About the most difficult period of our familys lives. What did you find out that your parents had been communists at one point i knew as i was growing up but it was never talked about. It was a shadow of our familys life. But the time i knew my dad he was conscious of him, he had moved on and survived very well and taught me all the lessons i used in my own journalistic career, dont fall for any rigid ideology, search for the truth wherever it takes you. It was only a shadow in our family after that. But at the same time, you didnt talk about it within the family was it was it because tothey wanted to keep it camped down or why . I dont think my father was embarrassed by it but i think he didnt want to be defined by it. He had learned some lessons from that soperiod he always ma clear his idealism and optimism. It was different times. He was in a different place he wanted his family to flourish so it wasnt brought up. How did it affect your life growing up . It affected my life mostly
Programs youll see today. You can check your Program Guide or visit our website booktv. Org who a full schedule. And joining harris is the author of this book information wars. We lost the global battle against this information and what we can do about it. Information about the u. S. To the world track is yes. In olden days during the cold war we used to say telling americas story to the world. And how did you do your job, its funny, took me a while to figure out the parameters of the job what are the things i came to the conclusion was the way we tell our story is will be to our store to ourselves with american media, newspapers, magazines, tv. Rather than produce content ourselves i used to do during the cold war i thought lets show people how they cover ourselves. That was one part of it. The other part was the more strictly Public Affairs things where people are standing in front and you have to have the government line. Its safe use of your stance on issues, heres our policy, make
Day. And innovation station. With more and more young people swapping Higher Education for lower debt, well visit a oneofakind place where students earn sixfigure salaries without the high cost of college. We begin with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Everybody, back the fires coming up. Im overwhelmed. Depressed. We lost our barn. We lost our pump house. Fastmoving wildfires deaf straight california. Weve never had more resources than we do today. Reporter ruled the congressional impeachment inquiry is legal. No crimes. Theres an investigation in search of a crime. Its been going on for longer than im in office. Reporter Rudy Giuliani leaving two apparently accidental voice mails on a reporters phone talking about needing money and slam could the bidens. Another example of rudy i thinking about a loose cannon. The continuing fallout from the nbc sexual scandal. Rachel maddow said the company is releasing former staffers from nondisclosure agreements. Among the r
Lets get out of, welcome to the evening edit, new offthewall claims for biden with howard stern. Biden claiming incentives salacious pictures when he was senator declaiming he saved half a dozen people as a lifeguard plus one of whopper of a first, lets get in with kimberly stressful from the wall street out of turning journal board. Its good to see you again everyone is talking about explaining why these cases against former President Trump are wrong, democrat election interference. Can you explain that to us . Its great to be here. This column was talking about the alvin bragg case right now in manhattan in which we now have to prosecutor claiming Donald Trumps somehow not revealing to the nation campaignfinance rules this hush money payment sent to an adult film actress somehow engaged in Election Fraud or interference and we can go through why that us absurd but i think all this does is underline how crazy most of these cases have been. We saw one of the Supreme Court this week whe
Of the two most famous american madams ever. In american rose we learned about an American Icon who hasnt been explored the way you explored her. Now with liar, temptress, soldier, spy you hit on several things i have door. Unexplored American History, espionage, and women with real spines, adventurous incredible women. Tell us about what this book is about. I will tell you the origins. I was born and raised in philadelphia and moved to atlanta in 2001. The civil war seats in the conversation in the south in a way that it doesnt in the north. I saw the occasional confederate the, heard the jokes of norton war of northern aggression. [laughter] homehe point was driven that it wasnt a joke. For i was stuck in traffic hours behind a pickup truck that had a Bumper Sticker that said. Blame me, i voted for jeff davis. I looked at this for hours and started thinking of course, what were the women doing . They didnt have easy access to , they didntcourse have the right to vote. They couldnt in