeah, it s always bs until it isn t, right?
jonathan allen, you know i m a business reporter, right? anybody else in the country who did anything like that would be arrested and jailed. well, tom price wasn t arrested and jailed. he was confirmed for his job by the united states senate. and i think some of them probably regret that at this point. i think one of the interesting questions going forward is now that the bar has been set for a cabinet secretary who did all this private travel to lose his job, what does that mean for the other white house officials that have been using private travel? will the same standard be applied to them? jonathan meacham, those other cabinet officials who have been cited for travel issues in addition to tom price, steve mnuchin, we ve talked about this already, scott pruitt, ryan zinke, david shulkin. ryan zinke made a speech today, he called it a little bit of bs. yeah, it s always bs until it isn t, right?
being published tomorrow, turns out that book is a laugh out loud totally uncompromising screamer of a novel about how the media blew it so badly when it came to the war in iraq. the magazine in the book is a very, very thinly disguised newsweek magazine where michael indeed worked as an intern and later as a reporter. that s where he was working when i first met him and made friends with him. fareed zakaria and jonathan meacham have again very, very thinly veiled starring roles as media personalities, media brands, and not in a good way. there s a website called wretched.com which seems to be 90% gawker.com and maybe 10% media matters, although i m happy to be stood corrected if need be. one of the go invade iraq guys named daniel pipes makes an appearance in michael s book as daniel tubes, tubes instead of pipes. another go invade iraq guy kenneth pollack makes an