James meredith at the university of ol miss. I like to pick out subjects that i feel have a lot on like to pick out these subjects that i feel have a lot of resonance to our cultural history, biography. Paul hendricksons most recent work, hemingways bonet is the name of the book. Thank you for joining us on booktv. Thank you for having me. Sander and Stuart Taylor talk about affirmative action, oral arguments in fisher versus university of texas. They agreed with the initial goals of affirmative action. That now believe it hurts the minorities. This is about an hour and a half. Thank you very much. Thank you for roger and cato for sponsoring this event, it is great to have such a great kickoff to the book which is being officially published today. I am going to start and talk a little bit about the central idea itself and some of what we found in the book. I will try to relate this more to what is happening tomorrow. I am particularly glad to be doing this at cato because it stood for
Commissioner Bernard Kerik who served time for tax fraud and lying to officials and the president just spoke about blagojevich moments ago. We have commuted the sentence of Rod Blagojevich. He served eight years in jail. Thats a long time, and i watched his wife on television. I dont know him very well. Ive met him a couple of times. He was on for a short while on like a very nice person. , seemed dont know him but he served eight years in jail. He has a long time to go. Many people disagree with the sentence. Hes a democrat. Hes not a republican. Got a lot of folks to talk to. Shimon prokupecz is here, elie honig is here, our cnn legal analyst, kaitlyn, let me start with you, Kaitlan Collins at the white house. Reporter blagojevich is someone the president has been considering commuting his sentence for months now. He was fairly close to doing so in august but he was talked out of it after he got an earful from some illinois republicans who said you cannot commute this guys sentence.
Thank you. The bob grahams center for Public Service is very pleased to cosponsor this. This is a great policy for us to look at. David figlio is the professor of education, social policy and economics at northwestern university. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Founding Member of the Research Program on the economics of education. His research on education and social policy has been funded by the u. S. Department of education, the nih and the Gates Foundation among many others. His Current Research involves evaluating the tax credit Scholarship Program, the Largest School Voucher Program in the United States. Conducting a largescale study of School Accountability in florida and following children from birth through School Career to study keep questions regarding Early Childhood poverty analysts inequality. Prior to joining the faculty at northwestern in 2008, david figlio taught at the university of florida from 19982008, and the univer
Whether there was anything the fbi could do to quote, set the record straight. Now, mccabe later called priebus to say that the fbi couldnt get involved in commenting on the report. And that fbi director, james comey, also called priebus to echo his deputy saying he believed the report to be inaccurate, but the fbi could not be involved. The reason this is important and interesting here is that there is a decade old precedent or guidance that there shouldnt be this kind of conversation between the white house and the fbi. About a pending investigation, simply because it could show that, it could lead to questions about the independence of the investigation. So, has there been any reaction among some members of congress, especially thats investigating any campaign tieing to russia . Well, there have been reaction to another report, the Washington Post first reporting that once the fbi rejected this call from the white house to get involved in knocking down these stories with journalists
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