Of a black man at the hands of officers. And japans plan to dispose of radioactive water is being described as an appalling environmental crime. Here as president ial candidates are making their final push to win over voters with just one week before the election crisscrossing the country campaigning in battleground states so far more than 60000000 americans have already voted a record that could lead to the highest voter turnout in a century mike hanna reports. A final for now take week of campaigning before election day President Trump doing a swing through 3 of the states with polls indicate he is neck and neck with joe biden wisconsin michigan and the brusque. Attempting to remove one issue from the agenda at the beginning of the day tweeting Fake News Media is going full on. We are rounding the turn 99. 9 percent. And hes attempting to reset the conversation around an economy he claims to have provided its trouble believe the number one reason that im standing here because of trad
North carolina. For Bernie Sanders, vermont. And right now were looking at alabama with polls are just closing, and that looks like it will be for joe biden. So three of the first four contests that we can comfortably report tonight go to joe biden who little more than, what, 72 hours ago was given up for politically dead. That was then, this is now. Whatever he was able to cobble together even in states that had early voting that came before his stunning performance in South Carolina, well, one of that materialized to be a big worry for him. Were going to be digesting all these numbers besides alabama, just closing right now, the states of maine, massachusetts and oklahoma have also closed. Tennessee, which was to close at this hour because of the hurricane, a lot of folks having difficulty getting to the polls right now, they will, in fact, be allowed to continue looking for places to vote until at least 9 p. M. Eastern time, in some parts of the state up to 11 p. M. Were going to be
Thank you. Welcome. Good afternoon britt and catherine, president of the Massachusetts Historical Society and i am so happy you could be here with us today as we welcome to celebrated historians as they present their coauthored book, and one. The problem of democracy doubtless, many of you here in this room know mhs is home to the adams family papers and an extensive collection largely comprised of correspondences, letters, books, diaries, literary manuscripts, speeches, legal and business papers of both the senior and junior president s adams as well as all the members of this preeminent political dynasty. These documents remain so vital in our efforts to understand the evolution of american democracy, diplomacy and identity. Mhs strives to make the adams papers and our entire 40 million item collection available to anyone with an interest in american life, culture and history and we do it for free. If you have value resource and enjoyed programming like todays talk and you are not an
Doubtless, many of you here in this room know mhs is home to the adams family papers and an extensive collection largely comprised of correspondences, letters, books, diaries, literary manuscripts, speeches, legal and business papers of both the senior and junior president s adams as well as all the members of this preeminent political dynasty. These documents remain so vital in our efforts to understand the evolution of american democracy, diplomacy and identity. Mhs strives to make the adams papers and our entire 40 million item collection available to anyone with an interest in american life, culture and history and we do it for free. If you have value resource and enjoyed programming like todays talk and you are not an mhs supporter i encourage you to do so. Tonight represents one of many programs seminars, exhibitions and workshops that we host. If you dont already have a copy of our new Spring Summer calendar grab one on the way out and its on her website. I want to mention we wi
Bauer, who is my supremely wise, talented, and collegial codirector of the nyu law schools legislative and regulatory process clinic, i wanted to welcome you here today to the fourth year of the Sidley Austin forum. We are joined this year by another nyu law entity, the center on law and security, a nonpartisan, multidisciplinary institute. And the director, richard gold brenner who is here, has been invaluable in helping pull together the program for this afternoon. This forum would not be possible without the generous support of Sidley Austin, a Renowned International law firm. So it gives me great pleasure to introduce peter roskam him, who is a partner in their Chicago Office Company Knows a lot about what we are talking about today. He served his district in illinois in the u. S. House of representatives for six terms, from 20072019. And during that time he held a number of very significant positions. One of those most pertinent to what were talking about today is that he chaired