In spartanburg South Carolina. Im anyone, evening anchor and tonights conversation will be live streamed in broadcast on our next door Network Across the carolinas as well as our partner station w multix in columbia. Many of you turned in this evening to watch the candidates for u. S. Senate in their second debate read both campaigns agreed to the form of that debate this Week Campaign staff for democratic challenger Jamie Harrison at the incumbent senator Lindsey Graham be tested for covid. The senator was tested last friday. In a Statement Released yesterday afternoon Harrison Campaign wrote i cannot responsibly debate in person tomorrow night and allowed politics to put my family , on my campaign staff, senator grahams staff and members of the media at unnecessary risk. The Graham Campaign responded , Mister Harrison is demanding special treatments. If Mister Harrison is not able to interact with South Carolina and on the sameterms they live their lives he should not be there senato
All fronts, our reporters are on the ground in israel and lebanon this morning. To get the very latest on the state of war and the danger of the conflict expanding. And well tell you about the growing humanitarian disaster resulting from israels bombardment of gaza. Also talk about a way forward and out of this decades long conflict with an honest trial we, palestinian politician whos been at the Negotiating Table for peace before and former u. S. Deputy National Security adviser about the role america can and should play in trying to revive a enduring peace between israelis and palestinians. Then im gonna pull back the curtain and talk about how we govern this war including the complicated and difficult work of verifying images and facts from the frontlines, we begin this hour here in the Nations Capital with americas role in the world amid a growing leadership crisis, in our own house, a house that donald trump built. Velshi starts now. What good morning to, you saturday october the
Thousands of wounded who carried with them the shrapnel wounds and the memory of what they endured. These traumas never go away. There are many families waiting to hear the fate of their loved ones not knowing if they are, alive, dead. Holocaust survivors have been , now threatened to execute. The brutality of hamas, its bloodthirstyness brings to mind isis, but sadly, for the irish people israeli people, it is not new. The scars left by a millennium of antisemitism on the jewish people. At this moment, we must be crystal clear. We stand with israel. Host that was yesterday from the white house. Today the secretary of state is expected to arrive in israel sending this tweut his visitosrael yesterday. I am going to discuss ways we can support them in the midst of these terrorist attacks. Our support for israel remains. We went to keep you updated on what is happening on capitol hill today. We could have a speaker by the end of the day today. Joining us to talk about it is Catherine Tull
Further surprise in the form of tonights speaker. A person who many of you probably know quite well. Dennis frye is the chief historian of the Harpers Ferry historic park. This is a homecoming of sorts. He graduated with a ba in history. We are extremely excited to have him back here this evening. He has had a very long, very, and prestigious career. If i were to recite his entire cv, we would be here until 7 00 this evening. This will be a shortened version of his accomplishments. He is a writer, a lecturer, a guide, and a preservationist. He is a prominent civil war historian. He has had numerous appearances on pbs, the history channel, the discovery channel, and a e as a guest historian and he helped produce and the awardwinning winning programs such as, abolitionists john brown and marilyn during the civil war. He is also a leading Civil War Battlefield preservationist. He is cofounder and first president of the Save Historic Antietam Foundation and he is cofounder and former presi
That. Remembering all of that. Invited to the Robert C Byrd center for legislative studies. The title of the talk that i dissent in the constitution. My thesis is that the United States was the project of disse nt. Dissent is essential to our history. It is in our dna. It existed in us before we even became the United States. And aboutwith this 2002 when i was creating this horse at Temple University for honor student called dissent the history of an american idea they asked me to create an idea on a topic you read what topic interests me . Im from the 60s. Dissent. It makes it to me right away. I started to the course. Teachings grew out of it. He would start meeting on fridays after class talking about the historical background of contemporary issues. At the time we started the teachings we were invading iraq. This created a a lot of consternation on the part of the students wanting to talk about it and understanding why we were doing that. When i was putting together the dissent and