Part of their great lives lecture series. [applause] [clears throat] wow. It is perhaps appropriate that on Thomas Jeffersons birthday, we bring to you one of our most prestigious speakers. One of jeffersons cleverest biographers. Professor Annette Gordon reed is the one who definitively cracked the case, as our speaker on tuesday might have said, on one of American Historys most complex and now expunged until now, expunged stories, which is the relationship between the jeffersons and the hemmings. Professor gordon reed is the Charles Morin professor of american legal history, and a professor of history arts and science at harvard university. She has a jaw dropping list of honors, i will read you a few. Fellowship from the dorothy and lose the Common Center for scholars and writers at the new york public library, a guggenheim fellowship, a macarthur fellowship, the National Humanities medal, and the woman of power and influence award from the National Organization for women in new york
Completely is not. Bryce harper, great hair. Great hair, bryce harper. A lot of players with great hair and a lot of violence were talking about on this tuesday morning. Were going to start with the chaos on the floor of the texas State Capitol. Lawmakers pushing each other around trading insults and in one case even a death threat. Yep, it all started when hundreds of protesters converged on the gallery to rally against the tough new immigration policy. The protesters were mostly peaceful but lawmakers started yelling and shoving each other and some even had to be pulled apart. Abcs Kenneth Moton has the details for us. Good morning, kenneth. Reporter good morning, kendis and diane. It was a texas clash thats already being pointed to as an example of the heated debate over President Trumps immigration policies. This morning, texas house scuffle. Lawmakers of the State Capitol monday in a heated facetoface hurling death threats. There was a threat made from representative rinaldi to pu
Cleared by crosby, and thats it. In the expansion era, this is the fewest number of shots that a winning team has ever had in the stanley cup final, a dozen. Previously tampa and los angeles had 15. But its not the shots, its the goals, and pittsburgh had five. Nashville had three. Youre watching the stanley cup final, presented by geico. Game two is wednesday night on nbcsn. Pregame coverage begins with nhl live at 6 00 p. M. Eastern. Coming up next, except on the west coast is your late local news, followed by the tonight show starring jimmy fallon. For eddie and pierre, phil jackson, charles barkley, vince gill, clint hurdle and francisco cervelli, im mike emrick saying good night. On nbcsn, our stanley cup final coverage continues from pittsburgh. Nbc sports thanks you for watching this presentation of the National Hockey league. And the pitch. He hits harper. And harper is going to go out. And now weve got a beef. And this is a good one, folks. Youre seeing it right now at 8 00. B
Forces video shows the housetohouse fight in the final assault. The battle has gone on for seven months, longer than anyone predicted, costlier than anyone wants to admit. The u. N. Estimates that 200,000 residents remain trapped inside the dense, urban terrain of the old city and warns theyre in grave danger as iraqi forces try to hunt down isis fighters hiding among them. An abandoned home has become a front line command center. This screen shows a live drone camera zeroing in on suspected isis targets. He sit says sparing the civilian population is the single biggest obstacle. Queer were using this technology to watch movement of civilians to protect them from harm. But the narrow streets make it difficult for isis to deploy its most Deadly Weapon too, car bombs. They showed us a whole range. Some of these larger vehicles are tractors. These are ordinary civilian cars. Theyve had this steel reenforcement, but only in the front, to protect them from being stopped before they reach th
Clearance and go back to doing real estate in new york city. Jared kushner facing growing scrutiny. I dont trust the story. We have no idea if its true. A shoving match on the floor of the state house in texas. Tempers flared over the states new ban on sanctuary cities. Isis taking responsibility for a bombing in baghdad. A man accused of a deadly attack after an antimuslim rant on a train in oregon is due in court today. Former pan yan nan strongman manuel nor yeiega has died. His death closes a chapter in the countrys history. Tiger woods was charged with driving under the influence in florida. He blames an unexpected reaction to prescription medicine. Hes taken quite a fall and hoping that this might be the bottom of the fall. The tiger killed zookeeper in england. The zoo is calling it a freak accident. Human failure. In illinois fire destroyed a good portion of the former correctional center. The prison has been closed for years. All that. Whoa bryce harper, wants a piece of hunte