Thank you all. Thank you, thank you so much perrys. Went to welcome it to this session on behalf of humanitys tennessee. Tennessee Arts Commission and a built University Thoughts my honor to host the conversation today between two nonfiction authors who have created what reads as fiction. These are non fiction novels. And i can tell you that by the end of them youll either be rooting for the heroes, hating the villains or weeping with relief that justice is finally been done. So let me introduce you to our authors for today. We have an Investigative Reporter with an author writing arguably about the birth of investigative reporting. So let me bring to the stage the author of citizen reporters, ss mcclure, ida tarbell, and the magazine that re grows america, stephanie bolton. And also joining us today chris hanvey who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reports for the New York Times on how some lawyers and doctors rigged the system to deny benefits to coalminer stricken with black lung diseas
Came to do this show you heard about the hacking of twitter, the fact that trump asked out onto facebook get his message out. Facebook got a lot of criticism for a lot of things over the years, and actually wrote a column recently questioning why Mark Zuckerberg has not fact check the president. Tell us your take on this. What is this relationship between facebook and the white house, between facebook and free speech . Im going to throw you a big question to launch you off track you first, thank you for doing this. It is good to connect with you again to some virtual see. Like a lot of things you cant just keys out in the one problem of facebook from its dna and its origins. In the case of trump, obviously he wasnt a factor in the early days. It wasnt something they talked about in the dorm room when they started it up by the time Trump Campaign got rolling in 2015, this became an issue for facebook. It was lathered on top of sort of the messy way they dealt with controversial content.
This is two hours. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to recess the hearing at any time. Beforere we turn to the substance and then members should during these proceedings in light of the cautions by wearing a face cover such as a mask so i urge unless youre speaking to please be wearing a mask. We are also conducting this hearing which affords Additional Space for those who are physically distant so before we get into housekeeping let me give my best wishes to the president and the first lady for a speedy recovery of covid19. We were all quiteor shocked and distressed this morning to learn of their illness and we hope for a speedyy recovery they are very much in our thoughts. The department of Homeland Security leading dhs office of intelligence and analysis referring to the office throughout the hearing left the committee no choice to issue a subpoena for the hearing today from counsel of the client and then the forme
I am the editor of the papers of Thomas Jefferson at monticello. We are here today to talk about jefferson and his correspondents. My moderator will be my steamed colleague who handled questions for us. I will turn it over to her. Thanks, jeff. Can you start by telling us what is your role in working with jeffersons correspondents . Im in charge of a project to produce a total of 24 volumes between 1809 in 1826. I work with a total of ten people to do that. Our job is to take jeffersons letters and papers and produce and authoritative addition for those years that will enable future scholars to rely on that and not have to go back to the originals. So then, what exactly do you do as a documentary editor . One of the most important things is to make it clear what we arent. You hear of a documentary editor and you think either that you are creating them documentaries, and we have in fact have people apply for jobs were baffled at first because the application was all about how they could
Resolution introduced by tim kaine that would limit the president s war powers. Resolution, which is pending before the senate. Before i address the resolution, i want to acknowledge the combat deaths of javier guterrez and sergeant rodriguez, they were both 28yearolds killed last week in afghanistan. While the incident is still under investigation, it appears they were killed by a member of the Afghan Security forces or someone posing as a member of the Afghan Security forces. This is a Security Force that the u. S. Has armed, equipped and trained for 19 years. Sergeant gueterrez leaves behind a wife and children ages 2 through 7. His father was a marine. He had previously deployed to afghanistan. Sergeant guterrez leaves behind a wife, he had previously deployed to afghanistan ten times. I thought it was a misprint when i read it. A 28yearold who previously dploitd to was deployed to afghanistan eight times before 10 times before he was killed at 28. This resolution is about congress