Jack fairweather a former reporter in iraq and afghanistan and the author of a war of choice and the good war. He served as a bureau chief for the Washington Post in afghanistan and interviewing jack today is doctor Robert Jan Van pelt curator and one of the main authorities on the history of auschwitz from 97 to 98 he presided over the team that drew the master plans and participate as an Expert Witness in the case against the british historian and author david irving. Robert has published and served as a historical advisor on numerous films and curator exhibited at 2016. Before we get started i want to make a few quick housekeeping notes. We will have about 15 minutes or so for audience qanda at the end of the round so make sure to hold your questions for the end if you can and we will try to get to as many as possible. This program is being recorded and it will be available on our Youtube Channel within the next few days or so and i will follow up with an email probably tomorrow wit
This week on q a, our guest is margaret macmillan, author of nixon and mao the week that chnaged the world. Cspan margaret macmillan, but if you think a book about nixon and mao would so . Guest my father was a good subject and i love the good storiestoriesof history and thou have two extraordinary personality is with great falls and talent and it was an interesting moment that ended the period but in the United States and china and started Something Else so my next book i wanted to do something manageable has a good story. Cspan did he rely on to tell you what that moment was like . Guest that the documents. Theres a record now of all the transcripts of the first memoirs. Bob haldeman did a diary that is helpful, Henry Kissinger wrote them and thereve been lots of interviews, so i gathered whatever i could from those that have been there. Cspan did you learn anything they dont already know . Guest i learned something i didnt know. I think i learned a great deal more about Richard Nixo
Yesterday do you think the Attorney Sidney Powell did to make needed to do her case before that panel of judges yesterday . Look. It is a difficult case if your focus is simply on the politics of the matter. But if you are looking at the law on the facts in the case, i think she has the stronger side of the facts given that the executive branch is the one that should be determining whether a case goes forward or not. Systemic headline from the Washington Post this morning judges skeptical of shutting down a review of the flynn case. I wonder your reading of the judges reaction and their interaction with the lawyers yesterday . Anytime you are in front of one judge it is difficult as an attorney. But to beip in front of multiple judges at the Appellate Court level that is certainly a challenge. I have been there. You dont know which question is coming, sometimes ive had judges thatns i thought were absently against my position that gave me the hardest time in thehe courtroom. And i left
As we approach MLK Day 2022, it is fitting to examine just a handful of the ways that the housing industry continues to struggle with its participants, both clients and agents, being superficially and unfairly judged by their skin color and race as well as remedies in the works.