Relations Committee Bob corker, former director of national intelligence, James Clapper and Homeland Security chief john kelly. And the congressional race in montana, the republican won, the democrat closed the gap. Which party has reason to celebrate. Joining me for insight and analysis are joy reid, kimberly strass strassel, Charlie Sykes and amy walter. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Good sunday morning on this memorial day weekend. The president came home late last night from his first overseas trip in office, and when he did, the russia investigation got much closer to home as well. So much closer, in fact, that it now involves the president s soninlaw, Jared Kushner. President trump faces a growing scandal. Consider what has happened in just the last week, monday. Washington post reports that mr. Trump had asked his intel chiefs in march to push back specifically on then fbi director james comeys comments on the russia investigation. John brennan testifies that he saw con
Former director of national intelligence, James Clapper and Homeland Security chief john kelly. And the congressional race in montana, the republican won, the democrat closed the gap. Which party has reason to celebrate. Joining me for insight and analysis are joy reid, kimberly strass strassel, Charlie Sykes and amy walter. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Good sunday morning on this memorial day weekend. The president came home late last night from his first overseas trip in office, and when he did, the russia investigation got much closer to home as well. So much closer, in fact, that it now involves the president s soninlaw, Jared Kushner. President trump faces a growing scandal. Consider what has happened in just the last week, monday. Washington post reports that mr. Trump had asked his intel chiefs in march to push back specifically on then fbi director james comeys comments on the russia investigation. John brennan testifies that he saw contacts between russian officials
I will be chairing or moderating the panel. After the three papers i will offer some brief comments, some thoughts, some questions i had in order to make it hopefully start generating conversations for us for the q a portion. I will introduce our three presenters. We will go in the order they appear on the program. The presenters will speak for roughly 20 minutes, and that i will speak for a few minutes and open things up. Our first presenter will be Graham Hodges, the George Langevin professor of history at Colgate University. He has written on africanamericans and labor in new york city, and more recently written a political apathy of david robles, and important figure in railroad activities. He is working on a book that reframes the underground railroad and will hear about his ideas about reframing, thinking about the underground railroad and a larger context if reading freedom making. Kate mazer, associate professor of history at northwestern. She has written on emancipation and wa
Beverly so, we will go ahead and get started since the moment has arrived. Others may trickle in from lunch, but thank you and welcome here to this panel on the Church Committee at 40. My name is beverly gage. I am a history professor at yale. And i will be up here mostly timekeeping and asking some questions. Before i introduce the panelists, i just wanted to say a few words about the genesis of this panel, the idea behind it and some of the issues i hope we are going to be able to address. So this year, 2015, marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most important congressional committees certainly of the 1970s. And i think arguably of the latter half of the 20th century and that was the Church Committee. The Church Committee which was chaired by Senator Frank Church began its work in the spring of 1975. And for the 16 months between the spring of 1975 and when they delivered 14 volumes of reports in 1976, the Church Committee held hearings, performed investigations, dug into Backgro
Historians hosted this 90minute discussion at their annual meeting in st. Louis. We will go ahead and get started since the moment has arrived and others may trickle in after lunch. My name is beverly gage. Im a history professor at gail and i will be here mostly chairing and timekeeping and asking some questions, but before i introduce the panelists , i just wanted to say a few words about the genesis of this panel, the idea behind it, and some of the issues i hope we will be able to address. This year, 2015, marks the audience anniversary of one of the most important congressional committees, certainly, of the 1970s, and i think arguably of the latter half of the 20th century, and that was the Church Committee. The Church Committee was chaired by idaho Senator Frank Church and the committee began its work in the spring of 1975, and the Church Committee held hearings performed investigations, dug into Background Materials on the American Intelligence Services this was the first mass s