T captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelly today fired f. B. I. Director james comey previewed the testimony he will give the Senate Intelligence committee tomorrow in its investigation of russian meddling in the u. S. Election and whether anyone in the Trump Campaign was involved. The comea released comeys Opening Statement today, in which he says the president pressured him to drop the f. B. I. Investigation of mr. Trumps former National Security adviser. Comey says mr. Trump described the f. B. I. s russia investigation as a cloud and asked comey what comey could do to lift it. The testimony, based on comeys notes, also confirms the president s statement that he was not under investigation. Chief Congressional Correspondent nancy cordes begins our coverage. Reporter comeys sevenpage Opening Statement describes his conversations with the president in detail. Seven days after the inauguration, comey says, the president invited me to dinner. It
Many of the authors have or will be appearing on book tv, you can watch them on the website, booktv. Org. Wow. Good evening everyone. And katie director of leisure services. Welcome to the kansas city public library. Thank you for the patients, flexibility and thank you rainy day books for setting land speed records for getting david here. These were circumstances out of everyones control. His plane was delayed you may insert your own airline show care. Tonight, he will talk about his book, killers of the flower mound. Strive unspeakable historical crime of greed, fear, anger and racial cleansing. It is part crime thriller part political history and a book that will generate conversation long after david catches his next plane. It is easy to read this book because david tells a story in a riveting, detail rich suspenseful way. It is hard to read this book because its true and devastating and maddening. But david is a magnificent storyteller. He has written for the New York Times magazi
Brian how did you approach this differently . Mark this is the first time a journalist like me would have access to get to meet participants so i was able to tell the story through both the american soldiers and marines to five and also the vietnam ease viet cong, the North Vietnamese army. I think as time is gone by there was a lot of documentation in the archives than hanoi as well as here in bethesda, maryland, at the national archive. There are also the records of the Johnson Administration at the lbj library. All of William Westmorelands papers are there. The National Security staff papers. So 50 years is kind of a good time i think to go back. The record is established. The participants are still alive. Brian in the early part of the book you say the battle would be the bloodiest of the war and a turning point not just in that conflict led in american history. Why . Mark well up until the tet offensive, which this is part of, general westmoreland had argued that this war was winn
Brian how did you approach this differently . Mark this is the first time a journalist like me would have access to get to meet participants so i was able to tell the story through both the american soldiers and marines to five and also the vietnam ease viet cong, the North Vietnamese army. I think as time is gone by there was a lot of documentation in the archives than hanoi as well as here in bethesda, maryland, at the national archive. There are also the records of the Johnson Administration at the lbj library. All of William Westmorelands papers are there. The National Security staff papers. So 50 years is kind of a good time i think to go back. The record is established. The participants are still alive. Brian in the early part of the book you say the battle would be the bloodiest of the war and a turning point not just in that conflict led in american history. Why . Mark well up until the tet offensive, which this is part of, general westmoreland had argued that this war was winn
Brian how did you approach this differently . Mark this is the first time a journalist like me would have access to get to meet participants so i was able to tell the story through both the american soldiers and marines to five and also the vietnam ease viet cong, the North Vietnamese army. I think as time is gone by there was a lot of documentation in the archives than hanoi as well as here in bethesda, maryland, at the national archive. There are also the records of the Johnson Administration at the lbj library. All of William Westmorelands papers are there. The National Security staff papers. So 50 years is kind of a good time i think to go back. The record is established. The participants are still alive. Brian in the early part of the book you say the battle would be the bloodiest of the war and a turning point not just in that conflict led in american history. Why . Mark well up until the tet offensive, which this is part of, general westmoreland had argued that this war was winn