translated we came here, left our homes, rice, we came here to save our lives, if we have no peace, then its better to die. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff denial and defense. The president s soninlaw offered both today, in the russia investigation. He spoke privately, for senate staffers, and publicly, for reporters. Our coverage begins with john yang. Yang outside the white house west wing, Jared Kushner did something he rarely does speak to reporters. Let me be very clear i did not collude, nor know of anyone else in the cam
Mr. Nichols thanks very much, andrew. It to begin with thanks dont even know if they are in the room but they have been amazing for the work behind the scenes. I have been getting a lot of plaudits for my work. They are doing the work. He is probably in the back room interviewing someone for us. I want to set the state the stage with woodrow wilson. There are some places where maybe this is a little sketchy and we can think about this without me finetuning my own argument. So, on january 8, 1918, woodrow to thewalks purposefully center of the capitol to address a joint session of congress. Much of his cabinet had not been consulted about what was to become the most important foreignpolicy speech of his career. It is among the most important foreignpolicy pronouncement is in u. S. History, nicknamed the 14 points, his enumeration of 14 points he deemed essential to creating a lasting peace. We are all fairly aware of this. Once lofty, idealistic, strategically vague, along with the expe
For this election year. We will get started with sanford. Please turn off your cell phones. Afterwards we will have time for q and a and have an opportunity to go to the book signing tend where you can meet tim wu and pick up a copy of his new book the attention merchants, which is an outstanding and really quick read with a lot of Amazing Stories about the battle for oman. I enjoyed reading it. When you purchase the book you support an outstanding offer, you support the texas book festival and Public Libraries across texas. Join me in welcoming tim wu. [applause] glad to have you here, thanks for being here. Lets start broadly as we focus our attention on the attention merchants. Layout for us your overall thesis and what you want us to take away. I will do that but not before saying i love my brother lived here when we were younger. Richard gary out who is a native and i just love it. Every time i arrive the first 20 minutes i walk around and im reminded of that movie slacker. Always
Kissinger just rolls off the tongue. It is like lennon mccartney, nixonkissinger. At the time that would not have made any sense. It was a really unorthodox choice at the time. Nixon violated almost every rule in the book. The president should have a strong personal relationship with his security advisor. The National Security adviser, the textbook should say should be loyal to the president and party. What was very close to nelson rockefeller, nixons main rival. Third, given the jobs almost impossible responsibilities of managing diplomacy, military power, intelligence, and all this National Security policy, advisorbook says the should have considerable government experience. Yet his entire professional life had been spent in academia. Those are almost the exceptions that prove the rule. This is a weird choice that nixon made. Even more so, does anyone member the name bill rogers . One knows who bill rogers was. At the time when nixon text nixon picked rogers as secretary of state he
Generations of women and men who struggled and sacrificed and made this moment possible. Kennedy its so beautiful. What is she talking about standing under a glass ceiling. 8 years ago when she made that speech it was better. If its still there, she hasnt done her job. What should have been bernies california dreaming turned into california screaming. He lost by double digits in the golden state which did nothing to dampen his illusion as the nutty professor vowed to press on. We are going to fight hard to win the primary in washington, d. C. Then we take our fight for social, economic, racial and Environmental Justice to philadelphia, pennsylvania. Kennedy oh, that philadelphia. Dont stop believein, bernie. If this historymaking foe is stuffed in a meat wagon, somebody will have to stand by to pick up the pieces of hillarys shattered dreams. We did get another taste of the bloody general election last night. And this shaved crimson will give us just a taste of hillary and donald and t