Program. Historians discussing our nations Founding Fathers. It was a great moment of improvisation. They discovered the two principles that over the course of the last two centuries have proven to be the recipes for success for all nations. A political system bottoms on the principle of popular sovereignty, democracy. An Economic System is under the conviction that energies of individuals citizens are the source of the real productivity. Call it capitalism. Theres something that washington throughout his life that people were confident entrusting power in him. He inspires confidence, level headed, not drunk with power and somebody who understands that military power has sob subordinated to civilian power. Adams steered a very careful dangerous, treacherous, even course among the shoals and the whirlpools of diplomacy and managed to keep america neutral not to side with either england or france. And franklin is somebody who believed in moderation and compromise. He thought he could neg
Also shot by lyons. Jason gruenauer haa an update. Several witnesses are taking the stand. Reporter they are. Thepoint of this is to determine if theres enough evidence to move this case forward, which would ultimately then gg to trial, which could mean that kevin lyons could face up to the rest of his life in prison. So far weve heard from some witnesses and also heard some evidence that we have not yet heard, including the 911 tapes from the day of that shooting. Actually as that includes dr. Ken atkinson, whose voice aapears talking to a 911 dispatcher saying hes coming at me with a gun and we hear shots fired and silence on the other end of that phone. There was also presented today by the prosecution a next day interview with lyons wife. She said her husband had been acting weird and crazy and snapped and started shooting. Lyons is facing 14 felony counties in this case, degree murder of dr. Atkinson and several others of first degree attempted murder. Hes had outbursts ii the cou
Should prove its innovation and for this reason were proposing the by the end of the year creation of European Defense fund to actively stimulate research and innovation in this area. The lisbon treaty allows memberstates to, who wish to do so to make the capacity a further structure and high time to a veil ourselves of this ability. [applause] president , the final point which i wish to touch upon has to do with our collective responsibility and im calling on all of the european institutions and each of the memberstates to assume more responsibility. We need to do away with old spats where which could lead to failure because we can not survive without working together. Europe needs to be better explained and ive asked the commissioners over the coming weeks to visit National Parliaments in order to discuss the European Union and the commissioners have gone to National Parliaments more than 350 times and i would like for them to do that more now. Europe can only be built if it is under
We showed it today to introduce you to cspan cities tour. For five years, we have traveled to cities across the u. S. To explore their literary and historic sites. You can watch more of our visit that cspan. Org cities tour. That is grand rapids. And the grand river which divides the city. And in many ways, defines the city. There is a good chance that most people over the course of any given day will see or interact with a piece of french are made in grand rapids. We were the first city to ever receive a grant from the endowment to be used specifically to commission an original work of art for a civic site. This weekend, the cspan cities tour will explore the literary life and history of red rapids, michigan. That is on book tv on cspan2. The author of the book, thin ice will talk about that the book people who grew up in grand methods grand rapids. Then we will hear how Richard Smith works and his newest biography on gerald for. An author gordon enters talks about the life of attorne
Forgiveness, who does not identify jesus christ as his lord and savior but says hes a christian. If we are in the Public Square advocating for someone like that, what good are we as christians to say we believe in scripture when scripture tells us we should not be advocating for a person like that. This election is ultimately, either way weve got someone we dont want. I realize some of you decided hes better than her. That is fine. Some say he could be cyrus letting us back into the holy land. Between the lesser two evils, god has never asked his people to choose the evil. He has done it for them. He didnt ask the israelites to open the gates, he open the gates. He did not ask the people to do that. I dont think we should be doing that. History, i am sure of it would show us there are people who told those in babylon its just a statue. We dont remember them, we remember the man who refused to bow. I believe in a god and a last day and a savior and i believe on the winning team. I belie