Have them here virtually from his home and we are going to talk about his new book about the 1948 election. Were going back 72 years another Election Year. You will be amazed at how it sounds the same in some ways but in some ways very different. The difference is the politicians were all younger than they are today so thats one big difference but a. J. Take it away and tell us about the overview of the book and which is a very good. By the way. Thank you. I like to say couple things first rate thank you so much for having me pay the Commonwealth Club is a wonderful place to be at here we are with a lot of people going through a lot of pain and suffering. Im just reminded why he fell in love with reading when i was six years old. Books can really transport you to another time and place and during all of this is really been a blessing. Regarding my last time with you id started this book back in 2017 when i talked about the accidental president and the book came out during the 2020 elec
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour at the u.s./mexico border. it s been three days since the end of title 42, the pandemic-era policy that slowed the number of migrants allowed into the u.s. with thursday s expiration, many border communities were bracing for a surge of migrants. at least for now, that has not happened yet. homeland security officials say there were about 4,200 encounters yesterday. that s a big drop from the day before. and yesterday s numbers are less than half of the 10,000 seen at the u.s./mexico border in the days before title 42 ended. just minutes ago, we heard from president biden as he completed a bike ride. here s what he had to say about the situation down at the border. how do you think things are going at the board, sir? much better than you all expected. do you have any plans to visit the border? pardon me? do you have any plans to visit the border? not in the near term, no. no. it wou
The record will show that on october 27th, 1947, a subcommittee of the house on American Activities Committee met with the chairman, dishonorable Parnell Thomas presiding. The house on American Activities Committee is in session. Let yourself go. You, sir, are not even subpoenaed to testify here. Yeah, im going to speak anyway. Very well, mr. Dreyfuss. My name is Richard Dreyfuss. And im a child of the blacklist. I was not my parents were not in show business but they were the victims of the blacklist nonetheless. I lived on 218 street in bay side, queens and every house on that block was lived in by a communist or a socialist. And if you have not fought hitler twice and not gone to the Abraham Lincoln brigade, you better have a dam good reason. When i was a young boy i turned to my mom and i said im the luckiest kid in the world and she said why . I said because im white, jewish and american. And she said its time you came into the meetings. And when i was about 10, i turned to a frie
Welcome to class. We are going to talk about history of government surveillance. The central question i want to think about today is can intelligence agencies operate in a Democratic Society and be successful in protecting the government and its citizens while also up holding the same Citizens Rights . In other words, are liberty and security compatible . No doubt, there is a need for intelligence communities to operate. Threats exist from foreign and doe mess sf domestic sources. Those threats are real. They have been real throughout history. For over a century, in addition to taking action against real threats to the lives of american citizens, bureaus and agencies within the United States government have is yosurveyed t that have strong in views that run opposite of that. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. I will want to come back to that later on. Maybe you really adhere to that view. Maybe you are on the fence about it. Maybe you firmly reject it. Thats fine. W
Im pleased to welcome arlo guj troy this program. Hes been a leading voice in america. More than 50 years since his album, alices restaurant. Famous of Woody Guthrie. He is the in the midst of running down the road tour. Were delighted he took time off from the tour to stop by the studio. Its an honor, sir to you have on this great program. Thank you. Thank you. Let me start with this. I was just tickled when i came across this. So his father, woody, wrote a song called old man trump. Yes. That trump. About his racist landlord fred trump who happened to be, as you know, donalds father. One of the lines in the song, and i quote, i suppose that old man trump knows just how much racial hate he stirred up in that blood pot of human hearts. We draw that color line here at his beach haven family project. So your father lived in a trump building. Me, too. Thats why i brew up. Thats where you grew up. And your father had something to say about old man trump. Yes, did he. What do you make of th