Everybody has to move. Thank you for coming out. Im ginger, part of the event team. If you will do me a favor and check your cell phones and make sure they are turned to vibrate. We do 300 events around town each year. If you are not on our mailing list you can set up for our mailing list at the front. We send 3 or 4 emails a month. Tonight we welcome four contributors to the anthology appalachian reckoning. Anthony harkins, meredith mccarroll, bob hutton and ivy brashear. This is a diverse, complex and the management of response to hillbilly elegy a memoir of family and culture in crisis. I will turn the floor over to them. Anthony harkins is professor of history, the author of hillbilly, a cultural history of an american icon. Meredith mccarroll is director of writing and rhetoric, the author of race and film. T. R. C. Hutton teaches american studies at the university of tennessee and is the author of it is i will say this wrong. Blood he blessed. Politics and violence published to t
We have passed federal bills and more than 100 bills across the country so we are really grateful for all of the support from the people. Certainly the support from our , generous people who really just want to make the world a better place. Today is the oneyear anniversary of the First Step Act being signed into law. Tell us what the First Step Act did and how effective has it been. Washe First Step Act actually a negotiated bill. It wasnt even the build we really hoped to pass, which was the sentencing reform and corrections act. It was a groundbreaking reform at safelywas aimed reducing incarceration at the federal level and also reducing recidivism. But also it ensured that we do not have these egregiously long oneences for people like woman who received a life sentence for a first time lowlevel nonviolent drug crime. Effective. Been it has freed thousands who should have been home years ago, but we still have a long way to go, and yesterday actually we thea one Day Anniversary of
Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. On one of the busiest travel days of the Holiday Season, in many areas the weather will not be cooperating. Millions brace for difficult travel conditions. Snow is already hammering Southern California. Flood alerts are posted in california and arizona. Reporter senator Lisa Murkowski calling out leader Mitch Mcconnell over Mitch Mcconnell saying he would be in total cord nation with the white House Counsel regarding impeachment. When i heard that, i was disturbed. Reporter in los angeles the da is reviewing eight cases in the investigation against disgraced filmmaker Harvey Weinstein. A huge fire displaced hundreds of people staying at a Minneapolis Hotel that was serving as a homeless shelter. We literally just started over and then last everything all over again. Reporter more clashes in hong kong between police and prodemocracy demonstrators. Police used teargas and pepper spray. Reporter espn reporter Edward Aschoff passed away on
Finally happened donald trump has been impeached by the house of representatives in complete opposition to what the founders had in vision the articles voted on were along party lines it is highly unlikely the senate will vote to remove the president from office so what is the point of this entire exercise. Cross talking trumps impeachment im joined by my guest david good or ski in tampa he is a cultural critic and host of the radio show a Neighbors Choice in washington we cross a Richard Goodstein he is a democratic strategist and former Campaign Adviser to bill and Hillary Clinton right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate david i this i asked a very simple question at the end of my introduction it seems very unlikely that the republican and republican control. Old senate is going to vote on these articles of impeachment that is if nancy eventually gives it to them which we can actually talk about that right now as we
Cross talking trumps impeachment im joined by my guest david. He is a cultural critic and host of the radio show a Neighbors Choice in washington we cross to Richard Goodstein he is a democratic strategist and former Campaign Adviser to bill and Hillary Clinton right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate david i just i asked a very simple question at the end of my introduction it seems very unlikely that the republican and Republican Controlled Senate is going to vote on these articles of impeachment that is if nancy eventually gives it to them which we can actually talk about that right now as well i mean what is the point of this exercise outside of the exercise itself because its doomed to failure from what we understand about the members of the g. O. P. Caucus in the senate go ahead david. Well i think its christmas time in d. C. Nursing a lot of guilt for their various sins around this country the things theyve done