Tonight, some of the places weve been from all these years on the road. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im Anthony Mason. The Trump Administration denied today that political connections had anything to do with restoring electrical connections to puerto rico. A huge contract was awarded to a tiny company in whitefish, montana, home town of interior secretary ryan zinke. Swrimpgy today said he had nothing to do with the contract. Cbs news correspondent David Begnaud set out today to find the headquarters of the company somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Reporter nestled down this long driveway in whitefish, montana, is a onestory wooden house which is the home of Whitefish Energy, the tiny Energy Company with only two fulltime employees surprised many. doorbell theres mail for andy. When it received a 300 million nobid contract to rebuild puerto ricos electrical grid. Whitefish has never worked on a project of this size. I mean were kind of
Good evening. Im not sure the microphone is on, can you hear me . You can . Great. My name is Vanessa Beasley and im the dean of them at Vanderbilt University. Tonight its my Great Fortune to welcome you to this panel, the wonderful discussion that will have about the presidency of Richard Nixon. Im also happy to invite you to a conversation which will have on that same theme and question. Before we get started, in earnest though, it is fitting that we take a moment to remember the space that were in and who founded it. Tonight we are gathered in the First Amendment center in Vanderbilt University which was founded by. [inaudible] you may not remember him or be aware ofs legacy but he served as 43 years as an awardwinning journalist for the tennessean. As retirement he was editor, publisher and ceo. In 1982, he became the founding editorial director of usa today. He served in that position for a decade. He left journalism in the early 60s to serve in the Us Justice Department as Admini
Good evening. Im not sure the microphone is on, can you hear me . You can . Great. My name is Vanessa Beasley and im the dean of them at Vanderbilt University. Tonight its my Great Fortune to welcome you to this panel, the wonderful discussion that will have about the presidency of Richard Nixon. Im also happy to invite you to a conversation which will have on that same theme and question. Before we get started, in earnest though, it is fitting that we take a moment to remember the space that were in and who founded it. Tonight we are gathered in the First Amendment center in Vanderbilt University which was founded by. [inaudible] you may not remember him or be aware ofs legacy but he served as 43 years as an awardwinning journalist for the tennessean. As retirement he was editor, publisher and ceo. In 1982, he became the founding editorial director of usa today. He served in that position for a decade. He left journalism in the early 60s to serve in the Us Justice Department as Admini
And i want to thank you for coming tonight. Im a librarian at mid Manhattan Library. Im happy to present john mcwhorter. Were lucky here at mid Manhattan Library because john has come more than once. He has been very kind aboutthat this is his third visit. Tonight he will speak about his most recent book, talking back, talking black. Truth of about americas lingua franca. He is a associate professor of Columbia University where he teaches linguistics, American History and africanamerican studies. He is columnist for Time Magazine and regular contributor to the atlantic and the wall street journal and the Washington Post and he is the author of 16 books and tonight he is going to be speaking about his most recent book talking back, talking black. Without further adieu, john mcwhorter, please. [applause] thanks, phyllis. Folks. Thanks for coming here tonight. What i want to talk to you about is not too long the last book i published which was talking back, talking black. It had a very co
Doug mack explores the us territories, american simile, guam, puerto rico, the Us Virgin Islands and the northern Mariana Islands and their relationships with the rest of the country in the not quite states of america. Also being published this week, usa todays greg saroyan shares how a group of us paratroopers survived 15 months of attacks from taliban fighters in the mountains of afghanistan in the chosen few. And former computer hacker turned Cyber Security consultant evan mitnick details how companies are following your cyber footprints and what you can do to protect your Online Activity in the art of invisibility. Tvs titles in bookstores this week and watch for many of the authors in the near future on book tv on cspan2. Is a rapid pace of change and i think what people are saying and i hope it wont be an overly destructive way, we want government to slow this down a little. We want a little more sense of control. Slow down the pace of change. We live in an era of very rapid chan