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
Information about donald trump stonewalling as Hillary Clinton in her campaign . This entire year theyve known they paid for it. Youve had clinton officials coming on this network other networks talking about trump advisor, russia. Liz the bomb shell Washington Post report revealing Hillary Clintons campaign and the Democrat National committee paid for that infamous and un proven russian docier loaded with accusations against then candidate trump. That fueled the russia russia russia claims that the media took off with that they ran with and about any journalistic Fact Checking treating it like government intelligence like a government document when it was not and the democrats and the Clinton Campaign both repeatedly denied having anything to do with it for about a year. We were skeptical about that file right from the get go. We bring you down the Democrat Money trail tonight and now this senator Chuck Grassley calling on the Justice Department to appoint a special council to investi
Need to hold people accountable for any collusion with russia. Liz former dnc share Debbie Wasserman schultz and Hillary Clinton staffers weighing in on what they knew and when on the Clinton Campaign and the dnc funding antitrump Research Back in 2016. The infamous information file that contains unverified scandalous accusations about President Trump and his connections to russia. That could have led to possibly spying on trump and his team at trump tower. We are getting to bottom of the story tonight and the updates on the growing scandal continue to come in. Waiting, the u. S. Government is about to release a trove of previously classified government records on the assassination of president john f. Kennedy. Well bring that to you as soon as we get it. The dow hurting for highs, the house narrowly approving the budget, setting the table for tax cuts maybe by thanksgiving. Will lawmakers who enjoy rich, cushy pensions for life, will they tax your 401 k to pay for it. A slew of tech e
I was taking notes. Not like i was making but it turned out at the hand of our interview retired for several hours and when i got to build a given my credit card to pick up the tab, he said you really dont look anything like i expected. I thought you were paul. I immediately knew what it happened. There is another Ken Silverstein in West Virginia who writes a lot about the oil industry. He writes her trade industry publication and is very, very i would say more sympathetic to the industry and circumspect than i am. So i felt obliged to say i think theres been a misunderstanding. But because of that misunderstanding, i did hear a lot of very interesting stories. And to her great credit, even afterwards she clearly was surprised when i said i am not that Ken Silverstein. As she continued to talk to me all along although it was originally the chapter is based on the piece for harpers magazine and has spoken with are much than then. Host so you close within. Why . Guest truly because its a
Thats the way people get to have a book. Its a very supported art in st. Paul i would say, and in minneapolis. Very respected and supported. I didnt start writing until i was 40. It was like your accident. I think both poets dont decide, i suppose some do, dont decide when their little kid, i will be a poet. Ive been keeping a journal when i was raising a family. I decided i would go to the loft which is our Literary Center and take a class about how to write a novel our how to put all the stuff in the book. Someone recommended that i see a writer who she knew who had a big family just like mine. She had three children. I had seven. Or situation, as long as im there ill take a class in poetry and thats how it all started. What were you doing before you got into all this . I lived in new york for a while and work for wonder magazine. Then i was writing for the newspaper, for the st. Paul pioneer press. But also all that i was writing poetry. But when that ended us able to give a lot mor