His work has appeared in the New York Times, salon and many other publications. He is the Elizabeth Morris Political Science at Windsor College in oregon in portland, tonight he presents his new book the fire is upon us, James Baldwin, William Buckley junior and the debate over race in america. Please join me in welcoming nicholas buccola. [applause] thank you. Really appreciate that introduction. I want to start by saying how special it is to me to be with you. I live 3 blocks from here for 5 years when i was in graduate school and i would come to romans every wednesday with my mom kathy who is sitting here and my late cousin kathy martin and we would go to lemley and see a movie and it is special for me to be here tonight. Tonight i am going to talk to you about something that happened in this space, february 18, 1865. February 18, 1965, 54 years ago. This space was filled with 700 people. Every spot on the benches was taken that people sitting on the floor in deep violation of the f
It is monday, may 13th. This is Fox And Friends. Fox news alert. Michael cohen is set to take the stand today in trumps new york criminal trial. Cnns the case is politically motivated. I doubt the new york indictment would have been brought against a defendant whose name is not donald trump. Brian really . Is that a cut from our show. Bi trump leading biden in ba battleground states. Lawrence and providing homeless alcoholics with more alcohol. What could go wrong . Brian fantastic, dont get them help, get them liquor. Stay drunk. Steve final hour of Fox And Friends starts now. Remember, mornings are better with friends. Ainsley fox news alert. Star witness in former President Trumps criminal trial Michael Cohen ignores reporters on his way to court, where he will take the stand in an hour ever. Brian shortest cameraman ever. Steve we saw Michael Cohen take off and you probably saw him pull up. He has arrived in downtown manhattan. He has lied under oath before. He hopes the jury will
This hour, we continue to monitor the repulsive antiisrael protests on around the country. Last night, far left riotersit in new york city burned an american flag. They also vandalized a worldno war one memorial. Meanwhile, new yorks governor, kathy hochul, was caught on tape saying, well, something downright degradinggradin about African Americans. Were going to play that tape coming Ug Africay Thatp in. As democrats try to demagogue abortion. Well, guesabortions what . Were going to introduce you to one of the most prolife senatorsroduce to grace the halh of capitol hill. That persons name, joe biden. Weve got the record now, of course, joe has since flushed his deeply held, quote, catholic beliefs down the drain to appease the radical base that now makes his party just like he abandoned israel to appease the Radicatl Marxistsis that make up the radicals that run the party. Run the now, the full story is p up straight ahead. We do Begin Tonighstraightt Witn In A Manhattan courtroom w
And 13,000 residents who have evacuated their homes. The fires have now jumped a highway being used as a containment line that stretches across some 60,000 acres north of San Francisco. Adrian beltran for Texas Rangers scored the third cycle of his career hitting a home run in the fifth inning as the human masters. Only the third player, first since the 1930s to hit a single, double, triple and home runs at three different times in his career. An incredible and wild scene out of bulgaria were a soccer game called a friendly turn not so friendly. A visiting team from israel was chased from the field by fans. Unbelievable video throwing bottles and all kinds of other stuff. No word on any injuries. Back to our top story this morning. And election 2016 alert. Fox news that with the numbers leading to thursdays gop debate and Donald Trump Holding a commanding lead over his competition. The billionaire businessman continuing to gain ground. Also the highest level of support in the history o
Interoperability with our allied brethrens. When it comes to migration especially from the caribbean, do you support the feet dry policy . How have recent diplomatic efforts in cuba likely to affect that . Ill let you draw your conclusions. We have brandnew response cutters. They are great platforms. There was an expectation that a migration policy was going to change around christmas. It didnt but that was the perception back in cuba so we had a spike in migration. We were able to apprehend almost every one of those boats destined for the florida coastline. But then it takes five days to go through a screening process before these folks are brought back to cuba. Within the last two weeks we had two my grants that shot themselves, then were medevacd before we apprehended them so they were medevacd back to the United States. We have others that will selfmutilate to do whatever it takes to get their feet dry in the United States. Meanwhile our crews are trying to safeguard these folks fo