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Joining us now hillsdale professor of history, portrayal of american conservatism. Professor hart, whats the definition of an evangelical . Thats a hard question but the simple one that i heard used is anybody who like billy graham. Our viewers may not know who billy graham. It means someone who has had a personal relationship with jesus, kind of bornagain experience. Theres a longer history and a longer answer when you get in that history. Host can you lump evangelicals in one position or another . Guest you can in some way if you look ethically of people of british decent or englishspeaking background. Those protestants were important of formation in 20th century and also important constituency of regan and bush coalitions. Theres affinity between that english background or scottish background protestants and with the Republican Party and people of dutch or german decent may have been at wasnt point in the Democratic Party because the democrats were a coalition of ethnic groups and s
Throughout the south. A similar thing happened in south africa. This is the contrast of america now because at a time when our politics have hardly ever been more divided than they are now a more morbid story between people of different beliefs. There is still that laid out there in the darkness that people like john lewis are carrying on. You talk about reconciliation. George wallace before he died when i may reconciliation tour and made a strong pitch at trying to reform his life, particularly by going back to africanamerican pastors in saying help me fix what ive done. Thats right good on that note of hope by thank you very much once again. The book is wonderful. It is a great collection of memories, but there stories, but their stories back in missile guidance and maybe reassurance this election season. Thank you very much. I hope so, clarence. It was fun. Thank you very much. Host you are watching booktv on cspan two appear this is television for serious readers. We are told so co
Challenge the media to carry the sordid keep this message going. It seems like thats the only way its going to happen if it stays in the public view. Thats the reason for the book and the lecture. Thank you or that. Its quite something and important for him to understand it could have been to you. With the government turns on you because they can pretty much but they are powered of the government behind themselves to crush you and many, many ways. He refused to give the Bush Administration the names of all the client after 9 11. At t and verizon caved in this that i cant do it. Im a public company. You got to give me a subpoena. They came up with some charred and put them in jail for seven days. They spent 30 million defending themselves. If you read it, it is quite amazing to see what went on with this hysterical kneejerk reaction after 9 11. A horrible thing of course, but why . On my side of the coin we were talking in prison together i said yeah i give Osama Bin Laden a 14 million
[ inaudible ] commissioner kopp, i think you were in the middle of your comments. A large percentage, not a plurality, a majority of these pending matters are tributable to deferring to a request by the District Attorney to abate our investigation, while the da investigates. And some of those requests, as the chairman noted, go back to 2013, as others are 2014. Others are 2015. There they are at least a year old and does that a disservice to the people of San Francisco. Itdoes a disservice to this commission which tries to execute its responsibilities. And i have marked, and i will initiate a motion, as required, to seek a return, or a reinstitution of our own investigation in about 20 of these cases. And alternatively as the agenda indicates, the commission can formulate a policy for the guidance of the public, and the District Attorney as well, of putting a time limit on the District Attorneys request for us to abate an investigation with a provision in the policy that at the end of