We take you live to a conversation with senator cory booker. Celebrate the illustrious career of our beloved colleague, distant wrist university professor, james a server. Jim is retiring this year after 47 illustrious years studying american democracy, contribute into it, and enlightening others about it. During that time, jim has done many things. Im sure hell be angry with me, the am going to embarrass him a little bit. [indiscernible] longtime advisor to both congress and the executive branch, a documentarian, acting dean, director of many things, including this center, which he founded. A sponsor of more than three to 50 events of converses, principal invested conferences, principal investigator, an author and editor of over 50 books and monographs, peerreviewed journal articles, and well over 100 book chapters and publications. As my colleague said earlier this week, jim is american university. When we started talking about these dialogues, we asked jim who he would like to inter
Please give them a look. I mentioned to some of the other day, i was reading the words in preparation for tonight and thats the new faulkner biography. You have the faux fur part right. The best way i could describe this book is equal parts. Military history social commentary and literary criticism. I think all appear equally to fans many of those subjects. What the book really did for me, was forced me to get some serious thought to his fans where at the time we are asking ourselves difficult questions about our countrys history on issues of race. Was he a pioneer it was another white wire that was profiting off of the characters of black americans. Is a professor englishman literature at Smith College in massachusetts sits which was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. Is essays have come up in the New York Times book review. Thank you for joining us tonight. Thank you very much for having me. I want to thank the library for hosting and my friends that live right for putting us togethe
Administration. President trump still refusing to concede but suffering more devastating defeats in court over the weekend, admonished by a judge he appointed, and the lifelong republican who ran Election Security for his administration now calling his claims of a rigged election farcical. Also, president elect biden suffering a fracture in his foot. How it happened. Major storm on the move. The big travel alert as millions head home after thanksgiving. Plus, the tornado threat from North Carolina to new jersey. Ginger is tracking the latest, and where you might see snow soon. Hanging on. A missing boater finally found clinging to life. The latest on the amazing rescue this morning. Fiery escape. The formula one driver walking away from this explosive crash. Slamming into a metal barrier. His car splitting in two. What he says saved his life. And game over . The socalled grinch bots stealing christmas, buying up some of the hottest items of the year and selling them at nearly double th
The hearing will come back to order. Senator klobuchar. Klobuchar thank you very much, mr. Chairman. Hello, judge. I want to start out again by reminding our friends at home, people at home, that this isnt normal, we shouldnt be here right now. We are in the middle of a pandemic and people are sick. We are in the middle of an election and people are voting. And here we are, stuck in a nomination hearing. I know what my constituents care about, what they have been calling and writing me about. And that is they are afraid of losing their health care in the middle of the pandemic. Peoples lives depend on the Affordable Care act like steve, a senior from minnesota who has a heart condition and relies on his prescription medication. Emily from minneapolis, her mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. Janet from rochester whose brother has a mental illness. Or christie, a mom from bloomington whose daughter had a tumor. That is what is on the line. Health care is on the line and judge, that is
Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers senator cory booker, star of the trial of the chicago 7 actor Yahya Abdul Mateen ii, an allnew closer look, featuring the 8g band with Todd Sucherman and now, Seth Meyers Seth good evening, im seth meyers. This is late night. Hows everybody doing tonight . Im glad to hear it. Lets get to the news. President trump ended a heated interview yesterday with lesley stahl of 60 minutes after he became irritated with the line of questioning. Apparently, he didnt like that there was one. While being interviewed by lesley stahl yesterday, President Trumps told aides that he thought the interview would be cut up to make him look bad for example, they could make him really stupid by cutting from one of her questions to his answer it was a revealed today that Rudi Guiliani was caught on video with his pants down his pants while alone in a hotel room with a woman he thought was a conservative journalist as part of the filming of borat 2. This was a la