Next on American History tv historians discuss the effect of media and technology on 20th century politics. Topics include the governments impact on Silicon Valley and Artificial Intelligence and Cable Television. The talk was part of a duty Purdue University conference called remaking american political history. It is an hour and a half. Good morning and welcome to the Media Technology and state panel. This is part of a larger two day session called remaking american political history. We are all talking about history and how its going to be talked and consumed over the years. This conference is sponsored by the department of history here at Purdue University and is organized but one of the panelists. Thank you katie and also by nikki and leah. We are thankful to them to get into this to discuss this issue of how history is going to be taught in the future. Im managing director of the center for cspan scholarship and engagement. We are a fairly new entity in the school of communicatio
Use e coverage can continues from des moines, iowa. Corn on a stick, pork on a stick, deepfried oreos, any kind of eyes scream or drink you would imagine. Its all available at the iowa state fair. We hope by now youre getting hungry for some of the food out there at the state fair, which continues for the next week or so. You can go to the iowa state fair website for more information. The admission fee is about nine dollars for an adult. We will be back live. Next from yesterday, california senator Kamala Harris. The state fair. On the soapbox. Im so excited to be here and thrilled and i just want to thank everyone here because this is one of the Great American traditions. And this is really about what we know about who we are and so i just want to thank you all. Good morning. Good morning. Its great to be with you. Lets just get started. Ive only got 20 minutes. I could go on for hours but ive got 20 minutes so here it is. Know this is an inflection moment in the history of our countr
Normal. We cannot grow accustomed to this kind of disgraceful behavior. We cannot look at the poor behavior of already confirmed nominees and conclude that we should lower our standards when it comes to miss blanchards nomination. This is the United States senate, supposedly the worlds greatest deliberative body. We should examine the fitness and qualification of every single individual nominated to be the face of america in nations across the world. We should expect our ambassadors to represent the United States with dignity, respect, and sound judgment. And we should remember that americas role as a leader of nations rests on our moral standards and greatest values. Something is wrong if we willingly confirm people to these positions who repeatedly spread fake news, baseless slander, and the most despicable of conspiracy mongering. For these reasons, i will be opposing the nomination of Lynda Blanchard, and i urge my colleagues to do the same. With that, i yield the floor. The presid
And restoring power sharing. And coming up on the programme well hear from a climate scientist in denmark about how the effects of last weeks heatwave are reaching as far as greenland, which is home to the worlds second largest ice sheet. Good evening. An inquiry has found that hundreds of children were sexually abused while in council care in nottinghamshire by the very people who were supposed to be caring for them. And the abuse went on for more than four decades. 350 people came forward and said they had been physically or sexually abused but the inquiry says the true number of victims is likely to be much higher. The damning report said the councils had failed in their duty to protect children in their care and still hadnt learned from their mistakes prompting concern about some children in care now. Our Midlands Correspondent sima kotecha reports. For some, it was here where the nightmares began, at beechwood childrens home, where Vulnerable People who were supposed to be protect
Immigrants. Good evening, President Trump said millibe deported in the operation. Hearing that authorities only made a handful of arrests. Reporter while a truly epic raid never came to be, the impact on the targets of those potential raids was, as well as the people who support them, they had a large impact, too. At oaklands our lady of lourdes parish, because some of the parishioners are undocumented, a desk was set up to help them understand the laws, especially what they can do if ice agents come knocking. The whole church was built on its diversity, and going back more than 200 years, is shaken, and concerned. A lot of fear, there were people who were monitoring phone banks recently, and calling a lot of the hispanic population, and they didnt even want to talk on the phone. Many of them were crying on the phone. Beyond the church, the fear is felt at the street level, where in opal councilperson has had volunteers help them clean streets in his neighborhood for the last seven yea