Historian and priest ronald examines the role religion plays. The report is that the progressive evangelicalism is a factor in winning the 1976 president ial election however the same evangelical population that supported the president s First Campaign in the searc sear him four years later in favor of Ronald Reagan. This is just over an hour. Welcome. Its a pleasure for me tonight to introduce randall who is the family professor of arts and sciences at dartmouth college. I have followed his career for a long time. His undergraduate work was done where my father was 18 and my brother attended that school at the same time and randy has turned into one of our great modern american historians. One of the things that makes him great is that he minds the resources of the president ial libraries. He has come here to the Carter Library and has gone through and found a very interesting document that other people have not seen before and he has done that at other president ial libraries. Combin
Housing market to collapse and his backing of the deregulation of wall street. What do you believe the deregulation of wall street pushed by people like Alan Greenspan contributed significantly to the disaster we saw on wall street several years ago . I dont personally know the extent to which deregulation drove it, but i dont believe deregulation was the proximate cause. We will speak with former financial regulator william black, author of the best way to rob a bank is to own one. And matt taibbi with this new piece, the tax secrets and lies of the bella. Par sabbai the treasury, it is all done by ex wall street people and current wall street people. Ordinary people really do not have input into any of this. Then, haiti. Three years after the earthquake that killed over 300,000 people, we speak to jonathan katz, author of, the big truck that went by how the world came to save haiti and left behind a disaster. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org,
What do you believe the deregulation of wall street pushed by people like Alan Greenspan contributed significantly to the disaster we saw on wall street several years ago . I dont personally know the extent to which deregulation drove it, but i dont believe deregulation was the proximate cause. We will speak with former financial regulator william black, author of the best way to rob a bank is to own one. And matt taibbi with this new piece, the tax secrets and lies of the bella. Par sabbai the treasury, it is all done by ex wall street people and current wall street people. Ordinary people really do not have input into any of this. Then, haiti. Three years after the earthquake that killed over 300,000 people, we speak to jonathan katz, author of, the big truck that went by how the world came to save haiti and left behind a disaster. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman at least 120 people were killed in pak
Report. Fair, balanced, and unafraid. Greta goes on the record right now. This is a fox news alert. President obama just saying we dont have a strategy yet. You heard right. The president speaking about isis in syria. The terror group beheading americans and publicly executing thousands in both iraq and syria. The president plan to combat isis, well, he doesnt have one. Karl rove is here to respond to that in a minute. First ed henry live with the very latest. Reporter greta, remarkable because the context is he was speaking specifically about isis in syria, not iraq. Earlier in the News Conference the white house scrambling to point out, yes, in the transcript earlier he said hes got a military strategy in iraq. He was specifically talking about syria and was being pressed about why havent you
gone to congress, why arent you making your case to the American People, why are you not seeking a debate and a vote for authorization of the use of force in syria . So it was in that context we
Making your case to the American People, why are you not seeking a debate and a vote for authorization of the use of force in syria . So it was in that context we should note. Nonetheless, its still a devastating quote because this is a president who let me run through some of the things, last thursday his own defense secretary, chuck hagel, said that this threat from isis is worse than al qaeda pre9 11. So if you now the spin is, look, we have a strategy in iraq but not syria. Why dont you have a strategy in syria . Secondly last thursday you will remember general martin dempsey, he said you cant defeat isis unless you go into syria. So he was acknowledging the air strikes in iraq have had some impact, but you still have to go into syria if you will defeat isis. How can the president publicly admit to the American People and the world he does not have a strategy to deal with isis specifically in syria . Military strategy there, when his own defense secretary and chairman of the joint