There is a press conference being held. Were listening live. Every level has been extraordinary. At the end of our comments, the fbi special agent in charge, mr. Reinhold, will answer a few questions. Please understand that due to the nature of this ongoing investigation, we will not be able to answer all of your questions. Please identify your self and your organization you represent when you ask a question. As this involves an ongoing investigation, no further regular press briefings are scheduled after today unless information becomes available that can be shared with the public. You will be notified in advance of any releases of Upcoming Press briefings by the United States attorneys office. Autria these are officials from the fbi and the states attorneys office. They are in tennessee. We will listen in on this and bring you new developments as soon as they become available. We will get you right back to it. In the meantime, the terror and tennessee has prompted officials in severa
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Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. Supported by the rockefeller foundation. Promoting the wellbeing of humanity around the world by building resilience and inclusive economies. More at rockefellerfoundation. Org Carnegie Corporation of new york. Supporting innovations in education, democratic engagement, and the advancement of International Peace and security. At carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan the nations new attorney general has spent this day under growing fire. And now, Jeff Sessions says someone else will oversee an investigation of russian meddling in the election, and of contacts between the Trump Campa
Where the biggest radio industry in the world was created, up to broadway. Thats where the entertainment is. Thats where bing crosby is. Thats where jack benny is. His lifelong rival, and they were truly lifelong rivals, tsarnaev with bill paley. Paley is the son of very rich cigar making family. The family started in the ukraine. By the time they moved from chicago to philadelphia, they had made it. He went to wharton school. His dad basically bought him the station. He hated him for that. And he dated nonjewish girls. These two guys would battle for supremacy in radio, television, and then Color Television for the next half century. Its paley who links it permanently to advertising. The only business in the country supported entirely by advertising. Somebody wrote him a letter and said im getting this great entertainment, great music, who do i pay. Nobody. Paid for by advertising. And paley then hooks up with Duke Ellington. In 1928, he signs up washington, d. C. s Duke Ellington who
Engendering america, and most recently relentless reformer, Josephine Roche and progressivism in 20th Century America, published in 2015. That book is available for purchase in signing after the session. It is on that subject, Josephine Roche, we will hear from robyn muncy today. Robyn . Thank you so much to christian and eric and the Woodrow Wilson center for inviting me to speak and thank you to amanda and peter for taking care of the logistics. Im delighted by the opportunity to launch this biography of Josephine Roche at the Wilson Center because i spent an absolutely glorious year of fellowship here in 20072008. Came back in the summer of 2009, spent that summer is a Public Policy scholar. It feels really good to bring this finally completed work to an institution that did so much to nurture it. I thought i would begin by explaining how it happened that i spent a decade of my life researching and writing the biography of a woman nobody has ever heard of. [laughter] it all started