Impeachment story told by john f. Kennedy in his 1957 book profiles in courage. This event was part of a symposium on reconstruction hosted by the u. S. Capitol historical vosociety. Brook thomas is a professor in the English Department at the university of california at irvine. I think you just took emeritus status, which means he has more time to write and more time to talk and more time to educate all of us. Im honored that he has come here again. He was here a couple years ago. Im honored that he is back today. Thank you. I have about 25 minutes so i hope we have time for question and answer. But were moving towards the end. Reconstruction stayed alive in the popular memory largely through its portrayal in popular media. I want to look at the politics of the portrayals of Andrew Johnsons impeachment. My primary works are the clansman, the film tennessee johns johnson. My thesis is that these works portrayal radical reconstruction as misrule reenforced highly held belief that althou
Our weeklong look at political podcasts continues with fox news digital politics editor chris tire will, cohost host good morning. 8, 2019. Rsday, august the flags at the capital remain at halfstaff today following the shootings in dayton and el paso. We begin our conversation with gun owners. Any,nt to know what, if gun restrictions you support. If you are a gun owner who does not support any new gun laws, 2027488001. If you are a gun owner who supports new gun laws, 2027488000. You. D thursday morning to hour as weonly this show you the front page of todays usa today. Protesters rallying outside the hospital in dayton, ohio, where President Trump visited shooting survivors on wednesday. Trump opens the door to background checks. The president making that opening in those statements before leaving for el paso. [video clip] i think background checks are important. I dont want to put guns into the hands of mentally unstable people or people with rage or hatred. What about assault rifles
Magazines of the digital era. It is a different format. We take a very different approach. I work for a 24 hour news channel. We are pumping it out around the clock. We look at our podcast as an opportunity to catch up for the week and talk about what is going on. We do it every wednesday. It started out of necessity. They needed somebody to do something for labor day a couple of years ago. Dan and i are friends and we started doing it. Like a lot of new media, when you are doing it the best thing is you dont think anybody is listening and you are too worried about it. So we spent the first year not paying attention to if anyone was listening and use it as an opportunity for friends to catch up. Imagine if your closest friend, you had the opportunity. It was scheduled into your book once a week. I have to talk to this person catch up for an hour. And catch up for an hour. It turned into something that we were really amazed after a while how big a Listener Community was, how popular it
Record temperatures and hate waves in europe the United States and the arctic coincided with a major ice melt in greenland data from scientists at the danish me to a logical institute shows melting on almost 60 percent of greenlands ice sheet that released 197000000000 metric tons of water into the Atlantic Ocean in july we actually now see a. Signal of. Climate change Global Warming the arctic is actually warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world and now theres a very clear signal that is or may is actually driven by too much Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere so as this year 2 increases so should temperatures around the world were going to see more of these type of heat wave. These heat wave events. Behind large wildfires since early june wildfires in the arctic pumped out more than 100000000. 00 tons of Greenhouse Gases thats equivalent to belgiums Carbon Dioxide emissions in a year climate Scientists Say there is still time to limit Global Warming to 1. 5 degrees celsius abo
It was a mean and ugly fight at a time. We know how that turned out. Judge kavanaugh now justice was merely confirmed on a margin of a party vote but it was a memorable fight, so why did you choose to be tell the story at the link form plaques plaques we were both involved in the battles and working on the confirmation covering as journalists, we knew we had a good story and good access and we wanted to lay it down, get the record down so we interviewed more than 100 people including the president and various other people at the white house, several Supreme Court justices, people in the senate and we were so glad we did because this was something that gripped the nation last year and when you are in the moment of it after the dust has settled with were some of the things that happened behind the scenes and we are glad we got to do that. I think for me in particular having clerked for justice thomas, i saw the replay of many of the offense from the types of attacks going on even before