You ar if you want to get in line here as well will be taking questions from the audience aso well. Well for Doris Kearns Goodwin, live on booktv on cspan2. Oodwin le n 202 5853890 if you live in east and central time zone. 202 5853891 for those of you1 in the central or the pacific time zone and the Mountain Time zone as well. Well we will begin taking those calls in just a minute. Go ahead and ireland. Live coverage on booktv on cspan2 and we have people in line. We will begin taking those calls as well. Ms. Goodwin thank you for joining us here on booktv for another 50 minutes worth of calls from our national audience. Lets start with this gentleman right over here in line. The relationship between lincoln and Frederick Douglass in terms of bringing the end of slavery because we often in a sense celebrate the emancipation emancipation proclamation and remarsary but in a real sense blacks were not freed until they were behind the union lines, so there is that time in 1864 we are now
Deliberately, apartment alives and right compartmentalized and write about that. It might depend on the particular issue. It might be easy. It might be impossible. I like the idea of a summary. Further details this is what is happening. I cannot really answer your question directly. Im sorry. It seems to me you are trying to find balance between unnecessarily disclosing classified information that would harm us and providing adequate transparency for people to understand what is going on and have confidence in the system. It is a balance. On the one hand you dont want to have no transparency, and you dont want to have tv cameras in the courtroom either. Is for at make sense couple of different options for the court to pursue or have available to give transparency to figure out what is the best fit in this particular each particular case. Role of thehe person, whether an advocate or staff attorney or whatever when they appear before the court. And secondly, two questions. First, is ther
Cacophony in washington and the point scoring. Our allies, recently, the impasse and governments and the difficulty we have passing a budget. It does cause some concern. President obama himself is pretty popular in asia. He is considered a president who gets the region. There are, however, concerns frankly, his toughness. What was devastating was the serious crisis. When the white house put down a redline. The philippines looking at a theing chinese navy, american president drawing a redline and walking away from it is a very unnerving thing. It is something president obama is going to have to compensate for. His popularity will help him, but likely, some of the dysfunction raises questions abroad about our competence. Republicansing the and democrats have to work on. On his way heading to asia shortly, a number of republican lawmakers already there. The special delegation is visiting the Prime Minister there. A quote from paul ryan in the wall street journal, he writes, howant to unde
Early today starts right now. Hello. Thanks for joining us. Im betty nguyen. We start with the storm thats no joke. Start in west mitch began. Looks like the north pole. Last year the lakes were frozen over. This year the ice covers to double. Meanwhile thousands of flights cancelled across the country. Now its a fight just to stay warm as brutally cold temperatures settle in. Our meteorologist bill karins is here. This lives up to hype around it. Its full blown blizzard conditions there. The storm is pushing out of the big city. Snow is over philadelphia. D. C. And baltimore four to five. An additional inch or two through the day. Its not the snow anymore but the cold coming in behind it. The lowest wind chills now even including alaska are watertown, new york wind chill of minus 45. Oh my goodness. Thank you for that rude a wakening bill. Lets go to the Weather Channel mike slidell where its snowing side wway. What a are you experiencing except a lot of cold . Reporter its been snowi
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