A healthy democracy does not just look like this. It looks like this. Americans can see democracy at work. Public thrives. And informed straight from the sources on cspan. Unfiltered, unbiased, word for word. From the Nations Capital to wherever you are. Because the opinion that matters the most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. Good evening, everyone. I am Vice President of democracy initiatives here for the history center. I am sittingng here tonight with three great scholars. We are joined by scott nelson. Three of many contributors to this new volume. A new history of the American South. It just came out a few weeks ago each are professors of history. Each have different areas of expertise. We have a lot of ground to cover tonight. I will briefly introduce them and we will jump right in. The editor of this wonderful volume, at the university of North Carolina at chapel hill. Welcome from North Carolina. Appreciate you being here. Early America
We are tracking the possibility of storms. Here is erica with the forecast. It is starting to feel like winter finally here in the bay. Not only are we dealing with subfreezing temperatures. Santa rosa is currently at 31 degrees. Here is a look at other locations San Francisco has a high of 45 degrees. It is chilly outside. We have not even hit the morning low. The temperatures will continue to drop. Here is a look at 9 00 a. M. Most locations will be in the 40s. By lunchtime it will be milder. You can expect makes the sun and clouds and the temperatures wont climb into the upper 50s by 3 00 p. M. Here is a look picture afternoon high san mattel will have a high of 54. 57 for napa and santa rosa. Although we are dry on satellite and radar we are tracking a system that could bring rain to the coast line as we head into the next couple of days. Unsettled weather will arrive wednesday night and will continue as a person. It will be cool on friday with a chance for rain returning as we tra
Act and it talks about the free flow of commerce. Making sure that we take steps to safeguard commerce from injury impairments or interruption that is on the negative side. But then at the very end, the first section of the act that says it is declared to be the policy of the United States to laminate the causes of certain substantial obstruction with the free flow of commons to mitigate and eliminate encouraging the practice of collective bargaining and the procedure of collective bargaining. So its very important we have each of you in place and we have a functioning board and or willingness to serve and it will ensure that we have a functioning board for all of the reasons set forth. It is vitally important that we get this done. And i wanted to ask in the short time that i have about two minutes. The number of aspects for your record and your work and your history and you could focus on one or two Life Experiences in political and governmental experiences that you have had that wou
After 9 11. Going into election year, what are the politics . This was a real demonstration. You had House Republican and democratic leadership on the same side of the issue with the white house. Then you had so many members voting to restrict this program. I think the fact that you solve the head of the house and Senate Intelligence Committee Consent publicly to examining how to possibly bring this and are put in more privacy protections as an example of what they are willing to do as a first step and if they can do that that they can get agreement on it and put that in place and maybe that will be enough to hold it off. It depends on what trends fires what transpires and whether it continues to down political discourse. A lot depends on how quickly Edward Snowden situation where there in russia or back in the United States is settled. Thank you for your questions. We appreciate it. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite co