Last year ago iowa heading into the quarter finals of the Corporate America after beating champions chile. Iran is remaining defiant after the u. S. Placed new sanctions this time targeting its top leadership including the supremes leader ayatollah ali how many tehran says it will go ahead with its plan to reduce its commitments to the 250 nuclear deal despite the increasing pressure the u. S. National security advisor john bolton hes warned that all options remain on the table if iran continues to conceive what he called its Nuclear Ambitions but iran says mondays sanctions have now permanently closed all avenues for diplomacy it calls him outrageous and idiotic and accuses washington of lie and then theres russia russias accuse. The u. S. Is being reckless moscow is warning of a dangerous scenario if tension between washington and tehran continues to mount and then theres france saying its working with britain and germany to try to deescalate this crisis well go live to roslyn jordan
Professor richard gamble. When did the phrase sitting on the hill originate . In the gospel of matthew and made way of American History by way of speech and discourse written by the governor john back in 1630 and he wrote what became later a very famous speech called charity and gradually the phrase sitting on a hill came to describe be used by historians and others to describe america and one of the things im most interested in is how americans got into the habit of calling themselves a city on hill, how did they become an american nickname and the tendency that i found over the years is for politicians and journalists and others to assume that americans from earlier colonial period always thought themselves as city on a hill. It took more than 200 years before a prominent american historian started picking up the phrase and applying it to americas identity. What does the concept mean . Comes from the sermon on the mount in gospel of matthew and there jesus says to the crowd and disci
Will be turned into a house of worship. Were expecting things to get started any minute. Dari on that note look at this beautiful live shot. Look at this. The candles. The mass of paul vi was at yankee stadium. That was the first time a pope was coming to the United States in order to address the united nations. That was 50 years ago. Dari that was incredible. Dan touched on something a little bit, the fact that this historic Madison Square garden, pope francis not the only pope to say mass and to visit the garden. So our Duke Castiglione has a look back at the history of the garden. Garden. There i was and the whole world was watching. Here was the microphone. I walked up to the microphone we respectfully welcome his holiness, Pope John Paul ii. And a big cheer went up. And then we had to wait a while. George jumped the gun and introduced the pope a little earlier than he should have. That just helped build the anticipation. I was a 17yearold kid from Staten Island who was chosen to p
[inaudible] [inaudible] book tv is on instagram. Follow us for publishing news, schedule, schedule updates and behind the scenes pictures and videos. Instagram. Com book underscore tv. Im delighted to have three of them most distinguished historians with us tonight. We are celebrating the publication of Linda Gilmore and thomas these United States, a nation in the making 1890 until the present. Cruises professor of history at Princeton University and the historian who writes about what turns out to be the long 20th century that his college discussed in the new book. We cannot have hoped for a better editor vocative and we are going to turn things over to kevin. I would like everyone to welcome our guest tonight [applause]. Thank you for coming out tonight. We are honored to be here to celebrate and help introduce this book by two of the nations leading historians. What is the long 20 century as they described it. Going to ask a few questions, will get them to read a few short passages
Of millions of americans are finding the pockets lighter than they were last month. Much lighter. Congressional democrats and white house officials are work ought a deal on another Coronavirus Relief package and perhaps you are among those without those additional unem moment benefits and many folks could be facing eviction, and both sides say they have beeen making progress, but they have been saying that for the last two weeks. It is the best discussions that we have had so far and id call it, umm, progress but a ways to go. We are still a long ways apart and i dont want to suggest that a deal is imminent, because it is not, but like with any deal, as you make progress, i think it is important to recognize that you are making progress. President trump went golfing today after approving Emergency Assistance to florida, and the National Hurricane center is expecting Tropical Storm isaias to strengthen to a hurricane. At any strength it could bring significant storm surge and flooding t