Symposium looking at mr. Madisons war. This is about okay. First i want to announce following our next presentation, we will take a tenminute break. Our next speaker will be speaking about mr. Madison will have to put on his armor, coburn and the capture of washington. Steve vogel is the author of through the perilous fight and the pentagon history. Hes a veteran journalist who wrote for the Washington Post until 2014. Most recently covering the treatment of veterans from the wars in afghanistan and iraq. His reporting about the war in afc was part of a package of the Washington Post stories that was selected as a finalist for the 2002 pulitzer prize. He covered the september 11th attack on the pentagon, and also covered the fall of beryl of the berlin wall. Hes actually currently working on a project on the history of berlin during the cold war, so maybe he has gone back in hi mind at least to the fall of berlin. A graduate of the college of william and mary with a degree in governmen
The White House Historical association and mount pelee or hosted this event mount pelier hosted this event. He was called the dean of 1812 scholarship by the new yorker. He has written seven books on the conflict, most notably, the war of 1812, a forgotten conflict, available in a bicentennial edition. His book on Andrew Jackson and the battle of new orleans is forthcoming from Johns Hopkins university press. Editor of ackey is fine series of monographs. We welcome professor don hickey. [applause] thanks for that introduction. About thed to talk politics of the war of 1812. You should have a handout in your folder with a little thatne and a few books will provide Additional Information if you would like to read a little bit more on this. Presentation an act of inconceivable folly and desperation. American politics and the war of 1812. This is part of a quote from the massachusetts house of representatives in a report adopted a little more than a week after the declaration of war. It ca
Were going to talk to one woman in a moment who may be trapped with nine others and a few dogs as well, all the way until the weekend. Thats when rescuers may be able to come. A Basketball Team was stuck on a bus for 25 hours. Well talk to some of them. A baby was born at a firehouse. They are dad joins us tonight. As we said, seven people have died in this storm. Again, there is more snow coming. Much, much more. Well get the details from chad myers in a moment and bring you some remarkable stories from people who are caught in a lot of different ways in the middle of all this. Martin savidge is outside right now in the middle of it all. Martin, youve had a reprieve from the snow for most of the day. How is it right now . Reporter its starting to turn again, anderson. Good evening to you. The wind is beginning to pick up. Thats always the concern when youre locking about lakeeffect snow. It is starting to blow and that means the snow machine will turn on and thats why you get these in
For interrogation tactics the president himself has described as torture. Do those details warrant going back and reexamining whether people should be prosecuted . Decisions about prosecution are made by career federal prosecutors at the department of justice. The Justice Department says the federal prosecutors who looked into the program wont be launching a new investigation. Based on the report from the Senate Intelligence committees democratic chair, dianne feinstein, trial or no trial, the c. I. A. Has big names coming to its defense, from former Vice President dick cheney who blasted the report on fox news. I think its a terrible piece of work, we did exactly what needed to be done in order to catch those who were guilty on 9 11 and to prevent a further attack and we were successful on both parties. This report says its not successful. The report is full of crap. What stunned me about the report most was the fact that it was written in the way it was written. Its an unrelenting pr
Callout to try to put an officer at each and every one of these corners, we are told by coned that power is being restored in parts of the city, but not in all. Eric shaun my colleague on weekends Fox News Channel was out on street at the news concerns not only listening to them give the report when have the power would come back on but witnessed some power coming back on elicited quite cheer why new yorkers here, it was shocking to me that they talked a lot about the power would come back on hoping to get the power back on, by midnight, but they still dont really understand why this happened. Reporter yeah, when lights went on middle of that News Conference covering live in Fox News Channel you harder that cheer erupt neighbors on 64th street i can tell you leyland they represent nursing home of thousands of people here in new york city tonight, cheering that lights final went back own, but as you said, they are dont know the compact cause there are two transformers let me show you on