Potential retreat. American history tv. History bookshelves, the biography of influential conservative writer russell kirk. This was recorded at the 2016 Chicago Tribune book fest. [applause] good morning, everybody. I love the smell of books in the morning and its great to be around a bunch of friends who feel the same way. Its my pleasure to help kick fest. Days day of lit its my great pleasure to rzer, theradley j bi russell kirk famous american conservative. Bradley came over this morning from southcentral michigan, made the journey, and is here to talk about his book about russell kirk. One of the first questions for lots of people is who is russell kirk . The man undoubtedly cast a very large shadow over american political and intellectual thought in the latter half of the 20th century. It could be argued he still does. Yet, russell kirk is not a name that is much known these days or much invoked these days. Your book does many things but marvelousd serve as a bracing introductio
Inner circle. The memo which was obtained by the New York Times and has not been verified by nbc news, was allegedly sent in early December 2020 by trump lawyer kenneth chesebro, who is one of the coconspirators identified but not charged in the Justice Departments latest indictment, of the former president. In the note, chesebro details the fake elector scheme which falsely claims former Vice President mike pence had the power to block the certification of the states votes on january 6th. All just to buy time. Chesebro admitted that the Supreme Court would likely reject the plan, in a statement to nbc news, the lawyer writes that he was simply providing legal advice to trumps campaign. But that quote whether the campaign relied on that device, upon that advice as he intended would have to remain a question to be resolved in court. Those efforts by donald trump and his lawyers to subvert democracy has, in a small part, led the american varshini to create a task force for American Democ
No, he was making fun of himself there. You have to wonder if the former president is feeling the heat. I expected him to sing myway and with the scarves wipe the sweat off his face and its hard for me to as Special Counsel jack smith turns up the temperature in federal court, amid the back and forth over the protective order in that case. Theres new reporting this morning do you think hes well . No. Im just saying, him sweating that much. Do you think hes in a million different ways, i dont think hes well . Do you think hes unwell . Marco rubio didnt sweat that much. Ron desantis doesnt sweat that much. That was a lot of sweat. Yes. New reporting on a secret memo that laid out the plot to overturn the 2020 election. Were going to go through that Major Development in just a moment. Meanwhile, were getting a better idea of the timing for the next possible indictment for the former president by 2028 . No. The case down in georgia. Can she delay this any longer . I think its coming. 2028,
Servicemen of the Russian Federation, so they say, there are four or something thousand of them, well, actually, this is a completely frivolous contingent in order to, well , you can destabilize the situation, but again, they have to be trained saboteurs, people from well, lets say it happened in crimea, when russia began to occupy ukrainian crimea, and with all the nuances of this situation, these were trained people, we saw this work, they actually landed, they knew what to do, who use local cossacks. Ran there shouting putin away, russia forever, stones from the sky, we remember it, but it was organized work by people who were trained, prepared, had contacts, had coordination among themselves, and by the way, with local collaborators, and people who worked in the Security Service of ukraine on the territory of crimea , back then in the 14th year, and in Law Enforcement agencies, that is, in the police then, and it is so easy, as they say, to do from scratch, this its impossible, eve
The sun over texas will soon be going down before it does so. Let me show you something with one of our long lens cameras in a special position. This is a close up, a shot as you can get of the destroyed compound right in the middle of it. The fire is out. Some of the remains still smolder. Federal officials from president clinton right on down. Rightly or wrongly, well be feeling the heat for a long time about how the federal government handled this case. What it did when it did, it did it do the right thing . Second guessing is easy. The search is just beginning for remains of the more than 80 people, including an estimated dozen or more children believed killed when the compound went up in flames yesterday. One of the men survivors is blaming the fire on the fbi, but federal officials emphasize there is no doubt about it. The fire was started by followers of david koresh, an apparent mass suicide ordered by the cult leader. And that was cbs News Coverage from april 19th, 1993, after