Being submerged teams battle to protect an ancient archaeological site from floods in sudan. India and china have reached an agreement on deescalating tensions along that disputed border really 3 months after the biggest military confrontation between the 2 sides in the last 45 years Foreign Ministers from both countries have been holding talks in moscow the 5 point plan is centered around honoring existing border agreements 20 indian troops were killed in hand to hand combat in june in the border area of the northern which china also claims both sides are prohibited from using arms under a treaty well lets bring in schmidt ganguli hes a professor of Political Science at Indiana University in bloomington. Weve seen a number of serious clashes recently along the line of control between both sides how significant is this deal and how much pressure was there on both india and china to deescalate tensions. Well i think this deal is significant but on the other hand i am still cautious beca
Steve from Rockefeller Center in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring jimmy fallon. Tonight join jimmy and his guests jesse eisenberg, Blake Griffin, musical guest gracie adams and featuring the legendary roots crew and now heres your host, Jimmy Fallon Jimmy wow. Oh, my goodness. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Hey, everybody, welcome to the show thank you for watching im jimmy fallon they are the roots right there [ applause ] thank you for tuning in. Its been a pretty crazy day with the storm hitting the east coast. Extreme winds and thousands of power outages. So everyone out there, stay safe and were thinking about you guys all right. Lets get to some news and jokes. Well, guys, everybody is talking about this last night hbo aired jonathan swanns interview with President Trump and lets just say, it was so bad it made his coronavirus briefings look good the interview was such a a disaster, at one point fema showed up and wrapped trump in a foil blanke
Pleased to have with us Toni Morrison for indepth conversation about her lifes work. Toni morrison, as he began, ive seen several citations that you told people that its easiest best most apt to describe you as a black woman novelist. Is that correct . Absolutely. What are we the public to take away from your choice of those three words . I think it was an attempt on my part to choose to be given the status of honorary white male writer. Generally speaking, womens work has been reduced to regional or merely or people complement ethnic writers by saying or implying that they are as good as mainstream writers and whereas i understand the complement, i thought it would be better for me to, at least in the late 60s early 70s to establish once and for all that all three of those things play, and black, i am a woman, and im a writer and they go together. Youve also always been a teacher. Yes. Why is that important to who you are and what you do . Edit quite know what else to do when i gradua
Book came earlier in the year when i the press coverage of sara palin unfold and she to be on the National Stage i was amazed at some of the exaggeration and distortions or been told about her and some of our most established news media. People said that she was a supporter of pappy cannon, she wasnt. People said she was a supporter of the Alaskan Independence Party, she was not a member. Rumors about the paternity of her youngest child were circulated on the web. [inaudible] all of these rumors and lies i decided we should catalog them to show not only the fact that all of these myths were propagated, but also try to ask for the question of why. I think the question of why it isnt a way more interesting question. Sara palin has this unerring ability to summon up the worst feelings in her opponents. It is really quite amazing. What is that quality . Why is that quality they are invited to have the effect it had . Of personal thing she represents most of the things that the left in this
Your number is going to be 202 7488002. And if you are in american gun owner but not part of the nra, you should be part of this conversation, as well. Your number is going to be 202 7488003. Keep in mind, you can also text us your opinion at 202 7488003 and we are always reading on social media on ontter at cspanwj, and facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Once again this week, new york state announced a major lawsuit against the National Rifle association, accusing them of corruption and misspending of the organizations funds. Here is a bit of the story from the New York Times. New York Attorney general has issued an existential threat to the National Rifle association on thursday, arguing in a lawsuit that years of runaway corruption and misspending demanded a dissolution of the nations most powerful gun rights lobby. While the legal confrontation could take years to play out, it constitutes another deep blow to an organization whose legendary medical clout has been diminished by infigh