him under criminal scrutiny and investigation by the justice department but that have already led to federal indictment. the new york times reports that team trump plans to get rid of any and all road blocks to interference by the white house in any independent government agency. from that new reporting, quote, donald trump and his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government. if voters return him to the white house in 2025. reshaping the structure of the executive branch to concentrate far greater authority directly in his hands. trump and list associates have a broader goal to alter the balance of power by increasing the president s authority over every part of the federal government that now operates either by law or tradition with any measure of independence from political interference by the white house. that is according to a review of his campaign policy proposals and interviews of people close to him. the expresiden
a programme enabling victims of domestic violence to save themselves and their pets in a deeper look we look at boko haram s legacy of violence and its growing threat to nigeria and beyond. great to have you with us. europe is on high alert following a series of arrests and expanded security. four men were arrested in athens, alleged to have ties to a planned attack in belgium. a short time ago the associated press reported that the men detained in greece have no ties to the adelaidelleged attacks in belgium. it marks the first time in 30 years troops were used to reinforce police in belgium cities. we have more from brussels. belgium is on a heightened state of alert. authorities took the step of calling in the army. around 300 tloops will be de troops will be gradually deployed, and we are seeing them on the streets of brussels and they are expected to be on the streets in the north of the country, where there s a large jewish population and vervier. on thursday the
never ending decades of controversy in which the defenders tried to make slanders of the authors of witness stick. today, i want to introduce the three panelists. this is an amazingly powerful group we have here. all at once. leave it to them. they will take it over. each, i hope, making remarks ten minute, and we ll open it up for further discussion. elliot a abrams had a remarkable strings of enormous importance. i remember him going back to the early reagan years. he began my knowledge with human rights, and that was really something, the jimmy carter invention of human rights, and in charge of latin american affairs, positions in the white house, and in every case, he really always brought deeply moral and intellectual realm into the work he was doing in practice and in policy, and now he is the truth teller in an entirely new career, it seems to me, an issue in the middle east, the arab israeli problem, telling the truth where the truth is very rarely to be found or no
fight its way continually in the world of great woke books, and, certainly, this has all of the elements of it r many of them really quite strange in almost mythological, the strange matter of trilling writing in the middle of the journal before witness comes out, a book about whittik witand the images driving all night to hide documents on a pumpkin on his farm. the old wood stock typewriter as the type face that told the story. the war blur that richard nixon used to trap him in the cross-examination, and these things, they live in a mythological memory. it was in the new york times three weeks ago or so in a box, you know, a-11, a war blur appeared in new york city in manhattan, and times photographed it, making the reference to this work we re going to talk about today, and then, i think, a classic status was enhanced by the seemingly never ending decades of controversy in which the defenders tried to make slanders of the authors of witness stick. today, i want to i
because this work is clearly a classic in my mind and that of many others. and a test of the classic is whether it remains relevant with the changing times and changing cultures. if it can do that, then it can find its way continually in the world of great folks. and certainly, this has all of the elements of it, many of them really quite strange and almost mythological, this strange matter of lionel trilling writing in the journey before witness comes out, book about whittaker chambers, in which literary critics find the alger hiss character, but trilling never knew alger hiss. a strange kind of pre-figuration there and then the images, driving all night to hide documents in a pumpkin on his farm, the old woodstock typewriter that told the figure. dipper phonic terry war blurb that richard nixon used to trap his cross-examination. these things lived in the mythological memory in our times about three weeks ago, in a little box it had appeared in new york city and manhattan