Report recorded this conversation. You might recognize my voice, because in previous life streams, im usually the guy behind the camera, and im reading questions from our audience as they come in so that we can directly engage with you while were talking to our first person interpreter actor bill barker, who portrays Thomas Jefferson. We wanted to do Something Different this week. Given the National Conversation and given events all around us, we know that 2020 has been a challenging year. Monticello has been closed for months. We reopen this weekend millions all over the country are actively fighting for equity against different forms of racial injustice, whether its racially motivated Police Violence or racially motivated monuments, memories. Its a conversation that we must engage in. And working here at monticello, we are a site of memory, and monticello is a plantation where over 400 people were enslaved. Today we decided that, to have a conversation, we would do something we haven
I am the rector of st. Johns church, and i am thrilled that our friends at the White House Historical association asked us to provide space for tonights conversation. Stewart asked if i would share a little bit about the history of this very historic room that you are sitting in tonight and so i will share with you that this church was completed in 1816. The architect was Benjamin Henry latrobe. Not only did he design this church, he was working on rebuilding the white house after it was destroyed by the british in the war of 1812, and in 1818 he built Decatur House which is now the home of the White House Historical association and if you go inside the Decatur House and you look up, you see a very similar entrance. It is almost like a miniature of this dome that we have in our church space and the Original Church was built as a greek cross. So it was an even four sides and just six years later in 1822, they expanded the Church Building to make room for more seating. We dont know who t
Already kids across the country are getting the day off. And at least six people have died as wildfires chase across several states. Storm chairses say why they get so close to it . Get the word out and save peoples lives. Thats why i do it. I thrive on that. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Theres no comment from the cia after wikileaks publish as what it says are files on the cia program. The alleged hat they tell adversaries and well have to start over to build tools just like we did with snoelden. Former director Michael Haden defended the hacking tools. There are people out there you want us to spy on. You want us to have the ability to actually turn on that listening device inside the tv to learn that persons intentions. This is a wonderful capability. You give the Intelligence Community 53 billion a year. You ought to get something for your money. Supports the plan, but there is growing r
Are getting the day off. And at least six people have died as wildfires chase across several states. Storm chairses say why they get so close to it . Get the word out and save peoples lives. Thats why i do it. I thrive on that. Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Theres no comment from the cia after wikileaks publish as what it says are files on the cia program. The alleged cia Hacking Program targets everything from smartphones to internet connected tvs. Theres so far no suggestion the program is being used against americans, but if verified, the breach has severely undermined cia tactics and targets. Jeff pegues has our reports. Reporter wikileaks claims the stolen data came from a former u. S. Government hacker or contractor. It reveals espionage tools that can take over internetconnected smart tvs and record audio. It also citeds abilities to hack iphones or Google Android smartphones. They can
sex with their slave masters, this is a personal justice. when you look at the fact that public monuments are supported by public funds, you are asking me to subsidize thomas jefferson? the public should not be pained to oppose somebody who has that background. juan: this is where i jump off the ship, because to me thomas jefferson, sally hennings, and all of the people that you want to talk about, founding father, thomas jefferson, he has written into the document some things that i find heartwarming, in fact, inspiring to this day. so i don t see that. but now i listen to him, jesse, and he has a black person in america feels personally offended that he has to pay to support this man s monument. what do you think? jesse: i think we found the one thing that al sharpton does not want the government to spend money on. we found it. listen, if there is a statue of anybody that sins, then we have