They are looking into what caused this fire. The Fire Department and city officials are looking into possible previous Code Violations and so far they have not gone back. Here is a look at the top stories, fire investigators say so far there is no evidence of arson from an overnight fire at a synagogue. It happenedthe rabbi raced to the scene and credits rabbis for rescuing the sacred scrolls. A film crew is working on recreating a short story by john steinbeck. It was a personal account of his meeting with a struggling migrant family during the Great Depression which was the basis for the grapes of wrath. President trump says he is talking about new gun control measures with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Claims Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is on board. Mcconnell says he has begun talks about which laws can pass in the senate will not come back early from recess. There is a manhunt underway in tennessee after police say an inmate killed a corrections administrator and
Are on the telephone. Can you confirm . Stopping a quorum is present. Court reporter present . I need a verbal yes for the court reporter. The meeting comes to order. I see the commissioner is joining us as well. And approving the agenda for this meeting. So moved. Is there a second . I begin the second. I understand at least one commissioner will need to leave to catch a flight. Is there a second . Are there any other amendments . I would like to amended to include a vote on a draft a statement that was circulated earlier this week from the commissioner regarding a portion of crime against white nationalism. Is there a second . Second. And any other . I think your microphone is off. Turn your microphone on. It appearsi thought escapement was included. It is not. I move my statement should be included. Are there any other amendments . Lets vote to approve it as amended. All thoseany of those . The motion passes unanimously. The commission was privileged to receive a tour of the Holocau
His team expected to hear charges, enter a plea during the initial appearance. The former president is calling for the case to be moved out of washington. He claims it is impossible to get a fair trial in d. C. Fox Team Coverage with Alexis Mcadams on trumps legal strategy. First, go to Griff Jenkins outside the Federal District court In Washington. Griff, what are you expecting out of todays proceedings . Here we go, jillian, mike. We expect things to get more interesting here. We expect the former president to make his way to District Court here in d. C. Once he gets here at 4 00 p. M. To go inside for that, lets talk a little about whats going to happen. He is going to go before a Magistrate Judge, not the judge that will preside over his trial, a Magistrate Judge for the initial appearance and fox news confirms, being told by the court, this will be an arraignment. We expect the former president to plead not guilty to the four charges, but already as you mention in that intro, he i
Everybody. We are going to start todays topic is antisemitism during high tide, during world war i and world war ii. The last time we discussed anti semitism we focused on the years between the civil war and the end of the century. You will remember it was a period that historians called the e meragainst ofmergence of a fullfledged antiseem antisemitic society. One, was exclusion ofjews fr hotels and public congregation. Refers to be excleuted from the grand union hotel in saratoga springs, new york in 1877. You remember that we looked at slides like this one where we see in this image which is from a magazine and it its caption is the dream of the jews realized. Yowill see that we ta about that about how thsign of smiths drgoods, put up in 1820 is being taken down. It is a litthard to see the top but it sayssis sign is replacing it, if you look around the other images in the idyou will see what is the name of the newspaper . This is from new york it is called the jewish helum harold.
We welcome every one of you to our captivating talk with historian and author fergus bordewich. The Capital Historical Society chartered by congress, a nonprofit organization, is designed to tell the story of the capital and the people who work there in a manner that inspires informed patriotism. Today is clearly of that effort. Were going to discuss mr. Bordewich s new book clash war Ulysses Grant and the battle to save reconstruction, which is actually a story not just about president grant, but about the role that Congress Actually played in all of this activity. Because he found the results of one of the very first investigative committees of congress. This multivolume report part of the investigation on the Klu Klux Klan that went the south and story is told throughout his book, which talks about the bloody reconstruction era roots and how really influences whats going on today. This story he will tell details how the federal government wields, its power to try to dismiss the Klu