Their works theres been on health and Education Programs will present each of the historians and guide a question and answer session toward the end. You think you might like other programs please go to our website. Now enjoy. Hi good afternoon and welcome everyone to the inaugural edition of this new guilder Lehrman Institute of history program. Book breaks brings you some of americas greatest historians they discuss their most recent books. Today will be joined by eric foners he discusses his book, the second founding. But before i formally introduce professor foner i want to go over couple rent home keeping rules. Today is mothers day so i want to wish a happy mothers day to the most important people in history past and present, our moms. Happy mothers day to all the moms were now watching. But we are going to be doing as we will first be going through some of the tech issues, some of the tech aspects for you viewers out there that introduction of myself and the rest of the team and
Left but can join the right alan well start with the the tragedy thats occurring in america now whats your reaction to all of this well it was so excuse for the Police Conduct in minneapolis i want to person is arrested for counterfeiting money us never the charges were physical force of that kind is never justified if i were in a place where i could join peaceful protests against that i would do that but what i worry about is too many extremists both on the extreme extreme heart right the neo nazis the White Supremacists try to hijack these kinds of legitimate demonstrations same thing with the hard hard left and and people who see this as an excuse to oppose capitalism america israel they try to hijack legitimate protest so legitimate protests justify and would join but the extremists on both sides doesnt serve the interest of justice but the president never knocks the right wing. Well he did win in. Charlotte he did condemn the nazis he did condemned the way tax cuts he condemned he
Us never the charges what our physical force of that kind is never justified if i were in a place where i could join peaceful protests against that i would do that but what i worry about is too many extremists both on the extreme extreme heart right the neo nazis the White Supremacists try to hijack these kinds of legitimate demonstrations same thing with the hard hard left. And people who see this as an excuse to oppose capitalism america israel they try to hijack legitimate protest so legitimate protests justify and would join but the extremists on both sides it doesnt serve the interest of justice but the president never knocks the right wing. Well he did win in. Charlotte he did condemn the nazis he did condemned the way tax cuts he condemned he said there were good people on both sides who is he and said that there are bad people on both sides im glad he said that yes there are bad people on both sides look i wrote a column about that which i said because hes a person of the right
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Host we get to talk about the Supreme Court history for an hour. I want to start by understanding the court today. The way our court is structured and how it has evolved, how does the chief justice in this era wield authority . What tools do they have . Elizabeth the answer to that question is, in this era, as always, the chief justice, first and foremost, is the head and steward of one of our three ranches of government. I think there are some unique spects about that job in the sense that the court is not a political branch. It was deliberately designed not to be. The chief has a difficult job, because, im sure you heard this expression. The chief is chief among equals. They cannot control the other justices. They have the power to cajole, but not control. And there are some Great Stories throughout history that illustrate that very well. Host specifically, does the chief have a role in what cases are heard, and who writes the opinions . Elizabeth those are probably two of the princi