Thank you. [applause] the writers festival continues now with a discussion on us president ial elections with Arthenia Joyner and historians mark and morley. Karl rove, your moderator. [applause] good morning. What a pleasure to be here to talk about some of the most important subjects that are on everybodys mind. Today we are going to have a wonderful opportunity to talk to three outstanding experts about the election that changed our history. Somebody who once worked on many campaigns, i will be fascinated to hear the assessment of my colleagues here. Lets start with you, hw. How these we should be looking at transformation as an overarching theme for discussion, president ial leadership . When i think about a. Elections i talk about two categories, those elections whose importance is not known until after the election because the election sets up certain conditions, brings in a certain officeholder and things happen. The election of 1942 where Franklin Roosevelt becomes president an
It is 202 7488000. If you live in the pacific time zone, it is 202 7488001. If you want to give us an email journal cspan. Org. Host i want to point you to a poll that was done, democratic voters taking a look at 2016 and two people would support if the election took place. Hillary clinton getting the top honors with 51 of those democrats even their support to her. Bernie sanders, 17 . Vice President Joe Biden not declared to run for the residency, garnering 13 . Jim webb followed at 1 , as well as Martin Omalley. The Des Moines Register lead story this morning, takes a look at that event that took place in cedar rapids, the five candidates talking to democrats there. The headline linton and sanders rev up audience. To tell us a little bit more about the events that took place last night and who was there covering it, and neither kumar she is there white house correspondent. Good morning. Guest thanks for having me. Host tell us a little bit about why this event takes place. Guest it i
And we are contacting everyone we can. We are trying to go back at least 24 hours to find out who people had contact with. Ed police are still waiting on toxicology results for the little boy. Family members were in court today, but did not speak. Jc new data shows Substance Abuse is the number one factor in child abuse and neglect cases in massachusetts. The herald reporting Substance Abuse was a factor in 30 of the nearly 48,000 reports of neglect investigated between march and september. It was in march that dcf started mandating social workers to track Substance Abuse in these specific cases. The data does not outline which specific substances were used. Ed Hillary Clinton campaigning in miami today and with 30 days left, she debuted a new supporter her husbands old running mate, al gore. Newscenter 5s janet wu reports the former Vice President desperately needs voters to hear. Janet its been a rocky relationship since they left the white house but now the stakes are too high for d
Peninsula. We dont want someone our issue today to be someones problem tomorrow. Reporter the select committee has come up with a list of recommendations. Some are uncontroversial, like shift something flights and Populated Areas over the peninsula to open water on the east side of the bay. Consider a plan to require planes to require at higher altitudes over the city of woodstock, that would reduce noise until those same planes dive down to a low her altitude as they approach the airport, meaning more noise for someone else. Every time we make a move, the noise will be moved, but if its moved, is it bad . Reporter the flight path was studied, creating super highways in the sky, and residents living under those flight paths have complained by the thousands and now searching for st. Louis that spare both them and their neighbors from nonston noise. The flight traffic is at a level today as never before, and as a result, just like were dealing with the traffic on the ground at 101 and on
And effective Death Penalty reform act which made it nearly impossible to use habeas corpus to free innocent prisoners. Despite all of the setbacks come 2002 was a blockbuster year for the Innocence Movement. 25 people were exonerated by dna testing. Still the highest number of dna exonerations in any one year to date. Teenage exonerations became part of the public consciousness and people starte are starting to understand that the system made mistakes. It also is a big year for mike mcalister. People have forgotten about him, but his mom wrote to frank green, reporter at the Richmond Times dispatch who began writing about his case. A new lawyer also signed on to help mike and defiled a partners petition within Virginia Governor mike warner. Virginia was no stranger to the problem of wrongful convictions and had seen its share of eyewitnesses but in 2003, mikes petition was denied. The governors staff said they would be one thing if my cat dna evidence, but he didnt. From 20032013, 187