Additional funding is provided by. Corporate funding is provided by. Welcome back to firing line, leader abrams. Thank you for having me. E so siu were first on firing line in january of 2019, yodelivered the democratic response to the state of the union. You decided not to run for the United States senate. And you have focus on fair fight, which is your Voting Rights group. Youve ao itten another book, our time is now. To be on the short list to become joe bidens Vice President ial nominee. And were goingal to get tof that. But first, a man from your city, rayshardrooks, is dead after being shot in the back by police. Ap thisned very near your old state house district. And a member of his family said, i thought atlanta was higher than that. I thought we were bigger than that. Did you think atlanta was higher than that and bigger than that . I think the challenge because what has happened in atlanta, what happened in louisville, what happened in minneapolis, what has happened in countl
I was about to say i would rather be assassinated on this spot and surrender. I love the fact that he says those words on the spot. Knowing full will that there is a plot to kill him at that moment. He means it and he pauses and it hits him. What is fantastic about that moment. I wont tell you how, we know he lives. Its one of my favorite parts of the books and those are the moments we love but when we were debating doing this book what was a very important to us is it silly for me to say wiese found the secret plot to kill Abraham Lincoln. What was far more interesting to josh and i. We plenty of stories we could of done. The reason we picked this one is because the context of when it was happening. You can see the civil war unfolding in front of us. You can see that there into. Whatever side youre on it you hate the other side. You think the their site is side is horrible and awful people. Thats exactly where we are right now. We want to get through anyone that reads it is not just a
Tonight at eight eastern on the communicators on cspan2. Standard john cotton one members of the bridge about buying g5 equipment from the Chinese Company while way. The arkansas republican join former House Intelligence Committee chair mike rogers and retired Brigadier General Robert Spaulding who predecease her on the National Security council under the trump administration. They answered questions from the British Defense subcommittee on china for about two hours. Order, order. Welcome to this Defense Select Committee hearing to consider the International Response to the uk government decision to allow while we to continue to operate its 5g network and implications of the gibbous decision for information sharing across the alliance. Also to discuss International Ambitions and the role of 5g technology and within this specifically look at Cyber Attacks and the distal silk road. Our session date is divided into two parts and id like to welcome senator tom cotton joining us for part on
Additional funding is provided by. Corporate funding is provided by. Welcome to firing line, dr. Rice. It great to beyou. You served in president obamas cabinetl as natiocurity adviser and ambassador to the united nations. A you weo in president clintons National Security council. And because of the cid pandemic that continues, we are practicing thank you for joining me from your home. Good to be with you. You are also the cochair ofe then d. C. Advisory group, and you are focusing on how to reon the economy in our nations capital. How are you thinking abo balancing the urgent need to reopenhe economy with the need to curtail the spread of the virus . Well, we are advising the mayor, muriel bowser, and were thinking about this very simply. The simple point is that the health and safety of the residents of the district of columbia is paramount the economy withouervingy reopen and protecting to the greatest exte possible to help the people of the district. And so the mayor has been quite
Im very happy about that. So where are we going to go . Lets talk quickly about the lincoln conspiracy. We all know john wilkes booths store, how he ended abraham agains life and his presidency and this is the first secret plot to kill Abraham Lincoln is at the start of the presidency, before it begins. Why does it happen . When abraham i can is going to raise his right hand and become the sixteenth president of the United States the only way he can do that is take a train from his home in springfield and go to washington dc. He goes to washington dc and the only way to get from illinois to dc is on any train, you have to go through baltimore and baltimore was a slave state. The plot of the book is very simple. A secret society is planning to kill Abraham Lincoln, and ambition when he comes to baltimore in and his friend is presidency before it begins. That is the setup but what i think is interesting is the action, just where it begins. We open on this train and it is speeding through