Azerbaijan and armenia. It a territorial dispute with the potential of allout war that could pit russia against turkey. And germanys jews Mark Yom Kippur at a synagogue amid the ongoing rise of antisemitism. Im brent goff. To our viewers on pbs and in the united states, and to all of you around the world, welcome. We begin tonight with the tax history donald trump did not want the world to see. The New York Times has gained access to tax documents from the u. S. President going back 20 years. The information paints an unflattering picture of a man deeply in debt and using questionable means to avoid taxes. According to the report, trump paid no federal income tax in 10 of the last 15 years. The president has dismissed the allegations, calling them fake news. This bombshell report hitting on the people on the peve of the first president ial debate. Reporter we have heard this line of defense from the president before. Fake news. Totally fake news. Made up. Fake. Reporter but with less t
And we include kraft thanks for joining us the black hole that is president Donald Trumps personal finances is seeing a little more light along investigation by the New York Times suggests the selfproclaimed billionaire and business genius may actually face a financial nightmare of loans bad deals and unpaid tax totally hundreds of millions of dollars and that bill is coming due democrats say trumps loss making Business Ventures could pose a National Security risk now trump denies any wrongdoing as he looks to facing his opponent joe biden at tuesdays 1st president ial debate. Reactions to the New York Times scoop the slick to the deep divisions that are evident across america in this Election Year for 30 because i pay way more than that in quarterly tax payments and im a Business Owner so i think it will affect the election probably not because theres been way worse accusations against him before and people havent cared if the premise if not true is not true you know why now. Why now
Tonights program has been a long time in coming. David was originally scheduled to be here in february, but was grounded byebye bad weather. Kansas city library programming, its the latest in our series with the u. S. Army command of general staff in ft. Leavenworth. But it also comes in the middle of the librarys partnership from january through may with the eisenhower president ial library and foundation in abilene. And its on the Dwight Eisenhower exhibit thats up on the second floor gallery. We had a series of programs running on Dwight Eisenhower. The next one is next wednesday. Tonight we focus on icen how are and George Marshall. The army chief of staff who targeted ike for advancement as a military officer, keen eye for talent. Among others with ike, he spied george patent and omar bradley. And he became one of ikes primary mentors as the army chief of staff from 1939 to 1945. Marshall, of course, went onto become the secretary of state and win a Nobel Peace Prize. David mills
Government. Good afternoon, everyone. How are you all doing . Our topic for today is the second part of our civil war content for this semester. And i want to talk today about Economic Policy and social events that are tied to the economy. I have kind of titled this, feeding the confederacy. We will focus most of our attention on the Confederate States and we will talk about the crucial issue of how you make sure that your soldiers and your civilians have enough to eat over the course of the war. There are two key ironies of this confederate experience for me. And that historians who study the confederacy really point to. One is that the Confederate States of america is a predominantly agricultural nation. We have talked about this before. The vast majority of the population in the union and the confederacy are people who live on farms. But especially in the Confederate States. We are dealing with a population that is overwhelmingly people who live on farms. And yet they will struggle
Agriculture. Nations ive talked about this before, the vast majority of the population are people who live on farms. Especially in the confederate states. Youre dealing with the population that is overwhelmingly people who live on farms. And yet, they will struggle to feed themselves. More often they will run out of our moments. This is surprising when you think of agriculture nation. The second big irony here, is that the foundations of the confederacy, the documents and the secession documents, before they join the confederate say, we want in limited government with more power to the states. Yet, the confederate government is going to become stronger, and more invasive than any Government People had seen to this point. In order to wage war, and try to feed everyone. Two key ironies, we are going to talk about how they come about. A flash point for this question of how you feed everyone is a series of riots. In the spring of 1863. In the confederacy, most notably in the capital city o