News for you . Premieres tonight at nine On Cnn . Youre, in the cnn newsroom. Im Jessica Dean in New York and we begin with President Biden on the verge of a major decisions in that could dramatically reshape the war in ukraine. The president is considering whether to allow ukraine to use a western longrange missiles that could strike at targets deep in russian territory. Uks prime minister keir starmer, refusing to answer whether that came up in his meeting with President Biden, but russian president Vladimir Putin is warning that if biden does give The Green light, russia will quote, be at war with nato. Cnns Kevin Liptack is following this for us. Kevin, what are you hearing about the president s thinking around this . Will President Biden certainly seems more open to this idea. Then he had in the past. And i think that tells you enormous amount of pressure that President Biden is feeling not only from the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy, but also members of congress, includ
About her new book the great secret the classified world war ii disaster that launched the war on cancer. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. I also want to thank the museum for inviting me to be with you tonight, alas its virtually but i will do my best. It is my first soon presentation so bear with me everyone. Ive had a lot of coffee and im thinking about now i shouldve had a lot of wind, but anyway here we go. Im going to start us off with a quote from winston churchill. He had a way with words. He once observed, may occasionally stumble across the truth, but most of them picked themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. Lieutenant colonel stuart alexander, the remarkable hero of my book, did not hurry off. In fact, he refuse to leave the scene of the military disaster even when churchill himself warned him to. He stayed, he paid attention, he investigated, and as a result he recognized the never before seen symptoms in a group of dying sailors that might have lifesaving
So what could go wrong. [laughter]. Thank you. Thank you for coming and we have a lot of people here today. As you probably recognize by now, we have to socially distance and follow other sorts of guidelines and regulations today. So thank you for your patience. And thank you for following those. We have here today with us Jeffrey Sutton, its an honor to have him here. Fluid last night right through the storm. So we are grateful that he got here safely and that we are able to have this event today. Jeffrey sutton is a judge for the sixth circuit where he serves since 2003 news nominated by george w. Bush. His former general of ohio, in private practice, and is clerked for several judges including Justice Antonin Scalia as essential gives new book targeted so todays event, the essential scalia. That is the new book that he edited another friend of ours who has been here not too long ago and also talked about another scalia book brightest of all about scullion in this chapter. It and Jef
Served on the Supreme Court for 35 years, hear a panel of judges and attorneys, all former Supreme Court law clerks talk about his legacy. The Bar Association of San Francisco hosted the event. High everyone, good evening, thank you so much for coming to a nice program the impact of Justice John Paul stevens. I am an appellate lawyer here in thefrancisco, i am also chairman of the appellate section of the Bar Association of San Francisco which organized this event. I would like to extend a warm welcome to members of a few groups who are cosponsoring tonights program, the ninth judicial the federal Bar Association, Northern District of california chapter and the American Constitution Society bay area chapter. I would also like to welcome cspan which is broadcasting the discussion tonight. I find that exciting, because in 10 years or so but i have been putting on programs like this, this is the first time cspan has come, so i have made it. It is some of the most awful programming when co
Products pulled from the shelves turkey backs a boycott in retaliation for comments about islam. Donald trumps pick for the u. S. Supreme court has officially been confirmed as the countrys newest top judge. The nomination of any county indiana to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is confirmed. And hes on the ballots appointment was approved in a vote by the Republican Controlled Senate should not be sworn in at the white house the confirmation means the countrys highest court now has a conservative majority no nominee has ever been confirmed this close to a president ial election lets go to alan fischer whos live for us in washington d. C. The democrats really did not want this to happen but it didnt seem to matter what they tried the republicans were determined that this was going to go through. 30 days from her nomination until her confirmation not the fastest in Supreme Court history but very fast particularly when you add in to the fact that the ele