Conference hosted by the library of congress. Its just under an hour and a half. This is our final panel for the history conference on the political legacy of Newt Gingrich, arguably one of the most influential speakers of the house in the past hundred years. I think theres no dispute that were all living the legacy of Newt Gingrich, so i will turn it over to Jacob Strauss who is our chair for the panel from the Congressional Research service. You guys put on a great conference. Its wonderful to get away from our desks and talk to people about all kinds of subjects related to congress so im very happy to be here. As colleen said, we will talk about the historical and political legacy of Newt Gingrich and we stand between lunch and you going home which may or may not be a good thing, but we have a great panel with two very interesting speakers so stick around because there will be good stuff here. Well start with the paper by mack green and jeffrey crouch. As we agreed before, each spea
Conference hosted by the library of congress. Its just under an hour and a half. This is our final panel for the history conference on the political legacy of Newt Gingrich, arguably one of the most influential speakers of the house in the past hundred years. I think theres no dispute that were all living the legacy of Newt Gingrich, so i will turn it over to Jacob Strauss who is our chair for the panel from the Congressional Research service. You guys put on a great conference. Its wonderful to get away from our desks and talk to people about all kinds of subjects related to congress so im very happy to be here. As colleen said, we will talk about the historical and political legacy of Newt Gingrich and we stand between lunch and you going home which may or may not be a good thing, but we have a great panel with two very interesting speakers so stick around because there will be good stuff here. Well start with the paper by mack green and jeffrey crouch. As we agreed before, each spea
Conference hosted by the library of congress. Its just under an hour and a half. This is our final panel for the history conference on the political legacy of Newt Gingrich, arguably one of the most influential speakers of the house in the past hundred years. I think theres no dispute that were all living the legacy of Newt Gingrich, so i will turn it over to Jacob Strauss who is our chair for the panel from the Congressional Research service. You guys put on a great conference. Its wonderful to get away from our desks and talk to people about all kinds of subjects related to congress so im very happy to be here. As colleen said, we will talk about the historical and political legacy of Newt Gingrich and we stand between lunch and you going home which may or may not be a good thing, but we have a great panel with two very interesting speakers so stick around because there will be good stuff here. Well start with the paper by mack green and jeffrey crouch. As we agreed before, each spea
People are being rushed to evacuate. Take a look at how dire the situation is. We have new chopper video there. This is from lower lake. It shows homes burning. Here is a look at the communities affected. The socalled clayton fire. Threatening homes in clear lake. So far, at least four homes destroyed. 2,000 acres have burned. Only 5 contained. Those numbers are expected to jump significantly. Nbc bay area, at a staging area in clear lake. Chuck, this fire is burning so close to last years valley fire. Hard to see this happening again in the same area. Multiple evacuations from what we understand are under way . Reporter right now. Fighting this fire all afternoon. Behind me see smoke hanging in the air. This is actually pretty good compared to what it used to look like earlier today. You couldnt see patches of blue coming through the smoke here in clear lake. Cal fire was ready for a tough fight it says. But it had people in, and equipment in place, but firefighters say, that the [ no
Olympics. The worlds best gymnast, simone biles, vaulting americas final five to a history making victory. Katie ledecky beat her off the start. As recordbreaking Katie Ledecky dominates in the pool and americas golden boys pick up another first place. The United States is going to win the gold medal. Michael phelps adding two more gold medals to his recordbreaking tally. Were live in rio for all the action this morning. Good morning, america. And good morning, simone biles and the rest of america. How about that team usa dominating the olympics blowing away the competition. Four more golds on tuesday. Including Michael Phelps winning his 21st gold. There he is celebrating with his son boomer. Amy is at our olympics desk in rio this morning. Good morning, guys. So much excitement for team usa did get to be in the pavilion when the five made history with americas first consecutive team win in gymnastics and that was just one of the nights big moments. Cant wait to bring you the rest. We