San antonio is the gateway to latin american couple hundred miles away from the border and we think think about san antonio, we often think about the worlds heritage missions of flesh the alamo is a vital part and we also sit on top of the worlds most prolific, is fuel t this community for generations for hundreds of years. And really waterways is why this region was settled in first place today even though we are burdening interpol is in areas and seventh largest city in the country, you can see our riverwalk which is one of the top tourist destinations in the world. And be part of a great urban revitalization that also includes ecosystem restorations. Under 25kilometer with riverway and course of the am very proud of is that here we are on footsteps one of the largest fossil fuel reserves in the entire world we just ratified a Climate Adaptation plan and make first day in office as mayor, we chose to declare in to the paris summit accords we ratified the plan is few months ago to hel
Every weekend. The cspans city tour is exploring the american story as we take book tv and American History tv on the road. This weekend we travel to san antonio, texas. Coming up in the next hour we will feature the citys local authors including John Phillips santos on culture and hometown. In about 15 minutes we will visit the special collections at the university of texas in san antonio. And later in about 40 minutes, the debates surrounding confederate statutes and memorialization. We begin our special feature with lewis fisher on his book saving san antonio. We are standing near the Geographical Center of san antonio, texas. We are in front of whats called the Spanish Governors Palace in a town that was actually set up here due to the conflicts between two european empires, france and spain in the 18th century. Spain had, of course, established itself well in latin america and south america and in mexico and northern mexico was especially important to spain because rich silver min
Are great to have you with us this is r. T. To match. The u. S. And the taliban are poised to sign a peace deal which may bring washingtons longest ever war to an end both parties issued a joint statement saying that if all goes well the complete withdrawal of u. S. And nato troops from the country will happen in 14 months the conflict which the u. S. Initially betrayed as a major success has outlasted 4 president ial terms and hes getting more looks back at how it all played out. Back in 2003 u. S. Officials were telling a story of success when it came to afghanistan listen to Donald Rumsfeld were at a point where we clearly have moved from major combat to a period of stability and to blues asian and reconstruction activities the bulk of this country today is permissive and secure it is clear that that is the case by virtue of the fact that we see people returning to their country from all across the globe in large numbers but 17 years and 4 president ial terms later one of the great
California. This is just over an hour. Lets talk about fake news. Joke about thea reporter who asked a tough question of Elizabeth Warren . [laughter] neither have i. But i am a journalist, i run a Journalism Program. I want to plead with all of you not to let 99 of journalists gave the rest a bad name. [laughter] i was looking through some Washington Post headlines recently. My favorite one recently was from last week. This is the headline, this is true, this is an actual headline in the Washington Post last week, it said, cant republicans relearn how to accept political outcomes they do not like you . They do not like . [laughter] that is what the Washington Post was wondering last week. Headline joelious alluded to was when we learned about the killing of the isis leader and did you see the headline the Washington Post gave that . Was, albaghdadi, religious scholar, dies at 48. That was the actual headline in the Washington Post. I do not what your experience was, but that was like
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