Democrat who remained loyal to the union during the civil war. In 1864, Abraham Lincoln at a johnson as Vice President to his take it to bolster his reelection chances and johnson ascended to the presidency following lincolns assassination in april 1865. The radical republicans in Congress Found johnsons reconstruction policies too lenient. As a response, they put forth the sweeping 14th amendment which included provisions to ensure former slave citizenship and equal protection and due process of law. Good morning. This is constitutional history of the United States. Today we will be talking about Andrew Johnson, reconstruction and the origins of the 14th amendment. The 14th amendment is an amendment to the constitution, one of the three civil war amendments that is so important and so scrutinized because of the role it played place in deciding whether the federal government has the right to protect individual rights, economic rights, corporate rights. That even judges and scholars who
Tuscany. Off, somewhere outside toledo. So Francine Lacqua joins us. That is not toledo, spain. Outside toledo, ohio somewhere. I want to get to the data in a moment, with markets moving. Futures 21. I would say this has really this is really jump circuit by the french pmi numbers. Why was this a surprise . Francine i was reading the breakdown. The sharp slowdown is basically driven by services. It shows that the escape from recession wont be flailing like some economists thought. Guess it is partly seasonal i would also point to the fact that infections are rising quite significantly, especially in france, germany, and other countries. Leaders are saying they dont want to go back into lockdown, especially when you look at these pretty terrible numbers in terms of many factoring pmi, but also services pmi. It might also be difficult not to preimpose measures if the number of people getting infected does rise. So it will be a complicated quarter going into the winter months. Tom a massi
Litigation instead its been the long practice of the house to compile core evidence necessary to reach a reason decision about whether to impeach and then to bring the case here to the senate for a full trial that is exactly what we did here with an understanding that the senate has its own power to compel documents and testimony it would be one thing if the house had show no interest in documents or wit this is during its investigation although human their of the houses the soul right to determine his proceedings as long as it makes the full case to the house as it did but is quite another when the president is the cause of his own complaint when the present with holds witnesses in documents and then attempts to rely on his own noncompliance to justify further concealment President Trump made it Crystal Clear we would never see a single document or a single witness when he declared as we just watched that he would fight all subpoenas as a matter of history and precedent it would be wr
As a pre existing condition. The teenage motorcylist, harry dunn, hit by a car in august. Now the American Woman involved, is charged with causing death by dangerous driving. Unrest in india six dead in further protests against a Government Law that its claimed discriminates against muslims. And liverpool fans enjoy the heat of qatar, as the club vies to be best in the world. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news, arsenal get their man. Mikel arteta becomes the gunners head coach on a three and a half year deal. Good evening. Three and a half years after the uk voted to leave the European Union, mps have resoundingly voted in favour of the governments brexit bill. The legislation now paves the way for Boris Johnson to deliver his promise, that the country will no longer be a member state of the eu by the end of next month. The Prime Minister won the vote easily, 358 to 234, with six labour mps backing the government. The Withdrawal Agreement says the uk will leave the European Union o
Bay for today and tomorrow and the hottest times of the day will be between 11 00 a. M. And 7 00 p. M. Today and tomorrow. Santa rosa expected to be the hottest area and maybe in the triple digits. Red flag warnings were issued for Sonoma County until tomorrow, 5 00 a. M. Opening up several cooling centers today. And the complex opened up at 8 00 this morning. And the steel Lane Community center opens up at 8 30. And at 8 00. And all of this is keeping people busy. Steve . We will go from more extreme to the other. This is the extreme that we are heading up on the temps here with the heat advisory out. Temperatures will be hanging out there, they will continue that march today and tomorrow and warm and hot for very many low humidities so far and we have been fortunate with the mostly stronger gusts above 2,000 feet and it is not that bad yet where it is plenty warm. Yet you can find 50, 60. Thats warmer than livermore and san jose. Mid50s including in town, los altos, atherton 55. Hill