Landmark cases produced in partnership with the National Constitution center. Exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 Historic Supreme Court decisions. Mr chief justice. Good evening, welcome to see spencers landmark cases. Tonights case is the New York Times Company Versus the United States, in this 1971 case, the Supreme Court ruled six to three against the knicks this Nixon Administration in a big win for journalism. The decision upheld the New York Times in the Washington Post, which you just saw depicted in this recent movie, the right to project published classified information on the history of the vietnam war over significant objections from the pentagon and the white house. We have to terrific guests at the table tonight, to help us understand how this case unfolded. And what it means for us today in our society. Let me introduce you to flloyd abrams, the bestknown First Amendment lawyer counsel in the New York Times case and he is the attorney in new y
Look at how the outbreak in africa threatens to send malaria related deaths soaring the c. S. And also perhaps. The painstaking process of restoring the acropolis in athens as the greek government revenues its call for britain to return its ancient trusts. And im santa how much not have all the support a big day for your fantasy the syria leaders have the chance to wrap up a night straight at league title. But we begin this hour with the current virus pandemic which is spreading further and faster every day now it took the wild 2 weeks to get from 1000000. 00 to 2000000. 00 infections its now taken just 4 days to make the leap from 15 to 16000000 days out from the u. S. Based on Hopkins University shows the United States. Brazil and india are leading that savage and take a look at this graph it shows the number of cases that are added daily and that curve is clearly rising with more than a quarter of a 1000000 new infections every 24 hours almost 650000 people wild wide are now known t
To the pandemic and last but not least nationwide protesters have taken to the streets in major cities with lock down measures due to the pandemic there rallying cries demanding governors to reopen their states alright its time to boost their news i. Q. The trumpet ministration is ramping up its rhetoric rhetoric against china claiming a lab in rouhani may be responsible for the world wide spread of the corona virus meantime a new report claims china intentionally hid the severity of this virus Rachel Blevins is joining us from the news room with more of this rachel what more can you tell us well manella the trumpet administration is now doubling down on the claim of the Novel Coronavirus originated from a lab in ruhani china during a sunday talk show interviews secretary of state mike pompei o said he is confident the u. S. Intelligence community will come to the same conclusion remember the streets of the world may have a history of running substandard laboratories these are the 1st
Streets in major cities with lock down measures due to the pandemic theyre rallying cries demanding governors and reopen their states all right its time to boost their news i. Q. The Trump Administration is ramping up its rhetoric rhetoric against china claiming a lab in rouhani may be responsible for the world wide spread of the corona virus meantime a new report claims china intentionally hid the severity of this virus Rachel Blevins is joining us from the news room with more of this rachel what more can you tell us well manella the trumpet administration is now doubling down on the claim of the Novel Coronavirus originated from a lab and china during a sunday talk show interviews secretary of state might prompt said he is confident the. U. S. Intelligence community will come to the same conclusion remember china has a history of infecting the world and they have a history of running substandard laboratories these are not the 1st times that weve had a world exposed to virus as a resu
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