Hughes is what we claim we want. In both a president ial candidate and a president. A man who did get it. A man called Charles Evans hughes as a Supreme Court justice. All but when the election. In 1916 when president Woodrow Wilson went to bed the Election Night, he thought he was beaten. He had been elected, how American History goes in several Different Directions on suffrage, civil rights. What does he do on Foreign Policy . Germany baited us into war. Wilson would hughes have avoided it . Hes the one you could write novels about. He had Charles Evans hughes who would later the he was on the Supreme Court. He left the Supreme Court when he ran for president. He went back on the Supreme Court. One of the finest minds on the court. A fellow justice called Charles Evans hughes, the greatest in our great line of chief justices. Why hughes . Robert jackson provided part of the answer when he was attorney general. Jackson said that hughes, quote, looks like god and talks like a god. And
This is a special edition of the news with shepard smith. Hurricane delta makes landfall and good evening from cnbc the hurricane moments away from landfall right now and frankly, about to make history. Hurricane delta is closing in on the southwestern coast of louisiana as a very powerful category 2 storm delta is set to become the tenth named storm to strike the United States this year that has never happened in recorded history never have there been ten named storms i want to show you where we are right now. This is the radar. You can see part of the eye has already come ashore just south and east of lake charles, louisiana. The storm has been weakening throughout the afternoon it was 115 miles an hour four hours ago, maximum sustained winds now 100 miles an hour. The minimum pressure has risen that means the storm is getting weaker the higher the pressure, the weaker the storm, because its a low pressure center. Right now its moving toward land, and part of that eye is already over
Politics and prose bookstore and we live in muscatine. Bit of a Great Program for you this evening. For those of you not familiar with how this virtual format works, just to be able to ask a question of the author if you would like. To do so, just click on the q a icon at the bottom of your screen. Bob has been observing in washington or half a century. Decades with Washington Post, hes shared pulitzer prizewinning first of the watergate scandal and second in 2003, is a leap reported for coverage of the 911 terrorist attacks. s books also a big news and run any readers. His latest book rage is his 20th book, and all have been national bestsellers. We are accustomed to bobs books taking us behind the scenes of highlevel meetings and into the mind is of those making critical u. S. Policy decisions. This extraordinary are what is extraordinary about rage, but 17 times, while the book was being written, providing a remarkable series of glimpses into the presence thinking at key moments. It
This is a special edition of the news with shepard smith. Hurricane delta makes landfall and good evening from cnbc the hurricane moments away from landfall right now and frankly, about to make history. Hurricane delta is closing in on the southwestern coast of louisiana as a very powerful category 2 storm delta is set to become the tenth named storm to strike the United States this year that has never happened in recorded history never have there been ten named storms i want to show you where we are right now. This is the radar. You can see part of the eye has already come ashore just south and east of lake charles, louisiana. The storm has been weakening throughout the afternoon it was 115 miles an hour four hours ago, maximum sustained winds now 100 miles an hour. The minimum pressure has risen that means the storm is getting weaker the higher the pressure, the weaker the storm, because its a low pressure center. Right now its moving toward land, and part of that eye is already over
This evening to be familiar with how the virtual format works you can still ask a question if you would like and to do so click on the q a icon at the bottom of your screen. To be reporting in washington for half a century to share two Pulitzer Prizes and second in 2000 very with the coverage of the terrorist attacks in his books have made big news they were National Bestsellers we are accustomed to behind the scenes of highlevel meetings with the critical of us policy decisions and at this time not once or twice but 17 times while the book was being written with a remarkable series into the president s thinking at key moments the conversation this morning is another prizewinning journalist chief washington correspondent for the new yorker magazine where she has been for 25 years also the author of the authoritative books to open understanding of important topics with money behind the rise of the radical right in the war on terror with commentary with the iran contra affair. Taken away