[background sounds] hello brooklyn. Are you all ready to elect the new president. First of all i want to thank each and every one of you for being here. It is a pleasure to be here with you tonight. In the heart of new york city. [screaming]. I want to thank you for coming tonight and participating in our democracy and making a more heard. [screaming]. Just really quickly goal, i know that all of us have our phones and we follow what is going on in the news. I want to begin by staying that tonight we are thinking about our men and women in uniform did especially those who are stationed in iraq. [applause]. And we are praying for their safety. Our hearts also go out to the people of the island of puerto rico today. [applause]. Who already have endured so much loss after Hurricane Maria and suffered an earthquake and will thinking about them and urging the administration to act and to serve them as we should. [applause]. Those are two very powerful and poignant reminders of why all of us
Series known as the peters rushton seminars, a series that i am john obrien from the department of english and im happy to kick things off. Todays lecture is part of an English Department lecture series known as the peters rushton seminars, series that goes back to 1950. It is a series that is including speakers, such as brooks, randall jerrell, wh and shamus heaney. Today, we are happy to help fred kaplan over the return to speak on his designer Thomas Jefferson. Fred kaplan is a distinguished professor of Queens College and the Graduate Center of the city of university of new york. A scholar in 19th century literature has become best nose is one of the most distinguished biographers of our era. He has published biographies of thomas carlyle, mark twain, henry james, charles dickens, john quincy adams, abraham lincoln, gore vidal and Thomas Jefferson. In his masterly pen, offers a biography of Thomas Jefferson by giving an english professors kind of attention to jeffersons written wor
Tonight. The nearby saint malaki school was on lockdown for a time. Police were searching the area for video and fearing retaliatory violence. They were all friends buddies and all four are well known to police and come in cant with us on many occurrences. And police have not locked down a motive for the executions. A fourth victim remains hospitalized in critical condition. Police say there is a history of gans violence in this part of town, it would be over a war of drug turf or something as insults on social media. In broad daylight 24 rounds fired it could hit an innocent kid or person. We feed the help we can get to get these individuals off the street. Reporter rick an antiviolence vigil is expected to begin at 11th and styles in about a half hour. Vernon odom, channel 6 action news. Thank you. In other news tonight the trial of eric frein the man accused of ambushing two Pennsylvania State troopers underway. Frein opened fire on douglas and dickson last late year. Douglas was wo
Many as 46 states could be disenfranchised this november because of ballot delays. It has democrats ringing alarm bells, returning to d. C. Later this week, and calling for the new postmaster general to answer questions before a house committee. If those concerns were not enough, this pandemic is changing how president ial campaigns operate. Tonight, unchartered territory for the biden harris campaign. It is the kickoff for what will be an unconventional Democratic National convention. Itll be entirely virtual. No cheering. No crowds. None of the balloon drops. And many speakers will broadcast into your home from their home. This morning, ahead of the dnc, joe biden sitting down with quite the unlikely interviewer, rapper cardi b. Its so sad that a pandemic has happened, so people can open their eyes on seeing what kind of person are they dealing with. Your generation and the Young Millenials beyond that, they can own this. They can own this outcome. They can i dont even what happens i
Jim wallace here who can talk, i think who can inform what are sometimes dry policy debates with a prophetic voice. Hello, everybody. Im martha maccallum. President obama admitting that he sometimes stole ideas from jonathan imriewber, the economist who has repeatedly claimed that it was a lack of traps is i combined with the stupidity of the American Voter that helped the Obama Administration to get this bill of obamacare through the house and the senate. And republican representative kristi noem joins us now. Congresswomau with us tonight. Thank you, martha. Good to be with you. Poor Jonathan Gruber. A lot of people who knew him now pretending that they didnt know him. Thats what is so offensive about this situation is that the white house, nancy pelosi and the president talking about his objective analysis. Held it up as an example what they should craft their signature legislation after. Now when they see what a disaster it is and what comments truly in the arrogance of him trying