A little bit of housekeeping before we start , please silence your cell phone we appreciate it. Please remember to step up to the microphone. Before asking your question so we can enjoy the conversation and ensure this will beon recorde recorded. To buy copies of the book at the Cash Register up front. We will be doing a signing so if youre like to have a signed lineup next to the podium and please keep your chairs where they are we will have another event after this one. The reason we are all here it pleased to introduce stephen to all ofl you. A historian biographer and writer appearing in many publications including the atlantic and New York Times and washington post. In 2011 he received a guggenheim fellowship also the author of 17 books including cold warriors the codebreakers this afternoon he will talk about his new book Oliver Wendell holmes. He tells the story of one of the mosthe influential and one of the Supreme Court justices is in history and a definitive biography from t
Calm, just out of the east northeast. Just 3 miles per hour, not bad. Beautiful blue skies, seeing a lot of that today in the region, sunny sunday on tap. Storm i shall start to the week. Some rain expected monday into tuesday, and that will cool us down, ever so slightly, and ever so briefly. Lets take live look at storm scan3, and you can see, the radar nice and clear, again, just picking up on barely anything there. Not even blip. Few high clouds, thats about it. Temperatures around the region looking quite nice. Seventyfour in philadelphia, 68 Atlantic City, up in reading about 67 degrees, and mount pocono, made it up to that 60 degrees mark, yes, youre in the 60s club. We talk about the rain, want to come back in just a few, time it out for you, show you when the heaviest rain is expected to tall. Again, this will happen as you get monday night into tuesday. So ill have all of the details for when you i come back in just a moment. Todd, back to you. Kyla, thank you very much. Gett
Http twitter. Com cspanwj. You can also find us on facebook at www. Facebook. Com cspan. Or email us, journal cspan. Org. What matters more to America Brian williams leaving, or john stuart announcing stepping down from his post on the daily show. It turns out that most americans do not even know who williams is. I. A survey found that only 29 of america could identify Brian Williams from a photograph. 15 of those were able to identify him from the age of 19 to 25. 34 of those 65 and older. Audiences have been losing in just a news anger since 1980, the story reports. 30 years ago nearly one half of americans can identify dan rather. Byin 1985, about half of americans watched news. Our first caller is arthur from corpus christi, texas. He is a republican. Good morning, arthur. Caller good morning. I love cspan. I havent been out very long but you said something that got me on my emotional side about the media. To tell you the truth i have a hard time trusting any of them. Host what mak
But for the people of alaska, one persistent vision was to become americans, a vision thwarted for 92 years by powerful commercial interests that ruled the territory from a distance and a federal government that seemed at best indifferent. In 1955, alaskans took a major step toward selfgovernment when they wrote the constitution they hoped would help make the territory a state. This is the story of that constitution and how alaskans won the right to govern themselves. In retrospect, i think we did as good a job as could have been done, and i think that the constitution has fully stood the test of time. It was designed to be adaptable to the future, to be a lasting document like the u. S. Constitution. Well, it was a big gamble, except it was a gamble we had to take because we wouldnt get another opportunity. They came here because they were trying to create, literally, a new world based upon lets do it right this time. That was heard more times at the convention. We dont care how you d
Want congressional buyin because congress say they want to have authorization over this. So you are going to i anticipate make the same arguments in the letter he sent to congress saying that isis poses a threat to israel but also to the u. S. So here is a look at what is in the aumf request. It would sunset after three years. And authorizes the president or associated persons or forces. And it repealed 202 aufm for forces in iraq. It does not authorize offensive Ground Combat operations and the white house must report to congress in every six months. The Ground Combat operations is key because Congress Wants to say they know what that means. And josh earnest got a number of questions about why that language is so fuzzy, so vague . Take a listen to an exchange earlier today. The language is fuzzy, is it not in. Intentionally so. Intentionally so . It is intentionally fuzzy . Yes. So there arent overly burdensome complaints so he can respond in a military conflict like this. Now some de