S p, also slightly down but the nasdaq showing essentially flat to slightly higher. Remember, were just about 15 points away, by the way, on the s ps alltime closing record. We will keep an eye on that. How about this. One of the largest malls in the world opens today in new jersey. Its called the American Dream mall. It will have hundreds of stores, restaurants and indoor Amusement Park with roller coasters, and a 16story ski slope. All sorts of experiences. But it comes at a 1 billion cost to taxpayers. It will likely be a traffic nightmare. Wait until you hear how much it will cost to park there. Yikes meanwhile, President Trump heads to South Carolina later this morning. Hes going to an event on criminal Justice Reform. If the president speaks to reporters, which he likes to do before leaving the white house, you will of course see it right here. Got a lot of news to go at this morning, including those rapidly spreading wildfires in california, and Charles Barkley going after Vice
A conference we will discuss a little more that we discussed in other panels and hopefully a little policy as well. So the broad team with it for this panel which it think weve detected has been true for a lot of immigration stuff since at least this president took over is its a very important issues have been sort of getting shuttled among three branches of the government. In one way were saying you could say each branch of the government is sort of putting they cant any of the persons lapin hoping they can will stop there somewhere. Many of these cans have stopped. This is our job to see where they cans are and where they will finally land. So ill begin this by asking questions of our panelists, more in a conversational style so that we could get too many topics than sort of one issue only for a long time. So let me start with cecilia, because she represents the aclu which many people regard has been the president s thorne side more than any other organization. Organization. Last cou
Coming up well talk with authors based here as we fir learn how the city was chosen as the states capital, and anyone 15 minutes the story of re olds and the auto company he founded in lapsing and then later well take a driving tour of the citys downtown. We begin our special feature as hear about james turner and the found offering lansing. The founding of lansing. James turner was pioneer. It wasnt until the state legislature designated this area as the new capital that he came with these other folks and helped build the capital. State had a slightly more expected, i sincible proven but we daytona that. We had nothing here. There was no transportation. They had several months to build the capital city. That was the very interesting, exciting and unique story of lansings beginning. The legislature established a state in about 1836, about a year before we became a state. They designated detroit as the capital but they were fearful that detroit could be easily attacked from the lake eri
Michigan to learn more about its unique history and literary life. For eight years, we have traveled to u. S. Cities, bringing the book seen to our viewers scene to our viewers. You can see more on cspan. Org citiestour. A pioneer. S it wasnt until the state legislature designated this area camee new capital that he with these other folks and helped build the capital. More states had a slightly sensible approach. We did not do that here. There was no transportation. Was the interesting and unique story of lansings beginning. Established the 1836, a year before it became a state. They designated detroit as the capital, but they were fearful detroit could easily be attacked by lake erie, and they should move the capital inward, but they could not decide where. They put in the constitution that the first session of the legislature of 1848 should be held in the new capital, which should be inland. So, they had 10 years to decide. They waited until they had 10 months left. Statelittle town
You create this very distorted memory of the warrior leaving out emancipation, leading out africanamericans and you are making this all about white people. Thats what they want. Thats ultimately what is important to them, is reestablishing the racial order that has been destroyed by emancipation. I would hope that people would come away from my book and learn from my book just how critical women were during the civil war, just how much the civil war changed gender roles and did that different any energy and south. You can watch this and by visiting cspan2. Org cities tour. Were live all day today from the mississippi book festival. The festival is in its fifth year here in jackson where they offer author discussions in the State Capitol building as well as activities and book sales then capitol grounds. Well be back shortly to Old Supreme Court chimp best with the next author discussion, which will be about civil rights and race in america. This is live booktv on cspan2. Now from our a