Explore our nations past. As a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Good evening and welcome to the third installment of cspans contend series. We look at Williams Jennings bryant. What better way to introduce to you the man than hearing directly from him. Heres a portion of the speech that he delivered at the Democratic National convention back in 1896. Its commonly referred to as the cross of gold speech which led directly to his first run at the white house at the age of 36. We do not come as aggressors. Our war is not a war of conflict. We are fighting into our homes, our families and prosperity. We have petitions, and our petitions have been scorned. We treaties and our treaties have been disregarded. We have begged and they have mocked when our calamity came. We beg no longer. We entreat no more. We petition no more. We defy them. We go forth confident that we shall win. The words of William Jennings bryan coming to you from his home in nebraska. I
Earnest miranda number 18 the rule against weight. Quite often, and many of our famous decisions are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Let us go through a few places that illustrate very dramatically and visually, what it means to live any society of 310 million different people who helped stick together because they believed in the rule of law. Good evening and welcome to cspans landmark cases. Tonight, the 12th and final in our history series. The 1973 roe v. Wade decision, a decision that has continued to rock american Political Landscape 40 years plus after the decision was made. We will learn more about that in the next 90 minutes. First we will start with the cbs evening news report on the night the decision was announced. Lets watch. Good evening, the landmark ruling the Supreme Court today legalized abortions. The cases from texas and your must set the decision to end the pregnancy during the first three months belongs to the woman and her doctor, not the gove
About 250 years that americas time could be up july 4th, the 2026. Yes if we learn from history if we learn nothing else than this is an expiration of eight empires and great nations. The average length is 250 years. Some last longer like the roman empire but they all follow the same pattern of decline and one of the characteristics was Massive National debt the United States is in 23 trillion and growing. Just to the interest alone is greater than the gdp of summations. President trump did not talk about cutting a single Government Program or decrease of the rate of spending this is the only nonpartisan thing that happens in this town you can always get agreement on the second contribution of the decline of great nations of empires is controlled immigration without assimilation. We want people to come to america but we want them to come legally and in an orderly fashion. Meant to be assimilated to become fully american. And then the moral sense contributes to the decline of great nati
Where Michael Bloomberg and senator Amy Klobuchar are nc seeg at the blue celebration event hosted by the North Carolina state Democratic Party. This is a live coverage on cspan. Terrible idea. Let us give it up for your governor, one of the best governors in the United States thankica, roy cooper you, governor. The most important thing we can do for him is to make sure he has a majority in the senate and a majority in the house. And we are going to work sidebyside with your party to make that happen because i look at what is happening the fact that you cannot expand medicaid, governor, is unconscionable. And it is because your state senate and statehouse coming your state senate has accomplished nothing. They are a donothing burger. That is what they are. And we have to move away from the donothing burger to a do something Democratic Senate under president pro tem blue and that is exactly what will happen. Congressman butterfield, congresswoman adams, they need reinforcement. And they
A gunman opens fire on coworkers at a milwaukee brewery, killing five people. This was an unthinkable tragedy for us. Just ahead, what may have sparked the rampage and what were learning about the victims. Neck and neck. Our new poll shows joe biden and Bernie Sanders locked in a tight battle in South Carolina, with just two days until the krcritil primary there. A state that could make or break the former Vice President s campaign. In an exclusive interview the former Vice President tells craig why he is the democrats best hope, not sanders. Americans arent looking for a revolution. Theyre looking for progress. Mr. Vice president , some seem keen on a revolution. All that, plus, winter wllop. Al is tracking a storm with possible blizzard conditions and up to 3 feet of snow. Surprise twist. The new evidence in the College Admissions scandal and why lori laughlins attorneys say it proves her innocent. And its still standing, more than a week after that demolition gone wrong. The push by