Author of the book the revolution of 28 al smith, american progressivism and the coming of the new deal. His Progressive Coalition paved the way for franklin roosevelt. Good evening, everyone. Im really delighted to be able to see all of you here tonight and welcome you all here to our talk for this evening. On behalf of the History Department here, welcome, to our evenings talk. Were able to hold this talk thanks to the generous funding of the history fund which is supporting this event. And let me jump straight to introducing our speaker for the evening. Our speaker for this evening is dr. Robert chiles. Hes a graduate of town send university where he studied music and found the true faith and began a ph. D. In history which he completed at the university of maryland in 2012. And the talk that hes going to be giving this evening is the result of that ph. D. Dissertation, i do believe, yes. He has in the course of this particular research, the research for this project, hes received a
Biden, Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren sanders impressive victory leaves the rest of the field in a scramble to stop him as the race turns to South Carolina we are live in las vegas and we will get into all of it with chuck todd then the remarkable story this morning of a couple who went out for a hike on valentines day and got lost along the way. They were missing for eight days with no food or water. But somehow managed to survive until a stunned search party found them alive well tell you how they did it. And later, a special twopart sunday sitdown, a rare interview with al pacino on everything from the godfather and scarface, to the irishman and hunters. Plus a cruise around Beverly Hills with an American Icon riding shotgun. Were making a film called willie and al. Go see it. An extended sunday sitdown with al pacino is just ahead. And then a story of community as one town rallies to save a local restaurant and the beloved owner. All that, plus another life well lived a bit la
The thought of my. Being on a place. Called war zone by the end of the day its shocking. Also coming up spains socialist Prime Minister wins a confidence vote in parliament by 2 votes his power to lead a minority government will be anything but garang day. You have achieved a vote and more favor from a simple majority of the members of the chamber yes the confidence is just out on the candidate mr Pedro Sanchez has cast a hole and. Sank him better just to point. To our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world well we begin the day another day with Unanswered Questions about why the u. S. President gave the order to kill a top iranian general today u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei of offered no new information about u. S. Intelligence that trump claims warned of an imminent attack by iran inside iran another tragedy time to the death of general cause some solo money today more than 50 people were killed in a stampede as crowds gathered along the funeral proc
Iranian general on the turn then deadly rescuers worked to save some of those crushed in a stampede claimed more than 50 lives during the procession of my meat was buried her days of nationwide morning. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us at least 170 people have died after a ukrainian passenger jet crashed in iran Iranian State media say the boeing 737 came down shortly after takeoff due to suspected technical problems the plane was on its way from irans capital tehran to the ukrainian capital kiev and was operated by Ukrainian International airlines all passengers and crew aboard the plane were killed. Well for more on the plane crash im joined by aviation expert Jeffrey Thomas from Perth Australia geoffrey what more do we know about this incident. Look at the moment terry that is theres very little dots that we do have some vision taken by an iranian citizen. After the plane took off it appears to be on fire then theres a small or a piece of the a small explosion that a f
Went down shortly after takeoff authorities suspect mechanical problems caused the crash. Iran claims it has killed more than 80 americans. At u. S. Military targets in iraq the missiles reportedly hit 2 bases the Assad Air Base in western iraq and another near the city of the u. S. Defense Department Says its still assessing the full extent of the damage irans revolutionary guard says the attack was in retaliation for the u. S. Assassination of general. On friday. Lets cross over now to tehran where were joined by journalist raiser cost a. Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been speaking this morning what his he said about the attack. Well the leader. Referred to the attack as a slap in the face of the u. S. On the cement the on the line. Should be used instead it was just a slob and as a. Revenge is still coming many speculated that there will be more military attacks on u. S. Bases or interests but he later explains that he meant the manger event is to take the u. S. Tr