A female no, maam on the court provering nothing can slow him down. Nightly news begins right now. Good evening. Just three weeks on the job attorney general Jeff Sessions is caught in a growing political and legal fire storm over his silence about contacts with the russian deputi diplomat. Sessions announced he will step aside from the investigation into russian meddling in the election. It still leaves open why he omitted such contacts during his Senate Confirmation hearing in january. Pete williams is at the department of justice and has details. Pete. Reporter lester, after day of calls from some democrats for him to resign, Jeff Sessions said he has concluded he must bow out of making any decisions involving the investigation of russians attempt to influence the elections. He said he is doing it to avoid the appearance of a conflict. Good morning, mr. Sessions. Reporter the attorney general said he sought the advice of Career Justice Department officials beginning several days ago
Nightly news begins right now. Good evening. Just three weeks on the job, attorney general Jeff Sessions is caught in a growing political and legal fire storm over his silence about contacts with the russian diplomat. Sessions announced he will step aside from the investigation into russian meddling in the election. It still leaves open why he omitted such contacts during his Senate Confirmation hearing in january. Pete williams is at the department of justice and has details. Pete. Reporter lester, after day of calls from some democrats for him to resign, Jeff Sessions said he has concluded he must bow out of makiny russians attempt to influence the elections. He said he is doing it to avoid the appearance of a conflict. Good morning, mr. Sessions. Reporter the attorney general said he sought the advice of Career Justice Department officials beginning several days ago before making todays dramatic announcement. I believe those recommendations are right and just. Therefore, i have recu
More involved and passion that i became. We ran across all kinds of interesting things. If you go back to the sociology journals, we found an article where sociologists documented that about half of the people who got married in 1940 in a couple of major metropolitan areas grew up within ten blocks of each other. 75 percent of the people who got married corrupt within 20 blocks of each other. American other. American life has really changed since then. People used to be embedded in the geographical community, a physical space where they were in contact with each other on a regular basis. Today if you survey people getting married there are members of multiple communities, members of virtual communities, communities, and there are members of a Hometown College community. American life has changed, and that Community Stability was something will was well was interested in. We documented through discovering this kind of research that the social factors have sabotaged our ability to suppor
College community. Their communities are all over the place geographically. So American Life has changed in that Community Stability ascent he will with interest that in. We just kind of documented through discovering this kind of research that the social factors have kind of sabotage our ability to support these kinds of close refrigerator relationships. What we discovered to was mobility and american culture, really sabotages this relationship. So at the time were writing, the statistics were about warty three, 45 billion americans moving every year. That kind of relocation really takes a toll on our relational health. If sabotages are relational network. So we are having to take these relational hits every time we move around. We believe americans dont really consider the relational risks to the extent that they ought to in terms of taking off and moving around like that. We move for all kinds of reasons. We think we probably have taken this to lately. So we got into the mobility st
Tonight, thank you. You are watching booktv, television for serious readers. You can watch any program you see your online at booktv. Org. National geographic, mars up close has been written by marc kaufman. What is your background to write about Space Exploration . My background is as a journalist long time and not as a science journalist. I was a Foreign Correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the washington post. What i learned was being in Foreign Countries is a good way of learning to speak to scientists. They are talking a different language, different culture, you spend time with them and work it out and you come up with some fascinating things. Of phoenix what was curiosity . The rover on mars. It is searching for ebola environments on mars and it found them. They found for the First Time Ever that life might have existed, could have existed on mars. My goal in this was to embed myself, jet Propulsion Team and i did for a year and half, kind of watched up close what the