Good afternoon to welcome to the seventh annual san antonio book festival. How many have been here all day . Great festival so far. Absolutely. Heres the good news, we saved the best for last. Welcome with Douglas Brinkley one of the authors who was closest to us because he and his family that are here drove down i. 35 from where they live for todays event. Hes a distinguished professor in humanities at history at Rice University but for the purpose of the conversation today, hes one of the great historians in our country and if you are an armchair historian like im, he is a must read, and ive been reading douglas for years, but i, american moonshot is the best work youve done if i can say so. A really terrific book. There are some younger people in the audience, but i am a cold war baby and catholic at that and i can remember them a interrupting school in second gd drafting school in second grade to announce that the commies have launched sputnik and a month later there was a second a
Im jose diazbalart and we begin with Breaking News out of georgia. Just in the last hour, Fulton County judge scott mcafee dismissed some of the charges against former President Donald Trump and some of his codefendants in the States Election interference case. The judge said six these counts in the indictments lack sufficient detail. Joining us now, msnbc legal contributor and host of the katie phang show, katie phang, also catherine christian, an msnbc legal analyst, and greg blew steen, political reporter at the Atlantic Journal Constitution and an msnbc contributor. Katie, what exactly did the judge stay, which charges were they, and how significant are they . So, jose, this is not the ruling on the motion to disqualify the District Attorney fani willis. Were going to start with that kind of ground work. But what it does do is it dismisses six of the counts in the indictment that was secured by fani willis from a grand jury. And thats another important point because this was not an
Of a life of Frederick Douglass written in 1845 it describes his childhood years on Eastern Shore of maryland, his time as a slave in baltimore and his escape north. Our guest is a historian and author. Watch books that shaped america weeknights at nine eastern on cspan or go to cspan. Org books that shaped america to view the series and learn more about each book featured. Abraham avi loeb is a franklin baird junior professor of science at Harvard University, the longestserving chair of Harvard Department of astronomy, the founding director of Harvard Black hole initiative, director of the institute for theory and computation, itc, within the Harvard Smithsonian center for astrophysics. He also heads the galileoeo project, chairs the Advisory Committee for the breakthrough star shot initiative, and is former chair of the board on physics and astronomy of the national academy. Author of eight books booe than 1000 scientific papers, he is elected fellow of the American Academy of arts a
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