Mr. Jon meacham, this book came out in august, congressman lewis passed in july, how long have you been working on this . Is a tricky question to answer, on one level it was 28 years, another level it was about six months. I met congressman lewis in 1992 during a Senate Runoff down in georgia, i was a reporter for the chattanooga times. Began kind of a running episodic about running conversation that we had over the ensuing three decades. I really decided to do it when i was standing with my family and Speaker Pelosi and congressman lewis and about a thousand other people on the pettus bridge in march and i realized watching the congressman that this was almost certainly his last trip there. I very much wanted to pay tribute to him but also wanted to hang a lantern on what had driven him to that bridge as a young man. As an example, and exemplum of how religious faith can be essential to political activists. Did he know you are working on this entity sit down with you . We talked a lot
In august 1 9452 atomic bombs were dropped on the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki and. To this day opinion remains divided as to the real reason behind americas decision to use Nuclear Weapons with no possible military justification for dropping a bomb i have no question that there were those in the us military who pursued the next its the snow here in the planning in october of 1945 had chosen 20 targets in russia in the 70 years since the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki countless books and films have off the many just of occasions for and arguments against dropping the avons however declassified documents give weight to the arguments that the bombs were dropped not so its a military necessity to intimidate the soviet union. The 1st ever atomic bomb to be used in wall was in the city if there is steam on the 6th of august 945 well over 100000 citizens were killed those in the hype a sense of what instantly turned into dust while countless others died from the burns and hi
Getting back to work versus the Public Health interests here billions upon billions of new debt has been issued, as companies try to fortress their cash hoards. Well talk about the big debt bomb that may be looming and later, the cleveland fed president horror retrloretta me join us to talk recovery and whether the rates are really on the table or not cannot wait for it. Tyler, thanks. Its the financials and the Energy Sectors which are leading the declines again today for more on the selloff, lets get to Robert Pisani hi, bob. Hello, there. And two buckets here this is about the reopening and its about questions on the valuation of the market and the big rally weve had. 60 of the losses weve regained here thats whats going on here. And you can see it in the sectors. Tylers absolutely right banks just having a horrible week were down like 13 for the banks this woke. This week the russell 2000 is getting clobbered. Retail has been drifting lower as well. Energy down about 8 or 9 , resum
Heres lucy bronze what a goal pride of england the lionesses reach the world cup semi finals with a 3 0 win over norway its coming home. This was the scene at glastonbury where festival goers watched the match on the big screens demolished an explosive end of the remains of the bridge in genoa which collapsed last year, killing 43 people good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. Theresa may will demand justice for the victims of the salisbury nerve agent attack during a meeting which is getting underway with Vladimir Putin at the 620 summit injapan. In an interview with the Financial Times, the russian president has downplayed the poisoning and said he believed the uk was interested in fully restoring relations with the kremlin. The Prime Minister has been speaking to our deputy political editorjohn pienaar. We saw an innocent british citizen die as a result of the use of this nerve agent. Weve been clear. Weve set out the evidence. Charges have been laid against two russian indiv
Part of its freedom and progress conference in washington, d. C. [applause] good morning, everyone. I am the president of the foundation and i wanto welcome you to the 2023 editn of the conferce. I thought we would lead with a speech. It is a speech we have all heard, especially in clips. So many amazing elements of that speech resonate with us today. It will become clear why i waed for us to watch that address. There is lot to think about that relates to what we are trying to accomplish over the next two days. Why do we call this the freedom and progress conference . We call it freedom and progress inspired by a speech Frederick Douglass gave in 1870. He was asked by a bunch of newly freed slaves, what should we do . Should we only vote for republicans . Should we feel free to vote for democrats when we want to . Frederick douglass said, look, you should vote your conscience but because that is what we fought for. We fought for people to be able to vote for whichever party they want t