You left . No answer. And this week on congress, investigate. Its the 1950s and the era of mccarthy ism. Well explore the hearings. Republicans senator Joseph Mccarthy of wisconsin and instigated as he search for alleged communists in government. And well also look at the subsequent investigation of senator mccarthy himself over his attacks on the us army, which led to the senators downfall. Joining us is jim townsend, director of the levin center for oversight and democracy. Mr. Townsend. What was the mccarthy era . Well, the mccarthy era was a period in the early 1950s where the public had become really quite concerned about the possibility of communist infiltration into major american institutions, including the United States government and senator mccarthy, who was a rst term senator from wisconsin, took advantage of that public concern. And his position on certain key committees in the senate to start raising allegations, making allegations against various institutions in the gove
this isbuchar: well, something. thank you, cedar rapids. thank you, iowa. this is amazing. this is my husband john. there you are. and our daughter abigail. has gottene he really famous lately. she was on the front page of the l.a. times, there you are. and has been doing a great job with our hot dish parties across the state. that somehow ended up on saturday night live last night. [laughter] anyway, thank you guys. thank you you to peggy flanagan. [applause] the amazing lieutenant governor of minnesota, who, by the way is the highest ranking native american elected to an executive office in the entire country. [cheers and applause] i m really excited to have her here, and hurt leadership. of course, liz, thank you so much. thank you for being in all my ads. you re great. [laughter] where is molly? thank you, molly. great state legislator. her is rob? there he is, back there. at tog i in the back. thank you. [applause] swati.want to mention who is been helping me from th
sen. klobuchar: unbelievable, wow, this is something. thank you, cedar rapids. thank you, iowa. this is amazing. this is my husband, john. there you are. and our daughter, abigail. who has done she has gotten really famous lately. she was on the front page of the l.a. times, there you are. and has been doing a great job with our hot dish parties across the state. that somehow ended up on saturday night live last night. [laughter] sen. klobuchar: anyway, thank you, guys. thank you you to peggy flanagan. [applause] sen. klobuchar: the amazing lieutenant governor of minnesota, who, by the way, is the highest ranking native american elected to an executive office in the entire country. [cheers and applause] sen. klobuchar: i m really excited to have her here, and hurt leadership. of course, liz, thank you so much. thank you for being in all my ads. you re great. [laughter] sen. klobuchar: where is molly? thank you, molly. great state legislator. where s rob? there he is, back
what other elected officials do we have? raise your hand. sen. mathis: city council people, thank you so much. look what i found. look what i found. what does this say? [applause] sen. mathis: yes. and we also want to say that catherine chris, our number one person who makes sure that every caucus site was ready for disability and access is here today, and she has endorsed amy klobuchar. [cheers] [applause] sen. mathis: i am senator liz mathis. i appreciate you being here. boy has it been a long road. hasn t it? oh my gosh. and we have more to go. we are the first state. imagine how long this road is going to be for amy. long after monday, we need to keep supporting her in different ways. we need to call every cousin and relative in every state you have relatives out-of-state and tell them to support amy. call friends. call business associates. anybody that you know who will support her as she moves along from monday. and we know she is moving along, from monday, right? [ch
klobuchar. [cheers] [applause] i am senator liz mathis. i appreciate you being here. boy has it been a long road. and we have more to go. we are the first state. imagine how long this road is going to be for amy. long after monday, we need to keep supporting her in different ways. we need to call every cousin and relative in every state you have an tell them to support amy. call friends. call business associates. anybody you know who will support her as she moves along for monday. and we know she is moving along, right? [cheers] [applause] so yesterday, i posted on facebook, and i said we can argue on social media all we want. about the thing is, you got to show up. right? after me. you got to show up. you got to show up. you got to show up. ok. is everybody going to show up? ok. and i see so many green buttons and stickers out here. you will be caucusing for amy, right? those in the crowd that have not decided, and you are here to listen, you are in for a treat, because she