Aaron thank you, pete. I have not developed an accent. The giveaway i talk too fast. My students in particular i will do my best to speak slowly. I do cook jambalaya. Native and that regard of the food of baton rouge. I would like to thank you for the opportunity to start things off. We congratulate ourselves on the if youre civil war historian or somebody the last couple of years may have seen longer do not know how the war is going to end. It is exciting for me to tell you how it finishes after the years not knowing. I would like to shift to a slightly more omnipotent perspective and talk about the ways in which participants were trying to make sense of the experience. How did they ascribe meaning to what they just went through . And one level up, how have we over time and i will do this quickly songs about the question of what the civil war means . That category of analysis, thinking about is distinct from why the war ended. This is the question a lot a civil war historians have spe
American journalist, an author whose most recent book is the brothers the road to an american tragedy which tells the story of the tsarnaev brothers. Last month Dzhokar Tsarnaev was convicted of all 30 charges against him in the Boston Marathon bombing trial. She is also the author of the man without a face the unlikely rise of Vladimir Putin and words will break cement. The passion of pusy riots she has written on lgbt rights and helped found Pink Triangle campaign against the russian legislation on gay propaganda. Chev is the leading russian lgbt activist and has said for many years she was probably the only publicly out gay person in the whole of russia. Here tonight in conversation with masha gessen is peter finn, Washington Post National Security correspondent, join me in welcoming masha gessen and peter finn to the jcss. [applause] [applause] good evening. Its wonderful to be in san francisco, and im especially happy to be here with masha and a gifted and fearless journalist whos
Roommate. D. C. Bureau chief sam ford was in court when johnson appeared today. Hes live in northwest with a look at what happened there. Sam . Sam alison attorney messerschmitt was robbed and murdered on february 9th. According to prosecutors today, Dominique Johnson was using his metro smart trip fare card from then until they arrested her yesterday. She was arraigned this afternoon on charges of conspiracy to commit robbery and then released with an ankle bracelet. 19yearold Dominique Johnson is accused of planning a robbery with her roommate, 21yearold jamyra gallmon. But not the murder of the d. C. Lawyer david messerschmitt. Authorities say he thought he was arranging a craigs list date with a man and gallmon seen here on Surveillance Video showed up at the Donovan Hotel and ended up stabbing the 30yearold lawyer to death and robbing him of 40 and a metro fare card. She said he grabbed her and she snapped. The lawyer for johnson released this afternoon wearing a g. P. S. Ankle br
The center of two competing story lines on the democratic side. One, the democrats are wilting in the face of him and joe biden is in trouble. And two that joe biden is hanging on just fine and predicts trouble in november for the president. Those contrasting notions are reflected in a pair of polls, neither of which are the last word on tomorrow or the rest of the race, but are both worth mentioning for what they have to say about the momentum right here and right now. One, from cnns final tracking poll in the state shows senator Bernie Sanders with a significant lead over Pete Buttigieg with joe biden a distant third, followed closely by senators warren and Amy Klobuchar. The other poll is a national one from quinnipiac. In addition to showing joe biden a solid second place, it has all of those same candidates beating the president in a headtohead matchup. And Mike Bloomberg running ahead by the largest margin at all. Bearing in mind by this time tomorrow night, the voters may rernd
But still show the id. Five voters. About 16 members of the media. We are in tight quarters. By doing so, they need doing several duties. Another ballot enters the box. It dates back to 1960. Youre watching the fist votes in the nation in the primary come in. In dix ville notch. It happens every year. We cover it live. What youre seeing is the four people who actually live there. Going back in the behind the curtain. The flag. And voting and putting it into the wooden box. This will be the fourth one. Well get results here soon. But there you go. Usually they write it on the board. And then we get to see who it is. So lets listen in to the select man talking now. Aye. Polls are closed. We will begin counting. Opening up the ballot box now. They closed the polls. And hes opening up the box to begin the count. You have to love it. They just put it in there. Theres the lock and key. It doesnt get anymore transparent than that. We saw them. Put the ballot. Joining me here. Well see them in